Provides access to thousands of video titles on the arts, humanities, science, and social sciences. The formats include documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, and award-winning films, all with accompanying transcripts.

Contains plays from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Some plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area.
*Includes materials relating primarily to James Baldwin's The Amen Corner.

Searchable and browsable database of non-fiction works by African American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published. Includes brief biographical information for all authors.
*Includes materials relating to James Baldwin, such as articles by or about Baldwin in The Black Panther, of which there is a long run here -- nearly 500 issues. We also have access to a smaller number of issues of The Black Panther via the databases, African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, and Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975. The Beinecke Library holds many issues too, and there is a microfilm publication that can be accessed for any issues that are not available elsewhere.

A digital archive of African American video oral histories. Includes approximately 2700 oral history interviews with African Americans from a variety of fields. A keyword search for "James Baldwin" retrieves many interviews in which Baldwin is discussed.

Includes some materials relating to James Baldwin.

Consists of materials from the years 1913 through 1998 that document African American author and activist Amiri Baraka and were gathered by Dr. Komozi Woodard in the course of his research. The extensive documentation includes poetry, organizational records, print publications, articles, plays, speeches, personal correspondence, oral histories, as well as some personal records. The materials cover Baraka's involvement in politics in Newark, N.J., and in Black Power movement organizations such as the Congress of African People, the National Black Conference movement, and the Black Women's United Front. Later materials document Baraka's increasing involvement in Marxism.

Contains records of speeches, reports, surveys, and analyses produced by Fisk University's Race Relations Department from 1943-1970. The Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association. The original records are housed at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans. The materials range from interviews and statistics to educational pamphlets and administrative correspondence produced by the Department's staff, to photographs and speeches from the Annual Race Relations Institutes where participants included Charles S. Johnson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.