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Morgan State University is a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Methodist Episcopal Church founded Morgan State, then named the Centenary Biblical Institute, in 1867. It was renamed Morgan College in 1890 after Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its board of trustees. The school became a public institution when it was purchased by the state in 1939 and opened to students of all races. The school was given university designation and the authority to offer doctorates in 1975 by the state. Morgan State is a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and is a Division I school, but its football team is a Division I-AA team. The school is home to the Morgan...
Morgan State University is a historically black college located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Methodist Episcopal Church founded Morgan State, then named the Centenary Biblical Institute, in 1867. It was renamed Morgan College in 1890 after Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its board of trustees. The school became a public institution when it was purchased by the state in 1939 and opened to students of all races. The school was given university designation and the authority to offer doctorates in 1975 by the state. Morgan State is a founding member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and is a Division I school, but its football team is a Division I-AA team. The school is home to the Morgan State University Choir and the "Maginificent Marching Machine," the school's marching band. Student activities include The Spokesman newspaper, The Promethian yearbook and 20 fraternities, sororities and social clubs. Famous Morgan State alumni include author Zora Neal Hurston and former U.S. congressman Kweisi Mfume.
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George Barrett Jr., 67
George E. Barrett Jr., a retired assistant attorney general whose career spanned more than two decades, died Friday of lung cancer at Carroll Hospice in Westminster. The Owings Mills resident was 67. George Edmund Barrett Jr. was born in Baltimore and...Tags: Corporate Crime, Fraud, Colleges and Universities, Diseases, Lawyers
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Dorothy Y. Wright
Dorothy Young Wright, a retired guidance counselor and teacher in the Baltimore City public school system, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 75. Born Dorothy Boone in Raleigh, N.C., Ms. Wright moved to...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Coppin State University, Colleges and Universities, Classical Music, Timonium
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Opening eyes, minds
Sun reporterThe boys from Baltimore sprawled on leather chairs and sofas in the dark-paneled sitting room of a castle-like residential college at Yale University. It was the kind of place where scholars from earlier decades might have relaxed with cigars as they...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Court Administration, Coppin State University, Angela Bassett, Punishment
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Schools administrator picked
Harford County Public Schools has named Roger L. Plunkett, 51, a 31-year veteran of the Howard County public schools, as the new assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. He was appointed by the Board of Education at its business meeting...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Curricula, Johns Hopkins University
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Hope blooms from adversity
Sun ReporterOnce, the intersection of Cator Avenue and Old York Road in the Pen Lucy neighborhood was so troubled that people wouldn't sit outside on their porches or walk through on their way to church. Young men were being shot and killed on the street. And the...Tags: Television Industry, Local Authority, Satellite and Cable Service, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning
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Teacher, mentor drowns at UMBC
Sun reporterDeon Oneil Henry Jr. had the summer off as a health education teacher, so he decided to take a job working with 38 low-income high school students in an Upward Bound program. One of nine counselors in the program, Henry, 25, helped expose students to...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Law Enforcement, Health and Safety at School, Swimming, Prosecution
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Colonials hire M. Bozeman
Sun reporterGeorge Washington unveiled new women's basketball coach Michael Bozeman at an early-afternoon news conference yesterday, but his big brother, Todd, couldn't wait that long. Todd Bozeman, the men's basketball coach at Morgan State, had already released...Tags: NCAA Tournament, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Walter J. Ennals, 91
Walter James Ennals, a retired city recreation leader for whom a West Baltimore basketball court was named, died of cancer June 17 at Joseph Richey Hospice in downtown Baltimore. The Catonsville resident was 91. Born in Baltimore and raised by his...Tags: Bethlehem Steel
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Free for all
If there is one thing Mr. Flip can back 100 percent, it's getting paid to do very little (as readers of The Flip Side no doubt are aware). So, of course, he has to pass along the lists of highest-paid benchwarmers, compiled by Forbes.com. Baseball:...Tags: National Football League, Kwame Brown, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, David Barrett, Green Bay Packers
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Fine ArtMUSEUMSAmerican Visionary Art Museum // 800 Key Highway / 410-244-1900. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays. • Permanent exhibits: Rotating selections from museum archives. • Through Aug. 31: All Faiths Beautiful....Tags: Village Green, Baltimore Museum of Art, National or Ethnic Minorities, Sculpture, Minority Groups
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