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.
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Dr. Gerald Horne is a prolific author and historian who holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He joins Margaret Kimberley to…
Listen and watch Black Agenda Radio as we begin hosting our program on the Black Agenda Report Youtube channel. In this week’s segment we hear from Dr. Butch Ware, the Green Party’s nominee in the…
Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley speaks with Dr. Butch Ware, the Green Party's nominee in the California governor's race. Dr. Ware discusses why the Democratic Party is…
