Angela Davis
January 26, 1944 (80 years old) in 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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- 2024 · Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know as Featuring
- 2023 · Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight as
- 2023 · Stamped from the Beginning as Self
- 2022 · Queer, Broke & Amazing! as
- 2022 · Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields as Self
- 2022 · La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade as Self
- 2019 · Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am as Self
- 2019 · This Is Personal as Self
- 2016 · 13th as Self
- 2016 · The House on Coco Road as Self
- 2015 · Toni Morrison Remembers as Self
- 2013 · Criminal Queers as Self
- 2012 · Free Angela and All Political Prisoners as Self
- 2012 · Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams as Self
- 2011 · The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 as Self (voice)
- 2011 · Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life as Herself
- 2010 · Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation as Self
- 2009 · The Black List: Volume Two as Self
- 2006 · The U.S. vs. John Lennon as Self
- 2005 · The Peace! as Self
- 2001 · A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1998 · Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California as Narrator
- 1994 · Black Is… Black Ain’t as Self
- 1991 · A Place of Rage as Self
- 1985 · La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85 as Self
- 1983 · Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock as Self
- 1981 · Salt of the earth US as Self/Cameo
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1975 · Apostrophes as Self
- 1974 · Wer die Erde liebt as Self
- 1972 · Malcolm X as Self (archive footage)
- 1972 · Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary as Self
- 1972 · George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972 as Self
- 1970 · Police Off Campus! as Herself
- 1970 · Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy as Self