biography
Keith Boykin is the editor of The Daily Voice newspaper. He is a host of the BET television show My Two Cents, a New York Times best-selling author of three books, and a frequent political commentator on CNN.
Educated at Dartmouth and Harvard, Keith attended law school with U.S. Senator Barack Obama and served in the White House as a
special assistant to President Bill Clinton.
Keith has been actively involved in progressive causes since he worked on his first congressional campaign while still a student in high school. He is a veteran of six political campaigns, including two presidential campaigns, and he was named one of the top instructors when he taught political science at American University in Washington.
Keith has traveled extensively across four continents, and in 1997 President Clinton appointed him, along with Coretta Scott King and Rev. Jesse Jackson, to the U.S. presidential trade delegation to Zimbabwe.
In 2004, Keith launched his media career as a star on the Showtime
television series "American Candidate." Since then, he has appeared on
Anderson Cooper 360, The O'Reilly Factor, The
Tyra Banks Show, The Montel Williams Show, The Tom
Joyner Morning Show, and on numerous other television and radio
programs. He has been selected as one of The Advocate Magazine's 10
"people of the year" and as one of Instinct Magazine's 25 "leading men"
of 2005. In 2004 and again in 2006, he was designated as one of Out
Magazine's 100 most intriguing people.
A founder and first board president of the National Black Justice
Coalition, Keith has spoken to audiences, large and small, all across
the world. He delivered a landmark speech to 200,000 people at the
Millennium March on Washington and he gave a stirring speech about the AIDS epidemic in front of 40,000 people in Chicago's Soldier Field in July 2006.
Each of Keith's three books has been nominated for a Lambda Literary
Award, including his most recent book, Beyond the Down Low: Sex,
Lies and Denial in Black America. Keith won the Lambda Literary
Award for his second book, Respecting The Soul, while his
first book, One More River to Cross, is taught in colleges and
universities throughout the country.
Keith is an associate producer of the 2007 feature film Dirty Laundry and is working on his fourth book. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Keith currently lives in New York City.
