Hunger and malnutrition have haunted the world for ages. Some great spirits across the centuries spent their lives fighting this scourge and helping others. One such man, Mickey Leland, a Houston ...

Another month, another trip back 30 years. Here's what was going on here in August 1989. * Tragedy struck when Houston Congressman Mickey Leland died in a plane crash while on a hunger relief mission ...

Referred to as the most prolific activist in the fight against world hunger, late Congressman Mickey Leland stopped at nothing to supply food and healthcare to famished people around the world.

Texas Southern University unveiled on Friday, a new Texas historical marker for the late Congressman George Thomas "Mickey" Leland. An alumnus of TSU, Leland graduated in 1970 with a degree in ...

August 11, 2025 (Houston Style Magazine) — Thirty-six years ago, on August 7, 1989, the world lost a towering humanitarian whose heart was as big as his vision — Congressman George Thomas “Mickey” ...

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis joined each other in remembering the late Mickey Leland on his birthday Tuesday, and announced a "Moving Monuments" bus ...

Congressman Mickey Leland died in a plane crash in 1989 while on a humanitarian mission to Ethiopia. Forty-five years earlier, the future congressman was born in Lubbock, Texas on November 27, 1944.

George Thomas "Mickey" Leland was an anti-poverty activist who later became a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He was a Democrat. Wikipedia* On the ...

HOUSTON The digital age is making academic research available by making archives available on the Internet. TSU is now sitting on two huge collections -- the Jordan and Leland archives. But they're ...