Black Studies

Custom Google search limited to the websites of 'think tanks,' which are research institutions that generate public policy research and analysis. Created and maintained by Harvard Kennedy School Library and Research Services.

Official website of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, an organization dedicated to the study of African-American history.

Contains a list of web-based resources pertaining to African studies. Includes both domestic and international sources.

Home of Virginia Commonwealth University's Digital Collections. Includes several collections focused on African-American history in the state of Virginia.

Nation's oldest civil rights organization. Issues section features numerous reports and other information.

Supports policy-relevant economic and social research. Has a nice data and data visualization component.

The U.S. government's official portal for open data. Provides access to data from numerous federal agencies in open, machine-readable formats, as well as tools and resources to help utilize them.

Repository of digital collections pertaining to African-American history from the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world.

Website dedicated to presenting narrative documentation of migration to and within the U.S. by African Americans. Produced in partnership by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library.

The Slave Rolls Project is a geographic index of 5971 files digitized by the National Archives. Each file contains payrolls for impressed enslaved laborers forced to work for the Confederacy.

Website offering a trove of data, statistics, maps, and timelines pertaining to the origins and forced transportation of Africans across the Atlantic and within the Americas.