Angela Davis is a life-long, radical-left activist and academic. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and twice served as its vice-presidential candidate. She retired from academia in 2008 and has since been a full-time author and activist ever since.
Davis first became involved in far-left activism in high school and eagerly explored numerous radical-left organizations in college, including the Communist Party and the Black Panthers, while studying under famed critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. She was fired from her first academic job for her communist affiliation, and soon after became embroiled in a jailbreak plot connected to the Black Panthers that resulted in her imprisonment for over a year. Davis became a world-famous figure due to popular sympathy and was used by the Soviet Union as a propaganda figure both domestically and internationally. After her release, Davis became a career activist who frequently traveled to communist countries to support their regimes, while continuing her academic career in the United States. 1
In the 2020 presidential election, Davis endorsed President Joe Biden for being more easily “pressured” by the extreme left than former President Donald Trump. 20 That same year, Davis traveled to East Germany, where she received an honorary degree from the University of Leipzig and visited a monument to a Berlin Wall border guard who was killed while trying to prevent a family from leaving the Communist state to enter West Germany. In a speech given at the memorial, Davis encouraged people to “mourn the deaths of the border guards who sacrificed their lives for the protection of their socialist homeland.” 1
In 1977, Davis spoke by radio to the people of Jonestown, the left-wing cult compound run by Jim Jones. 23 0){
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