Black & Gay in Black & White

Photo: Ellen Shub Combahee River Collective members Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier march in a memorial to eleven women of color murdered in the Boston area (1979). A coalition which included the Combahee River collective, a Boston black feminist group, staged marches, held rallies, and organized to bring attention to the indifference of police and the media to violence against women of color.