by Drick Boyd | Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Two Tragedies Over the past few weeks I have experienced two (what for me were) tragedies. In neither case was I directly affected and yet because of my relationships with the people who were affected, I have been deeply impacted by...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Inside Out Program Last week ( April 1-7) I participated in a teacher training conducted by the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program. Started in 1997 by Temple University professor Lori Pompa, Inside Out “facilitates dialogue and education across profound social...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been taking a lot of heat from Republicans for proposing the Green New Deal. However, they have not really considered the vision this proposal lays out. Rather, they have chosen to mischaracterize it by saying people won’t be able fly...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
During the summer before my senior in college, I fell into a deep depression. A woman who I had been dating off and on for over seven years informed me she was engaged to someone else. I was so surprised and saddened by the news I stopped eating. Though I was still...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 14, 2019 | Featured, Uncategorized
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva My rating: 5 of 5 stars Edgar Villanueva, a Native American of the Lumbee tribe grew up in a low-income, rural North Carolina community. After completing his Masters in...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Poetry Class As I have previously shared, I attended college at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1971. Having grown up in the North, I had not experienced firsthand the open hostility of Whites toward Blacks in the South after the Civil Rights...
