A Jan. 10 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article by Janel Davis opened with this benign sentence: “Noted scholar, author and veteran civil rights activist Angela Davis will deliver the keynote address Jan. 18 at Kennesaw State University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance.”

The reporter blandly went on to write: “Davis is the Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught for 15 years. Davis has written nine books, and is a scholar on issues related to race, gender and imprisonment.” The rest of Davis’ extremely newsworthy biography, however, was never reported in the article.

Davis is an unrepentant member of the Black Panther Party and the U.S. Communist Party, and even was the Communist vice presidential candidate in 1980 and 1984. When hired as a teacher by the University of California at Los Angeles in 1969, the California Board of Regents tried to remove her. However, the board later caved to pressure and kept her on, even though she openly taught Communist philosophy and advocated violence. The Santa Monica Evening Outlook reported at the time that Davis told an American Civil Liberties Union meeting that she “believes in the violent overthrow of America’s government.”

After that episode, her Black Panther activities in the early 1970s led to her being charged with murder. She was accused by 20 witnesses of plotting with cronies to hijack a courtroom and take the judge hostage in an effort to free from jail her Black Panther boyfriend. Unfortunately, during a gun battle outside the courtroom, the judge’s head was blown off by a shotgun owned by Davis. It all helped her make the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list, although Davis was amazingly acquitted of the murder charge. (Space does not permit a more in-depth chronicle of that episode as well as her other revolutionary activities. Perhaps the AJC will publish a follow up story based on our initial InsiderAdvantage research.)

The Jan. 18 taxpayer-supported event where Davis is scheduled to be the keynote speaker is sponsored by the Kennesaw State African-American Student Alliance.

Here is part of her bio from the noted reference source on leftists Discover the Networks:

“In 1968, as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague spring,” Davis joined the Communist Party, voicing her belief that “the only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”

“In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking hostage the judge.”

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