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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1944-01-26 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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.

Known For

Acting

2024

2023

2022

2021

Praise Song as Self

2020

2019

2016

2015

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2006

2005

The Peace! as Self

2001

A Huey P. Newton Story as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1998

1997

1994

1991

1985

1983

1981

Salt of the earth US as Self/Cameo

1975

1974

1972

1970

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Writing

2021

Race Class Gender as Original Story