by Drick Boyd | Jun 5, 2022 | Featured
How could a book about history create such an uproar? Most Americans are oblivious to history, and rarely celebrate it except on Memorial Day, July 4 and Veterans Day. Actually, only a small fraction focus on the history while the rest of us enjoy a day off from work...
by Drick Boyd | May 25, 2022 | Featured
In the course of the last ten days, we have witnessed mass shootings in a Buffalo grocery store, a Taiwanese church in Los Angles, and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. At last count 32 people have been killed, several wounded, and hundreds traumatized by the...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 31, 2022 | Featured
What is an Oligarch? Like many others, I have been gripped night after night by the evening news reporting the latest attacks and devastation being inflicted on the people of Ukraine by the Russian military. I am supportive of the efforts by the nations of NATO to...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 2, 2021 | Featured
“For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” Amanda Gorman Light and Darkness At the end of September, I visited Minneapolis, Minnesota on personal business, and took time to visit the George Floyd Memorial in...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 13, 2021 | Featured, Uncategorized
The Womb Not The Tomb On New Year’s Eve 2016 Rev. William Barber, co-founder of the Poor People’s Campaign, sponsored an interfaith Watchnight New Year’s Eve at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. For many gathered that evening, there was a somber and sober...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 9, 2021 | Featured
Almost anybody 30 years or older probably remembers where they were and what they were doing when they heard that the World Trade Center had been attacked on Sept 11, 2001. I was teaching a class of first-year students and some other students ran into our class,...