Angela Davis fights on

[seemslikeadream]

By Nneka Onyilofor


Most of us can remember her round afro and fist in the air during the 1960's. Others, who were not born until years later, can recall hearing her name several times during discussions about the Black Panther Party or African American women activists. Some may have read her books, essays, or heard her give a speech before. However, not everyone gets the opportunity to be in the presence of international revolutionary Angela Yvonne Davis.

Omd of our nation's most profound and powerful actrivists, and at one time one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted, addressed an eager crowd at the City Center's Marriott Hotel on Friday, September17.

Although the event started at 7pm, many people arrived early enough to stand in line to see Davis, who traveled across the country from Santa Cruz, California, to give a lecture titled "Education, Not Incarcenation: Protecting the Future of Black America." The speech concluded this year's NOMMO Forum series, sponsored by the Givens Foundation for Afican American Literature.

After an informative introduction, a well-deserved standing ovation welcomed Ms. Davis on stage. Davis, who has been fighting with words for over 40 years, proved that evening that there are many things worht fighting for nonviolently, such as a better education system.

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Although Davis just celebrated her 60th birthday, she said she never could have foreseen the condition of African America today, when people of color comprise the majority of more than two million incarceration rates. "If they (youths) don't get education, they get incarceration," she said.


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[Tansy_Gold]

1. Thanks for posting this

Davis is one of the most brilliant and persistent voices on the planet, who has never received the recognition she's deserved -- only the often undeserved notoriety.

[Hand]

2. A friend's daughter is a student of hers...

Davis is her Ph.D adviser. She says Davis is "Black, brilliant, and BEAUTIFUL!"

:toast:

[H2O Man]

3. Angela came to Wounded Knee years ago.

And I saw her in Oneonta in the early 90s. Great lady.

[Barkley]

4. Justice of "Just Us"

California’s Crisis of Black Incarceration, Census Shows
by Seth Sandronsky

On April 1, 2000, nearly one in 33 California blacks was behind bars, recent census figures reveal. At the same time, one of every 205 whites and one in 122 Latinos were held in the state’s jails and prisons.

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0811-03.htm

[Barkley]

5. Prison Spending and California's Budget Crisis

California has spent $4.2 billion on new prisons in the past 15 years. Since 1980, the state has built 23 new prisons, but only one new university. As a result, California ranks No. 1 in the nation in prison spending but 41st in education spending. Lockups have displaced dams, roads and schools as the state's new public works program. And history teaches us, if you build them, you fill them.


California Prison Expansion Senseless
http://www.alternet.org/story/9439/
By Rose Braz, AlterNet. Posted July 11, 2000.