Keith Boykin is an American TV and film producer, national political commentator, author, and former White House aide to President Bill Clinton.

[1] He also participated in The Coalition for Civil Rights, a student group dedicated to diversifying the law school's faculty.

[6][7] After graduating from Harvard in 1992, Boykin began working at a San Francisco law firm where he had previously interned.

However, he left that position in order to work for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign as the Midwest Press Director.

[4] In April 1993, Boykin helped to arrange the first meeting between an acting U.S. president and representatives from the LGBTQ community.

"[10] In 2004, Keith Boykin and his partner at the time, Nathan Hale Williams, made television history as the first openly black gay couple to appear on a reality television show, when they appeared on the Showtime reality TV series "American Candidate.

"[11][12] In 2005, Minister Louis Farrakhan invited Keith to speak during the tenth anniversary commemoration of the Million Man March.

[1] My Two Cents was promoted as an "urban current events" show which explored topical issues relevant to black audiences.

[16] He has also been featured or quoted in articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, VIBE, and Jet.

John H. Dickerson an A.M.E. Pastor, served as the grand master of the Prince Hall Affiliated Masons of Florida from 1899 until 1916.

[22] Boykin's grandfather, John H. Dickerson Sr., served as principal of Campbell Street Elementary School in Daytona Beach, Florida.

[23] In 1996, Boykin revealed his sexual orientation in the book One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America.