Voters in mostly Black Jackson, Mississippi, will decide on June 6 whether Antar Lumumba will succeed his father, the veteran activist and lawyer Chokwe Lumumba, who died during his first year in the mayor’s office in 2014. Antar Lumumba won the Democratic primary with 56 percent of the vote. “If we can’t turn out the Black working class, then we are in trouble,” said Kali Akuno, of Cooperation Jackson and the Lumumba campaign. Jackson, the state capital, faces challenges of gentrification, high municipal debt, “threats of the privatization of our water system, and loss of our school system to a state takeover,” said Akuno.
Maurice Carney is Executive Director of Friends of the Congo.
Elias Amare is a journalist and editor at Horn of Africa TV.
Forrest Palmer is a native of Los Angeles, California who is now an electrical engineer residing in Houston, Texas
Margaret Kimberley was among the guests on Women Rising Radio Program 45: Resisting US Military Bases and Domination
The Black misleadership class are still up to their elbows in performative nonsense and class collaboration politics. They still act against the interests of Black people.
