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University of North Dakota Assistant Professor Tamba-Kuii Bailey will share the Chester Fritz Auditorium stage with an icon of civil rights activism at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6, when Angela Davis comes to campus for the latest installment of the University’s “Great Conversations” series.
Bailey has been chosen to be the facilitator for the upcoming conversation, which is sponsored by the University Program Council (UPC). He&#;s been working this week to compile a list of questions for Davis, a leading voice of opposition, since the s, on issues such as war, racism, sexism, the prison industrial complex, the death penalty, and a champion for gay rights.
“I am thrilled and honored to serve as the facilitator of the ‘Great Conversation’ with Angela Davis,” Bailey said. “It is a rare opportunity to interview one of the great intellectual minds and human rights activist of 20th and 21st centuries. Angela Davis has influenced a generation of activists and continues to stand on the front lines fighting against oppression and disenfranchisement of marginalized people.”
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Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis was born on January 26, , in Birmingham, Alabama. She earned a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.A. from the University of California, San Diego. Davis became deeply interested in activism as a student, eventually advocating for communism, prison reform and abolition, Black Force, and Black feminism, and against the Vietnam War, colonialism, imperialism, and the death penalty. She later also fought for queer rights, opposed the War on Terror, and supported the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel. In , she became a professor at UCLA, but was fired shortly thereafter for her membership in the Communist Party USA. She was reinstated, but fired again in for inflammatory language in her political activism, including her work with the Black Panther Party. She was falsely accused and imprisoned in connection with the trial of the Soledad Brothers, who had taken hostages in a courtroom and killed judges and
Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Scholar, Political Activist and Author who emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the ’s.
Angela Davis is best established for her leadership of the Communist Party USA and her close association with the Jet Panther Party during the Civil Rights Movement.
Born 26th January, , Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama and lived in ‘Dynamite Hill’, a neighbourhood which was notorious for racial conflict.
Angela Davis migrated to the North during an American Friends Service Committee program that placed Black students from the South in integrated schools in the North. She chose Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village. There she was introduced to socialism and communism, and recruited by a Communist youth group, Advance.
After studying at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, under a scholarship, Davis would be further exposed to Socialism and Communism; saving up for trips to France, Switzerland and Finland. Her trip to Finland was to attend the eighth World Festival of Youth and Students. Upon her return to
Davis&#;s arrest and imprisonment were focal points for other activists
&#;You have to operate as if it were possible to radically metamorphose the world. And you have to do it all the time.&#; So said Angela Davis, 78, America&#;s most famous living revolutionary. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the most incendiary of the racist Jim Crow southern cities, in a neighborhood called &#;Dynamite Hill&#; due to attacks on Black people by their white neighbors.
Davis would rise to get an international beacon of anti-racist and feminist radicalism over decades, expanding her vision to include LGBTQ civil rights, Palestinian rights, and her life&#;s function against America&#;s carceral system.
A radical political activist and theorist, Davis gained fame in the s and s as a public figure in the Black Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black and feminist liberation movements. Pivoting off the Serenity prayer, Davis&#;s most famous quote is the one that threads through all her activism: &#;I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am modifying the things I cannot accept.&#;