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'70s Icon Talks Race, Politics and Obama

Angela Davis has lived to see her own commodification

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 8, 2007 4:00 PM CST

(Newser) – Angela Davis, 1970s black power icon, talks to the Guardian about race, politics and Barack Obama, and muses about being remembered "as a hairdo." Davis on diversity in the Bush administration: "When the inclusion of black people into the machine of oppression...   Read full story »

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