The world’s pre-eminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.

SAAM is home to one of the most significant collections of African American art in the world, boasting more than two thousand works by more than two hundred African American artists.

A sampler drawn from the Library of Congress' rich resources: books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and sound.

An independent archive, library and museum of African-American history and culture. Includes significant African-American art holdings (Aaron Douglas and AFAC Collections) of over 400 works of artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Mission Statement of the Stone Center directs us to: "encourage and support the critical examination of all dimensions of African and African American diaspora cultures through sustained and open discussion, dialogue and debate...".

The oldest research center for the study of African Americans in the United States, located at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the director. See also, Image of the Black in Western Art via ARTstor.

Over 250,000 objects have been digitally imaged and are accessible online through the Collections Database.

The Art Institute’s African collection includes over 400 works that highlight the diversity of tradition-based arts on the continent, with emphasis on the sculptural traditions of West and Central Africa.

The oldest African-American museum, located at a major historically black university. International Review of African-American Art (see journals list) is published here.

The homepage of Detroit's Museum of African-American History, the world's largest Black historical and cultural museum.

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.