| RickLafayette |
10-15-2013 02:03 PM |
Never stay in a city that has a mayor with the last name of “Lumumba”.
He majored in Political Science and graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1969 where he formed the Black United Front to advocate for African American studies in Midwestern higher education institutions. Lumumba was elected to the cabinet of the Republic of New Africa in 1971 as the second vice president.] He was in the same position when the capital of the provisional government was moved to Hinds County, Mississippi and dedicated on March 28, 1971. Lumumba was in the lead car with Alajo Abegbalola which was halted by the Bolton police on that day when the "Land Celebration" was set to take place marking the establishment of the capital of the Republic of New Africa. In 1972 Lumumba was appointed by the Republic of New Africa president as the Minister of Justice to succeed Attorney William E. Miller Jr.In 2009 Lumumba was elected to Jackson Ward Two council seat with the help of the organization he helped start, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Jackson People's Assembly, Mississippi Disaster Relief Coalition, and other community activists. He has served as chairman of the New African Peoples Organization and co-sponsored the Washington DC rally, Occupy the Justice Department, and in 2010 addressed the New Black Panther Party in Atlanta.
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