Rand Paul, you can talk about black history -- just get it right
OPINION - Some GOPers, Sen. Paul included, love to bring up the fact that Abraham Lincoln 'freed the slaves'...
Rand Paul fails black history at Howard
OPINION - During a speech at Howard University, Rand Paul made his case for blacks supporting the Republican Party. Unfortunately, he was pitching a GOP that hasn't existed for more than 100 years...
Rand Paul tries to sell Republicanism to blacks
ANALYSIS - The actual words of the likely 2016 presidential candidate illustrated the surprising and unlikely-to-work strategy Republicans are taking in courting the black vote...
Can Raffi Williams win the minority vote for the GOP?
theGRIO REPORT - Raffi Williams has a tough job ahead of him. He’s just been named deputy press secretary at the Republican National Committee, tasked with taking the party’s message to young and African American voters and black media...
'Politics Nation': Black pastor talks GOP outreach
VIDEO - The Republican party loves to remind voters that it is “the party of Lincoln”–but in the most recent election, only 6 percent of African-American voters cast their ballots for the GOP’s Mitt Romney...
Arkansas' GOP-led Legislature passes voter ID law
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas legislators passed a law Monday requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, overriding Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of the bill, which he called an expensive solution to a non-existent problem...
RNC calls for major changes for GOP
theGRIO REPORT - Over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference, it was at times difficult to tell the GOP is reeling from two straight presidential defeats...
At CPAC, Republicans admit diversity challenges
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — As the GOP struggles to broaden its appeal, the head of the American Conservative Union declared Thursday that the Republican Party is not a home for everyone...
Republicans still trying to dump Obamacare
ANALYSIS - The inclusion of repeal in the House budget illustrates a broader problem for the GOP: a lack of vision on many major issues...
Obama friend or foe? McCain charts his course
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. John McCain is a walking contradiction, antagonizing President Barack Obama over foreign policy one minute, cooperating with the Democrat the next on immigration and the budget...
