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Analysis: Lumumba Won Despite White Voter Spike

This week's Democratic primary runoff saw a huge spike in white voter turnout while black turnout held steady. But the effect on the results seemed negligible: Councilman Chokwe Lumumba defeated …

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Lumumba Wins Democratic Primary; Presumptive Mayor of Jackson

Chokwe Lumumba never trailed Jonathan Lee in the Democratic runoff.

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Hickingbottom Behind Anti-Lumumba PAC

In the final hours of the Jackson mayoral election, a group called Citizens for a Better Jackson is making a push to beat back gains made by Ward 7 Councilman …

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Campaign Trickery: Lumumba a 'Race Traitor,' Lee a 'Rankin Republican'?

Supporters of men who are vying to be Jackson's next mayor were busy over the weekend with last-minute election trickery, some anonymous and some not, with much of it targeting …

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PPS Hosting Mayoral Forum Sunday Night

Jonathan Lee and Chokwe Lumumba square off in another candidate forum Sunday night, this one about public education.

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Lumumba Rocks the House at Mayoral Debate

Chokwe Lumumba was a clear winner of Friday's night mayoral debate at Mississippi College School of Law.

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Was Jonathan Lee's MPI Collateral Damage in UMMC Deal?

In the case of the legal problems plaguing the family business of Jackson Democratic mayoral candidate Jonathan Lee, Mississippi Products has found itself in legal purgatory between MPI's customers: the …

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Lee Attempts to Paint Lumumba as 'Other'

With just two days remaining before Jackson voters return to the polls to pick the city's next mayor, businessman Jonathan Lee's campaign is attempting to define rival Councilman Chokwe Lumumba …

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On the Issues: Lee vs. Lumumba

Crime: Lee: Would fire JPD Chief Rebecca Coleman and work on changing the culture of the fire and police departments.

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Jonathan Lee's Top 10 Donors

Lee cut a check for $140,000 to his own PAC "Friends of Jonathan Lee" on March 29, a day after his campaign paid that same amount out to LUC Media …

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What Is Lumumba’s ‘Jackson Plan’?

For anyone still on the fence over whom to vote for in the Democratic runoff next Tuesday, it's likely that reading through the Jackson Plan will move his or her …

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Lumumba's Donors

When it finally arrived a week after state law said it was due, Chokwe Lumumba's campaign-finance form revealed that he raised a fraction--20 percent--of the amount first-place finisher Jonathan Lee …

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Profile: Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Lee may not be a business owner, but he rode his business credentials to becoming the top vote-getter in the city's Democratic mayoral primary.

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Profile: Chokwe Lumumba

Now, Chokwe Lumumba devotes a good deal of time talking about his family's own diverse racial heritage, the camaraderie he experienced among fellow basketballers of all races and nationalities, the …

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Let's Clean House

As we move forward as a city and a state, it's time we discussed the difference between blame and accountability.