Longtime civil rights activist and former University of California professor Angela Davis joined Jackson State University Professor Ebony Lumumba for a conversation at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, on Jan. 28. She spoke about growing up in Alabama during the Jim Crow era and connected the struggles of the past to the present, but told the audience that as the world changes, “new strategies are needed.”
Davis, a well-known activist in the 1960s and 1970s who was part of the Black Panther Party, urged the audience to “create significance” in their lives by focusing beyond themselves and “becoming much larger than we are.”…