Keith Boykin

Keith Boykin is a CNN political commentator, New York Times best-selling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. His upcoming book, Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America (Bold Type Books, 2021), examines the raging conflict between America's emerging Black and brown population and its dwindling white majority. Keith was a co-host of the BET Networks talk show "My Two Cents," starred on the Showtime reality television 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." As of 2021, he was developing a scripted TV series with Jarrett Hill. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Keith has taught at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York and at American University in Washington, D.C. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition and