amy: can you talk about the origins of your name chokwe antatar lumumba? my father changed his when he was in law school and accepted the name that he believed to be more culturally than a fireball. chokwe is the name of a tribe in the angola region, a tribe that was resistant to the slave trade. the name chokwe means "hunter." antar is the name of a the start poet and warrior that died while saving a woman from drowning. it means poet and warrior. lumumba, i was given that name from our namesake patrice lumumba, the former prime minister of the congo. lulumumba means "gifted." amamy: can you talk about -- i mean, your rise to becoming mayor of jackson is very interesting. the incumbent mayor won the special election against you in 2014. the race that determined who would finish your father's term after he died in office. your thoughts about losing to him then, but defeating him in this race? what changed? >> well, you know, as i have shared with many people, hindsight is 20/20. i am actually grateful that we lost the election in 2014. not because sincerit

lumumba is the son of late jackson mayor chokwe lumumba, a longtime black nationali organizer and attorneyubbed "america's most revolutionary mayor" before s deh in 2014. this is mayor elect lumumba, celebrating his election victory tuesday night with supporters. >> [indiscernible] when i become mayor, you become mayor. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in china , which is refusing to release three activists arrested while investigating labor conditions at a factory that manufactured ivanka trump brand shoes. the three men were working with the new york-based nonprofit, china labor watch. the group was reportedly planning to release a report next month revealing that factory workers at the supplier, huajian international, were forced to work excessive overtime, verbally abused, and paid wages below china's legal minimum. china accuses the three investigators with using illegal surveillance equipment and interfering with the operation of the factory. china labor watch denies the