by Drick Boyd | Oct 9, 2026 | Featured
Dear Friends – I am glad to announce that my most recent book, Mystic Activism: Spiritual Practices for Racial Justice, has been published by Cascade Books, a subsidiary of Wipf and Stock Publishers in Eugene, Oregon. In the book’s introduction, I state that...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 17, 2021 | Featured
The Inevitability of Mistakes Whenever I speak about racism with groups comprised mainly of white people, I often make the point early on that in our efforts as white people to be antiracist allies (or accomplices or co-conspirators), we are going to make mistakes. We...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Most men I know first learn about the strength and endurance of women from their mothers. During this Women’s History Month I want to take this opportunity to talk about the woman who shaped me, Mary “Sis” Mullins Boyd, my mother. On the 19th of this month, she would...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 15, 2020 | Featured
The Call to Defund and Abolish Police Like many people I have been caught up in the events – the marches and rallies – following the tragic death of George Floyd. And like many others, I have cried and agonized over the naked and brash manifestation of white supremacy...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
[On January 29, 2016, I spoke before a gathering of students, staff and faculty at Eastern University, speaking on the topic “White Allies for Racial Justice”. The following is an excerpt from that presentation in which I discuss why I call myself a...
