“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black,
examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election.

Protesters gather outside Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus after a group created an encampment inside the building on May 01, 2024 in New York City. The occupation of the building comes a day after the police raided both Columbia University and City College arresting dozens and closing down encampments in support of Palestine. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

What College Protests Say About America

Voters should remember Donald Trump and Republicans’ selective outrage exposes their hypocrisy about “law and order.”

by Keith Boykin
Stephen A. Smith defended Trump’s claim that “Black folks find him relatable because what he is going through is similar to what Black Americans have gone through.” (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)

Stephen A. Smith’s Non-Apology ‘Apology’ 

His comparison of Trump’s legal issues to the struggles of Black people shows influential Black folks must educate, not just entertain.

by Keith Boykin
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 16: Former president Donald Trump stands with local politicians and bodega workers as he visits a bodega store in upper Manhattan where a worker was assaulted by a man in 2022 and ended up killing him in an ensuing fight on April 16, 2024 in New York City. The worker, Jose Alba, was arrested before the Manhattan District Attorney decided to drop charges for lack of evidence. Trump visited the bodega after spending a second day in court where he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Trump Does the Harlem Fake

The one time Trump comes anywhere near Harlem is to visit a bodega owner who stabbed and killed a Black man.

by Keith Boykin

Trump Fried Chicken

Just because one Black person at a fast food restaurant says nice things about Donald Trump, that doesn’t mean that the rest of Black people support him.

by Keith Boykin