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February 7, 2008

Social activist Angela Davis comes to Brown

Social activist, former face on the FBI Most Wanted list, and professor Angela Davis is coming to Rhode Island.

She is scheduled to deliver the Brown University Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at 4 p.m. today.

Davis has spent the past 15 years at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where she is a professor of history of consciousness, an interdisciplinary doctoral program.

The author of eight books, Davis has studied, taught and lectured around the world. An active radical in the 1960s and 1970s, Davis spent 18 months in jail, and on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List

She was charged and acquitted in connection with a kidnapping and shooting in a California courthouse.

Davis has spent much of her time since bringing attention to the condition of prisons and is known for her activism and scholarship relating to what she has called the “prison industrial complex,” and called for the abolition of prisons.

Her lecture, “Recognizing Racism in the Era of Neo-Liberalism,” is free and open to the public in room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching, on the University's Main Green.

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