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 Read more

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.