World Wide Web Resources

Online Documents, Projects, and Exhibits

12 Black Classicists
This website accompanies the exhibit curated by Michele Valerie Ronnick, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, Greek and Latin at Wayne State University. The exhibit focuses on the involvement of twelve 19th century African American scholars who specialized in the study and teaching of classical languages and literatures.

Coming Home: Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South
This website presents images of paintings and sculptures from an exhibition at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. A number of the images treat themes in African-American religious life and the work of African-American artists Leroy Almon, Sr., Joe Minter, and Sister Gertrude Morgan is represented. The site also includes lesson plans, written by Darla Linerode-Henson, for teaching about contemporary folk art and visionary art.

Muslims in New York City
This project of the Middle East Institute of Columbia University takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the experiences of the estimated 600,000 Muslims in New York City. A number of the research projects underway focus on African and African-American Muslims.

Race and Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South: Charlottesville, VA
A collaborative project of the Virginia Center for Digital History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute of African and Afro-American Studies this website "is an archive about the racial segregation laws, or the 'Jim Crow' laws from the late 1880s until the mid-twentieth century" with a focus on the town of Charlottesville in Virginia. It contains personal papers from a number of individuals, oral histories, maps, census data, newspaper articles, and images from the period.

 

Web Sites of Religious Groups and Organizations

Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, International
Official website of the organization founded in 1994 by Bishop Paul S. Morton (pastor of Greater St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church) and emphasizing the expression of spiritual gifts and promoting a hierarchical governance structure.

Woman Thou Art Loosed
Official website of the 2004 film, directed by Michael Schultz and based on the novel by Bishop T. D. Jakes.

 

 

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