Web Sites

• American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC)
  ADC is a non-sectarian, non-partisan civil rights organization working to defend the rights of people of Arab descent. The web site maintains archives of ADC press releases, examples of media discrimination and news digests of events in the Arab world.

• The Black World Today
  Created by a collective of journalists, writers and others, this site is part of an effort to bring together information and people in "an online global Black community." Non-partisan, The Black World Today advocates inter-national and inter-racial relations, and opposes all forms of discrimination. The site publishes daily news stories, giving equal weight to international, national and local issues of interest to the global black community.

• Chicano/LatinoNet
  This site brings together research sites, community links, library resources and many other resources related to Chicano/Latino populations.

• Ethnic NewsWatch
  contains fulltext articles from over 170 ethnic, minority and native publications from the U.S. It is an excellent resource for research on current events as reported and interpreted by and for ethnic and minority communities. Coverage begins in 1991. The database is updated every month.

• German Corner
  "The first German-American internet magazine and resource guide in North America," this page provides links to cultural materials, some historical material and many other resources.

• HateWatch
  A Guide to Hate Groups on the World Wide Web, this web site is a directory to those organizations that advocate violence against or unreasonable hostility toward people or organizations identified by their race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender.

• Irish-American Geneaological Resources on the WEB
  This page brings together primarily resources useful to genealogical studies, including some newsgroups, historical data and the like.

• Jewish Amerian/Judaica Web Sites
  An annotated directory of Jewish American sites and resources.

• National Coalition for the Homeless
  The homepage for this national advocacy group for the homeless, this site provides legislative updates, a bimonthly newsletter and other information about homeless in the U.S.

• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF)
  NGLTF is a "leading progressive civil rights organization...that has been at the forefront of every major initiative for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights." This site maintains a searchable archive of press releases and other news stories.

• NativeWEB
  An annotated directory of links designed to provide a "cyber-community for Earth's indigenous peoples."

• Queer Resources Directory
  A very comprehensive directory with links to news sources on issues affecting gays, links to support groups and links to sites that argue against the gay and lesbian lifestyle.

• R-Forum; Thoughts and Concerns about Latino/Hispanic Issues
  This page provides comment upon current social and political issues from a Latino/Hispanic perspective. It also maintains an index which includes many Spanish language newspapers from around the world.

• Women of Color
  An annotated directory of links to a wide range of sites concerning issues of importance to women of color.

Materials in the UW Libraries

• Crisis
  Suzzallo Periodicals
  325.2605 CR
  Covering a wide number of social, political, economic and cultural issues of interest to Afro-Americans, this monthly/bimonthly news magazine supports the principles of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

• Ebony
  Suzzallo Periodicals and Undergraduate Library
  051 EB
  Probably the most widely read Afro-American magazine in the United States, this monthly focuses on current topics and personalities in American culture.

• Focus
  Suzzallo Periodicals
  JK2275 N4 F63
  Published by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, this monthly reports on national and international issues of specific interest to black Americans.

• Hispanic
  Undergraduate Periodicals
  An English language monthly, Hispanic covers current events and social issues. Also available at Hispanic Online.

• India-West
  Microform and Newspaper Collections
  Current newspapers and microfilm A8098
  "The weekly newspaper for the Indo-American Community," this paper covers political issues in India and in the United States that are of interest to South Asians.

• Jet
  Undergraduate Library
  B1663 (backfiles on microfilm)
  A weekly news magazine reporting topics of interest to Afro-Americans, Jet is also important as a chronicler of black life in the United States.

• Navajo Times
  Microform and Newspaper Collections
  Current display
  "The newspaper of the Navajo People," this weekly paper covers local news and some national issues of particular interest to Native Americans.

• Real Change
  Microform and Newspaper Collections
  Current display
  "Puget Sound's Homeless Newspaper," this monthly covers issues of interest to the homeless, often written by the homeless. The goal of the paper is to "organize, educate, and build alliances to find community-based solutions to homelessness and poverty." Back issues are available at (http://www.speakeasy.org/realchange/) Real Change (link) on the web.

• Tundra Times
  Microform and Newspaper Collections
  Current display
  Published by the Eskimo, Indian, Aleut Publishing Company, this bi-weekly covers issues of interest to Native Americans in Alaska.