January 26, 1944: Happy birthday to a legend of radical political activism, Angela Y. Davis, longtime champion of social justice, racial justice, feminism, and socialism (among other causes) and one of the loudest and most incisive critics of the American prison-industrial complex of our time.
Alongside Dolores Huerta and Gloria Steinem among others, she recently served as honorary co-chair of the national Women’s March and spoke at the event in Washington, D.C. She was also featured in Ava Duvernay’s 2016 documentary 13th, which draws stark lines between the historical legacy of American slavery and the country’s present-day system of mass incarceration and prison labor.