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Grace Lee Boggs
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Grace Lee Boggs is a 93-year-old activist, writer, and speaker whose seven decades of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of our time. A daughter of Chinese immigrants born in 1915, Grace received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in 1940 but dedicated herself to movement building. Since 1953, Grace has lived in Detroit, including 40 years engaged in grassroots organizing and political theorizing with her late husband, James Boggs -- an African American labor activist.

Grace’s publications include Living for Change and Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (with James Boggs). Her blog postings are adapted from her weekly column for the Michigan Citizen newspaper. These columns and other writings/speeches are archived at:

www.boggscenter.org

Boggs’s extended interviews on Bill Moyers Journal and Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now can be found at:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08312007/watch2.html

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/22/ive_never_had_this_much_hope

Blog Entries by Grace Lee Boggs

Living for Change: 'Healing Civilization'

Posted February 13, 2012 | 02/13/12 04:30 PM ET

The author of the important book, Healing Civilization, is Dr. Claudio Naranjo, a psychotherapist who was born in Chile in 1932, grew up in a musical family and became a medical doctor in 1959.

While he was a medical student, Naranjo gave up music but remained interested...

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From Civility to Nonviolence: Honoring Dr. King

Posted January 17, 2011 | 01/17/11 10:00 AM ET

In the aftermath of the Arizona shootings, there is a new call for civility in our political discourse. The crises of our time demand a common sense of purpose and collective action. On what would have been his 82nd birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words ring as true...

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Transforming the Way We Think and Live

Posted October 10, 2008 | 10/10/08 05:11 PM ET

I was born during World War I above my father's Chinese-American restaurant in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. This means that through no fault of my own, I have lived through most of the catastrophic events of the 20th century -- the Great Depression, fascism and Nazism, the Holocaust, World War...

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