Grace Lee Boggs's concept of 'living for change' is as relevant today as ever. The challenges facing radical visionaries have only grown more immense, but we must continue to fight for a better world.
depicting the dire realities urgently necessitating water access and sanitation policies. Grace was recently remembered as a water warrior at the film’s Detroit premiere.A revolution to expand our common humanity must thus begin with a process of decommodification to ensure that the essentials of life are available to all: water, food, housing, care and education, which became an intense focus for Grace.
Yet, the responses too often push in the wrong direction. The achievement gap is widening, but the faux solution of more standardized testing is further gutting the soul of education. While the move to ban affirmative action is another pillar of the counterrevolution, the default option in hyper-segregated and deeply impoverished cities like Detroit has too often become sending the “best and brightest” away for education — many never to return.
During the pandemic, Grace’s new status as an Asian American icon became readily apparent through the wave of Stop Asian Hate demonstrations. Confronting numerous attempts to foment division, 13-year-oldgalvanized her peers to unite by drawing inspiration from Grace’s history of Black and Asian American movement activism.
In Philadelphia, Asian American activists, who have long fought against anti-Asian violence and xenophobia, have tied their struggles to building community and multiracial solidarity. Just as Jimmy and Grace
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