Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith
Barbara Smithis an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s she has been active as a critic, teacher, lecturer, author, scholar, and publisher of Black feminist thought. She has also taught at numerous colleges and universities over the last twenty five years. Smith's essays, reviews, articles, short stories and literary criticism have appeared in a range of publications, including The New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth19 May 1931
CountryUnited States of America
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Habitat is not a give-away program. It's a hand-up, not a handout, for hard-working families. Each family is selected on the basis of their present living conditions and their ability to pay a monthly mortgage payment. It is for low-income families not qualified for other traditional low-income mortgage programs.
I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.
Well, he went to prison. I guess the thought of maybe going back to prison scared him.
We've never lost money. We always at least cover our expenses.
There have been so many donations from people who didn't want to see these valuable things just go to the landfill, and we get to support our projects and help cover overhead. It all ties together really well.
We opened in August, but now we're really ready to get the word out.
It's unreal. I don't know how to explain it. He should be alive.
It makes sense for some things, but it doesn't make sense for others.
They will be doing interviews if they go directly into the job market and for summer jobs. And for those going to college, they might have to interview to get into a specific major or for a scholarship.
It'll probably bring it to the attention of more people. They seem to think we don't have a museum, even though we used to have it in the paper every week starting with 1972.
There is a lot of confusion right now, and this just makes it worse.
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.