From the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List to Kaul Auditorium, Angela Davis keeps moving. An outspoken civil rights and feminism activist, she ran for vice president of the United States in 1980 and 1984 on the Communist ticket.
Davis has authored numerous books, spoken and taught at top-drawer universities, and inspired generations of women, African Americans, lesbians, Afro-Cubans, and people who advocate for civil liberties and human rights. She'll be speaking Saturday, February 21 at 7:00 PM.
Wikipedia sez: "Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American political activist and university professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis was also a notable activist during the Civil Rights Movement, and a prominent member and political candidate of the Communist Party USA. In recent years, she no longer identifies as a Communist, but rather a democratic socialist, and is currently a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism."
Willamette Reds sez: "Angela Davis is an internationally known writer, scholar, and activist who has been deeply involved in the struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality in the United States. Angela has taught at San Francisco State University, Mills College, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Vassar, the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. She has spent the last 15 years at UC Santa Cruz, where she is professor of the History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D program, and professor of Feminist Studies. Her most recent books are Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire and Are Prisons Obsolete?."
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