by Drick Boyd | Aug 20, 2025 | Featured
Note: This is the third in a series of messages based on the book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder The Quaking of America Resmaa Menakem is best known for his 2017 book, My Grandmother’s Hands. The subtitle of the book...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 7, 2025 | Featured
In my last blog, I described how in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States the Trump administration has ordered National Park employees to review pictures and plaques in the historic district of Philadelphia (Independence Hall, the...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 30, 2025 | Featured
Insights from Historian Timothy Snyder In 2017, during the first term of President Donald Trump, historian Timothy Snyder published a little book entitled On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Snyder’s specialty area is the history of Nazi Germany,...
by Drick Boyd | May 16, 2025 | Featured
Recent Presidential Orders Related to Race In these one hundred-plus days of the Trump presidency, his commitment to building and nurturing white supremacy culture has become overtly evident. Banning critical race theory (CRT)in schools, calling for the closing of DEI...
by Drick Boyd | May 7, 2025 | Featured
On Friday, April 25, my friend and colleague James Kirylo and I made a presentation at the American Education Research Association (AERA) annual conference in Denver, Colorado. Our goal was to draw a parallel between the circumstances that led to Paulo Freire being...
