2 Quotes & Sayings By Combahee River Collective
The Combahee River Collective (CRC) is a radical black feminist organization formed in 1974 to write and distribute a statement of black feminist analysis. Members of the CRC included Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, and Gloria Joseph. They were part of a broader movement that included the Black Feminist Liberation Party and the Movement for a Black Revolutionary Feminist Line. Their statement was written in response to a racist, sexist, homophobic political climate that was beginning to emerge in the United States in the 1970s
The statement drew attention to the disproportionate numbers of black women in prison, HIV/AIDS transmission among black women, and the pervasive racism within mainstream feminism.