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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Angela Davis
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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
Autobiographer
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
Angela Y. Davis
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