As a guest on PBS show Finding Your Roots, Angela Davis — Civil Rights activist, philosopher and author — learned a surprising fact about her ancestry. According to Salon, the former Black ...

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.

Angela Davis shows us why “Finding Your Roots” complicates and strengthens the American story If you only watch the viral clip revealing Davis' link to the Mayflower, you're missing the full story ...

Angela Davis in New York City on February 21, 2023. (Joy Malone / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

Angela Davis admits it took her a long time to feel comfortable seeing photos of herself from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when she was one of the most famous counterculture figures in the world.

Angela Davis was on the run, slipping through cities in wigs and disguises like a drag queen swapping looks between runway ...

Racial activist and former fugitive Angela Davis was shocked to learn she is a Mayflower descendent on Tuesday’s episode of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS.

Political activist Angela Davis has been a truth seeker for her entire career. In a Feb. 21 episode of "Finding Your Roots," Davis learns the truth about some of her family’s lingering mysteries ...

Activists like Angela Davis have spent their entire careers excoriating America’s ancestors for their supposed participation in or benefiting from a system of white supremacy since the first ...

News; Spokane; Upcoming Angela Davis speech at Gonzaga brings controversy to campus Oct. 11, 2017 Updated Wed., Oct. 11, 2017 at 10:40 p.m. Updated Wed., Oct. 11 ...

The new documentary—executive produced by Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jay-Z—Free Angela and All Political Prisoners explores the explosive year Davis spent on trial for murder.