On June 7, 1989, Angela Davis delivered a major speech at the Fifth Pan-African Congress held in Havana, Cuba. Her address called for unity among African-descended peoples across the Americas, Europe, and Africa, emphasizing shared struggles against imperialism, racial capitalism, and mass incarceration. Davis’s presence in Cuba—a country that had long supported liberation movements in Africa—underscored the internationalism of Black resistance. Her words strengthened Afro-Cuban and African American solidarity and contributed to the ongoing transnational Black radical tradition.
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