by Drick Boyd | Mar 15, 2021 | Featured, Uncategorized
The Challenge of Empathy In my recently released book Disrupting Whiteness: Talking with White People About Racism, I propose that the best way to engage white folks in conversations about racism is to take a dialogical rather than a confrontative approach. Too often...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 9, 2021 | Featured
The Impeachment As I write these words the U.S. Senate is in its first day of deliberations over whether or not Donald Trump should be held accountable for the attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021. The deliberations on this day are focusing on whether or not a...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 26, 2021 | Featured
This week I share an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Disrupting Whiteness: Talking with White People About Racism. In this segment I am contending that before white people can talk with others about racism, they need to be able to identify and articulate the...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 26, 2021 | Featured
This week, I offer an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Disrupting Whiteness: Talking With White People About Racism. Essentially, my contention is that before we can engage other people on their views and feelings about racial incidents, we must be grounded in a...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 13, 2021 | Featured
The Call In September 2020 I received a call from an old friend I had not talked to in years. Sam and I first met in 2009 when with ten others we took part in a civil disobedience action against Colisimos Gun Store, which was notorious for supplying illegal guns used...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 6, 2021 | Featured
The Day of Epiphany In the Christian tradition, January 6 is the Day of Epiphany, the day in which we celebrate the arrival of astrologers from Persia who came seeking a Blessed One, the one we know as Jesus. These astrologers have been called Wise Ones, Magi, and...
