Angela Davis
Born
26 January 1944 (82)
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Also known as
Angela Yvonne Davis, Angela Y. Davis
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 Cal...
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.
Filmography (40)
Duels of History
2024
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
2024
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Stamped from the Beginning
2023
Breaking Myths
2022
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
Praise Song
2021
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
This Is Personal
2019
13th
2016
The House on Coco Road
2016
Toni Morrison Remembers
2015
Criminal Queers
2013
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
2012
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
2012
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
2011
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
2010
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006
The Peace!
2005
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
1998
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise
1997
Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995
A Place of Rage
1991
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
1985
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock
1983
Salt of the earth US
1981
Who Loves the Earth
1974
Malcolm X
1972
Für Angela
1972
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
1972
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
1972
Davis Report
1972
Police Off Campus!
1970