Combahee

[kuhm-bee, kuhm-bee]

noun

1. a river in S South Carolina, flowing SE to the Atlantic Ocean. 40 miles (64 km) long.

Example Sentences

The Combahee River Collective Statement of 1977, several of whose contributors would also have their essays and other writing featured in “This Bridge Called My Back,” offered this still much-needed intervention:

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The term itself comes from The Combahee River Collective Statement, compiled in 1977 by Black, mostly queer, feminists who argued for approaching politics through their identity because “the major systems of oppression are interlocking.”

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Her brilliant 2018 film, “Sojourner,” invokes an expanded pantheon, including the assemblage artist Noah Purifoy, the feminist Combahee River Collective, and Rebecca Cox Jackson, who founded a 19th-century Black Shaker community.

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The second movement travels forward to the Combahee River Raid of 1863, when Tubman led a Union military operation to rescue more than 700 enslaved people, and reclaims the true origins of the song “Kum ba yah.”

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And the Combahee River Collective, a key Black second-wave feminist group, remains in the framework.

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