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Angela Davis Speech: Visual Performance Arts Center
Nikko Mahatyanto
ECON 1
Reflection Angela Davis Speech
April 23st, 2015

On last Thursday, I went to the Visual Performance Arts Center (VPAC) for the first time since 1 and half year I’m here in De Anza, and listened to a special guest’s speech named Angela Davis. At the first time I heard we’re going to hear her speech, I was excited because I know she was one of the most influential activist, especially here in California.
Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, although she was never a party

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