Primary Africana Studies News Sources

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

Important Africana Studies News Sources

Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives offers five separate web-based resources, four of which are collections of historic American Newspapers and one of which is a genealogical source. ...   [more]
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Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: The Baltimore Afro-American
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1893-1988

Black Studies Center
Resource combining the Chicago Defender online (1910-1975), the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Black Literature Index (1827-1940) and a variety of multimedia resources exploring ...   [more]

Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society
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Chicago Defender
- from Black Studies Center
Fulltext backfile of the Chicago Defender online, 1910-1975. The Chicago Defender was one of the most important African-American newspapers of the 20th century, having national readership and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-1975

Chicago Tribune (1849-1990), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1849-1990

Harpweek
Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. Excellent interface for searching and retrieval....   [more]

Independent Voices
Open access collection of the alternative press of the 60s, 70s and 80s, over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries. ...   [more]

New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1922-1993

New York Times (1851-2012), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and avail...   [more]
Holdings: 1851-2011

Paper of Record
A newspaper database of over 21 million (as of May 2007) digitized images from more than 200 newspapers. Developed in Canada, Paper of Record's largest representation comes from Canadian and Mexican n...   [more]

Philadelphia Tribune
Free registration required to access full text content. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Almost a century of the Philadelphia Tribune online, with access to every page from every available issue as full page and article images along with searchable full text. The Tribune is the largest...   [more]
Holdings: 1912-2001
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Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
At its height in the 1940s the Pittsburgh Courier was one of the most important african american newspapers in the country, had a national circulation of over 350,000 and was as widely read as the Chi...   [more]
Holdings: 1911-2002

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Parts 1-4
Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Consti...   [more]

Ten O'Clock News, The (WGBH-Boston)
523 tapes of The Ten O'Clock News, WGBH's nightly news program. Dating from 1974 to 1991, the collection focuses on stories relating to Boston's African American community....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Related Africana Studies News Sources

Contemporary Women's Issues
This full-text database provides international coverage of current issues such as employment and the workplace, social & political issues, violence and exploitation, development and human rights, heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present, (selected reports back to 1990).
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Early American Newspapers, 1690-1900
Based primarily on the listings in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and Winifred Gregory's Union list of serials in libraries of the United State...   [more]
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Facts on File
Also Known as: World News Digest @ Facts.com , World News Digest
Full-text of the Facts on File World News Digest from 1980 forward. World News Archive from 1940-79 and Reuters News for the last two weeks. facts.com...   [more]
Holdings: January 1980-present. Weekly updates. Hourly newsfeeds.
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Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
Also Known as: Gale NewsVault
Cross searches all Gale newspaper archives including 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals, Economist Historical Archives, Times ...   [more]

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
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    LN Academic becomes Nexis Uni transition
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Proquest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Multi-database search interface that allows for simultaneous searching of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Defender, Pittsbugh Courier and Wall Street Journal...   [more]
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