ANGELA DAVIS SPEAKS AT UW: From a University of Wyoming press release: Longtime political activist Angela Davis will speak during the fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. March and Days of Dialogue Jan. 16-20 at UW in Laramie. Davis's free lecture, "Art, Education, Activism: Beyond Rhetoric to Action," will be Wednesday, Jan. 18, at 7 p.m., in the Wyoming Union Yellowstone Ballroom. Davis has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar and organizer and has published on race, class and gender. She is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1994, she was appointed as the UC Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies. She is a member of the Prison Activist Resource Center advisory board and focuses on exposing racism in the U.S. prison system. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of several books: Angela Davis: An Autobiography; Women, Race, and Class; Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday; and The Angela Y. Davis Reader.

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