Donald Trump speaks at the country's largest annual gathering of Black journalists on Wednesday, an effort to bolster the Republican presidential candidate's standing that has divided the group's members. Trump's first-ever appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists' annual convention in Chicago comes a week after the 2024 election was shaken up by President Joe Biden's decision to drop out. The group, founded in 1975, regularly invites presidential candidates to address its annual gathering, but Trump is the first Republican to accept the offer since George W. Bush spoke at a conference they co-hosted in 2004.