Angela Davis
January 26, 1944 (80 years old) in 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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- 2024 ·Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Knowas Featuring
- 2023 ·Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilightas
- 2023 ·Stamped from the Beginningas Self
- 2022 ·Queer, Broke & Amazing!as
- 2022 ·Our Bodies Are Your Battlefieldsas Self
- 2022 ·La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était présidentas Self (archive footage)
- 2020 ·Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterdayas Self (archive footage)
- 2020 ·De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdadeas Self
- 2019 ·Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Amas Self
- 2019 ·This Is Personalas Self
- 2016 ·13thas Self
- 2016 ·The House on Coco Roadas Self
- 2015 ·Toni Morrison Remembersas Self
- 2013 ·Criminal Queersas Self
- 2012 ·Free Angela and All Political Prisonersas Self
- 2012 ·Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreamsas Self
- 2011 ·The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975as Self (voice)
- 2011 ·Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Lifeas Herself
- 2010 ·Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberationas Self
- 2009 ·The Black List: Volume Twoas Self
- 2006 ·The U.S. vs. John Lennonas Self
- 2005 ·The Peace!as Self
- 2001 ·A Huey P. Newton Storyas Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1998 ·Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in Californiaas Narrator
- 1994 ·Black Is… Black Ain’tas Self
- 1991 ·A Place of Rageas Self
- 1985 ·La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85as Self
- 1983 ·Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rockas Self
- 1981 ·Salt of the earth USas Self/Cameo
- 1975 ·Les Rendez-vous du dimancheas Self
- 1975 ·Apostrophesas Self
- 1974 ·Wer die Erde liebtas Self
- 1972 ·Malcolm Xas Self (archive footage)
- 1972 ·Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionaryas Self
- 1972 ·George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972as Self
- Future ·Assignment Americaas
- 1970 ·Police Off Campus!as Herself
- 1970 ·Angela Davis Is at Your Mercyas Self