Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowKey components of this database are The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (featuring “interdisciplinary essays written by leading scholars on the Black Experience”); the Black Studies Periodicals Database (formerly International Index to Black Periodicals, or IIBP), which includes the first index to Black serials, the Marshall Index, done for 42 serials between 1941-1946; the Chicago Defender newspaper for 7/31/1909-3/26/1921; 4/2/1921-12/23/1967; and 2/19/1973-12/31/1975; and the Black Literature Index, 1827-1940, covering 110 Black periodicals and newspapers, with over 70,000 citations to “fiction, poetry, and literary reviews”.