Author: Joseph Shapiro

Earl Richardson was the president of Morgan State University between 1984 and 2010. Morgan State University hide caption toggle caption Morgan State University Earl Richardson was a Black college president — “armed with history,” as a colleague described him — when he led a 15-year-long lawsuit that ended in a historic settlement for four Black schools in Maryland and put a spotlight on funding disparities for all of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Richardson’s death, at 81, was announced on Saturday by Morgan State University, located in Baltimore, where he served as president when he helped organize…