American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Meet Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese American philosopher in Detroit who has been waging a revolution for 75 years. Her story unfurls to portray an evolving city—and to examine the power of ideas and imagination to propel change.

Meet Grace Lee Boggs, waging a revolution for over 75 years.

In the 1960s, Grace Lee Boggs split from the Marxist establishment and became active in the Black Power movement in Detroit.

Grace Lee Boggs talks about white flight and the impact on Detroit race relations.

Grace Lee Boggs explains how she struggled to understand the violence that was devastating her community, and her return to the evolving ideas of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Grace Lee on the making of American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.

On Revolution: Excerpts of a conversation between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis at University of California, Berkeley in 2012.

Grace Lee Boggs discusses the on-going series of conversations she began with her husband James Boggs and fellow veteran activists Freddy and Lyman Paine, during the turmoil of the 1960s. Transcripts of these conversations were published into a book titled Conversations in Maine.