by Drick Boyd | Dec 14, 2020 | Featured
A Grim Statistic As of this past Sunday( December 13) more than 370 people, mostly young Black men, have died due to gun violence in Philadelphia. Since 2015 there have been 8500 shootings in the city, not all fatal, but all traumatic and a sign of deep hopelessness...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, March 24 I joined an estimated 7000 people in Philadelphia and millions across the country participating in the March for Our Lives. Marching thru Old City Philadelphia and down by the Delaware River, hearing young people voice their passionate concerns,...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
This morning I woke up to the news of a sniper killing five Dallas police officers and injuring several others. The shooting occurred at the end of a peaceful demonstration to protest the police-inflicted deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando...
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 | Dec 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
What do the following incidents have in common? Dec 14, 2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, CT, lone shooter, 20 year white male kills 26 people (20 children & six adults) with a gun purchased legally by the shooter’s mother June 17, 2015 – Emmanuel AME...
