by Drick Boyd | Nov 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
For weeks now I have wanted to write something about the election season we are currently in, but I could not find words to say anything that hadn’t been said many times over by people far more eloquent than I. However, voting day is just a few days away, and...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
This past Friday, October 21, Sadie, our 8 ½ year old dog was put to rest. Earlier that week we had learned that she had inoperable cancer in her excretory region and at best she had about six months to live. From the time we got Sadie from the animal shelter, until...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
A couple weeks ago, about fifteen men from my church went on a weekend retreat, just before the first presidential debate was to occur. At one point a group of about eight of us were sitting around discussing the upcoming debate, and the two primary candidates Hillary...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
On Monday October 3 at 7:30 (Eastern Standard Time), I will be talking about my book White Allies in the Struggle for Racial Justice, and how whites can be allies amidst the current struggles for racial justice taking place in communities all over the country and...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sadly, our time in Kenya had to come to an end. We got on our plane in Nairobi to the New York via Dubai almost exactly two weeks to the minute from when we left Philadelphia on July 31. After nearly 26 hours of travel from Nairobi to Dubai to JFK Airport and then a...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
After 11 days working in Kibera and living in Huruma, we moved to a five-star hotel on the edge of the Nairobi Game Park. We stayed there for the last 3 days of our trip and rested and reflected on our work in Kibera. In a matter of 30 minutes we went from a community...
