In its May 2003 issue, BlackBoard published a review of Assata: An Autobiography, written by then-junior Sonia Nelson. In tribute to Assata's death, BlackBoard’s Editor-in-Chief Atarah Israel revisits the book 22 years later.

On Sept. 26, 2024, students attended an autonomously organized vigil to mourn the life of Khalifah Marcellus Williams, a poet and imam who was wrongfully executed by the state of Missouri two days prior. Khalifah spent 24 years on death row for a crime that prosecutors had no direct evidence to prove he did.