by Drick Boyd | Jun 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
The last Two days (Sunday and Monday) have been spent largely in Atlanta and then Albany, GA. In Atlanta we had the opportunity to visit the ML King Center and the hear Juanita Abernathy (Ralph Abernathy’s widow) share her reflections on the Civil Rights battles...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Our first day of our trip was spent mostly on the bus but by afternoon we arrived in Greensboro, NC where we learned the stories of four college freshman at North Carolina A & T decided they would assert their human dignity by requesting to be served at the lunch...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Starting tomorrow – June 8 – my wife and I will be joining approximately 35 other folks for a 9 day/8 night bus tour of some the most famous sites of Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 60’s. We take off at 6 am from Beaver Falls, PA and by...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
In 1954 the Supreme Court issued their decision on the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, KS, which outlawed school desegregation, effectively nullifying the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson decision that allowed for “separate but equal” treatment of...
by Drick Boyd | May 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today I received a letter from my Congressperson, Rep. Patrick Meehan, a conservative Republican, in which he indicated that he was working for my interest by joining a bi-partisan group seeking to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In the letter he states that while he...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Bryan Miller, Executive Director of Heeding God’s Call and a trusted friend responded to my blog with some important corrections about the proposed and defeated Toomey-Manchin bill. Apparently it was not as comprehensive as I indicated. What follows is the text...
