Mount Holyoke College: 'Warrior' Alum Delivers Inaugural Presidential Lecture
March 22, 2024
March 22, 2024
SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts, March 22 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news:
Barbara Smith '69 kicked off the inaugural lecture series bearing her namesake on her time shaping the Combahee River Collective and discussed the skills she developed at Mount Holyoke that helped her contribute to building Black feminism.
From the day that Barbara Smith was born, she says there was not the "slightest possibility" that she would ever enter the gates . . .
Barbara Smith '69 kicked off the inaugural lecture series bearing her namesake on her time shaping the Combahee River Collective and discussed the skills she developed at Mount Holyoke that helped her contribute to building Black feminism.
From the day that Barbara Smith was born, she says there was not the "slightest possibility" that she would ever enter the gates . . .