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Black activist Angela Davis struck off name of French school for views on 'systemic racism'

Angela Davis attends a ceremony to commemorate the abolition of slavery in Nantes, western France, on May 10, 2015. © Jean-Sébastien Evrard, AFP

Authorities in the French capital region struck the name of US rights activist Angela Davis from a high school in the Paris suburbs on Wednesday, judging her views on race relations to be too radical.

The conservative head of the Paris region, Valérie Pécresse, has accused the university professor and former Black Panther of having views that "feed communitarian feeling and can encourage violence".

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