Angela Davis is one of the most prominent communist activists and academics in
the history of the United States. In her April 15 talk at Amherst, however,
Davis shied away from some of the more adversarial ideological stances that make
up the core of her public political identity, including her support of the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS
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), opposition to American imperialism
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