This is a short or th¨mbnail sketch of the life of B. L. Smith, founder of the Northern Trust Company, and a one-time trustee of Lake Forest Unversity, 1896-1902. It provides reerences to several online and printed sources for more information.
A co-editor of this issue of Black Rapis Barbara Holden-Smith, then Barbara Smith, now vice dean and professor of law, Cornell University. For her biography, see: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/bio.cfm?id=35
In the 1990s Dean Holden-Smith…
This sixgteen-page March 1970 second issue of the re-purposed in its second volume Black Rap explores Africa and international models of revolution and liberation, Communism and volilent overthrow of colonialism. While still not slick in character,…
This is the first issue of an African-American student alternative periodical,Black Rap, published quite regularly from 1968 to 1972, approximately, with less regular issues after that. Its printing was primitive or inexpensive: ditto at the outset…
This is a six-page tabloid issue, with a subtitle but no masthead or listing of staff, though responsibility continues to be attributed to A.S.A.L., the campus black student organization.
Topics continue to center on political topics in Africa and…