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 ...

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said her “long-term support of justice for Palestine” was the reason the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama rescinded her human rights award.

As a scholar, educator and activist, Dr. Angela Davis has challenged and shaped our understanding ... Dr. Davis stood among the giants of the civil rights movement and was instrumental in waking us up ...

(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 ...