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Anti-Asian vio­lence and hate has increased since the start of the pan­dem­ic last year. #StopAsian­Hate became a viral hash­tag much like #Black­Lives­Mat­ter in the wake of Black peo­ple killed by police offi­cers. The rela­tion­ship between Black and Asian Amer­i­cans is com­pli­cat­ed. How­ev­er, the groups are unit­ed in their efforts to call out white suprema­cy as the source of the vio­lence against both groups.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty between the Asian and Black com­mu­ni­ty is com­mon. Take Grace Lee Bog­gs, an Asian-Amer­i­can, who spent the bet­ter part of the last cen­tu­ry in Detroit advo­cat­ing for human rights for Black peo­ple. On today’s pro­gram we hon­or the life and lega­cy of civ­il rights activist Grace Lee Bog­gs and high­light her orga­niz­ing work with African Americans.

Through the lens of the doc­u­men­tary film, Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion­ary: The Evo­lu­tion of Grace Lee Bog­gs we present a close and per­son­al view of Grace’s activism. Pro­duced by Grace Lee, the doc­u­men­tary film, Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion­ary, plunges us into Bog­gs’s life­time of vital think­ing and action, tra­vers­ing the major U.S. social move­ments of the last cen­tu­ry; from labor to civ­il rights, to Black Pow­er, fem­i­nism, the Asian Amer­i­can and envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice move­ments and beyond. Bog­gs’s con­stant­ly evolv­ing strat­e­gy — her will­ing­ness to re-eval­u­ate and change tac­tics in rela­tion to the world shift­ing around her — dri­ves the sto­ry for­ward. Angela Davis, Bill Moy­ers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Dan­ny Glover, Bog­gs’s late hus­band James and a host of Detroit com­rades across three gen­er­a­tions help shape this unique­ly Amer­i­can sto­ry. As she wres­tles with a Detroit in ongo­ing tran­si­tion, con­tra­dic­tions of vio­lence and non-vio­lence, Mal­colm X and Mar­tin Luther King, the 1967 rebel­lions, and non-lin­ear notions of time and his­to­ry, Bog­gs emerges with an approach that is rad­i­cal in its sim­plic­i­ty and clar­i­ty: rev­o­lu­tion is not an act of aggres­sion or mere­ly a protest. Rev­o­lu­tion, Bog­gs says, is about some­thing deep­er with­in the human expe­ri­ence — the abil­i­ty to trans­form one­self to trans­form the world.