Africa and Black Internationalism since c1800 CE: News Sources & Internet Resources

Current & Historical News on Africa

  • Access world news--Africa. Newsbank. (Naples, Florida)
    Plain text versions of news stories from selected major African media outlets, covering the last 10 years up to 1 week ago.
    --See also, two South African historical newspapers:
    The Sowetan archive, 1981-2019 -and- The Sunday Times archive, 1906-2019, both featuring digitized versions of the print

  • Africa confidential. (London)
    1996 to present ( via Publisher)
    2003 to 3 years ago (via EBSCO)
    Print, 1964-2011

  • Africa research bulletin: economic, financial & technical series. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1964-)
    1997 to present (via Wiley-Blackwell)

  • Africa research bulletin: political, social & cultural series. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1964-)
    1997 to present (via Wiley-Blackwell)

  • AllAfrica.Com News (Washington, DC)
    --See also Factiva

  • Columbia University
  • Ethnic newsWatch (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

  • Factiva.Com. (New York: Dow Jones and Reuters, c2002--)

  • Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1941-1996 (Naples, FL: Readex)
    English language (or translated) news from non-US media: inc. newspapers, periodicals, & television and radio broadcasts.

  • Global Observatory (New York; Vienna: International Peace Institute)

  • ReliefWeb (New York; Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

  • World News Connection, 1996-2013. (Springfield, VA: NTIS; via East View Information Services) Continues "Foreign Broadcast Information Service (see above)

  • Historical Newspapers

    African Diaspora Online News

  • Africa in Harlem. (Isseu Diouf Campbell ...[et al.], New York)
    --See also: French version

  • The Afro. The Afro-American Newspaper. (Baltimore, Maryland)
    This website is part of the legacy of The Afro-American Newspaper founded in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr., in Baltimore.

  • AfrobeatRadio (WBAI.org, New York)
    --Search also:
    WBAI Archives for "Afrobeat Radio"

  • AfroCubaWeb: News (Arlington, Massachusetts)

  • Amjambo Africa! (Portland, Maine)

  • Antigua Observer. (Online) -- Saint John's, Antigua and Barbuda.

  • The Atlanta Voice. (Online) -- Atlanta, Georgia.

  • AyiboPost (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

  • The Barbados Advocate. (Online) -- St. Michael, Barbados.

  • Barbados today. (St. Michael, Barbados)

  • Basic Black -- A WGBH Program (Boston, Massachusetts)
    This program supersedes a much earlier WGBH television program on African American concerns called Say Brother which first aired in 1968.

  • Black Agenda Report : news, analysis and commentary from the black left. (USA)

  • Black America. (CUNY TV, The City University of New York, New York) Since 2016, hosted by Carol Jenkins, Emmy award winning New York City journalist.

  • Black America Web -- News (Reach Media, California)

  • The Black Commentator. (Online) -- Washington, DC: The Commentator, 2002--. Subscription required for full access.

  • Black Enterprise. (Online) -- New York: Black Enterprise.

  • BlackPressUSA.Com (Baltimore, Maryland)
    Since 2004, a project of The Black Press Institute--a partnership between the National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation (NNPAF) and Howard University:

  • Black Star News. (Online) -- New York: Black Star News, 2007-.

  • Black Voice News. -- Riverside, California: Brown Publishing Company, 2004-.

  • The Black Wall Street Times. -- Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since 2016.

  • Boston Review: "Race" -and- Law & Justice (Boston, Massachusetts)
    -- See also: Boston Review on Africa

  • CARICOM today (Georgetown, Guyana) Since 2015.

  • The Charlotte Post. (Online) -- Charlotte, North Carolina.

  • The Chicago Defender. (Online) -- Chicago, Illinois.

  • The Conversation: African Americans (Waltham, Massachusetts)

  • The Chronicle. (Online) -- Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

  • The Daily Express. Trinidad Express.  (Caribbean Caribbean Network, Port of Spain, Trinidad) --Includes The Sunday Express

  • The Florida Star and The Georgia Star. (Online)  -- Jacksonville, Florida.

  • The Gleaner. (Online) -- Kingston, Jamaica.

  • Ghanaian American journal. (Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA) Since 2015.

  • TheGrio. (Entertainment Studios LLC, USA)

  • Grioo.com--Archives (2002-2023) (Paris, France)

  • The Guyana Chronicle. (Online) -- Georgetown, Guyana: National Newspapers Guyuana Ltd., 2009-.

  • The Haitian times. -- New York: HaitiNex Media Group, 2012-. Originally founded in 1999.

  • Hammer & hope: a magazine of Black politics and culture. – United States: s.n., 2023-.

  • Intersectionality Matters!: African American Policy Forum. (New York) Since January 2020, a podcast series hosted by Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights law professor and leading scholar of critical race theory..

  • The Jackson Advocate. (Online) -- Jackson, Mississippi.

  • Kaieteur News. (Online) -- Georgetown, Guyana.

  • KBLA Talk 1580 (Los Angeles, California) Smiley Audio Media

  • Loop News. (Trend Media Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica)

  • The Los Angeles Sentinel. (Online)  -- Los Angeles, California.

  • The Miami Times (Online) -- Miami, Florida.

  • The Michigan Chronicle. (Online) -- Detroit, Michigan.

  • The New Pittsburgh Courier. (Online) -- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

  • The New York Amsterdam News. (Online)  -- New York.

  • The New York Carib News. (Online) -- New York.

  • NorthStar News.  --Toms River, New Jersey.

  • Now Grenada. (St. George's, Grenada)

  • OkayAfrica (New York)
    Current news on African music, art, film, and politics, as well as interviews and reports on African artists in the diaspora.

  • The Philadelphia Tribune. (Online)  -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  • The Root. (The Washington Post Company, Washington, DC)

  • Sahan journal. (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
    Since 2019, a nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to reporting for immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota.

  • The Skanner News. (Online) -- Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington.

  • Tadias magazine. (Online) -- New York: Tadias, Inc., 2003-.
    An Ethiopian-American online magazine.

  • The Times of Suriname. (Online) English news -- Paramaribo, Suriname.  --See also: Dutch version

  • Today with Dr. Kaye -- Podcasts. Hosted by Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead, Ph.D. WEAA 88.9FM Public Radio. (Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland)

  • Toronto Caribbean. (Online) -- Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

  • Touki Montréal : l'actualité africaine à Montréal (Canada)

  • Trinidad & Tobago Guardian. (Online) -- Port of Spain: Guardian Media Ltd.

  • Trinidad Express. (Online) -- Port of Spain: Caribbean Communications Network.
    --See also: CCN TV6

  • The Washington Informer. (Online) -- Washington, DC: Washington Informer Newspaper Co. Inc.

  • The Washington Post: Race and Reckoning. --Washington, DC: The Washington Post Company.