Angela Davis
Known for: Acting
Born: January 25, 1944 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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George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
Self
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Self
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Self
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
Self
Stamped from the Beginning
Self
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Featuring
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
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Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
Narrator
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
Herself
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Self (voice)
13th
Self
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
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Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
Self
The Black List: Volume Two
Self
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
Self
Who Loves the Earth
Self
The House on Coco Road
Self
A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Place of Rage
Self
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Self
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Self