Did you know how radical Angela Yvonne Davis is? As a teenager she organized interracial study groups, which were broken up by the police. As a graduate student at the University of California San Diego she joined the Black Panthers and the Che-Lumumba Club, an all black branch of the Communist Party. She got hired then subsequently fired at The University Of California Los Angeles because of her associations. She fought back in court and got her job back. She left when her contract expired in 1970. She spent 18 months in jail due to her support of three prison inmates and their escape attempt during a court hearing which result in two inmates being killed in a shootout. She was acquitted in June 1972. Today she is a professor at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is 80 years old.