By Jeff Barker
In their moment together Thursday, Mfume said he spoke with Pelosi about how her father — months before his death — attended her first swearing-in on the House floor. “They brought him in with a wheelchair and I remember how he wept on the floor that day out of pride,” Mfume said in an interview.
While Pelosi stayed on, Mfume, 74, left Congress after five terms only to return in 2020.
By Dan Rodricks
Rep. Kweisi Mfume, a Democrat representing Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, pushed Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration to seek funds for a potentially transformative project in West Baltimore — the redevelopment of the tragic Highway to Nowhere.
Last month, the city’s Department of Transportation applied for up to $2 million for a feasibility and design study.
By Jeff Barker
With Republicans hoping to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Kweisi Mfume said Thursday that “we’re not prepared to roll over and play dead” if Democrats lose their majority.
Mfume, a Baltimore Democrat who was handily reelected in Tuesday’s midterm election, hosted a forum of area faith leaders at Cylburn Arboretum, near the Coldspring neighborhood.
By WTOP News
“If … the goal posts on a football field are 100 yards apart and yet when you get the ball, all of a sudden, they’re 150 yards apart, somebody is playing a game by changing the rules of the game,” said Baltimore-area Congressman Kweisi Mfume.
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"Prince George's County is the best place for the FBI, and Baltimore City and Baltimore County stand totally in lockstep with these efforts. We will not go away, we will not shirk our responsibility, and we will continue to call it out to make sure that one set of rules remains," Mfume said in a statement.
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By Bryna Zumer
Now the Baltimore Department of Transportation and other leaders say they're planning to heal 50 years of damage done by infrastructure. Mayor Brandon Scott and Congressman Kweisi Mfume note the highway destroyed more than 900 homes and displaced 1,500 people in what was a predominantly Black middle-class area. It had been intended to connect I-70 with interstates 83 and 95, but that never happened.
By Eugene Scott
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), a former president and chief executive of the NAACP, said Sunday that Tuberville’s hateful comments could spur violence against Black people.
“His comments are the most vicious, vile, repugnant, parochial, racist thing I’ve heard in a long, long time,” Mfume said on MSNBC. “People take that — the sick ones — and they figure that they have to do something to extend the senator’s philosophy.
By Mike Freeman
"His comments are about the most vicious, vile, repugnant, parochial, racist things that I've heard in a long, long time," Rep. Kweisi Mfume, who is also the former head of the NAACP, told MSNBC. "This is how violence gets started against Black people, as in the case in Buffalo."
“The National Council of African-American History and Culture Act of 2022 grew out of a 2021 discussion with the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture,” said Rep. Mfume (D-MD-07) to the AFRO.“I had an idea to create a council to enlarge the effort.”
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By Jeff Barker
“When you look at the state of Maryland, people here recognized, fortunately, that Maryland was sort of leading the way in terms of protecting those [abortion] rights by laws that were passed by the General Assembly,” said U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume of Baltimore, who is seeking his second full term since returning to Congress to represent the 7th Congressional District.
But Mfume said the GOP’s latest attacks on abortion rights would bypass states’ laws, such as Maryland’s, and pose “a grave concern.”