“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Leah Wright Rigueur discusses her new book "The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power," a history of the GOP's relationship with African Americans from the New Deal to Ronald Reagan's presidency.