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May 4, 2017

Jackson, MS: Chokwe Antar Lumumba Poised to Become Mayor
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And in Jackson, Mississippi, social justice activist and attorney Chokwe
Antar Lumumba is positioned to become the city's next mayor, after
handily winning a primary election on Tuesday. The 34-year-old Lumumba
supports economic democracy and has proposed a civic "incubator fund" to
support cooperative, member-owned businesses in Jackson. He's expected
to easily win a June 6 general election. Lumumba is the son of late
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a longtime black nationalist organizer and
attorney dubbed "America's most revolutionary mayor" before his death in
2014.


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