COLUMBIA — Political activist Angela Davis declared South Carolina's plans to conduct a firing squad execution of a Black man an attempt to return to the nation's earlier era of racial violence ...

Iconic civil rights leader Angela Davis opened her lecture Wednesday evening at Purdue University by evoking Black History Month — setting the stage for a moving presentation that connected past ...

AMY GOODMAN: So you didn’t just face one death sentence, you faced three. ANGELA DAVIS: Right. No, but Condoleezza Rice wanted to be 10 times better than all black people, too, so ...

Angela Davis admits it took her a long time to feel comfortable seeing photos of herself from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when she was one of the most famous counterculture figures in the world.

Aretha Franklin famously offered to pay the bail of jailed activist Angela Davis. ... Act requests by the Detroit Free Press and other news media outlets after the singer’s 2018 death.

Racial activist and former fugitive Angela Davis was shocked to learn she is a Mayflower descendent on Tuesday’s episode of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS.

When Black Marxist Angela Davis found out her ancestors ... She provided guns to Black activists who in 1970 seized a California courtroom where three people were shot to death, fled the ...

Birmingham native Angela Davis was a subject of the PBS show 'Finding Your Roots' on Feb. 21. ... A news report of Darden’s death mentioned his white family, but not his Black family.

ALAMEDA, Calif. - Students from two high schools invited well-known Bay Area political activist Angela Davis to speak about her decades of experience fighting against racism and other causes. The ...

The cinema and the theater have lost a true dame with the death of actress Angela Lansbury. Lansbury, the award-winning star of films like "The Manchurian Candidate," TV's "Murder She Wrote" and ...

DETROIT – Revelations that the FBI closely monitored Aretha Franklin during the civil rights movement prompted dismay from one of the era’s most prominent government targets. Angela Davis, the ...

In a public lecture given on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 22, Angela Davis reflected on the importance of voting in elections, solidarity and support for Palestine, and her end goal of revolution..