and rosa clemente is a young activist.oth have worked as grassroots organizers, trying to improve their communities. >> i'm grace lee boggs. i'm a very old woman. >> writer, philosopher, activist, revolutionary. >> i was born in the second decade of the 20th century and i'm still around in the second decade of the 21st century. >> she's the subject of "american revolutionary" the evolution of grace lee boggs. >> how did you become a philosopher? >> i just go back 70 years. >> i wait a minute to detroit in new york of june of 1953. it was a city of 2 million. . in detroit, grace became involved in the black power movement and met her husband james boggs who was herself a revolutionary thinker. and she was asian american. >> i cut my hair to see how straight it was. and they would ask about my family and what did my family think of my living in a black neighborhood. i would say i'm grown. i decide where i live. >> my name is rosa clemente. i'm an afro-latin that hip-hop activist from the south bronx in new york. i was the gr

i would say i'll decide where i live. >> my name is rosa clemente.'m an afro latina hip-hop activist from the south bronx, new york, and in 2008 he was the green party vice presidential nominee along with cynthia mckinney. i became an activist on my college campus in the early '90s at the state university of new york at albany. >> i was organizing with a radical group, and detroit seemed like a good place to organize. >> it really started with me being able to take classes in african-american and puerto rican studies and really learning the truth of the civil rights movement. >> the '60s were a time when everybody wanted to organize and do something and change this country. there was a huge set of radical consciences in the black community. so it was fun. >> not guilty of the crime of assault by force. >> i'll point to one specific moment that really for me was a turning point, and that was the rodney king verdict. >> after the beating videotaping shocked the world, the officers were found not guilty on every count except the one where no decision wa