Angela Davis in Atlanta – Two Events this week

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: Ebenezer Baptist Church

407 Auburn Avenue Atlanta, GA

Free and Open to the Public

Then, Wednesday am join Ms. Davis and SPARK! Reproductive Justice NOW as they lobby at the capitol. Then they will head across the street to meet with legislators.

When: Wednesday March 25th

Where: Trinity Methodist Church

265 Washington Street Atlanta GA

Time: 9:00 am.

The civil rights and women’s rights icon Angela Davis will speak about women, privilege, and prisons in honor of Emory University Women’s History Month and in conjunction with the Atlanta Consortium of Colleges and Universities. This event is free and open to the public, and a book signing will follow the lecture.

Davis’s talk is also the culminating event of the series “Motherhood at the Intersection of Race and Class,” which opened in January with two traveling art exhibitions by historian and curator Rickie Solinger.

Presented by the Center for Women at Emory and the Emory Department of Women’s Studies. Cosponsored by the Jessica Glasser Memorial Lecture Fund, Ali P. Crown Endowment on Women’s Roles in Culture and Society, SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW, Atlanta Consortium of Colleges and Universities, and the following from Emory: Hightower Lecture Fund, Race and Difference Initiative, the Office of Community and Diversity, the Law School, The Presidents Commission on the Status of Women, Feminists in Action, and Emory Alumnae and Women of Emory.

For more information on this event, go to www.womenscenter.emory.edu or contact Sasha Smith, 404.727.2001.

Davis’s long-standing commitment to prisoners rights dates back to her involvement in the campaign to free the Soledad Brothers, which led to her own arrest and imprisonment in 1970. Her eighteen months in jail sparked an international “Free Angela Davis” campaign, and both John Lennon and the Rolling Stones recorded songs protesting her arrest. She was acquitted in 1972.