Rehearsing the Future with Michael Doan
Show Notes
Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs (AK Press, 2026)
Readings by and about the Boggses
James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
James and Grace Lee Boggs School
Boggs Center Contributors
Kim Sherobbi has been a member of the Boggs Center since 2003. Kim is a retired physical education teacher, lifelong learner, and community practitioner. She is the founder and director of Birwood House; a community space where she is a listener, visionary organizer and active community member who is committed to local sustainability. At Birwood House, Kim encourages Detroit residents of all ages and visitors from across the country to take responsibility for their neighborhoods, families, and futures based on inclusion, voice, vision, love, and critical connections.
Stephen M. Ward has been a member of the Boggs Center since 2002. He teaches African American history at the University of Michigan and is the faculty director of UM’s Semester in Detroit program (SiD). He teaches a SiD course called “Theory and Practice of Visionary Organizing” that explores the legacy and lineage of James and Grace Lee Boggs, in collaboration with the Boggs Center, Birwood House, Freedom Freedom Growers, and Freedom Dreams Collective. He is the author of In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs (2016) and editor of Pages From a Black Radical’s Notebook: A James Boggs Reader (2011).
Triniti Watson has been a member of the Boggs Center since 2025. Triniti is a cultural worker, community writer, and archivist who uses care as a lens to strengthen communal relationships and preserve Black cultural traditions. She is also a member of Midnight Care Collective, a Black Feminist and Transformative Justice group that supports communal wellbeing through creative methods.
Michael Doan [Guest Producer and Contributor]
Book Tour Dates
Tuesday, October 27, 6-7pm
Source Booksellers, 4240 Cass Ave, #105, Detroit, MI 48201
In conversation with Stephen M. Ward
2. Sunday, November 15, 5-6pm
Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
In conversation with Bill Ayers
3. Wednesday, November 18, 6-8pm
Espace Dezòd, 6450 Av. Christophe-Colomb, Montréal, QC H2S 2G7
4. Friday, November 20, 2:30-4pm
Carleton University, RB 3228, sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy and Sociology & Anthropology
5. Tuesday, December 1, 6:30-7:30pm
Literati Bookstore, 124 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
In conversation with Stephen M. Ward
6. Sunday, December 6
Howard Zinn Book Fair, CCSF Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110
In conversation with Myrtle Thompson-Curtis
References
Boggs, Grace Lee. 1971. Education to Govern: A Philosophy and Program for Learning Now! Detroit: All-African Peoples Union.
Boggs, Grace Lee. 1998. Living for Change: An Autobiography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Boggs, Grace Lee. 2025. “Grace Lee Boggs’ message to Occupy Wall Street –10/9/11,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvO9ooZ0vks, accessed Oct 2026.
Boggs, James. 2009 [1963]. The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Boggs, James and Grace Lee Boggs. 1974. Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Boggs, James, Grace Lee Boggs, Freddy Paine, and Lyman Paine. 1978. Conversations in Maine: Exploring Our Nation’s Future. Boston: South End Press.
Bryant, Bunyan. 1995. “Rehearsing the Future,” Context, Spring: 39–40.
Crawford, Matthew B. 2015. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Davis, Therman, Luff, Thomas, McFadden, Leola, and Cynthia Woodson. 1979. Change Yourself to Change the World. Philadelphia: NOAR.
James, Cyril Lionel Roberts. 1963 [1938]. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, 2nd Edition. New York: Vintage Books.
Maybee, Julie E. 2020. “Hegel’s Dialectics.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. First published June 3, 2016; substantively revised October 2, 2020. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/, accessed Oct 2026.
Sennett, Richard. 1998. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. New York: W. W. Norton.