Late Jackson Mayor Lumumba’s Son Wins Primary

Late Jackson Mayor Lumumba’s Son Wins Primary

And this election really is, I think, a very important one for the City of Jackson. It’s going to really determine what the future looks like in this city for the next 20 years. And I say that because the mandate that we’ve talked about on the show previously, the mandate around some of the infrastructure repairs that are being forced on the city, in many respects, by the federal government, the EPA in particular, and the state government, around some of the water treatment, the sewage, the water rates, and some of the other infrastructure repair work, means that however this is carried out and financed by this administration going forward is really going to determine a lot of the long-term–in this case I mean the next 20- to 50-year economic trajectory of the city. So there’s really–you know, is it going to go and going to follow the kind of normal script of a neoliberal orientation of the privatization–more privatization of government services, more bringing in international corporations, and more gentrification into the city? -more-

Paul Robeson: A Life

“Paul Robeson,” historian Joseph Dorinson ruefully wrote in the 2002 introduction to his co-edited collection of essays about him, “is the greatest legend nobody knows.” When the man who was one of the most striking Renaissance people in American history died in 1976, in loneliness and obscurity, his magnificent athletic, scholarly, artistic and political accomplishments were largely erased from national consciousness, stricken from the media and from history books. This tragic void, eerily reminiscent of Stalin-era removal of enemies from photographs and other Soviet documents, was a deep stain on American history, resulting from the worst excesses of McCarthyism from the late 1940s through much of the 1960s. The long overdue restoration of Robeson’s stellar reputation, fortunately, began shortly after his death, slowly propelling him back to some public recognition. -more-

Don Rojas,