In my today's newspaper:
Political activist to speak at ASU
November 17, 2008
Angela Davis, an American political activist and college professor who helped found the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, will be the guest speaker for this year's Ralph D. Abernathy Civil Rights Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at the ASU Acadome.
The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at ASU will host the lecture series. This year's theme is "The Legacy of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Black Activist Movement."
Davis is an American political activist and university professor who is often associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panthers Party for Self Defense, and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was an activist during the civil rights movement and joined the Communist Party USA when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. She ran for U.S. vice president on the Communist Party ticket in 1980.
The event is free and open to the public.
-- Staff report
Political activist to speak at ASU
November 17, 2008
Angela Davis, an American political activist and college professor who helped found the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, will be the guest speaker for this year's Ralph D. Abernathy Civil Rights Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at the ASU Acadome.
The National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture at ASU will host the lecture series. This year's theme is "The Legacy of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Black Activist Movement."
Davis is an American political activist and university professor who is often associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panthers Party for Self Defense, and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was an activist during the civil rights movement and joined the Communist Party USA when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. She ran for U.S. vice president on the Communist Party ticket in 1980.
The event is free and open to the public.
-- Staff report