by Drick Boyd | Apr 21, 2021 | Featured
Like many people, I was greatly relieved at the outcome of the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty on all three counts for the murder of George Floyd last May. While, like many, I feared the worst – i.e. that Chauvin would be set free or there...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 16, 2021 | Featured
Minneapolis – “The Most Racist City” In January of 1979 I took a graduate seminar on White Racism with the late Dr. James Tillman and his wife, Mary Tillman. The Tillman’s were residents of Atlanta, Georgia, but traveled around the country offering seminars...
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...
