Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this context that Angela Davis, one of America's most remarkable political figures, gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual...

En la vida de toda persona comprometida políticamente, existe una tensión inevitable entre la necesidad de pronunciarse sobre los problemas que presenta la actualidad y la aspiración a que esos análisis que brotan de las circunstancias resistan la prueba del tiempo y se desvinculen de los límites del hic et nunc para convertirse en referencias universales. Así, el mayor reto para un activista es responder adecuadamente a las necesidades del...

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison.

Tells the story of a teacher who was wrongly accused of murder.

In Part I of a three-part class, seven Black scholars invite you to learn the American history not taught in schools. Examine white supremacy and its antithesis, Black love; explore the 1619 Project and the origins of slavery; and begin to reshape the conversations on race in America.

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched...

A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment - halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet, erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist - usually queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color - organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of the stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms...

Durante las últimas décadas, el trabajo intelectual y la actividad política de Angela Davis se han centrado en lo que ella denomina el «abolicionismo de la prisión». Este comprende una triple abolición: la abolición de la pena de muerte; la abolición del complejo industrial-penitenciario, que debe también incluir la abolición de sus componentes militares, como la tortura y el terror, y la abolición de todos los rastros y herencias de la...

A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. Davis. For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, and speeches over the years, showing how her thinking...