Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), the Maoist revolutionary who was called “the primary theorist of the Black Arts Movement ...

On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass stood before a crowd in Rochester, New York, and delivered what would become ...

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Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

Activist, author, and UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Angela Davis drew one of the largest crowds in the three-decade-long history of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation, packing the 1,800 ...

“Angela Davis has fostered a new kind of hope through abolition. Abolition is an invitation to envision the end of the prison system, yet it is also a creative act,” said Caleb Smith, professor of ...

Angela Davis was on the run, slipping through cities in wigs and disguises like a drag queen swapping looks between runway walks. Her face was plastered on wanted posters across the country as the ...

Angela Davis pumps her fist during a protest on Friday, June 19, 2020, in Oakland, California. Yalonda M. James / Getty Images ...

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Angela Davis’s Family History Is Remarkable—and Unexceptional for Black Americans Conservatives thought they’d won a round of “gotcha” when it was revealed that one of Davis’s ...