Provided you’re familiar with Angela Davis’ biography, the news may have smacked you sideways too. A few Twitter and Instagram users blasted PBS and Gates for airing this episode during Black ...

When high school students in Rockland County, New York, invited renowned activist and professor Angela Davis to speak, the event got shut down in two different venues over protests that she was ...

Former Black Panther Angela Davis learned she has a descendant who was on the Mayflower during an episode of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS. Twitter / @HenryLouisGates “Never, never, never ...

Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s ...

The Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia hosted “Ella Baker for the 21st Century,” a one-day symposium—featuring political ...

Angela Davis is a academic. It would have been better to dissect something she wrote than to scan her biography in an attempt to smear her legacy. But then again, that would require opening a book.

Davis, distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is known internationally for her work to combat all forms of oppression in the United States and abroad. “She is a ...

Sidra Smith, also known as actress Tasha Smith’s equally ebullient twin sister, is the producer behind the thrilling new documentary on political activist Angela Davis.

As a guest on PBS show Finding Your Roots, Angela Davis — Civil Rights activist, philosopher and author — learned a surprising fact about her ancestry. According to Salon, the former Black ...

Angela Davis speaks at Denver campus as Jewish students are divided on Israel and Gaza 03:50. After Friday's arrests of 40 protestors, over half of whom were students, a cold and wet weekend and a ...

Political activist Angela Davis has been a truth seeker for her entire career. In a Feb. 21 episode of "Finding Your Roots," Davis learns the truth about some of her family’s lingering mysteries.” ...