That year, they collaborated in an effort to help Nixon win over Black voters and the 1968 presidential election, writes ...

At the Republican National Convention in 1968, Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it ...

President-elect Donald Trump doubled his support among black men from last cycle while amassing the largest percentage of nonwhite voters for a Republican presidential hopeful since Richard Nixon.

Black men opted for Trump by about 21%, while black women backed him at 7%, with 12% of black supporters voting for him overall — up from 8% eight years prior, according to Edison Research.

A better explanation is that in 1971, Republican President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" led to a massive increase in incarceration, with the prison population rising from ...