LibGuides: Black History : Find Articles & Videos

Library Databases to Find Articles

Ethnic Diversity Source This link opens in a new window
A resource for diversity and ethnic studies that includes journals, newspapers, primary sources, and other materials.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Diversity Studies This link opens in a new window
Diversity Studies prepares researchers for social science, history, and liberal arts coursework. This collection explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
African-American History (FOF) This link opens in a new window
Covering more than 500 years of the African-American experience, African-American History explores the full spectrum of African-American history and culture, with videos and slideshows, images, biographies of key people, event and topic entries, primary sources, maps and graphs, and timelines.

The Black Collegian - A quarterly journal that provides advice and resources on self-development and careers specifically tailored to African-American and Black students. It is also now a website. UCNJ Libraries have full text coverage for this magazine from January 1993- September 2010
The Journal of African American History - A quarterly journal; This journal is famous for publishing the first major analysis of the American hip-hop movement. UCNJ Libraries have full text coverage for this magazine from January 2002- September 2011
Jet - A weekly newsmagazine; This magazine gained national spotlight in 1955 for publishing an issue with the graphic image of Emmet Till's (a 14 year old African American boy who was kidnapped, tortured, and lynched by two white men) corpse on the cover. The publication continued to report on civil rights after this disturbing event in American history. UCNJ Libraries have full text coverage for this newsmagazine from December 1992- December 2008
Ebony- A monthly magazine with news, opinion, and commentary on Black studies, trends, and entertainment. UCNJ Libraries have full text coverage for this newsmagazine from January 1989 - December 2008
New African - A bimonthly magazine about African and international business and world news. UCNJ Libraries have full text coverage for this magazine from November 2000 - current

Academic Video Online: Premium

Academic Video Online: Premium consists of thousands of streaming videos from a large number of produces and distributors across a wide range of subject areas, including art, architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, economics, education, ethnic studies, ethnography, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, humanities, law and public safety, literature, opera, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, theater, women's studies, and more.
Films On Demand

Streaming educational videos, with our collection covering Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and Psychology. The full length videos are segmented into useable clips, and may be shared, saved, organized, or embedded in course content management systems. Many of the videos are close-captioned and/or have interactive transcripts. Citations are available in Chicago, MLA, and APA styles.

The Library has access to many databases that contain videos to stream. Here is a selection of videos from the Films on Demand database: