Kweisi Mfume

BALTIMORE (AP) — Democrat Kweisi Mfume easily won a mostly mail-in election to finish the term of the late Elijah Cummings, retaking a Maryland congressional seat he held for five terms before leaving to lead the NAACP. Mfume defeated Republican Kimberly Klacik in the heavily Democratic 7th Congressional District, capping a race dramatically reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic. Taking […]

Maryland opened just three polling stations for Tuesday’s special congressional election after mailing ballots to every registered voter as the coronavirus pandemic dramatically reshaped the race between Democrat Kweisi Mfume and Republican Kimberly Klacik. The state’s Board of Elections sent out roughly 484,000 ballots after Republican Gov. Larry Hogan issued a proclamation last month requiring […]

Kweisi Mfume announced a run to reclaim Elijah Cummings’ 7th Congressional District seat Monday. Cummings replaced Mfume in Congress in 1996. But now, Mfume feels he’s the perfect person for the job. “I wore those shoes for 10 years. They still fit comfortably, by the way. It’s just a matter of putting them back on […]

Kweisi Mfume rose from a troubled childhood in Maryland to become a five-term U.S. congressman. On February 15, 1996, the Baltimore native took the reins of the NAACP because he felt he could better advance African-American civil rights from that vantage point. Born Frizzell Gray on Oct. 24, 1948, the future politician dropped out of […]