by Drick Boyd | Jan 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
On the Saturday before Christmas, Bryan Miller and I attended the Philadelphia Gun Show in Oaks, PA. Bryan is the executive director of Heeding God’s Call (HGC), a faith-based organization dedicated to gun violence prevention. A major focus of HGC’s work...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am attending the annual conference of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) in Raleigh, NC for the next few days. I came here not knowing what to expect, except for using the time to network with other urban studies programs and like-minded...
by Drick Boyd | May 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
This past week saw the passing of two notable figures from the Civil Rights and Watergate eras. On Monday, May 19 Vincent Harding passed away at the age of 82. He was a long time Civil Rights activist, speechwriter and friend of Martin Luther King Jr.,...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Just over five years ago on a very cold January afternoon I was arrested along with six others for blocking the entrance to Colisimo’s gun shop on Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia. We were there to call attention to the store’s complicity in the straw...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
On a cold January afternoon four and a half years ago, I was arrested along with seven others for sitting down and blocking the entrance to Colisimo’s Gun Store on Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia. Over the course of two days twelve people in all were arrested for...
