Barbara Smith is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has been politically active in the struggles for social justice since the 1960s. Barbara cofounded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U. S. publisher for women of color.
She has edited three major collections about black women: “Conditions: Five, The Black Women's Issue” (1979); “All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies” (1982); and “Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology” (1983). She is also the co-author with Elly Bulkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt of “Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism” (1984). She is the co-editor of “The Reader's Companion to U. S. Women's History” (1998) and “Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith” (2014). A collection of Barbara’s essays were published in “The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom” (1998).
