Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Collins (1942-1988) was an American poet, playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and educator from Jersey City, New Jersey. Collins was an activist with SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement who went on to carve out a career for herself as a playwright and filmmaker, during a time when black women were rarely seen in those roles. Her most known work is the film Losing Ground from 1982, which went largely unseen for more than thirty years before being released in 2015. Two never-before released collections of her writings, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? and Notes from a Black Woman's Diary were published in 2016 and 2019, to much acclaim.
