Morgan State University

April 24, 2013

Many of Baltimore's neighborhoods draw visitors from outside the city, even outside the state to view rowhomes, historic churches, monuments, and other architecturally significant sites. 

But in northeast Baltimore, just outside of the boundaries of Morgan State University, sit two early African-American neighborhoods not nearly so well-known.

About W.E.B. Du Bois' life in Morgan Park

Architecture of Morgan Park and Wilson Park homes.mp3

Benefits of national and local historic designation.mp3

After covenants were dissolved.mp3

In Baltimore, tensions between some universities and residents of the communties that surround them have lingered for generations. Morgan State University officials are aware of that tension and are making steps to address pre-existing divides.

Morgan State University Five Dollar Scholarship

February 3rd & 4th, 2012, on The Signal…

August Wilson’s play, “Jitney,” stars a gruff, disenchanted cab dispatcher named Becker.  Actor Roscoe Orman plays the part expertly, and that’s a testament to his theatrical range:  He’s best known to the world as ‘Gordon’ from Sesame Street.  We drop in at a rehearsal with Mr. Orman and the rest of the cast as they prepare to stage Morgan State University’s production of “Jitney”

Are women being treated unfairly at one of the city’s newest homeless shelters?

Morgan State develops a program to get students into national security jobs.

Prints from all over the place up now at the BMA.

Dr. David Wilson, president of Morgan State University, joins Dan to talk about his first year heading up Maryland’s Public Urban University and his role on the Board of Advisors to President Obama on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.