How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

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By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Published May 24, 2018

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, developed out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and ’70s. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, activist and scholar, compiles a collection of essays and interviews of founding members of the organization and contemporary activists in How We Get Free (Haymarket Books). The book looks at the legacy of the Combahee River Collective, and how it might influence modern struggles for justice in the black feminism movement.

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