Amy Goodman
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“I Am Coming to the End of a Long Journey”: Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs in Hospice
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October 10, 2014
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3:37Now PlayingAs we broadcast from Detroit, Michigan, we get an update on Grace Lee Boggs, the 99yearold activist, author and philosopher based in Detroit. She is considered a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America. Throughout her life, Boggs has participated in all of the 20th century’s major social movements for civil rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights, and has inspired generations of local activists. In 1994, she cofounded Detroit Summer, "a multiracial, intergenerational collective" that functions as a training ground for activists, attracting young people across the country each year. Boggs has been in hospice care at her Detroit home, largely bedridden after taking a bad fall last month. She recently posted a statement on her website that read in part, "I am coming to the end of a long journey a journey that began over 70 years ago at the beginning of World War II." We broadcast an excerpt from our 2011 interview with Boggs, and speak with her longtime friend, Alice Jennings, who is one of two people in charge of her care.
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