by Drick Boyd | Aug 19, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorized
The past several months have been a whirlwind of change, fear, anger, and anticipation. In mid-March, everything closed down and we were sent into self-imposed quarantine, advised to keep a social distance, wear masks and hopefully wait out a rising pandemic. By May...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
And the seasons they go round and round, and the painted ponies go up and downWe’re captive on the carousel of time.We can’t return we can only look behind from where we came.And go round and round and round in the circle game(“The Circle Game, Joni...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the fifth in a series of postings where I share some thoughts on how to talk with the whites in our families, workplaces, organizations and social networks about the difficult topic of race. I don’t claim to be an “expert” on the topic, but rather am one...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
This Martin Luther King Jr Day remembrance, at the urging of anti-racist activist Ewuare Osayande I have re-read portions of Dr. King’s 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community. Written two years after Selma and the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights...
by Drick Boyd | Dec 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, it was reported that the grand jury examining the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice chose not to indict the officer who shot the boy. There is a clear pattern: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Brandon Tate-Brown, Sandra Bland and...
