"To understand recent responses to police violence against people of color, one must take a global and historical viewThe problem requires a broad approach, not confined to just the punishment of individuals, she said. Racism is not the product of an individual decision, but is produced by factors such as the war on terror and the militarization of the police, “Especially when you consider the fact that the majority of people in prison are there because society has failed them, because they have no access to education, to jobs, to housing, to health care”  Dr. Angela Davis

Dr Davis the UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor spoke  at the Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium on “Racism, Militarism, Poverty: From Ferguson to Palestine,” Davis’s talk drew connections between King’s work and uprisings today, in response to recent police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York.

This program is a special  African History Month presentation from the Bostonred Network.