About Beverly Smith
Beverly Smith (born November 16, 1946) is a Black feminist health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and is the twin sister of writer, publisher, activist and academic Barbara Smith. Beverly Smith is an instructor of Women's Health at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was one of three authors of the famous Combahee River Collective Statement, "one of the most widely read discussions of Black feminism", which was developed by members of the radical lesbian black feminist Combahee River Collective in 1977. Her essays and articles on racism, feminism, identity politics and women's health have been extensively published in the United States. == Early life == Beverly Smith was born on November 16, 1946, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Hilda Beall Smith. Her father, Gartrell Smith was not present during her childhood. Both twins were born prematurely and Smith developed pneumonia. Smith first lived in a two-bedroom house with her sister, mother, grandmother, and great-aunt. At the age of six, the twins and their family moved into a two-family house with her aunt and her aunt's husband.
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