The Jackson City Council approved an emergency hiring freeze after Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba made two controversial hires weeks before leaving office.

Two of the mayor's supporters recently were appointed to positions in the city government, even as Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A former Hinds County supervisor has landed a job with the city of Jackson in the final days of the ...

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.

The federally indicted mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, is trailing his opponent in the city’s Democratic primary runoff. Unofficial vote totals show state Sen. John Horhn leading two-term Mayor ...

Incumbent Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and challenger Sen. John Horhn made final campaign pushes — and shared closing messages with Jackson voters — ahead of Tuesday’s high-stakes Democratic ...

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and his wife, Ebony Lumumba, were brought to tears when their daughters spoke to supporters after his defeat to State Sen. John Horhn in the Democratic primary ...

Preliminary results showed state Sen. John Horhn leading with 18,493 votes compared to two-term Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba ’s 6,246 votes. The results of absentee votes had not yet been announced.

Lumumba defeated Horhn in the 2017 Democratic primary outright, earning 55% of the vote. This time around, Lumumba’s vote share dropped to 17% in an April 1 primary. Horhn secured 48% ...