Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings is in it to win it as she seeks votes to carry on her late husband Elijah Cummings’ legacy in Maryland’s 7th District. The election is set for June 2, 2020. MayaforCongress.com Maya Rockeymoore Cummings for Congress with friends *Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings is on a mission to convince Maryland’s […]
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) questions Inspector General Horowitz on June 19, 2018 in Washington, DC. The Inspector General report focuses on the Justice Department’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email’s in 2016. (June 18, 2018 – Source: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images North America) *Several far-right […]
*The widow of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings not only said the obvious, but said what needed to be said at his funeral on Friday about Donald Trump. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings let the world know that attacks by President Trump on the congressman’s beloved hometown “hurt him” and made the final months of his life more difficult. […]
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings & Congressman Elijah Cummings (Getty) *The body of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings will lie in state in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol this week and a funeral will be held in Baltimore on Friday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office said in a news release that a […]
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings & Congressman Elijah Cummings (Getty) *Congressman Elijah Cummings has got a domestic issue to deal with that could affect the work of his congressional panel that’s investgating Donald Trump. Essentially, the House Oversight Committee Chairman is fighting back against allegations that his wife’s nonprofit organization violated its tax-exempt status. The Cummings, […]
*The nationally televised October 25 funeral services for the late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, paused partisan debates and revealed how a son of Baltimore worked tirelessly for his constituents and for this nation. In the days since his home-going, I have marveled at how his life’s work somehow brought together officials who held firm to their […]
[…] NY). Maya was a force to be reckoned with while working for the House Ways and Means Committee, which is where she met her late husband Congressman Elijah Cummings (Democrat Maryland’s 7th District). While amassing her many achievements and working on various platforms, Maya felt compelled to provide guidance for young people seeking to […]
*Republican strategist Kimberly Klacik is running for late Rep. Elijah Cummings’ seat in Maryland, and she wants Trump critics to know that residents were “very happy” when president brought attention to the issues plaguing their city. “People got on Trump’s case for basically repeating what so many people in West Baltimore said. Not just […]
*(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 […]
* Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who most recently sparred with Donald Trump, died early Thursday morning at Gilchrist Hospice Care, a Johns Hopkins affiliate in Baltimore. He was 68. After undergoing an unspecified medical procedure, Cummings did not return to his office this week, the Baltimore Sun reported. A statement from his […]
*The now-late Elijah Cummings who represented Baltimore in Congress earned the right to be referred to as “a giant” when he became the first African-American lawmaker to lie in state in the dome of the Capitol. Congressman Cummings, who died a week ago today, was carried up the steps of the Capitol in a […]
House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) (L) and ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) argue during a hearing where Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies October 22, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. *A shouting match broke out between Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and Rep. […]
*A pallbearer at a memorial service for Rep. Elijah Cummings went viral last week after video surfaced showing him skipping Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a handshake line In the clip, the pallbearer, Bobby Rankin, is seen shaking the hands of several lawmakers before ignoring McConnell’s hand, and the Kentucky Republican certainly seemed […]
[…] who he thought was Lewis, who died Friday from cancer at the age of 80, but – as social media pointed out – was actually Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, who passed away in October 2019, reports the DailyMail. MORE NEWS: Ava DuVernay to Executive Produce Docuseries About Women Of Color Transforming Politics After realizing […]
*Well now, the situation with the White House and African American political leaders is getting real interesting with Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings saying he’s “happy” to sit down with President Trump. Even though Cummings has no problem meeting with Trump, but he disputes the president’s assertion that he didn’t want to meet up, adding […]
