(Carson, Calif.) Angela Y. Davis, an award-winning scholar and author on race, feminism, and prison industrialization, will be the featured speaker during the Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series on Monday, Feb. 11, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Torodome Gymnasium at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH).
What: Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Angela Davis
When: Monday, Feb. 11, 4 to 6 p.m.
Where: Torodome Gymnasium at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Information: The lecture is FREE. Davis’ books will be for sale during the lecture. For more information contact the Dymally Institute at (310) 243-2659.
Titled “A New Generation Finding its Voice,” the Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series is hosted in celebration of Black History Month by CSUDH’s Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political & Economic Institute in association with the university’s Africana Studies Program and Associated Students, Inc.
Davis is a leading voice in the activism and academic discourse around geopolitical injustice, who for half century has been at the center of America’s cultural and intellectual transformation. She has worked as a professor and activist who advocates gender equity, prison reform, and alliances across color lines.
Davis is the author of several books, most recently Freedom Is A Constant Struggle (2015), and The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (2012). Both books will be for sale at the lecture.
The Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political & Economic Institute is a non-partisan public engagement think tank founded to study and research African American leadership, public policy impacting African American communities, and to prepare future generations for public service.