After Friday's arrests of 40 protestors, over half of whom were students, a cold and wet weekend and a visit from civil rights icon Angela ... Davis was heavily involved in the civil rights ...

Political activist Angela Davis has been a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement. During her Birmingham, Alabama upbringing, she experienced racism when the Ku Klux Klan infiltrated her ...

(JTA) — Civil rights activist Angela Davis said her “long-term support of justice for Palestine” was the reason the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama rescinded her human rights award.

He lost the 1986 Democratic primary for a Georgia Congressional seat to fellow civil rights activist John ... Bryant and Milam out of business. Angela Davis (1944-) Angela Davis was born in ...

(JTA) — The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, said that a civil rights institute withdrew an award for activist Angela Davis due to pressure ... Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel ...

Davis gained celebrity in 1969 when the UC Regents, headed by then-governor Ronald Reagan, fired her as a UCLA philosophy ...

Activists and authors Angela Davis and Ta-Nehisi Coates speak in conversation about ... “We’ve seen campus protesters being repressed for standing up for basic human rights,” Allam said. “We’ve seen ...