This database provides the full text of more than 1,700 English-language plays (more than 40% of which have never been published before) written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 black playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Among the playwrights included are Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, and Zora Neale Hurston.
This database provides scholarly essays, journal articles, historic newspapers, fiction, poetry, archival records, and literary reviews in Black Studies. Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Black Studies Periodicals Database (formerly International Index to Black Periodicals), the Black Literature Index, and historical black newspapers such as the Chicago Defender (1910 - 1975) and and the Daily Defender (1956-1975).
This database contains two collections: 1) A current collection (1990-present) of full- text newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic and minority presses. 2) A History collection (1959-1989) of full-text newspapers, magazines and journals, focusing on African American, Hispanic American, and Native American presses.
This database provides the full text of hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers (many of them bilingual) published between 1808 - 1980. Included are newspapers from California, Texas, New Mexico, New York, and many other states.
This is the largest online collection of Spanish-English newspapers printed in the United States.
This database tells where to find journal articles on Latin American topics in the social sciences and humanities from 1967 to the present.
Over 700 journals, published worldwide, are indexed. Included are citations for articles about Mexico, all Central American and South American countries, and the Caribbean, as well as about Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.
This database provides biographies, articles, maps, documents, images, timelines and charts and tables of African-American life, history and culture including the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895; the Encyclopedia of African-American History, 1896 to the Present.
This database provides speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by Fisk University from 1943-1970 including notable names Charles S. Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.