Angela Davis appeared on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, was arrested on charges of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy, and was acquitted by an all-white jury in one of the most publicized trials of the 1970s. The young philosophy professor who became a symbol of radical Black resistance went from federal fugitive to internationally celebrated academic — a trajectory that captures the contradictions of American justice and politics in a single life.

This episode traces Davis from her childhood in Birmingham's "Dynamite Hill" through her work with the Black Panthers, the Marin County courthouse incident, her imprisonment, the global "Free Angela" campaign, and her decades as a scholar and activist.

• Growing up on "Dynamite Hill" in Birmingham, Alabama amid Klan bombings
• Her radicalization through philosophy, the Communist P ...