Angela Davis: Rescinding of Civil Rights Award Is Attack on “the Indivisibility of Justice” After an outcry from some Jewish groups over her support for Palestinian justice, Davis saw a ...

Civil Rights Award Rescinded From Angela Davis After Jewish Community Objections The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute planned to honor the activist at a February event. It now says her statements ...

Angela Davis, the activist and scholar, said this week that she was “stunned” after a civil rights group in her native Birmingham, Ala., reversed its decision to honor her with an award amid ...

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has decided not to honor civil rights icon Angela Davis with its human rights awards after complaints poured in asking the organization to reconsider its ...

Civil rights activist Angela Davis spoke to a crowd of about 900 at Pacific University Friday night, focusing her talk on significant historical events before reinforcing that there is more work ...

Angela Davis’ homecoming was perfect.The freedom fighter and civil rights icon was supposed to return to her beloved hometown to accept the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award, the Birmingham ...

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute today issued an apology for its handling of the withdrawal of its top award for controversial activist Angela Davis. “Each member of the Board of the ...

It has been nearly two weeks since the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute walked back its decision to honor renowned scholar, civil-rights activist, and Birmingham, Alabama, native Angela Davis ...

After the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute rescinded an invitation to honor activist Angela Davis with its human rights award, the 74-year-old scholar expressed her disappointment saying she was ...

In February, Angela Davis returned to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. She originally planned the visit to receive the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights ...

Birmingham native and civil rights activist Angela Davis, known as a part of the Black Power movement of the early 1970s, was shocked to learn that she is descended from a passenger on the ...

On Tuesday’s episode of “Finding Your Roots,” civil rights activist Angela Davis learned a series of surprising facts about her ancestral history, but one revelation left her outright shocked.