While Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump bragged about his penis size at the start of Thursday night's raucous debate in Detroit, Michigan, the Flint water crisis was the 33rd question.

In a talk aimed at slowing Donald Trump's momentum as the Republican presidential front-runner, Mitt Romney on Thursday came out swinging against the divisive candidate during an address in Salt Lake City.

The number of Blacks dismissive of Republican front-runner Donald Trump because of his xenophobic verbiage may well be inflated, author and political pundit Tavis Smiley said in a op-ed piece in USA Today on Wednesday.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his supporters were roundly criticized and condemned as racists after a video surfaced of acolytes assaulting a Black woman at a Super Tuesday rally Louisville, Kentucky.

In conversation that spilled into CNN's Wednesday morning broadcast, contributor Van Jones, a former Obama staffer, and Jeffrey Lord, an ardent Donald Trump supporter, engaged in a fiery debate on Super Tuesday about race, the Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan.

On Tuesday, voters in 12 states headed to the polls as Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump work to expand their delegate count against their nearest challengers, according to The New York Times.

Controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan turned heads last Sunday during his annual Saviour's Day address when he gave praise to GOP presidential hopeful, Donald Trump.

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Amidst the controversy surrounding the Academy Awards this year, viewership hit an 8-year low.

An estimated 30 Black students were squired away from a Donald Trump rally in Valdosta, Georgia by Secret Service agents who said the Republican presidential candidate had requested the removal before he began speaking, reports USA Today.

A day before voters head to polls in pivotal Super Tuesday primary races in certain states around the nation, Republican candidates continued to pummel each other in an effort to win votes.

Donald Trump said he doesn't know David Duke and unequivocally disavowed support from white supremacists. But he made statements in 2000 that indicate knowledge of Duke's racist views.

The remaining five Republican presidential candidates took to the stage Thursday at the University of Houston in the final debate ahead of the all-important Super Tuesday primaries next week.