I lived in Marin County when Angela Davis and the Black Panthers terrorized the Court House. If Jussie’s mother s friends with Angela, we can just imagine what kind of racism these kids were drenched in growing up.
No wonder he thinks he can stage a hoax and walk away a hero.
Cuba
After her acquittal, Davis went on an international speaking tour in 1972 and included Cuba, where she had previously been received by Fidel Castro in 1969 as a member of a Communist Party delegation.[47]
Robert F. Williams, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmichael had also visited there, and Assata Shakur [Joanne Chesimard] lives there after escaping from U.S. prison.
Her reception by Afro-Cubans at a mass rally was so enthusiastic that she was reportedly barely able to speak.[48]
Davis perceived Cuba to be a racism-free country, which led her to believe that, “only under socialism could the fight against racism be successfully executed.”
When she returned to the United States, her socialist leanings increasingly influenced her understanding of race struggles.[49]
In 1974, she attended the Second Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women.[47]
Soviet Union
Davis and Valentina Tereshkova, 1972
In 1971 the CIA estimated that five percent of Soviet propaganda efforts were directed towards the Angela Davis campaign.
In August 1972, Davis visited the USSR at the invitation of the Central Committee, and received an honorary doctorate from Moscow State University.[50]
On May 1, 1979, she was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union.[51]
She visited Moscow later that month to accept the prize, where she praised “the glorious name” of Lenin and the “great October Revolution”.[52]
East Germany
Davis and Erich Honecker in GDR, 1972
The East German government organized an extensive campaign on behalf of Davis.[53]
In September 1972, Davis visited East Germany, where she met Erich Honecker, received an honorary degree from the University of Leipzig and the Star of People’s Friendship from Walter Ulbricht.
On September 11 in East Berlin she delivered a speech, “Not Only My Victory”, praising the GDR and USSR and denouncing American racism, and visited the Berlin Wall.[54][55][56]
In 1973 she returned to East Berlin leading the U.S. delegation to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students.[57]
Jonestown and Peoples Temple
In the mid-1970s, Jim Jones, who developed the cult Peoples Temple, initiated friendships with progressive leaders in the San Francisco area including Dennis Banks of the American Indian Movement AIM and Davis.[58]
On September 10, 1977, 14 months before the Temple’s mass murder-suicide, Davis spoke via amateur radio telephone “patch” to members of his Peoples Temple living in Jonestown in Guyana.[59][60]
In her statement during the “Six Day Siege”, she expressed support for the People’s Temple anti-racism efforts and told members there was a conspiracy against them.
She said, “when you are attacked, it is because of your progressive stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well.”[61]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis#Other_activities_in_the_1970s
The Rolling Stones song “Sweet Black Angel,” recorded in 1970 and released on their album Exile on Main Street (1972), is dedicated to Davis. It is one of the band’s few overtly political releases.[42]
Bob Dylan’s song “George Jackson” (1971) is a tribute to George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers and the older brother of Jonathan Jackson, who was killed during an escape attempt from San Quentin.[43]
John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded their song “Angela” on their album Some Time in New York City (1972) in support, and a small photo of her appears on the album’s cover at the bottom-left.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis#Representation_in_other_media