Digitization projects in African American Studies are growing by leaps and bounds. Below find a few of the most exciting projects. Feel free to use this material in classrooms, churches and other civic organizations.
NOTE--This informational blog is compiled by (with the exception of the introduction and photograph) and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History University of North Carolina https://vimeo.com/stonecenter
The Black Bibliography Project https://blackbibliog.org/
eBlack Champaign Urbana http://eblackcu.net/portal/
Digital Black Bibliographic Project https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/175142
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman in live motion https://www.upworthy.com/frederick-douglass-harriet-tubman-in-live-motion
Civil Rights Movement Archive https://www.crmvet.org/
Digital Harlem http://digitalharlem.org/
Digital Schomburg https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg
Black Past Digital Archives https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/digital-archives/
Mapping Police Violence https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
Digital slave voyages https://www.slavevoyages.org/
ASALH Digital Projects listed in Fire! https://www-jstor-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/stable/10.5323/fire.4.1.0134#metadata_info_tab_contents
Digital Black History https://digitalblackhistory.com/
One million truths https://www.onemilliontruths.com/
Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/slavery-abolition-emancipation-and-freedom
Black Stories Matter https://www.tmiproject.org/blackstoriesmatter/
Penn State Digital Projects and Exhibits https://digblk.psu.edu/ https://libraries.psu.edu/about/libraries/special-collections-library/digital-projects-and-exhibits
Digital Archives in the Black Past https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/digital-archives/
Black Craftspeople Digital Archive https://blackcraftspeople.org/
Colored Conventions Project https://coloredconventions.org/
The Black Press http://blackpressresearchcollective.org/
Howard University - Black Newspapers https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/27/howard-university-digitize-archives-black-newspapers-history/6882445001/
Clark Atlanta University https://www.cau.edu/school-of-arts-and-sciences/doctor-philosophy-humanities/The-Center-for-Africana-Digital-Humanities.html
University of Nottingham https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/c3r/research/digital-projects.aspx
The digital abolitionist https://www.thedigitalabolitionist.com/
Las Vegas http://digital.library.unlv.edu/aae
Center for Black Digital Research https://digblk.psu.edu/
Umbra Search: University of Minnesota https://www.umbrasearch.org/
Digital Projects Amistad Research Center https://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/digital-projects
James Baldwin Digital Resource Guide https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/chez-baldwin/digital-resource-guide
The Project on the History of Black Writing https://projecthbw.ku.edu/