Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists and Thinkers

(Runtime: 1:13:24, published June 17, 2021)
An interview/question and answer session with Angela Davis and Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro. While answering the questions, Davis discusses types of work she does and doing what happens to get the job done, the need to see interrelational forms of violence and Davis's rejection of the use of violence to solve another issue of violence. With questions from students, she talks about past successful change and future radical possibilities, distortion in the terms and frameworks, advice for students, international solidarity as a route to imagining a world without nation states, "collective nature of our pursuits," and her view on the necessity of art.

(Runtime: 1:42:39, published September 6, 2018)
An interview with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott at the University of Houston in which privilege, racism, and individual versus systemic change are discussed.

A search on the Democracy Now YouTube channel for Angela Davis.

A text transcript of an interview of Angela Davis in spring of 1997. The interview focuses on the evolution of politics at the time of interviewing, the fight of economic justice for Black people, and on the path Davis has traveled in her career and organizing work.

(Runtime: 32:56, published March 18, 2014)
A speech given by Angela Davis at UCLA just a week after she was fired from her position at the university. Speaking of the Board of Regents who fired her and the use of knowledge and education she said "[the Board] intend to keep the knowledge developed in the university in the service of the prevailing oppression." In the speech she discusses her motives for keeping political opinions in the classroom, broader societal critique and basic material problems faced by Black people and other people of color. She finishes the speech with a note about a growing extremism in the repression she saw across the country and a plea for a serious fight against fascism.

The archive of Angela Davis's appearances on C-SPAN. There are 12 videos available.

A playlist on the YouTube channel "AfroMarxist" of interviews, panels, and speeches involving Angela Davis. There are 108 videos in the playlist, most being under 10 minutes (some are stand alone and some are parts of a bigger recording).

(Runtime: 59:10, originally given on October 10, 2006)
In this talk on strategies for change Angela Davis reflects on how to use knowledge in a transformative way and the false nature heroic individualism in movements of change (using the Montgomery Bus Boycott as an example). She also critiques diversity as a false end goal which distracts from other measures of equity and justice, state appropriation of ideas and concepts, and the Bush administration.

A collection of materials related to the campaign to free Angela Davis from prison in the early 1970's which includes a copy of Davis’s article, Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves, posters and flyers related to events. All of the materials available in the collection are digitized and available at this link.

The finding aid for a major collection of "writings, correspondence, speeches, and subject files of black feminist philosopher and prison abolitionist Angela Y. Davis." (Overview). A portion of the collection (300+ titles) is digitized and available through this website.

"Record Series 815 contains records and clippings collected by UCLA University Archives on the subject of Angela Davis, her dismissal from UCLA, and criminal trial. " (Abstract). None of the materials are digitized.

"The records of the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis consists overwhelmingly of support letters...and also contains some of the organization's administrative records, publications and correspondence." (Summary). None of the materials are digitized.