BHM #17 – Black Studies Center

BHM #17 – Black Studies Center

Black Studies Center – 

This fascinating collection includes… 

Almost 2,000 videos and images, from Langston Hughes’s performance of “The Weary Blues” with jazz accompaniment in 1950 to Roy Wilkins speaking about Civil Rights issues in 2014. 

Articles from reference sources including The Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature, The Handbook of African American Literature‎, and selections from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses‎, as well as scattered biographies and other reference-type entries from a variety of other sources.  

Three million articles from historical newspapers including The Chicago Defender, Final Call‎, The Freeman‎, Negro World, Rising Sun, Colored American, Voice of the Fugitive, Grit, and many more. 

A selection of essays from Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience on topics such as Economic Inequality and the African Diaspora, African American Religious Experience, Black Women’s Studies, African Americans and High-Performance Athletics, Black Sexuality Studies, Black Intellectual History, and Africana Philosophy. 

Articles from dozens of scholarly journal titles like the Review of Black Political Economy, The Black Scholar, African Arts, and Callaloo. 

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