On April 24, 2009, in Oakland, CA, former political prisoner Angela Y. Davis spoke in support of death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, at an event marking Abu-Jamal’s 55th birthday and the release of his new book: ‘Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. The USA’. Davis wrote an introduction for ‘Jailhouse Lawyers’ and she is also the author of ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’.
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.
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