Angela Davis is still fighting for freedom—this time from the main stage of the largest Black feminist conference in the United States.
Celebrated activist, scholar, and icon Angela Davis will headline the Get Free: Black Feminist Reunion, a three-day conference hosted by Black Feminist Future, taking place June 5–7 in New Orleans.
As the event’s keynote speaker, Davis will lend her influential voice to a gathering focused on celebrating Black feminist legacy, igniting organizing power, and cultivating future visions of liberation.
Inspired by the historic 1973 National Black Women’s Organization conference, Get Free marks a homecoming of sorts—a tribute to decades of Black feminist resistance and a catalyst for the next wave of visionary movement builders. Programming includes panels such as “Visions of Black Feminist Possibilities” and “How Black Feminism Is Shaping Politics,” highlighting the depth, power, and influence of Black womanhood in shaping policy and culture.
Davis, 80, remains one of the most influential radical thinkers and activists of our time. She first rose to national prominence in the late 1960s as a member of the Communist Party USA and an affiliate of the Black Panther Party’s Los Angeles chapter. Her 1969 firing from the University of California for her political beliefs made national headlines, sparking intense debate over academic freedom and political discrimination—issues that continue to echo today.
Though she was briefly reinstated after a legal battle, Davis was dismissed again in 1970 for what the Regents deemed “inflammatory language.” That same year, she was arrested and later acquitted in a high-profile trial that galvanized supporters worldwide and cemented her status as an international symbol of resistance.
Over the decades, Davis has authored several books, including Women, Race, and Class, and most recently Abolition. Feminism. Now., co-written with Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie. She is also a founding member of Critical Resistance, an organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex.
Her lifelong commitment to social justice has earned her international recognition, including the Lenin Peace Prize, induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and designation as Time magazine’s 1971 Woman of the Year in its centennial “100 Women of the Year” issue.
Prominent voices, including Domonique Morgan, Devin-Norelle, and Shana Griffin, will join Davis at Get Free. Together, they will guide attendees through a weekend of empowerment, education, and action.
Registration is now open at BlackFeministReunion.com. Get Free promises to be more than a conference—it’s a movement homecoming, bringing together generations of Black feminists to envision and build a freer, more just world.
