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 ...

That year, they collaborated in an effort to help Nixon win over Black voters and the 1968 presidential election, writes Shaun Assael for Politico.. It was April 9, 1968. The two had just attended ...

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.

And had Nixon won, it might have meant nuclear war. The 1960 election was closer than you think. ... The Black vote, which had turned Democratic during FDR’s reign, was up for grabs.

During Nixon’s first term, the budget for enforcing civil rights increased to nearly 35 times its original amount; by 1972, the proportion of Black children attending segregated schools in the ...