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 | Apr 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee has passed SB 2 a bill that increases the prevalence of school vouchers. POWER, PCCY ( Pennsylvania Citizens for Children and Youth), Education Voters of PA, and many other education justice groups are calling for citizens...
by Drick Boyd | May 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
In his book Liberation Theology: An Introductory Guide theologian Robert McAfee Brown asks the question: “Is it a Kairos moment for us?” The book was published in 1993. Nearly two years earlier, a Los Angeles taxi driver named Rodney King was chased and then...
by Drick Boyd | Nov 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The other day as I was getting dressed in the locker room at my local Planet Fitness, a young man standing in front of the locker next to mine, asked “Sir, excuse me, what do you for a living?” When I told him I was a college professor, he said “I thought so. You...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Link: A full, fair funding formula is essential for racial equality in Pa. | Philadelphia Public School NotebookThe following appeared in the Friday (8/29) edition of the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, an open letter to the PA Legislature written on behalf of...
