Keith Boykin talks about the book, Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi.
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Keith Boykin talks about The Loneliness of the Black Republican, a very informative nonfiction book by Leah Wright Rigeur that helps explains how the Republican Party evolved in the 20th Century from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and now Trump.
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For Valentine’s Day, Keith Boykin talks about Iyanla Vanzant’s book, In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want, as a part of his daily Black History Month book series.
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Donald Trump said he’s “the least racist person” in the room at the final presidential debate. Then he claimed that nobody has done more for the Black community than he had. By the time the night was over, his supporter, Rick Santorum, claimed that nobody ever called Trump a racist before he was president. Those three statements were so outlandishly false that they deserve a response. Here it is.
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Democrats could make history in November 2020 by electing five new Black senators from the south. 1. Jaime Harrison from South Carolina. 2. Raphael Warnock from Georgia. 3. Mike Espy from Mississippi. 4. Adrian Perkins from Louisiana. 5. Marquita Bradshaw from Tennessee.
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As we approach the final days of the 2020 presidential campaign, Donald Trump is doubling down on his racism. It's part of a long and troubling pattern. He never apologized for leading a lynch mob against the now exonerated Central Park 5. He never apologized to President Obama for birtherism. He never apologized to Black NFL players he called SOBs. He never apologized to Black countries he called s-holes. He never apologized for Black lives lost to Covid.
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Even after testing positive for Covid-19, Donald Trump’s coronavirus response has been reckless and irresponsible. His behavior is sending a clear message to the American people that he's not a stable person who we can trust to be our president for the next four years.
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The way to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and her legacy is by carrying on the work she pursued, by voting in record numbers in the November 3 election, and by working to end the systems of oppression that perpetuate discrimination against women and people of color in America.
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Trump is encouraging the violence in America to distract from the 180,000 Americans who have died from coronavirus since March and the tens of millions who have lost their jobs in the recession this year. Trump wants to blame Biden, but this is happening in Trump's America.
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Trump delivered what may have been the most overtly racist convention speech since Pat Buchanan's infamous culture war speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention. And it was the most profoundly divisive convention speech given by a major party nominee since Barry Goldwater's 1964 acceptance speech.
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Republicans can’t erase Trump’s five decades of racism with a four-day convention or a 10-week campaign.
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On a Saturday afternoon in August, I took a bike ride with cyclists protesting for Black Lives Matter.
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Ron Simmons was the single most important person in my intellectual development as a black gay man. He is one of the few people to have been quoted in all four of the books I have published. “The freeing of black gay genius requires that we develop institutions to secure the foundation of the black gay community,” he was quoted in my second book.
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In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall, I’m republishing a piece I originally published in September 2012.
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Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina brought out a black woman named Lynne Patton to prove that Donald Trump is not a racist. That didn’t go over so well.
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If you want things to change, you can’t just vote every four years in presidential elections. You also need to vote for senators, representatives, governors, state legislators, mayors, city council members, school board members, and, yes, even in special elections.
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The Jussie Smollett story, however it is resolved, does not diminish the serious issue of violence and hate crimes directed at Black LGBTQ people.
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If Tumblr wants to create a Disney-fied platform simply for unprovocative, bland straight white content, count me the hell out.
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