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Chokwe Lumumba the New Face of Jackson www.mississippilink.com VOL. 19, NO. 31 MAY 23 - 29, 2013 50¢ Honoring Those Who Made The Ultimate Sacrifice On Memorial Day Tougaloo gala honors Chokwe Lumumba civil rights legends the new face of Jackson On the trail of Lumumba’s Peoples Platform- ‘It’s time for government to serve the people’ Roberta Flack performing her greatest hits. PHOTOS BY JAY JOHNSON Chokwe Lumumba wins the Democratic runoff for mayoral candidate May 21, 2013. The general election will be held Tuesday, June 4. He is joined by son Chokwe Antar and daughter Rukia at the runoff celebration. Master and Mistress of Ceremonies TV personalities Howard Ballou and Joy Redmond (L-R) Tougaloo Board of Trustees Chairman LeRoy Walker Jr.; Tougaloo President Beverly Hogan; Honorees Dr. Herman Jack Geiger and Robert P. Moses; Reena Evers and Congressman Bennie Thompson By Stephanie R. Jones Dr. Herman Contributing Writer Jack Geiger, Tougaloo College’s gala 50th a founder and Anniversary Celebration of the past president Civil Rights Movement paid of Physicians tribute to four people who have for Human worked to advance human and Rights. Edelman civil rights: Geiger and Marian Wright Edelman, Moses attend- founder and president of the ed the gala. Children’s Defense Fund; Mor- Edelman and ris Dees, co-founder of the Dees sent vid- Lumumba supporters filled the ballroom at the Clarion Hotel on I-55 in Jackson in high celebratory spirits. Southern Poverty Law Cen- eo messages. PHOTOS BY JAY JOHNSON ter; Robert P. Moses, founder (See photos Lumumba See photos on page 3 of The Algebra Project and on page 17) Dees Continued on page 6 Al is Sharp, Ben’s Obama exhorts Oklahoma F5 Share this issue with a friend not Jealous good deeds tornado damages by mailing it to: by Morehouse could top Inside graduates $2 billion Page 7 Page 9 Page 11 2 • the mississippi link mAy 23 - 29, 2013 www.mississippilink.com News Briefs by Monica Land, Contributing Writer From Across The State liability litigation. She worked at another has spent ($4,037 on 11 trips) and es. Some colleges are taking part in a thing they said was, `We’re going to ap- Brown nominated Jackson firm, Phelps Dunbar, more than roughly four times as much as Wright Survey: Job program in which students can sign up for peal. Don’t worry about it. We’re going to for U.S. district 14 years. has spent ($2,177 on six trips). seekers start weekly email updates from the Mississippi take care of everything,”’ he remembered. Brown graduated with a bachelor’s In her almost two years as super- Department of Employment Security. Mis- “I remember this because I said, `You judgeship in Miss. degree in architecture from Mississippi intendent, Liddell held the post on an search early sissippi College features a job-search Pin- know I’m going to need a rock.’ And they State University in 1987 and a law de- interim basis in 2011-12 and her travel terest board and Twitter posts on openings. said, `We’ll be your rock.’ I knew at that gree from the University of Mississippi expenses have totaled $18,860. Her Old-fashioned methods still work, too, point that I was going to be able to make in 1997. predecessor, Del Phillips, spent Bell said adding, “Always ask questions it,” Halat said. The U.S. Supreme Court $5,990 during his last two years as and keep looking.” denied Halat’s appeals in 2000. superintendent. Halat said even if he’s never cleared Liddell makes no For the past three years, the on earth, he’s confident God knows the apologies for time CMSD has been on “academic watch” Ex-Biloxi mayor truth. “If there is a final arbiter, and I truly or rated “D” (low performing) by the still denies role in believe that there is, I have absolutely no away Mississippi Department of Educa- doubt when I get up there that Vince and tion. The ratings for the current school killings Margaret will be standing next to him, and year will be released in September. they will embrace me,” he said. “I have no The Mississippi Legislature passed (AP) Chris Bell knew he couldn’t wait problems with final judgment. Believe me an expanded charter-school bill this until his recently completed senior year at when I tell you that.” session, which allows charter schools Millsaps College to start hunting for work The Sherrys were slain in their Biloxi Attorney Debra Brown (Photo to open in any district that is rated as or establish his credentials. The job market home on Sept. 14, 1987, in a plot involving from mslitigationreview.com) D or F. was on the upswing but still swollen with a lawyer, a Louisiana prisoner and a strip The possibility of a charter school, scores of candidates scrambling to fill each club owner. (AP) President Barack Obama on which could draw away students - and new opening. In the 1980s, Bobby Joe Fabian, Di- May 16 nominated Jackson attorney The graduate with a bachelor’s degree the state and federal funding that ac- Halat xie Mafia kingpin Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. Debra M. Brown to be a U.S. District companies each student - represents in public management did a research in- and other inmates at the Louisiana State judge for northern Mississippi. If con- a possible crisis for CMSD. Liddell ternship with a local lobbying firm. He spent (AP) Former Biloxi Mayor Pete Halat, Penitentiary at Angola began running firmed, Brown would be the first African- says her frequent travels are efforts six months studying abroad in Grenoble, now free from prison, still says he had no lonely-hearts telephone scams that mainly American woman to serve as a federal to gain information that could prevent France. He helped organize a rare meet- part in a murder plot that led to him spend- targeted homosexual men who sent thou- district judge in the state, said a spokes- that possibility. ing on campus of the Jackson City Council ing almost 16 years in federal prison. Halat sands of dollars, thinking they were helping man for Mississippi’s senior U.S. sena- Martha Liddell “Every superintendent in this state and, in turn, aided in putting together a city- told WLOX-TV that he had “absolutely young men get out of minor scrapes with tor, Republican Thad Cochran. who is scoring below a “C” is worried sponsored talent-retention fair. nothing” to do with the murders of Harrison the law and join them. “I congratulate Debra Brown on her (AP) If you have tried to reach about (charter schools),” she said. He also looked for jobs amid that bustle County Circuit Judge Vincent Sherry and Fabian testified that Nix ordered the historic nomination and am hopeful the Columbus, Mississippi, Schools Su- “Certainly I’m worried about it. When of activity, landing a position as a data his wife, Margaret, in 1987. Sherry slayings because Halat had con- Senate will conduct a timely and thor- perintendent Martha Liddell at her you think about what happens to your analyst and policy consultant in the Missis- Sherry and Halat had been law partners vinced Nix that Vincent Sherry had stolen ough consideration of her qualifications office this school year, there’s a one- school district and what could hap- sippi Development Authority’s energy and starting in 1981. Halat was elected mayor some of Nix’s proceeds in the scam. Fabi- to join the federal bench,’’ Cochran said in-three chance you were told she pen, it’s absolutely worth it. It’s an natural resources division. “The market is 1989, losing a re-election bid in 1993. Halat an estimated the scam may have collected in a news release. was not in the office. In fact, there’s investment in better achievement as tough, especially if you’re not a science, was convicted in 1997 of conspiracy to $5 million. Former Biloxi strip club owner Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., also is- a one-in-three chance that Liddell we move forward. We stand to lose technology, engineering or mathematics commit racketeering, obstruction of justice, Mike Gillich was the chief prosecution wit- sued a statement praising the nominee. wasn’t even in town. a whole lot more than we gain. We major. You have to start your job search conspiracy to obstruct justice and conspira- ness when Halat and three others were “Debra Brown has a distinguished back- So far during the 2012-13 school could lose half a million dollars.” early,” said Bell, originally from Little Rock, cy to commit wire fraud. He was sentenced convicted in 1997. ground in the practice of law,’’ Wicker year, Liddell has taken 21 trips that Liddell says all of her travel has Ark. to 18 years in prison. Gillich, John Ransom, Nix and Nix’s girl- said. “She is well-regarded among a kept her out of the district for at least been for professional development, in- Class of 2013 graduates could be According to court testimony, Halat friend, Sheri LaRa Sharpe, were convicted number of people across the legal and 60 of the 180 school days this year. cluding training on the Common Core rewarded not long after leaving school, a knew about the murder plot against the in 1991 on a federal conspiracy charge. political spectrum, and I am impressed Her contemporaries in Starkville, curriculum that will be implemented in new report from CareerBuilder.com and Sherrys and failed to notify law enforce- Gillich was released from prison in July by what they say about her qualifica- Lewis Holloway, and Lowndes Coun- 2015.
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