“An American revolution will enable the American people to renew and enlarge their sense of their own humanity.” 

James and Grace Lee Boggs

Revolution and Evolution in the 20th Century

BOGGSES BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

JUNE 22, 2024

11 AM - 1 PM EST

Church of the Messiah
231 East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan

Join the Boggs Foundation and Friends to celebrate Jimmy and Grace on Field Street! The event is free of charge, but please help us plan with your RSVP as soon as possible. We hope to see you there!

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Learn more about the Boggs Foundation and James and Grace Lee Boggs’s life work on visionary organizing.

Jimmy speaking while standing with three other seated panelists behind a table.

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“Grace Lee Boggs (b. 1915) learned early in life that if she wanted justice, she’d have to fight for it.” The Atlantic’s year-end tribute from 2015: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/2015-remembrances/
“Grace Lee Boggs (b. 1915) learned early in life that if she wanted justice, she’d have to fight for it.” The Atlantic’s year-end tribute from 2015: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/2015-remembrances/422148/
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please see the new website of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation, which is managed by longtime associates and family of Jimmy and Grace based on directives Grace provided to continue their visionary legacy. https://www
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please see the new website of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation, which is managed by longtime associates and family of Jimmy and Grace based on directives Grace provided to continue their visionary legacy. https://www.boggsfoundation.org. Click on the link to join our network of organizers, educators, artists, and diverse people of conscience who are inspired by Jimmy and Grace to shake the world with a new dream. Leave us a note to tell us how you are building the {r}evolution!
“Actuality is, first of all, Possibility.” A handwritten note from #graceleeboggs. Found in the personal archives of Boggs Foundation president @scottkurashige with a copy of this article on Hegel’s Logic
“Actuality is, first of all, Possibility.” A handwritten note from #graceleeboggs. Found in the personal archives of Boggs Foundation president @scottkurashige with a copy of this article on Hegel’s Logic
“Normally it would take decades for a people to transform themselves from the hyperindividualist, hypermaterialist, damaged human beings that Americans in all walks of life are today, to the loving, caring people we need in the deepening crises
“Normally it would take decades for a people to transform themselves from the hyperindividualist, hypermaterialist, damaged human beings that Americans in all walks of life are today, to the loving, caring people we need in the deepening crises. But these are not normal times.” —Grace Lee Boggs, from The Next American Revolution
Congratulations to Karen Bass on her historic election as the next mayor of Los Angeles! This powerful image is from Grace’s final trip to LA for the premiere of American Revolutionary. Rep. Bass honored Grace in the Congressional Record during
Congratulations to Karen Bass on her historic election as the next mayor of Los Angeles! This powerful image is from Grace’s final trip to LA for the premiere of American Revolutionary. Rep. Bass honored Grace in the Congressional Record during our event "A Conversation on Revolution" at East West Players on June 15, 2013.
WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT
WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT
From #graceleeboggs on the 4th of July, written on this weekend in 2008. Make the home of Jimmy & Grace a Museum: givebutter.com/boggshouse
From #graceleeboggs on the 4th of July, written on this weekend in 2008. Make the home of Jimmy & Grace a Museum: givebutter.com/boggshouse
ASIANS UNITE! We have more amazing things to share in celebration of Grace’s birthday and our campaign to make the home of Jimmy and Grace into a museum. Here’s a preview of what’s coming! Text BOGGS to (202) 858-1233 to support the
ASIANS UNITE! We have more amazing things to share in celebration of Grace’s birthday and our campaign to make the home of Jimmy and Grace into a museum. Here’s a preview of what’s coming! Text BOGGS to (202) 858-1233 to support the museum or visit: https://givebutter.com/BoggsHouse #graceleeboggs #yurikochiyama #stopasianhate
Happy Birthday #graceleeboggs Born June 27, 1915
Happy Birthday #graceleeboggs Born June 27, 1915
Born Female and Chinese American, June 27, 1915. #graceleeboggs
Born Female and Chinese American, June 27, 1915. #graceleeboggs
Grace Lee Boggs was born on June 27, 1915 #graceleeboggs
Grace Lee Boggs was born on June 27, 1915 #graceleeboggs
Join the movement to create a museum in the Detroit home of James and Grace Lee Boggs. See link in profile or Text BOGGS to (202) 858-1233. #graceleeboggs
Join the movement to create a museum in the Detroit home of James and Grace Lee Boggs. See link in profile or Text BOGGS to (202) 858-1233. #graceleeboggs
“Grace Lee Boggs (b. 1915) learned early in life that if she wanted justice, she’d have to fight for it.” The Atlantic’s year-end tribute from 2015: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/2015-remembrances/ WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please see the new website of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation, which is managed by longtime associates and family of Jimmy and Grace based on directives Grace provided to continue their visionary legacy. https://www “Actuality is, first of all, Possibility.” A handwritten note from #graceleeboggs. Found in the personal archives of Boggs Foundation president @scottkurashige with a copy of this article on Hegel’s Logic “Normally it would take decades for a people to transform themselves from the hyperindividualist, hypermaterialist, damaged human beings that Americans in all walks of life are today, to the loving, caring people we need in the deepening crises Congratulations to Karen Bass on her historic election as the next mayor of Los Angeles! This powerful image is from Grace’s final trip to LA for the premiere of American Revolutionary. Rep. Bass honored Grace in the Congressional Record during WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT From #graceleeboggs on the 4th of July, written on this weekend in 2008. Make the home of Jimmy & Grace a Museum: givebutter.com/boggshouse ASIANS UNITE! We have more amazing things to share in celebration of Grace’s birthday and our campaign to make the home of Jimmy and Grace into a museum. Here’s a preview of what’s coming! Text BOGGS to (202) 858-1233 to support the Happy Birthday #graceleeboggs Born June 27, 1915 Born Female and Chinese American, June 27, 1915. #graceleeboggs Grace Lee Boggs was born on June 27, 1915 #graceleeboggs Join the movement to create a museum in the Detroit home of James and Grace Lee Boggs. See link in profile or Text BOGGS to (202) 858-1233. #graceleeboggs