BC Underground carries on in the same tradition as various literary magazines that have come before it: from the college's 'Common Ground', which was created in the '90s by Professor John Towsen, to the early 2000s when Professor Paul Genega founded 'BLINK: Bloomfield Literary Ink'. These two publications were started by passionate professors who wanted to tell the stories of our community, with students serving as the main editors and the editorial board which brings each edition to print. In 2015, Professor Jonterri Gadson published BC's first fully digital Lit Mag, 'Roar', and future editions followed in this tradition -- with digital editions of the Literary Magazine each year since. 2017 saw the name of BC's in-house literary magazine shift from 'BLINK' to 'LiT' for a single year, but in the years following, it underwent various changes to its online and print identity.

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In 2019, with alumni / former editor of 'BLINK', Paul LaTorre, at the helm, the literary magazine rebranded itself as BC Underground--as the students on the Editorial Board felt it best exhibited the gritty identity around the college community's proximity to Newark and NYC. The student board felt this new identity best captured the message they wanted to give a platform as well, in highlighting voices and stories that aren't always given the stage -- I.E., pieces that are more 'underground'. Since 2019, BC Underground has been called to publish various forms and mediums of artwork, and published work has ranged from comics to music, short plays, short screenplays, photography, advertisements, video games, spoken word poem videos, digital shorts, podcasts, scholarly articles, and editorials. BC Underground prides itself in steering into the challenging topics not always talked about. We hope to bring light and advocacy to these causes and issues.