NYTimes - Chokwe Lumumba, Mayor of Jackson, Miss., Dies at 66

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS via NYT U.S. http://nyti.ms/1fp1BTS Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba (SHOW-kway Lu-MOOM-bah), a human rights activist and nationally prominent attorney who as city leader persuaded voters to accept a sales tax to fix crumbling infrastructure in Mississippi's capital, died Tuesday. He was 66.