Before we knew him as Kweisi Mfume, we knew him as ‘Pee Wee,’ and we consider him family | GUEST COMMENTARY

By Eli Pottash

Kweisi Mfume is up for re-election to fill Maryland’s 7th congressional seat. A prominent leader in the Black community, Kweisi previously left Congress in the mid-1990s to become president of the NAACP and is credited with reviving that historic organization. Some in Baltimore may remember Kweisi from serving on the City Council or maybe even from his talk show in the ‘70s. But my family knew Kweisi before that. We knew him as Mary Gray’s son Pee Wee who used to stock shelves in my grandparents’ grocery.

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