Angela Davis meeting East German dictator Erich Honecker in 1972. (Credit: Peter Koard)
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Pitzer College is widely understood to be the most uniformly left-wing of the Claremont consortium. This morning, they announced a commencement speaker who celebrated border guards and shook hands with dictators.
On Tuesday, an email to Pitzer community members announced that Angela Davis, Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, would serve as the commencement speaker for its class of 2026. Davis previously served as Pitzer’s commencement speaker in 2012.
