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	Kweisi Mfume anchors a weeklong celebration of Martin Luther King
		Kweisi Mfume, the former president of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, will headline this year’s University of Chicago commemoration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a weeklong celebration that is shaping up to be the largest in University history.
		Mfume served as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and later as the Caucus’ chair of the Task Force on Affirmative Action.
		Mfume will speak on the theme of this year’s King celebration, “Living the Legacy.” While Mfume’s speech is the keynote address of the week, this year’s commemoration includes events that examine and celebrate King’s message in a variety of formats and perspectives.
	www-news.uchicago.edu /releases/05/050106.mlk.shtml (947 words)

	Kweisi Mfume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kweisi Mfume (born Frizzell Gerald Gray, October 24, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former President/CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as a five-term Democratic Congressman from Maryland's seventh district (serving in Congresses 100 - 104).
		Mfume was born Frizzell Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, October 24, 1948, the eldest of four.
		In 1978, Kweisi Mfume ran for the Baltimore City Council and was elected by a narrow margin, serving there until 1986.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kweisi_Mfume (1187 words)

	Kweisi Mfume biography
		Kweisi Mfume became President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on February 20, 1996, after being unanimously elected to the post by the NAACP's Board of Directors.
		Kweisi Mfume, whose West African name means, "conquering son of kings," was born, raised and educated in Baltimore, and it was there that he followed his dreams to impact society and shape a more humane public policy.
		Mfume was formerly a member of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, the Advisory Board of the Schomburg Commission for the Preservation of Black Culture, and the Senior Advisory Committee of the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
	www.topblacks.com /civil-rights/kweisi-mfume.htm (749 words)

	Wikinfo \| Kweisi Mfume
		Kweisi Mfume (born October 24, 1948) is the former CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as a former United States Congressman.
		Mfume was born Frizzell Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was a street hustler and high school drop-out prior to age 23.
		In 1996 Mfume stepped down from his seat in Congress to take up the position as CEO of the NAACP, a capacity that he served until he stepped down on December 31 2004.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Kweisi_Mfume (323 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- NAACP president Kweisi Mfume to step down after heading group since 1996
		BALTIMORE – NAACP President Kweisi Mfume announced Tuesday that he is stepping down after a nearly nine-year tenure in which he helped rescue the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group from debt and scandal.
		Mfume, whose adopted West African name translates to "conquering son of kings," began his career as a dashiki-clad popular radio talk show host and political activist in the 1970s and transformed himself into one of the nation's foremost civil rights leaders.
		Kweisi Mfume (pronounced kwah-EE-see oom-FOO-may) inherited an organization tarnished by scandal and burdened by a $3.2 million debt when he took over as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in early 1996.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20041130-1252-naacp-mfume.html (553 words)

	INTERRACIAL VOICE - From the Editor (Charles Michael Byrd)
		Mfume came to the NAACP at a point in history when the only times the organization had made headlines at all within the previous five years or so was when scandals rocked it.
		Mfume was giving the nation a clear and unmistakable signal that when it comes to educating "fl" children (not to mention participation in the NAACP in general), no non-"fls" need apply.
		Kweisi Mfume's performance on This Week effectively established the NAACP as the paramount political enemy of those mixed-race persons who believe that rights inhere to the individual, not to artificial "racial" or "ethnic" groups, persons who believe that voluntary group affiliation is, at best, a tertiary matter after self and family.
	www.interracialvoice.com /editor19.html (3085 words)

	USATODAY.com - NAACP seeks new leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mfume's decision comes one month after the NAACP announced that the IRS is investigating the organization's tax-exempt status.
		Mfume, a former member of Congress who is considered a potential candidate for higher office, told reporters that he left for personal reasons.
		Mfume, who served 10 years as a member of Congress and eight years as a member of the Baltimore City Council, was left to fend for himself at age 16, when his mother died.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-11-30-mfume-resigns_x.htm (796 words)

	NewsHour Online: NAACP
		Congressman Mfume, a five-term veteran of the House is the former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
		MFUME: Well, it should always be an issue, I think, with all of us, because we're not what we ought to be when we're a polarized society.
		MFUME: My selection wasn't hotly contested, because the board didn't know about it until the night before, and so when they did, fortunately there was a unanimous vote, but I think the divisions that exist and might exist within the NAACP are like they are in any other organization or effort in life.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/race_relations/mfume_speech_12-12.html (1399 words)

	CNN.com - NAACP chief Mfume resigns - Nov 30, 2004
		Mfume, 56, took over the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1996 and was credited with turning around the civil rights organization after turbulent times in the early 1990s.
		Mfume said he will continue "for the next five or six months" to serve as a consultant to the group, of which general counsel Dennis Hayes will be acting president and CEO.
		Mfume's story is one of success against steep odds: He described himself as a high school dropout born into poverty whose mother died when he was 16, who was at times homeless and was arrested 13 times as a gang member before he "miraculously found himself."
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/11/30/naacp.resigns (871 words)

	KWEISI MFUME
		Upon Mfume taking office in February, a number of key positions were vacant, including deputy director, director of communications, director of youth and college division, director of prison programs and director of education.
		Mfume, who now serves as principal spokesman for the NAACP, is responsible for day-to-day operations, including fund-raising efforts, strategic and financial planning, and supervision of the staff in the national office.
		Though Mfume remains a highly vocal critic of the "Contract With America" and the conservative, Republican agenda, as well as a strong supporter of affirmative action, he vows to be a nonpartisan spokesman for the NAACP.
	home.twcny.rr.com /jimmymac3/mfume.htm (2918 words)

	MyDD :: MyDD Conversation with MD-Sen Candidate Kweisi Mfume
		Yesterday morning, I had the opportunity to speak with Kweisi Mfume, one of two leading candidates for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in the state of Maryland (the other being Congressman Ben Cardin, with whom we spoke in February).
		Mfume: I don't know enough about Charlie's plan except to say that it was welcomed discussion and dialogue that we were not having over an issue that at its very roots spoke to trying to find a way to share a military burden, to spread it across all population groups.
		Mfume: The response to the Hurricane was a farce.
	www.mydd.com /story/2006/4/28/18367/9961 (4347 words)

	Kweisi Mfume’s Moral Apartheid
		Mfume (whose homepage boasts of his belligerent name) and his organization have exerted for some time against things Confederate and Confederate-related.
		Kweisi Mfume and his peers have all the energy in the world when it comes to denouncing the defunct Confederacy.
		Mfume’s desertion of Afro-Cubans is moral apartheid, and he should be called to task for it.
	www.lewrockwell.com /kantor/kantor70.html (541 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- NAACP president Kweisi Mfume to step down, spokesman says
		BALTIMORE – NAACP President Kweisi Mfume is stepping down as the head of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group, a spokesman said Tuesday.
		Mfume plans to make the formal announcement at a news conference later Tuesday, communications director John White said.
		Mfume represented Baltimore's 7th district in the House of Representatives and headed the Congressional Black Caucus before taking over as head of the NAACP.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20041130-0545-naacp-mfume.html (382 words)

	BookRags: Kweisi Mfume Biography
		Kweisi Mfume (born 1948), elected president of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1996, was the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
		Former congressman Kweisi Mfume of Baltimore was one of the most prominent fl politicians on Capitol Hill.
		Mfume, who grew up in a poor neighborhood and worked his way into the halls of power, was elected chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1993, just as the number of African American representatives in Congress began to swell to record highs.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/kweisi-mfume (191 words)

	Washington Blade Online
		Kweisi Mfume, a U.S. Senate candidate from Maryland, announced that he supports full marriage rights for gay couples following a decision in Baltimore Circuit Court that the state’s heterosexuals-only marriage law is unconstitutional.
		Kweisi Mfume, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Paul Sarbanes, said this week that he supports equal marriage rights for gays couples-—-the only leading candidate to do so.
		Mfume, a former congressman and past president of the NAACP, has supported civil unions and opposed efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban equal marriage rights for gays.
	www.washblade.com /2006/1-27/news/localnews/mary.cfm (1736 words)

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		Congressional District, Mfume was a staunch advocate of racial preferences in employment and education.
		Among Mfume's crusades was his 1999 announcement that because fl Americans comprise "a significant constituency that is disproportionately affected by gun violence," his organization would file a lawsuit against gun manufacturers.
		In April 2005, Mfume found himself embroiled in scandal when the Associated Press reported that according to a confidential NAACP memo, he had given raises and promotions to women with whom he had intimate personal relationships during his tenure as that civil rights organization's president.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1074 (946 words)

	DCist: Kweisi Mfume Announces Run for Senate from Maryland
		Former Congressman and head of the NAACP Kweisi Mfume announced today he would run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Sen. Paul Sarbanes.
		Mfume began his political career as a radio commentator in the 1970s, served as five-term U.S. congressman before stepping down to head the NAACP between 1996 and November 2004.
		In that period he was credited for reforming the management of the organization, which now has "enjoyed a budget surplus for eight consecutive years and an increasing endowment fund." Mfume told the Post his campaign would focus on overcrowded and underfunded of public schools, high health care costs, and "low expectations" for youth.
	www.dcist.com /archives/2005/03/14/kweisi_mfume_an.php (385 words)

	Mfume calls black conservatives puppets - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - July 13, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mfume said that foes of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People tell them that "we are whining, that we are too liberal, that we are using the scapegoat of victimization and that we are even unpatriotic."
		Mfume named a list of conservative efforts, including school vouchers, saying that "they want to do away with many of our rights and much of the legacy of the NAACP.
		Mfume's remarks about fl conservatives are "hypocritical," said conservative commentator Armstrong Williams, because "the NAACP could not survive on membership fees; it relies on corporations."
	www.washtimes.com /national/20040712-103848-4561r.htm (643 words)

	FOXNews.com - Kweisi Mfume Talks with Bill About Leaving the NAACP - Bill O’Reilly \| The O’Reilly Factor
		According to the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" Kweisi Mfume's contract was not renewed.
		MFUME: I didn't do that because I didn't know what he was going to say.
		MFUME: No. We've had the same amount of disagreements that any two people would have that are strong willed, that are passionate about their work in politics.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,140275,00.html (1472 words)

	Kweisi Mfume — FactMonster.com
		Mfume became active in politics while a student at Morgan State University in Maryland.
		Mfume served on Baltimore's city council from 1979 until 1986, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
		Kweisi MFUME - MFUME, Kweisi (1948—) MFUME, Kweisi, a Representative from Maryland; born Frizzell Gray in...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0800603.html (280 words)

	Kweisi Mfume on Civil Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After the Maryland Supreme Court ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional, Mfume was the only candidate to come out for full civil rights for gays and lesbians; his fellow Democrats danced around the issue.
		Maryland has been pushed into the national spotlight since the Baltimore Circuit Court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional to prohibit gays and lesbians from marrying.
		Mfume has in the past supported civil unions and opposed efforts to amend the federal constitution to block states from marrying gay couples.
	www.issues2000.org /Domestic/Kweisi_Mfume_Civil_Rights.htm (288 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Kweisi Mfume’s Hollywood Shakedown by Larry Elder
		But, according to the Screen Actors Guild, fls, who comprise 12 percent of the population, are cast in 14.8 percent of all roles on television and in movies.
		It turns out that before Mfume's latest blast at television's "lack of inclusion," he filmed a talk-show pilot for a division of NBC.
		Mfume blames the lack of fl decision-makers for television's racial wrong-headedness.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=166 (824 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Kweisi Mfume on President Bush's Refusal to Address the NAACP
		KWEISI MFUME: I think most people know that that was the sort of cover himself because he had told the Urban League two weeks prior that he didn't have time, that he had schedule conflicts, when he really didn't.
		KWEISI MFUME: One of the things that you have to do is you have to start early.
		KWEISI MFUME: Well that's why I went out on the floor and talked about it's none sense number one of attempting to fill a democratic government in Baghdad without protecting democracy and democratic voters here at home.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/07/30/1522251 (1409 words)

	USATODAY.com - No-shows condemned at NAACP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mfume cut them no slack despite their records.
		When Mfume named each of the no-shows in a morning speech, an organist played a dramatic death-knell chord.
		But Mfume made clear that would not be the case this time.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2003-07-14-naacp_x.htm (1056 words)

	Mfume calls black conservatives puppets
		Conservative fl organizations are formed and funded by white Republicans, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume said yesterday in an address to a packed ballroom at the group's annual convention here.
		In fact I saw Mfume and Bond on FOX News today and they were VERY docile and meek and completely opposite the Bush-bashing personalities they present to fl audiences.
		Mfume should buy a couple of vowels for his name, but the MF at the beginning does fit nicely.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1170180/posts (2167 words)

	Washington Blade Online
		Former congressman Kweisi Mfume, one of the leading Democratic candidates for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, says the state's courts had no choice but to strike down heterosexual-only marriage.
		In September, a spokesperson from Mfume's office would not confirm the candidate's position on same sex marriage.
		In an interview with the Washington Post published yesterday, Jan. 22, Mfume said he respected the court's ruling but stopped short of endorsing gay marriage.
	www.washblade.com /thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=4731 (500 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Horowitz's Notepad: Kweisi Mfume's Letter to Dick Armey by David Horowitz
		Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO, NAACP, said today that he looks forward to meeting with Rep. Dick Armey and other leading Republican Congressional leaders to turn down racial rhetoric and to lay "the groundwork for a different type of coexistence and cooperation between the NAACP and the Republican Party."
		Mfume, in a letter to Armey, a former colleague in the House of Representatives, said:
		On February 17, 2001, Mfume called for meetings between himself and President Bush and leaders of Congress.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5938 (855 words)

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