The City of Jackson is finally paying its bills, at least some of them. Twice the issue has been brought up by members of the ...

The City of Jackson faces a debt of roughly $6.4 million in water bills due to a major water leak at the Jackson Zoological ...

The Jackson City Council has approved repaving of 200 additional streets at a cost of more than $20 million. See the complete ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, seen here in this July 29, 2024 file photo, has been indicted on federal charges. Lumumba is one of two Jackson elected officials involved in the scandal.

JACKSON, Miss. — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba announced Wednesday that his legal team notified him that federal prosecutors have indicted him on "bribery and related charges." The indictment ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is planning to run for re-election in 2025. Lumumba made the announcement after taking questions from reporters during a Monday press conference at Jackson's ...

Primary night wasn't supposed to end that way. Chokwe Antar Lumumba could not possibly beat nine Democratic opponents outright and avoid a run-off. Here's why he did.

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba speaks at a Tuesday town hall at Reedemer Church. "Ever since that point, he (Henifin) has refused to communicate with us," Lumumba said.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 34—son of the late Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Lumumba and community activist Nubia Lumumba—is the new mayor-elect of Jackson, Miss., beating Republican challenger Jason ...

September 24, 2019 Chokwe Antar Lumumba: Being a Radical Means Getting to the Root Causes of Injustice The mayor of Jackson is building a “dignity economy” to lift up Mississippi’s biggest city.

When his father died of natural causes on Feb. 25 at age 66 after serving eight months as Jackson's mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba soon announced his candidacy to succeed him.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba leading a rally in 2015 in Stonewall, Miss., over the death of a black man following a physical altercation with a police officer. When Chokwe Antar Lumumba won the Democratic ...