Name: Grace Lee Boggs and Unfinished AAPI Revolutions- Part 2 at 195 District Park
Start: 2026-08-08T11:00:00-04:00
Location: 195 District Park

Grace Lee Boggs and Unfinished AAPI Revolutions- Part 2 at 195 District Park

This event is an official RI 250 program funded by the RI 250 Commission (and 195 District Park for the Aug. 8 event at 195 District Park), and it is presented in collaboration with RWU Law School, RWU Co-Lab, Roger Williams University, and the AAPI History Museum. We are deeply grateful to the RI 250 Commission for supporting this program, and to our partners at Roger Williams University for helping bring this important conversation to life.
It centers on Grace Lee Boggs, who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1915 and lived 100 extraordinary years as a philosopher, activist, feminist, writer, and community builder. Her life connected many of the great movements and questions of American democracy: racial justice, labor, women’s rights, community transformation, and the unfinished work of building a more just society.
As Rhode Island and the nation prepare to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, we believe it is important to ask: Whose revolutionary stories have been remembered, whose have been left out, and how do AAPI communities belong within the larger story of America?
That is why this program is not only about looking back. It is also about looking forward. Grace Lee Boggs reminds us that democracy is not something finished in the past. It is something each generation must continue to imagine, question, and build.