Websites of Boston social justice organizations that serve under-represented communities.
Topics: Social justice -- Massachusetts -- Boston, Nonprofit organizations -- Massachusetts -- Boston,...
LibriVox recording of The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1 by Various. This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches found on Project Gutenberg that are by or about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves. (Summary by BellonaTimes) For further information, including...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, America, slavery, slave, black history, black, African American
LibriVox recording of The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois read and performed by toriasuncle. The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society. Outside of its notable place in...
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Fences is a 1983 play by American playwright August Wilson . Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part " Pittsburgh Cycle ". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations , among other themes. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play . The play was first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center 's 1983 National...
Topics: August Wilson, African American, Drama, History
LibriVox recording of From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life by Peter Randolph. Read in English by David Wales Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying in 1897. This is his 1893 autobiography. The latter third of the book is a slightly edited re-publication of a pamphlet he published in 1855 (so before the Civil War) entitled “Sketches Of Slave Life." This recording omits...
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Topics: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Black Student Movement, University of North Carolina...
St. Louis Argus Newspaper (1915-1926) This collection contains digitized and enhanced issues of the St. Louis Argus scanned from micro-film for the years 1915-1926. The St. Louis Argus, while not technically the 'first' black newspaper in St. Louis, became the most recognizable name in the black journalism locally for much of the 20th century. For a few articles on the Argus please see the following link to the St. Louis Media History foundation:...
Topics: St. Louis, African American, Newspaper
LibriVox recording of Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography by Robert R. Moton. Read in English by Jim Locke. He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time to reflect upon the impressions made upon my mind by experiences that I could not always reconcile with what I had learned of American ideals and standards." - Summary by author in the preface For further information, including links to online...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, psychology, race, introspection, african american authors
The African American Museum and Library at Oakland digital collection contains audiovisual material (moving images and audio) from the 1940s to the 2000s. These recordings include an oral history collection containing recent interviews with African-American residents of Oakland, interviews with Blues musician Brownie McGhee, and home movies recorded by Oakland's Collier family. The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is dedicated to the discovery, preservation, interpretation and...
Topics: African American, Museum, Oakland, californialightandsound
Selection of 'Ho in the Haystack' - part of The eBay Adult Only Master Collection VHS Archive. On June 15, 2021, eBay banned adult content from being sold there. This is part of a collection of 27,000 + screenshots and photos collected over a 6 week period to archive that era on eBay before it was closed down. The eBay Adult Only Master Collection serves as an archive of price and content for the material that was being sold in eBay's adult only categories and samples most areas of eBay's...
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A collection of pictures, recordings and textual narratives of slaves from the Federal Writers' Project .
Topics: Slavery, Slaves, American slaves, African-American, American Slavery
LibriVox recording of selected poems and essays by African-American authors. This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are African American Writers (Bookshelf) and The Book of American Negro Poetry , edited by James Weldon Johnson. Johnson's collection inspired the Harlem Renaissance generation to establish a firm African-American literary tradition in the United States. (Summary by Alan) For more free audio...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobooks, poetry, african-american, black history
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LibriVox recording of Character Building, by Booker T. Washington. Read by Luke Sartor. Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now known as Tuskegee University). Booker T. Washington was one of the most prominent leaders in advancing African-American civil rights. Born into slavery and freed as a young boy, he rose through the ranks of education to eventually earn his position...
Topics: uplifting, character, inspiring, famous, speech, african american, american history, education,...
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LibriVox recording of Meditations from the Pen, by Maria W. Stewart. Read by James K. White Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's rights. Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart—published in 1879 shortly before her death—is a collection of those speeches as well as her memoir, some meditations and prayers. They are political, poetical and sermon all at the same time; but...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, slavery, african american, memoirs, black
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Topics: African American men, Fathers and sons, Slaves
Notice: In 2019 Tumblr deleted all 48 of my websites. In 2020, the Internet Archive shut down this account you are looking at...then it was restored...but only by chance. In 2012 Flickr deleted my account. In 2014 Wiki Commons deleted all my contributions. In 2018 LinkedIn deleted my account ... same thing with YouTube, Vimeo, PetaPixel, DP Review, Facebook and on and on and on. Here is the deal... Don't be like some of the small-minded curators I deal with. They will refuse an acquisition...
Topics: telecine, stag, sex, breasts, porn, vintage, VHS, video, D.D.Teoli Jr., video machine, video...
LibriVox recording of Color by Countee Cullen. Read in English by Michael MacTaggert Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their ancestors were kidnapped and rooted in the white supremacist society where they live. With poems about love, tradition, the intertwined lives of Black people and whites, and the experience of a "Negro in a day like this," Color is a profound early work of the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Americana, african american
LibriVox recording of Floyd's Flowers Or Duty and Beauty For Colored Children Being One Hundred Short Stories Gleaned from the Storehouse of Human Knowledge and Experience Simple Amusing Elevating by Silas X. Floyd. Read in English by Lola Janie Truly the boys and girls of to-day ought to be thankful that they are alive. There never was such a golden age for childhood and youth as the present. To say nothing of the rich opportunities for mental and spiritual development, what a multitude of...
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LibriVox recording of Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839 by Frances Anne Kemble. Read in English by James K. White Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of everyday life, and after some years grew to detest the institution of slavery and the things Butler stood for. Kemble eventually divorced him, but it wasn't until after the Civil War had started that she published her...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slave, travel literature, anti-slave literature, southern writing,...
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Taken from IMDB : Bob Blake and his boys arrive at Joe Jackson's ranch to find him missing. While Slim cheats Dusty out of his money using ventriloquism and marked cards, Blake tries to find Jackson. Learning that Thorne and his gang hold him prisoner, he and his men trail them. When Thorne's gang gets the drop on them, Slim puts his ventriloquism to work.
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Topics: Western, African American Cinema
Notice: In 2019 Tumblr deleted all 48 of my websites. In 2020, the Internet Archive shut down this account you are looking at...then it was restored...but only by chance. In 2012 Flickr deleted my account. In 2014 Wiki Commons deleted all my contributions. In 2018 LinkedIn deleted my account ... same thing with YouTube, Vimeo, PetaPixel, DP Review, Facebook and on and on and on. Here is the deal... Don't be like some of the small-minded curators I deal with. They will refuse an acquisition...
Topics: VHS, porn, interracial, interracial sex, African American, fetish, fat, sex, breasts, lesbian,...
LibriVox recording of The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Benjamin Griffith Brawley. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literature and other arts including poets, artists, musicians, and orators. These range from well known figures such as poets Paul Laurence Dunbar and William Stanley Braithwaite to lesser known artists such as composer...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, biography, african-american, black history, American Literature, poets,...
LibriVox recording of A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington by Walter Clinton Jackson. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Kyle L.; Sarah Brown; Jason in Panama; KevinS; Sebastian; Paul Brian Stewart; Mari Patterson; Tina Ding; drandall; dfixsen Booker T. Washington was one of the first nationally recognized African American leaders after the Civil War. He was born to a slave woman in Virginia, who then took him as a young boy to West Virginia after the emancipation. Booker became a leader in...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, black history, african american, civil rights, emancipation,...
Vol. 1 - screenshots of various Mammy / African American collectibles on eBay. File descriptions taken off of listing. Used under the auspices of fair use.
Topics: African American, collectibles, Aunt Jemima, tea, salt and pepper, cooking, kitchen, dolls, flower...
NOTA BENE: This is not meant to glorify the Confederate States of America, but, African-Americans served on both sides in the U.S. Civil War, believe it or not? Not only African-Americans, but Native American Indians also served in the confederate and union armies and navies. Here are photographs taken during the years 1861 to 1865 and up to 1923, possibly to 1940?
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Topics: Black Confederates, African-American Confederates, American-Indian Confederates, Confederate States...
LibriVox recording of Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 09, Dec. 30, 1879. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft projects, and more for children. This ninth issue of the serial was published on December 30, 1879. Published by Harper & Brothers, known today for their other...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, children, dog, books, America, short stories, poem, song, Christmas, New...
LibriVox recording of Following the Color Line by Ray Stannard Baker. Read in English by Roger Melin Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years following the end of the Civil War. The book is in three parts: The Negro in the South; The Negro in the North; and the Negro in the Nation. We are presented both rural and...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, african american slaves, race relations, 20th century african...
LibriVox recording of Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3) by Booker T. Washington. Read in English by Andrew Kennedy Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War to his work at founding schools to help children from black or other disadvantaged groups learn skills that would give them the chance to work to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. For further...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, african american authors, slavery, reconstruction, race relations, work...
LibriVox recording of The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race by John Clay Coleman. Read in English by Theoden Humphrey "My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of the South, has led to this little book. In many parts of America the press has been furnished with “matter” for defending the colored people, through the medium of “Coleman’s Illustrated...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, railroad, race, civil rights, segregation, american south, lynching,...
Obeah: Society Of Black Masters & Mistresses Vol. 6 No. 4 ca.1985 / 1986 Note: Although images were titled in numerical order they do not present sequentially for viewing and must be downloaded to view sequentially. Files are hi-res, click on image to view properly. You can scroll image size up or down to minimize moiré pattern from halftone screening.
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Topics: Obeah Society Of Black Masters Mistresses, interracial, interracial sex, sex, femdom, female...
LibriVox recording of Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The object of this book is... (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, who are interested in the Negro race, a better idea of the extent to which he contributed to the promotion of America's civilization, and of the intellectual...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, african-american, black history, civil rights, racism, emancipation,...
The Jubilee! radio show was broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) and featured "Negro" performers. The dates on these files, show numbers, as well as some performer's names, came from the Jubilee! transcription pages by Carl Hallstrom & Bo Scherman: http://home.swipnet.se/dooji/jubilee.htm The Radio Gold Index http://www.radiogoldindex.com DB was helpful too. Any typo or error is mine. :D
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Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American, World War, 1939-1945, World War II,...
LibriVox recording of Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem by Sutton Griggs. Read in English by Jim Locke Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educated and disciplined black man in the Jim Crow south and his role in a shadow government of black men operated out of a college in Waco, Texas. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, race, prejudice, american south, lynching, violence, african...
This is a large but incomplete archive of the LipstickAlley.com forum (message board), crawled in late 2014. LipstickAlley is a large message board with over 110,000 registered users whose membership is largely made up of African-American women. The site covers a wide variety of topics, with a focus on entertainment industry gossip, but also discusses news and current events, religion, history, race relations in the United States, relationship advice, small business ownership, and more. Online:...
Topics: webite, message board, forum, women, African-Americans, African-American women, race,...
LibriVox recording of The Story of My Life and Work by Booker T. Washington. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Valentina Vocelli; Andrew Kennedy; KevinS; Linda Johnson; BettyB The legacy of Booker T. Washington has inspired leaders for racial equality for over a century. He rose from a slave family to be adviser to presidents. As an educator founded the Tuskegee Institute and championed higher education to those who were denied such based on race. Booker T. Washington gives us this autobiography...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, education, American history, african american, william mckinley,...
LibriVox recording of In Old Plantation Days by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Read in English by Jim Locke. With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern plantation during slavery. The stories focus on the stereotypical portrait of slaves as obedient workers happy to spend their lives in service of their benevolent owner. His attempt to find success was only partially realized, as his stories drew not only...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, African American Authors, slavery, United States, American South
Collection of 55 lynching and related lynching ephemera photos. Hi-res photos take time to load. Click to view properly or download. Archival material from Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection, Library of Congress, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. N.A.A.C.P., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and various internet sources. Post processing and upscaling by D.D. Teoli Jr.
Topics: lynching, photography, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Africa, African American, slave, Klan, Clan, white power,...
LibriVox recording of Narratives of Colored Americans by Abigail Mott; Mary Sutton Wood. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Darrell Nobles; DariaAM; Alan Mapstone; ABVoice; Ken Masters; Loraine Flegal; Nichole Kristen; Scott Leonard Fortune; drandall; AnthonyT; Lee-Ann Khoh; Andrew Kennedy; Jacqueline Burrell Walton; mleigh; Kevin Waters; Curtis R.; Mari Patterson; Christine Rottger; Tom Merritt Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, slavery, essays, anthropology, abolition, American history, benjamin...
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Roots: 3 Part 1 the Slave Summary Explains that the slave rebellion aboard the Lord Ligonier is quickly put down. Tells how the ship anchor./ia metadata rootsKunta Kinte is bought by plantation owner John Reynolds.
Topics: Series: Roots, Series: Roots (1977), Television broadcasting, Slavery (United States), African...
Porn star known as Bad Mama Jama 8mm film box covers c.1984 Selections from 8mm artist's book by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.
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LibriVox recording of Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913 by William Stanley Braithwaite. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Alan Mapstone; RomaSingh; gcarlson; Andrew Gaunce; mleigh; Paul Harvey; Adrian Stephens; Stefan Von Blon; Katie Bond; Rachel May; Erin Grassie; Steven J. Battaglia; Rowan Puttergill; Khayla Jones; Dessa Dixon; Algy Pug; Damien1110 William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collections...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, literature, literary criticism, verses, african american, rhyme, harlem...
Gorgeous Black woman Eva...from a 1980's men's magazine.
Topics: men's magazine, Black, African American, nude, breasts, nipple, vagina
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Topics: Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld, Criminal justice, Administration...
Born from the efforts of Indiana University South Bend students and professors, the Civil Rights Heritage Center transformed a once segregated city swimming pool into an active learning center. It explores the civil rights struggles of the past so people can take action in the present and build a better future. For more, visit crhc.iusb.edu .
Topics: history, South Bend, Indiana, African American history, LGBTQ history, Latinx history
LibriVox recording of Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young by Silas X. Floyd. Read in English by KirksVoice. Several short stories relating to young African Americans. Summary by kirk202 For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (136MB)
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, non-fiction, short stories, african american, junenile
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Produced several years before the historic Stonewall uprising for LGBT rights in 1969, director Nikolai Ursin's gently-activist short Behind Every Good Man (c. 1967) provides an illuminating glimpse into the life of an African-American trans woman. In strong contrast to the stereotypically negative and hostile depictions of transgender persons as seen through the lens of Hollywood at the time, the subject of Ursin's independent film is rendered as stable, hopeful and well-adjusted. The...
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Topics: Nikolai Ursin, transgender, LGBT, film, restoration, Los Angeles, African American
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Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (eds.), All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some Of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (Old Westbury, NY: 1982) This anthology is in the public domain.
Topics: Feminism, Critical Race Studies, History, Scholarship, Gender Studies, African American Studies,...
The Black upper middle-class Myers family moves into all-white Levittown, PA in August, 1957, and are snubbed and mistreated, in this powerful landmark documentary showcasing racism in the United States.
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LibriVox recording of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson. Read in English by James K. White Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written as a memoir of an unnamed biracial narrator who grew up in the South during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras. It is a story in which the narrator relates how as a young boy he initially assumed that he was white, and how...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, racism, passing, african-american narrative, african-american diaspora, 19th...
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Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls. By the author of Along Came a Spider
Topics: Cross, Alex (Fictitious character), Police, African American police, Police psychologists, Serial...
