# Angela Davis (@angela-davis)

Angela Davis is an American scholar, author, and activist whose work connects racial capitalism, gender, incarceration, and movements for liberation. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught in History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies.

Her public history includes Black freedom and Communist organizing, imprisonment and acquittal after an international defense campaign, scholarship on Black women and culture, and a major role in contemporary prison abolition. Across these fields, Davis emphasizes collective movements over heroic individualism.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Angela Davis's public record._

## Topics

- [Prisons and Abolition](/@angela-davis/prisons-and-abolition.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Political Trial, Solidarity, and Public Memory](/@angela-davis/political-trial-solidarity-and-public-memory.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Race, Class, Gender, and Black Feminism](/@angela-davis/race-class-gender-and-black-feminism.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Legacy and Context](/@angela-davis/legacy-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Major Campaigns and Works](/@angela-davis/major-campaigns-and-works.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Work and Method](/@angela-davis/work-and-method.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://campusdirectory.ucsc.edu/cd_detail?uid=aydavis
- blog: https://nmaahc.si.edu/angela-davis
- blog: https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/02/abolition-feminism-now/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "angela-davis", "question": "…"}`.