Why one Black mayor sees an American ‘apartheid’
by Ken Makin
Apr 13, 2023
3 minutes
Chokwe Lumumba. It is a name of imagination, as much as it is a name of determination.
When the former Edwin Finley Taliaferro took on the name in 1969, he did so to honor the liberation-minded Chokwe people of Central Africa, along with the late Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It was a name he passed down to his son, who, like his father, eventually became the mayor of
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