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Adofo Minka
Jackson Mississippi’s Black Ruling Class Collaborates to Give Cops Cover to Kill
02 Jun 2021
The “radical” Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has presided over the police killing of eight Black citizens since 2017.
Adofo Minka
Jackson MS: Police Killings Continue Amid Mayoral Silence in the "Most Radical City on the Planet"
15 Feb 2018
In the last few months Jackson's supposedly radical mayor has lifted residency requirements for city police officers, and remained silent on a wave of officer involved shootings
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Defeat of American Workers
09 Aug 2017
Capital is winning every round of the class war. Nissan scared Mississippi auto workers out of joining a union, and Foxconn extorted $3 billion to locate a plant in Wisconsin. Republicans cheered.
Mike Elk
“Nissan, You Made Us Mad”: Union Promises to Fight Mississippi Defeat
08 Aug 2017
A coalition of community groups, students, clergy and environmentalis
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Did Berniecrats Claim the Jackson Mississippi Movement? Do They Want To Be Claimed? Should They?
13 Jul 2017
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Jackson's mayor-elect Chokwe Antar Lumumba stepped to the podium at the cynically misnamed "Peoples Summit", the annual June pilgrimage of Berniecrats, he…
Filmon Zerai
An Eritrean in Mississippi: The Importance of Black Diaspora-Eritrea Solidarity
08 Jul 2015
The work of a Black lawyer named Lumumba from Detroit drew a young man from Eritrea to Jackson, Mississippi, last year.