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- In a Women’s History Month special, we speak with author, activist and scholar
Angela Davis. For more than four decades, Davis has been one of most influential
activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970s black
liberation movement, Davis’ work around issues of gender, race, class and
prisons has influenced critical thought and social movements across several
generations. She is a leading advocate for prison abolition, a position informed
by her own experience as a fugitive on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list more
than 40 years ago. Davis talks about the "fascist appeal" of Donald Trump and
explains why she is not officially endorsing any candidate in this election. "I
believe in independent politics," she says. "I still think that we need a new
party, a party that is grounded in labor, a party that can speak to all of the
issues around racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, what is happening in the
world. We don’t yet have that...
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