Chokwe Antar Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, MS

Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Story by Democracy Now

And in Jackson, Mississippi, social justice activist and attorney Chokwe Antar Lumumba has been elected to be Jackson’s next mayor, after winning in a landslide. 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. This is Lumumba, celebrating his election victory on Tuesday night with supporters.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba states: "Free the land! Free the land! Free the land, by any means necessary. I need you to stand strong as we go forward. There are people who doubt your resolve, doubt that this city can be everything that it will be. And so, you can’t give up now. I say, when I become mayor, you become mayor. So that means ya’ll got some work to do."