Angela Davis

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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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon The U.S. vs. John Lennon
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

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