Online Magazines
Primary source material can be found in many places. Below are links to some major online sites that provide access to primary source material.
- Black EnterpriseMagazine devoted to Black business.
- African Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Over 650 peer-reviewed journals from 39 African countries covering a range of academic disciplines.
- Ebony Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Ebony Magazine Archive covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes more than 800 issues providing a broad view of African-American culture from its first issue in 1945 through 2014.
- JetAvailable issues are searchable and viewable for free.
- The Crisis (Modernist Journals Project)Founded in 1910 as the house magazine of the NAACP and edited by W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis quickly became the most important voice of the African-American struggle for cultural identity and civic justice in the U.S. Includes all issues 1910-1922.
- Ufahamu: A Journal of African StudiesPublished at UCLA since 1970, Ufahamu is recognized as an important journal in the field of African Studies. Its contents includes material supportive of the African revolution and socially significant works of African history, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, law, planning and development, literature and other topics about the continent and the African Diaspora. Scroll down the list to get to the first volumes.
- Freedomways"Freedomways was the central theoretical journal of the 20th century black arts and intellectual movement in the United States." blackpast.org