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Jackson [MS] Mayor Lumumba Has Died
Mississippi News Now ^
| Feb 25, 2014
| Bob Burks
Posted on 02/25/2014 4:35:38 PM PST by WXRGina
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has died. He was admitted to St. Dominic Hospital Tuesday morning with chest pains and apparently died there.
We don't have many details, but Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham Stewart has confirmed his death.
Lumumba won the Mayor's office in June 4, 2013, pulling 86% of the vote and defeating independent candidates Francis P. Smith, Jr. , Richard C. Williams and Cornelius Griggs.
Mayor Lumumba was born August 2, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. He is the second of eight children born to Lucien and Priscilla Francis Taliaferro.
Mayor Lumumba earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
He later finished first in his law school freshman class before graduating cum laude from Wayne State University Law School.
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To: WXRGina
"Lumumba finished first in his law school class and graduated cum laude from Wayne State University Law School in 1975[6] where he had advocated for fair academic grading reforms. He created the Malcolm X Center and was a staff attorney in the Detroit Public Defenders Office.
He formed a law firm in Detroit in 1978 and successfully defended the Pontiac Illinois prisoners. Lumumba was initially barred from representing Fulani Sunni Ali in relation to the Brinks robbery case when she was jailed and given a $500,000 bond. Many national legal groups protested the barring of Lumumba from representing the prisoner and the characterization of him as a terrorist due to his membership in the Republic of New Africa.
In 1983 while handling the Brinks case he was held in contempt by the federal judge for his press comments.[8] He worked on the Geronimo Pratt case and encouraged black youth to eschew gang activities and instead to participate in global actions such as the protest of Apartheid in South Africa. The decade of the 1980s witnessed a large increase of imprisoned African Americans in the United States and Lumumba was successful in prison litigation and in the leadership of the New Afrikan independence movement.[9] In September 1987 at Harvard Law School, Lumumba, a co-founder of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, addressed a conference sponsored by the National Conference of Black Lawyers on the theme of the constitutional neglect of the needs of enslaved persons.[10]
In 1988 he returned to Jackson, Mississippi and three years later was granted the right to practice law. He was a public defender on contract with the City of Jackson's consortium to represent the indigent citizens of the municipality. In 1994 Lumumba sued to have a public defender contract voided.[11] In 2000 Judge Swan Yerger dismissed a lawsuit filed against a police officer and Lumumba was publicly reprimanded by the Mississippi Bar after the judge found him in contempt. In a Leake County case he was found in contempt and publicly reprimanded. After an unsuccessful appeal to the Mississippi Supreme Court, he served three days in the county jail when bond was refused. He also lost his license to practice law for six months.
He is a well known human rights and criminal defense attorney[13] and is licensed in Michigan and Mississippi. He prefers to replace the current charter for the City of Jackson with a human rights charter."
Source: Wikipedia
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:04:55 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Billthedrill
“is he a better Mayor now?”
Probably very ineffective from this point on, for better or worse. Nobody can hear him.
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:10:14 PM PST
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: WXRGina
Wow, he recently hired former Detroit city councilman Kwame Kenyatta (another black nationalist)
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:13:25 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: headstamp 2
Thought I was reading about some African country for a second. You know, you really need to apologize to "some African country" for that crack. (See the thread at the link)
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:16:17 PM PST
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: WXRGina
“Chokwe Lumumba”
Is that a misprint? Who names their chillin “Chokwe”, even if they’re a “Lumumba”?
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:21:35 PM PST
by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: SharpRightTurn
If you were born Edwin Finley Taliaferro you'd change your name too.
After having to explain for the hundredth time just how your last name was pronounced, "Lumumba" just might look pretty good.
"Chokwe" -- not so much.
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:30:50 PM PST
by
x
To: headstamp 2
Thought I was reading about some African country for a second. You almost were. He was a separatist who wanted to get blacks to move to the south and secede from the union. I am dissappointed he died, because he seemsd like an interesting character to follow, from far away.
To: F15Eagle
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:35:34 PM PST
by
Shimmer1
(Life is way too wonderful and short to waste time with people who donÂ’t treat you right.)
To: WXRGina
back in 1993 through 1996 while a student at RTS reformed Theological Seminary - Jackson I can well remember when I was chastised for speaking to a number of black teenagers while I was a student at the seminary. The teenagers listened to what I had to say about a relationship with Christ. The city probably has changed over the years as the population is now 79.4% black. Just wonder if this a the same guy I meet once in Jackson, MS. he had some pretty radical ideas and hated white people. I was shocked by his hatred, and he even hated military vets with a disability even more.
Still will pray for the survivors in his family, sounds like a massive coronary arrest.
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:36:24 PM PST
by
hondact200
(Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
To: WXRGina
I’ve known several heart patients over the years that have died while being treated for heart problems at St. Dominic’s. I don’t know what the options are, but it wouldn’t be my first choice.
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:37:02 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: SharpRightTurn
Chokwe Lumumba Is that a misprint? Who names their chillin Chokwe, even if theyre a Lumumba? Sharp, read the column I linked in comment #1, and you will understand his name and everything else about him.
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posted on
02/25/2014 5:39:09 PM PST
by
WXRGina
(The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Shimmer1
To: Travis McGee
You’d be surprised how many of the American people are communist-inclined; Nikita S. Khrushchev understood this as early as 1959.
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posted on
02/25/2014 6:08:22 PM PST
by
Theodore R.
(Alas: TX Republicans to endorse Cornball and George P! Stay tuned March 4)
To: WXRGina; WKB; Black Agnes
The news of his death is scrolling across the screen of all the local TV channels.
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posted on
02/25/2014 6:34:10 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: WXRGina
Obviously the white mans fault.
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posted on
02/25/2014 6:41:14 PM PST
by
struggle
To: fieldmarshaldj
Yeah, Frankie Melton used to do a lot crazier stuff too.
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posted on
02/25/2014 6:44:18 PM PST
by
struggle
To: PAR35
My dad skipped the ‘Jackson Heart’ clinic altogether and went to Texas Heart in Houston.
To: WXRGina
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posted on
02/25/2014 7:26:31 PM PST
by
metalurgist
( Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
To: BfloGuy
“Shame about Lumumba. Gone to that great commune in the sky, I suppose.”
Hell hath no fury like a commune scorned...may he rest in the fire commies create...
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posted on
02/25/2014 7:36:15 PM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
Is this the black segregationist??
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posted on
02/25/2014 7:37:44 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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