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 with 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 several colleges, including Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition.
Keith served as a national political commentator for CNN, co-hosted the BET talk show “My Two Cents,” 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” and ABC’s “The View.”
Keith currently writes a nationally syndicated column and produces an online video series called “Black Vote, Black Power” for Word In Black news. Born in St. Louis, he has traveled five continents, lived in 12 cities, and visited 48 of the 50 United States. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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