Angela Y. Davis

Angela Y. Davis is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author who has been at the forefront of movements for racial justice, prison abolition, and social change for over fifty years. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1944, she is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises continues her lifelong work arguing for the abolition of the prison-industrial complex and its replacement with systems of restorative justice. Her earlier works include Women, Race & Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? Davis has been one of the most influential radical thinkers in American history. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers foundational radical political thought from one of America's most important activist intellectuals.