It began with an honor, and then came the insult. A prominent civil rights institution decided to honor Angela Davis, and Birmingham’s well-heeled prepared to celebrate in the town where the ...

There was a precise moment when filmmaker Shola Lynch was interviewing Angela Davis when all the iconography around her—the raised fist, the Afro, the FBI Most Wanted posters—receded into the ...

After more than 50 years, Angela Davis is still instantly recognizable worldwide as the face of revolution. But at the age of 78, she has come to terms with her image. Asked to comment on her ...

A legend, as revered by my generation of millennials as she is her own. She is Angela Y. Davis. Davis opened 1971 with an American declaration of innocence heard around the country: “I am ...