Little Known Black History Facts

Chokwe Antar Lumumba was sworn in this past July as Jackson, Mississippi’s youngest mayor. Lumumba followed in the footsteps of his late father, Chokwe Lumumba, carrying on the family legacy with a hopeful message for the people. Lumumba, 34, mirrored his father’s career path. The Tuskegee University graduate became an attorney like his dad, graduating […]

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a human rights activist and nationally prominent attorney who as city leader persuaded voters to accept a sales tax to fix crumbling infrastructure in Mississippi’s capital, died Tuesday. He was 66. Officials said Lumumba, a Democrat, died at a Jackson hospital. A cause of death wasn’t immediately […]