This is a student group periodical issued regularly for about four years and then occasionally after that, to 1984. This record includes a first issue and then a first full volume of issues.  Its format was as an alternative newspaper or periodical to other mainstream, or majority culture, organs on campus such as the student newspaper, The Stentor, a weekly, Tusitala, an annual literary and art magazine, and The Forester, the annual yearbook.  Black Rap incoprporated elements of all these other vehicles.  In the post King assassination through the Chicago Seven trail period, the late 1960s and early 1970s, the editorial tone was anti-establsihment and occasionally black nationalist--with some genuine good first-hand information anbd opinion and some rhetorical overstatement in a period notable for this range of editorial stance onthis and other issues (women's issues, the environment, the War in Vietnam, etc.).  Later this approach seems more contrived than it had in the early years, but still was a good self-reflection for what was a minority in a very white, apparently still distant socially, elite suburb of Chicago.  

The writers got good practice in writing and at least one has become a noted legal scholar on issues relating to race and gender justice historically at the Cornell Law School, Barbara Holden-Smith, '73: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/bio.cfm?id=35 

http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/facbib/faculty.asp?facid=39&show=online

For a record of holdings and links to all Black Rap issues (in progress, March, 2012): http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-lfc/Record/lfc_199946