From the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series
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Produced by: Austin Wilkin/Grace Lee | Documentary | 2010 | USA | 5:39
In this short doc, 95-year-old activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs reflects on her life of activism and her connection to Detroit. She has participated in over 70 years of social justice movements and has no plans of slowing down.