by Drick Boyd | Aug 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
A recent New York Times article on the ongoing events in Ferguson, MO was entitled “Among Whites, Protests Stir a Range of Emotions and a Lot of Perplexity.” The article points out that while many whites want to be sympathetic to the concerns of the protesters,...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Over the past week or so I have been holding four seemingly unrelated events together in my mind because in a strange way they seem to capture the essence of racial politics in our country today: the ongoing conflict and grief in Ferguson, MO over the shooting of an...