In the wake of the Black Artists in Rebuttal exhibition, Nigel Jackson published two issues of Raven Art Rap, intended to “fill the need for communication between black artists. We will include in-depth interviews with personalities in art, reviews by black critics of exhibitions where the works of black artists are on view, and exhibitions supported or opposed by the black artist.”

Only two issues of the eight-page, tabloid size paper were published, dated April 1 and June 1, 1971. Those issues included profiles of artists Hale Woodruff and James Denmark by Betty Powell (later Achebe Betty Powell), an interview with Studio Museum director Edward Spriggs, and reviews and essays by Leon Hicks, Oakley N. Holmes, Jr., Harry S. Huggins, and Michele Wallace.  ❉