by Drick Boyd | Jun 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear Mr. President.I resign from your America. I revoke my citizenship in the America you want to make first. Yesterday you broke with the world community in its efforts to curb our collective carbon emissions as a world community before the warming of the planet...
by Drick Boyd | May 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
In light of the recent budget proposed by the Trump Administration that will cut off an estimated 10 million low income people from the SNAP program (food stamps) and Medicaid (health care) while lining the pockets of the wealthy; when the president can sign an $11...
by Drick Boyd | May 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
It seems clear that since assuming the presidency, Pres. #45 has discovered that the U.S. Government does not operate like his real estate empire. He makes bold statements about building walls, repealing and replacing health care, and banning people from Muslim...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ever since the November election, I have been in an intellectual and ethical (dare I say, even spiritual) quandary over the word “populism.” At its root the word means “pertaining to the populace, of the people.” Dictionary definitions...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Of all the holidays in the year – religious, patriotic and otherwise – Good Friday is the most meaningful for me. For the last several years, I have spent part of Good Friday in a vigil visiting sites where death by gun violence occurred, reading and reflecting...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Like Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, tells a part of US history...
