Kweisi Mfume

Mfume named chair of Morgan State board, signals Wilson will stay

2013-05-09 12:48:34

Kweisi Mfume was named the new chair of Morgan State University's Board of Regents on Tuesday, more than three months after his predecessor was ousted amid a public battle over university leadership. Mfume quickly signaled that university President David...

Morgan State board votes against renewing president's contract

2012-12-10 18:42:00

In a heated, narrowly divided closed-door meeting, Morgan State University's board of regents voted last week not to renew President David Wilson's contract, sources close to the board said Monday. The ouster comes amid a string of recent incidents...

For former members, life after Congress

2013-01-02 14:11:00

Connie Morella served as an ambassador in Paris. Helen Bentley became a consultant to the port of Baltimore. Wayne Gilchrest opened an environmental education center on the Eastern Shore. Former members of Congress from Maryland, they rebounded from...

Orioles manager Buck Showalter deserving of Baltimore Sun Marylander of the Year honor

2012-12-31 04:35:00

It was the Orioles’ final regular-season series in Tampa Bay -- three October games that preceded the team’s first trip to the playoffs in 15 years -- and I was sitting in Orioles manager Buck Showalter’s office in the visiting clubhouse...

Morgan board reverses decision, extends Wilson's contract

2012-12-28 18:57:58

Morgan State University's Board of Regents voted to extend the contract of the university's president for an additional year during a lengthy meeting Friday — reversing a contentious decision to seek a new president at the close of the academic...

Patricia Cook-Ferguson, teacher and Balto. Co. NAACP president

2012-12-03 18:21:44

Patricia Cook-Ferguson, a longtime Baltimore teacher and president of the Baltimore County NAACP known for wearing multiple hats in advocating for youth education and civil rights advancements, died Wednesday of complications from lung cancer. She was 56....

Marylander of the Year

2012-11-18 05:00:00

In 1987, The Sun's editorial board decided to bestow upon the Johns Hopkins University's then-president, Steven Muller, a newly created award: Marylander of the Year. The distinction was meant to honor the person who "contributed the most to Baltimore and...

Sobhani pulls radio ad amid backlash

2012-10-26 16:44:00

Independent U.S. Senate candidate Rob Sobhani agreed to pull down an advertisement he began airing on black radio stations this week that attacked incumbent Sen. Ben Cardin after state Democrats complained Friday the spot was riddled with inaccuracies....

Former Md. Sen. Clarence Mitchell III has died

2012-10-11 17:04:00

Clarence M. Mitchell III, who helped steer a sweeping desegregation measure through the General Assembly, died Thursday of cancer at Seasons Hospice at the Northwest Hospital Center. He was 72. Mr. Mitchell became the nation's youngest black legislator...

Morgan president offers condolences to family in cannibal case

2012-06-07 15:27:10

Speaking out for the first time about a gruesome killing allegedly committed by a troubled student, Morgan State University's president expressed condolences to the families involved but declined to discuss details of the case or the institution's history...

Charlotte speech gives O'Malley a shot at advancement, redemption

2012-09-03 20:39:00

When Gov. Martin O'Malley takes the stage at the Democratic convention to give the most important speech of his political career, he'll have to deliver on one deceptively simple goal: He'll need to make people want to hear more. As an increasingly...

Afro-American newspaper honors paperboys and girls in anniversary celebration

2012-07-21 14:21:00

For Marian Anderson Bell, selling copies of the Afro-American newspaper on Baltimore streets as a 12-year-old papergirl in 1945 felt like freedom. Now 79 years old, Bell reminisced Saturday about stashing away the pennies she earned to buy school...

At the climax of the NAACP hosted protest of discriminatory hiring practices in the Supreme Court, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume is arrested for crossing the police line in an attempt to deliver resumes of minority law students to Chief Justice William Renquist.

2012-05-03 12:27:10

Baltimore native Kweisi Mfume served as the President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and as a five-term Democratic Congressman in Maryland. He graduated from Morgan in 1976.

2012-03-09 12:46:59

Kweisi Mfume speaks at the funeral service for former Maryland Governor and Baltimore Mayor, William Donald Schaefer .

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