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BELLEFONTE — During this week’s Centre County Board of Commissioners meeting, the commissioners proclaimed April 14-21 as Justice Education Week in the coun

The Restorative Justice Initiative at Penn State hosted political activist and scholar Angela Davis as the keynote speaker to kick off its Justice Education Week program. Davis is a civil rights advocate, author and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The event was moderated by Kathryn Belle, Efrain Marimon and Divine Lipscomb. The moderators guided Davis' talk by asking questions from the Zoom chat and previously submitted questions. Davis discussed issues within the United States' prison institution regarding race, class, feminism and systemic oppression. She spoke about ...

Political activist Dr. Angela Davis spoke to Penn State students, faculty, and staff Monday night about a variety of topics, including mass incarceration and how to be a better ally. The Q&A session was the first of many events sponsored by the Restorative Justice Initiative in its Davis has spent her whole life fighting the injustice of racism and the systems that have created and fostered it. In the early 70s, she was a member of the Black Panther Party and an all-Black branch of the Communist Party. Her connection to communism led to her being fired by UCLA, but she was able to fight to ...