Angela Davis

Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She writes extensively on class, gender, race, and the U.S. prison system. Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama; she studied at Brandeis University and the University of Frankfurt.