Angela Davis

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🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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An American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. Ideologically a Marxist, she was a member of Communist Party USA until 1991 after which she joined the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She is the author of over 10 books on class, feminism, and the US prison system. She involved herself in a range of leftist causes, including the second-wave feminist movement, the Black Panther Party, and the campaign against the Vietnam War. In 1991, she joined the feminist studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she became department director before retiring in 2008. Since then she has continued to write and remained active in movements such as Occupy and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. Praised by many Marxists and others on the far left, Davis has received various awards, including the Lenin Peace Prize. She has also sustained criticism for her support for political violence and her refusal to advocate for prisoners in Marxist-Leninist countries. Let's talk about Angela Davis. If you like this podcast, join The Liturgists to receive even more content like this and talk with other liturgists via our weekly video chat.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the liturgist podcast. You are now listening to Black History is American History.
0:20.5	I'm William Matthews and propaganda. I'm Nikki Black and I'm Andre Henry.
0:25.8	Today's moment in Black History, Angela Davis.
0:30.5	Angela Y Davis, born January 26, 1944, is an American political activist,
0:36.1	philosopher, academic, and author. She's a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
0:42.1	Ideologically, a Marxist. Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA until 1991,
0:47.9	after which she joined the BrecoA Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
0:53.5	She is the author of over 10 books on class, feminism, and the US prison system.
0:59.1	Born to an African-American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandes University
1:05.8	and Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany.
1:10.3	Studying under the philosopher Herbert Marcus, a prominent figure in the Frankfurt School of Marxism,
1:17.0	Davis became increasingly interested in far-left politics.
1:21.3	Returning to the US, she studied at the University of California, San Diego,
1:25.0	before moving to East Germany, where she gained a doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
1:31.4	Back in the US, she joined the Communist Party and involved herself in a range of leftist causes,
1:37.4	including the Second Wave Feminist Movement, the Black Panther Party, and the campaign against the Vietnam War.
1:44.0	In 1969, she was hired as an acting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
1:51.3	UCLA's governing board of regents soon fired her due to her Communist Party membership.
1:58.2	After a court ruled this illegal, the university fired her again, this time for her use of inflammatory language.
2:06.3	In 1970, Davis purchased firearms for people who used them in an arm takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California,
2:14.0	in which four people were killed.
2:16.4	She was prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder.
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