Open Mind: The Black Republican

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. (Taped 10-17-14)

Premiered in May 1956, Open Mind was created and hosted by Richard D. Heffner, American historian, broadcaster, and University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Fifty years after its first broadcast, Open Mind continues with a new host, Mr. Heffner's grandson, Alexander Heffner. Open Mind as a weekly public affairs program was designed to elicit guests' most meaningful insights into the challenges Americans face in a variety of contemporary areas of national concern.

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