Psychiatric Abuse & Mass Incarceration:
The Connection

Angela Davis has been a central figure in much of this research and continues to speak on these subjects today, sharing a vision to reimagine many of the systems that perpetuate inequities against Black people.

Davis is a scholar, activist, and international symbol of resistance. Growing up in Birmingham’s Dynamite Hill, where Black homes were bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, she was shaped by the fight for civil rights from an early age. After engaging with the Black Panther Party, frustration around gender divisions within the movement encouraged her to devote more time and energy as a leader in an all-Black branch of the Communist Party, advocating for both racial and gender equality. Despite facing political persecution, including wrongful imprisonment, she remained unwavering in her activism. She later became a professor and prolific author, dedicated to exposing and dismantling systemic oppression.