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Chokwe Antar Lumumba (born March 29, 1983) is an American attorney, activist, and politician serving as the 53rd mayor [1] of Jackson, Mississippi, [2] the 7th consecutive African-American to hold the position. He was first elected in 2017. In the primary, Lumumba soundly [3] won the Democratic nomination, defeating both incumbent mayor Tony ...
Jackson State University. Occupation. Pastor. Elementary school principal. Tony Yarber (born April 16, 1978) is an American pastor, educator and politician in Jackson, Mississippi. He was elected as Mayor of Jackson in April 2014 from special election following the death in office of Chokwe Lumumba. [1] A native of Jackson and experienced city ...
Mayor's Office. Harvey Johnson Jr. (born December 21, 1946), [1] [2] is an American politician from Mississippi. He was elected in 1997 as the first African American Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, serving two terms. He was known for his achievements in gaining reinvestment in the city to revitalize downtown. He ran again in 2009 and was elected.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba shakes hands with Jackson Police Department officers before the State of the City address at The Rookery in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.
Jackson, MS: City of Jackson, 1977. LCCN 77-081145. ... Jackson, MS Mayor's Office - official website This page was last edited on 4 December 2022, at 10:53 (UTC ...
He earned a Master of Science in educational administration from Jackson State University in 1972. Thompson was a schoolteacher in Madison, Mississippi. He served as an alderman (1969–1973) and then mayor of Bolton (1973–1980) before being elected to the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, on which he served from 1980 to 1993.
In 1977, he ran for the mayor office of Jackson, Mississippi as a Democrat, beating Republican candidate Doug Shanks. He won re-election in 1981. Starting in 1985, he became the first mayor of the city under mayor-council form. Danks stopped being the mayor of Jackson in 1989, when he lost in a runoff election to J. Kane Ditto.
A Boeing whistleblower who warned about manufacturing defects in the 737 Max line of planes before being fired in 2023 died on Tuesday after contracting a fast-spreading infection.. Joshua Dean ...
Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S. Political party. Democratic. John Kane Ditto (born May 18, 1944) is an American politician and formerly the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. [1] Ditto, a Democrat, served as Mayor of the City of Jackson from July 3, 1989 [2] until July 1997. Ditto was previously elected to the ...
Elise Solé. May 7, 2024 at 8:24 PM. One mom-to-be says “no thanks” to being her husband’s spokesperson. “So, I refuse to be the primary communicator with my husband’s side of the family ...