Angela Davis
Acting
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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2024Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Featuring
2024Duels of History
2023Stamped from the Beginning
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2023Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2022Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
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2022La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
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2022Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022Breaking Myths
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2020De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
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2020Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
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2019Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
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2019This Is Personal
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201613th
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2016The House on Coco Road
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2015Toni Morrison Remembers
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2013Criminal Queers
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2012Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
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2012Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
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2011Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
Herself
2011The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
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2010Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
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2009The Black List: Volume Two
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2006The U.S. vs. John Lennon
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2001A Huey P. Newton Story
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