Grace Lee Boggs

I discovered Grace Lee Boggs in my Visual Culture class while I was a grad student at NYU. She was a remarkable activist. As The New York Times wrote in her obituary, Grace was one of the nation’s oldest human rights activists, who waged a war of inspiration for civil rights, labor, feminism, the environment and other causes for seven decades with an unflagging faith that revolutionary justice was just around the corner.

She was an author and philosopher who planted gardens on vacant lots, founded community organizations and political movements, marched against racism, lectured widely on human rights and wrote books on her evolving vision of a revolution in America.

Here is a wonderful video of Grace talking to Angela Davis about revolution. <3