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DeAnna Tisdale Johnson
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Publisher, The Jackson Advocate
The Box
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screenwriting, business politics, poetry and more., self-employmentBooks, history
anti-aging
Content
Election is bigger than ‘Little Chokwe’: It’s about refusing to be further pulled apart – Jackson Advocate
By Deanna Johnson, DeAnna Tisdale Johnson| The Jackson Advocate Verified Publisher’s Note: By DeAnna Tisdale JohnsonAs our city once again enters the heat of an election season, I find myself reflecting deeply on the weight of legacy – and the responsibility that comes with it. My father believed in this city. He gave his life to it, in many ways, just as the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba did. I see the parallels between the life I grew up in and the one Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba now lives. We are both children of men who committed themselves to building something better.
By Deanna Johnson, DeAnna Tisdale Johnson| The Jackson Advocate Verified Mississippi labor leader Charlie Horhn was Congressman Bennie Thompson’s right-hand man for many years. Yet, his most notable achievements center around his efforts to form a union at the Presto Industries small appliance plant in Jackson, MS during the 1960s. “It happened after the 1964 Civil Rights Bill passed,” remembers Horhn. “The plant that I worked in did not have any Black females on the assembly line.
Election is bigger than ‘Little Chokwe’: It’s about refusing to be further pulled apart – Jackson Advocate
By Deanna Johnson, DeAnna Tisdale Johnson| The Jackson Advocate Verified Publisher’s Note: By DeAnna Tisdale JohnsonAs our city once again enters the heat of an election season, I find myself reflecting deeply on the weight of legacy – and the responsibility that comes with it. My father believed in this city. He gave his life to it, in many ways, just as the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba did. I see the parallels between the life I grew up in and the one Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba now lives. We are both children of men who committed themselves to building something better.
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The Jackson Advocate
The Box, United States