Onstage in Baltimore for a debate last night, Kweisi Mfume and Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, two of the frontrunners in the race to replace the late Congressman Elijah Cummings in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, avoided tough questions about recent damaging news stories about them.
The Baltimore Sun reported last week that Mfume’s tenure as president of the NAACP ended because – among many other reasons – a former employee threatened to sue him and the NAACP for sexual harassment.
The organization also investigated Mfume for giving preferential treatment to an employee with whom he had a relationship.
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