Angela Davis

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an African-American left-wing political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the 1960s working with the Communist Party USA, of which she was a member until 1991, and was briefly involved with the Black Panthers. She is a professor emerita at University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History Department. She is also a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.