Detroit's 95-year-old philosopher/activist Grace Lee Boggs will engage in a discussion about Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for a "revolution of values" against the giant triplets of "racism, militarism, and materialism" with actor/humanitarian Danny Glover, and two award-winning scholars of African American history, Robin D.G. Kelley (author of Hammer and Hoe, Freedom Dreams, and Thelonious Monk) and Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (author of Africans in Colonial Louisiana). The forum marks the anniversary of MLK's historic antiwar speech, "A Time to Break Silence" (April 4, 1967), and his tragic assassination (April 4, 1968). Professor Stephen Ward (CAAS/Residential College) will moderate. After the event, Grace Lee Boggs will sign copies of her new book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. As Danny Glover writes in the foreword to the book, "Grace has continued to make history as she has nurtured new ideas in Detroit and raised new possibilities of reuniting the efforts of all of us into a new movement."

Sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of Women's Studies, Residential College, and Arts of Citizenship, with support from the Rackham Dean's Strategic Fund