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Black Enterprise Founder Earl Graves Sr. is a Proud Son of Morgan State University
Earl Graves Sr. was a shining example of Black success and leadership and those traits were cultivated during his time at Morgan State University. The Brooklyn native and champion of Black businesses was part of the 1957 graduating class and left a lasting impact on the Historically Black College and University (HBCU), one that continues to this day.
Pioneering Baltimorean was Nation’s First Black woman to Receive an Officer’s Commission in the Air Force
Sandra Williams Ortega was stunned to see two high-ranking ROTC leaders standing on her front porch as she was coming home from classes at Morgan State College in Baltimore. The news they brought to Ortega’s parents was even more remarkable: Morgan State leaders wanted Ortega to be the candidate the university would put forth to fulfill a promise by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to give a qualified Black woman a direct commission as an officer in the still-young U.S. Air Force.
CNN and TheGrio's April Ryan on Historic 25 Years Covering the White House — and 5 Presidents Up Close
In the 25 years that Morgan State University alum April Ryan has been covering the White House — now the longest-serving Black woman in the press corps — she has had plenty of encounters with whomever was in the West Wing at the time.
Morgan Alum Alicia Hynson Prepares to go From the Lab to the Delivery Room
Alicia Hynson is a traveling lab scientist. She spends, on average, 13 weeks at a time in hospital labs in remote locations around the United States and overseas. She initially majored in biology at Morgan State University in Baltimore, with her sights on medical school. At the advice of her mentors, she considered how gaining lab experience would be the quicker path to employment and graduated from Morgan with a bachelor’s in medical technology.
Morgan State Alum Creates Web Series to Promote Mental Health
Meet Brandon Johnson, M.H.S., MCHES, a Morgan State alumnus, mental health educator and the creator of the Black Mental Wellness Lounge. Johnson is also an advocate for suicide prevention.
25 Black Marylanders to Watch
Shelonda Stokes’ career has come full circle since her days as an East Baltimore teen who cleaned pavilions in Baltimore’s Harborplace for minimum wage. With a degree in electrical engineering from Morgan State University, Stokes had spent much of her professional life seeking creative ways to solve problems, including as president and CEO of GreiBO Media, a Baltimore-based marketing and production studio she co-founded in 2001.
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