Angela Davis was a Black revolutionary professor when California Gov. Ronald Reagan fired her from UCLA in 1969 — and catapulted her onto the national stage.
The next year, she became the third woman to join the FBI’s Most Wanted List, accused of a plot to free a prisoner she loved. She’s been celebrated in documentaries like “The Black Power Mixtape” and Ava DuVernay’s “13th.” But we think she deserves to be the subject of a “Forrest Gump”-style biopic, one that would sweep from the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of Black Power nationalism.
We discuss why on the latest “Shoot This Now” podcast, available on Apple or Spotify or right here:
Also Read: Puck vs. Pedro: We Tried to Convince 'UnREAL' Star Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman That MTV's 'Real World' Should Be a Ryan Murphy Series (Podcast)
If you’ve never heard of Davis,...
The next year, she became the third woman to join the FBI’s Most Wanted List, accused of a plot to free a prisoner she loved. She’s been celebrated in documentaries like “The Black Power Mixtape” and Ava DuVernay’s “13th.” But we think she deserves to be the subject of a “Forrest Gump”-style biopic, one that would sweep from the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of Black Power nationalism.
We discuss why on the latest “Shoot This Now” podcast, available on Apple or Spotify or right here:
Also Read: Puck vs. Pedro: We Tried to Convince 'UnREAL' Star Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman That MTV's 'Real World' Should Be a Ryan Murphy Series (Podcast)
If you’ve never heard of Davis,...
- 7/3/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
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