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Angela Davis

Angela Davis

Birthday: 1944-01-26 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
2022
2021
Praise Song

as    Self

2020
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday

as    Self (archive footage)

2019
2019
This Is Personal

as    Self

2016
13th

as    Self

2016
The House on Coco Road

as    Self

2015
Toni Morrison Remembers

as    Self

2011
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

as    Self (voice)

2006
The U.S. vs. John Lennon

as    Self

1994
Black Is… Black Ain’t

as    Self

1991
A Place of Rage

as    Self

1970