New U.S. Mayor sets sights on ‘black nation’

Voters in Jackson, Mississippi, a medium-sized town in the heart of the Deep South, elected as a Democrat mayor. What’s different about this guy is that he is a former leader of the Republic of New Afrika, a group dedicated to the creation of a separate black nation of the five southern states. Now that leads to the city of about 175,000 is Chokwe Lumumba – who has a long history of radical activism and their plans for the largest city in Mississippi that could be called a co-founder of the “revolutionary”. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which promotes black “self-determination”, Lumumba was sworn …