She’s still fighting for us!
More than five decades after standing on the front lines for freedom, Angela Davis is once again using her voice to uplift and empower, this time as the keynote speaker at the largest Black feminist conference in the country, Black Enterprise reports.
This June, Davis will headline Get Free: Black Feminist Reunion, a three-day gathering hosted by Black Feminist Future in New Orleans. Set to take place June 5th–7th, the event will honor the legacy of the 1973 National Black Women’s Organization conference while forging a space for today’s visionaries to dream, organize, and connect. With sessions like “Visions of Black Feminist Possibilities” and “How Black Feminism Is Shaping Politics,” Get Free will center the power of Black womanhood and its enduring fight for justice.
Davis’ presence at the reunion is more than symbolic—it’s a bridge. A living legend of resistance, Davis rose to national notoriety in the late ’60s and early ’70s through her unwavering stance as a radical feminist and activist. Her politics drew fire from powerful institutions, including her controversial termination from the University of California in 1969—an act pushed by then-Governor Ronald Reagan over her Communist Party membership. Though she was briefly reinstated, she was dismissed again for what officials deemed “inflammatory language.” Through it all, she never wavered.
Instead, she wrote. She taught. She marched. And she built. As a co-founder of Critical Resistance and a professor emerita in History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, Davis has expanded the conversation around abolition, feminism, and freedom. Her contributions have earned her global recognition, from the Lenin Peace Prize to being named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people. Most recently, her book Abolition. Feminism. Now. reminds the world that liberation is not a theory—it’s a daily practice.
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The Get Free conference will also feature leading voices like Domonique Morgan, Devin-Norelle, and Shana Griffin, all adding their insights to a dynamic schedule aimed at collective care and conscious action. Just as the 1973 gathering carved out space for Black women to lead on their own terms, this reunion promises to do the same by honoring the past and pushing forward toward freedom.
Because of them, we can remember where we’ve been. Because of Angela Davis and the next generation of Black feminists, we can imagine where we’re going.
Registration is now open for Get Free: Black Feminist Reunion.
Cover photo: Angela Davis to Keynote Largest Black Feminist Conference in the Nation/Photo credit: Columbia GSAPP