A co-editor of this issue of Black Rap is 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 wrote three seminal essays on the law and the African American experience: during slavery, lynching following slavery, and on interracial rape and the death penalty. For bibliographic references, see: http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/facbib/faculty.asp?facid=39

Smith's work may appear only in this issue, by the freshman class, in the spring of their first year.  Smith's essay, "Black Facts," appears on pp. 6-7.  She arrived as a first year student in the fall of 1968.  

Black Rap Editoral Staff

Holden-Smith, Barbara