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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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Campaign steps up to bat to stop staph infections
Sun reporterBoston Red Sox manager Terry Francona went to the hospital for routine arthroscopy on both knees in 2002. But the aftermath of his surgery was anything but routine. After being out of the hospital for two weeks, his body was attacked by a staph...Tags: Communicable Diseases, Elections, Political Candidates, Clubs and Associations, Health Organizations
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Harold J. Jennifer Jr.
Sun ReporterHarold Jones Jennifer Jr., former executive director of the Baltimore Civic Center, died Tuesday at Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in St. Mary's County of complications resulting from myelofibrosis. He was 86. Mr. Jennifer ran the arena during a time...Tags: Real Estate Agents, National Government, Government, Real Estate Sellers, Death and Dying
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Woman's body found in Herring Run Park
Sun reportersA woman's body was found this morning under a bridge by a jogger in Herring Run Park in Northeast Baltimore, city police said. The body of the woman, who was unidentified and was believed to have been in her 30s, was spotted about 7 a.m. lying on rocks...Tags: Religious Leaders, Murder
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Rebirth begins in Hampden
Sun reporterA dark-wood sign board still standing yesterday listed No. 354 as the congregation's final hymn at the Hampden church struck by lightning and badly damaged by fire 10 days ago. A watery hymnal lists the selection as "I Surrender All." As workers...Tags: Mount Vernon, National Government, Government, Employees
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Monroe R. Saunders Sr.
Sun reporterBishop Monroe Randolph Saunders Sr., who was founder and senior pastor of the First United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic, now Transformation Church of Jesus Christ, died Friday of cancer at his Ashburton home. He was 89. Mr. Saunders, the son of...Tags: Randallstown, First United Corporation, People, Religious Leaders, Society
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Lots of music, no troubles
Sun reporterSitting still was not an option. Thousands of live music lovers were torn between two stages yesterday at the third annual Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico Race Course. It was a popularity contest, with some of today's hottest musicians vying for the...Tags: Kanye West, Radio Industry, Festive Event, Pimlico Race Course, Virgin Music Festival
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Andrea Johnson
Sun ReporterAndrea D. Johnson, a former associate state attorney general and principal counsel to the Maryland Lottery, died Aug. 1 of breast cancer at Northwest Hospital Center. The longtime Randallstown resident was 55. Andrea Dale Jackson was born and raised in...Tags: Lawyers, Death and Dying, National Football League, Anglican, Casino and Gambling
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Whatever happened to ... Anna Curry?
Anna Curry has been busy since leaving the Enoch Pratt Free Library in 1992, where she had worked for 38 years and was the library's first African-American and female director. "My first job at Pratt was at the Pennsylvania Avenue branch in 1954, and...Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Minority Groups, History, National or Ethnic Minorities, Barack Obama
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Levinson moved, left his name
Barry Levinson has come a long way from the knotty pine club room and marble front stoop. All the way, in fact, to "10,000 sf on 2 level acres, pool, guest quarters, separate studio, 7BR, 8 full & 3 half baths," just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San...Tags: Michael Phelps, Elections, Andre Agassi, Cinema Industry, iPhone
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Md. shifts tack on transit policy
Sun reporterIn a shift away from highways-first transportation policies, top elected officials in the Baltimore region have decided to direct about $340 million in previously unallocated revenue over 20 years entirely toward mass transit projects. The action by...Tags: Public Transportation, Environmental Pollution, Transportation, Traffic, Martin O'Malley
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Keystrokes aplenty
Sun Music CriticA few years ago, when the University of Baltimore unveiled its intimate Performing Arts Theater at the Student Center, a handsome new Steinway concert grand, selected by eminent pianist Yefim Bronfman, was part of the package. That piano will soon get a...Tags: Classical Music, Baltimore Museum of Art, Towson, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Conservatory
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Life of 'K-Swift' remembered
Sun reporterThe thousands of fans who filed into Morgan State University's auditorium for Khia Edgerton's funeral yesterday could recite her accomplishments: recording artist, radio personality, leader of an underground music movement. But during the two-hour music-...Tags: Randallstown, Values, Sheila Dixon, Martin O'Malley, Radio Industry
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