"Celebration of the Life of Malcolm X featuring guest lecturer Angela Y. Davis" at Marcus Books in Oakland, California, May 12, 1990. Digital
Davis discusses her undergraduate educational experience, the first time she heard Malcolm X speak, the legacy of Malcolm X, how different political issues are connected, the next generation of activism, sexism, racism, incarceration, and solidarity between the Native American and African American community. Includes audience question and answer session.
Angela Davis speech: "Empowering Women: Challenges and Prospects for the Twenty-First Century" at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February 27, 1993. Digital
Includes conference introductions. Davis discusses initially not identifying as a feminist, women as a biological category, incidents of fighting or violence among people of color, the challenges of organizing along political lines, solidarity across race and gender, women in prison, socialism. Includes audience question and answer session.
Angela Davis speech: "Relationship Among Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights" at National Organization for Women (NOW), Sacramento, conference December 6, 1986. Digital
Davis discusses movement for women's equality, terrorist assaults against abortion clinics; how reproductive rights is related to issues of race, class, and foreign policy; and the dangers of corporate reproductive technologies. She critiques the women's movement's myopic focus on abortion rights without considering issues faced by poor women or women of color such as sterilization.
Angela Davis speech: Black Women Writers and the "High Art" of Afro-American Letters Conference, University of California San Diego, May 15, 1998. Digital
Davis discusses black women writers, reimagining slavery, mass incarceration, black women writers and welfare rights, and Mary Church Terrell. Also includes conference poetry and musical performance .
Angela Davis speech: "Learn to Struggle, Struggle to Learn: From Ethnic Studies to Campus Diversity" at University of California, Berkeley, October, 20, 1988. Digital
Introduction by Palestinian journalist August Zaid. Davis discusses Mary McLeod Bethune, racist violence, racism at universities, the Reagan administration, activism, education, income inequality, South African apartheid, and coalition building.
Angela Davis speech: Syracuse University Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture, "Women, Race, and Class," audience question and answer session, March 24, 1992. Digital
Audience question and answer session after seminar by Angela Davis on "Women, Race, and Class." Angela Davis answers audience questions on race, feminism, and activism.
"Women and Philanthropy Presents: Making the Connections: Women, Poverty, and the Law: #100. Keynote: 'Gender, Race, and Class' - Angela Davis," September 14-16, 2000. Digital
Keynote speech on philanthropy as a mode of solidarity. Davis discusses connections between women's rights, anti-racism, incarceration, and class. Includes audience question and answer session.
Angela Davis speech: "Empowerment 2000: Building Black Leadership for the 21st Century" at Yale University, 2nd Annual Conference on Black Solidarity, November 1-3, 1996. Digital
Includes introduction from Yale Black Student Alliance. Davis discusses the dismantling of affirmative action, immigrant bashing, sexual violence, homophobia, the historical masculinist focus in the black leadership, the Million Man March, conservatism in the black community, Clarence Thomas, the importance of historical memory, and the prison industrial complex. Includes one audience question.
Angela Davis speech: "Learn to Struggle, Struggle to Learn: From Ethnic Studies to Campus Diversity" at University of California, Berkeley, Part II, October 25, 1988. Digital
Continuation of audience question and answer session.
Angela Davis speech: "Women, Race, and Class in the 1990's" at the Midwest Women's Studies Association Conference, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 3, 1989. Digital
Angela Davis speech: "Learn to Struggle, Struggle to Learn: From Ethnic Studies to Campus Diversity" at University of California, Berkeley, Part I, October 25, 1988. Digital
Davis discusses the history of equality in education, political attitudes in the United States, racism on college campuses, the Ronald Reagan administration, hate violence, and fostering diversity on college campuses. Includes audience question and answer session.
Angela Davis speech: Syracuse University Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship Seminar, Session II, "Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?," March 26, 1992. Digital
Davis discusses the importance of solidarity and coalition building among various activist and ethnic groups. Davis also discusses activism and ways to get involved. Includes audience question and answer session.
Angela Davis speech: Syracuse University Jeanette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship Seminar, Session I, "Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?," March 27, 1992. Digital
Additional seminar session. Davis discusses the importance of solidarity and coalition building among various activist and ethnic groups. Davis also discusses activism, ways to get involved, and women in prison. Includes audience question and answer session.