The Grapevine Journal records includes office files for Grapevine Journal and Good Times Magazine, subject files, publications, and photographs. The office files include advertising files, correspondence, distribution reports, financial records, drafts of articles, and office memos. The subject files include topics on MSU issues, national issues, and African American issues. Also included are personal files of James Ballard and Kim Heron. The publications and newspapers include those produced by African Americans and Latinos as well as ones from the local area. Titles include Grapevine Journal, Liberation News Service, three issues of The Black Panther for 1970 and 1971, Muntu Drum for 1972 and 1973, Spectator for 1972, one issue of Los Latinos for April 1974, El Renaciemiento for 1971-1974, and Washington Afro-American for 1972. Local and Michigan based publications include Grapevine Journal, The Paper for 1967-1968, one issue of The Blazer for February 1972, issues of The Spectator for 1972, Siege from 1972, and Third World Genesis created by a MSU Journalism workshop for July 17, 1973. The collection also includes photographs, contact sheets, and negatives. Images include African American campus events, MSU athletics, campus life, students, local places and events, and national African American issues and events. There are also photographs of people from MSU and the local area.