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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
RimSarah: Right-wing President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France Valérie Pécresse announced her intention to rename Angela Davis High School. Why? She claims that the school can't bear the name of an activist who defends Muslim women's right to wear a headscarf...
Lexual__: While the afro was seen as revolutionary in the 1960s, it has never been indicative of politics or belief and was commodified and made trendy quickly. From 1950s artists to Angela Davis and Pam Grier, let's discuss the rise of the afro.
A Black Women's History of Hair
nvcadp: Angela Davis is wrote extensively about the carceral state. The death penalty is not just racist but survived only because of it . Join us in helping remove the death penalty.
10pchottt4: “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Angela Davis
jayjaybrown97: PNP sympathizers are losing the plot and desperately seeking to bow before Massa Mark.
Helene Davis Whyte
Lambert Brown
Carolyn Cooper
Angela Brown Burke
Canute Thompson
House slaves genuflecting in front of Massa Mark!
AnuBakshi9: Amazing conversation with Angela Davis and Chris Smalls. Good reminder even when you are tired do the quiet work.
Plough: "For decades during which their voices were dismissed, Angela Davis and other activists labored to make the case for prison abolition by drawing on history," Vincent Lloyd
synekura_audio: Angela Davis on Political Disobedience and Violence: Is It Good?
MPRnews: What do you say and what do you do when you witness someone have a mental health crisis right before your eyes? MPR News host Angela Davis speaks with trained professionals about the first actions to take and the words to use in an emergency.
DantoPalomino2: SORRY TO ANGELA DAVIS and FAMILY
samuelfeckwit: Angela Davis accepted a medal from the City of Atlanta last week
Girl_InASpace: Angela Davis' Great-Grandfather Took a Slaveowner to Court
GoldinPaul: “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
– Angela Davis
MPRnews: Experts say that many men and boys don’t talk openly about their struggles, and that makes it hard for them to seek help. Coming up at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks with two mental health professionals
about it.
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MeaningGuild: Seen in Kent
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and consider yourself not as a single individual .. but as part of a historical movement.
Angela Davis
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VSNRadio: Gordon Parks Foundation to honor Angela Y. Davis, Amy Sherald, Crystal McCrary, and more
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VSNRadio: Gordon Parks Foundation to honor Angela Y. Davis, Amy Sherald, Crystal McCrary, and more
Rabab_Elnaiem: "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. "
– Angela Davis
wqptpbs: Henry Louis Gates reveals the unexpected family trees of Angela Y. Davis and Jeh Johnson.
TONIGHT at 10:00PM or stream now with WQPT PBS Passport.
bizzycali: I am attending An Afternoon with Dr. Angela Davis at Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center. You can reserve your tickets here:
kenyascapital: I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
-Angela Davis
Sulli864: Working from home with 70s Angela Davis, who does not seem impressed.
bunnipdf: free angela davis til it’s backwards
_ValTown_: In the midst of all this , Angela Davis and Afeni Shakur both represented themselves in Murder trials and were acquired of all charges.
LVikkiml: This garden, with the beautiful cherry blossom tree, was once the torturous site of the Women’s House of Detention, where Carol Crooks, Angela Davis & countless other women were imprisoned.
nicholaspasion: GW Prof. Lara Sheehi (who StandWithUs accused of discrimination in the complaint) rebuked the allegations in her own post as more than 2,000 students, faculty & alumni signed statements in support of Sheehi (including Angela Davis)
HamishH1931: The first Penguin paperback copies of ANGELA DAVIS’s Black liberation classic, with a new introduction by Angela — ‘An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend’ —
loweffortloser: The Angela Davis thing is indicative of how the Black left has become utterly subsumed by the state
GODRadio1: Now Playing Angela Davis - Only God Knows
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CrosscurrentsFM: In this episode, a conversation with Betty Reid Soskin – a real-life Rosie the Riveter. Then, what the legacy of revolutionary Angela Davis means to her niece. Plus, readings from Bay area writers.
DavidWarschauer: There's a big diff between Black Panthers Angela Davis and today's Jim Crow Joe pushing Angela Davis.
bigdawg_mcrae: How does everyone have biopic, but Angela Davis?? She needs one asap
_Jtarik: Some of my Fav actress in no particular order: Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Sanaa Lathan, Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis, Nia Long, Tiraji P Henson, Cicely Tyson, Vivica A Foxx, Givens, Julia Roberts, Saalma Hayek , Issa Rae, Cameron Diaz
FrankDeScushin: Ibram Kendi proposed the Department of Anti-Racism with powers to punish officials guilty of racism as Kendi defines it. The state punishing racism isn't a new idea. Here, Angela Davis proposes criminalizing racism. As with Kendi, these proposals always only go in one direction.
ArbosTheatre: WORTH TO HEAR AND READ AGAIN!: Angela Davis & Noura Erakat on Palestinian Solidarity, Gaza & Israel’s Killing of Ahmad Erekat
TheBlackCyde: The fact that Joy James was essentially pushed to erase Gloria Steinhams work with the CIA when she submitted to the Angela Davis Reader is interesting to say the least
jimmyhawk9: Angela Davis - How Capitalism Affects The Working Class
ChuckCharlie13: She's white.
Soriano310ms: Vernon Davis Gives The Tea On His New Role in "The Ritual Killer"
prolpo: & angela davis fully going along with it / helping liberal politicians / city leadership do all of it (push pro-abolitionist propaganda while criminalizing abolitionists to this day— charging abolitionists with “domestic terrorism” RIGHT NOW). it’s shameful.
RobertR34892634: *The Moorish Circle Doctrine that Kanye has been spewing is directly in line with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. It falls in line with Angela Davis and the Black Panthers.
BarackOBoogie: found out her cousin Angela Davis.
AndrejSershwski: Should I leave an Angela Davis book in the cop station for passive radicalisation?
wndavis: I understand, but policy needs to be just, not a strong opinion. “In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” — Angela Y. Davis
VonkLevi: Not Angela Davis accepting an award named after a black socialist by Atlanta city leadership and not mentioning Cop City once
cosmic60s: me at work trying to resist the urge to tell everyone in close proximity that I was in the same room as angela davis
monkshoebeats: an atlanta city council member appeared to give her a plaque and he also declared angela davis day in atlanta.
after she offered some words in accepting the plaque and they began to walk offstage, the crowd immediately erupted into “stop cop city” chants.
RezistansM: The last time Angela Davis was “radical” was when the average gas price in America was 36 cents a gallon.
ATXForest: Since the 70s, Angela Davis has been a leading voice for political prisoners, and through her writing and activism has helped lay the groundwork for today's abolitionist movement.
WGMUNowPlaying: Now playing on WGMU: Show Me A Prison (feat. J Hoard & Angela Davis) by Kassa Overall from I Think I'm Good
_Eric_Reinhart: Applying abolition to healthcare, which necessarily requires strong institutional supports, underlines what people like Angela Davis have long taught us: Abolition is not just about dismantling; it’s about reconstituting institutions in forms designed to ensure reparative care.
LeilaniihXO: But y’all tried to beat my ass on here when I said Angela Davis been moving like an opp lately.
Tikkunolam14: “We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” – Angela Davis
nancyfordephoto: “…if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” James Baldwin in his letter to Angela Davis.
monkshoebeats: i have a very deep respect for angela davis and her life’s work, this situation didn’t nullify all of that for me. she’s done more than i ever will. as i’m writing this, i’m still processing the fact i got to witness her speak in person, along with walter rodney’s family.
monkshoebeats: however in this situation, i feel as though angela davis should be held to the standard she’s set for all the radicals she inspired. even without the platform she has, radicals strictly adhere to it.
monkshoebeats: in this moment, however, i feel like angela davis gave in. she had the platform to speak on cop city and she didn’t name it once. she accepted an award from the city council that’s unilaterally approved the same environmental destruction she denounced in her speech.
OctoQueenz: “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” - Angela Davis
kenanmalik: Or Alain Locke or Claude McKay or Phyllis Wheatley or Langston Hughes or Richard Wright or Angela Davis or Thomas Sowell or Henry Louis Gates or Cornel West or...
RevSouthNolan: Yesterday, the city of Atlanta honored Angela Davis for her Abolition work while 11 abolitionists are being held without bond in Atlanta-area jails.
_Rawilcox: Why would Angela Davis, an abolitionist, accept a plaque from a city being indicted for funding “Cop City?” When we say the left has been co-opted we are saying that Angela Davis functions as an extension of the state apparatus.
How are y’all not clocking the contradictions?
mxonica: angela davis speaking on cop city at today’s beyond the bars conference
RodneyProject: Angela Davis is speaking now. Join us.
SomaNamiBooks: This morning we Honor Angela Davis! Known by many as Marxist, political activist and feminist! She truly fights for what she believes in and has done time for it!
Read all about her in her books linked below….
cleasgirl7: The Black Power Mixtape: Angela Davis on Seeing Herself
FrankDeScushin: From the vault, Pat Buchanan to Angela Davis:
"Give me one example in history where the Communist Party that came to power and it did not impose an oppression that was as odious or far worse than the system it replaced."
The replies are open for the answer Pat still waits for.
Kenneth69600118: Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973) - YouTube
BordMancy: Te amo Angela Davis a Thread
KerenaNicole: Angela Davis Afro in Colors Statement Dangle Wood Earrings
DanFriedman81: Is this John Brown, Angela Davis and Shirley Chisholm putting Thomas Jefferson and the US Constitution to the torch?
Lvasque42689298: Angela Davis, Black nationalist and domestic terrorist, learned that she is a descendent of the Mayflower pilgrims. This news has caused quite a stir in the world, with many people praising Davis for her heritage and others condemning her for her extremist views.
Prison_Health: Revisiting Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis’s Enduring Influence
ReneUpshaw1: Angela Davis' Great-Grandfather Took a Slaveowner to Court
Angela Davis' great-grandfather, lsom, not only marks her family's transition from slavery to freedom, he's also at the center of a fascinating story involving the Freedmen's Bureau.
JennyWing17: "7 Social Justice Leaders You Never Knew Were Vegan"
Coretta Scott King, Dolores Huerta, Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, Dick Gregory. Angela Davis.
JennyWing17: ANGELA DAVIS - 'Animal rights and human rights are obviously inextricably linked. Discrimination, oppression, indifference, and abuse exist only when one group believes itself superior to another."
T_SativaDiva: People often confuse this rebel with the sellout Angela Davis; I know y’all Stan her but I’m sorry I don’t trust ANY Black person that chooses to side with white liberals (the communist party USA) over Black Revolutionaries (The Black Panther Party)
pkmn_philosophy: In the words of the immortal Angela Davis, 'Rub-rub... Rub-rub...'
adriandaub: Also not the point but: why do conservatives assume lefty professors don’t *already* assign *lots of* conservative authors? What is it you think we do in class? Put on drag, do a drum circle, eat tofu and read Angela Davis?
Jairo_I_Funez: Any feminism that privileges those who already have privilege is bound to be irrelevant to poor women, working class women, women of color, trans women, trans women of color.
—Angela Davis
GODRadio1: Now Playing Angela Davis - Value of a Woman
IntPubNYC: Now in print!!! Here is Frank Chapman's story. Incarcerated for life plus 50 years, Chapman tells the story eventuating in his freedom. “…A riveting account of a prisoner’s unrelenting journey toward freedom” – Angela Davis.
vijayprashad: Any feminism that privileges those who already have privilege is bound to be irrelevant to poor women, working class women, women of color, trans women, trans women of color.
—Angela Davis
ChyannnNicole: Angela Basset did the thang, Viola Davis my woman king
yeehawguar: I missed a talk by Angela Davis on campus tonight. this is my 9/11.
CPUSALongIsland: As relevant today as when it was first written. Angela Davis makes the case for prison abolitionism in her 2003 book "Are Prisons Obsolete?"
Prison_Health: Revisiting Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis’s Enduring Influence
AddyAdelaine: 2/4) I spoke to a friend recently about my own feelings of failure. I'm no radical in the Angela Davis or Walter Rodney meaning of the word and as many of you know I have had to step back to help heal and repair myself. I'm not the person or scholar I aspire to be.
dewigmore: Revisiting Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis’s Enduring Influence
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AUCConsortium: ✊Angela Davis in the AUC✊.The 20th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium is 3/24 at the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. Angela Davis, will bring the keynote address. RSVP
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