Mayors Steve Benjamin (Columbia, S.C); LaToya Cantrell (New Orleans); Chokwe Lumumba (Jackson, Miss.); Randall Woodfin (Birmingham, Ala.), Author at The Root

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Southern Mayors: The South Has Something to Say About the 2020 Elections

Twenty-four years ago, a talented, young duo from Atlanta was booed as they received a Source Award for “Best New Rap Group.” A then-20-year-old André Benjamin overcame his emotions to make a bold declaration that forever changed hip-hop: “The South got something to say.” That talented group was Outkast. And they indeed said a lot…

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Mayors Steve Benjamin (Columbia, S.C); LaToya Cantrell (New Orleans); Chokwe Lumumba (Jackson, Miss.); Randall Woodfin (Birmingham, Ala.)

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October 24, 2019
Take Down That Flag, Mayor of Columbia, SC, Demands

I was just a boy in school the first time I read the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Jail, trying to imagine what it must have been like to live through those events and be part of a movement that fundamentally redefined who we are as a nation and a people. I…

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Mayors Steve Benjamin (Columbia, S.C); LaToya Cantrell (New Orleans); Chokwe Lumumba (Jackson, Miss.); Randall Woodfin (Birmingham, Ala.)

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July 4, 2015

Mayors Steve Benjamin (Columbia, S.C); LaToya Cantrell (New Orleans); Chokwe Lumumba (Jackson, Miss.); Randall Woodfin (Birmingham, Ala.)