by Drick Boyd | May 26, 2021 | Featured
On May 5 Rev. David Brown, a diversity advisor at Temple University, and I held a public conversation focused on the major themes of my book Disrupting Whiteness. The event was sponsored by the Inside-Out Prison-Exchange program, which brings together traditional...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 28, 2021 | Featured
(Adapted from my book Disrupting Whiteness: Talking to White People About Racism0 The Hidden Wound In the wake of the Derek Chauvin trial there has been a great deal of speculation and prognostication that Chauvin’s guilty verdict might signal a shift in the public’s...
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...
