ANGELA Y, DAVIS

Angela Y. Davis is a Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1994, she was appointed to a UC Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies. She is author of numerous articles and essays, and five books, including Women, Race, and Class. Her latest volume, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, focuses on emerging feminist consciousness in the work of early blueswomen. In 1972, she was acquitted on false charges of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy, and emerged as a scholar and fighter for human rights. In this interview she shares her experience in prison with sex workers, and her views on feminism and activism among young people.