Angela Davis
Born January 26, 1944 (Age: 82)
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Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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.
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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Filmography
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
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Age: 78
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Praise Song
2021
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as Self
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Age: 77
Toni Morrison Remembers
2015
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as Self
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Age: 71
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
2012
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as Self
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Age: 68
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 67
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
2011
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as Herself
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Age: 66
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
2010
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as Self
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Age: 66
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
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as Self
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Age: 65
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Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
1998
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as Narrator
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Age: 53
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise
1997
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as Self
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Age: 53
A Place of Rage
1991
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as Self
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Age: 47
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
1985
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as Self
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Age: 41
Salt of the earth US
1981
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as Self/Cameo
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Age: 37
Who Loves the Earth
1974
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as Self
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Age: 29
Malcolm X
1972
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 28
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Für Angela
1972
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as Self
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Age: 28
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
1972
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as Self
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Age: 27
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
1972
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as Self
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Age: 27
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Davis Report
1972
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as Self
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Age: 27
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Police Off Campus!
1970
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as Herself
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Age: 26