Keith Boykin
UPDATE: Keith Boykin contacted Resource Center Dallas this afternoon to cancel his appearance at U-BE. He will be appearing on MSNBC talking about the Supreme Court cases on same-sex marriage that are being heard today and tomorrow. He plans to reschedule his appearance in Dallas.
ORIGINAL POST:
Three-time Lambda Book Award nominee Keith Boykin will speak at United Black Ellument on Wednesday about his latest book, For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home.
U-BE is a program of Resource Center Dallas that meets in Deep Ellum.
Boykin is a CNBC contributor, a BET columnist and a New York Times best-selling author of four books including Beyond the Low Down: Sex, Lies & Denial in Black America.
Educated at Dartmouth and Harvard, Boykin attended law school with President Barack Obama and served in the White House as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton.
He has been actively involved in progressive causes since he worked on his first congressional campaign while still a student in high school. He is a veteran of six political campaigns, including two presidential campaigns, and he was named one of the top instructors when he taught political science at American University in Washington, D.C.
He starred on the 2004 Showtime television series American Candidate and has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, The O’Reilly Factor, The Tyra Banks Show, The Montel Williams Show, Judge Hatchett and The Tom Joyner Morning Show.
A founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition, Boykin delivered a speech to 200,000 people at the Millennium March on Washington and he gave a spoke about the AIDS epidemic in front of 40,000 people in Chicago’s Soldier Field in July 2006.
Boykin was an associate producer of the 2007 feature film Dirty Laundry.
Born and raised in St. Louis, he lives in New York City and Miami.
United Black Ellument, 3116 Commerce St., Suite C. March 27 at 7 p.m.