The Boggs Blog

Transformative/Visionary Organizing By Grace Lee Boggs May 27 – June 2, 2012 Last week I went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the 10th annual BALLEE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) conference. This was my first BALLEE gathering , although I have followed the group’s progress over the years in YES Magazine. For a hard-of [...]

The Malcolm I Remember By Grace Lee Boggs May20-26, 2012 The Malcolm I remember is still very much with me, especially in May, the month of his birth in 1925, 87 years ago. I recall him in Chapter 3 of The Next American Revolution, my book with Scott Kurashige.. “From the moment I first heard [...]

The High Cost of Higher Education By Grace Lee Boggs May 12-19-2012 At Oakland University’s commencement ceremony on April 28, I was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa “as a distinguished political activist, agent of social change, writer and speaker” who “has had a lasting, positive impact on communities in the Detroit [...]

 Remembering Malcolm X  By Yusef Bunchy Shakur Formerly-incarcerated Community Organizer & Author              The life of Malcolm X, who was born on May 19, 1925,  has become the topic of conversations across the country, partly because Manning Marable’s book  “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” is being celebrated.                 Missing in many of these conversations are [...]

Growing my soul in New York By Tawana Petty, mother, poet, author, organizer and partner with the Urban Network. April 28 -May 5, 2012 For three days last week, I was in New York, with members of the Boggs Center, for the Foundry Theatre “This is how we do it!” event at Cooper Union and [...]

LFC by Grace Lee Boggs Malcolm X at the Dec. 1964 Oxford Union Debate In the current issue of RACE & CLASS, published quarterly in the UK since the early 1970s, the article by Lehigh University Professor Saladin Ambar reveals how Malcolm’s ideas on Race, Revolution and Liberalism were evolving in the last months of [...]

New Work & New Culture By Barbara Stachowski April 14-21, 2012 Frithjof Bergman , the philosopher-activist of New Work, New Culture, recently visited the Boggs Center to continue the Reimagining Work discussions initiated at last October’s gathering. Bergman has been working with rural communities in Africa and India to help them become self-reliant by utilizing [...]