REMEMBERING

CHOKWE LUMUMBA

NCBL MEMBER

BORN: August 2, 1947, Detroit, MI

DECEASED: February 25, 2014 (Jackson, MS)

NATIONALITY: American

CHILDREN: Chokwe Antar Lumumba​

"Change does not come on thoughts alone; because we have a revolutionary ideology and give speeches on it.

It comes because you can change the material conditions of people, and get people to assist in the change, be the mainstay of the change in their conditions.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.”

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~ Chokwe Lumumba

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Chokwe Lumumba was an American attorney and politician, affiliated with the Republic of New Afrika and serving as its second vice president. He served as a human rights lawyer in Michigan and Mississippi. In 2013, after serving on the City Council, he was elected as Mayor of Jackson.