by Drick Boyd | Mar 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
For the past seven years I have had the privilege of teaching in the M.A. in Urban Studies program at Eastern University. Our program has concentrations in Community Development, Youth Development and Community Arts, where students are trained to use tools to...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last weekend during a long 2 ½ day drive from Minnesota to Philadelphia I listened to a podcast of the renowned PBS journalist and former White House staffer Bill Moyers interviewing legal scholar Ian Haney Lopez who has recently published a book entitled...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Just over five years ago on a very cold January afternoon I was arrested along with six others for blocking the entrance to Colisimo’s gun shop on Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia. We were there to call attention to the store’s complicity in the straw...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I was about 7 or 8 years old I went to visit my cousins who lived in the Chicago area. They had some guinea pigs who had just had babies. After the babies were born they took the adult guinea pigs out of the cage because as my aunt explained if the adult guinea...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
“He’s a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction” – Kris Kristofferson “The Pilgrim”Recently, I came across an open letter written by Asian-American Activist Kil Ja Kim entitled “The White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron.” I encourage you to read it for...
by Drick Boyd | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
About a month ago a good friend called me and informed me that my blogs were depressing him and that he needed to stop reading them for a while. I was bit taken back because despite a frequent focus on the injustices in so many facets of our public life, on a...
