Happy Homecoming Week to all of my Morganites! This is the first of three installments of the "We Are the Bears and We're Coming Home" Homecoming Series! 

To understand Morgan State University is to understand the city in which it resides: Baltimore, MD. Episode 1 aims to explore an area with culture as unique as any in America, as well as dissect the relationship between Morgan and Baltimore and how the two have consistently intertwined in the fight for black liberation--from persistence in the face if resistance by the all-white Lauraville community to their expansion in 1917 to the hundreds of Morgan students responsible for leading some of the nation's first organized sit-ins in the 1940s and '50s to the spirit of activism still alive in today's students as they've tackled issues of systemic racism, police brutality and inadequate state funding. 

Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/morgan-state-honors-its-civil-rights-sit-in-pioneers/2011/11/11/gIQAv8pWCN_story.html

https://www.explorebaltimore.org/city-history/a-city-of-firsts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/03/24/maryland-hbcus-lawsuit-settlement/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QePj3RCz7sU&t=24s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FADJCRhaPMA&t=40s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB40MJ-c4O8&t=387s

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