Who is 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.Born to an African-American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis University and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany. Studying under the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, a prominent figure in the Frankfurt School, Davis became increasingly engaged in far-left politics. Returning to ...
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- Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
- We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
- Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
- We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
- My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
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Nychra: recently, hra administrator lisa fitzpatrick was a panelist at the behind the bars south conference hosted by the andrew young center for global leadership. seen here w/ angela davis (author), jay holder (columbia center for justice) and sirica mcintosh (legal aid society).Intelexualmedia: “i am remembered as a hairdo…it is humiliating because it reduces a politics of liberation to a politics of fashion.” — angela davis in 1994
Pingpractice: “…it’s possible do work today that people in one hundred years will be grateful for.” angela davis
Vanndigital: gordon parks foundation to honor angela y. davis, amy sherald, clara wu tsai, crystal r. mccrary, & raymond mcguire
Silyanelarcher: french islamophobic imagination has no limit! a french politician wants to rename the angela davis high school in st-denis because she supported veiled women, and rename it rosa parks! how they also erase french black antiracist figures in france—mediapart
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