Biography
Keith Boykin is a New York Times best-selling author of seven books. His latest book is Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? 25 Arguments That Won’t Go Away (2024).
Keith studied under critical race theory founder Derrick Bell at Harvard, attended law school with future President Barack Obama, helped organize the first ever meeting between LGBT leaders and a sitting U.S. president when he served in the White House for President Bill Clinton, marched with civil rights leader Coretta Scott King in Atlanta, and traveled on a presidential delegation to Africa with the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Keith has taught at American University in Washington, D.C., the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and City College of New York. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition.
Keith co-hosted the BET talk show “My Two Cents,” debated on CNN for five years as a national political commentator, starred on the Showtime reality TV series “American Candidate,” worked as an associate producer of the film “Dirty Laundry,” and has appeared on numerous TV shows, including BET’s “Being Mary Jane.”
Keith currently produces an online video series on race and politics with weekly episodes everywhere from London to Los Angeles. Born in St. Louis, he has lived in 12 cities, visited 48 of the 50 United States, and traveled the world.
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