Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer and speaker whose more than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of this century: Labor, Civil rights, Black Power, Asian American, Women's and Environmental Justice. Grace has worked side-by-side with West Indian Marxist historian C.L.R.James and her late husband James Boggs, an African-American labor activist, writer and strategist. She is a co-founder of Detroit Summer and currently works with the Detroit City of Hope campaign and the Beloved Communities Initiative and writes for the weekly Michigan Citizen. She is the author of Living for Change and co-author of Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century and The Next American Revolution. She has been awarded a number of honorary doctorates for her philosophic activism.