#TodayinHistory Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is a political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominentcounterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the #BlackPantherParty through her involvement in the #CivilRights Movement, although she was never a party member. Her interests included prisoner rights; she founded #CriticalResistance , an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a former director of the university's Feminist Studiesdepartment. #AngelaDavis #DoResearch #SeekKnowledge #SeekTruth #WeWillNotBeSilent #RidahSeason #WeDV8 #YoungBlackandGold #TrueQueens #TrueQueen #BlackWoman #BlackWomen #AfricanQueens #KemetQueens #WeComeFromRoyalty #SlimBabyGfx http://ift.tt/1tgZU8T
