Participants listen to Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney deliver a speech during the NAACP annual convention on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in Houston, Texas. (AP ...

Mitt Romney offered a direct appeal to African-American voters on Wednesday, arguing in a speech at the NAACP's annual meeting that the black community has been hardest hit by the bad economy and that ...

Headlines are blaring the news that Mitt Romney was booed at his NAACP speech and some critics say that this is going to hurt Romney. As you may have heard on today’s show, both Medved and I believe ...

Update (11:24 a.m. EDT): As expected, Romney highlighted the higher unemployment rate for African Americans, noting that "the unemployment rate for African Americans actually went up, from 13.6 ...

HOUSTON — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney drew jeers from black voters today as he criticized President Barack Obama and pledged to repeal the Democrats' health care overhaul. Romney told ...

Mitt Romney says he wasn't surprised by the negative response to his speech Wednesday before the NAACP convention in Texas. "I think we expected that," the Republican nominee tells Fox Business ...

BlackAmericaWeb‘s Michael H. Cottman writes that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s flailing attempts to connect with black people will likely just continue when he speaks to the civil rights ...

Mitt Romney's speech to the NAACP convention in Houston was according to one's political perspective a "calculated move on his part to get booed..." to help his white base (Rep. Nancy Pelosi), or a ...

It’s not easy for a Republican presidential candidate to address a traditionally liberal organization that represents a more than 90 percent Democratic community. Some might argue Republicans ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. And we begin the hour with presidential politics in two venues, on stage and on screen. First, the stage. In Houston, Vice President ...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech before the NAACP was good at articulating some of the problems in the African-American community, but it was long on generalities when it came to ...

I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Coming up, we will hear from a writer who's bringing new perspective on life in Africa. We'll speak with rising Nigerian writer Rotimi ...