Advice from #Angela_Davis in the aftermath of the election | Bleader
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Some 1,600 people packed the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel Wednesday evening to hear a lecture by legendary radical feminist and academic Angela Davis. The one-time Black Panther leader urged the rapt audience to move beyond mourning and embrace grassroots political organizing in the face of the impending presidency of Donald Trump.
Seventy-two-year-old Davis looked regal, her grey-gold Afro in a halo around her face, her gap-toothed smile and lilting voice as captivating as it was 50 years ago. She was depicted in the media as a dangerous terrorist then. In the early 70s she was placed on the FBI’s most wanted list, then tried and acquitted on charges of being an accomplice to the killing of a California judge (charges widely seen as then-governor Ronald Reagan’s retribution for her radical activism). Today, the University of California Santa Cruz professor emerita is still an icon, regularly publishing influential feminist and anti-capitalists treatises and lecturing widely around the country.