Angela Y Davis

Angela Y. Davis is an activist and scholar known for her work challenging prison-related repression. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1944 and studied at Brandeis, the Sorbonne, and the Goethe Institute. She was acquitted in 1972 after a highly publicized trial that followed sixteen months in jail. She now teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has written many books, including Are Prisons Obsolete? from Seven Stories Press.