To launch the special blog issue of Voices in Movement honoring the 50th anniversary of the Combahee River Collective, we sat with founding member Demita Frazier, who spoke about the formation of the collective, the impetus for writing the statement, and the importance of establishing clear political commitments, values, and praxes.
Read MoreBlack Women Radicals is celebrating “50 Years of the Combahee River Collective” with a special VOICES IN MOVEMENT blog issue.
Read MoreExploring the pioneering politics of Charlotta Spears Bass, the first Black American woman to run and operate a newspaper and to be nominated for vice-president in the United States.
Read MoreJoin us for an upcoming teach-in, ”The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire” by Dr. Erica R. Edwards for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreCheryl Clarke’s newest release, Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems captures the 42-year career of a writer whose unquestionable commitment to engaging the dynamic, beautiful, devastating, hidden, and intimate aspects of Black life – of Black lesbian life – is reinforced again and again.
Read MoreExamining the life of Dorie Ladner, civil rights activist and community organizer who dedicated her life to Black empowerment and liberation.
Read MorePhotographer and writer Anastácia Flora Oliveira writes about the power of ancestry and activism of black women in the African Diaspora.
Read MoreFotógrafo e escritor Anastácia Flora Oliveira escreve sobre o poder da ancestralidade e do activismo das mulheres negras na diáspora africana.
Read MoreThrough The Darkest Hue, Tigidankay “TK” Saccoh is creating a dynamic social space to tackle and faciliate conversations on colorism.
Read MorePhotographer Anastácia Flora Oliveira is Black Women Radicals inaugural Dandara dos Palmares Fellow.
Read MoreJoin us for an upcoming teach-in, ”On the Politics of Black Lesbian Motherhood” by Zora for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreWatch Part Two: Is There (Really) A Black Feminist Movement? On Diasporic Black Trans Politics.
Read MoreBlack feminist activist and author Barbara Smith, augments the historical record, concerning the archive on Palestine, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich.
Read MoreA call for papers celebrating and honoring Dr. Joanne Gabbin.
Read MoreJoin us for Part Two of “Is There Really A Black Feminist Movement.”
Read MoreOlive Morris (June 26, 1952-July 12, 1979) was a Jamaican-born, British political activist, and feminist leader who was active in the British Civil Rights Movement and the feminist and squatters' movements.
Read MoreExamining the case of Joan Little, the first woman to be acquitted of murder due to self-defense against sexual violence.
Read MoreJoin us for an upcoming teach-in, “Tender Mercies: Exploring Agency and Intimacy in the Personal Archives of Black Women Writers” by keondra bills freemyn for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreBlack Women Radicals is celebrating “50 Years of the Combahee River Collective” with a Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue of our blog, VOICES IN MOVEMENT.
Read MoreWe are proud to announce the launch of Black Women Radicals’ Dandara dos Palmares Internationalist Black Feminist Fellowship.
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