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.
Filmography
all 56
Movies 52
self 49
TV Shows 4
Writer 1
Narrator 1
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday (2020)
Movie
Self (voice)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
Movie
Self
POV (1988)
TV
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X (1972)
Movie
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1944-01-26 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceBirmingham, United States
LifestyleVeganism
SiblingsBen Davis, Fania Davis
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsAngela Yvonne Davis, Анджела Ивонн Дэвис, Анджела Дэвис, Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Angela Davis
Awardshonorary degree from Spelman College, honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University, honorary citizen of Magdeburg, honorary doctorate of Pompeu Fabra University, Blue Planet Award, Order of Playa Girón, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Star of People's Friendship, American Book Awards, Thomas Merton Award, Lenin Peace Prize
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