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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Angela Davis, author, educator and iconic civil rights activist, speaks during her visit to the University of Michigan-Flint, where she spoke at a question and answer gathering and separate ...

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced this morning that it has re-invited controversial activist Angela Davis and again named her the recipient of its highest award. Davis has not yet ...

With the prison industrial complex, racism, police brutality, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination, and more on the table, Angela Davis didn't leave any activist's stone unturned during her ...

W hen the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute first announced that it was giving its annual human-rights award to Angela Davis, the honor attracted little attention. Academia and the mainstream ...

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute planned to honor the activist at a February event. It now says her statements and public record do not "meet all of the criteria on which the award is based." ...

On Jan. 4, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute released a weirdly nonspecific statement canceling its plans to bestow the institute’s highest honor upon Angela Davis, a Birmingham, Alabama ...

ANDREA TAYLOR: I think the record has been pretty clear and pretty thorough that the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute selected Dr. Angela Davis as the recipient for the 2018 award, the Fred ...