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As of my last update in October 2023, Kweisi Mfume serves as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, a position he has held since 2020. He is actively involved in various legislative efforts, focusing on issues such as healthcare, education, and civil rights. Mfume is also known for his work in promoting economic development within his district. For the most current updates, it’s advisable to check recent news sources.
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The cast of Kweisi - 2008 includes: Kweisi Gharreau as himself
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Kweisi - 2008 was released on:
USA: 5 October 2008 (Elevate Film Festival)
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The cast of The Remarkable Journey - 2000 includes: Hank Aaron as himself Sinbad as himself Margaret Cho as herself Dolores Huerta as herself Patti LaBelle as herself Queen Latifah as herself Kweisi Mfume as himself Rita Moreno as herself Chris Rock as himself Levi Watkins
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Kweisi Mfume has: Played Himself - Guest in "The Charlie Rose Show" in 1991. Played himself in "26th NAACP Image Awards" in 1994. Played himself in "Moesha" in 1996. Played Himself - NAACP President-CEO in "27th NAACP Image Awards" in 1996. Played himself in "Hardball with Chris Matthews" in 1997. Played Himself - NAACP President in "28th NAACP Image Awards" in 1997. Played himself in "The Chris Rock Show" in 1997. Played himself in "29th NAACP Image Awards" in 1998. Played Himself - NAACP President in "30th NAACP Image Awards" in 1999. Played himself in "The Remarkable Journey" in 2000. Played himself in "31st NAACP Image Awards" in 2000. Played Himself - NAACP President-CEO in "32nd NAACP Image Awards" in 2001. Played himself in "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" in 2002. Played Himself - NAACP President-CEO in "33rd NAACP Image Awards" in 2002. Played himself in "Real Time with Bill Maher" in 2003. Played himself in "Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy" in 2009. Played himself in "Obama in NC: The Path to History" in 2010.
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The cast of 29th NAACP Image Awards - 1998 includes: Erykah Badu as herself Tyra Banks as herself Tyson Beckford as himself Andre Braugher as himself Neville Brothers as Themselves LeVar Burton as himself Diahann Carroll as herself Kevin Clash as Elmo LL Cool J as himself Stacey Dash as herself Roger Ebert as himself David Foster as himself Kirk Franklin as himself Morgan Freeman as himself Pam Grier as herself Brandon Hammond as himself Gregory Hines as Himself - Host Kathy Ireland as herself Wyclef Jean as himself Jay Leno as himself Nia Long as herself Kweisi Mfume as himself Lisa Nicole Carson as herself Phylicia Rashad as herself Della Reese as herself Richard Roundtree as himself Lynn Whitfield as herself Joe Williams as himself Malik Yoba as himself
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The cast of 28th NAACP Image Awards - 1997 includes: Erika Alexander as herself Debbie Allen as herself Prince as himself Blackstreet as Themselves Halle Berry as herself LeVar Burton as himself Tracy Chapman as herself George Clinton as himself Kim Coles as herself Dominique Dawes as herself Michael DeLorenzo as himself Loretta Devine as herself Myrlie Evers as herself Aretha Franklin as herself Bryant Gumbel as himself Arsenio Hall as Himself - Host Yolanda King as herself Patti LaBelle as Herself - Host Martin Lawrence as himself Jay Leno as himself Kweisi Mfume as Himself - NAACP President Lisa Nicole Carson as herself Phylicia Rashad as herself Della Reese as herself Rob Reiner as himself Busta Rhymes as himself Robert Townsend as himself Douglas Turner Ward Denzel Washington as himself Jaleel White as himself Lynn Whitfield as herself Montel Williams as himself
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The cast of Swipe - 2008 includes: Bradley Badouin as Kyle The Waiter Terrell Byrd as Officer Eagle Alexis Cooper Affion Crockett as Marcus Henry Dittman as Johnny Maritte Lee Go as Mrs. Lee Alphonso McAuley as Brian Rachel McAuley as Rachel Nicholas Mccullom as Dexter Damaine Radcliff as Mfume Drew Sidora as Drew
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Give it up, no one will ever answer this question. Bluuuuuuuuue Phi!!!!!!!!!!!!
It started as a call that members of Phi Beta Sigma used to each other. Sometimes it was used as a password to get into places or as a call for help. Later on this became a nickname for the Phi Beta Sigma/ Zeta Phi Beta family. They were just referred to as the Blue Phi.
It started out as all black men but alot of other notable people were given honorary membership like: Bill Clinton, Arsenio Hall, Kweisi Mfume, Montel Williams, Maury Povich, Martin Lawrence, Philip Micheal Thomas. The Blue Phi isn't always male, sometimes they're female. They're not always black. They may be white, Asian or black. It was a group that was gaining alot of popularity in the 80's and 90's. They're still around but I'm not sure about how popular.
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The cast of 26th NAACP Image Awards - 1994 includes: Tatyana Ali as herself Debbie Allen as herself Speech as himself Sinbad as himself Philip Bailey as himself Angela Bassett as herself Toni Braxton as herself Avery Brooks as himself Donald Byrd as himself Ben Chavis as himself Morris Chestnut as himself Ossie Davis as himself Siedah Garrett as herself Jasmine Guy as herself Howard Hewett as himself Whitney Houston as herself Cissy Houston as herself Michael Jackson as himself Gladys Knight as herself Queen Latifah as herself Martin Lawrence as himself Jenifer Lewis as herself Nia Long as herself Curtis Mayfield as himself Brian McKnight as himself Kweisi Mfume as himself June Pointer as herself Anita Pointer as herself Ruth Pointer as herself Patrice Rushen as herself Donnie Simpson as himself Blair Underwood as himself Mario Van Peebles as himself Denzel Washington as himself Verdine White as himself Maurice White as himself Daphne Zuniga as herself
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The cast of 31st NAACP Image Awards - 2000 includes: Yolanda Adams as herself Michael Beach as himself Halle Berry as herself Morris Chestnut as himself Michael Clarke Duncan as himself Rosario Dawson as herself Laurence Fishburne as himself Jamie Foxx as himself Tyrese Gibson as himself Eddie Griffin as himself Robert Guillaume as himself LisaGay Hamilton as herself Steve Harvey as Himself - Honoree Terrence Howard as himself Eriq La Salle as himself Jay Leno as himself Jet Li as himself Nia Long as herself Wendie Malick as herself Kweisi Mfume as himself Michael Michele as herself Shemar Moore as himself Austin Peck as himself Della Reese as herself Smokey Robinson as Himself - Honoree Holly Robinson Peete as herself Diana Ross as Herself - Host Victoria Rowell as herself Darius Rucker as himself Deion Sanders as himself Tavis Smiley as himself Steven Spielberg as Himself - Honoree Cedric the Entertainer as himself Wilmer Valderrama as himself Luther Vandross as himself Denzel Washington as himself
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The cast of 33rd NAACP Image Awards - 2002 includes: Musiq as Himself - Performer Angela Bassett as herself Diahann Carroll as herself Sean Combs as himself Loretta Devine as Herself - Presenter Sharlene Falls as herself Jamie Foxx as himself Nona Gaye as herself Tyrese Gibson as himself Steve Harvey as himself Gregory Hines as himself Linda Hopkins as Herself - Performer Ernie Isley as Himself - Presenter Ronald Isley as Himself - Presenter Dwayne Johnson as himself Alicia Keys as Herself - Performer Bernie Mac as himself Aaron McGruder as himself Kweisi Mfume as Himself - NAACP President-CEO Shemar Moore as Himself - Presenter America Olivo as Musical Guest - Soluna Master P as Himself - Presenter Della Reese as herself Condoleezza Rice as herself Little Richard as Himself - Honoree Holly Robinson Peete as Herself - Presenter Aries Spears as himself Jeremy Suarez as himself Chris Tucker as Himself - Host Camille Winbush as herself Stevie Wonder as himself Jeffrey Wright as Himself - Presenter
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The cast of The Weekend It Lives - 1992 includes: Joe Clair as Tony Maria Copper as Nikki Chris Gatewood as Granddad Julia Gorin as Sarah Kelci Jeter as Tonya Kristine Louisa as Erika Michael Mfume as Michael Fredrick Montgomery as Kevin Racquel Price as Kendra Sandra Pulley as Kea John Wardlow as D.J. Paige Washington as Girl Joke Tracy Wiggs as Rock
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The cast of 27th NAACP Image Awards - 1996 includes: Erika Alexander as herself Angela Bassett as herself Halle Berry as herself Andre Braugher as himself Garth Brooks as himself LeVar Burton as himself Ray Charles as himself Loretta Devine as herself Myrlie Evers as herself Kirk Franklin as himself Daisy Fuentes as herself Johnny Gill as himself Nikki Giovanni as herself Ed Gordon as himself Arsenio Hall as himself David Hasselhoff as himself Gregory Hines as himself Whitney Houston as Herself - Co-host Quincy Jones as himself Rodney King as himself Eartha Kitt as herself Martin Lawrence as himself James McDaniel as himself Kweisi Mfume as Himself - NAACP President-CEO Eddie Murphy as himself Jada Pinkett Smith as herself Richard Pryor as himself Della Reese as herself Holly Robinson Peete as herself Will Smith as himself Delila Vallot as Dancer Dionne Warwick as herself Denzel Washington as Himself - Co-host Forest Whitaker as himself Lynn Whitfield as herself Mykelti Williamson as himself Oprah Winfrey as herself Malik Yoba as himself
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The cast of Blood Makes the Grass Grow - 1997 includes: Aimee Allison as Herself (conscientious objector, USAR) George Bush as Himself (speech on Desert Storm) Colleen Gallagher as Herself (conscientious objector, USNR) Tahan Jones as Himself (conscientious objector, USMCR) John Kramer as Narrator Ronald Kuby as Himself (attorney) Charles Moskos as Himself (military policy advisor) Kweisi Raghib Ehoize as Himself (conscientious objector, USMC) Hillary Richard as Herself (attorney) Norman Schwarzkopf as Himself (address at West Point)
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Damaine Radcliff has: Played NY Jets FootBall Player in "Monday Night Mayhem" in 2002. Played African guy in "Death of a Dynasty" in 2003. Played Break Dancer in "Marci X" in 2003. Played Nelson in "Shark" in 2006. Played Mac Carter in "Step Up" in 2006. Played Jamal in "Katt Williams: American Hustle" in 2007. Played Damaine in "Massa Card" in 2008. Played Mfume in "Swipe" in 2008. Played Guy In car in "Before Dawn Breaks" in 2011. Played Various characters in "In the Flow with Affion Crockett" in 2011. Performed in "Sketchy" in 2012.
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Elijah Eugene Cummings was a politician and member of the United States House of Representatives on behalf of Maryland's 7th District, serving from 1996 until his passing in 2019.
He received his J.D. (Juris Doctor) from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1976, and in 1982 was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. During his 14 years as a state representative, Cummings served as Chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, and was also named Speaker Pro Tempore, the second highest position in the House of Delegates. He was the first African American in Maryland’s history to hold that honor.
In 1996, Elijah Cummings was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Maryland’s 7th District after predecessor Kweisi Mfume resigned to become the head of the NAACP. After winning a Democratic primary against six other candidates, Cummings defeated Republican opponent Kenneth Kondner in the general election with over 80 percent of the vote.
While in office, Cummings' tenure was marked by his time as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, his staunch defense of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the Select Committee on Benghazi, and most recently by his role in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump while serving as chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
On Oct. 17, 2019, Cummings' office released a statement that he had passed away in a hospice center in Baltimore due to "complications concerning long-standing health challenges". He was 68.
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The following words all rhyme with Lama
Dharma, Karma, kama, farmer, lava, guava, llama, Ghana, inca, kola, larva, mamba, maya, mitzvah, burma, china coca, and many many more.
If you look up "rhyming dictionaries on the web you will find more.
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Combining the white philanthropic support that characterized Booker T. Washington's accommodationist organizations with the call for racial justice delivered by W. E. B. Du Bois's militant Niagara Movement, the NAACP forged a middle road of interracial cooperation. Throughout its existence it has worked primarily through the American legal system to fulfill its goals of full suffrage and other civil rights, and an end to segregation and racial violence. Since the end of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, however, the influence of the NAACP has waned, and it has suffered declining membership and a series of internal scandals.
The NAACP was formed in response to the 1908 race riot in Springfield, capital of Illinois and birthplace of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the descendants of abolitionists, issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, only 7 of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln's birth. Echoing the focus of Du Bois's militant all-black Niagara Movement, the NAACP's stated goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, the equal protection of the law, and universal adult male suffrage, respectively.
The NAACP established its national office in New York City and named a board of directors as well as a president, Moorfield Storey, a white constitutional lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association. The only African American among the organization's executives, Du Bois was made director of publications and research and in 1910 he established the official journal of the NAACP, The Crisis. With a strong emphasis on local organizing, by 1913 the NAACP had established branch offices in such cities as Boston, Massachusetts; Kansas City, Missouri; Washington, D.C.; Detroit, Michigan; and St. Louis, Missouri.
A series of early court battles, including a victory against a discriminatory Oklahoma law that regulated voting by means of a grandfather clause (Guinn v. United States, 1910), helped establish the NAACP's importance as a legal advocate, a role it would play with overwhelming success. The fledgling organization also learned to harness the power of publicity through its 1915 battle against D. W. Griffith's inflammatory Birth of a Nation, a motion picture that perpetuated demeaning stereotypes of African Americans and glorified the Ku Klux Klan.
Its membership grew rapidly, from around 9,000 in 1917 to around 90,000 in 1919, with more than 300 local branches. The writer and diplomat James Weldon Johnson became the association's first black secretary in 1920, and Louis T. Wright, a surgeon, was named the first black chairman of its board of directors in 1934; neither position was ever again held by a white person. Meanwhile, The Crisis became a voice of the Harlem Renaissance, as Du Bois published works by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and other African American literary figures.
Throughout the 1920s the fight against lynching was among the association's top priorities. After early worries about its constitutionality, the NAACP strongly supported the federal Dyer Bill, which would have punished those who participated in or failed to prosecute lynch mobs. Though the U.S. Congress never passed the bill, or any other antilynching legislation, many credit the resulting public debate---fueled by the NAACP's report, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1919---with drastically decreasing the incidence of lynching.
Johnson stepped down as secretary in 1930 and was succeeded by Walter F. White. White was instrumental not only in his research on lynching (in part because, as a very fair-skinned African American, he had been able to infiltrate white groups), but also in his successful block of segregationist Judge John J. Parker's nomination by President Herbert Hoover to the Supreme Court of the United States. Though some historians blame Du Bois's 1934 resignation from The Crisis on White, the new secretary presided over the NAACP's most productive period of legal advocacy. In 1930 the association commissioned the Margold Report, which became the basis for its successful reversal of the separate-but-equal doctrine that had governed public facilities since 1896′s Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1935 White recruited Charles H. Houston as NAACP chief counsel. Houston was the Howard University law school dean whose strategy on school-segregation cases paved the way for his protégé Thurgood Marshall to prevail in 1954′s Brown v. Board of Education, the decision that overturned Plessy.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, which was disproportionately disastrous for African Americans, the NAACP began to focus on economic justice. After years of tension with white labor unions, the association cooperated with the newly formed Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in an effort to win jobs for black Americans. Walter White, a friend and adviser to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who was sympathetic to civil rights, met with her often in attempts to convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to outlaw job discrimination in the armed forces, defense industries (which were booming in anticipation of U.S. entry into World War II), and the agencies spawned by Roosevelt's New Deal legislation. Though not initially successful, Roosevelt agreed to open thousands of jobs to black workers when the NAACP supported labor leader A. Philip Randolph and his March on Washington movement in 1941. Roosevelt also agreed to set up a Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) to ensure compliance.
Throughout the 1940s the NAACP saw enormous growth in its membership, claiming nearly 500,000 members by 1946. It continued to act as a legislative and legal advocate, pushing (albeit unsuccessfully) for a federal antilynching law and for an end to state-mandated segregation. By the 1950s the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund, headed by Marshall, secured the last of these goals through Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed segregation in public schools. The NAACP's Washington, D.C., bureau, led by lobbyist Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., helped advance not only integration of the armed forces in 1948 but also passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964, and 1968, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Despite such dramatic courtroom and congressional victories, the implementation of civil rights was a slow, painful, and sometimes violent process. The unsolved 1951 murder of Harry T. Moore, an NAACP field secretary in Florida whose home was bombed on Christmas night, was just one of many crimes of retribution against the NAACP and its staff and members during the 1950s. Violence also met black children attempting to enter previously segregated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, and other southern cities, and throughout the South many African Americans were still denied the right to register and vote.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s echoed the NAACP's moderate, integrationist goals, but leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), felt that direct action was needed to obtain them. Though the NAACP was opposed to extralegal popular actions, many of its members, such as Mississippi field secretary Medgar Evers, participated in nonviolent demonstrations such as sit-ins to protest the persistence of Jim Crow segregation throughout the South. Although it was criticized for working exclusively within the system by pursuing legislative and judicial solutions, the NAACP did provide legal representation and aid to members of more militant protest groups.
Led by Roy Wilkins, who had succeeded Walter White as secretary in 1955, the NAACP cooperated with organizers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin in planning the 1963 March on Washington. With the passage of civil rights legislation the following year, the association had finally accomplished much of its historic legislative agenda. In the following years, the NAACP began to diversify its goals and, in the opinion of many, to lose its focus. Millions of African Americans continued to be afflicted as urban poverty and crime increased, de facto racial segregation remained, and job discrimination lingered throughout the United States. With its traditional interracial, integrationist approach, the NAACP found itself attracting fewer members as many African Americans became sympathetic to more militant, even separatist, philosophies, such as that espoused by the Black Power Movement.
Wilkins retired as executive director in 1977 and was replaced by Benjamin L. Hooks, whose tenure included the Bakke case (1978), in which a California court outlawed several aspects of affirmative action. At around the same time tensions between the executive director and the board of directors, tensions that had existed since the association's founding, escalated into open hostility that threatened to weaken the organization. With the 1993 selection of Benjamin F. Chavis (now Chavis Muhammad) as director, more controversies arose. In an attempt to take the NAACP in new directions, Chavis offended many liberals by reaching out to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. After using NAACP funds to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit, Chavis was forced to resign in 1995 and subsequently joined the Nation of Islam.
At the end of the 20th century, the NAACP focused on economic development and educational programs for youths, while also continuing its role as legal advocate for civil rights issues. Kweisi Mfume, former congressman and head of the Congressional Black Caucus, is president and chief executive officer, and Julian Bond is chairman of the board. The organization currently has more than 500,000 members.
Please use the information below to contact the NAACP. Please be also aware that the official site of the NAACP can be found at www.naacp.org. Please reach out to the Africana Online team if you need further assistance by going to the about section on the top left of the page.
National Headquarters
4805 Mt. Hope Drive
Baltimore MD 21215
Local: (410) 580-5777
Toll Free: (877) NAACP-98
Membership
Phone: (866) 636-2227
ACT-SO
Phone: (410) 580-5650
Email: actso@naacpnet.org
Education & Scholarships
Phone: (410) 580-5760
Youth & College
Phone: (410) 580-5656
Fax: (410) 764-6683
NAACP Events
Phone: (410) 580-5780
or (410) 580-5782
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