The site is fully searchable. Search results provide the option to go to the museum or to the related geographic page, making it easy to find other museums in the same area. Articles cover news, books, movies, TV, media, politics, digital culture, and modern life. A browsable chronological archive is available, and articles can be read by subject as well. It also contains an interactive table talk section, as well as selected pointers to related sites.
Picks are eclectic in nature and have included music, film, history, business, books, and women.
Each pick is fully annotated so that readers have a very good idea of what the site is about before they visit. This is one of the better sources of African American Web sites. Two new baseball sites on the Web allow you to follow the action in real time, and analyze statistics from the 1996 season on a day to day basis. The Instant Ballpark provides tracer bullets to show the path of the ball, a scrolling scoreboard, and the ability to switch between games with the click of a mouse. And if you don't have Java capability, you can follow current text descriptions, play by play.