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Angela Davis
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Angela 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 Commun…
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Angela 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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2026
Give Me Some Sugah
Movie
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2024
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2024
Duels of History
Movie
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2024
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Movie Featuring
- 2023
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2023
Stamped from the Beginning
Movie Self
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2022
Breaking Myths
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
Movie
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2022
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Movie Self
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2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Race Class Gender
Movie Novel
- 2021
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2021
Praise Song
Movie Self
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2020
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2020
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2019
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Movie Self
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2019
This Is Personal
Movie Self
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2016
13th
Movie Self
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2016
Free CeCe!
Movie Self
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2016
The House on Coco Road
Movie Self
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2016
The Occupation of the American Mind
Movie Thanks
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2015
Toni Morrison Remembers
Movie Self
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2013
Criminal Queers
Movie Self
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2012
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Movie Self
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2012
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
Movie Self
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2011
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Movie Self (voice)
- 2011
- 2010
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2009
The Black List: Volume Two
Movie Self
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2006
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Movie Self
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2005
The Peace!
Movie Self
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2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2001
Democracy Now!
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1998
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
Movie Narrator
- 1997
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1995
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Movie Self
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1991
A Place of Rage
Movie Self
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1985
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
Movie Self
- 1983
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1981
Salt of the earth US
Movie Self/Cameo
