After more than 50 years, Angela Davis is still instantly recognizable worldwide as the face of revolution. But at the age of 78, she has come to terms with her image. Asked to comment on her likeness ...

Political activist Angela Davis has been a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement. During her Birmingham, Alabama upbringing, she experienced racism when the Ku Klux Klan infiltrated her middle ...

(The Root) — In 1972, Angela Davis’ struggle as a political prisoner became an example of the black power movement, the Black Panthers and the political unrest of the time. Even her Afro became a ...

Documenting the image, influence, and activism of Angela Davis with some 220 objects, Angela Davis — Seize the Time not only examines her arrest, incarceration, trial, and the national and ...

Activist and educator Angela Davis led the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Monday night — a lecture series honoring his legacy — in which she focused on relevant issues, ...

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Angela Davis, political activist and professor emerita of history and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, gave a series of lectures on abolition ...

Angela Davis' great-grandfather marks her family's transition from slavery to freedom. Angela Davis' great-grandfather, Isom, not only marks her family's transition from slavery to freedom, he's also ...

Kathryn Tibbetts Gates ‘91 was having supper in old Commons when a friend burst into the dining hall and shouted, “We’re at war!” At that moment, Gates had two thoughts: Her friend had entered through ...

An icon of the international racial justice movement offered a timely reminder of activism’s value during Bates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Day programming. “I’ve pointed out many times that the electoral ...

Appearance of famed political activist, scholar and author reflects the department’s progress toward becoming ‘go-to place’ of interdisciplinary work at the nexus of humans and the environment, CU ...

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” So said Angela Davis, 78, America’s most famous living revolutionary. She was born in ...