Inspired by a private archive and featuring contemporary work by
artists who acknowledge the continued relevance of Angela Davis’s
experience and politics, the essays, interviews, and images in this
book provide a compelling and layered narrative of her journey
through the junctures of race, gender, economic, and political
policy. Beginning in 1970 with her arrest in connection with a
courtroom shootout, then moving through her trial and acquittal, the
book traces Davis’s life and work during the subsequent decades and
her influential career as a public intellectual. Profusely
illustrated with materials found in the archive, including press
coverage, photographs, court sketches, videos, music, writings,
correspondence, and Davis’s political writings, the book also
features interviews with Angela Davis and Lisbet Tellefsen, the
archivist who collected those materials, as well as essays that touch
on visibility and invisibility, history, memory, and the iconography
of black radical feminism.