Keynote Lecture: "For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide: When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough"

When Keith Boykin led the movement for diversity at Harvard Law School, he never imagined that his classmate Barack Obama would one day become President of the United States. Since that time, Boykin's broad and wide-ranging career has taken him from the halls of Harvard, to the Clinton White House, to a political commentator position for MSNBC and CNBC. As a special assistant to the president and a spokesman for the administration, Boykin was once the highest ranking openly gay person in the Clinton White House. Boykin is also founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition. Boykin is the author of three popular books, including the New York Times best-seller Beyond the Down Low. His newest book is For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home. He currently serves as the editor of the online newspaper, The Daily Voice, hosts the BET television show My Two Cents, and is a visible daily presence on the CNBC television network. There will be a book-signing after the lecture.