by Drick Boyd | Oct 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Like many of you I have been watching, reading and listening to the news about the Occupy Wall Street movement that is sweeping the country and indeed the world. Despite the attempts of critics to characterize the “occupiers” as leftist radicals, at least in the...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Early on Sunday morning, the New York Times reported that 700 protesters of the group “Occupy Wall Street” had been arrested attempting to cross the Brooklyn Bridge to Lower Manhattan where there have been a week of demonstrations in New York’s...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Republican Congressional leaders John Boehner and Mitch MConnell have criticized President Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on people earning over $1 million per year and called it “class warfare.” The comment would be laughable, if the Republican leaders had not...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, September 6 I attended the opening ceremonies for the new West Philadelphia High School (WPHS), best known to most folks as the alma materof actor-singer Will Smith. However, the school has had long and, more recently, a troubled history characterized...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
I continue my discussion of the church’s response to the gun violence movement by now looking at the gun industry. Simply stated the gun manufacturing industry has avested interest in selling as many firearms as possible, regardless of the social costs due to...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Amidst tremors from an earthquake on Tuesday and the impending hurricane this weekend, Philadelphia’s schools experienced another shock wave when now-former superintendent Arlene Ackerman went on the offensive against those who forced her out of her...
