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<h1 id="reader-title">#JXNRising: Chokwe Antar Lumumba Wins
Jackson, Miss., Mayoral Race</h1>
<div id="reader-credits" class="credits">Kirsten West Savali -
June 6, 2017<br>
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<div class="img-permalink-sub-wrapper
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Lumumba, 34—son of the late Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe
Lumumba and community activist Nubia Lumumba—is the new
mayor-elect of Jackson, Miss., beating Republican challenger
Jason Wells in a landslide victory.<br>
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<p><a
href="http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/jun/06/are-you-ready-work-lumumba-wins-mayors-race/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Jackson Free Press
reports</a>:<br>
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<p>With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Lumumba
had 23,175 votes, or 93 percent. Republican Wells had
900 votes, or 4 percent. Jaclyn Mask had 572 votes, or
2 percent, and Kenneth Swarts 175 votes, or 1 percent.
Lumumba will take office in July.</p>
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<p>“We have a lot of work to do,” Lumumba said at the King
Edward Hotel as he acknowledged his win. “If you have
the best ideas, that’s what we’re moving with.” </p>
<p>Supporters shouted, “One City, One Aim, One Destiny!”
as Lumumba declared victory.</p>
<p>As <strong><em>The Root</em></strong> previously
reported, Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber conceded the
Democratic primary to Lumumba last month when it became
clear that the people of Jackson had made a clear
decision:<br>
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<p>Choke Antar Lumumba would be their next mayor and
continue the radical and transformative work that shaped
his parents’ lives—and his own—and would lead Jackson
into a revolutionary future.Still, Tuesday night was a
long time coming.</p>
<p>After the elder <a
href="http://www.theroot.com/remembering-chokwe-lumumba-a-revolutionary-politician-1790874839#_ga=2.166790394.53664027.1496674469-1551156412.1458223470"
rel="nofollow">Lumumba’s unexpected death in 2014</a>
after less than a year in office, his son, Chokwe Antar,
announced that he would run to continue his father’s
mission, which included amplifying and expanding the
work of the <a href="https://mxgm.org/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener">Malcolm X Grassroots Movement</a>, New
Afrikan People’s Organization, <a
href="http://www.cooperationjackson.org/announcementsblog/2016/8/9/jackson-rising-the-struggle-for-economic-democracy-and-self-determination-in-jackson-mississippi"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooperation Jackson</a>
and building upon <a
href="https://mxgm.org/peoples-assemblys-overview-the-jackson-peoples-assembly-model/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">the People’s Platform</a>.</p>
<p>The elder Lumumba—beloved organizer, attorney for Tupac
and Assata Shakur, founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement, leader of the Republic of New Afrika, an
organization which advocated for an independent
predominantly black government in the southeastern
United States and reparations for slavery, and proud
“Fannie Lou Hamer” Democrat—was 66-years old when he
unexpectedly died from heart failure.<br>
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<p>Suspicions swirled around his death, with Nation of
Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan and the National
Conference of Black Lawyers offering to pay for an
independent autopsy. Despite Hinds County, Miss.,
coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart insisting that the elder
Lumumba died of natural causes, the county supervisor,
Kenny Stokes, sparked headlines when he asked, “<a
href="https://youtu.be/DHOWC44cWbM" target="_blank"
rel="noopener">Who killed the mayor?</a>”</p>
<p>Chokwe Antar Lumumba did not publicly comment on the
rumors, instead focusing on his father’s legacy. Still,
he did not hesitate to make it clear that he was not
running on his family’s name, but on his own credentials
and commitment to his people and the city of Jackson as
a whole.</p>
<p>“I believe that even though my father was a great man,
this journey was never about an individual. It is, was
about the people—so the people’s platform and the
people’s will still need to be heard. We are running on
a platform of compassion, justice and human rights,”
Lumumba told the <a
href="http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_101277.shtml"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">Final Call in 2014</a>.</p>
<p>Lumumba may have <a
href="http://newsone.com/3006286/chokwe-antar-lumumba-loses-bid-for-his-fathers-jackson-ms-mayoral-seat/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost that special
mayoral election to replace his father </a>to then
Councilman Tony Yarber, but he owned the election
Tuesday night from the very start.<br>
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<p>Read more about Chokwe Antar Lumumba below, as
previously reported by <strong><em>The Root</em></strong>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lumumba is managing partner of Lumumba &
Associates and a member of the <a
href="https://mxgm.org/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener">Malcolm X Grassroots Movement</a>. He
received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tuskegee
University in 2005 and earned his Juris Doctor degree
and a certificate in sports and entertainment law from
the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern
University.</p>
<p>Lumumba is a founding member of the Mississippi Human
Rights Collective, co-organizing the “Stand Up to Take
It Down” rally at the state Capitol to support the
removal of the Confederate battle emblem from the
Mississippi state flag. He currently serves as the
media representative of the Coalition for Economic
Justice and was instrumental in co-authoring “<a
href="https://mxgm.org/peoples-assemblys-overview-the-jackson-peoples-assembly-model/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener">The People’s Platform</a>.”</p>
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<p>Watch the new mayor-elect of Jackson, Miss., teach
voters about the People’s Platform in this clip from
2014:</p>
<p>This is the revolutionary Deep South that most people
don’t recognize, but they will soon.</p>
<p>Jackson is rising. Mississippi is rising. </p>
<p>Pay attention. </p>
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