Linda Burnham

Linda Burnham (born 1948) is an American journalist, activist, and leader in women's rights movements, particularly with organizations and projects serving and advocating for women of color.

Early life and family Burnham was born in 1948, to parents who were active in the Young Communist League, and then the Southern Negro Youth Congress, in the 1930s and 1940s. Her father was Louis E. Burnham, and her mother is Dorothy Burnham; both were civil rights activists. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Reed College in 1968. the Third World Women's Alliance, the Alliance Against Women's Oppression, the Angela Davis Defense Committee, and the Line of March.

She co-founded the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland, California in 1990 and served as its executive director for eighteen years. Burnham is currently the National Research Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

Burnham is featured in the 2014 feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.

Awards She was nominated in 2005 as one of the 1000 Peace Women for the Nobel Prize

Publications Burnham, L., & Wing, B. (1981). Toward a communist analysis of Black oppression and Black liberation. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified. Burnham, L. (March 1, 1985). Has Poverty Been Feminized in Black America?. The Black Scholar, 16, 2, 14–24. Burnham, L., & Gustafson, K. (2000). Working hard, staying poor: Women and children in the wake of welfare "reform". Berkeley, CA: Women of Color Center. Burnham, L. (January 1, 2001). Welfare reform, family hardship, and women of color. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 38–48. Burnham, L. (2001). The wellspring of Black feminist theory. Oakland, CA: Women of Color Resource Center. Burnham, L. (2002). Racism in U.S. welfare policy: A human rights issue. Oakland, CA: Women of Color Resource Center. Burnham, L. (December 1, 2008). Obama's Candidacy: The Advent of Post-Racial America and the End of Black Politics?. The Black Scholar, 38, 4, 43–46. Burnham, L., Theodore, N., & Ehrenreich, B. (2012). Home economics: The invisible and unregulated world of domestic work. New York: National Domestic Workers Alliance "Lean in and One Percent Feminism." Portside, March 26 (2013).