Historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America. Contains thousands of original PBS and NPR broadcasts from the mid-20th century to present.
American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years.
Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements focuses on unearthing and digitizing the histories of civil rights activism by the everyday citizens of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian American/Pacific Islander communities.
Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films. In its current iteration, it showcases Black films made from 1898 to 1999 currently streaming.
This collection include periodicals that depict the various political, literary, and cultural forms that Black Americans used to advance their vision in the ongoing struggle for liberation and dignity. Magazines and newsletters from women’s organizations, religious groups, labor organizations, and more reveal a diversity of ideological orientations, strategic methods, and aesthetic modes among Black voices throughout the mid-twentieth century.
Feminist Periodicals is an open access repository of digitized contents pages of 150 academic journals and pop culture magazines for researchers and scholars to view what is currently being published in the fields of Feminism, Gender and Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, and LGBTQIA+ Studies.
HIV, AIDS & the Arts contains items, including sheet music, manuscripts, playbills, production notes, visual art, and personal papers, representing the role art has played in responding to and remembering the AIDS crisis.
Independent Voices is a digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. These periodicals were produced by feminists, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBTQ activists and others during the latter half of the 20th century.
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Numeridanse provides access to a unique video collection including filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, and short and feature-length films.
Student Activism contains material that captures the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States.
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