Angela Davis is a prominent American Marxist activist, philosopher, and academic championing prison abolition, racial justice, and intersectional feminism.
A founding member of Critical Resistance, she fights the "prison-industrial complex" and advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, economic equality, and liberation movements worldwide. Her lifelong activism focuses on dismantling systemic oppression.
Key causes Angela Davis champions include:
- Prison Abolition: She is a leading voice in dismantling the U.S. prison system and is a co-founder of Critical Resistance, an organization dedicated to this cause.
- Intersectional Feminism & Racial Justice: Her work focuses on the interconnected issues of race, class, and gender, challenging systemic inequality.
- Anti-Capitalism & Socialism: As a long-time member of the Communist Party USA and later the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, she advocates for systemic economic change.
- LGBTQ+ Rights & Human Rights: Davis has been an outspoken ally and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and queer liberation.
- Internationalism:She supports global solidarity movements, including the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights.
Davis has worked as an academic, teaching philosophy and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, while authoring influential books like Women, Race, & Class and Are Prisons Obsolete?.