Angela Davis iconic 1985 essay on the role of art in social and racial liberation illustrated by painter Tschabalala Self In her stirring and influential essay Art on the Frontline American scholar and activist icon Angela Y. Davis born 1944 asked how do we collectively acknowledge our popular cultural legacy and communicate it to the masses of people most of whom have been denied access to the social spaces reserved for arts and culture Originally published in Political Affairs a radical Marxis