Milestones
Aug 07, 2020
2 minutes
—PHILIP ELLIOTT
DIED
Herman Cain
Conservative original
AT A 1996 POLITICAL EVENT AT SYLVIA’S SOUL-FOOD RESTAURANT in Harlem, a man in the crowd shouted out something that changed Herman Cain’s life: “Black Republicans? There’s no such thing.” The remark so angered Cain, then an independent, that he switched his registration—and over the next quarter-century, the child of the
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