Celebrating Angela Davis on her 77th Birthday
Today, the 26th of January 2021, is the 77th birthday of a woman who inspires me and millions alike all around the World. Her name is Angela Davis. Angela Davis was born on the 26th of January 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama to an African - American family. Her home was within a neighborhood nicknamed 'dynamite hill' after several houses were bombed in an attempt to drive out African-American families of middle class backgrounds out by the KKK. As a teen, Angela (like most African-American teens) was exposed to life as a black person in the USA. She attended Carrie A. Tuggie School, which was segregated at the time and later moved up to Park Annex. Her mother, Sallye Bell Davis, was very much involved in communism and similar sorts working as a national officer and an organiser of the Southern Negro Youth Congress (which was influenced by the communist party and resolved to help black youth in the south form alliances). As a result, Angela practically grew up around 'radical...