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Last week’s news that Detroit will default on $2 billion of debt has left many wondering what will happen to cities in similar financial distress, and to the nation’s economy as a whole. Gordon Young’s new memoir, Teardown, offers a unique perspective from inside one such city: Flint, Michigan. The birthplace of General Motors, Flint once boasted one of the [more...]  Many people look at a vacant lot and see failure, destruction, or nothing at all. Grace Lee Boggs sees possibilities for a cultural revolution. Boggs, a 95-year-old Detroit-based activist and author of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century spoke to Democracy Now! yesterday about Obama’s new budget plan and the state [more...] In the latest UC Press Podcast, Grace Lee Boggs, author of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, discusses her vision for creating a new American Revolution through radical social change. A Detroit resident who has participated in all of the twentieth century’s major social movements—for civil rights, women’s rights, [more...] |
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