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)
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.