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Jul 17, 2024 · Grace Lee Boggs was a writer, philosopher, mentor, and an outspoken activist for many causes, including civil rights, workers’ rights, Black Power, environmental justice, feminism, and community empowerment.
Jul 11, 2024 · Jennings credits Dr. Grace Lee Boggs and Donele Wilkins with bringing her to the environmental justice movement. “One of the first people to bring Detroit women of color together in environmental justice was Donele Wilkins,” says Jennings.
Jul 7, 2024 · On June 28, 1969, people in a small, working-class gay bar in New York City rose up against police harassment. The Stonewall Rebellion marks the beginning of the modern queer movement and holds important lessons for us today. In 1969 to be gay, lesbian, or trans was illegal everywhere but in the state of Illinois.
Jul 2, 2024 · Audio recording of "Organization Means Commitment" by Grace Lee Boggshttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d7edafcd15c7f734412daf2/t/6513530726af4229394992...
Jun 30, 2024 · The decision by the Mayor and the Detroit Police Department to close down 11 public parks during the annual fireworks display has sparked renewed outrage. Once again, we are told “public safety” is the most important thing.
Jul 21, 2024 · In preparation for her speech, civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs has thought about those words and has read Gandhi’s writings. “Even though the theme is we must be what we want to see in the world, we have to think about what it is we want to be before we can be it,” Boggs says.
Jul 15, 2024 · Our community has been shaken by a mass shooting unlike any we have experienced. Early Sunday morning, during the July 4th weekend, 21 people were shot and two were killed, a 20-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man, at a block party on the east side of the city. Nine guns were found at the site and
