Notable Alumni and Faculty
Alumni of Morgan State University have achieved notability in the fields of athletics, science, government and the military including four members of the NFL Football Hall of Fame (Willie Lanier, Roosevelt Brown, Leroy Kelly, and Len Ford), Black Enterprise Magazine publisher Earl Graves, the Chief Judge of Maryland's highest court, nearly a dozen U.S. Army Generals including General William "Kip" Ward, the first Commanding Officer of the United States Africa Command, New York Times sports columnist William C. Rhoden, playwright, TV producer, and entrepreneur David E. Talbert, and CNN video journalist at Zaina Adamu.
Notable faculty currently teaching at Morgan State University include bestselling author and filmmaker M. K. Asante, Jr., gerontologist Gaynell Simpson, and scholar Raymond Winbush, who directs the institute of Urban Research. African-American historian Rosalyn Terborg-Penn also serves on faculty at MSU.
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