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Tag: Angela Davis
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Rapper Vic Mensa: Chicago’s newest Black Panther?
At this past weekend’s “anti-bait-truck” shoe giveaway, the 25-year-old rapper declared himself a revolutionary.
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Mountains That Take Wing pays tribute to the women of radical U.S. history
This documentary about legendary activists Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama screens tomorrow night at Chicago Filmmakers.
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Watch Angela Davis’s entire postelection lecture at the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel
The onetime Black Panther leader urged the audience embrace grassroots political organizing in the face of the impending Trump presidency.
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Advice from Angela Davis in the aftermath of the election
“We will have to struggle over the coming period as we have never struggled before,” said the famed radical feminist. “Freedom is a constant struggle.”
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#SayTheirNames: a dance performance draws connections between Sandra Bland and two black women activists
Vershawn Ward of Red Clay Dance performs #SayHerName at Links Hall as part of a solo program titled “The Body Wails, the Body Restores.”
Posted inNews & Politics
Abolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds.
Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.
Posted inArts & Culture
Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis walk into a brasserie . . .
Dreaming in French and French Lessons author Alice Kaplan speaks at the Blackstone branch library.
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The world according to Vaginal Davis
Queercore luminary and “terrorist drag” proponent Vaginal Davis speaks at the Art Institute.