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Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author and social theorist. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), running for Vice President in the 1980 and 1984 elections under that party. She…
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culture · American academic and political activist (born 1944) · writer · human rights defender · philosopher · autobiographer · university teacher · politician · women's rights activist · political prisoner · feminist · civil rights advocate · also Angela Davis, Angela Y. Davis, Angela Yvonne Davis., Davis
Born 26 January 1944 · Q160456
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“It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.”
“not primarily an attack against me but rather against the very spirit of the indivisibility of justice”
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“circulated a petition about the need for democratization of the structures of governance of the party”
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MCA Chicago: Maria Gaspar with musical guests, We Lit the Fire and Trusted the Heat (After Angela Davis)
Infobae: Quién es Angela Davis, la activista afrodescendiente y feminista que estará en la UNAM
cimacnoticias.com.mx: Angela Davis en la UNAM: cuándo y dónde escuchar a la feminista y activista
El Financiero: Angela Davis en México: 5 lecciones
El Sol de México: Una leyenda del activismo en la UNAM, ¿quién es Angela Davis y por qué viene a México?
MILENIO: ¿Cuándo es la conferencia de Angela Davis en la UNAM? Fecha y sede de su participación en la FILUNI
facebook.com: De la cárcel al activismo: así ha sido la lucha de Angela Davis, la feminista que dará una plática en Filuni UNAM Angela Davis dará una plática, junto con Gina Dent y Amneris Chaparro Martínez, sobre los límites de las cárceles y la policía frente a la violencia
MILENIO: De la cárcel al activismo: así ha sido la lucha de Angela Davis, la feminista que dará una plática en Filuni U
sdpnoticias: Prisión preventiva oficiosa en tiempos de Angela Davis en la UNAM
El Porvenir - Portada: Angela Davis participará en la FILUNI con diálogo sobre feminismo - El Porvenir
Pacific Attorney Group: Jacqueline Davis and Angela Davis Killed in Los Angeles Crash near North La Brea and East Beach
The Guardian: What can we learn from Francesca Hong’s loss in Wisconsin? | Ben Davis
The Guardian: The Office actor Lucy Davis says she has incurable stage four breast cancer
eltiempomx.com: Angela Davis llega a la UNAM: conoce su historia de activismo
Public attention spiked: 4,797 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 1,535, with 2 article edits. Coverage that week: “The American left is making strides. But can they win in November? | Ben Davis” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: The American left is making strides. But can they win in November? | Ben Davis
The Guardian: Holy Days review – even Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film
Public attention spiked: 5,429 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 1,535, with 0 article edits.
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MadameNoire: Angela Davis, A Love Letter — Because Of You I Refuse To Shrink
Yahoo: MPR News host Angela Davis on leave after breast cancer diagnosis
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge (2025).
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Rolling Out: Angela Davis to keynote largest Black feminist conference
The Cornell Daily Sun: FATTAL | The Importance of Angela Davis in 2025
The Cornell Daily Sun: ‘History Never Stops Unfolding’: Angela Davis Talks Freedom, Protests and Elections
With the José Muñoz Award given by CLAGS (The Center for LGBTQ Studies) at the CUNY Graduate Center
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Davis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Cambridge
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The Brown Daily Herald: Angela Davis speaks on social movements at BCSC’s ‘Heritage Series’
The Guardian: In 2024, there is one 80-year-old leader we need more than ever: Angela Davis | Rokhaya Diallo
The Guardian: French rightwing politician calls for Angela Davis school to be renamed
Awarded honorary degree from Spelman College (2021).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Pompeu Fabra University (2021).
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“s like, knowledge is built through struggle. It isn”
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Awarded Time 100 (2020).
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Davis gave the Memorial Keynote Address at the University of Michigan's MLK Symposium
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It was announced that Davis would be the Ena H
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Was included on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world
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Was listed as the 1971 "Woman of the Year" in Time magazine's "100 Women of the Year" edition
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Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2019).
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The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) rescinded Davis's Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award, saying she "does not meet all of the criteria"
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Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, presented Davis with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by California Institute of Integral Studies (2016).
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Davis was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in Healing and Social Justice from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University (2014).
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Said she continues to have a relationship with the CPUSA but has not rejoined
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Davis returned to UCLA as a regents' lecturer
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Published “STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner” in Bioinformatics — cited 51,366 times.
Davis said she was a vegan
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Davis was awarded the 2011 Blue Planet Award, an award given for contributions to humanity and the planet
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Davis spoke at the Philadelphia and Washington Square Occupy Wall Street assemblies
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Awarded Blue Planet Award (2011).
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Published “<i>PHENIX</i> : a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution” in Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography — cited 23,639 times.
“Herbert Marcuse taught me that it was possible to be an academic, an activist, a scholar, and a revolutionary.”
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Awarded Thomas Merton Award (2006).
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Declared that the "horrendous situation in New Orleans" was due to the country's structural racism, capitalism, and imperialism
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Lectured at Agnes Scott College, a liberal arts women's college in Decatur, Georgia, on prison reform, minority issues, and the ills of the criminal justice system
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Published “User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1” in MIS Quarterly — cited 31,439 times.
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,641 times.
Publicly spoke against the war on terror following the 9/11 attacks, continued to criticize the prison–industrial complex, and discussed the broken immigration system
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Published “A Theoretical Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model: Four Longitudinal Field Studies” in Management Science — cited 15,493 times.
Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 37,032 times.
Awarded American Book Awards (1998).
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Came out as a lesbian in an interview with Out magazine
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Co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison–industrial complex
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Published “An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 35,119 times.
Amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, she broke away from the CPUSA to help establish the CCDS
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Founding the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
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Published “Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology” in MIS Quarterly — cited 45,978 times.
Published “User Acceptance of Computer Technology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Models” in Management Science — cited 16,411 times.
“My decision to join the Communist party emanated from my belief that the only true path of liberation for black people is the one that leads toward a complete and total overthrow of the capitalist class in this country and all its manifold institutional appendages which insure its ability to exploit the masses and enslave black people.”
Returned to Germany to continue working on her PhD
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Awarded Lenin Peace Prize (1979).
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Was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union
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Davis wrote to President Jimmy Carter, asking him not to assist in efforts to retrieve a child from Jonestown
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And was a professor of ethnic studies at the San Francisco State University from at least 1980 to 1984; she taught political science courses there until 1990
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14 months before the Temple's mass murder-suicide, Davis spoke via amateur radio telephone "patch" to members of his Peoples Temple who were living in Jonestown in Guyana
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Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn argued in a speech before an AFL–CIO meeting in New York City that Davis was derelict in having failed to support prisoners in various socialist countries around
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Attended the Second Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women
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“Angela Davis: An Autobiography”
Returned to East Berlin, leading the U
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Won Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1972).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Magdeburg (1972).
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Awarded Star of People's Friendship (1972).
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Awarded Order of Playa Girón (1972).
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After 13 hours of deliberations, the all-white jury returned a verdict of not guilty
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Rodger McAfee, a dairy farmer from Fresno, California, paid her $100,000 (equivalent to $567,000 in 2024) bail with the help of Steve Sparacino, a wealthy business owner
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And the tour included a trip to Cuba, where she had previously been received by Fidel Castro as a member of a Communist Party delegation in 1969
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Jiří Pelikán wrote an open letter in which he asked her to support Czechoslovak prisoners
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After a 16-month incarceration, the state allowed her release on bail from the county jail
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German singer-songwriter and political activist Franz Josef Degenhardt published the song "Angela Davis", the opener to his sixth studio album Mutter Mathilde
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Davis appeared at Marin County Superior Court and declared her innocence before the court and nation: "I now declare publicly before the court, before the people of this country that I am innocent of all charges which ha
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The CIA estimated that five percent of Soviet propaganda efforts were directed towards the Angela Davis campaign
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FBI agents found her at a Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in New York City
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A massive attempt to find and arrest Davis began
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Heavily armed 17-year-old African-American high-school student Jonathan Jackson, whose brother was George Jackson, one of the three Soledad Brothers, gained control of a courtroom in Marin County, California
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For the "inflammatory language" she had used in four different speeches
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And released on their album Exile on Main Street (1972), is dedicated to Davis
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Guns belonging to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four people were killed
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“I am a Revolutionary Black Woman”
The University of California initiated a policy against hiring Communists
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Blamed imperialism for the troubles oppressed populations suffer:
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Davis was an acting assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Was hired as an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
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And had become a member of the Black Panther Party, working with a branch of the Black Panther Party in Los Angeles, where she directed political education
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Studied at University of California, San Diego, Master of Arts (1968).
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Studied at Goethe University Frankfurt (1965–1967).
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Graduated magna cum laude, a member of Phi Beta Kappa
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To a Federal Bureau of Investigation interview about her attendance at the communist-sponsored festival
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“We mourn the deaths of the border guards who sacrificed their lives for the protection of their socialist homeland”
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Born 1944-01-26.
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