by Drick Boyd | Aug 7, 2025 | Featured
In my last blog, I described how in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States the Trump administration has ordered National Park employees to review pictures and plaques in the historic district of Philadelphia (Independence Hall, the...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Monday, January 23, just one week after commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that his administration would not allow public schools in his state to offer the Advanced Placement course in African...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
In his collection of meditations, Deep is the Hunger, Howard Thurman asks this question: “Is this a world with moral meaning at the center?” He goes on to say that this is not a question that can be answered with empirical research or an accumulation of data....
by Drick Boyd | Oct 2, 2021 | Featured
“For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” Amanda Gorman Light and Darkness At the end of September, I visited Minneapolis, Minnesota on personal business, and took time to visit the George Floyd Memorial in...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 13, 2021 | Featured, Uncategorized
The Womb Not The Tomb On New Year’s Eve 2016 Rev. William Barber, co-founder of the Poor People’s Campaign, sponsored an interfaith Watchnight New Year’s Eve at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. For many gathered that evening, there was a somber and sober...
