35. Angela Davis
Web Links
13th: From Slave to Criminal with one Amendment. A 2016 film by Ava DuVernay that examines the Prison Industrial Complex, featuring cameos of Angela Davis and in part based on her activist and theoretical work. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5895028/
A brilliant conversation between Jackie Kay (poet and novelist) and Angela Davis on ‘Pathways to Liberation: Celebrating Black British Feminisms’ (April 2019). The conversation explores the connections between Black women’s activism in the UK and US.
https://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/blog/angela-davis
Black Journal Interview with Angela Davis (1972). An interview with Angela Davis soon after her release from prison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwD3LGo3a7o&t=11s
Angela Davis in conversation at the London Women of the World – WOW – Festival 2017. The long clip gives the full conversation and the short focuses on the election of Trump, the category of woman, and radical intersectional feminism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgdzK3jfEg&t=3806s (full version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMUskpoNdIc&list=RDCMUCvS2UqiC4p3sLoJCyzIYgNQ&start_radio=1&rv=BMUskpoNdIc&t=259 (short version)
A lecture given by Angela Davis on ‘The Prison: A Sign of Democracy?’ at UC Santa Cruz on the criminalization of communities affected by poverty and racism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q25-KJ55k_0
A recent interview on Channel 4 News with Angela Davis on the war in Ukraine and politics today.