Angela Yvonne Davis

Revisiting the AAUP's 1971 UCLA investigation.

In 1970, Angela Davis was arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial — and her eventual victory — proved to everyone that the justice system was corrupt.

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

The debate once again centers on — and stokes — White parents’ anxieties.

On revolution and violence.

Black women’s radicalism has been fascism’s enemy for 200 years.

A recent book on Toni Morrison's career in publishing makes the case that the great American novelist should also be seen as a pathbreaking editor.

On John Huggins, Angela Y. Davis, and the complex history of an oft-misunderstood political movement.

The famous author, who would have been 100 years old today, was best known for his novels and essays. But correspondence was where his light shone brightest.

The story of George Jackson and his radical politics that challenged the American Government in an age of political repression.

A Red-Black alliance defended political prisoners and drew attention to death and prison sentences disproportionately handed out to people of color.

The official newspaper of the Nation of Islam—published from 1960-1975—combined investigative journalism and Black Nationalist views on racial uplift.

Radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

The pursuit of justice has been defined by a rote binary of punished in a cage versus unpunished and free.

The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.

Since we live in an age in which silence is not only criminal but suicidal, I have been making as much noise as I can.

Efforts to surveil and undermine activists went far beyond infamous operations such as Cointelpro.

Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

A new book shows that Marxism in the US "was never constrained to the reiteration of a set of dogmatic principles one associates with party ideologues."

Her new book tells the story of Black people through an exploration of the color blue.