Angela Davis

Biography

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.

Known For

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The U.S. vs. John Lennon

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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

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Stamped from the Beginning

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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

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Malcolm X

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Black Is… Black Ain’t

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A Huey P. Newton Story

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