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 Panther ...

Angela Davis was on the run, slipping through cities in wigs and disguises like a drag queen swapping looks between runway walks. Her face was plastered on wanted posters across the country as the FBI ...

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. Davis is notorious for working with the ...

A theater is full of students ignoring smartphones. They're all paying attention to one voice. "It's never been easier to access information with those computers you have in your hands," Angela Davis, ...

New truths were revealed about the family of this Black Power movement leader. In a Feb. 21 episode of Finding Your Roots, civil rights activist Angela Davis discovered that she is descended from a ...

After more than 50 years, Angela Davis is still instantly recognizable worldwide as the face of revolution. But at the age of 78, she has come to terms with her image. Asked to comment on her likeness ...

Civil rights activist Angela Davis is returning an award from the City of Atlanta in protest of the city’s plans to build the $90-million public safety training center in DeKalb County. Davis traveled ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - Students from two high schools invited well-known Bay Area political activist Angela Davis to speak about her decades of experience fighting against racism and other causes. The ...

Angela Davis' great-grandfather marks her family's transition from slavery to freedom. Angela Davis' great-grandfather, Isom, not only marks her family's transition from slavery to freedom, he's also ...

After Friday's arrests of 40 protestors, over half of whom were students, a cold and wet weekend and a visit from civil rights icon Angela Davis on Saturday, the encampment on the lawn of the Tivoli ...

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. Davis is notorious for working with the ...