Archive for July 9th, 2011
Living for Change Conversations In Detroit 2011 by Grace Lee Boggs The Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership and Detroit–City of Hope recently hosted Conversations In Detroit, Time For Transformation: Growing Our Humanity @ Home And Abroad. The purpose of the June 27-29 multicultural, intergenerational gathering was to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 911 and [...]
THINKING FOR OURSELVES Detroit Transforming By Shea Howell Last week The Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership and the Veterans of Hope project based in Denver called together a group of civil rights leaders, writers, scholars, artists and activists for “Conversations in Detroit: Time for Transformation: Growing our souls at home and abroad.” The call [...]
Detroit Jesus (for Grace Lee Boggs one day after her 96th Birthday) Time, Inc., buys a house in Detroit and tries to track him for a year. But he’s invisible to those looking for a blue-eyed dude in a white [...]
The Boggs Center
NOW AVAILABLE AT THE BOGGS CENTER STORE
The Next American Revolution (Signed by Grace Lee Boggs)
ON Being Krista Tippet
Becoming Detroit
January 19, 2012
We travel to Detroit to meet the civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs. We find the 96-year-old philosopher surrounded by creative, joyful people and projects that defy more familiar images of decline. It's a kind of parallel urban universe with much to teach all of us about meeting the changes of our time.
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The Boggs Center was founded in 1995 by friends and associates of James Boggs (1919 -1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915 - ) to honor and continue their legacy as movement activists and theoreticians.Our aim is to help grassroots activists develop themselves into visionary leaders and critical thinkers who can devise proactive strategies for rebuilding and respiriting our cities and rural communities from the ground up, demonstrate the power of ideas in changing ourselves, our reality, and demystify leadership.
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NOW AVAILABLE AT THE BOGGS CENTER STORE The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook (2009 edition)Revolution & Evolution in the Twentieth Century (2008 edition)
Living for Change (Signed by Grace Lee Boggs)
Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nations Future
Let's Talk About Malcolm & Martin
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