Day: February 20, 2020

Last night, Angela Davis lectured at Whitman College’s Power & Privilege Symposium.  She spoke of social justice, her own prison history and briefly mentioned He Whose Name Shall Not Be Uttered.  The audience, largely appearing to be students with a few grayhairs here and there, jam-packed this, the largest auditorium on campus.  Angela Davis, a late 60s-early 70s hero, still has an inspiring and trenchant message.  Of course, photography (or any recording) was forbidden.

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For any youngsters who may not know of Angela, here’s some starter background.  And there’s a ton more on YouTube and elsewhere on the interwebs, like this. And this.

Finally, a found early photograph, circa 1970:

 

More to come on HHR …