Video: Angela Davis speaks at event commemorating 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death

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Watch video of Angela Davis, professor of history of consciousness and feminist studies at the University of California Santa Cruz, discussing : "We are Not Now Living the Dream: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Human Rights in the 21st Century" at the Vanderbilt University Law School.

Davis, the Rev. James Lawson, Houston Baker, Richard King, Bob Moses and Ruth Turner Perot were among the scholars and civil rights activists participating in Vanderbilt University’s “We Speak for Ourselves: A Poet, a Prophet and Voices for the 21st Century” conference on April 4, presented by Vanderbilt’s Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

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