Angela Y. Davis

The official story is that the United States has no political prisoners. The reality is that there are hundreds of people rounded up, placed behind bars, and kept there for inordinately long sentences because of their political beliefs and activities.

From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis comes a major collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systems....

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation....

Angela Davis Speaks! Get inspired by the words of this fighter for human rights.....

Patrisse Khan-Cullors and award-winning author and journalist Asha Bandele recount the personal story that led Patrisse to become a founder of Black Lives Matter....

As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer....

The emotional and powerful story of one of the cofounders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born....

In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted list....

Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis....

Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....

Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

Revelations about U.S. policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy....

With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole....

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America's giants of Black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power....

No país com a maior população carcerária do mundo, Angela Davis—estudiosa, ativista, referência dos movimentos negro e feminista—examina com seu olhar crítico o conceito de encarceramento como punição....