The civil rights leader pushed back after a Birmingham group rescinded an award amid criticism over Professor Davis’s support of the movement to boycott Israel.

University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Emerita Angela Davis has been honored with the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her influence on architectural culture.

Activist, professor and author Angela Davis sits down with Lilia Luciano to discuss how she has advocated against oppression, white supremacy and police violence for more than five decades. Also ...

When high school students in Rockland County, New York, invited renowned activist and professor Angela Davis to speak, the event got shut down in two different venues over protests that she was ...

Dr. Angela Davis — a current professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, author and social justice activist — speaks at one of three events for the 23rd annual Dr. William G ...

Risking his job, Chancellor Young backed up his professors, calling the Angela Davis case “a problem of the greatest gravity—perhaps the most serious yet in a series of difficulties which have ...

The life and social activist legacy of Angela Davis, an international icon of resistance, is explored in a new exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California.

Appearance of famed political activist, scholar and author reflects the department’s progress toward becoming ‘go-to place’ of interdisciplinary work at the nexus of humans and the environment, CU ...

Davis has been a polarizing figure in American politics. Some students on the campus of UCLA took offense to this banner featuring former professor and avowed communist Angela Davis.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Angela Davis, political activist and professor emerita of history and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, gave a series of lectures on abolition ...

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.

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.