 Perhaps surprisingly, many radical activists calling for revolutionary change have ignored any idea of civil rights broader than the standard one. Accordingly, Angela Davis, who is among the most prominent of those activists, explains that “the frame of civil rights” is too small to understand the nature of the black freedom struggle in America and beyond. The struggle “was not only a question of acquiring the formal rights to fully participate in society, but rather it was also about substantive rights – it was about jobs, free education, free health care, affordable housing, and also about ending the racist police occupation of Black communities” (2016: 72). So Davis follows the legal mainstream in declining to describe as “civil rights” categorical claims to such goods as jobs, housing, health care and trustworthy policing. 