In Black Ink

In Black Ink In Black Ink - Seeks to Create a Rich Literary Culture in the African heritage community in Minnesota

WHO ARE WE:
In Black Ink (IBI) seeks to create spaces where the intergenerational stories about Minnesotans of African heritage can be shared, documented, and archived. MISSION:
In Black Ink provides publishing arts initiatives and opportunities to communities that have been disenfranchised historically, and continue to be presently. IBI’s cultural literacy programming mitigates the damage of economic, educational, and cultural inequities that are the result of past and current prejudice and discrimination. Specifically, In Black Ink fosters a network and platform for Minnesotans of African descent who are story tellers, writers, authors, editors, desktop publishers, graphic artists/book illustrators, market and distribution experts. In Black Ink creates spaces where the stories and voices of people of African heritage are celebrated, documented and archived through publications, professional development training/opportunities, and public presentations.

Continuing our tradition and culture of storytelling…. This Sunday!
10/06/2026

Continuing our tradition and culture of storytelling…. This Sunday!

This Friday! Don't miss! -------Overcoming White Terrorism & Black Fear: Past & PresentLessons from Mississippi to Minne...
10/04/2026

This Friday! Don't miss!
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Overcoming White Terrorism & Black Fear: Past & Present
Lessons from Mississippi to Minnesota with Leroy Clemons

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.” - Malcolm X

Friday, Oct. 9, 2026
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Hallie Q. Brown
Community Center
270 North Kent Street
St. Paul, MN 55103

Join us in a conversation with special guest Leroy Clemons in dialogue with Sedric McClure about this timely topic along with other critical issues of our time.
• How did we face the K*K, and how do we face blatantly racist citizens with no masks today?
• What were the daily acts of courage/resistance by local leaders in MS to resist and protect community, and how are we doing this today?
• White terrorism isn’t often taught in schools or even in our communities. How does understanding history empower us?
• How do grassroots organizing and political education help us get courage to speak truth to power and engage with fascist government forces and other supremacist groups/citizens?

Special Quest: Leroy Clemons
Activist, Organizer, & Author
From Philadelphia, Mississippi where Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were murdered in1964. Author of No Fear takes readers on a journey from silence to strength, from hesitation to purpose, and from fear to freedom. Executive Director of the Neshoba Youth Coalition. Co-founder of the Philadelphia Coalition. President of the Neshoba County NAACP.

Host: Sedric McClure
• Interim Dean of Multicultural Life and Assistant Dean for College Access, Macalester College
• Nu Skool of Afrikan American Thought - Faculty

Free and Open to the Public.

Light Refreshments Served.

Organized by In Black Ink
Sponsored by the U of M, CLA, Martin Luther King Jr. Program
A Town and Gown Event and Partnership

For more info: [email protected]

Register below and Let us know that you will be joining us!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2002921370737?aff=oddtdtcreator

FYI ...-------------------Book Talk with Professor August NimtzNew Book Release: Black Marxism: A Marxist CritiqueProfes...
10/01/2026

FYI ...
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Book Talk with Professor August Nimtz

New Book Release: Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique

Professor August H. Nimtz, Distinguished Teaching Professor
(Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota)

https://cla.umn.edu/cscl/news-events/events/black-marxism-marxist-critique

Friday, November 6, 2026 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Nicholson Hall
University of Minnesota - East Bank Campus
216 Pillsbury Drive SE, Room 135
Minneapolis, MN 55455

The Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature is delighted to host Professor August H. Nimtz, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, at our first departmental colloquium in 2026-27.

Professor Nimtz will discuss his book, Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique (Monthly Review Press, 2026). Further details about the book and its reception can be found in the Monthly Review.
Our own Leif Turner, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, will serve as the respondent.

Professor Nimtz has provided access to his book and the article Marxism and the National Question: A Valuable Lesson from America for those who would like to like review the materials before the colloquium.

All are welcome.
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Links:

Summary and Details about the book:
https://monthlyreview.org/in-the-public-eye-black-marxism-a-marxist-critique-by-august-nimtz/

PDF Copy of Dr. Nimtz's New Book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Abp2zlat_n1KdrTZBNfC-MJIkMVMkNc/view?usp=drive_link

Marxism and the National Question: A Valuable Lesson from America (Background Information about Communism and Black Peoples' struggle for freedom)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IIbI4rTY_lr2B2XH3bauLrVVQiJ3QjG4/view?usp=drive_link

Writers Nook Journaling Club for Black girls and women! First one Sun., Oct.4 at New Rules.
09/29/2026

Writers Nook Journaling Club for Black girls and women! First one Sun., Oct.4 at New Rules.

Around the cities .... Black Girls Club ... Black women and girls meet up over north at New Rules. All ages, free weekly...
09/29/2026

Around the cities .... Black Girls Club ... Black women and girls meet up over north at New Rules. All ages, free weekly on Fridays and Saturdays.

Save the Date! 2026 Sankofa Event and SeriesOrganized by In Black InkSaturday, November 14 • 4 pm - 7 pmSt. Paul College...
09/22/2026

Save the Date! 2026 Sankofa Event and Series
Organized by In Black Ink

Saturday, November 14 • 4 pm - 7 pm
St. Paul College

Inspiring change through engaging discussion and reflection

Featuring keynote by Dr. Rosemari Mealy
Speaking on Identity and Internationalism: Challenges and Solutions

Young people will facilitate tabletop discussions with community participants after the keynote.

How does our community's identity impact our functional unity on local, national and international levels? The key crisis of Black people's or African American's life is one of a cultural crisis and a scattered and fractured collective identity, therefore stagnating much of our community's organizing efforts. Black people’s issues are not simply local, but national and international, therefore, is it possible for our community to “Think globally, and act locally” regarding our interests?

IBI went on a Black Publishing retreat and conference ... First stop the legendary Sankofa Video, Books & Café founded i...
09/22/2026

IBI went on a Black Publishing retreat and conference ...

First stop the legendary Sankofa Video, Books & Café founded in 1997 by filmmaking couple, Haile and Shirikiana Gerima. They specialize in videos and books about people of African descent around the world. They host many culturally conscious-“tizing” events and programs at their store. Thursday, September 17 IBI went to a screening of TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing featuring a talk with one of the directors, Louis Massiah.

TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a 2025 documentary film directed by Louis Massiah and Monica Henríquez about the life, art, and activism of the influential Black feminist writer, filmmaker, and cultural worker Toni Cade Bambara. The film detailed her impact on 20th-century political and cultural movements, including her film and community collaborations

Rare archival footage, recordings, and personal testimonies from her family, students, and peers including Toni Morrison, Haile Gerima, and Nikky Finney.

This film explored Bambara’s views on how education and art can be used to inspire community empowerment and how the role of the artist is to “make revolution irresistible.”

This film also highlighted her journey of teaching in universities and hosting grassroots courses, sometimes out of her own living room, after facing institutional pushback for proposing radical curricula like Black Women Writers.
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Sankofa Video, Books & Café
www.sankofa.com

Scribe Video Center came into being in December of 1982, founded by Louis Massiah as a place where individuals and communities learn media making and explore the use of video as both an artistic medium and as a tool for progressive social change.
www.scribe.org

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