Auto worker and labor organizer James Boggs will be discussed in a symposium presented by the African American and African Studies departments today.

Writer Grace Lee Boggs will speak on "James Boggs: The Man, Organic Intellectual and Activist." A roundtable discussion called "Race and Labor in 21st Century America: Lessons from James Boggs" will follow.

Grace Lee Boggs was trained as a philosopher and was once partners with James Boggs in what the departments are calling "the struggle for a new America."

The symposium, called "James Boggs' 'The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook' - 40 Years Later," runs from 1 to 5:15 p.m. in MSU Union Gold Rooms A and B.

For more information, visit aaas.msu.edu.