by Drick Boyd | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured
In late July there was series of mega-Zoom calls following the announcement that Kamala Harris was taking Joe Biden’s place as the Democratic presidential candidate. First, 40,000 joined on a call of Black Women for Kamala Harris. A couple days later there were...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Description: While President Trump is using his Border Wall and the Caravan of Migrants coming through Mexico as political talking points, the Caravan and the Wall represent a reality of poverty and suffering we can not and dare not ignore. President Trump has sought...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 3, 2018 | Featured
This week the threatened tariffs from Canada, China, and the European Union that were initiated in response to the U.S tariffs initiated by #45 have gone into effect. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is protesting, the stock markets are wavering, and at least one...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dear Attorney General Sessions, I was deeply offended by your recent letter in the Philadelphia Inquirer criticizing Philadelphia for being a “sanctuary city,’ and even more, I was outraged at the way you characterized undocumented immigrants as “criminal aliens.” You...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
For the past several years on or around the Fourth of July, I have made a practice of re-reading portions of Frederick Douglass’ famous July 5, 1852 speech in Rochester, NY entitled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Speaking at the height of a...
