Alexandra Street Databases Trial

African Diaspora, 1860-Present: For Access Click here
- Includes 100,000 pages of international primary and secondary source documents, and 50 hours of video, curated for the Black Studies, African American History, and World History scholar.
Black Drama, Third Edition: For Access Click here
- Contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from north America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive: For Access Click here
- Explores the oral and visual history of the culture, society, and identity of the Caribbean people
- Features more than 1,100 hours of music, dance, interviews, cultural programming, that has been housed in the Banyan Archives in Trinidad & Tobago for over forty years
ProQuest Databases Trial

Black Short Fiction and Folklore: For Access Click here
- Brings together 82,000 pages and more than 11,000 works of short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present
Black Women Writers: For Access Click here
- Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African diaspora
NewsBank Databases Trial

Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876: For Access Click here
- The largest collection of fully searchable 18th- and 19th-century Caribbean newspapers.
- Presents the evolution of the region across two centuries chronicled within more than 140 titles from 22 island
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: For Access Click here
- Covers the diverse history of Caribbean islands over a span of nearly 400 years.
- Includes more than 1,200 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera, both from and about this region
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