The Boggs Blog

LFC OUR VISIT TO ATLANTA By Grace Lee Boggs April 7-14, 2012 Last week’s overnight visit to Atlanta by Shea Howell, Invincible and myself gave me a lot of food for thought. Wednesday evening we spent three hours in a large auditorium in the Atlanta University Center Historic District with a panel of Vincent Harding’s [...]

Solutionaries By Grace Lee Boggs March 31 – April 7, 2012 In the last year a growing number of individuals and groups has been visiting the Boggs Center to learn more about what we’re doing in Detroit to create the world a new and also share the story of their own efforts. Until recently, these [...]

Solutionaries By Grace Lee Boggs March 31 – April 7, 2012 In the last year a growing number of individuals and groups has been visiting the Boggs Center to learn more about what we’re doing in Detroit to create the world anew and also share the story of their own efforts.. Until recently , these [...]

LFC  We’re going to Atlanta By Grace Lee Boggs March 24-31, 2012  I’m looking forward to going to Atlanta next week with other members of the Boggs board.  We’ve been invited to speak  to  Vincent Harding’s  Morehouse College  class  on “The Last Years of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Future of America.”  Dr. Harding [...]

THIS WEEK’S LIVING FOR CHANGE Changing Concepts  of Revolution By Grace Lee Boggs  In 1941, inspired by the success of the March on Washington movement led by black labor leader A.Philip Randolph, I decided to join the radical movement.  At the time the concept (or paradigm) of revolution generally accepted inside and outside the radical [...]

BCNCL visits the Bay Area By Grace Lee Boggs  I’ve just returned from an amazing visit to the Bay Area with four other members of the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership board: Shea Howell, Scott Kurashige, Ron Scott, and Kim Sherobbi.  Scott Kurashige, who co-authored The Next American Revolution, arranged and micromanaged  our awesome [...]

LFC Youth “learn a lot” from RE-Imagining Work By Grace Lee Boggs Feb. 25-March 3, 2012 “I liked it. It was interesting.. I learned a lot.” That’s what a 15 year old member of Dedicated to make a change said after participating in the second RE-Imagining Work gathering on February 12 at the Church of [...]

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 [...]