Jackson [MS] Mayor Lumumba Has Died

Mississippi News Now ^ | Feb 25, 2014 | Bob Burks

[trisham]

"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

[Stormdog]

“is he a better Mayor now?”

Probably very ineffective from this point on, for better or worse. Nobody can hear him.

[cripplecreek]

Wow, he recently hired former Detroit city councilman Kwame Kenyatta (another black nationalist)

[markomalley]

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)

[SharpRightTurn]

“Chokwe Lumumba”

Is that a misprint? Who names their chillin “Chokwe”, even if they’re a “Lumumba”?

[x]

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.

[Vince Ferrer]

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.

[Shimmer1]

Was he ....Swedish?????

[hondact200]

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.

[PAR35]

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.

[WXRGina]

“Chokwe Lumumba” Is that a misprint? Who names their chillin “Chokwe”, even if they’re a “Lumumba”?

Sharp, read the column I linked in comment #1, and you will understand his name and everything else about him.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Irish. Black Irish.

[Theodore R.]

You’d be surprised how many of the American people are communist-inclined; Nikita S. Khrushchev understood this as early as 1959.

[onyx]

The news of his death is scrolling across the screen of all the local TV channels.

[struggle]

Obviously the white mans fault.

[struggle]

Yeah, Frankie Melton used to do a lot crazier stuff too.

[Black Agnes]

My dad skipped the ‘Jackson Heart’ clinic altogether and went to Texas Heart in Houston.

[metalurgist]

GOOD!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“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...

[GeronL]

Is this the black segregationist??