On his final day in office, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba announced the reopening of Thalia Mara Hall, nearly 10 months after ...

Federal investigators have issued a subpoena demanding detailed financial records tied to Jackson’s $89.8 million settlement ...

Jackson Mayor John Horhn unveiled his first wave of administrative appointments, naming several new department directors and ...

Chokwe Antar Lumumba is ending his second term as mayor of Mississippi's capital city. He pledged to make Jackson the most ...

Lumumba then called a city employee and directed them to move the deadline to April 15. The indictment shows a picture of Lumumba, sitting next to Owens, making the phone call.

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba defended his late-term hires after the Jackson City Council implemented a hiring freeze for most city positions.

Mayor Lumumba says that through the highs and lows of the job, he’s most proud of the team he acquired. “I’m going to miss ...

Lumumba remains a leading figure in Congolese and African history. He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose ...

The Congolese independence leader’s uncompromising speech about 80 years of European colonial brutality and injustice went ...

In “The Lumumba Plot,” the Foreign Affairs editor Stuart A. Reid asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the death of one of Africa’s most famous post-colonial politicians.

Lumumba signs the act of independence of the Congo in Leopoldville, Congo on June 30, 1960. At his right is Gaston Eyskens, the Belgian prime minister, who signed the act on behalf of Belgium.