Coppin State University

The namesake of Baltimore, Maryland’s Coppin State University, Fanny Jackson Coppin, was a woman of exceptional fortitude and ambition. Born into slavery, Coppin was the first Black woman to become a school principal and was driven by a need to spread education to newly freed slaves. Fanny Marion Jackson was born in October 1837 in […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A police officer at Coppin State University in Baltimore shot and killed a man who had just fired at a moving car near that campus Tuesday evening, authorities said. The suspected shooter was pronounced dead on the scene and the officer wasn’t hurt, Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith said at a news […]