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African and African-American Studies

The history, politics, languages, cultures, and lives of blacks within the United States, Africa and her diaspora.

Online News

  • BBC News -News from around the world reported by the BBC
  • CNN Interactive - current news stories reported by CNN
  • C-SPAN - provides public access to the political process
  • C-SPAN's CapitalNews - the latest updates from Capitol Hill, the White House and National Politics
  • Fox News - the leading US conservative news network
  • History News Service - an informal syndicate of professional historians who seek to improve the public's understanding of current events by setting these events in their historical contexts
  • National Public Radio - international and national news
  • NewsLibrary.com - old newspapers articles
  • NewsLinks - provides access to home pages of magazines, newspapers, and radio and televison stations
  • NewsWatch - consumer's guide to news; nonpartisan analysis of the media
  • Public Agenda Online - nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education
  • Radio Stations on the Internet - links to over 800 stations worldwide; many stations broadcast over the internet
  • Stratfor.com - this private intelligence company presents news and commentary on political, social, military, and economic trends worldwide
  • Total News - create your own "personal edition" news; links to major news sources, plus a search engine
  • U-Wire - a daily college media newswire produced by students, includes contributions from student publications.also contains CopyBoy, an online story archive

Online News Directories

  • ALLThingsDigital - devoted to news, analysis, and opinion on technology, the Internet, and media
  • All the World's Newspapers - links to 3,400 world newspapers online
  • ARL Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists
  • New Jour - directory of electronic journals and newsletters
  • NewsDirectory - a guide to English-language media online; magazines and newspapers
  • Newser - the most important stories from hundreds of US and international sources and reduce them to a headline, picture, and two paragraphs.
  • Newsrack - News from a US perspective and International perspective, and opinions
  • Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the Web - directory of established scholarly e-journals
  • The World News Network - World news by subject area