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 mayorâs office in 2014. Antar Lumumba won the Democratic primary with 56 percent of the vote. âIf we canât turn out the Black working class, then we are in trouble,â said Kali Akuno, of Cooperation Jackson and the Lumumba campaign. Jackson, the state capital, faces challenges of gentrification, high municipal debt, âthreats of the privatization of our water system, and loss of our school system to a state takeover,â said Akuno.
In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a symposium titled The Political Economy of the Black World. We are publishing, for the firstâŚ
The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
This weekâs featured author is Naa Oyo A. Kwate. Kwate is associate professor of Africana studies and human ecology at Rutgers. Her book is White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black ExclusionâŚ
The Fujimori regime forcibly sterilized thousands of people in Peru and the victims are still fighting for justice.
