Angela 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 California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
as Self
1972
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
as Self
2006
Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage)
1972
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
as Self
2012
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
as Self
1985
Stamped from the Beginning
as Self
2023
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
as Featuring
2024
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
as Self
2022
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
as Narrator
1998
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
as Herself
2011
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
as Self (voice)
2011
13th
as Self
2016
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
as Self
1972
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
as Self
2012
The Black List: Volume Two
as Self
2009
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
as Self
1970
Who Loves the Earth
as Self
1974
The House on Coco Road
as Self
2016
