Archive for February 19th, 2012
RE-IMAGINE TEACHING By Julia Putnam LFC Feb. 18-25, 2012 Recently Grace Lee Boggs and I skyped a conversation with 17 teachers from the Portland, Me. area who are students in a university education class taught by our friend Ken Jones. As the students introduced themselves, we got a sense of the wide range of age [...]
Thinking for ourselves Support Metro Foodland By Shea Howell February 14, 2012 A group of Detroiters are calling upon us to show our appreciation for Metro Foodland. It is the only local grocery stores owned by an African American. For 27 years Mr. James Hooks has provided service to the community. Now, as so many [...]
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.
boggscenter.org
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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