{"id":18240,"date":"2025-09-25T10:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/studentaffairs\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=18240"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:54:15","slug":"distinguished-lecture-series-angela-davis","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/studentaffairs\/event\/distinguished-lecture-series-angela-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Lecture Series Presents: Angela Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW112614907 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW112614907 BCX0\">Join us for an evening with <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW112614907 BCX0\">Professor<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW112614907 BCX0\"> Angela Davis\u2014scholar, activist, writer, and one of the most influential voices in the global struggle for justice. 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This special event will feature a moderated conversation with Dr. Derrick Harriell, offering powerful dialogue and reflection on building a more just world.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW112614907 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an evening with Professor Angela Davis\u2014scholar, activist, writer, and one of the most influential voices in the global struggle for justice. Her work examines the intersections of race, gender, and class, with a particular focus on prisons, policing, and abolition. Author of numerous groundbreaking books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, and co-author of Abolition.Feminism.Now., Professor Davis continues to challenge us to imagine new futures beyond the prison industrial complex. 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