African American and Black Diaspora Studies

The African American Historical Serials Collection is an archive of periodicals that document the history of African American religious life and culture between 1829 and 1922. It includes newspapers and magazines, plus reports and annuals from African American religious organizations, including churches and social service agencies.

The African Newspapers database includes 19th and 20th century newspapers, and offers access to diverse titles from Africa across a range of academic disciplines.

Black Historical Newspapers (formerly Historical African American Newspapers). Full historic content from major black newspapers: The Chicago Defender, The New York Amsterdam News, The Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, and Los Angeles Sentinel.

Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876 provides access to searchable digitized copies of newspapers printed in the Caribbean islands during the 18th and 19th centuries, primarily in English, with numerous titles in Spanish and French and some in Danish. Materials in this resource have been assembled from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.

History Commons is a platform that indexes, contextualizes, and enriches primary sources, makes them discoverable, and that facilitates contributions from scholars and archives. It includes the following collections: African American Newspapers, African American Newspapers in the South, Colonial Newspapers and more.

Access Jamaica Newspaper Archive and discover stories of the past with NewspaperArchive.com. The archive covers Kingston history from 1834-2023, with lots of content from smaller, local newspapers. Articles have been scanned as PDFs and include images and advertisements, and are full text searchable.

EBSCO's Magazine Archives provides archival access to the following magazines: Architectural Digest, Magazine Antiques, ARTnews, Art in America, Businessweek, Ebony, Esquire, Forbes, Fortune, Life, Maclean's, People, The Nation, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic, The National Review, The New Republic, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Vanity Fair, JET, and Moment. Users can search across these magazines, or select individual titles.

Newsbank searches a collection of databases from the information vendor Newsbank, including the Archive of Americana, World News Archive, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Reports, and Access World News. These collections include: Early American Newspapers, Series XV, 1822-1879: Immigrant Communities; American Underworld: The Flash Press; African American Newspapers, Series 1, African American Newspapers, Series 2, Ethnic American Newspapers (Balch), 1799-1971; Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS), 1957-1995; Sowetan Collection; Financial Mail Collection, Sunday Times Collection; Business Day Collection

Historical newspapers archive from the 1690-2023 containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. The collection includes Black History Newspapers (1803-1989).

Reveal Digital develops open access primary source collections from under-represented 20th-century voices of dissent, sourced from libraries, museums, historical societies, and individual collectors. NYU Libraries subscribe to following collections: American Prison Newspapers, 1800s-present: Voices from the Inside; Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements; Black Periodicals: From the Great Migration through Black Power; HIV, AIDS & the Arts; Independent Voices; Student Activism.