Image: 1979: Barbara Smith (with megaphone) protests nine murders of women of color that took place in the first months of the year. Photograph by Ellen Shub.
Books
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.
Articles
Black Past: Combahee River Collective (1974-1980).
Jesse Carr, Catherine M. Orr, & Nicole Truesdell: The Role of Combahee in Anti-Diversity Work.
Karina L. Cespedes, Corey Rae Evans, & Shayla Monteiro: The Combahee River Collective Forty Years Later: Social Healing within a Black Feminist Classroom.
Combahee River Collective: The Combahee River Collective Statement. (Note: this is annotated, with lots of other material to explore!)
Ebony: Black, Feminist, Revolutionary Remembering the Combahee River Collective.
Duchess Harris: “All of Who I am in the Same Place”: The Combahee River Collective.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor:
- Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free: Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.
- Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective.
Wikipedia bios of C.R.C. Members:
- Combahee River Collective.
- Cheryl Clarke.
- Demita Frazier.
- Akasha Gloria Hull.
- Audre Lorde.
- Chirlane McCray.
- Margo Okazawa-Rey.
- Barbara Smith.
- Beverly Smith.
Vanessa Williams: Before there was ‘intersectional feminism,’ there was the Combahee River Collective.
Terrion L. Williamson: Why Did They Die? On Combahee and the Serialization of Black Death.
Videos & Podcasts
Democracy Now!: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: What We Can Learn From the Black Feminists of the Combahee River Collective.
EmbraceRace: Race in America: Tensions and Solidarity Across BIPOC Groups.
Feminist Freedom Warriors: Margo Okazawa-Rey.
This Day in Esoteric Political History: The Roots of Intersectionality (1979).