Introduction to Black Feminism

This database contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the 21st century by over 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

Black Thought and Culture offers the full text of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writing by leading figures in African American life and culture, including Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson and hundreds of others. One of the collection’s major features is the complete run of the Black Panther newspaper, 1966- 1980.

Black Women Writers is a collection of writings by women of African nations and the African Diaspora.

HistoryMakers is a collection of video oral history interviews with African Americans who have made significant contributions in a wide variety of fields.

This guide highlights the works of Black women within the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.

features primary sources documenting African American history at Rutgers University and in our surrounding communities. This archive serves as a companion to our three Scarlet and Black books, which trace the history of race at Rutgers from slavery to Black Lives Matter.

Exhibition opened in March 2023.