Shaun King

Jeffery Shaun King (born September 17, 1979) is an American writer and civil rights activist. He is noted for his use of social media to promote religious, charitable, and social causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement. He is the senior justice writer for the New York Daily News, and a political commentator for The Young Turks. Previously, he was a contributing writer for Daily Kos. 2Early life King grew up in Versailles, Kentucky. He was raised by his white mother, with the knowledge that his biological father was a light-skinned black man. According to a local police detective, those who knew him were aware of his biracial heritage. King attended Huntertown Elementary School and Woodford County High School. King attended Morehouse College, a private, historically black men's college in Atlanta, Georgia, where he majored in history. Midway through his education, he had to take a medical leav