Renowned Activist/Scholar To Speak Nov. 28
November 10, 2005
University Park, Pa. --- Angela Davis, internationally known activist and scholar, will speak at 8 p.m. Monday, November 28, in Schwab Auditorium, on Penn State’s University Park campus. Admission is free to the public.
Davis, currently professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the speaker for the second annual Barbara Jordan Lecture Series, sponsored by the Africana Research Center and the Department of African and African American Studies, the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State.
Beverly Vandiver, director of the Africana Research Center, noted that Davis represents the activism espoused by the former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan. Davis first gained attention in the sixties and seventies for her involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and prison rights, which led to her own arrest and imprisonment.
Professor Davis is known for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. During the last 25 years, Davis has lectured in all 50 states, as well as Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union.
Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of five books, including Women, Race & Class (1981); Women, Culture & Politics (1989); and The Angela Y. Davis Reader (1998). She is also the editor of If They Come In The Morning: Voices of Resistance (1971).
Her forthcoming book Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire—Interviews with Angela Y. Davis highlights her long-standing commitment to prisoners’ rights.
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