The yellow taxi arrived at midnight. Ehoy and I had planned a vacation for six months, and on the appointed date, our plane left the Mexico city runway. She rested her head on my shoulder, as close as she could. Our relationship lasted for three years and during this time, I not only did not cool down, but even more strongly fell in love with Ehoy. That's when my eyes rested on her fingers, gently crossed with mine. I turned my head, her hair smelling of sweet Jasmine, and the skin of her neck warm, summer rays...

Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the "History of Consciousness" program at the University of California - Santa Cruz. She has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is a former Black Panther and was an active member of the Communist Party until 1991, when she joined the group Committees of Correspondence, which seeks to unite all radical socialist groups in the United States, and of which she remains a member to this day. Born into a middle-class...