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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...
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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Dr. Ernestein Baylor
Ernestein W. Baylor, a retired professor of history and former department chairwoman who taught at Morgan State University for more than three decades, died of heart failure Saturday at Oak Crest Village.
According to her daughter, Michelle J. Baylor...Tags: University of Oxford, History, Colorado Springs, Frankfort, University of Cambridge
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Killing stirs whispers of resurgent gangs in Pen Lucy
Baltimore Sun reporterPeter Hermann's "Crime Scenes" is a reported feature that provides context about many of the incidents that take place on the streets of Baltimore and beyond. The last shots in the decades-long feud between the Old York and Cator Avenue Boys and the...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Eric Brown, Gang Activity, Prisons, Medicine
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Pasadena's Sachs named Bethany's basketball coach
Holy Cross assistant Andrew Sachs, a native of Pasadena, has been named the men's basketball coach at Bethany. Sachs, who graduated from Salisbury in 1990 and was an assistant there, replaces Mike Summey, who resigned to become director of basketball...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Esther P. Brooks
Esther P. Brooks, a longtime office manager and secretary at Sharon Baptist Church, where she had been a member for 70 years, died June 27 of throat cancer at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. She was 83.
Esther Ann Patterson, the daughter of a Baltimore...Tags: Frederick Douglass, Timonium, Death and Dying, Christianity, Dundalk
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Frank E. Mason Jr., attorney
Frank E. Mason Jr., an attorney and a former supervisor for the Baltimore Health Department, died Saturday at his home in Easton after what his family said was a long illness. He was 78. In 1974, Mr. Mason was a Republican candidate for Talbot County...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Anglican, Johns Hopkins University, Labor Legislation, Christianity
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Guiding city kids into lacrosse
The helmets looked a little too big, like those bobble-headed dolls people used to have in their cars.
On Saturday morning in a Southwest Baltimore park, a few of the boys charging around a field wielding lacrosse sticks looked like pros, expertly... -
All-Metro girls track: First team
Funmi Alabi, Long Reach Alabi had been one of the area's top sprinters before slipping a bit, then returning to form this spring. The senior capped things off with spectacular efforts in the postseason races. She swept the 100 and 200 in the Howard...Tags: Natural Disasters, Long Jump, Teaching and Learning, Disasters, Athletics, Track and Field
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Ernest O. Brown
Ernest Owen Brown, a retired Baltimore surgeon who was one of the early African-American graduates of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died of heart failure June 8 at Seasons Hospice at Northwest Hospital Center. He was 81. Born in...Tags: Armed Forces, Hospitals and Clinics, National or Ethnic Minorities, Medical Specialization, Medical Doctors
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Paul M. Johnson
Paul Mifflin Johnson, a retired Baltimore public school educator and administrator who helped record the history of the original Cross Keys settlement, died of heart failure June 2 at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Ashburton resident was 79. Mr. Johnson,...Tags: Frederick Douglass, Adult Education, Classical Music, National or Ethnic Minorities, Colleges and Universities
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Morris has troubled financial past
Baltimore Sun reportersBrian D. Morris, who resigned as Baltimore City school board chairman this week to accept a six-figure job overseeing school operations, has been the subject of dozens of lawsuits and bad-debt claims the past 15 years, including foreclosures, garnisheed...Tags: Rentals, History, Martin O'Malley, Teaching and Learning, Auction Service
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Rev. Nathaniel Higgs
The Rev. Nathaniel Higgs, a community activist who also had pastored the Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore for nearly four decades, died from complications after prostate surgery June 5 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Towson resident...Tags: Christianity, Fort Meade, National Government, Government, Baptist
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Viewpoint: Rewriting the history of America and Islam
President Barack Obama went to Egypt this month to create common ground between America and Islam. In the process, he whitewashed America's early, troubled history with the Islamic world. In his speech at Cairo University, the president noted that...Tags: Diplomacy, Treaties, History, Christianity, Barack Obama
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