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Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Angela Davis 'stunned' by decision to rescind civil rights award

  • Move believed linked to support for Palestinian BDS movement
  • Activist decries attack on ‘spirit of the indivisibility of justice’

The veteran civil rights activist Angela Davis said she was “stunned” by the decision of Alabama’s Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to revoke an award she was set to receive.

The institute announced in October that Davis, a Birmingham native, would receive the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights award, calling her “one of the most globally recognized champions of human rights, giving voice to those who are powerless to speak”.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2QtMMK1

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