YWCA Racial Justice Summit: Dr. Angela Davis – Institutional Racism in the Penal and Criminal Justice System

Published: Oct. 6, 2011, 9:15 p.m.

Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Dr. Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. In recent years a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination.