1. Keith Boykin is an American TV and film producer, national political commentator, author, and former White House aide to President Bill Clinton.
25 Facts About Keith Boykin
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Keith Boykin has made much of this public in his 2022 memoir, Quitting: Why I Left My Job to Live a Life of Freedom.
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Keith Boykin participated in student government and several sports including track-and-field and wrestling.
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At the age of fifteen, Keith Boykin moved to Florida with his father, William O Keith Boykin, who relocated to the state to start a beauty supply business.
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Keith Boykin was an award-winning debater and varsity track-and-field athlete.
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Keith Boykin participated in The Coalition for Civil Rights, a student group dedicated to diversifying the law school's faculty.
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Keith Boykin left his role at the White House in January 1995 in order to write his first book, One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America, which detailed the special burdens black LGBTQ people experience.
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In late 1995, Keith Boykin became the executive director of the National Black Gay and Lesbian Forum, a national non-profit dedicated to the uplift of Black Gays and Lesbians.
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In Quitting, Keith Boykin describes his time with the organization as an important professional experience.
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Keith Boykin spoke at the Millennium March on Washington for LGBTQIA rights in 2000.
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From 1999 to 2001, Keith Boykin taught Political Science as an adjunct professor at American University in Washington, DC In 2001, Keith Boykin left American University to move to New York City where he co-founded the National Black Justice Coalition in 2003.
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In 2005, Minister Louis Farrakhan invited Keith Boykin to speak during the tenth anniversary commemoration of the Million Man March.
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In February 2006, Keith Boykin became co-host of the TV series "My Two Cents" on the BET J channel.
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From 2008 to 2016, Keith Boykin served as a contributor for CNBC.
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From January 2017 until January 2022, Keith Boykin served as contributor for CNN.
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Keith Boykin has appeared on several other broadcast news outlets such as VH1, BET, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR.
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Keith Boykin has been featured or quoted in articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, VIBE, and Jet.
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Keith Boykin has appeared on BET's "Being Mary Jane" in 2014.
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Keith Boykin's syndicated column appeared in several newspapers across the country, including The New York Blade, the Washington Blade, Southern Voice, and the Houston Voice.
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Keith Boykin led the erecting of the Masonic Temple on 410 Broad Street.
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Keith Boykin was the chairman of the 1912 Florida State Republican Convention.
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In 2006, Keith Boykin won a gold medal in wrestling at the 2006 Gay Games.
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Keith Boykin met his biological father, John Dickerson, a chemist for Miami-Dade Pollution Center, in 2015.
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In 2022, Keith Boykin moved to Los Angeles but he maintained his residence in New York City.
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Keith Boykin has two godsons whom he considers his 'sons'.