Stephen Ward: James Boggs at 100: A Legacy and Lineage of Radical Social Change in Detroit

When:
February 13, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2019-02-13T19:00:00-05:00
2019-02-13T20:30:00-05:00
Where:
Literati
124 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
USA

James and Grace Lee Boggs left a remarkable legacy through their shared activism, writing, and mentoring. To mark what would be James Boggs’s 100th birthday Spring 2019, the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit revisits his writings and activism, exploring the ways his and Grace’s efforts to bring about revolutionary change continue through a powerful lineage of thought and activism in contemporary community work in Detroit.

Stephen Ward is a historian at the University of Michigan who teaches in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and the Residential College, and he is the faculty director of the Semester in Detroit program. He is also a board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership. He is the author of In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs. 

$20. 7pm.

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