Mario King was sentenced to 30 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. Email city reporter Ko Bragg at [emailprotected]. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. "Ebony has been a real trooper ever since Alak was born," Chokwe said. But Reeves says the state already invests plenty in Jackson, and that its up to the city to better manage its finances. On a chilly Friday morning in March, a couple of days after a winter storm swept through the city, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba strode into a parking lot behind city hall, fist-bumped assembled members of the fire department and made his way to a clear podium set in front of four red firetrucks. Jackson Police Department responded to 1,705 calls for service at Walmart on Emporium Drive over a two-year period, 647 of which specifically reported shoplifting. And I'm like, 'Oh, that's my friend from home, guys. At right, volunteers distribute drinking water at an event on March 7. "Whatever was happening in our world, we needed each other, we needed our families in those moments, and our daughter followed suit," Ebony said. A lock ( Ebony is the chair of the English department at Tougaloo College and a doctoral candidate at the University of Mississippi. They both remember walking to school together with other kids in the neighborhood and playing together in their cul-de-sac after school. Jackson, MS mayor on bill to create separate white-appointed court system for majority-Black city February 13, 2023, 10:13 PM White officials in Mississippi have Jackson, MS 39201, Jackson: (601) 965-4480 ' Then, in comes Chokwe with a plate of green eggs and ham in hand, and an engagement ring in his back pocket. In August 2007, Chokwe had a long layover in Atlanta where Ebony was living at the time. As mayor, Lumumba has managed to take care of some of the basic issues that have bogged down Jackson for decades. But Jacksons tax base has been declining for years. Lumumbas bravado and inexperience have rubbed some in Jacksons Democratic establishment the wrong way. "I am not yet a morning person," she said. [4], Yarber has a black belt in ninjutsu. I met my first friend, who's now my wife, in Jackson. Hes spent more time bailing the city out of its problems than forging new paths. They remember talking about Chokwe visiting Ebony when she worked in the mall. User agreement and privacy statement. Lumumbas office features portraits of his family including his father (bottom), who died in 2014 while serving as mayor of Jackson. He called the airline to get permission for Ebony to come to the gatea special privilege that is reserved for family members and spouses post-9/11. Rory Doyle for POLITICO Magazine. Ebony went home to Jackson one weekend and stayed with her parents in her old room. He reminded her that he gave her his number even back then, but she thought he was joking. They all planned to vote for him. Rory Doyle for POLITICO Magazine. "As I get off the plane, I don't see hershe's hiding behind a pole," Chokwe said. Lumumba also negotiated an end to a furlough for city workers, raised their pay by 2 percent, and the city also now covers their health insurance premiums. "You know, trying to solidify this relationship.". When it comes to a far-left approach, I dont think thats the best way for the city of Jackson, says Banks, pointing out that Mississippi is still a very Republican state. Who are the power players, and how are they driving politics and influencing Washington? During their frequent visits between Jackson and Oxford, Chokwe decided he wanted to propose, and set forth his plan to surprise Ebony with green eggs and ham. At first, he served on Jacksons city council; then he became mayor in 2013. "She walked over to apologize to the staff for needing so much assistance and they quickly escorted her to a separate room with our daughter for questioning," he continued. The Nation commented that "Lumumba lit up the left press with his promisedelivered later that month in a speech at the People's Summit in Chicagoto make Jackson 'the most radical city on the planet. Going into his second year of law school, he recalled seeing Ebony on Facebook and sending her a message because she was still in Atlanta, and he wanted to connect with her at a friend's upcoming wedding there. At the time, Lumumba was working at his fathers law practice. On March 4, 2019, Mario King and Natasha R. King appeared together on WLOX television and described the event, stating that funds from the Gala were to be used to create safe spaces for mental health counseling in the Moss Point School District. When it comes to Jacksons roads, Lumumba has had limited success as well. | But, he still made excuses to see Ebony at her job at Buckle in the Northpark Mall. "And out of all the people, as huge as Tuskegee's campus is, we're in the line waiting to get in the game, and I bump into Chokwe. "[W]hen you're best friends, it feels more reassuring just about in every aspect of life," Ebony said. He was 34 years old, making him the youngest mayor in Jacksons history. Economically, the city has been in a long, slow decline for decades, set in motion in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy sent federal troops to the University of Mississippi in Oxford to force the school to admit a Black student named James Meredith. All rights reserved. [4] Lumumba went on to win the general election in a landslide. And some people see that as a threat.. It made him perhaps the highest-profile member of a new generation of Black mayors in the South combining progressive policy with social justice and civil rights. "Ms. Conger maintains her innocence," her attorney William Massey said. "I thought, 'OK, God, I'll do this if this is what you're opening the door of my destiny to do,'" she said. Then, in comes Chokwe with a plate of green eggs and ham in hand, and an engagement ring in his back pocket. Not Veronica Thomas, who was picking up water for the fifth time, for her and her four kids. According to this sister, he held just one peoples assembly about the budgeting process, in 2019, before Covid struck. Despite their collective grief and new addition to the family, Ebony believes everything happened in perfect timing. Ebony was trying to hold back emotions in case he had just come as an early birthday surprise and not to proposeher birthday tends to fall around homecoming. Some of the funds were used to pay for the cost of the Gala, but the remaining proceeds did not go to the Moss Point School District. Lumumba, 34, defeated the business-friendly incumbent Mayor Tony Yarber after losing to If he can shift the fortunes of this Southern, majority-Black city, Lumumba might also be able to give the countrys progressive movement a boost in the conservative South, and show that these policies might work not just in places with big companies and gentrified downtowns, but in Mississippi, too. U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi, Former Moss Point Mayor and Wife Sentenced on Federal Fraud Charges, Cuban Man Pleads Guilty to Access Device Fraud, Federal Prisoner in Yazoo City Pleads Guilty to Assault on a Federal Officer, Former Moss Point Mayor and Wife Sentenced On Federal Fraud Charges. The former Mayor of Moss Point, Mississippi, and his wife were sentenced today for conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to the Mayors Gala held in 2019, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White, and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. After pressure from local media, he also is now publicly naming officers who shoot or kill people in Jackson. WebAs Mayor, he has been recognized as one of Mississippis Top 50 Most Influential Leaders and was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans of 2017 by the Root. After a day of teaching at Tougaloo or seeking answers to Jackson's problems, the couple comes home to their 3-year-old daughter, Alak, whose Yoruba name means "one to be made much of.". She got the best offer from the University of Mississippi, so she moved to Oxford. Ebony is excited to raise her daughters in the very place that nurtured her, her siblings and her man, she said. Chokwe finished law school in 2008 and moved back to Jackson to work for his father's firm. fax: 601-510-9019 Because Jackson is majority-Democratic, if Lumumba wins the primary, hell most likely win the general election on June 8. Ebony says that Alak gives perspective without realizing it. At left, Lumumba distributes food at a drive-through food bank on March 6. They were both briefly enrolled in Murrah High School's freshman class, and Ebony would see Chokwe when she rode the bus home with her best friendthis is when Ebony had a crush on someone else, Chokwe recalls. Jackson's first couple's story begins in a kindergarten classroom at North Jackson Elementary School. [4], In August 2016, a lawsuit was filed by Yarber's former executive assistant Kimberly Bracey, who accused Yarber of firing her when she turned down his sexual advances. It had been a rough several weeks for the city. Jackson doesnt have a widespread UBI program, a transformed police department or those co-operative businesses. So I literally have seen my cycle of life and development in so many ways here. The city has tried and failed for decades to revitalize the Farish Street area, but Lumumba believes that including more local input will finally kickstart development. [5], Yarber received a B.S. She said he used to show up with his cousin, never buying anything, which did not exactly help because she worked on commission. First, though, he has show that being radical isnt just a good campaign line it also has to fix the potholes, clean up the water and end the nightly staccato of gunshots. He had a strange hairdo at the time," she said. ) or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. Though he looked different from how she remembered him, Ebony said this was another instance that punctuated this planetary spin they were doing around each other throughout the years. How we can build a clean and renewable future. Many in Jacksons Democratic leadership have been frustrated not just by Lumumbas vision, but by his youth, his brashness, his attitude, his confidence (or arrogance, depending whom you ask), his attempts to circumvent them, his casting them aside. "And so I'm grateful for the aspect of my identity that is Jackson, and I want my daughters to be able to have a similar experience where they're very proud of where they come from. Her best friend seems to feel the same way. Lumumba faces two candidates in the Democratic primary, Patty Patterson, a community activist, and Ken Wilson, a former firefighter. He is a self-described progressive and socialist. He suggested they meet at the airport to see each other for the first time since the Tuskegee game. Chokwe, Ebony and Alak Lumumba (front) at the 2017 Jackson mayoral inauguration. "We were like orbiting in each other's atmospheres," Ebony added. Back Mayor's Youth Council 311 Action Line. This administration does a lot of grandstanding, Wallace says. A few years after that birthday party 6-year-old Chokwe did not attend, they both moved out of north Jackson, and they would see each other in passing during city-wide field trips. "Our story is that we always knew each other, but we still were kept at a distance from each other," Chokwe said. Speaking after House Bill 1020 passed on Tuesday evening, Jacksons mayor, Chokwe Lumumba, branded the proposed law some of the most oppressive legislation in our citys history. Jessica Conger purchased about $200 worth of items during the same transaction, and a cashier voided several items during the checkout process, according to the statement. Slectionnez Grer les paramtres pour grer vos prfrences. I wouldnt call us the most radical city to date, Lumumba said over the phone in late February, when the city was still in the grip of its most recent water crisis. "She claimed I never tried to talk to her, and I told her I actually gave her my number," Chokwe said. Driving around downtown Jackson on a Saturday morning, Wallace pointed out potholes and cracked city streets that Lumumba hadnt gotten around to fixing. It is unclear what time Beal arrived to hear the case, but Anderson addressed the court at 2:05 p.m. to explain that Beal was present and waiting for Massey and Jessica Conger to arrive in the court room to begin the hearing. Lumumba told me he anticipated the job would be a tremendous challenge. But he says he ran because he wanted to be the person who finally fixed the citys deep problems: Its about building, or dealing with, the large part of the glacier thats under the water before you begin to see whats on top.. Republicans running in the race argue Jackson needs to strengthen law enforcement, bring in charter schools and cut taxes to attract businesses. The Lumumbas are expecting a second daughter in March to be named Nubia Ngozi after Chokwe's late mother. 2023 www.jacksonsun.com. If the city is going to thrive and have success, we have to find that road in the middle.. [17] July 29, 2021, it was announced via Nina Turner's social media that Mayor Lumumba had endorsed her in Ohio's 11th Congressional District 2021 Special Election, the seat which was left empty when representative Marcia Fudge was selected by President Joe Biden for HUD Secretary. The case was investigated by the Mississippi State Auditors Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Only Johnson has served more than more one term. "My locks were dope; everybody liked them.". An additional 646 calls reported "free-bagging," a shoplifting technique involving improper scanning and covering unpurchased items with other items. He called the airline to get permission for Ebony to come to the gatea special privilege that is reserved for family members and spouses post-9/11. It was this way before he got here.. Photo courtesy Ebony Lumumba Jackson's The Lumumbas got married in 2012, and are now less than one year into Chokwes mayorship. A few years ago, Wallace invested $200,000 in equipment to fix potholes in Jackson, but he told me he hasnt gotten any business from the current mayor. He had changed his name to Chokwe Lumumba from Edwin Finley Taliaferro in the 1960s Chokwe after an African tribe that had long resisted the slave trade and Lumumba after the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba. Kentucky. Lumumba still wants to address Jacksons problems crime, poverty and, yes, potholes. Jackson is the place that my parents are laid to rest. In the time since that proposal in 2011, they have been through highs and lowsmany unfolding publicly. Theres the slog of getting enough money to do the most basic things in a city with a limited tax base. 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The city and nonprofit groups spent a month distributing both drinking water and water to flush toilets, while working to rebuild water pressure across Jackson. Even though theres no longer an official boil water advisory, many residents here still dont trust the citys water. Their teacher cooked green eggs and ham for the class, and Chokwe remembers his teacher getting in trouble for letting him eat pork. Jackson, Miss. The Kings pled guilty on February 24, 2021. Bracey alleged sexual In a majority-Black city, and a state where Black people are disproportionately imprisoned, the question of what to do about the spike has created deep tension between Lumumba who has advocated for attacking the root causes of crime by boosting mental health services, youth programs and economic development and several Black city council members who want to pursue a more law-and-order approach. Ebony sat at the table waiting for her food as everyone else's orders came out of the kitchen, wondering why she was the only one without her meal. The mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, is urging locals to get out now after the state was battered with record rainfall and the Pearl River swelled to devastating levels. He lost a special election to replace his father in 2014. Although, the mayor does admit to having a crush on Ebony when he was a kid. Despite their collective grief and new addition to the family, Ebony believes everything happened in perfect timing. "She always has. Ebony was trying to hold back emotions in case he had just come as an early birthday surprise and not to proposeher birthday tends to fall around homecoming. A quick glance at recent statewide election results in the Bluegrass State would give the sense that Democratic Gov. [2] He has served on the Board of Directors for Relevant Ministries. He would end the call and response with: By any means necessary. It was the Republic of New Afrikas secessionist slogan, one that Lumumbas father also used when he spoke. In April 2018, when the Jackson Zoo announced plans to consider moving from its current West Jackson location, Lumumba joined Working Together Jackson, the Zoo Area Progressive Partnership, Rosemont Missionary Baptist Church and other community groups, in an effort to prevent the zoo from moving. Jackson mayor's family grows by one Wednesday", "The Deep South Couple Working 24/7 for Social Justice", U.S. state and territorial capital cities, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chokwe_Antar_Lumumba&oldid=1134878603, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 January 2023, at 05:51. She said he used to show up with his cousin, never buying anything, which did not exactly help because she worked on commission. Still, even Lumumba agrees that the national movement to defund the police doesnt apply in a city with an already vastly underfunded police department. That summer, however, they rekindled their Facebook thread, and that communication evolved into daily phone chats. Fraziers son and Lumumba played Little League and basketball together. Executive Team Constituent Services Communications Intergovernmental Relations State of the City Flood Emergency Executive Orders. [18], Lumumba has two children with his wife, Ebony. One of the biggest complaints about Lumumbas term is crime. "But he was nice.". Keeping their daughters in mind, they work to uplift the community that is the source of some of their best memories and nostalgia. Email city reporter Ko Bragg at [emailprotected], Jackson Free Press, Inc. The first thing the elder Lumumba did when he became mayor was work with the city council and state legislature to push through a 1 percent sales tax to help repair the citys infrastructure. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Marcus Wallace, who is mayor of Edwards, a small town west of Jackson, owns a construction company that has done business with previous mayors. While Lumumbas ideas havent gotten much traction, he managed to update the citys use-of-force policy, including banning chokeholds. From 2012 to 2015, Councilman Stokes served the people as a Hinds County Supervisor for Jessica Conger's preliminary hearing has been reset twice to allow both parties time to reviewsurveillance footageof the alleged theft, her attorney William Massey said in November. 125 S. Congress St. #1324 * Jackson, MS * 39201, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:54 p.m. CST, Wise Women: A Mother-Daughter Judicial Legacy Continues, $1 Million Grant from FTA Will Help City Develop Transportation Corridor, UPDATED: Former JPD Chief Vance Running Against Beleaguered Hinds County Sheriff, With 84 Homicides in 2018, City Hopes to Stem Violence With New Cops, Strategy. Hey, what's up?' Lumumbas dad he was practical, wise, Banks says. They were both briefly enrolled in Murrah High School's freshman class, and Ebony would see Chokwe when she rode the bus home with her best friendthis is when Ebony had a crush on someone else, Chokwe recalls. Yarber also discussed Jackson's potential for growth as an entertainment hub, and as a "medical corridor. In 2013, Yarber served as Chair of the Budget Committee and the Education/Youth Ad Hoc Committee. Chokwe, Ebony and Alak Lumumba (front) at the 2017 Jackson mayoral inauguration. Tate Reeves says he and Lumumba have a good working relationship. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS The death of Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Miss., interrupts one of Americas most promising civic experiments still in its fragile beginning. "[2][8], On May 2, 2017, Yarber was soundly defeated by Chokwe Antar Lumumba in the nine-candidate primary for the Democratic nominee for mayor of Jackson, receiving 5% to Lumumba's 55%.[9]. "She claimed I never tried to talk to her, and I told her I actually gave her my number," Chokwe said. [2][4] He attended Forest Hill High School in Jackson. Ebony says that Alak gives perspective without realizing it. WebTony Tarzell 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 "She is a refreshing reminder of what life is really about when you get home," Lumumba said of his daughter. The elder Lumumba practiced criminal defense and civil rights law, even representing rapper Tupac Shakur, and worked as an activist continuing to lobby for reparations and setting up a community center in Mississippis capital city. Jackson has had seven mayors since 1997, when Harvey Johnson Jr. was elected as the citys first Black mayor. These citations, which require recipients to appear in court within 10 days, can only be issued if the accused: Under state code, a person can be charged with shoplifting if someone conceals merchandise with the intent to steal it, meaning an individual does not have to physically leave the store with an unpaid-for item to be charged. Last year, the city council approved a budget that raised police pay to recruit new officers, a move that upset local activists. My three-year-old was a prisoner of Walmart. The two refer to their day-to-day interaction as ships passing in the night. The Nation commented that "Lumumba lit up the left press with his promisedelivered later that month in a speech at the People's Summit in Chicagoto make Jackson 'the most radical city on the planet.'. While it might have looked like Lumumba was channeling the views of his constituents, the residents of Hinds County, which includes Jackson, ended up voting overwhelming for Joe Biden in the primary. He told the airline Ebony is his fiance or wifehe can't remember whichand she got the approval. JACKSON, Miss. Walmart does not publicize its specific shoplifting policies and did not respond to requests for clarification. Kellogg Foundation that focuses on early childhood education. "[W]hen you're best friends, it feels more reassuring just about in every aspect of life," Ebony said. They say hes doing the best he can under the circumstances. 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