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 is the third issue of Black Rap, from late 1968 (mention of "X-mas" gifts). This was the first full semester for Lake Forest College after the assassination of minority Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King in April of 1968, the…
The beginning of this new volume, after a hiatus of almost a year (March 1969 to February 1970), of Black Rap, published by Lake Forest College African-American students (Black Students for Black Action), is printed in a new format, offset in a…
This is the first official issue of Black Rap. It includes no issue or volume number. This first issue was constructed by the Black freshman class of 1968. This issue explores the Black college student's perspective on the progress of the Black race,…
This issue of Black Rap is a volume of poetry and short writings that expresses the social discontent and questioning Black students had about their lives and placement as Black people in the world.