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Lasting Legacy of Combahee River Collective Statement
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
26 May 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Lasting Legacy of Combahee River Collective Statement

In 1977 a group of Black feminists issued a statement that “has been a kind of touchstone over the decades for women who are thinking about women’s issues through the intersectional lens of racism,” said Suryia Nayak, a Black British feminist activist and senior lecturer in social work at the University of Salford, UK. 

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