On this day, 13 October 1970, legendary Black communist Angela Davis was arrested by the FBI in New York City, aged 26. She had fled California after a warrant for her arrest was issued in August in connection with an attempted jailbreak. Notorious FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had listed Davis on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List, and with her arrest President Richard Nixon congratulated the FBI on its “capture of the dangerous terrorist.” In a sensational trial, Davis was subsequently acquitted of all charges.
This is a great collection of Davis’s writings about her imprisonment, trial, and the criminal justice system: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/if-they-come-in-the-morning-angela-davishttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1553484834836661/?type=3
Highly recommend this timely retrospective of one of the most vital and important drama strands in all of TV history. Celebrates everything that was groundbreaking and challenging about the Play for Today anthology, but doesn’t pull its punches on valid criticism either - particularly in the failure of the series to amplify marginalised voices (less than 1% of the plays were helmed by BAME directors, with women creators similarly under represented).
The BFI are planning to release a boxset collecting together seven of the plays, newly restored and with a wealth of special features. Hopefully the first volume of many.
Renowned Egyptologist Dr Chris Naunton explains what Egyptology has taught us about the ancient past, but also how its darker, colonialist side might help us to do things differently in the future.
This event is FREE but you do need to register in advance!
