The Guardian
The mayor of the Mississippi state capital and a state senator apologized on Saturday for shootings 51 years ago by police officers that killed two people and injured 12 on the campus of a historically Black college.
The mayor of Jackson, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, and Hillman Frazier, a state senator representing the city, spoke at a graduation ceremony for the class of 1970 of what was then Jackson State College and is now Jackson State University.
Lumumba apologized on behalf of the city to the families of the two men who were killed in a violent police response to a protest against racial injustice.
