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UB Law professor focuses on inequality in campaign for Congress

January 28, 2020 1 Comment

09.20.2011 BALTIMORE, MD- F. Michael Higginbotham, Wilson H. Elkins Professor of law. Interim Dead of the University of Baltimore, School of Law. Leadership in Law Portraits. (The Daily Record/Maximilian Franz).

For University of Baltimore law professor and congressional candidate F. Michael Higginbotham, widespread inequality in the United States is one of the primary issues he hopes to address if he is elected to fill the late Rep. Elijah Cummings’ seat in ...

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UMD Law establishes scholarship to honor Rep. Elijah Cummings

January 22, 2020 Comments Off on UMD Law establishes scholarship to honor Rep. Elijah Cummings

U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings speaks in 2017 at a health care rally outside the state House during the legislative session. (The Daily Record / Bryan P. Sears)

The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law has established a scholarship to honor the late U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, who graduated from the school in 1976.

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Rep. Cummings’ daughters back aide in race against his wife

December 2, 2019 Comments Off on Rep. Cummings’ daughters back aide in race against his wife

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2019, file photo, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington. U.S. Rep. Cummings has died from complications of longtime health challenges, his office said in a statement on Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Elijah Cummings’ daughters are supporting one of his longtime aides in the race for his seat, which is being sought by the late congressman’s widow.

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Former NAACP leader Mfume to run for congressional seat

November 5, 2019 Comments Off on Former NAACP leader Mfume to run for congressional seat

FILE - In a Friday, Oct. 25, 2019 file photo, Kwiesi Mfume, board chairman of Morgan State University, speaks during funeral services for Rep. Elijah Cummings, in Baltimore. Mfume said Monday, Nov. 4, 2019 he will run for the Maryland congressional seat that became vacant with the death of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, Pool, File)

A former leader of the NAACP, Kweisi Mfume, launched a bid to return to Congress Monday, entering the race for the Maryland congressional seat that became vacant with the death of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings last month.

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Editorial Advisory Board: Well done, Congressman Cummings

October 25, 2019 Comments Off on Editorial Advisory Board: Well done, Congressman Cummings

On Oct. 17, 2019, the state of Maryland truly lost a giant of a warrior and a pillar within the community. Elijah Eugene Cummings, Maryland House representative for the 7th Congressional District of Baltimore city since 1996, died after battling ...

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Elijah Cummings lies in repose; visitors pay respects

October 23, 2019 Comments Off on Elijah Cummings lies in repose; visitors pay respects

Pallbearers walk with a casket carrying the body of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings as it arrives at Morgan State University ahead of a public viewing, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore ahead of the first in a series of services.

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Cummings remembered as a mentor to many in Baltimore

October 18, 2019 Comments Off on Cummings remembered as a mentor to many in Baltimore

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2015, file photo, State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, right, listens as U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings speaks during an announcement of the start of the Baltimore Federal Homicide Task Force, in Baltimore. Mosby is not the only Baltimore resident who relied on Cummings for advice. The congressman and civil rights advocate, who died Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, at 68, mentored countless young people, faith leaders, activists, politicians and others throughout the years. (Lloyd Fox/The Baltimore Sun via AP, File)

The top prosecutor in Baltimore knew exactly where to go for guidance after she made the decision to file charges in an explosive case involving the death of a black man in police custody. She called Rep. Elijah Cummings, her ...

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Funeral services set for US Rep. Elijah Cummings

October 18, 2019 Comments Off on Funeral services set for US Rep. Elijah Cummings

A wake and funeral for U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings will be held next week at the church where he worshipped for nearly four decades. New Psalmist Baptist Church spokeswoman Joi Thomas said in an email that services for the Maryland ...

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Cummings, Trump relations soured amid House investigations

October 18, 2019 Comments Off on Cummings, Trump relations soured amid House investigations

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 2, 2109 file photo, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., leads a meeting to call for subpoenas after a career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump's administration were granted security clearances despite "disqualifying issues" in their backgrounds, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Trump on Saturday, July 27, denigrated Cummings' congressional district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” broadening a campaign against prominent critics of his administration that has exacerbated racial tensions. Trump lashed out in tweets against the powerful House oversight committee chairman, claiming his Baltimore-area district is “considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States.” (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Elijah Cummings said somebody once told him he would see one guy when he sat down with President Donald Trump "and then you might see another guy" the next day.

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Congressman Elijah Cummings has died

October 17, 2019 Comments Off on Congressman Elijah Cummings has died

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, died early Thursday of complications from longstanding health issues, his office said. He was 68.

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