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Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America - Talk by Keith Boykin

Keith Boykin '87 delivers the Orvil E. Dryfoos '34 Lecture. Hosted by Jason Barabas, Director of the Rockefeller Center.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Virtual Event
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

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Author and CNN commentator Keith Boykin examines the raging conflict between America's emerging black and brown population and its dwindling white majority.

Keith Boykin is a CNN political commentator, New York Times best-selling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. 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.

A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Keith is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of four books.

Keith was a co-host of the BET Networks talk show “My Two Cents,” starred on the Showtime reality television series “American Candidate,” was an associate producer of the film “Dirty Laundry,” and he has appeared on many other TV shows, including BET’s “Being Mary Jane.”

Born in St. Louis, he has lived in 12 cities and visited 48 of the 50 United States. Keith has traveled the world, and is currently writing new books, including his upcoming 2020 book, Race Against Time.

Jason Barabas ’93 is the Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College as well as a Professor in the Department of Government.

For more information, contact:
Joanne Blais
(603) 646-1464

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