The Boggs Blog

From the new pamphlet Another Education is Happening, published by the Boggs Center and available from the Boggs Center Bookstore. Introduction Education is in crisis everywhere. Cities and suburbs alike face dwindling support for schools, concern for safety and a growing feeling that our children are less prepared than ever to assume the responsibilities of [...]

Click the image above to download the order form (PDF). Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in [...]

Commonwealth by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued [...]

It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly treed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri. Thus begins [...]

In a recent column, Grace Lee Boggs wrote of Nathaniel Huggins: “Although we never met, Huggins has been my favorite historian for thirty years… I was fascinated by the way he wrote about the Africans who arrived on these shores in chains, not mainly as victims but as human beings with both the need and [...]

Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community by Thomas Linzey with Anneke Campbell Inspired by five true stories of communities who were tired of corporate political power entitlements running roughshod over their townships, Be the Change offers solutions for how individuals can stand up and take back their local governments. [...]

View this promotional video for the 2009 edition of the The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook by James Boggs with new commentary by Grace Lee Boggs, Shea Howell, Carl Edwards, Larry Sparks, Julia Pointer-Putnam, Jenny Lee, and Richard Feldman. NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE IN THE BOGGS CENTER ONLINE STORE. READ AND ADD [...]

The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook – New Edition by James Boggs With New Commentary by Grace Lee Boggs and Others “…brilliant and startling insights into the American past and the probable American future. Boggs…is a radical’s radical.” —The Nation “We think Mr. Boggs has things to say that all Americans, and [...]

A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster, whether man-made or natural, people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the new-found communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does [...]