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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A feminist and a Marxist, Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and is a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She is the author of more than ten books on class, gender, race, and the US prison system.
The “prison industrial complex” is a tawdry if tacit alliance between capitalism and a structurally racist state
Rasmea Odeh is fighting for her citizenship and for her freedom
Interview about their past collaboration, their longstanding friendship, and their bedrock belief in the power of literature
Interview on black feminism, the importance of the collective, Palestine, the prison-industrial complex, and much more
to Davis makes the connections between the violence in Gaza and the struggle for racial justice
Interview on prison abolition, mass incarceration, the so-called war on drugs, International Women’s Day, and why President Obama’s second term should see a greater wave of activism than in his first
California prisoners are now in their 33rd day of a hunger strike; what they are risking their health and possibly their lives…
Chaper Ten From The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Davis, published by City Lights. Recognizing Racism in the…
One day after the exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur became the first woman named to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list,…