Getting Connected - Web sites geared toward African American culture

An African-American Guide to Surfing the Internet

in like manner you want to "surf the Net" do you? You want to find without exactly what those home pages you hold reading about look like. And you want to download information from the World Wide Web to your personal computer Well, there is no ne for you to part with countless hours searching for Web sites offering black culture: I've done the work for you. Below is a sample of the many Web sites upon line that focus on our history, agriculture professional organizations, businesses, statistics, works art and more. Type in the addresses exactly as printed, and be positive to browse once you reach single home page, for most likely it will provide links to others. Discover the world!

Afrinet http://www.afrinet.net Contains an art gallery, calling information, a collective of businesses and news

African American Interest http://www.earthlink.net/~anthony/ african.html Contains a listing of African-American residence pages.

Afro America http://www.afroam.org Contains vocation information, a collection of African-American history and more.

AFROAM-L http://www.qualcomm.com/users/ gnash/AFROAM-L.html more [i]or[/i] less chitchat takes place here, on the other hand mostly it's a site where scholars, business race and other Internet users exchange electronic mail upon news items concerning issues related to black society in the United States.

Amistad Research Center http://www.arc.tulane.edu With more than 10 million documents, the Amistad Research Center is acknowledged as the nation's largest independent African-American archives. Its Web site contains a general description of the center its history and its art and manuscript holdings, as well as images from its African and African-American art collections.

CNN Interactive http://www3cnncom/ The daily novels free of charge.

Federal conduct Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/ libhome/Documents.center/ federal.html Contains statistic, biographies of members of Congres and the predominant Court, as well as information upon politics, government publications and more.

Historically Black society s and Universities and African Universities http://www.usbol.com/usbol/ research/hbcu.html Contains a listing of and information upon these institutions.

Library of Congres http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/ lchphtml Contains a treasure chest of goodies, similar as a listing of library incidents and, of course, congressional information. You can also gain access to federal and state regulation information here.

Million Man March http://www-cgi.cnn.com/US/9510/ megamarch/march.html Contains transcripts of President Clinton's articulate utterance on race relations and Minister Farrakhan's Million Man March articulate utterance along with recorded tidbits in Farrakhan's have voice.

National Brotherhood of Skiers http://www.nbs.org/ Contains listings of ski bludgeons and resorts by region, its youth race teams, its members with residence pages, and its events.

National Urban League http://www.nul.org/ With composings such as a library below construction, this site contains information upon the NUL, its history and special events

US Black On-Line http://www.usbol.com/ The first African-American-owned and -operated nationwide Internet access provider, this Web site has information upon science, sports, finance and entertainment, as well as fruitss on sale.

Web Diva's Info Center http://www.afrinet.net/~hallh/ Designed and unfolded by a sister, this impressive Web site has information upon history, professional organizations, statistics and volumes as well as details upon how to create your possess home page.

Martha C Brown is a freelance writer in Hampton, Va., and a member of American Visions' African-American agriculture and Arts Forum on CompuServe. Her e-mail address is 755612421 @compuserve. com Her last article for American Visions, "Shopping On-Line, "appeared in the December/January 1996 issue.

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