Michael Steele: GOP at a crossroads
OPINION - For the party to survive it was time to turn the elephant to face its future. But have you ever tried to turn an elephant?
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...
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...
GOP still groping for a direction
ANALYSIS - Five months after Election Day, the Republicans are still grappling with how they should reorient their party to win presidential elections in the future...
The GOP holds its diversity primary
ANALYSIS - But a more quiet shift is also taking place: the party that officially opposes affirmative action is heavily promoting its diverse faces...
