Tag: Freedom Fighter

Honoring Yuri Kochiyama Human Rights Activist – Freedom Fighter

Yuri Kochiyama – Human Rights Activist – Freedom Fighter If you ever had the honor and privilege of  meeting Yuri Kochiyama, you would know her to be the most gentle and humble of all human spirits. I knew her, and her husband, Bill, and visited with them in their Harlem apartment. Even though Yuri was

Remembering Chokwe Lumumba — Jackson Mayor and Global Freedom Fighter

Lumumba worked within the confines of the judicial and legislative branches of government to achieve self determination for the masses. First, as a civil rights trial lawyer, both in Jackson and in his hometown of Detroit, MI, then as a city councilman representing Ward 2 before taking the helm as mayor of the city of