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 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 | Jun 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Looks like what drives me crazyDon’t have no effect on you –But I’m gonna keep on at itTil it drives you crazy too(“Evil,” Langston Hughes) Though I have read and studied many of Langston Hughes’ poems, I had not heard this one until a few weeks ago when...
by Drick Boyd | May 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
In his book Liberation Theology: An Introductory Guide theologian Robert McAfee Brown asks the question: “Is it a Kairos moment for us?” The book was published in 1993. Nearly two years earlier, a Los Angeles taxi driver named Rodney King was chased and then...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m disgusted.After several weeks of stymieing the government’s ability to operate by causing a shutdown and complaining about the expense of the Affordable Health Care Act (which unfortunately has not been launched all that effectively), House Republicans have now...
