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Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba projects authority, calm, and easy confidence. But the 39-year-old mayor might be in trouble, writes Alejandro de la Garza.
Following Lumumba’s reelection in 2021, the collapse of Jackson’s water system has brought urgency to that political project. But it has also raised questions about how much blame the idealistic mayor shares for allowing a decades-old systemic problem to become an acute crisis.
At the center of Jackson’s water outage is a longstanding animosity between the primarily Black Democratic leaders of Jackson and the mostly white Republican leaders of Mississippi. In recent years, bills to help the city’s ailing infrastructure died in state legislature and on the governor’s desk.
Read more about the complicated fight to fix Jackson’s infrastructure at the link in our bio. Photograph by Christopher Lee (@theotherchrislee) for TIME
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