As a scholar, educator and activist, Dr. Angela Davis has challenged ... A strong and powerful voice for women, and for Black women in particular, Dr. Davis stood among the giants of the civil rights ...

It was Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis’ doctoral advisor ... as well as against the oppression and discrimination of Black citizens of the USA. The state-prescribed solidarity with the Black Power ...

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