And the legendary Detroit activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs has died at the age of 100. Grace Lee Boggs was involved with the civil rights, black power, labor, environmental justice and feminist movements over the past seven decades. She died on Monday at home in Detroit. Her friends and caretakers Shea Howell and Alice Jennings said, “She left this life as she lived it: surrounded by books, politics, people and ideas.” Over the past decade Grace Lee Boggs was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! In 2010, she talked about why it was important for the U.S. Social Forum to come to Detroit.

Grace Lee Boggs: “Detroit, which was once the symbol of miracles of industrialization and then became the symbol of the devastation of deindustrialization, is now the symbol of a new kind of society, of people who grow their own food, of people who try and help each other, to how we begin to think, not so much of getting jobs and advancing our own fortunes, but how we depend on each other. I mean, it’s another world that we’re creating here in Detroit.”

Grace Lee Boggs died Monday at the age of 100. We’ll remember her in her own words and with her longtime friend Alice Jennings later in the broadcast.