Angela Davis, a retired professor, political activist and the third woman ever named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, will be in Grand Forks Feb. 6 as a diversity speaker selected by the UND University Program Council.
Davis will be part of UND’s “Great Conversations” program; a faculty member will interview her at 7 p.m. at Chester Fritz Auditorium. The event will be free and open to the public.
Davis, 68, a distinguished professor emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, became a nationally recognized activist in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party with close relations to the Black Panther Party.
She came to national attention in 1969 after being removed from her teaching position in the philosophy department at UCLA as a result of her social activism and her membership in the Communist Party, according to UCSC.
In 1970, she was placed on the Ten Most Wanted list after being charged with purchasing a shotgun used to kill a Marin County, Calif., judge. She was acquitted in 1972.
She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, dedicated to the dismantling of what it calls the prison-industrial complex and urges her audience to think seriously about a world without prisons. She has lectured in all 50 states and throughout the world, and is the author of nine books and numerous journal articles.
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad
Thursday, January 3rd 2013 at 4:09PM
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