Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Angela Davis

Acting Born January 26, 1944 Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

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Democracy Now!

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Democracy Now!

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Apostrophes

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

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World in Action

Stamped from the Beginning

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13th

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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday

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Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

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Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary

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Black Is… Black Ain’t

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Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight