Angela Davis

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• SOURCE: TIME
  2/23/2023
  

  Black Power is a Love Story

  by Dan Berger

  While the movement is popularly associated with anger, love was the emotional force that enabled activists to struggle for justice against powerful opposition. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/4/2022
  

  "Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive": The Legacy of Angela Davis

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  While Davis was acquitted of murder charges in a highly politicized case 50 years ago, her influence on contemporary protest movements has never been higher. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/25/2022
  

  Abortion isn't a "Choice" without Racial Justice

  by Sara Matthiesen

  The recent failure of the broad social spending initiatives of Build Back Better and the impending judicial overthrow of Roe are connected, and signal the need for a movement for reproductive freedom that goes beyond "choice" to address systemic inequalities. 

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• SOURCE: Mondoweiss
  1/13/19
  

  Angela Davis and the Jewish Civil War

  by Marc H. Ellis

  The Black-Jewish alliance, at least what’s left of it, faces a common challenge of how memorialization works and for whom. 

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• SOURCE: PJ Media
  10-14-14
  

  UCLA’s New Cover Girl: Guess Which Far Leftist It Is!

  by Ron Radosh

  "This banner adds to the shadow that today is cast over so many of our major universities."

• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-19-13
  

  Angela Davis: Drunken Midwives and Snooty Surgeons: A Short History of Giving Birth

  Angela Davis is a historian at the University of Warwick interested in motherood, parenting and childcare.The history of childbirth and midwifery has seen some dramatic changes, not only in new medical discoveries that vastly improved the safety of both mother and baby but also in social trends and the way we view giving birth.The 18th century witnessed the rise of medical intervention and a more professionalised class of midwife – and of accoucheurs or men-midwives. But developments haven’t always been welcomed, straightforward or accepted. The story of maternity care has been (and remains) complex and often contradictory.Today, the internet has enabled the exchange of more information than ever before and a new debate over whether childbirth has become too medicalised and subject to the power and authority of doctors....