Keith Boykin is a New York Times–bestselling author, TV and film producer, and former CNN political commentator. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Boykin served in the White House, co-founded the National Black Justice Coalition, co-hosted the BET talk show My Two Cents and taught at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University in New York. This week, he speaks on the stories of three Black men and what happens when people don’t participate effectively in government.