The journal's fifth issue, published in November 1979, was edited by Barbara Smith and Lorraine Bethel. | Youtube. Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier, founders of the Combahee River Collective. Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier, founders of the Combahee River Collective. Her entire life she’s demanded justice and dignity for those whose voices aren’t heard. In 1974, Smith co-founded the Combahee River Collective with her sister, Beverly, Demita Frazier, and other feminist activists. Barbara Ransby’s speech from the Socialism 2017 conference is also included.

Hawa Allan, July 26, 2018. Beverly Smith (born December 16, 1946) in Cleveland, Ohio, is a Black feminist health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith.



| Youtube. A set of such “consciousness raising” guidelines by Barbara Smith and fellow activists Tia Cross, Freada Klein, and Beverly Smith provides an example of identity politics work as the Combahee River Collective envisioned it. Beverly Smith (born December 16, 1946) in Cleveland, Ohio, is a Black feminist health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is also the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith had been active in the Congress on Racial Equality in Cleveland.

Combahee is best known for their collective statement, co-authored by Smith, her sister Beverly, and Demita Frazier in 1977, which outlines the principles of … They articulated the concept of multiple oppressions, critiquing both sexual oppression in the black community and racism within the wider feminist movement.
Combahee freed more than 750 enslaved Africans in South Carolina. This is a book of 4 interviews between Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & the three women who wrote the Combahee River Collective Statement, Barbara and Beverly Smith & Demita Frazier, and with Alicia Garza who is one of the founders of #BlackLivesMatter. The Combahee River Collective (/ k ə m ˈ b iː / kəm-BEE)) was a Black feminist lesbian organization active in Boston from 1974 to 1980. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Demita Frazier, Beverly Smith, and Barbara Smith were the primary authors of the Combahee River Collective Statement in 1977. That’s just how she was raised.

Of Many Minds Why identity politics is so vexing for so much of the left Barbara and her twin sister Beverly were born in 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio. Sisters Beverly and Barbara Smith co-founded the Combahee River Collective in Boston with Demita Frazier at a time when the mainstream feminist movement was erupting around the country and the city’s plan to desegregate schools turned chaotic and violent, … That’s where the family had settled after leaving small-town Georgia in the Jim Crow south. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983, ISBN 0913175021, pxx, Introduction] is a Black feminist health advocate [] is a Black feminist health advocate Barbara Smith has never been a single-issue activist. Author Barbara Smith and other delegates attending the first (1973) regional meeting of the National Black Feminist Organization in New York City provided the groundwork for the Combahee River Collective with their efforts to build an NBFO Chapter in Boston. In all of their cases and perhaps thousands of others, these women had come to revolutionary conclusions that their, and indeed all Black people’s, oppression was rooted deeply in capitalism.

Sisters Beverly and Barbara Smith co-founded the Combahee River Collective in Boston with Demita Frazier at a time when the mainstream feminist movement was erupting around the country and the city’s plan to desegregate schools turned chaotic and violent, … The Collective was instrumental in highlighting that both the white feminist movement and the Civil Rights movement were not addressing their particular needs as Black women and as Black lesbians, more specifically. The critical and empowering lessons we can learn from the Combahee River Collective today are from their 1977 manifesto, co-authored by Demitra Frazier, Beverly Smith and Barbara Smith.