"The creation of Fire!!! is a result of the vision of scholars such as Marilyn Thomas-Houston, Abdul Alkalimat and Ron Bailey (founders of the eBlack Studies Consortium), and the late Gloria Dickerson, who view multimedia sources as a vital aspect of capturing the full dimensions of Black Studies. As Vice President for Program at ASALH, Daryl Michael Scott explored opportunties to make the vision a viable project, and seized upon JSTOR's launch of its Current Scholar Program as an unprecedented opportunity to create Fire!!! as a sustainable digital publication for the new century."
The John Hope Franklin Research Center is a repository for African and African-American studies documentation and an educational outreach division of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.
"Black Camera, an academic and peer reviewed international journal devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience. Black Camera is a biannual publication and is the only scholarly film journal of its kind in the United States."