Angela Y. Davis

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and distinguished professor emerita at the University of California—Santa Cruz. For many decades, she has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world.  She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. Prof. Davis is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? Her newest book is Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement.