Angela Davis – The Death Penalty: Dialectics of Innocence

Throughout her career, Angela Davis has been not only an inspiring activist but a daring thinker. In 2003, she published a book that boldly asked the question, “Are prisons obsolete?” a question so important that it became the title of the book. This question is part of a relatively new and rapidly growing campaign that seeks not to reform prisons, but to abolish them. In April 2003, she was generous enough to bring her thoughtful analysis of this campaign to Barnard for a lecture co-sponsored by Africana Studies and the Center for Research on Women.

This video is included in The Scholar & Feminist Online, issue 5.3, “Women, Prisons, and Change.”