by Drick Boyd | Aug 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
The following is an address I gave on Thursday, August 22 at the POWER Forum on “Philadelphia in Crisis: Race,Education and Economics. POWER is a network of 41 congregations in Philadelphia that have come together working on issue of economic justice,...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
On a cold January afternoon four and a half years ago, I was arrested along with seven others for sitting down and blocking the entrance to Colisimo’s Gun Store on Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia. Over the course of two days twelve people in all were arrested for...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Below is the text of a letter to the editor I submitted to the Philadelphia Inquirer in response to an article about the challenges facing suburban public school districts that required them to raise property taxes and cut services. The letter seeks to point out that...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
In my first or second year of college I read C. Vann Woodward’s classic history of the segregated South, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. I don’t remember what impact it had on me back then, but for some reason I hung on to the book. I recently reread the...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was stunned as I listened to the verdict being read in the George Zimmerman trial last night – not guilty of any wrong doing in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Really? As I listened to the ABC commentator explain the meaning of the verdict, I realized how many of...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
This past week the U.S. Supreme Court rendered two momentous decisions that seem to move in opposite directions when it comes to human rights. On Tuesday, the Court essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 effectively freeing nine Southern states...
