by Drick Boyd | May 26, 2021 | Featured
On May 5 Rev. David Brown, a diversity advisor at Temple University, and I held a public conversation focused on the major themes of my book Disrupting Whiteness. The event was sponsored by the Inside-Out Prison-Exchange program, which brings together traditional...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 15, 2019 | Featured
One cold January morning in 1979 or 1980, during a Jan-term at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS), I walked into a classroom and was greeted by a tall, lanky, African-American man in his late 50’s. During that month I was taking a course on racism with Dr....
by Drick Boyd | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured
What I Heard When I Came Out of the Woods Last Sunday (July 14) I literally came out of the woods (four days of backpacking in northern PA preceded by 2 ½ weeks on vacation, most of it out of the country) to the news of #45’s Twitter tirade against four congresswomen...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is the first in a series of postings where I share some thoughts on how to talk with the whites in our families, workplaces, organizations and social networks about the difficult topic of race. I don’t claim to be an “expert” on the topic, but rather am one...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
History, despite its wrenching painCannot be unlived, but if facedWith courage, need not be lived again(Maya Angelou –“Pulse of the Morning”)This past week, my wife and I made a trip to Washington, DC to visit the African- American History Museum, which opened just...
