See Keith’s book tour schedule dates from January through April 2024.
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My new book is available for preorder at bit.ly/whyrace.
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Check out my new book, Quitting, which comes out Wednesday, October 12, 2022, exclusively on Scribd.
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June is here, and I’m excited to be a part of the new Ralph Lauren 2022 Pride campaign.
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Seventy-five years ago this week, Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball. But that’s not the end of the story. Sadly but predictably, Robinson’s legacy has been whitewashed to fit the clean and tidy, and ultimately, false narrative of racial progress.
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson received more votes (53-47) for her confirmation than current Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett (52-48), Brett Kavanaugh (50-48), or Clarence Thomas (52-48) received for their nominations.
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This World AIDS Day, let’s pledge to end HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination. And let’s find a cure that brings an end to this 40-year-old pandemic.
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Let’s be clear. Just because the new Omicron variant was first discovered in southern Africa doesn’t mean it originated there.
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I first met General Colin Powell in 1993, when he served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Clinton administration. He was on the wrong side of history on some major issues, but at least he was willing to learn from his mistakes and grow.
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My new book, Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America, has just been published today.
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After a deadly pandemic, shocking incidents of police brutality, a racial justice crisis, and the fall of a dangerous demagogue, America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national crisis is the fear of a darkening America—a country in which there is no longer a predominant white majority.
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Forty years ago today, on June 5, 1981, the CDC reported the first cases of what would eventually come to be known as HIV/AIDS. Today, on the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, I remember some of the hundreds of thousands of Black people we lost along the way.
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Keith Boykin explains why DC statehood is a racial justice issue. The state of Wyoming has 578,000 people, it’s only 1 percent Black, and it has two U.S. senators. But the District of Columbia has 705,000 people, it’s 46 percent Black, and they have no U.S. senators and no voting members in the House of Representatives.
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Keith Boykin lived in Miami Beach for six years and says spring break is always crazy, but spring break in a pandemic is even crazier.
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Keith Boykin says the federal government should legalize marijuana.
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If you got your stimulus check, thank a Democrat. That’s because every single Republican in Congress voted against the American Rescue Plan, the Covid relief stimulus plan that paid out $1400 to Americans in need.
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Keith Boykin talks about the book, Black Boy Out of Time, by Hari Ziyad.
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Keith Boykin talks about the new book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, by Charles Blow.
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