One of the most impressive of those is NetNoir , with a broad array of African-American cultural content. One section of the AOL site is a collection of informal courses taught by black-studies college professors from around the country. Each professor posts lectures on AOL and assigns weekly readings. NetNoir also provides information and resources in the areas of music, sports, business, lifestyles, film, health, women's issues, politics, games, arts, literature, and spirituality. Young children can download examples of African-themed line art, for example, and print it out to create their own coloring books.
Teenagers can download a full-color poster and sound clip of their favorite singer.
NetNoir vice-president Malcolm CasSelle is continually looking for ways to make the medium more accessible to a larger segment of the population. We not only want to help people from around the planet enjoy and learn about Afrocentric culture, I also believe the medium is well-suited for the goal of bringing people together. An independence movement A Web site with quite a different agenda is that of the political movement called the Nation of Hawai'i , which presents the island's political and cultural history and promotes its sovereignty and independence from the United States. Today, the Nation of Hawai'i has a new head of state, a new constitution, and new energy feeding the effort to reclaim the land for native Hawaiians. Although casual visitors to the Web site may come looking for alluring pictures of white sand beaches, they invariably leave with an appreciation of the determination of this group of Hawaiians to regain their sovereignty.