Angela Davis

Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual...

You may have heard "Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover." My life right here, right now, is an open book. Dramatic, inspirational, and heartwarming are a few words to describe this book. Take a look for yourself, and hopefully, you will be touched and motivated by my life story. Jesus Christ died for me so I can have help from the Holy Ghost to overcome this evil world in which I live. Every day you and I fight against our flesh, and every day the living...

En la vida de toda persona comprometida políticamente, existe una tensión inevitable entre la necesidad de pronunciarse sobre los problemas que presenta la actualidad y la aspiración a que esos análisis que brotan de las circunstancias resistan la prueba del tiempo y se desvinculen de los límites del hic et nunc para convertirse en referencias universales. Así, el mayor reto para un activista es responder adecuadamente a las necesidades del...

In Part I of a three-part class, seven Black scholars invite you to learn the American history not taught in schools. Examine white supremacy and its antithesis, Black love; explore the 1619 Project and the origins of slavery; and begin to reshape the conversations on race in America.

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment - halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet, erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist - usually queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color - organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms...

What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States....

Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality....

"Drawn from a lifetime of frontline culture-shifting advocacy, organizing, and fighting for equal justice ... [this work] ... shares the keys to effective activism both for those new to and long-committed to the defense of Black lives. From Minneapolis to Louisville, to Portland, Kenosha, and Washington, DC, America's reckoning with its unmet promises on race and class is at a boiling point not seen since the 1960s. While conversations around pathways...

Linguist John McWhorter shares the origins of Black English. Often dismissed as slang, Black English is a uniquely sophisticated form of communication with its own nuances and complexities.