Kweisi Mfume

Kweisi Mfume
Kweisi Mfumeis the former President/CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as well as a five-term Democratic Congressman from Maryland's 7th congressional district, serving in the 100th through 104th Congress. On September 12, 2006, he lost a primary campaign for the United States Senate seat that was being vacated by Maryland U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes...
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Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.
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