A JAMES BOGGS READER By Grace Lee Boggs Special to The Michigan Citizen Pages from a Black Radical’s Notebook, a James Boggs Reader, compiled and edited with a 34 page introduction by University of Michigan historian Stephen M. Ward, will be released in February by Wayne State University Press. The Reader is part of the [...]

Boggs Center, Changing Concepts Of Revolution, Retreat 6/25/05 What time is it? No longer American Century. Warfare State has replaced Welfare State. U.S. facing defeat in Iraq/ worsening conditions at home/protests growing. Classic characteristics of revolutionary situation (Lenin) or Counter-revolutionary situation (Germany in 1930s) Yet radical groups only exposing, protesting. WHY? Is it because we [...]

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 [...]

Growing my soul in New York By Tawana Petty, mother, poet, author, organizer and partner with the Urban Network. 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 several “Next American Revolution” meetings [...]

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 anew and also share the story of their own efforts.. Until recently , these [...]

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 Feb25,–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 [...]