Public Enemy rapper Chuck D, journalist George Curry, writer Keith Boykin, comic book creator Christopher Priest, filmmaker Spike Lee, Syracuse University professor of finance Dr. Boyce Watkins and cartoonist Aaron McGruder ( who, in addition to numerous critical references throughout his series, The Boondocks, made a particular episode criticizing the channel ), all have protested BET's programming and actions.

Boykin appeared on the Showtime television series American Candidate and has appeared on VH1, BET, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and numerous other television and radio programs, including The Montel Williams Show, The Dennis Miller Show, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, Tony Brown's Journal and Anderson Cooper 360 °.

In Beyond the Down Low, Keith Boykin denies this connection, attributing the media claim to sexism, racism, homophobia and classism.

Boykin argues that the down-low debate demonizes black men, stigmatizes black women, and encourages an unhealthy " battle of the sexes " that distracts the community's attention from the issues of HIV prevention, personal responsibility and condom use.

Smith, who was openly gay, has a panel in the original NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and is also lamented in a poem Speak: A Poem for the Millennium March by Keith Boykin, read by its author for the Millennium March on Washington for Equality on April 29, 2000.

Boykin has developed methods to improve Black academic performance by enhancing existing motivational tendencies of African-American children.

Their daughter Mary Boykin Miller ( 1823 – 86 ) married James Chesnut, Jr. ( 1815 – 85 ), who later became a U. S. Senator and a Confederate general.

Her parents were Mary Boykin ( 1804 – 85 ) and Stephen Decatur Miller ( 1788 – 1838 ), who had served as a U. S. Representative.

Once the highest-ranking openly gay person in the Clinton White House, Boykin helped organize and participated in the nation's first meeting between gay and lesbian leaders and a U. S. President.

In 1997, Clinton appointed Boykin to the U. S. presidential trade delegation to Zimbabwe, along with Rev.

* Muay Thai Kickboxing – The Ultimate Guide to Conditioning, Training and Fighting, Chad Boykin, 2002, Paladin Press, Boulder, Colorado.

* 1823 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author ( d. 1886 )

* Boykin, William ( Maj. Gen .), Never Surrender, Faith Words, New York, NY, ( 2008 ).

* Chris Boykin, CEO of Big Black Inc.

The General Assembly appointed five commissioners: James Moseley, Isaac Boykin, Dr. Henry Bizzel, John Beaman, and Alfred Johnson.

* Mary Boykin Chesnut, born in Stateburg, daughter of Stephen Decatur Miller.

McLaren took the project to New York City in 1986, and was for a time funded through NYC-based nightlife impresario and producer Robert Boykin.

This was contracted and several drafts written, but the process slowed down with the physical deterioration of producer Boykin, who subsequently died in 1988.

* LTG William G. Boykin, former United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense.

Frank W. Boykin ( D )

Most prominent are David Boykin, Aaron Getsug, Nicole Mitchell and Karl E. H. Seigfried-all of whom came up through Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge.

This was one of the lower results of the sporting breeds, with Greyhounds coming lowest with 3. 4 %, and the related Boykin Spaniel coming in second highest at 47 %.

The Boykin Spaniel is most often worked as a non-slip retriever, though it originated as a duck-and turkey-flushing dog.

In his book Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America Keith Boykin explains that secret homosexual relations are not unique to African American men, and in fact occur in many societies and among all races.

* Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth S. Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography, Foreword by C. Vann Woodward, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992

Lieutenant General William G. " Jerry " Boykin ( retired ) was the United States Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

Contributing editors credited in the magazine ( and responsible for most of the written content ) include: Balfe, Julis, Pat Balfe, Ted Bell, John Bobey, Rick Bovay, Sam Boykin, Stu Burguiere, Evan Cutler, Steve Helling, Timothy Hogan, Scott Mendenhall, Eric D. Snider, and Jason Wright.

Mary Boykin Chesnut, born Mary Boykin Miller ( March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886 ), was a South Carolina author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a " vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle.

The plantations passed on to a male Chesnut descendant, and Mary Boykin Chesnut received almost no income for her support.

By the early 9th century AD the name Suehans was being used for Swedes, although, according to the scholar James Boykin Rives, " it is very difficult to assess the degree of ethnic continuity here, since it was a common practice in Carolingian times as well as earlier to apply old names to new people.

After leaving Dartmouth in 1987, Boykin spent a year and a half working for Michael Dukakis ' presidential campaign and then entered Harvard Law School, where he was a leader in the campus diversity movement and general editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.

Wade Boykin is an American psychology professor known for his work in the field of education.

Boykin is one of the programme director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk ( CRESPAR ), a collaborative effort between Howard and Johns Hopkins University funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement ( OERI ) in the United States Department of Education.

Wade Boykin ( May 2007 ), Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Assessment, Howard University

* Brandon Boykin cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League

Since 2008, Boykin has made regular appearances on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and BET.

" Bucky " Burruss, helping with Delta Force selection at the time, recalled that Boykin " had a bad knee and I thought he would never make it ....

Boykin was later acquitted on the charge of murder.

Mary Boykin Miller was born on March 31, 1823, on her maternal grandparents ' plantation, called Mount Pleasant, near Stateburg, South Carolina, in the High Hills of Santee.

Mary Boykin Chesnut began her diary on February 18, 1861, and ended it on June 26, 1865.

* Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905, Digitized text on Documenting the South, University of North Carolina website

In February 2006, Boykin became a co-host of the TV series My Two Cents on the BET J channel, a part of BET Networks.