Grace Lee Boggs (born June 27, 1915) is an author, lifelong anti-racist activist and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s(sometimes using the pen name "Ria Stone"). She eventually went off in her own political direction in the 1960s with her husband of some forty years, James Boggs, until his death in 1993..