Watch: How Mayor Lumumba Is Rewriting the Story of Jackson, Miss.

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“If we see an opportunity for change, then I believe we should be as radical as the circumstances dictate we should be.”

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A Jogger had no idea What or Who Hit Her… Until Police Showed Her

—Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba

The Root 100 honoree Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the youngest mayor in Jackson, Miss., history, talks about how he plans to bring about change in the above video.

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