*(Via OPD.org) – If there were any doubts about the indelible legacy the late civil rights advocate and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings left in his nearly 40 years of public service, look no further than the political luminaries who will deliver tributes at his funeral in Baltimore Friday.
Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, are slated to read passages from the Bible.
Kweisi Mfume, the former NAACP head whom Cummings replaced in Maryland’s seventh congressional seat in 1996, is also expected to speak. He, like the others, will share personal and professional anecdotes about Cummings.
Cummings widow, Maya Rockeymore Cummings, and other family members are also scheduled to speak.
Cummings, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, is remembered as a fierce champion of his district, which includes large swaths inner-city Baltimore and surrounding suburbs. He died last week from longstanding health issues. He was 68.
Friday’s funeral at New Psalmist Baptist Church, where Cummings was a member for roughly four decades, is the culmination of three days of tributes in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
Cummings lay in state on Thursday at the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. At a ceremony for lawmakers and relatives of Cummings, North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., delivered an emotional eulogy calling Cummings “a dear friend” and spoke about what some have called an “unexpected friendship.”
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