Angela Davis on Violence, Protest and “Defending Gains of the People” – Black Journal

In this 1972 clip, Angela Davis makes her first national television appearance following her acquittal on charges of kidnapping, murder and conspiracy after the San Rafael courtroom shootout. In this exclusive interview with Black Journal host and producer Tony Brown, Davis contextualizes violence during a revolution and asserts the right to defend the “gains of the people.”

Black Journal is the first nationally televised public affairs program produced for, about, and by Black Americans. Topics addressed by the series include the Black Power Movement, Black nationalism, the “Black is beautiful” movement, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, the African diaspora, the Black student movement, Pan-Africanism, the media’s representation of Black people and more. Black Journal was produced first by National Educational Television (NET), the precursor to PBS, and later by WNET in New York.

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