PART J (External Web Links)

These websites provide information that may be relevant to topics discussed in this course. You are encouraged to visit them and familiarize yourself with the content of these sites. The first link, however, is to a website that provides incredibly useful information on strategies for succeeding in school. You are strongly urged to explore that website.

SECTION ONE

  1. Study Guides and Strategies (effective study habits, taking notes, thinking like a genius, overcoming test anxiety, writing research papers, test-taking tips, etc.)

  2. Khan Academy (free video turtorials on a variety of subjects in math, science, humanities, etc.)

    • SECTION TWO

  3. Links to African American Studies-related subject matter (race, civil rights, biographies, affirmative action, etc.)

  4. Blackpast.org (Another useful site with information on race, civil rights, biographies, affirmative action, etc.)

  5. The Guardian UK Race Issues page (race in the news from around the world)

  6. Pew Research Center (public opinion research on a variety of social, political, and economic issues)

  7. Patchworknation.org (Economic and political data by community types in the U.S.)

  • SECTION THREE

  1. Links to news websites--No. 1 (Independent/Critical Thinking Media)

  2. Links to news websites--No. 2 (Corporate/Establishment Media)

  3. Newseum (provides frontpages of newspapers from around the world daily)

  4. OpenSecrets.org

  5. Politifact.com

  • SECTION FOUR

  1. Center for Science in the Public Interest (Advocates for Food Safety)

  2. Ethical capitalism (doing good as a consumer and as a capitalist)

  3. Goodguide.com (consumer products and your safety--in a capitalist society)

  4. Freerice

  5. Network for Good

  6. The Equality Trust

  7. Adbusters.org

  8. CorpWatch (holding corporations accountable)


  • SECTION FIVE

  1. Avaaz

  2. C-Span

  3. Center on Budget and Policies Priorities

  4. Counterpunch

  5. ColorLines

  6. Diverse Issues in Higher Education

  7. Dollars and Sense

  8. Human Development (in the U.S.)

  9. MakeWallStreetPay.org

  • SECTION SIX

  1. Guidestar.org

  2. Hatewatch

  3. If Americans knew.org

  4. IMDB.com

  5. Media Channel

  6. National Priorities

  7. Nobel Prize

  • SECTION SEVEN

  1. Justice Denied.org

  2. Prison Radio.org

  3. PrisonSucks.Com

  4. Responsible Lending

  5. State of Nature

  6. Swans

  7. Znet

  8. Death Penalty Information Center

  9. [[x]] How laws are made in the U.S.

  10. [[x]] Path to the Supreme Court (Chart)

  11. [[x]] U.S. Supreme Court Procedures

  12. [[x]] U.S. Supreme Court: Web site

  13. [[x]] The U.S. Judicial Process: The Federal Court System.

  14. [[x]] Legislation of the U.S. Congress (The Library of Congress Thomas web site)

  15. [[x]] Justice Denied.org

  16. [[x]] Famous trials in history

  • SECTION EIGHT

  1. [X] BBC--News, Culture, Sports, Science, etc.

  2. [X] BBC--World Service Radio Podcasts

  3. [X] Connexion

  4. [X] Fora.tv

  5. [X] Gapminder.org

  6. [X] Google Books

  7. [X] Google Scholar

  8. [X] Hathi Trust Digital Library

  9. [X] Internet History Sourcebooks Project

  10. [X] Khan Academy

  11. [X] CrashCourse

  12. [X] MIT Open Courseware

  13. [X] Major Historical Documents of United States

  14. [X] Newseum

  15. [X] OpenStax College

  16. [X] Project Gutenberg

  17. [X] Slideshare

  18. [X] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  19. [X] Wayback Machine

  20. [X] WolframAlpha

  21. [X] Worldcat

  22. [X] U.B. Department of African & African American Studies (archived site)