The Black Archives of Mid-America, located in Kansas City, Missouri, was founded to collect and preserve the cultural history of African-Americans in the Midwest, particularly in the states of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. With funding from the Missouri State Library, the Black Archives have collaborated with the Kansas City Public Library to digitize its collection. Heretofore, the...

Historically Black, a podcast from American Public Media (APM) and The Washington Post, explores black history through objects and artifacts. This podcast is hosted by an all-star lineup: actor Keegan-Michael Key (Key and Peele), writer Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist; Difficult Women), actress & director Issa Rae (HBO's Insecure), and Heben Nigatu and Tracey Clayton (hosts of the Buzzfeed podcast,...

Infoplease.com has assembled this collection of resources and features to honor Black History Month. Each day in February the site will post a biography of a distinguished individual and a special feature. In addition, the site offers statistics and figures, a Civil Rights Timeline, a reading list of black literature, information about black personalities of note (politics, arts, and sports),...

The BBC World Service's Witness program offers a unique insight into the American civil rights era, focusing on important events in Black History. This special feature provides thirty-three free and downloadable podcast interviews of individuals that were present during hallmark events in history, such as Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream" speech and The Freedom Riders protests. Listeners have...