Objective. In this article, we investigate black feminist consciousness, its relationship to race consciousness, and its impact on policy attitudes. Unlike scholars and activists who argue that black feminist consciousness detracts from race consciousness, we argue that the two go hand in hand. Methods. Using confirmatory factor analysis, we examine public opinion survey data from the 1993 National Black Politics Study. Results. We find that both black women and men have fairly high levels of support for black feminist ideals. Also, we provide evidence that black feminist consciousness is positively related to the components of race consciousness and demonstrate the influence of black feminist consciousness on support for abortion rights. Conclusions. Our research is important because it uses a measure of black feminist consciousness true to its theoretical origins.Black feminist consciousness stems from the understanding that black women are discriminated against on the basis of both their race and gender. This recognition of the simultaneity of oppression faced by black women is not captured by the dominant conceptualization of group consciousness, which tends to focus on either race or gender consciousness (Gurin, 1985;Conover, 1988;Klein, 1984;Shingles, 1981). As a result, the empirical study of black feminist consciousness has been neglected. In contrast, there is a compelling body of theoretical literature on black feminist consciousness. Similarly, black academics, intellectuals, and activists have devoted significant energy to debating the relationship between black feminist consciousness and race consciousness, yet social scientists, for the most part,