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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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Respect called key to school safety
Sun reporterAfter several well-publicized violent incidents last school year, Baltimore's teachers got a lesson on how building stronger relationships with their students reduces the chance of classroom disruption and increases achievement. "When students have...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, Culture, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Schools
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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: Major League Baseball, Clubs and Associations, Diseases, Baseball, Elections
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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: Clubs and Associations, National Government, Death and Dying, Real Estate, Real Estate Agents
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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, Police, Crimes, Murder, Police Investigations
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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: National Government, Employees, Mount Vernon, Government
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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: Death and Dying, Virginia, Colleges and Universities, Petersburg (Petersburg, Virginia), First United Corporation
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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, Festive Event, Police Arrests, North Carolina, Foo Fighters
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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: Death and Dying, Justice System, Casino and Gambling, Personal Income, Fort McHenry
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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: Clubs and Associations, National or Ethnic Minorities, Enoch Pratt Free Library, History, 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: Andre Agassi, Local Elections, Barry Levinson, NBC, Project Runway
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S.C. State heads MEAC preseason poll; NSU third, HU fourth
Daily PressWe'll have more information from the MEAC's get-together later in the day, but here is the poll: 1. S.C. State (6 first-place votes) 272 voting points 2. Delaware State (6) 252 3. Norfolk State (2) 216 4. Hampton (2) 214 5. Morgan State 170 6....Tags: Delaware, North Carolina, Bethune-Cookman University, Florida A&M University, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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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: Martin O'Malley, Transportation, Petroleum Industry, Lighthouse Point, Environmental Pollution
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