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50 Years of Black Lesbians: An Ode to the Combahee River Collective and the Salsa Soul Sisters

For our final installment for our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, archivist and librarian Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz puts the Combahee River Collective and the Salsa Soul Sisters in conversation with one another as sister organizations who each contributed to 50-years of Black lesbian identity formations with very differing entry points and connections to lesbian identity.

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Behind the Headlines: JoNina Abron-Ervin Chronicles the Overlooked Architects of Black Power

Journalist and activist JoNina Abron-Ervin spoke with Black Women Radicals’ Lead Editor of Black Feminist Histories and Movements, Karla Méndez to discuss her new book, Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era, which examines her experience being the last editor of the Black Panther newspaper and the importance of everyday people in liberatory movements. 

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