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Last week, the Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act passed the House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) announced $2,809,748 in federal funding for Head Start programs at the Y of Central Maryland and Community Action Council of Howard County.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume (all D-Md.) today announced $999,152 in federal funding to expand student access to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs at Towson University.
Congress paid homage to a local hero this week with the passage of legislation named for Henrietta Lacks. The House of Representatives passed the "Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act" in honor of the African-American woman from Turners Station, who died in 1951, at 31 years old from cervical cancer and is popularly referred to world-wide as the "Mother of Modern" medicine.
Congressman Mfume joins C4 and Bryan Nehman on WBAL 1090/FM 101.5 to provide updates on COVID-relief, the Henrietta Lacks bill and much more.
Congressman Mfume talks COVID-19 stimulus relief, on the Larry Young Show on WOLB 1010 radio.
A conversation with The Honorable Kweisi Mfume (D), U.S. Representative, 7th Congressional District, on the future of America; the state of a Black America; the Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act; and how we go forward as a nation from here.
Mfume, who was elected to Congress this year after having served there in the 1980s and 1990s, took care of some unfinished business the other day in Washington.