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Sankofa Archives - African and afrodescendant history, culture, images
Afrolatin@ Project - Includes various reports on Afrolatinos and Afrodescendants
Afridiaspora - Website on African writers and book festivals
Port Académie - Online platform for Haitian Studies and Research
Île en île - CUNY Project. Great resource -- in French -- on Caribbean authors who write in French
Haitian Creole Language Institute of NY
John Carter Brown Library - Haiti Collection - The John Carter Brown Library holds one of the world's great collections relating to Haiti.
Swain, Liz. "Garifuna Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 686-697. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 20 June 2015. - Includes list of notable persons who could use entries.

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AfroCROWD (main page)
Wikipedia - Haitian Creole
AfroCROWD Meetup - NYC (main events page)
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