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.
[1][2] 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.
[1] As a journalist and political activist, Burnham has been a leader and member with the Venceremos Brigade,[3] the Third World Women's Alliance,[4][5][6] the Alliance Against Women's Oppression, the Angela Davis Defense Committee, and the Line of March.
[7] She co-founded the Women of Color Resource Center[8] in Oakland, California in 1990 and served as its executive director for eighteen years.
[9][10] Burnham is featured in the 2014 feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry.