African American and Ethnic Press

Read the following newspapers in the News & Microforms Library:

• Chicago Defender
• New Pittsburgh Courier
• New York Amsterdam News
• Philadelphia Tribune

Search these databases for news articles:

• Ethnic NewsWatch
  Ethnic NewsWatch is a comprehensive full-text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press, searchable in English and Spanish with titles and articles in both languages. Coverage varies with each newspaper title, but generally begins in the 1990s.

• LexisNexis Academic

• Maynard Institute: Diversity Headlines

For current news sources from many U.S. dailies and other publications: newsblack.com

For news, commentary, and more: BlackPressUSA.com

"BlackPressUSA.com is the joint web presence of America's Black community newspapers and the NNPA News Service - the last national Black Press news wire. It is a project of the Black Press Institute, a partnership between the National Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation and Howard University."

African American and Ethnic newspapers website locators:

• AJR.org News Sources (American Journalism Review)

• NewsLink : Specialty newspapers

For "quality news, information, and entertainment from a Native American perspective", go to:

• Indianz.com
  "provides you with quality news, information, and entertainment from a Native American perspective."

• Native Networks
  "An initiative of the Smithsonian Institution*apos;s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), this Web site provides information and guides to resources in Native media throughout the Americas. Offerings include Native media news, resources, links to outstanding Web sites, and information about the NMAI Film and Video Center's programs and festivals. Its contents are useful and attractive to both those with little knowledge of indigenous media and to those seeking to maintain or enhance an intimate acquaintance with indigenous radio, video, or film." [Choice review, September 2006]

Additional Resources

• Index to Black Newspapers
  The index is compiled from the final edition of: New York Amsterdam News, Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Bilalian News (later called A.M. Journal, then Muslim Journal), Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call & Post, Norfolk Journal & Guide, Los Angeles Sentinel, Michigan Chronicle, and New Pittsburgh Courier.

When you can't find a newspaper, try:

• Center for Research Libraries' search for newspapers by title or subject.
• Editor & Publisher International Year Book
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
• The Library of Congress Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room
• SRDS (Media Solutions)
• UlrichsWeb (Periodicals Directory)
• Willing's Press Guide "a concise and comprehensive index to the press of the United Kingdom..."