Angela Davis
Born January 26, 1944 (Age: 82)
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Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Biography
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.
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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Filmography
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
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as
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Age: 78
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 67
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Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
1998
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as Narrator
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Age: 53
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Davis Report
1972
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as Self
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Age: 27
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Police Off Campus!
1970
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as Herself
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Age: 26