Activist Angela Davis To Be Honored By The Brooklyn Museum
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Activist for social justice and Professor Emerita at U.C. Santa Cruz, Angela Y. Davis, will be honored at the Sackler Center First Awards at the Brooklyn Museum.
The annual Sackler Center First Awards celebrates women who have broken gender barriers and made remarkable contributions in their fields. The 2016 award will be presented to Davis by Brooklyn Museum Board Chair and founder of the awards, Elizabeth A. Sackler. The awards ceremony will include remarks by New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray, as well as a conversation between Davis and celebrated feminist Gloria Steinem, followed by a reception and seated dinner.
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“Throughout the past five decades, Angela Davis has been an outspoken advocate for economic, racial, and gender equity,” says Elizabeth A. Sackler. “Angela is a force of nature whose extraordinary work against oppression has been constant and true. I am thrilled to honor her with the Sackler Center First Awards this year–a year ripe with active dialogue and vocal calls for justice and personal freedom.”
Davis’ political activism began when she was a youngster in Birmingham, Alabama though it was not until 1969 that she came to national attention after being removed from her teaching position in the Philosophy Department at UCLA as a result of her social activism and her membership in the Communist Party USA. In 1970, she was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list on false charges, and was the subject of an intense police search that drove her underground and culminated in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. During her sixteen-month incarceration, a massive international “Free Angela Davis” campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in 1972.
Professor Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat oppression in the United States and abroad. A Sorbonne-educated scholar and college professor, Davis remains an iconic figure to this day, as a living witness to the historic struggles of the modern era and a vocal champion, in the fight for economic, racial, and gender justice.
Members from Black Lives Matter, Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, Bard Prison Initiative, College and Community Fellowship and Women’s Prison Association are all expected to attend.
The awards ceremony and dinner reception will take place at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, June 2, from 6 to 9 pm.
