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In 1973, William Colby, then the director of central intelligence, had a statue of the Revolutionary War spy Nathan Hale placed on the grounds of the CIA’s headquarters in Virginia. Hale struck ...
A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice ... most famous post-colonial politicians. By Nicolas Niarchos The renaming of a Brussels square after Patrice Lumumba ...
Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kwame Nkrumah—four towering figures of Pan-Africanism whose lives were cut short by violence and betrayal, yet whose dreams of a united ...
One of the most beloved comedians who died too soon is Patrice O'Neal, who passed away at the age of 41 in 2011 due to a stroke caused by his Type 2 diabetes. While performing at the Just For ...
Speaking after the council's Tuesday meeting, Lumumba initially declined to comment, saying, “I don’t have any thoughts,” when asked about the council’s hiring freeze.
Incumbent Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba came in a distant second with 4,124 votes, or nearly 17% of the total vote. In third place was Air Force veteran Tim Henderson with 2,641 votes, or nearly 14%.
Lumumba recently appointed Tariq Abdul-Tawwab as deputy director of the Public Works Department and former Hinds County Supervisor David Archie as a staff assistant in the mayor’s office. Abdul ...
Patrice Bergeron was just 18 years old when he made his NHL debut for the Bruins. So he had a sense of how 21-year-old Romany Anthony was feeling ahead of his MLB debut with the Red Sox.
Lumumba's father Chokwe Lumumba had also served as Jackson's mayor from 2013-14, dying while in office. On the Republican ticket, candidates Kenny Gee and Wilfred Beal faced off in the runoff.
He decisively defeated incumbent Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba by more than 12,000 votes. Lumumba received only 25.25% of the vote, or 6,246 votes as of 10:30 p.m. with all 80 precincts reporting.