Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis grew up not knowing her maternal grandparents since her mother had grown up in a foster home, so she was eager to see if host Henry Louis Gates Jr. could solve ...

Angela Davis admits it took her a long time to feel comfortable seeing photos of herself from the ... Born to activist parents in 1944, she grew up in a time and place where, she said, Black ...

Davis’ 10th great-grandfather, tracing back through her father’s white father, Murphy Jones, was William Brewster, born in England in about 1570, Gates said.

Still in disbelief, Gates then revealed her 10th great-grandfather to be a man name William Brewster, an English-born decedent from Davis’ father’s side. Per Gates, Brewster was one of the ...

Angela Davis, the Birmingham-born revolutionary who helped inspire today’s abolition movement, is celebrating her birthday today, Jan. 26!. Besides being renowned for her critique of the prison ...

Political activist Angela Davis has been a truth seeker for her entire career. In a Feb. 21 episode of "Finding Your Roots," Davis learns the truth about some of her family’s lingering mysteries.” ...

Activist Lives: Angela Davis Born in 1944, she is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author of more than ten books on class, gender, race, and the U.S. prison system.

Davis was born on Jan. 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama. She was an active member in the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party and a prominent figure during the civil rights movement.

In a Feb. 21 episode of Finding Your Roots, civil rights activist Angela Davis ... a Black man named Isom Spencer, was born a slave in 1824 on a Marengo County cotton plantation.

Angela Davis, an educator and ... Born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, Davis became involved in activism and knew several of the four girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist ...

Activist Angela Davis turns 80 and actor Joseph Quinn turns 30, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 26. ... born Mercedes Justine Kaestner-Varnado, in 1992 (age 32)-- Actor Joseph Quinn in 1994 ...