Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Black Ink, a publication of UNC’s Black Student Movement
The above image is the front page of the February 2001 edition of Black Ink, a publication started by the Black Student Movement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969. According to the Black Student Movement website, “Black Ink started off as a newsletter, revolutionized into a newspaper, and later transformed into a magazine…it grew to become the source of communication for Black students, a voice for Black issues and the training grounds for Black journalists and business leaders at UNC.” DigitalNC has digitized 212 issues of Black Ink from 1969-2001.
To see more materials from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, visit their partner page. To see more recent issues of Black Ink, visit the Black Ink Magazine’s website.