January 10, 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Committee Dear Colleagues: I am writing to nominate an iconic community activist and educator in the Detroit, national, and international community, for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. Grace Lee Boggs, and her James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership have inspired new generations of citizens to […]

How Shall We Celebrate Martin Luther King’s Birthday By Grace Lee Boggs January 19, 2015 in Living for Change Living for Change How Shall We Celebrate Martin Luther King’s Birthday By Grace Lee Boggs (originally published in Yes! Magazine, 2007)Over the holidays my old friend Vincent Harding, the African-American historian who worked closely with Martin Luther […]

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Will have its Digital Premiere January 20 on iTunes ? Amazon Instant Video ? Google Play ? VUDU Los Angeles, CA (January 14, 2015) — American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, the feature documentary film by filmmaker Grace Lee will make its digital premiere January […]

Grace Lee Boggs: Quest Magazine January 8, 2015 in Living for Change Grace Lee Boggs: Quest Magazine- Excerpt January www.questformeaning.org/quest-article/times-grow-souls-excerpt/ These are the Times that Grow Our Souls (Excerpt)   The America that is best known and most resented around the world pursues unlimited economic growth, technological revolutions, and consumption, with little or no regard for […]

www.metrotimes.com/detroit/nicole-macdonald-fights-blight-gives-history-lesson-with-art/Content?oid=2201449 Nicole Macdonald …, gives history lesson with art Windows to the past and present. By Lee DeVito @leedevito   “They’re kind of on a road show right now, so to speak,” artist Nicole Macdonald says of her latest painting series. A group of portraits, Macdonald’s paintings depict Detroiters from all throughout history, from the […]

“We Have Much To Learn From Cuba” By Grace Lee Boggs (1996) This was my first visit to Cuba and it was only for a week. My sense was that the Cuban people, by recommitting themselves to the struggle for socialism, are beginning to recover from the crisis caused by the loss of Soviet aid. […]

from the archives because it speaks to this moment. -Scott HOW MOVEMENTS BUILD: FIVE LESSONS FROM GRACE LEE BOGGS From my experience as a Movement activist, I have learned some important lessons: 1) A Movement begins when large numbers of people, having reached the point where they feel they can’t take the way things are […]

A-time-for-visionary-resistance Tawana Petty aka Honeycomb Over 50 years ago, ancestor James Boggs wrote “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook.” In this book, he warned Americans of the insurmountable impact of automation, increased individualism as a result of that automation, a decreased desire of the oppressed to organize against their oppressors based on […]

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-grace-lee-boggs Dear Friends of Grace Lee Boggs, We are writing to ask for your support in keeping Grace Lee Boggs in her home in Detroit as she makes her final transition. As you are well aware, Grace is now 99, and has devoted her life to the struggle to stretch our humanity. Like her partner […]

Reflections on Thanksgiving LIVING FOR CHANGE Reflections on Thanksgiving By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Dec.5-11, 2010 I recall many Thanksgivings, some more enjoyable than others but each worth reflecting on. When I was a child, relatives who worked in my father’s restaurant and lived bachelor lives because their wives and families had been left […]

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