The mark consists of a left facing navy blue shaded drum major in a navy blue and white uniform with teal shoulder detail and navy blue hat with white bill and gray and white plume super imposed over rolling green and yellow hills that have an orange path leading into a sunrise that fades from yellow to orange. Behind the drum major is an orange basketball with brown lines and stacked two books, one light blue, yellow, and gray and the other gray and yellow. Below them is a blue scrolled banner outlined in navy blue with the word "Historically" in white. Below the scroll is the wording "Black 1" in light blue between two navy blue stylized horizontal lines. Three superimposed semi-circles, one dark blue, one white, and one light blue, are behind the above design elements.