Angela Davis
Birthday: 1944-01-26 | Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, USAAngela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.
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Known For
Acting
Year
Title
Role
2020
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
as Self
2016
13th
as Self
2016
The House on Coco Road
as Self
2013
2011
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
as Self (voice)
2006
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
as Self
