Angela Davis leads off UH lecture series Feb. 12 African American series will also bring Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker to UH Angela Davis, the internationally known social and political activist who is now a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will speak Thursday, Feb. 12, in the Campus Center Ballroom at UH Manoa.
Admission is free.
Davis is the first guest in an African American Curriculum Series, supported in part by a diversity grant from the UH President's office. The series, which begins during Black History Month and ends in Women's History Month, will also bring authors Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker to the UH Manoa campus. Plans for the lecture series are managed by UH Civil Rights Counselor Jill Nunokawa. In addition to the Center for Hawaiian Studies and the African American Curriculum Task Force, co-sponsors for Davis's talk include the Associated Students of UH, the President's Committee on Diversity and Equity, the Campus Center Activities Council Culture Committee, the Student Activity and Program Fee Board and Kalai Po. Angela Davis's interest in prisoners' rights dates back to her involvement in the campaign to free the Soledad Brothers, African American prisoners held in California's Soledad Prison in the late 1960s.