Angela Davis
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Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.
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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)
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Stamped from the Beginning (2023)
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13th (2016)
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Give Me Some Sugah (2026)
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
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Davis Report (1972)
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A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012)
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The Peace! (2005)
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Criminal Queers (2013)
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
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Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995)
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When I See Them, I See Us (2021)
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The Black List: Volume Two (2009)
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Free CeCe! (2016)
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Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary (1972)
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Praise Song (2021)
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Breaking Myths (2022)
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Who Loves the Earth (1974)
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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday (2020)
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Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know (2024)
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Salt of the earth US (1981)
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Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise (1997)
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The House on Coco Road (2016)
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Für Angela (1972)
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Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight (2023)
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Toni Morrison Remembers (2015)
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A Place of Rage (1991)
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Queer, Broke & Amazing! (2022)
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La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85 (1985)
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Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future (—)
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Malcolm X (1972)
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Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams (2012)
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Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo (1970)
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Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy (1970)
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Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary (—)
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George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972 (1972)
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This Is Personal (2019)
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Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock (1983)
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Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California (1998)
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Duels of History (2024)
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Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields (2022)
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Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation (2010)
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Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life (2011)
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Police Off Campus! (1970)
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