Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Rescinds Invitation to Honor Angela Davis Over Palestine Support
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Activist, poet, academic and writer Angela Davis says she was “stunned” to learn last Saturday that the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute had rescinded its invitation to honor her next month, in her hometown, with the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Award for Human Rights...
After informing her of its decision, the BCRI board of directors, Davis added, “refused my requests to reveal the substantive reasons for this action.”
She later learned, however, that “my long-term support of justice for Palestine was at issue...
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