Join Students for a Just Society, Kennedy Political Union, and civil rights activist Angela Davis for an amazing speaking event on 9/17/2020 at 8pm EST. This event will be part of a Black Lives Matter series at American University presented by the AU Kennedy Political Union, Women's Initiative, Black Caucus Committee, Student Union Board, and Antiracism Center between 9/15-9/24/2020.
Angela Davis is an activist, educator, and writer who has spent her life advocating for oppressed members of society (Biography.com). Davis studied at Brandeis University, the University of California, San Diego, and the Sorbonne and published six books: Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), Women, Race, and Class (1980), Women, Culture and Politics (1989), Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Abolition Democracy (2005), and The Meaning of Freedom (2012). In the late 1960s, she was associated with the Che-Lumumba Club (all-Black branch of the Communist Party) and the Black Panthers and in the late 1990s, she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization aiming to put an end to the prison industrial complex.
Here's a little more about Angela Davis in recent years. In March of 2020, TIME magazine reflected on the last TIME 100 Women of the Year, featuring Angela Davis as 1971's choice. In June of 2020, Davis was featured in The Guardian expressing cautious optimism about the summer's nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. In August of 2020, Angela Davis was interviewed for Vanity Fair by American filmmaker Ava Duvernay (director of film SELMA, Netflix documentary 13th, Netflix series When They See Us, and more). Davis continues to advocate for gender equity, prison reform, and racial justice 50 years into her career.
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