Angela Davis

What Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag And Angela Davis Learned In Paris

Debra Ollivier | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Alice Kaplan, Baby Boomers, Study Abroad, Angela Davis, French Studies, Susan Sontag, Slidepollajax, Fifty News

In the new book Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, author Alice Kaplan explores the lives of three radically different, influential American women who had an enduring bond with France -- and vice-versa.

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PHOTOS: Freedom Fighter Fashion

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Malcolm X, Civil Right Style, Hair-Beauty, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Day, Bv-Sunday, Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Civil Rights, Black Voices News

There is strength in style--the civil-rights movement is a perfect example. Robin Givhan said it best in her essay about the civil-rights movement...

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Participatory Action Research and Organizing for Justice

Donna Nevel | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Participatory Action Research, Occupy Movements, Angela Davis, Organizing for Justice, Social Movements, Global Protest Movements, Occupy Protests, Neo Liberalism, Books News

Participatory Action Research is very much in line with the politics of the Occupy movements. The principles of PAR have been critical to social movements for self-determination throughout the world.

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[PHOTOS] 5,000 Occupy Protesters Fill Oakland's Streets

Turnstyle | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Rabbi Lerner, California, General Strike, Boots Riley, Economy, Oakland, We Are the 99 Percent, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Angela Davis, Occupy Oakland, Jobs, We Are the 99%, San Francisco, Culture News

Protesters descended upon 14th Street and Broadway Ave. in downtown Oakland on Wednesday morning to show support for Occupy Oakland's planned general ...

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Angela Davis: Power to the Imagination

Charles Howard | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Herbert Marcus, Occupy Philly, Occupy Philadelphia, Activism, University of Pennsylvania, Angela Davis, Occupy Wall Street, Video, Black Voices News

After delivering a keynote address at a UPenn conference, Angela Davis marched with hundreds of others to Occupy Philly. Angela Davis taught us that the marching which covers the most ground is that which involves both the feet and the mind but most importantly the heart.

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Black Power Mixtape -- The Screen Is Burning

Jack Hidary | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Harlem, Huey Newton, Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Harry Belafonte, Bobby Seale, Danny Glover, Black Power, 16th Street Church Bombing, Black Power Movement, The-Black-Power-Mixtape-1967-1975, The-Black-Power-Mixtape, Black-Power-Mixtape-Movie, Movies, Video, Black Voices News

Riveting. This collection of interviews, some never seen before of key figures in the Black Power movement, is a new critical document of our country's history.

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Olsson's The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975: The Revolution Will Be Documented

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Talib Kweli, Danny Glover, Black Panthers, Sweden, Göran Hugo Olsson, Erykah Badu, Stokely Carmichael, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Angela Davis, Black Power Movement, Mutabaruka, Black Power Mixtape Movie, Black Power Mixtape Review, Black Power Mixtape Film, Culture News

Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson's documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is one of those once-in-a-lifetime films which seamlessly reaches the full cinematic goal of changing its viewers' world for good.

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Angela Davis Forces 11-Year-Old Son To Commit Armed Robbery While She's Getaway Driver (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Mother Forces Son Criminal, Mother Son Criminals, Stupid Criminals, Crime, Angela Davis, Criminals, Home News

This east Tennessee woman is certainly not winning any awards for mother of the year. Angela Davis forced her 11-year-old son to commit an armed robb...

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Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker Dies; Represented Angela Davis, Smith Act Defendants

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smith-Act, Civil Rights Movement, National Lawyers Guild, Communist Party, House Un-American Activities Committee, Mccarthyism, Angela Davis, J.K.Rowling, Politics News

The only woman in her University of California Berkeley law school class, Doris defied the odds throughout her life, achieving significant victories for labor, and political activists.

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We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 05.25.2011

We Americans should honor abolitionists of the past and present not only by remembering them during Black History Month, but by working to repeal capital punishment throughout the USA.

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