Ravens, Goodell remember civil rights icon Elijah Cummings Published: Oct 17, 2019 at 07:16 AM Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He
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