The Black Blogosphere

African Americans have been communicating over the digital media since the beginning; before Wikis & Blogs, before World Wide Web, and before AOL became a comic catchphrase. In the old days, Black netizens used newsgroups and e-mail to communicate electronically around the world – “soc.culture.african.american” had thousands of  readers every day trading and posting messages. Today, “Blogging Black” is a very popular activity on the Web.

There are a number of excellent Blogs and social networks created by people of color, or contain content that will interest anyone concerned about African and African American affairs.  For instance, Blog Africa http://www.blogafrica.com offers robust information about Africa, unfiltered by the mainstream media. Also, many big and small businesses, all serious politicians, and a majority of school kids have Blogs. Social Networks such as Myspace.com or Ning.com likewise are important tools of the Web.

 http://afrospear.wordpress.com – AfroSpear is a “Think Tank for People Of African Descent”. There you can find the AfroSphere which has an extensive list of African and African American blogs.

http://www.blackperspective.net -- BlackPerspective discussing the Diaspora as seen through an internal Black lens.

http://bloggingwhilebrown.blogspot.com/ -- Blogging While Brown is the first international conference for bloggers of color. Activists, entrepreneurs and new media content creators step out from behind their keyboards and meet in person.

http://afrigator.com/ – Afrigator is a social a Blog directory built especially for African digital citizens who publish and consume content on the Web.

http://whiteafrican.com – Erik Hersman and grew up in Kenya and Sudan and writes about Africa and how technology will affect it in his Blog “WHITEAFRICAN”. He links to other African Blogs as well as discusses being white in Africa.

http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/ – A view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self sustaining activities.

http://www.diseducation.com – Diseducation is aimed at Black and Latino professionals seeking to stay informed, entertained and challenged.

http://www.africanamericanopinion.com – African-American opinion blog
www.blackpundit.com –– Black Pundit was created by Tavares Forby a Black Republican