Republicans ramp up minority outreach nationwide ahead of 2016

It was an at-times tense but by all accounts probing conversation when a few hundred gathered here recently in a downtown warehouse space outfitted with projectors, folding chairs and a modest stage. The two-hour forum was not unlike the scores of conversations on race that have taken place in community forums, on barstools and across kitchen tables throughout the country in recent months and years, fueled by the election of the nation's first black president and a renewed focus on policing of black communities in light of the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown shootings.

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