Selected newspaper articles related to Mickey Leland
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Headline | Newspaper | Columnist | Date |
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John Whitmire thinks his ‘tough but smart’ approach is just what Houston needs to thrive | Houston Chronicle | McGuinness, D. | 10/22/23 |
Feeding the hungry was life's work for 'citizen of the world' Mickey Leland | Houston Chronicle | Zelinski, A. | 09/13/16 |
Anti-hunger champion to inspire more action | Houston Chronicle | Ellis, R. | 08/07/14 |
Leland legacy still inspires | Houston Chronicle | Editorial | 08/04/14 |
Honor civil rights heroes by voting | San Antonio Express News | Davis, W. | 08/04/14 |
Key tenets of Mandela's vision still are unfilled | Houston Chronicle | Ellis, R. | 12/13/13 |
20 years after death, let's remember Leland's legacy | Houston Chronicle | Ellis, R. | 08/07/09 |
TSU has to change with the time | Houston Chronicle | Johnson, J. | 04/30/08 |
Perry calls for changes at Texas Southern | Austin American Statesman | A.P. Wire | 04/14/07 |
Guv could put finance czar at TSU | Houston Chronicle | Casey, R. | 01/31/07 |
Learning the legislative way | Austin American Statesman | Koli, A. | 04/30/01 |
Anniversary of Leland's death a chance to recommit | Houston Chronicle | Ellis, R. | 08/10/99 |
Decade after death, Leland is remembered for altruism | Houston Chronicle | Davis, L. | 08/09/99 |
TSU instates president and celebrates 50th year | Houston Chronicle | Lum, L. | 03/08/97 |
Remember the poor on Thanksgiving | San Antonio Express News | Ellis, R. | 11/22/95 |
Big money deciding factor in 2 crucial races | Houston Post | Palomo, J. | 10/17/94 |
New secretary of state tells an inspiring story | Austin American Statesman | 04/06/94 | |
Washington played by his own rules | Austin American Statesman | McNeely, D. | 03/13/94 |
Lee's victory seen as change in black political structure | Houston Post | Williams, T. | 03/10/94 |
Washington's commitment unwavering | Houston Post | Horvit, M. | 03/09/94 |
Dueling Democrats scrap for 18th District seat | Houston Post | Jackler, R. | 02/21/94 |
Ben Reyes: still king of hill after 2 decades? | Houston Post | Root, J. | 07/22/93 |
Meet the gang that couldn't think straight | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Ivins, M. | 04/29/93 |
Sharp's scandal changed Texas | Houston Post | 04/06/93 | |
Ragsdale caught in the middle | Dallas News | Attlesey, S. | 08/02/81 |
Documents show Leland weathered 2 FBI investigations | Houston Post | 07/11/91 | |
The Leland legacy | Houston Post | Cinelli, Mike | 08/05/90 |
The Leland legacy | Houston Post | Cinelli, Michael | 08/05/90 |
Trust gives $1 million Leland gift | Houston Chronicle | Sallee, Rad | 12/05/89 |
TSU establishes center to carry on Leland work | Houston Post | Kerr, Katherine | 12/05/89 |
TSU to house Leland papers, official says | Houston Post | Roebuck, Karen | 11/18/89 |
Mauro creates TSU internships | Houston Chronicle | Piller, Ruth | 11/10/89 |
Leland colleagues planning memorials, endowed chair | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 09/09/89 |
Political joust hovers over Leland's rites | Houston Post | Garrett, Major | 08/25/89 |
Leland's body returning home | Houston Chronicle | Cobb, Kim | 08/22/89 |
Leland remembered | Austin American Statesman | Graves, Debbie | 08/19/89 |
Austin service honors Leland | Dallas Morning News | Kilday, Anne Marie | 08/19/89 |
Conservatives, liberals gather to laud Leland | Dallas Times Herald | Montgomery, Lori | 08/19/89 |
Press salute Leland as hero | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Gonzalez, John | 08/19/89 |
Lawmakers eulogize Leland as friend, peer, humanitarian | Houston Chronicle | Toohey, Mark | 08/19/89 |
Diversity marks crowd attending Leland service | Houston Chronicle | Foxhall, Nene | 08/19/89 |
'God gets one of the flowers' | Houston Chronicle | Bernstein, Alan | 08/19/89 |
Jews say thanks to friend Leland | Houston Post | Harasim, Paul | 08/19/89 |
New HISD school to honor Leland | Houston Post | Jones, Relicia | 08/19/89 |
Friends, colleagues gather in Houston, Austin for Leland | Houston Post | Gravois, John | 08/19/89 |
Leland services set for Saturday | Houston Chronicle | Simmon, Jim | 08/16/89 |
Mickey Leland: a bridge-builder who died helping others | Austin American Statesman | McNeely, Dave | 08/15/89 |
Texans mourn Leland | Dallas Morning News | Merida, Kevin | 08/15/89 |
Mickey Leland: an honorable man | Austin American Statesman | 08/14/89 | |
A mission fueled by compassion | Austin American Statesman | Copelin, Laylan | 08/14/89 |
Leland, 15 others killed in air crash | Dallas Morning News | Reifenberg, Anne | 08/14/89 |
Texas colleagues say poor have lost a leader | Dallas Morning News | Kuempel, George | 08/14/89 |
Mickey Leland's legacy | Dallas Times Herald | 08/14/89 | |
Grim find ends Leland search | Dallas Times Herald | Sunde, Scott | 08/14/89 |
Lawmake mourned with tributes and tears | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Potter, Karen | 08/14/89 |
Mickey Leland's hope survives | Houston Chronicle | Ely, Jane | 08/14/89 |
Mickey Leland | Houston Chronicle | 08/14/89 | |
A rising star falls | Houston Chronicle | Foxhall, Nene | 08/14/89 |
Leland dead in plane crash | Houston Chronicle | Cobb, Kim | 08/14/89 |
He changed style, but not beliefs | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 08/14/89 |
Leland's plane hit mountain, 'disintegrated' | Houston Post | Kirtzman, Andrew | 08/14/89 |
Mickey Leland | Houston Post | 08/14/89 | |
President leads nation in mourning | Houston Post | Gravois, John | 08/14/89 |
Texas officials mourn Leland, praise his accomplishments | San Antonio Express News | Thomas, Loydean | 08/14/89 |
U.S. aids hunt for Leland | Dallas Morning News | Feeney, Susan | 08/10/89 |
Mickey Leland: a man whose heart is in the right place | Dallas Times Herald | Ivins, Molly | 08/10/89 |
Bad weather delays search for Leland | Dallas Morning News | Feeney, Susan | 08/09/89 |
Fears grow for Leland, 13 others on aircraft | Dallas Times Herald | Dunham, Richard S. | 08/09/89 |
Search for Leland, 13 others continues in Ethiopia | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Hutcheson, Ron | 08/09/89 |
Leland search still fruitless | Houston Chronicle | Wiessler, Judy | 08/09/89 |
Rescue effort intensifies for Leland | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 08/09/89 |
Leland's plane overdue | Dallas Morning News | Nichols, Bruce | 08/08/89 |
Texas lawmaker's plane missing | Dallas Times Herald | Dunham, Richard S. | 08/08/89 |
Concern for overdue Leland | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 08/08/89 |
Leland backs convoy's efforts | Houston Chronicle | Cullick, Robert | 06/15/88 |
Leland will repay $50,000 loan from businessman, lawyer says | Houston Post | 02/19/88 | |
Leland honored by peers | Houston Post | Gravois, John | 02/13/88 |
Fellow liberals question Leland's ties to dictators | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 11/01/87 |
Mickey Leland quit? Impossible, you say? | Houston Chronicle | Hines, Cragg | 09/28/86 |
Mickely Leland team player on Texas' D.C. delegation | Plainview Daily Herald | Roberson, Peggy | 09/14/86 |
Leland says decision to accept $2,000 for trip to mines is ethical | Houston Chronicle | Hines, Cragg | 06/12/86 |
Leland defends acceptance of fee | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 06/12/86 |
Leland's financial disclosure form amended for committee | Houston Chronicle | Wiessler, Judy | 05/23/86 |
Leland is helping | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | 04/22/86 | |
Leland to lead oil state 'mission' to full House | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 03/05/86 |
Runoffs prompt Leland to cancel South Africa trip | Houston Chronicle | Pierobon, James R. | 11/08/85 |
Irate Leland scrubs S. Africa trip | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 11/08/85 |
S. Africa still undecided on Leland visa | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 11/07/85 |
Leland will go to S. Africa on fact-finding trip | Houston Chronicle | 10/11/85 | |
Leland set to visit S. Africa | Houston Post | Lewis, Kathy | 10/11/85 |
Mickey Leland has hit his stride | Houston Chronicle | Hines, Cragg | 10/06/85 |
Leland seeks end to South Africa apartheid | Houston Chronicle | Pierobon, James R. | 09/17/85 |
Leland, Bush to confer on South Africa | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 08/01/85 |
Race for county judge not in Leland's plans | Dallas Morning News | Humphrey, Susan | 07/30/85 |
Leland decides against race for Harris County judgeship | Houston Chronicle | 07/30/85 | |
Leland decides against running for county judge | Houston Post | Mecklin, John | 07/30/85 |
Leland's hint of county race draws mixed reactions here | Houston Chronicle | 07/25/85 | |
Leland eyes county post | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 07/24/85 |
Leland, in fourth term, 'still acts from the gut' | Houston Chronicle | Pierobon, James R. | 05/05/85 |
Leland reimburses estate for Cuba trip | Houston Chronicle | Pierobon, James R. | 04/30/85 |
Leland repays Hermann estate | Houston Post | Flood, Mary | 04/30/85 |
Leland condemns apartheid | El Paso Herald Post | Dunham, Richard S. | 12/12/84 |
Leland urges sanctions against S. Africa rulers | San Antonio Express News | Richter, Bob | 12/12/84 |
Leland among protesters arrested at demonstration | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Hutcheson, Ron | 12/11/84 |
Leland leads push to give massive aid to Africans | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 12/09/84 |
Ethiopia touches Leland | Houston Post | Kiely, Kathy | 11/30/84 |
Former radical Leland works within system | Dallas Morning News | Nichols, Bruce | 11/18/84 |
Leland, delegation go to Ethiopia | Houston Chronicle | Carreau, Mark | 11/02/84 |
Leeland's relationship with teen earns him Big Brother award | Houston Post | Lewis, Kathy | 09/23/84 |
Leland says House OK'd visit to Cuba | Houston Post | Ellison, David | 08/20/84 |
Congressman signs up for Navy | Austin American Statesman | Kantor, Seth | 03/22/84 |
Leland withdraws call to impeach Reagan | Dallas Morning News | Nelson, Mark | 11/12/83 |
Texas lawmaker drops Reagan impeachment role | Dallas Times Herald | Fly, Richard | 11/12/83 |
Mickey Leland tailors street wisdom to 3 - piece politics | Dallas Morning News | Choyke, William J. | 08/23/83 |
Leland has changed his clothes but not his mind | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Montgomery, Dave | 06/19/83 |
Two Texans released from Cuba | Dallas Times Herald | 03/29/83 | |
Leland goes to Cuba, wins release of Texans | Houston Post | Elliott, Janet | 03/27/83 |
Leleand's heroes become peers as group undertakes political agenda for blacks | Houston Post | Craig, Jim | 03/20/83 |
Leland says he'd accept favorite - son candidacy | Houston Chronicle | Hines, Cragg | 03/15/83 |
Rep. Leland predicts liberals will be elected | Corpus Christi Caller Times | Abrams, Michael | 07/04/82 |
Leland fights Houston - S. Africa air route request | Houston Post | Craig, Jim | 06/29/82 |
Black democrats choose Leland as best congressman | Houston Post | 02/15/82 | |
Leland calls for punishment of three 'disloyal' colleagues | Houston Chronicle | 06/29/81 | |
Leland asks party shun 2 Texans | Dallas Times Herald | Clifford, Frank | 06/28/81 |
Leland demands Demos punish defectors | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Montgomery, Dave | 06/27/81 |
Leland plans punishment of colleagues | Houston Post | Craig, Jim | 06/27/81 |
Leland hits new right, labels Clements 'joke' | Dallas Morning News | 04/28/81 | |
Rep. Leland to chair new DNC commission | Houston Post | 02/26/81 | |
Houston representative has found himself | Port Arthur News | 02/25/81 | |
Leland happier in his own shoes | Austin American Statesman | Choyke, William J. | 02/16/81 |
Leland says he deserves credit for freeing of 30 | Houston Post | 11/22/80 | |
Leland, area health care specialists visit Cuba | Houston Post | 11/07/80 | |
Leland elected head of House subcommittee | Houston Post | 06/18/80 | |
Leland action 'mistake,' Reyes says | Houston Post | 04/02/80 | |
Leland says group to fight cuts in social programs | Houston Post | 03/13/80 | |
When this Texas congressman traveled to Cuba he went in style on the cuff of a millionaire | Washington Post | 10/28/79 | |
Mickey Leland | Houston Post | Craig, Jim | 07/08/79 |
Congressman seeks not to be 'reed in the wind' | Houston Post | Craig, Jim | 07/08/79 |
Leland vows big fight for more social funding | San Angelo Standard Times | 12/20/78 | |
Leland plans to fight social program cuts | Houston Chronicle | Nolan, Joe | 12/19/78 |
Hectic pace fact of life for Leland | Houston Post | Craig, Jim | 12/10/78 |
Leland trying to assist visits to prisoners | Houston Chronicle | 09/15/78 | |
Leland a lot like his favorite folk | Houston Post | Ely, Jane | 05/28/78 |
Texas blacks gaining influence in politics | El Paso Times | Moore, Bill | 01/16/78 |
Leland to seek Jordan's seat | Austin American Statesman | 12/15/77 | |
House downs Leland bill banning Coors | Houston Post | 04/01/77 | |
Around the rotunda | Houston Chronicle | 11/14/76 | |
Moderation of Rep. Mickey Leland enhances his democratic potential | Houston Post | Castro, Tony | 06/27/76 |
Rep. Leland clears up corporate gift mixup | Houston Post | Hancock, Darrell | 04/09/76 |
Leland: doctors should prescribe drug, but not brand | Daily Texan | Boyter, Barbara | 10/07/75 |
Greater funding sought for TSU, Prairie View A & M | Houston Post | 06/01/75 | |
Faux Pas | Houston Post | 06/01/75 | |
Black activist working in conservative system | Houston Chronicle | Yemma, Andrew | 05/11/75 |