Category — Women You Should Know

On December 17, 2003, a 26-year-old woman named Malalai Joya joined hundreds of others in a large tent in Kabul, Afghanistan, to adopt a new constitution for their war-torn nation. The gathering, called a Loya Jirga (traditional grand assembly), was dominated by U.S.-backed warlords who were responsible for mass slaughter and violence in the 1980s and early 1990s. Malalai Joya was present as an elected delegate from the remote Farah province in western Afghanistan. [Read more →]

In a two-story brick house with red trim and a leaky roof, Grace Lee Boggs, 91, is plotting revolution.

That in itself is nothing new. She’s been doing the same from this very house for 45 years. It was here, at the corner of Field and Goethe on Detroit’s east side, that Grace and her husband James midwifed the birth of the black power movement — producing pamphlets, manifestos and books on racism, class struggle and revolution, creating one organization after another bent on making it happen, and turning their living room into a crossroads for generations of black radicals. [Read more →]