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Activist Angela Davis to Speak at SmithPolitical activist Angela Y. Davis, professor in the history of consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will speak Friday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. in John M. Greene Hall at Smith College. Davis' lecture, "Unlikely Coalitions: Radical Strategies for Anti-Racist Activism," will be the keynote presentation at the Smith School for Social Work's "Deconstructing Oppression Weekend." Davis became politically active growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and later in New York City. She came to national prominence when she was removed from her teaching position in the philosophy department at UCLA because she was a member of the Communist Party. In 1970, she was placed on the F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted list and was the subject of an intense police search that drove her underground and culminated in one of the most controversial trials of the decade; she was acquitted in 1972. During this period, an international "Free Angela Davis" campaign was organized. Harnessing the campaign's momentum, Davis and her colleagues founded the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, which remains active today. During the past 25 years, Davis has lectured in all 50 states and in many other countries. She is the author of five books and holds the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies at Santa Cruz. Her lecture at Smith will examine new forms of racism manifested in prison, welfare and immigration policies with special focus on the intersections of race and gender. She will also address new possibilities of radical activism around issues that cross racial and cultural borders. The "Deconstructing Oppression Weekend" is coordinated by the Smith School for Social Work's Student Organization, the Council for Students of Color and the Anti-Racism Task Force. The Davis lecture is sponsored by funds provided by the Knight Foundation and is open free to the public. It is one of a series of public lectures that will be presented during the summer by the Smith School for Social Work. |
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