There are 2 article(s) tagged GOP:

• February 2021

  • Opinion: Legacy of George W. Lee is instructive for today’s GOP

    Lee encouraged Black Memphians to support Democrat Lyndon Johnson in 1964. But when emerging Black leaders in Memphis pleaded for Lee to officially abandon the Republican Party and become a Democrat, he graciously declined.

    By Otis Sanford February 04, 2021

• August 2020

  • Opinion: Has the GOP’s ‘big tent’ folded?

    The party with which I have self-identified for much of my adult life, the Republican Party, has failed to live up to its “big tent” credo of inclusiveness and belonging.

    By Robert Lee Long August 06, 2020