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Angela Davis

January 2024

  • Rokhaya Diallo

    In 2024, there is one 80-year-old leader we need more than ever: Angela Davis

    Rokhaya Diallo
    Amid global turmoil, the legendary activist’s campaigning on issues from feminism to Palestine could not be more relevant, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

March 2023

  • Valérie Pécresse

    French rightwing politician calls for Angela Davis school to be renamed

    Valérie Pécresse claims that the Black US activist’s belief that racism is systemic does not apply to France

December 2022

  • Aja Monet, the director of the play; Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Angela Davis.

    ‘This is what solidarity looks like’: an African V-Day against sexual violence

    In Accra, Ghana, leading figures in the global women’s movement joined with black artists to launch Voices, an audioplay with creative listening at its core

May 2022

  • Mick Jagger performing with the Rolling Stones at Cobo Arena in Detroit, July 1972.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St reviewed – archive, 1972

    20 May 1972: It will go down as their classic album, made at the height of the band’s musical powers and self-confidence

March 2022

  • Angela Davis, photographed in Berkeley, California, last month.

    Angela Davis on the power of protest: ‘We can’t do anything without optimism’

    In 1972, the former Black Panther was facing the death penalty. Five decades after the campaign for her release went global, she still believes people are the ‘motors of history’

December 2020

  • Angela Davis photoshoot, Barcelona, Spain - 09 Oct 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Agencia Efe/REX/Shutterstock (9125545b) African-American philosopher and activist Angela Davis Angela Davis photoshoot, Barcelona, Spain - 09 Oct 2017 Davis stated she feels ‘privileged’ to be in Catalonia and considered that ‘people should have the right to self-determination around the world and to take the decisions that guide their own destiny’.

    Civil rights activist Angela Davis launches fashion collaboration with LA label

    Renowned LA launches ‘Heroes of Blackness’ collection with 76-year-old professor who rose to fame as a passionate campaigner for societal reform

July 2020

  • Black Lives Matter protests<br>Protesters throw statue of Edward Colston into Bristol harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in memory of George Floyd who was killed on May 25 while in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis. PA Photo. Picture date: Sunday June 7, 2020. See PA story POLICE Floyd. Photo credit should read: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

    Further reading
    Rise up: the best books about the power of protest

    From Angela Davis on Black Lives Matter to indigenous climate activism, Neha Shah picks inspiring examples of international struggle

June 2020

  • Angela Davis speaking at a street rally in 1974.

    The G2 interview
    Angela Davis: ‘We knew that the role of the police was to protect white supremacy’

    The veteran civil rights campaigner on growing up in segregated America, the opportunity of the Black Lives Matter movement and what inspires her to keep fighting

September 2019

  • Vatican Museum<br>The School of Athens, Detail of a mural by Raphael painted for Pope Julius IIIn the center Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) discourses with Aristotle, 1509, Raphael, Room of the Segnatura, Vatican Museum. (Photo by: Godong/UIG via Getty Images)

    Further reading
    From Aristotle to Angela Davis: the best books about debate

    Whether it is a dispute between Agamemnon and Achilles or the colonisers and the colonised in Things Fall Apart, we can all learn techniques of persuasion from literature

January 2019

  • Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author.

    Angela Davis to receive civil rights award after museum reverses decision

    The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute issued a public apology for denying the award and said there should have been more conversation
  • FILE- In this Feb. 19, 2015, file photo Angela Davis, author, educator and iconic civil rights activist, speaks during her visit to the University of Michigan-Flint, in Flint, Mich. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama announced Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, that it has rescinded its decision to honor Davis following unspecified complaints. Davis is a Birmingham native who has spent decades fighting for civil rights. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)

    Angela Davis 'stunned' by decision to rescind civil rights award

    Activist decries attack on ‘spirit of the indivisibility of justice’ after move believed to be linked to her support for Palestinian BDS movement
  • Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She was an active member of the Black Panther Party.

    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute under fire for rescinding Angela Davis honor

    Institute says activist and professor ‘does not meet all criteria’ and that ‘concerned individuals’ asked it to reconsider

July 2017

  • illustration: black power fist and US flag

    The long read
    What will it take for the US to eradicate racist ideas?

    The long read: Protests will never be enough to bring about lasting change. To overcome racist thinking, anti-racists must take hold of power – and not let go

January 2017

  • Angela Davis at the Women’s March

    Angela Davis' Women's March speech: 'this country’s history cannot be deleted'

    Angela Davis
    Read the full transcript of her powerful address made on Saturday in Washington DC

August 2016

  • Angela Davis

    Biopic of civil rights activist Angela Davis in the works

    Producer of Fruitvale Station and Dope will take on the life of the radical, scholar and author, with Davis exec-producing

March 2015

  • Angela Davis, Feminist, 10 Best, Political Activist, 04 Jul 1974

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best feminists

    Last week, to mark International Women’s Day, we listed the 10 best feminists. From Pankhurst to Greer, here are those you felt should have made the cut

December 2014

  • Angela Davis, 1974.

    The G2 interview
    Angela Davis: ‘There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery’

    The activist, feminist and revolutionary explains how the ‘prison industrial complex’ profits from black people, that Barack Obama can’t be blamed for the lack of progress on race, and why Beyoncé is not a terrorist

November 2014

  • Protesters confront police following George Zimmerman's acquittal for the killing of Trayvon Martin.

    From Michael Brown to Assata Shakur, the racist state of America persists

    Angela Davis
    Angela Davis: Those who resist are treated like terrorists – as in Ferguson this year, and as I and other black activists were in the 60s and 70s

November 2011

  • Angela Davis at Occupy Philly on 28 October 2011

    Occupy Cif
    The 99%: a community of resistance

    Angela Davis

    Angela Davis: Occupy Cif: The Occupy movement's exhilarating potential lies in forging a unity that can make a new majority of the old minorities

November 2007

  • 'We used to think there was a black community'

    With her towering afro and radical rhetoric, Angela Davis was one of the iconic faces of black politics in 1970s America. She talks to Gary Younge about Barack Obama, the racism of the black middle class, and how it feels to be remembered as a hairdo.
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