Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba pleaded not guilty to five federal charges Thursday afternoon in federal court in ...

Lumumba's mayoral stint followed his father's, Chokwe Lumumba, who was elected as Ward 2's councilman in 2009, then as ...

Lumumba, Banks and Owens indictments follow former Ward 2 Councilwoman Angelique Lee, who pleaded guilty to a federal bribery ...

That was the game he used to entice me... to get what he called the ‘whole thing,’” he recalled. “It didn’t make sense.” Last ...

Bribery and conspiracy charges against the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, are the latest shock to the state's capital city.

In February 1961, a remarkable outburst took place at the United Nations in New York – jazz artists Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, ...

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, a Democrat first elected to lead the state’s capital in 2017, and the City Council member, Aaron ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba spoke to the media after a hearing in which he pleaded not guilty to federal bribery ...

Activist Rukia Lumumba wants people to “wake up” after the mayor says he "always acted in the best interests of the citizens ...

The charges came after two undercover FBI agents posed as real estate developers and reportedly made payments to officials.

Indicted last week in a major corruption scandal, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is trying to pull a Donald Trump. Just ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba answers questions during a press conference at City Hall in Jackson, Miss., on Oct. 28, ...