Jackson
Building On Civil Rights Movement: From Freedom Summer to Freedom Schools
[Comment] As a brand-new law school graduate in 1963, I was fortunate enough to receive one of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s first ...
Chokwe Lumumba: Life Of Struggle, Legacy of Progress
By Amy Goodman
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Chokwe Lumumba [Tribute To Chokwe Lumumba] The world lost a visionary activist this week, with the death of Chokwe Lumumba, the newly elected mayor ...
NELSON MANDELA, MOST ILLUSTRIOUS OF ALL, Now SUPS WITH AFRICA’S LEGENDS
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Madiba [Black Star News Editorial] NELSON MANDELA now sups and keeps company with Africa’s Greatest Ancestors. And he is the most illustrious of them ...
Against United Front Of White ‘Progressives’ And ‘Conservatives’, Lumumba, Nationalist And Pan African, Wins As Mayor of Jackson, Miss., Once Citadel of Racism
By Ann Garrison
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Last week, on June 4th, Jackson Mississippi City Councilman Chokwe Lumumba easily won a general election to become the city’s next mayor, after ...
