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JACKSONIAN TRAY HAIRSTON

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ttorney Tray Hairston, 35, bubbles with enthusiasm and positivity about Jackson and its residents. After graduating from Madison Central High School in 1997, where his mother DeEtta Hairston taught, he attended Tougaloo College where he studied English and humanities with an emphasis in philosophy. His collegiate career also led him to spend a semester at Brown University in Providence, R.I., and New York University in New York City.

Throughout his travels, one thing prevailed: He wanted to come back and serve the people of Jackson. “It was nice to get away, but I knew I wanted to come home and feel connected,” Hairston says.

Hairston received his law degree from Mississippi College School of Law in 2009.

He currently works for Butler Snow law firm in Ridgeland. Before Butler Snow, Hairston served as legal counsel for Gov. Phil Bryant.

His current work focuses on municipal bond issues. In simple terms, he helps cities find money to fix infrastructure and improve economic development.

“Today in Mississippi, there’s not enough money in general,” he says. “I explore tax-exempt bonds, which, in turn, saves the state money. I try to find solutions that make sense financially.”

Hairston gave a talk at TEDx Jackson on using the health-care industry as an economic driver. He says he recognizes the chal-

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lenges Jackson faces at the state and federal level, but believes solutions are close at hand.

“Everything has to be balanced,” he says.

Hairston didn’t always see himself becoming a lawyer. He says that his two greatest influences are his father, Tommy Hairston, and Judge Henry Wingate. “Dad was a letter carrier who was also active in the union,” he says.

“There were many discussions around the dinner table about how people could be treated fairly.” Hairston says that Judge Wingate “was a mentor to me, and I learned a lot from him. He steered me toward studying philosophy.”

Since 2010, Hairston has served as an adjunct professor at the Mississippi College School of Law where he teaches a judicial philosophy course.

Hairston has a fundamental belief that Jackson is on the cusp of many great things.

“Other cities like Little Rock (Ark.) and Birmingham (Ala.) have had a rebirth,” he says.

“It’s time for our renaissance. I see Jackson as the last vestige of the ‘old South.’ With great planning, we have a bright future.”

People should be engaged with things that are happening in Jackson, he says. “We should all care about our capital city,” says the father of one daughter, Zoe. “It is the heartbeat of our area. If it prospers, so does everything around it.”

—Tommy Burton

Cover photo courtesy flickr/Seattle Municipal Archives

11 Strengthening Alliances

In the face of a new policy at Rankin County schools, straight and LGBT students and their supporters are standing firm.

26 Brunch Your Heart Out “Let’s face it, waking up and having to entertain after a long night of festivities is draining.” —Patty Limatola, “Be a Guest at Your Brunch”

34 Mississippi’s Super Bowl Ties A few players for the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots have ties to Mississippi.

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EDITOR’S note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

Every Single Life Matters

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e’re living through one of those difficult times in Jackson when fear and distrust of “the other” reach a fevered pitch due to a high-profile crime.

This time it was the tragic murder of Carolyn Temple, an elderly white woman in Belhaven. The accused are a group of young, black men from a very different side of town who, police say, were in the midst of a crime spree reaching into different parts of the city. It turned deadly on Euclid Avenue, sandwiched between two historic Christian colleges and only a block away from State Street, a street that functions as a dividing line between different segments of our city.

A crime like this is no more tragic than any other murder—all should make us ache with heartbreak—but it turns the volume so high on the divides we still tolerate in our city and beyond that it ends up thickening the walls between us if we’re not careful.

As a result, we end up in worse danger of being or knowing a victim of similar crimes, than if we chose a calmer, studied response to responding to murder by coming together to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

In the hysteria that fear can cause, we become easy prey for those who want to hawk hate and prejudice and to demand the kinds of police and policy response that can actually create more hardened criminals in the future. These people want us to ignore some of the most basic and easily accessed research on the causes of and ways to prevent crime. It’s almost as if they want to maintain an easy enemy for the rest of us to despise.

Then, the political beast enters the picture. Don’t respond to crime by young men from neighborhoods with underfunded schools by talking about at least “adequate” education funding. That’s partisan, we’re told by the people who make it partisan.

Don’t bring up poverty, even though the direct link between growing up poor and

crime is as proved and clear as the connections between being hungry and needing to eat, or the need for healthy diets and brain development. That is, it’s fact.

The need for health care, including mental-health services, especially for children traumatized since birth? Just liberal hoo-ha.

And historical realities? Many people will literally cover their ears if you bring up the fact that kids growing up in communities traditionally targeted by violence—even

What about our backward approach to criminal justice? for trying to vote a few years back or now for doing much of anything that might startle someone with a gun—may well learn that violence is an acceptable response.

What about our backward approach to criminal justice? In Mississippi, we’ve long liked to round up children of color and throw them into horrid conditions (like the training schools and our juvenile detention center). Or we send minors who commit crimes to adult prisons and then get all outraged when they come out worse criminals, even though the research already tells us these methods increase recidivism.

Meantime, most white kids who get in similar trouble don’t typically go through the same systems, especially if their families are better-to-do. As a result, it’s easier for them to break the criminal cycles and use family connections to change their trajectory.

Not to mention the media’s role in this conspiracy against certain young people: Study after study shows that media outlets tend to sensationalize crimes by people of color, choosing mugshots and other negative images of the accused when they tend to run yearbook or similar photos of whites who are accused. As R.L. Nave wrote about brilliantly in last week’s issue, they also give unequal treatment to victims, running multiple, more human stories about white victims while barely mentioning victims of color. And most stopped honoring the best practice of not revealing names and pictures of accused minors years ago, which can do tremendous harm to a young person, especially if they turn out to be innocent.

It’s no mystery why: The coverage is designed to please richer parts of the town— the “market” for advertising dollars. They’re the ones who matter, despite token efforts at displaying diversity.

That may seem like good business to some (not to us), but that approach comes at a high cost to the community. Such skewed, sensationalistic, double-standard coverage feeds the perception that certain parts of the city are too dangerous to live and do business in. That means people flee, schools worsen, homes are abandoned, services disappear, poverty grows, crime worsens and parents go to prison instead of raising their kids.

It comes at high personal cost to young people growing up surrounding by hopelessness. Too many believe they have no options; therefore, they don’t. (How many things have you accomplished without believing you can? List them.) They fall prey to bad influences, and can get mired in negative cycles that stay with them into adulthood. They then often become “the family” that so many people want to blame it all on, while refusing to connect the dots and help stop the cycle.

Meantime, more kids fall through the cracks, and the people who spent all those

years blaming “the family” end up at their neighbor’s funeral on a chilly day in January, while calling for the death penalty for the young men who killed her. They might even rail against public-education funding, lament Obamacare, call all single mothers of color “welfare queens” and move out of the city in search of a safe suburban utopia, taking their tax dollars even farther away from those children’s schools.

We all lose in this reality. Every murder victim suffered a tragic death, regardless of whether she died helping a neighbor, or he died in a drug deal gone bad. Every human life matters, and every effort we make, or don’t make, to prevent these tragedies is a matter of life or death for us all.

In business these days, we talk a lot about collaboration. How do things connect? What impact will this or that action now have in a year, five years, 10 years? What are the unexpected consequences? What historic factors are creating realities now?

If we care about the health of our communities, we must collaborate to make them stronger and safer and to stop the multiplying effects of neglect, intentional or not. Rhetoric and hysteria might feel good to some, but it does nothing to make our communities safer over the haul. Maybe the police chief shows up for your community meeting, but the police don’t prevent crime; they respond to it and, in some cases, deflect it from one block to another. That’s their job, frankly.

Our job is to create conditions that keep more people from turning to a life of crime that victimizes us all. Even as we help the police apprehend people who are current threats, stop leaving valuables in our cars and look out for each other, we must start this very second to prevent future crime and, better yet, tap into the potential of all our young people before they are limited by our low expectations for them. Let’s just start.

The alternative is more heartache.

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Sharon Lerner

Anna Wolfe

R.L. Nave

Patty Limatola

Ronni Mott

Greg Pigott

Trip Burns

Kimberly Griffin

Sharon Lerner is an awardwinning journalist, author and radio producer who covers education and other issues affecting children and families.

She is based in Brooklyn. She wrote the cover story on behalf of The Hechinger Report.

Investigative Reporter Anna Wolfe, a Tacoma, Wash., native, studied at Mississippi State. In her spare time, she complains about not having enough spare time. Email her at anna@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote a news story.

R.L. Nave, native Missourian and news editor, roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)—and for Jackson.

Send him news tips at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com or call him at 601-362-6121 ext. 12. He wrote a news story.

Freelance writer Patty Limatola is a chef and resides in California. She has two teenage children, teaches cooking classes and owns the blog MmGood.com. She is well traveled and loves exploring life. She wrote a food story.

Freelance writer Ronni Mott has been a Mississippian since 1997. She’s an award-winning writer and a yoga teacher, just stumbling and fumbling toward bliss like everyone else. She wrote an arts story.

Freelance writer Greg Pigott teaches government and economics classes at Raymond High School. He’s an avid fan of all types of music and the guy who takes karaoke seriously.

He wrote a music story.

Staff Photographer Trip Burns is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, where he studied English and sociology.

He enjoys the films of Stanley Kubrick. He took many photos for the issue.

Advertising Director Kimberly Griffin is a fitness buff and foodie who loves chocolate and her mama. She’s also Michelle Obama’s super secret BFF, which explains the Secret Service detail.

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While The Rogue has been in Jackson for 47 years, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find any outmoded menswear lying around. Like the dapper gentleman that classes up the storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s logo, The Rogue is all about style. Owners Alison and Luke Abney designed the store to answer to every modern manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fashion must-haves, whether heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hitting the golf course or the books.

The Rogueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s massive collection of formalwear, sportswear and casual options includes some of the best-selling brands today, such as Corneliani, Robert Talbott, Jack Victor and Peter Millar. But even with its sizeable stock, The Rogueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff members, many of whom have worked at the store for over a decade, are always quick to find the fit and style youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re searching for. Loathe it or love it, clothes shopping gets a lot easier when you can knock out all your needs at once. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You definitely learn relationships and peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way of style depending on their role of business and what they need to look like in their business,â&#x20AC;? Abney says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have almost 100 years of experience working at The Rogue between our staff. â&#x20AC;Ś The families here in town â&#x20AC;Ś know when they come in that not only are they getting a great product, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also getting great service, which comes from the relationships weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve built.â&#x20AC;?

Best Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clothing Finalists The Landing (111 Colony Crossing Way, Suite 250, Ridgeland, 601-707-7505) / Kinkadeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fine Clothing (120 W. Jackson St., Ridgeland, 601-898-0513, kinkadesfc.com) / Great Scott (4400 Old Canton Road, Suite 100, 601-984-3500, greatscott.net) / Swell-o-Phonic (2906 N. State St., Suite 103, 601-366-9955, chane.com)

Due to editorial error in the Best of Jackson 2015 issue (Vol. 13, Issue 20, Jan. 14-20), we left some finalists off their respective listings for the following categories.

Best Hair Stylist: Griff Howard (Studio G Salon at Sola Salon Studios, 151 E. Metro Parkway, Suite 203, Flowood, solastudios.com) Best Radio Personality: Scott Steele and Traci Lee (Miss 103, WMSI) / Rick Adams and Kim Allen (Miss 103, WMSI) / DJ Jonasty (99 Jams, WJMI) / Kim Wade (103.9 FM, WYAB)

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Due to editorial error in the Best of Jackson 2015 issue (Vol. 13, Issue 20, Jan. 14-20), we identified another store as the winner of the Best Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clothing category in the print edition. The Rogue won this award.

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n â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kuuma and Imani to Youâ&#x20AC;? (Vol. 13, Issue 17, Dec. 31-Jan. 6), Laurie Bertram Roberts writes of hoping that â&#x20AC;&#x153;our Jackson community will gather collectively to use kuumba (creativity) to ... help ... bring voices often heard to the table and to create spaces for those who keep getting left out. â&#x20AC;Ś I have imani (faith) that Jackson can become a model of what a southern city can be.â&#x20AC;?

Those are worthy hopes. They should be open to people who may not be enthusiastic about the Kwanzaa-style formulation. If those hopes are to be pursuedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;realistically and not as mere pipe dreamsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then those who are in the demographic and cultural majority will have to overcome old resentments and old anxieties, however justified.

The Jackson community cannot be a mere physical territory, bounded by municipal lines. It must strive to become a shared moral order within which differences are accepted on the basis of reciprocity. We who are the demographic (or ethnic) majority cannot want anybody in any demographic (or ethnic) minority to feel driven out.

This has too many practical implications to be dealt with in one letter, but one of â&#x20AC;&#x153;big ideas and solutionsâ&#x20AC;? to the absence of which the editorial refers is the discussion of what impedes new investment (new money) in Jackson. I understand a newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in transparency. I also understand the JFPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme of locality. But Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial performance is evaluated in a world financial market, and the inflow and outflow of capital is also far more than local.

Best Dance Studio: Salsa Mississippi (605 Duling Ave., 601-213-6355, salsamississippi.com) Best Place to Buy Antiques: Interiors Market (659 Duling Ave., 601-981-6020) Best Consignment/Thrift Store: N.U.T.S. (114 Millsaps Ave., 601-355-7458; 3011 N. State St.; goodsamaritancenter.org)

In our recent â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;? issue (Vol. 13, Issue 20, Jan. 14-20), we incorrectly labeled the staff of Electric Dagger Tattoo. The correct order in the photo, from left to right, is Michael Richardson, Clint Dear, Mallory Palmertree and Jason Thomas. We apologize for this error.

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The shooters didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live here, but Battlefield is blamed for it,â&#x20AC;? said Willa Womack, president of the Battlefield Community Neigh-

tal-city area rappers. However, those associations with Battlefield Park and, by extension, the surrounding neighborhood doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sit well with residents.

In fact, were it not for the presence of

Willa Womack, president of the Battlefield Community Neighborhood Association Board, said residents are working hard to combat negative perceptions of their neighborhood, which has experienced a reduction in crime in the past year.

borhood Association, at a community center on a cold, rainy night recently.

Womack was referring to the case of Christal Summers, who was killed at a gas station on Terry Road, just south of Battlefield Park. Summers, 34, was also a hip-hop musician known as Battlefield Gucci. In fact â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battlefieldâ&#x20AC;? is a common moniker for capi-

a Jackson Free Press reporter and photographer, Womack might have been content to avoid talking about Summersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; murder at all. The Battlefield meeting was sparsely attended, mostly by people outside the neighborhood faithful. A social-media push encouraging people to attend and match numbers that a Belhaven neighbor-

hood meeting saw the previous week did not increase the turnout.

The packed Belhaven gathering, which Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance and Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon attended, came in response to the murder of 69-year-old Carolyn Temple. Temple was attacked and shot on Jan. 12 and died more than a week later.

A suspect in Summersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shooting, Jonathan Kelly, has turned himself in on Jan. 23 to JPD, which said in a press release that the suspect and Summers had been involved in an altercation at the gas station where the shooting occurred. The release stated that Summers is believed to have pulled his gun first and then Kelly fired at him several times killing him.

After Kelly turned himself in, police charged him for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

Womack, the Battlefield Park president, told the Jackson Free Press that she believes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfair that their neighborhood is painted negatively when violence occurs anywhere in west Jackson, particularly given that Battlefield Field park residents are particularly active in crime prevention. Neighbors report that the sound of gunshots has become a rarity over the past year, since the neighborhood association starting working with Hinds County Sheriff Tyrone Lewis.

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A killer dance party with DJ Phingaprint The Carnival costume contest

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Colorful masks everywhere

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Art by artists Don Jacobs, Michele Campbell and Patty Patterson

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The video raises questions and stirs anger anew over another death of a black man at the hands of a white officer. â&#x20AC;Ś The U.N. General Assembly holds its firstever meeting devoted to anti-Semitism in response to a global increase in violence against Jews.

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Overall, calls for service have gone down dramatically, law-enforcement officials say.

At one point during the meeting, Womack said that she wasn’t going to spend a lot of time talking about crime in the neighborhood because the people who live there are all too familiar with the problems.

Instead, the agenda included discussion of the group’s application for nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service and the hiring of a volunteer grant writer to seek funds for a community house that would be wired for the Internet so people could use the computers to send job letters.

The house would also enable people to “visit” loved ones jailed at the Raymond Detention Center, which recently suspended in-person visitation citing ongoing problems with the introduction of contraband at the beleaguered facility. Now, only video visits are allowed.

The neighborhood is also pursuing grants to help elderly residents with home repairs, but Battlefield realizes that it faces challenges because of its unique political geography. The majority African American neighborhood lies in Jackson’s Ward 7, which includes Fondren, Belhaven, downtown and parts of south Jackson and is represented by Barrett-Simon.

And despite popular belief, their congressman is Republican U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper, not Congressman Bennie Thompson.

No public officials, including Barrett-Simon or Chief Vance, attended the recent Battlefield neighborhood meeting.

Womack, who also owns a printing business on Farish Street and helped revive the neighborhood association this past year, wants to launch a campaign to draw more financial support from government officials to Battlefield Park, which had been the subject of a proposal to rename it in honor of late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba.

The measure appeared to have enough support to pass, but the legislation’s sponsor, former Ward 3 Councilwoman LaRita CooperStokes, stepped down to become a county judge.

“If you can come together to rename the park, you can come together bring some money over here,” said Womack.

Email R.L. Nave at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com. Comment at www.jfp.ms.

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resley McCord embraced her boyBecause the new policy requires all clubs high schools date back to the 1990s, and the friend, Lucas Bonham, who is trans- to adhere to the new rule, constitutional law courts have sided with the GSAs in those casgender, on the grassy knoll outside expert Matt Steffey said the GSA could have es, by saying, “‘You have a right to form your the Rankin County School District a harder time claiming a First Amendment club,’” Irvin explained. The courts have also offices while a rainbow flag blew in the wind violation. “If what the school wants to do is recognized the focus of the club is not sex. behind them. They were there for a Jan. 20 put a damper on controversial clubs, this is Superintendent of Jackson Public demonstration that students, parents and probably the most effective and perhaps the Schools, Cedrick Gray, said he does not anticfriends organized in support of the Gay- safest way to do it—by safest, I mean most ipate running into the issues regarding school Straight Alliance at Brandon High School. defensible,” Steffey said. clubs that RCSD currently faces.

McCord, who is a board member of Steffey said it might denote progress in “Our school board is very careful to make the GSA, said she hopes the group helps to the LGBT-rights movement that at least the sure that our policies are not exclusive of any make a difference and improve groups, but that they encompass the high school experience for all students and all walks of life,” LGBT students.

Gray said. “School is about kids, “He’s the shining ray of so that’s what we try to make it.” the show, and I’m really proud Nichols, a lesbian, believes of him,” McCord said of Bonthe establishment of clubs like ham. “But his life expectancy the GSA are “fanning the flames” right now is 30 years, being that already exist regarding attransgender.” titudes toward the LGBT comBut on the highway that munity in Rankin County. She Tuesday, the students weren’t used to teach in Rankin County just voicing the need for support and was given no explanation groups in the LGBT commuwhen she was not renewed. Her nity. They were protesting the daughter, Karley, who attends Rankin County School Board’s BHS, was harassed in class the attempts to limit the formation day of the protest, and the school of the GSA. took no measures to stop or pun“Right now, in there, ish the bullies, Nichols said. they’re making us feel like we are But the importance of Brandon High School Gay-Straight Alliance board member not wanted,” McCord said.

GSAs is not to be overlooked.

Presley McCord and her boyfriend, Lucas Bonham, kiss by the After some students Ashley Nelson, who is now 23 highway in front of the Rankin County School District offices. asked the school to recognize but used to attend Ridgeland the group as a school club, the High School, was bullied and school board changed its policies to require officials in Rankin County are addressing the even outed by her principal when she was a that students who want to form or join a club law, rather than denying GSAs outright, as teenager. There was not a GSA at her high obtain a parent signature. they might have done in the past. school, but she recognizes the difference it One of the protesters who identifies as But Charles Irvin, legal director of the could have made. bisexual, Kristin Hood, 20, said that while she American Civil Liberties Union of Mississip“There’s a lot of people that don’t know knows many parents who would be accepting pi, said the ACLU will monitor the district’s how to cope with it, They think that there’s of their child, that is not the norm. Many par- application of the rule to make sure it is not something wrong with them, and there’s ents, she notes, have been “raised to be very targeting the GSA, as policies like this have in not,” Nelson said. “We just want to be treated homophobic, very afraid of what they don’t past cases. If it seems that schools are only re- like human beings.” understand.” quiring parent signatures for LGBT support Beyond the support the group can “For a lot of these kids, asking their par- groups, the ALCU will step in, Irvin said. give to LGBT students, Nelson said GSAs ents for this permission would definitely create “We won’t know what further actions can help straight students understand what a tension. A lot of these parents maybe don’t we’ll be able to take until we see the school LGBT students go through and help to build even know that their kids are gay or transgen- district’s new rule in action,” Irvin said. allies within the community. der or bisexual, anything,” Hood said.

In its meeting, the Rankin County Nichols said it’s important for students In December, a group of students ap- School Board discussed whether the involve- to simply have an outlet to gather with likeproached BHS theater teacher Janice Weaver ment of sexual orientation in the group’s topic minded people, “where they’re safe and that wanting to form a GSA at the school. She might mean that the club would violate the they can talk to someone they trust, because agreed to sponsor the club. school’s abstinence-only policy. they don’t always have that with their teachers, But on Jan. 14, the school board voted Neither Weathersby or the principal of counselors, administrators, coaches, preachto approve the new rule. Superintendent BHS, Buddy Bailey, returned phone calls. ers, whomever is in their community.”

Lynn Weathersby said in the meeting that the As this articles goes to press, the page on “I think if we could save one kid from policy change is a way to legally limit groups the RCSD website that would contain the depression or thoughts of suicide … then it’s like the GSA. school board members and meeting min- worth it,” Nichols said.

“I talked to (board attorney) Freddie utes, is unavailable.

Lesley Priest, a mother of a child in Mis(Harrell) and several administrators about Kelli Nichols, a teacher at Forest Hill sissippi who carried the large rainbow flag what we could legally do to limit organi- High School, said the misconceptions about during much of the protest, said she doesn’t zations like that on campus that we don’t the club prove that the district officials are know if the new rule will stop the students want to endorse and don’t want,” Weath- “obviously not educating themselves on what from forming the GSA. ersby said in the meeting, as The Clarion- this club is.”

“I think they’re a lot braver than Lynn Ledger reported.

Federal court cases regarding GSAs in Weathersby gives them credit for,” she said.

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Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood believes grand juries are usually right when it comes to indicting people on criminal charges.

fense-minded counselors. A 2013 Bureau of Justice statistics report shows that at least in federal cases, indictments are usually all but guaranteed: Out of the 162,000 federal cases that U.S. Attorneys’ offices prosecuted, only

11 failed to secure indictments. No similar review of state courts has occurred, but legal experts point to the study as proof of the legal maxim that grand juries would indict a ham sandwich.

The desire for victory can overwhelm even well-intentioned prosecutors. Outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent a memo in May 2010, reminding federal prosecutors that people who commit face similar charges for similar crimes should be treated similarly.

“Unwarranted disparities may result from disregard for this fundamental principle. They can also result, however, from a failure to analyze carefully and distinguish the specific facts and circumstances of each particular case. Indeed, equal justice depends on individualized justice, and smart law enforcement demands it,” he wrote in what is now called “the Holder memo.”

He continued: “Prosecutors must always be mindful of our duty to ensure that these decisions are made without unwarranted consideration of such factors as race, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation.”

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Attorney General Jim Hood, the state’s highest-ranking law enforcement officer and a former district attorney for six counties in north Mississippi, denied that prosecutors can sway grand juries.

“Usually, grand juries get it right,” Hood said. Matt Steffey, who teaches constitutional law at MC, joked that Hood is such a convincing litigator that he almost believed his suggestion about the near-infallibility of grand juries. However, in Mississippi, Steffey explained, the deck is stacked considerably against defendants.

For example, no court stenographer is present at grand jury proceedings in Mississippi unlike in many other states, including Missouri. The thousands of pages of transcripts that resulted from the Darren Wilson grand jury helped shed more light on the case, including questions that one witness may have lied under oath.

Defense attorneys are also barred from being present during a grand-jury probe in Mississippi. Steffey said the outcome of grand juries largely depend on the objectives of prosecutors, which is always to score a win. In other words, said Cynthia Speetjens, a former prosecutor who is now in private

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very person who is acquitted by a jury was indicted by a grand jury.

Let that sink in, Dennis Sweet III, a prominent Jackson attorney, told an audience recently when talking about the effectiveness of the grand-jury process in Mississippi.

Mississippi College School of Law convened the panel in the wake of the deaths of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., both at the hands of police officers. Those cases, along with several others around the country, sparked protests and calls for criminal indictments against the cops responsible in each.

In December, a New York City grand jury cleared Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who killed Garner by applying a chokehold. The previous month, a Missouri grand jury considering charges against Darren Wilson, the white officer who killed Brown after a confrontation on a St. Louis-area street, listened to witness testimony for months before delivering its decision not to indict Wilson.

The decision touched off protests around the nation and criticism about the objectivity of the elected St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert McCullough.

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LEGISLATURE: Week 3

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No More Fourth Grade?

In his State of the State remarks on education, Bryant focused on his “third-grade reading-gate bill” that passed last year, which prevents any third grader who is not reading on grade level by the end of the year from promoting to fourth grade.

When Rep. Charles Young, D-Meridian, asked superintendents from public schools in Jackson, Hattiesburg and McComb about the impact the recently adopted third-grade reading gate would have on elementary schools around the state, they were unable to answer.

“It’s something I wish we all had the answer to,” said James Bacchus, McComb School District Superintendent, at an education forum Wednesday.

Young said that in his district, Meridian Public School District, only 17 to 18 percent of third graders passed the initial reading test.

The Mississippi Department of Education, Young said, estimates that 6,500 to 8,500 children will not pass and will be held back.

“That’s a lot of children in our state,” Young said. “For next year, that means a lot of

students are not going to have a fourth grade.

If we have a teacher shortage now, what’s going to take place with all those kids being held back in third grade?” Young said.

In his speech, Bryant also touted modest increases for the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, a formula for education and his executive budget recommendation.

Rep. David Baria, D-Bay St. Louis, introduced House Bill 120 to require the Legislature to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program beginning in fiscal year

countability system by combining the state system with the federal system.” The bill also renames Common Core “Mississippi College and Career-Ready Standards.” But it was unclear to many lawmakers what the bill would actually do. It passed 92-25.

While Moore said the bill does not deal with Common Core, Mississippi’s academic standards are exactly what many Democratic lawmakers wanted to discuss.

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omen’s rights and public education topped the Mississippi legislative agenda as it rolled past the Jan. 19 deadline for filing bills and into the fourth week of the session, while a move by a Democratic lawmaker to limit LGBT custody of children roiled many members of his own party.

Meantime, supporters of immigrant rights rallied at the Capitol looking for more attention to the controversial issue of educating undocumented students.

In the midst of it all, Gov. Phil Bryant gave his State of the State speech Wednesday, focusing on economic development and steering clear of many divisive wedge issues.

Bryant did not address, for example, Mississippi’s same-sex marriage case currently before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Still, one peculiar bill involving custody rights for homosexual parents popped up.

Authored by a Democrat, Rep. Bob Evans from Monticello, the bill would amend Mississippi’s constitution to “create a rebuttable presumption that placing a child in the sole custody of a homosexual parent or person is not in the best interest of the child.”

The bill, House Bill 714, surprised Democrats in the House, who aren’t sure what motives Evans may have.

“It don’t sound like him at all,” said Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville.

Evans has not returned calls to the Jackson Free Press, nor has he responded to comments regarding the bill on his Facebook political page.

Rep. Jim Evans, D-Jackson, supports tuition equity for immigrant students, suggesting that to be against it is to be a terrorist.

2016. But in the Jan. 20 House Education Committee meeting, its chairman, Rep. John Moore, R-Brandon, made it clear that bill would not be a priority.

Meanwhile, Rep. Randy Rushing, RDecatur, introduced a bill to prohibit school boards in “D” or “F” districts from denying students attempting to transfer to a betterperforming district.

Stopping a ‘Communist Agenda’?

Speaker of the House Philip Gunn enjoyed a hollow victory last week when his chamber voted 95-21 to give all of the authority to decide school curriculum to local school boards—which is already the law.

“All we’re doing with this is we are agreeing with existing policy,” House Education Chairman Moore said of Gunn’s bill.

“Just to be clear,” Democrat Rep. David Baria from Bay St. Louis said on the floor, the bill would stop the “dirty rotten scoundrels in Washington from imposing their communist agenda on our school curricula?”

“You just hit the nail on the head,” Moore responded sarcastically.

HB 156, which Gunn also introduced, would remove the “requirement that the state Department of Education form a single ac-

to the federal standards,” Moore said. “It puts it back totally under our control as far as the standards themselves.”

Moore’s House Bill 449 would create penalties for any school-district personnel who engage in political activity while on school grounds. The bill defines political activity as any efforts with the purpose of supporting or opposing any political party, ideology or issue, including campaigning during an election. The penalties for violation include a $10,000 fine and, on second conviction, a misdemeanour charge and loss of education license.

The Waiting Game Senate Bill 2138, authored by Sen. Philip Gandy, R-Waynesboro, would increase the waiting period for a woman to have an abortion from 24 to 72 hours. This is just one of the many bills in Mississippi’s legislative history aimed at limiting a woman’s ability to have an abortion.

Because Mississippi has only one abortion clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the waiting requirement may create a greater burden for women traveling long distances to receive the procedure.

Three states, Utah, North Dakota and

Missouri, currently have 72-hour waiting requirements for women seeking abortions.

Personhood, a previously failed attempt at abolishing abortion, also made its way back to the Mississippi Legislature this session as well, after a previous statewide defeat by voters and several legislative attempts.

Rep. Randy Boyd, R-Mantachie, authored a bill that would amend the constitution to define a fertilized egg as a person with full rights under the law. The bill has been referred to Judiciary B House Committee.

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Jan. 22, Gov. Bryant reiterated his determination to end abortion in the state.

“These children’s lives were cut tragically short, and it saddens me to know that still more fall victim every day. Rest assured that I am as committed as ever to ending abortion in Mississippi,” Bryant said in a release.

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves released a statement with a similar sentiment.

Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Laurel, also introduced a bill prohibiting abortion based on the gender or race of the fetus.

Rallying for Justice Gov. Bryant, who has been vocal about protecting the state’s border from illegal immigration, also didn’t mention immigration during his State of the State address, even though he joined a lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s executive order, which prevented the deportation of children whose parents brought them here illegally, as well as their parents.

But immigrant-rights advocates are taking the fight to lawmakers. Hours before Bryant’s Jan. 21 speech, the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance rallied in support of a bill, House Bill 196, which would grant in-state tuition to undocumented students.

State Rep. Reecy Dickson, D-Macon, and state Sen. Hillman Frazier, D-Jackson, are the sponsors of the legislation.

State Rep. Jim Evans, D-Jackson, applauded young immigrant students in Mississippi for pursuing a college education despite the lack of tuition equity. “If you are denying justice, you are a terrorist,” Evans said, referencing the tuition bill.

Immigrant supporters have filed similar bills in the past, but they gained little traction.

McDaniel also introduced a bill that would “provide for conditional release of an offender to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in certain circumstances.”

The measure, Senate Bill 2719, would allow for local law enforcement to turn undocumented people who are incarcerated over to federal immigration officials. Similar bills have been unsuccessful in the past.

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On Life and Crime in South Jackson

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n south Jackson, my neighbor cuts our yard and my neighbor’s yard next to us on the other side. When my pickup truck broke down, my neighbor across the street, who is a mechanic, fixed it for me within a couple of days.

There are speed bumps every 25 feet on my street because a lot of children walk to and from school, ride their bikes and play with other neighborhood kids on a daily basis.

Our neighborhood is a normal working-class community. Like others, we too have crime issues. Some will even argue that crime is more prevalent here. On Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, soon after I moved into the neighborhood, two teenage young men shot and killed a Wingfield High School freshman outside the school, which is a block away from my residence. Days later, the two were in custody, and a vigil was announced at the spot where she was murdered in honor of her life.

Every time I pass the stop sign where she died, I think about her. I also think about how it seemed like a lack of concern from the community where I now called home. I expected

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Honestly, I have become desensitized to hearing gunshots at night.

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outrage, but everyone went back to their normal routines. A 15-year-old girl was murdered on a street with a high school and an elementary school, but after the vigil and the brief news coverage, no one spoke about her death again. Maybe this wasn’t the first time that a child was murdered on the way home from school. Maybe the community knew it wouldn’t be the last time.

I don’t want to point fingers and start the usual back-and-forth blame game. I look inwardly to what I could have done. I could have gone doorto-door, rallying my neighbors to take action. I could have organized a huge community town-hall forum and invited the police chief and the school administrators to come and discuss solutions and to hear our demands for a safer community.

But the truth is, I didn’t. Honest-

ly, I have become desensitized to hearing gunshots at night. I have adapted to my surroundings. It doesn’t come as a shock when I hear about crime in my community. Sirens and blue and red flashing lights are just as commonplace as pot holes and stray dogs.

Yet, I know there are good, decent people who call south Jackson home, people who do care.

South Jackson has changed drastically from when I moved to Jackson in 1999. At that time I was a student at Tougaloo College, and south Jackson was considered the “white side” of town. When we would drive through the area, it was much different; there were many more businesses and fewer vacant homes. As the suburban towns like Brandon, Madison and Byram grew, many of the white residents moved from south Jackson to these outlying towns, taking the tax base and economic stability with them.

South Jackson isn’t much different from west Jackson, and parts of north Jackson, where the majority of the residents are black, and many live at or below the poverty level. The police and other government services have a history of being in place to control us, and not to work for us. Fifty years after being legally protected to vote, we still have a long way to go to truly be enfranchised. This is evident by low voter turnout and civic participation, and that when someone from our community is murdered, the outrage and demand for action and safer streets is low.

I don’t like the term “black-onblack crime.” Crime is crime, and it happens in all communities, some more than others. The difference is in how we organize as a community to deal with it.

I don’t have the answers for solving crime, but as Chokwe Antar Lumumba said during his campaign for mayor: “Crime is a product of a lack of economic opportunity. With more opportunities for jobs and resources, you get less crime.”

With a strong economic base, you also get a stronger community concern and accountability for crime, I believe. There are many theories on crime-fighting, but I think we all agree, something needs to be done.

Tyson Jackson is the lead organizer for the Mississippi Association of State Employees-Communication Workers of America local 3570 in Jackson.

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his week, the conservative-values purveyors at the American Family Association announced a new initiative for what the Tupelo-based organization calls our nation’s “dad void” that “has reached epidemic proportions.”

To illustrate societal costs of rampant fatherlessness, the AFA provided unsourced statistics about how many homeless and runaway kids, youth suicides, pregnant teens, high-school dropouts and juvenile delinquents come from “fatherless homes.”

The AFA’s handwringing over the absence of fathers is absurd for a few reasons. Most immediately, every single human on planet Earth has a father, so no one is “fatherless”; that’s just basic biology. Secondly, and most problematic—and indeed dangerous—is the underlying implication that the mere presence of adult testosterone is some kind of magic wand that can solve all problems. Statistics about the prevalence of domestic abuse and sexual violence, crimes that are disproportionately committed by men, prove otherwise.

What is also true is that these views aren’t specific to the family-values set on the ideological right. We’ve seen the same tropes from African Americans, even many who consider themselves progressive, spread in the recent weeks of conversation about the prevalence of gun violence committed by young men right here in Jackson.

“If only their fathers had been involved, they might not have turned to a life of crime,” the thinking goes. It’s as if we assume that dads are a

prophylactic for criminal mischief without realizing that condoms are not 100 percent effective, either.

That particular refrain, which is wanting for empirical support, knows no racial or political boundaries. It’s true that the presence of more responsible, loving and working adults, in a household means that the children living in that household will, generally speaking, have a better quality of life.

Mississippi has been an especially bad actor in that our state is so myopically committed to heteropatriarchal solutions that we ignore policies that can empower women and moms: research-based sex education, increasing access to health-care through Medicaid expansion and birth control, including abortion. Not to mention that in Mississippi, one of the top-ranking states for same-sex parents raising children, officials have insisted on protecting the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, so stubbornly, in fact, that change comes from nothing short of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

This week, Sharon Lerner, reporting for the nonprofit education-news service The Hechinger Report, explores our state’s structural barriers to promoting breastfeeding, which data show can improve educational outcomes for Mississippi kids.

We hope that our elected officials pay close attention and, when it comes to solving problems involving children, they start thinking more broadly than the same old malecentered solutions.

Email letters and opinion to letters@jacksonfreepress.com, fax to 601-510-9019 or mail to 125 South Congress St., Suite 1324, Jackson, Mississippi 39201. Include daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length and clarity, as well as factchecked.

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XFORD—I remember my late father, a tool and die maker, telling me with pride how the company he worked for in central North Carolina paid fair wages, offered good benefits and treated workers with respect. “They do that to keep the union out,” he said. As I got older and more jaded about business practices in America, I wondered, “How would Dad’s company have treated its workers if it didn’t have to worry about a union?”

Chip Wells knows the answer: Even the unofficial presence of a union and its supporters help workers long before an election is held and can force a company to act right. You may recall stories about Wells, the 44-year-old, 12-year worker at the Nissan plant in Canton, father of two and veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s also veteran of a 15-month battle with Nissan because he supports a vote to determine whether his fellow workers can join the United Auto Workers.

That battle hopefully ended this month with Nissan officials agreeing to approximately $6,500 in disability and back pay for Wells, whose pro-union views were met with such hostility by managers that he had to take unpaid medical leave. The National Labor Relations Board ruled that Nissan’s treatment of Wells constituted unfair labor practices. Still, the board did not make the company provide compensation.

Nissan’s agreement this month to compensation payments “was the minimum they could have done,” Wells said. “I’m disappointed or mad or whatever that I had to fight just to get what I was entitled to.”

However, he said, he is satisfied with the decision. “When they saw the pastors were not going to leave me hanging … and they started getting questions from me and the outside, (Nissan) said … ‘We better go ahead and settle up,’” he said.

The “pastors” are members of the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan (MAFFAN), a key organization in the yearslong grassroots effort to get Nissan to agree to an intimidation-free union election and to address concerns about working conditions such as a years-long drought in pay raises, arbitrary decisions on work shifts and hours, the hiring of temporary workers, workplace safety and other issues.

MAFFAN embraced Wells’ case as a prime example of what can happen when workers have no voice in a plant that ironically was financed in part through hundreds of millions of Mississippi taxpayer dollars.

Nissan “evidently know(s) they have been participating in some practices that violate his rights as a citizen and worker,” said the Rev. Melvin Chapman, a MAFFAN member and pastor of the Sand Hill Baptist Church in Edwards.

Here’s Nissan spokesman Justin P. Saia’s emailed response to the Wells case: “Nissan has a well-known process for employees to file for short-term disability, as well as a ... process for evaluating and resolving employment issues. … Nissan and the employee were able to reach a satisfactory outcome.”

Wells isn’t the only employee at Nissan’s Canton plant whose pro-union views have gotten him into trouble.

Calvin Moore, an 11-year veteran who worked in the body shop, was terminated in March 2014 for what the UAW publication Our Voices called “trumped up” and non-specific charges that really were a cover for management’s anger at Moore’s outspoken support of a union.

After a campaign that included international support from as far away as Brazil and a Jackson-area student protest, Moore was re-instated with two months’ back pay.

The hovering presence of the UAW office on Nissan Parkway and the growing grassroots movement around it may have been factors in other recent actions by the giant automaker. Workers finally got a pay raise after the UAW complained that many workers had gone nearly seven years without one. Following the UAW and MAFFAN’s longstanding complaints about the company’s growing dependency on temporary workers who receive less pay with few or no benefits, the company announced a new shortened timetable for temporary workers to be eligible for full-time, permanent status.

The UAW and MAFFAN’s rallying cry that “Labor Rights Are Civil Rights” could also have been echoing in Nissan officials’ ears when the company announced a $500,000 education grant to Canton and $100,000 gift to the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute. “Ultimately, the choice on who represents employees is theirs and theirs alone,” Saia said. “Nissan respects the right of our employees to decide who should represent them.” People like the Rev. Melvin Chapman will keep reminding Nissan of such claims. “We intend to keep voicing the necessary need to do the right thing. We certainly hope it is having an impact.”

Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, columnist, and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. Email him at jbatkins@olemiss.edu.

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Achievement Gap: Why few Mississippi mothers nurse their babies

by Sharon Lerner, The Hechinger Report

Certified Lactation Consultant Linda McGrath (left) encourages Frankie Maxwell (right) to breastfeed her twins outside the nursery of the OCH Regional Medical Center in Starkville.

children start outâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and stayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;behind. Like Maxwell, those who hope to breastfeed may hit formidable roadblocks. Breast pumps can be expensive; the one the Maxwell tried to use at the hospital in Starkville costs more than $300.

Maxwell receives assistance through the WICâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or Women, Infants and Children, the federal program that serves low-income mothers and children, but it only provides electric pumps if babies are premature or have problems latching on to the breast.

Then there is the workplace. Maxwell

run into this problem before,â&#x20AC;? Douglas said.

The obstacles Maxwell and other mothers here face help explain why only about 61 percent of Mississippi babies are ever breastfed, compared to 79 percent nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By 12 months, the rate of breastfeeding falls to about 10 percentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the lowest in the country and less than half the national rate. Mississippi also comes in dead last in the CDCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state rankings of maternity practices that increase the likelihood mothers will breastfeed, such as ensuring that babies

have skin-to-skin contact with their mothers right after birth; training for staff to help get new mothers started and a policy based on recommendations from the American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

Instead, hospitals and birthing centers here routinely supplement with formula, according to the CDC, though the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advise against it. Only 9 percent of Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hospitals and birthing centers have comprehensive breastfeeding policies. And some 86 percent distribute free formula, the CDC found, even though public health groups warn against the practice.

Missed opportunities To public-health advocates, Mississippi is missing a crucial opportunity to combat some of the vexing problems facing its most vulnerable children. Breastfeeding lowers infant mortality, which is higher here than anywhere else in the nation: 9.7 infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.

Breast milk, which contains a motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s antibodies, enzymes and immune factors, also helps prevent colds, ear infections, stomach ailments and food allergiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all pressing problems in the state, which has the lowest overall health rating in the nation. Breastfeeding can also avert Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, obesity and diabetesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all ailments that are more common in Mississippi than any other state.

Lesser-known benefits of breastfeeding could also give kids a crucial leg up in a state that ranks last on several education measures.

Decades of research have shown that breastfed children have better education outcomes than those who were formula-fed as infantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a difference thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been measured in terms of spelling ability, reading comprehension, vocabulary word recognition, mathematical skills, teacher ratings, IQ scores and levels of school attainment. These benefits are greater the longer a mother breastfeeds, and some have been documented to persist all the way through early adulthood.

Nationally, both white and Hispanic women are more likely to breastfeed than black women, according to the CDC. And those with more education are more likely to breastfeed than those with less, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not surprising that Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and much of the Southeastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lags behind. Still, Mississippi finds itself at the bottom of a national trend.

While 100 years ago the most advantaged women were most likely to use formula, the class situation has reversed itself. Now, least advantaged women are most likely to use formula. And Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the poorest state in the U.S, with a population thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 37.4 percent black with one of the lowest levels of educational attainmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is among states where formula-feeding is most common.

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Obstacles Breastfeeding advocates say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not uncommon for Mississippians to react to the idea with disgust. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a mom who frowned her face up because I had been tell-

ing her about how beneficial it is,â&#x20AC;? recounts Tupelo-based lactation specialist and postpartum doula Toni Hill, who works for the Northeast Mississippi Birthing Project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You want me to put my baby on my breast?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And I say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yeah,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and she said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ew!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Mississippi women who choose bottlefeeding over breast miss out on benefits that could prove critical in a state where so many

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TARKVILLE, Miss.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;As she stared through the nursery window at her 4day-old twins, 22-year-old Francesca Maxwell ticked off her reasons for wanting to breastfeed: Her obstetrician advised it. Her mother thought it a good idea. Even the babiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; father was all for it.

Plus, she had recently read a brochure about the benefits of breastfeeding and one fact had stuck with her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was like, wow, they do have smarter babies with breast milk,â&#x20AC;? said Maxwell, who goes by Frankie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That caught my attentionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about the smarter babies.â&#x20AC;?

When she sat down to try pumping the next day, though, Maxwell decided she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so sure about breastfeeding after allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; or at least not sure enough to attach the machine with strange-looking tubes and plastic parts to her breasts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got scared,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was terrified of the pump.â&#x20AC;?

Breastfeeding is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the World Health Organization and many other groups and is considered the healthiest choice for giving babies the best possible start in life. It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always easy for mothers, though, particularly in Mississippi, which has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in the U.S. and where role models, instruction and encouragement are often lacking. Bottle-feeding may seem less intimidating, especially when formula is readily available, as it was in Maxwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case.

There were a few bottles of it in a free gift bag that appeared in her room at the maternity ward of OCH Regional Medical Center in Starkville. While Maxwell considered her feeding options, nurses gave the twins formula, which can doom breastfeeding efforts by interfering with a motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk supply.

And even before the babies arrived home, her mother had stowed a carton in her room, â&#x20AC;&#x153;just in case.â&#x20AC;?

Like many Mississippi moms who intend to breastfeed, Maxwell faced a host of hurdles, some cultural. None of her friends breast-fed; a few said they find the practice â&#x20AC;&#x153;grossâ&#x20AC;? and one even told Maxwell that she would â&#x20AC;&#x153;feel like a cow.â&#x20AC;?

In the poor and rural Delta, women who participated in a recent focus group saw breastfeeding as unnaturalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something that could potentially harm a baby and stigmatize a mother. Such perceptions may be passed down from mothers and grandmothers who themselves grew up surrounded by formulafed babies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always thought grandmothers were important,â&#x20AC;? said Sannie Snell, a healthcare consultant who conducted the focus group. (Snellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which is among the various funders of The Hechinger Report.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we found they were negatively influencing their daughters not to breastfeed.â&#x20AC;?

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breastfeeding, particularly among African American women. “They’re always like, ‘Black women don’t breastfeed. That’s something white women do,’” Hill said. “And they say, ‘The baby’s going to be spoiled.’

We hear that all the time.”

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Lackluster Efforts Mississippi’s State Health Department employs 20 full-time peer counselors throughout the state as well as 36 part-time peer counselors, who teach WIC participants about breastfeeding before they give birth and help them manage any complications that arise with it afterward. The Health Department also does some educating of mothers-to-be through the prenatal care it provides in seven county offices. But the staffing level in WIC-related efforts appears woefully inadequate to reach mothers of more than 5,000 infants who participate in the state’s program each year.

Budgetary constraints and a lack of personnel limit the department’s efforts, the health department’s communications director, Liz Sharlot, said. “There’s plenty of work, and skilled professionals are few,” Sharlot said. “We’re a poor, rural state.”

The bulk of breastfeeding education in the state gets done via relentless efforts from advocates, foundations, community groups and doulas like Hill, who say low breastfeeding rates are a self-perpetuating problem: Few women see other mothers holding infants to their breast, so they lack role models.

“You come in your office and tell a pregnant woman, ‘You need to breastfeed,’” Hill said. “Well, she (is) looking at you like

that don’t even sound like nothing I want to do. The formula is easy. WIC going to give it to me.”

When WIC falls short WIC does provide some free infant formula. But many mothers do not realize it doesn’t supply enough to fully sustain babies after their first few weeks. In the first three months of life, WIC provides mothers who don’t breastfeed with a monthly supply of 823 fluid ounces of reconstituted liquid formula. In the two months after that, the allotment goes up to 896 fluid ounces per month. Presley said parents usually have to supplement WIC provisions with additional cans of formula to keep up with babies’ growing appetites; she estimates that 80 percent of her clients who use WIC-provided formula struggle to afford out-of-pocket expenses for formula, which can range up to $90 each month.

“They cut back on the formula and put more water,” Presley, who, in several cases, has seen this practice result in babies being hospitalized for a failure to thrive, said. “Or they put cereal in the formula to extend it as a filler as early as two months. That leads to childhood obesity.”

Federal legislation gives WIC responsibility for breastfeeding promotion. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the program, agency policy is to encourage breastfeeding unless mothers have a medical reason that makes them unable to do it. Yet, WIC participants nationwide are less likely to breastfeed than nonparticipants. This is also the case in Mississippi, where only 20 percent of infants in the

â&#x20AC;&#x153;You want me to put my baby on my breast?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And I say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yeah,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and she said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ew!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Toni Hill, lactation specialist and that means that even the best-paid fulltime employees make only about $23,000 per year.

Rochelle Fields, a WIC lactation specialist in Jackson, said she logged interactions with 500 patients in a year of working half-time at the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson and more than 600 when she added in the people she saw in other locations. Fields said she hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

had a raise in over 10 years. And Toni Hill, who works part-time as a WIC peer counselor in addition to her doula work for the Northeast Mississippi Birthing Project, said that, at one point while working part-time for WIC, she had a caseload of between 600 and 700 mothers and pregnant women in Lee County. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ms. Presleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; While Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small budget for breastfeeding promotion and low rates of breastfeeding present a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cautionary tale,â&#x20AC;? the lack of funding for breastfeeding-related efforts through WIC here is part of a national problem, Marsha Walker of the National Association for Breastfeeding Advocacy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The funding isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there,â&#x20AC;? Walker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the government is serious about wanting all mothers to breastfeed, they need to make sure thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support to make that happen.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The WIC program is committed to providing breastfeeding education,â&#x20AC;? Debra Whitford, director of the national WIC program, responded in a statement, which pointed out that Congress provides the funding for the mother-to-mother support.

Whitford also noted that breastfeeding initiation rates have risen â&#x20AC;&#x153;due to the efforts of WIC program staff,â&#x20AC;? having climbed from 41.5 percent of WIC mothers nationwide in 1998 to 67.1 percent in 2012. (Currently, 49 percent of babies nationwide are still breastfeeding at six months.)

In a statement, Mead Johnson, maker of Enfamil, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to breastfeed or formula feed is personal, and we believe each mother should be supported in that decision regardless of how she chooses to feed her baby.â&#x20AC;? The statement went on to explain that the company has partnered with WIC â&#x20AC;&#x153;to ensure that every child has access to a strong nutritional start in life.â&#x20AC;?

The relationship between the federal program and breastfeeding is â&#x20AC;&#x153;complicated,â&#x20AC;? Walker, who notes that WIC is both the largest purchaser of infant formula in the world and a critical force in breastfeeding education throughout the country, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For many mothers, the word breastfeeding is first heard in a WIC office,â&#x20AC;? she said.

New mothers may not see WIC-provided formula as a factor in their feeding decisions, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available at little cost â&#x20AC;&#x201D;at first, anywayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and that makes it easier for mothers to choose not to breastfeed. Antwanette Chapman, a 16-year-old WIC recipient who lives in Ackerman, had intended to breastfeed her daughter, Autumn.

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WIC program are breast-fed, according to health department documents.

Part of the problem may be that, while the state provides formula to all WIC participants who say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer to bottle feed, the WIC breastfeeding promotion program in Mississippi is overburdened. The state spends approximates $10 million per year on formula for WIC recipients, according to the Department of Health. Meanwhile, the budget for breastfeeding promotion is about one-tenth of that, and that $1 million is spent on everything from staff salaries to educational materials and trainings, the Department of Health says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great program, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not well supported,â&#x20AC;? former WIC lactation specialist Christina Chunn said of the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breastfeeding promotion effort. Although the state said lactation specialists should see 20 to 60 clients monthly, Chunn estimates she had â&#x20AC;&#x153;between 275 and 300 clients at any given timeâ&#x20AC;? while working for WIC in Columbus.

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ply wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t increase unless she put Autumn to her breast or used a pump. The specialist told her to hold Autumn like she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;running with a football,â&#x20AC;? and showed her how to place her hand behind her daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small neck to help her latch.

But even with this help, Chapman, who was homeschooled during the first part of what would have been her junior year at high school, gave up breastfeeding Autumn just two weeks after she started. Despite her doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assurances, Chapman said she was worried about breastfeeding when she was taking medicine for a respiratory infection.

Plus, she said with a sigh, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was kind of hard â&#x20AC;Ś irritating and tiring.â&#x20AC;? And when she re-

turns to high school in the next few months, she wants â&#x20AC;&#x153;to be focused on school.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about the relationships.â&#x20AC;?

Autumn, now 2 months old, is getting Enfamil through WIC. Sometime in the next month or so, Chapman will likely

Better Balance: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We make sure everyone knows about their rights under the law,â&#x20AC;? says Gedmark, who is based in Tennessee. Gedmark encourages any mothers in Mississippi think their rights have been violatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; or just want practical tips about how to negotiate or talk with their bosses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to call her office.

Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Breastfeeding Warriors: Pumps, practical advice and tips at the ready

by Sharon Lerner, The Hechinger Report

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hile no single organization is devoted to promoting breastfeeding in Mississippi, several people have devoted themselves to the cause. Here, some of the small army fighting to make breastfeeding easier, more visible and more widely accepted throughout the state: Desta Reff, Harvard Law School/Mississippi State University Delta Fellow: Reff came to Mississippi to address the problems of poverty. Initially, she planned to work with children and young adults. But her experiences as a nursing mother in the Delta helped her decide to focus on breastfeeding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People were like, what is that baby doing?â&#x20AC;? Reff says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so far removed from the common lexicon.â&#x20AC;?

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need to purchase formula on her own to supplement her WIC supplies. Unmarried teens like Chapman are particularly likely to become mothers in Mississippi and especially unlikely to breastfeed for any length of time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to lose their freedom,â&#x20AC;? is how Presley, the lactation consultant in Tougaloo, explains their resistance. Presleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solution is to encourage the teen moms she works with to pump, which allows them more flexibility because other people can feed their babies bottled breast milk. She also repeatedly reminds them about the health benefits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They see me coming and they say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ms. Presley. You know sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna

Toni Hill, Doula, Breastfeeding Educator and Coordinator, Northeast Mississippi Birthing Project: â&#x20AC;&#x153;My grandmother was a wet nurse for a white family,â&#x20AC;? says Hill, who acknowledges the challenging the wisdom of elders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What they know is not necessarily the best thing for babies now. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, she must knowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;cause you alive!â&#x20AC;?

Getty Israel, breastfeeding and public health advocate: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people who are in the position to address these issues arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing it,â&#x20AC;? says Getty Israel, who is based in Jackson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we see images of women breastfeeding at least in the Ob/Gyn offices? Where are the billboards? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where it starts.â&#x20AC;?

Linda McGrath, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, La Leche League Leader: McGrath has worked for La Leche League in Mississippi for more than 35 years, making home visits, conducting monthly meetings, and supporting breastfeeding mothers on the phone and through email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mississippi is improving,â&#x20AC;? says McGrath, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but at a slower rate than all of us would like.â&#x20AC;?

want you to breastfeed,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Presley said of the pregnant teen moms she meets with regularly. She doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind whatever eye-rolling she inspires, because she believes her persistent presence in the lives of these young mothers-to-be has helped at least some of them choose breastfeeding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about the relationships,â&#x20AC;? said Presley, who works closely with school principals, often meeting with them to go through girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; schedules to find gaps between classes when they can pump. Educators are increasingly open to facilitating pumping PRUH %5($67)((',1* VHH SDJH

Chelesa Presley, Outreach Consultant, Delta Health Partners: At monthly visits, Presley tells her pregnant clients about the benefits of breastfeeding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I get them on the fence,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But once they get to the hospital, any complication they have, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to breastfeed.â&#x20AC;?

Presley regularly gets calls from women in maternity wards. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They say thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nurse here, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not encouraging me,â&#x20AC;?

Presley says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I go to the hospital and ask them why do they think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weird.â&#x20AC;?

Charlene Collier, physician and prenatal Consultant, Mississippi Department of Health: â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a provider, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m as pro-breastfeeding as you can come,â&#x20AC;? says Collier, an ob/gyn at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. But Collier notes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the structure of the hospital and the way staffing worksâ&#x20AC;? can get in the way of promoting breastfeeding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Traditionally, obstetricians werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trained around the skills to be a successful breast-feeder,â&#x20AC;? Collier says.

Christina Chunn, La Leche League leader, Starkville/ Columbus: Chunn encounters many moms who think they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t breastfeed because they take prescription medicines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to do some research for them to see if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contra-indicated,â&#x20AC;? says Chunn, who often refers nursing mothers to LactMed, a database of drug safety during breastfeeding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of times, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just getting the right info in their hands.â&#x20AC;?

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A History of Breastfeeding

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n 2013, Mississippi ranked dead last in babies who were ever breast-fed, with just 50.5 percent, the Centers for Disease Control reports. Yet the most recent statistics, for 2014, show a big boostâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;up to 61.5 percent, a vast improvement that puts the state ahead of Louisiana and Kentucky.

Though efforts encouraging mothers in Mississippi to at least start breastfeeding are clearly having some success, most mothers here donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stick with it, and the state still has the lowest rates in the country of breast-fed babies at both six and 12 months.

Elsewhere in the U.S, though, breastfeeding has become the normâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as it was more than 100 years ago.

At the turn of the last century, some infants were fed by â&#x20AC;&#x153;wet nursesâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;lactating women other than their mothersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a few were given concoctions made from cowsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; milk, according to Gabrielle Palmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2011 book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Politics of Breastfeeding.â&#x20AC;? But most American babies breast-fed for at least a year. That gradually changed, as several companies began selling and aggressively marketing infant formula.

At first, formula was a high-end product used mostly by wealthy women. By 1930, though, most mothers were using formula at some point and only about half of American babies were initially breast-fed. By 1950, just a quarter were, and by 1972 only 22 percent of babies were breast-fed.

The downward trend was broken by an international campaign against formula makers, which activists held responsible for high rates of death among bottle-fed babies.

They described an industry that created a need for its product by satisfying a babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appetite early on, which decreases the babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in the breast and signals to the motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body to decrease milk production. Families thus became dependent on formula, an expensive product that, as mounting evidence would show, was inferior to breast milk.

A 1974 British exposĂŠ titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Baby Killerâ&#x20AC;? helped turn the tide of public sentiment and spur the boycott of Nestle, one of the biggest formula makers at the time.

The piece focused on the health effects of formula use, which were worse in developing countries, where a lack of refrigeration and clean water caused diarrhea and other infections. (The boycott was officially suspended in 1984, after Nestle agreed to follow an international marketing code endorsed by the World Health Organization. But, there is recent evidence that Nestle and other formulas still engage in questionable marketing practices abroad) Formula-related health problems were significant in the U.S., too. In 1979, in a middle-class U.S. suburb, medical costs for formula-fed babies were 15 times those for breast-fed babies, according to the Palmer book. Mead Johnson, maker of Enfamil, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t return calls for comment on this story, but says on its website that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the product has undergone several significant reformulationsâ&#x20AC;? since it was introduced in 1959, and â&#x20AC;&#x153; is formulated to provide optimal nutrition and to support brain development.â&#x20AC;?

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As evidence of the health advantages of breast milk mounted, breastfeeding rates began to creep back up nationwide, a process thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still underway. By 1980, 54 percent of American women initiated breastfeeding. By 1995, 60 percent of new mothers were at least starting to breastfeed.

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According to 2014 data from the Centers for Disease Control, 79 percent of new mothers in the U.S. begin breastfeeding, and 27 percent are still breastfeeding a year later. These days, in the U.S. at least, formula doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pose the dangers it once did. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here we have the luxury of having clean water, so formula is a safe option,â&#x20AC;? says Rebecca Seigel, a family physician who encourages her patients to breastfeed when possible. Still, says Seigel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;for many women who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t or choose not to breastfeed, formula can be a reasonable and healthy choice.â&#x20AC;?

Mississippi rates seem to be on their way back up, too. But, as Charlene Collier, prenatal consultant to the Mississippi State Department of Health points out, catching up with the rest of the country wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be easy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The work has to start prenatally,â&#x20AC;? Collier says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has to start culturally and it has to change the perceptions of breastfeeding in general.â&#x20AC;?

during the school day, she said, noting that the librarian at Clarksdale High School recently used her own money to buy a small refrigerator where students can store their pumped milk. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nothing But Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Desta Reff, a fellow in a joint project run by Harvard Law School and Mississippi State University, believes encouraging breastfeeding is one of the best ways to address a wide variety of challenges facing Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor. Reff, a lawyer, came to the Delta thinking she might work with single mothers in their early twenties or create an early education program, but soon realized

for a vote, though it had passed his committee. Getty said that when she went by his office for an explanation, Holland sent a staff member to meet with her who told her that Holland â&#x20AC;&#x153;wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to tell hospitals how to handle formula.â&#x20AC;?

Holland, a Democrat from the Tupelo area who has served in the Mississippi House since 1985, remembers the incident somewhat differently; he said the bill didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come to a floor vote because the members of his subcommittee didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t agree on it. He also said that he â&#x20AC;&#x153;was very kind to that group and very receptive and gave them their day in court.â&#x20AC;?

But Holland didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dispute the idea that he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have wanted to impose re-

Mississippi women who choose bottlefeeding over breast miss out on benefits that could prove critical in a state where so many children start outâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and stayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;behind. that both efforts would reach children too late in life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to get to them earlier,â&#x20AC;? said Reff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The earliest point you can intervene is optimal.â&#x20AC;?

So Reff, a nursing mother of two, has been speaking about breastfeeding to moms in a local parent group thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of Clarksdale Baby University, a program designed to improve family health by educating parents.

Reff said no single effort could meet the many needs of the 12 mothers in her group, three of whom had their first children at age 13. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are single mothers living in poverty who struggle with the fact that they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do everything for their children,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give them everything, but you can give them something that costs literally nothing but a little time.â&#x20AC;?

While breast milk is free, infant formula is notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the multi-billion dollar industry has complicated the calculus of breast versus bottle. Getty Israel, a public-health advocate based in Jackson, said that part of the reason Mississippi hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done more to promote and protect breastfeeding is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;formula has the pocket of many politicians.â&#x20AC;?

Israel helped get a law passed in 2006 that allows women to breastfeed in any location. Two years later, she tried to get the legislature to consider another bill, not unlike the one California recently passed, which requires all hospitals in the state to adopt 10 steps that support breastfeeding, including giving formula only when medically necessary. But, Israel said, state Rep. Steve Holland, then chairman of the Public Health Committee, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bring it to the floor

strictions on hospitals dealings with formula companies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the purview of the Legislature to tell the hospitals anything,â&#x20AC;? Holland said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t force my opinion on anyone.

Hell, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be like peeing in the damn Pearl River to get the Gulf of Mexico to rise.â&#x20AC;?

Holland and other Mississippi legislators have, in fact, received donations from Abbott Laboratories, which produces Similac (until recently, the brand distributed through Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WIC program), and Wyeth, maker of Promil and other infant formulas. While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear that these small donations were a factor in the handling of the 2008 proposal, companies that stand to gain from formula feeding still put money into marketing and lobbying in Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and there is no countervailing force with a financial stake in breastfeeding to push back against them. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Baby Friendlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Hospitals Some public-health workers hope scientific research and advocates will fill the void, as Anne Merewood made clear at a meeting of the Mississippi Perinatal Quality Consortium in Ridgeland in November. An associate professor of pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine, Merewood helps hospitals and birthing facilities around the country voluntarily become â&#x20AC;&#x153;baby friendly,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; by taking the 10 steps recommended by an international organization that promotes PRUH %5($67)((',1* VHH SDJH

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Breastfeeding breastfeeding. Two hundred and twenty four institutions across the country already have. But Merewood acknowledged the particular difficulties in Mississippi, which doesn’t have a single baby-friendly hospital.

“When you try to change perceptions, you get a lot of pushback,” she said to the nodding audience.

Lactation specialists and doctors told of hospital staff who felt they didn’t have time to teach about breastfeeding and administrators who didn’t know about its health benefits. Merewood suggested hospitals might do better by trying to achieve just one or two of the 10 criteria on the list, such as eliminating pacifiers or having newborns room with their mothers whenever possible.

Cultural change is slow work, Merewood seemed to say. And others slogging away at the roots of Mississippi’s low breastfeeding rates share her view. Sannie Snell, the health-care consultant who conducted the focus groups in the Delta, has been working with 25 churches near the town of Indianola on the gradual process of combatting resistance to breastfeeding. Snell is helping institute “healthy baby Sundays,” when pastors talk about breastfeeding, and a “mother of the church” campaign, which she hopes will ultimately increase appreciation and acceptance of women who breastfeed.

She’s also developing criteria for “infantfriendly churches.”

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What happens when mothers in Mississippi run out of formula?

While breast milk is free, infant formula is not—and the multi-billion-dollar industry has complicated the calculus of breast versus bottle.

Snell will soon launch another project that focuses on a group of Mississippi mothers for whom breastfeeding is especially hard: Those whose premature infants are in neonatal intensive care units. The lack of transportation to get them—and their milk—to and from the hospital is yet another hurdle that’s higher in this state where prematurity is especially common and NICUs few and far between. It’s yet another piece of the puzzle, one of many obstacles that, in Mississippi,

still tip the balance away from breastfeeding during a baby’s first days and weeks.

Maxwell’s Twins For Frankie Maxwell in Starkville, that critical time when her babies could still easily start breastfeeding is past. Maxwell’s twins are now 2 months old and she never did manage to start them on the breast. In the end, a pile-up of obstacles outweighed all the advice she received. While the babies re-

mained in the hospital because of their size after Maxwell was discharged, she would have had to drive 20 minutes each way to bring them her milk.

On top of all the other adjustments to becoming a mother of two and her fear of pumping, Maxwell was afraid she wouldn’t be able to produce enough milk. As she anticipated going back to a workplace where she assumed pumping would be impossible, she went with formula.

In the throes of sleepless nights caring for Madison and Mason, who are now home, Maxwell finds it hard to believe that she’ll ever have another child.

But if she does, she hopes she won’t use formula next time.

“I’ll definitely try breastfeeding,” Maxwell said. “I wanted to have that experience.”

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news website focused on inequality and innovation in education.

Can laws boost breastfeeding rates?

by Sharon Lerner, The Hechinger Report

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he law can be an important tool in increasing low breastfeeding rates. Mississippi has some protections already in place for breastfeeding mothers.

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For example, Mississippi has a law that requires child-care facilities to provide a place that’s “not the toilet” for mothers to pump, and another that makes it illegal for an employer to prevent a worker from expressing breast milk during a break, according to Elizabeth Gedmark, who leads the southern office of A Better Balance, which provides legal counsel to help Americans balance work with caring for their families.

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Yet some of the legislative action on breastfeeding in Mississippi is mostly symbolic, like a resolution in support of breastfeeding Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves signed in August.

The language, drafted by Harvard Law School/ Mississippi State University Delta fellow Desta Reff, doesn’t give women any new legal rights. Instead, it extends “the support of the Mississippi Senate for the needs and rights of breastfeeding mothers consistent with the law.”

“We’re just putting it out there so people can see they have the support and all of that,” says State Sen. Kenneth Wayne Jones of Canton, who introduced the resolution.

In Mississippi, several state laws do tackle practical logistics of breastfeeding, though with mixed success. A 2006 state law protects women’s right to breastfeed in any location, but has no enforcement provision. “So if someone tells you (to) cover up, you have no recourse,” says Reff.

Reff recently helped draft a bill, which was introduced last week and would give the health department the ability to fine businesses or individuals who restrict breastfeeding. Rep. Chuck Espy, a Democrat who introduced the legislation, also put forward a bill that would require maternal health care facilities to display a “Mississippi Breastfeeding Mothers’ Bill of Rights.”

Mississippi’s breast-pumping law, although granting women the right to pump breast milk during breaks at work, also has no enforcement provision. Nor does the state require employers to provide a private space to pump or even to provide breaks at all.

The Affordable Care Act, the national health care reform law, does require employers to provide mothers with breaks and a place to pump until their babies turn one. But, that law doesn’t apply to businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

“The problem is that Mississippi doesn’t have anything to pick up that slack,” Reff says. And even people who have a right to pump under the law may not know about it—or may assume that an employer’s refusal to let them pump is legal when it’s not, she says.

“People violate that (law) all the time, and no one’s going to come to you and say, ‘here are your rights as a breastfeeding mom,’” Leff says.

A Better Balance, however, is trying to educate the women of Mississippi about their legal rights around breastfeeding. The organization recently created a website that tracks state protections for new mothers, including Mississippi’s.

The challenge now, Gedmark says, is making sure women know about these rights.

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Be a Guest at Your Brunch

by Patty Limatola, MmGood.com

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et’s face it, waking up and having to entertain after a long night of festivities can be draining. To simplify brunch, I came up with five suggestions that always help me make an amazing and memorable time for my guests.

1. Do a timeline on the food preparation and the day’s event.

Writing it all out helps you stay on schedule and allows time for you to relax in between. Work the schedule backward in the timeline and be detailed so you know exactly when to place the items in the oven, when to start the coffee or what time to pour drinks.

2. In planning a menu, try to include three items that are homemade. Plan on having a savory dish, a sweet dish and something easy that your guests can make on their own. By having options, you make sure there is something for everyone.

3. Try to do as much in advance so you can participate in the brunch instead of rushing around to tend to the food.

4. If you are serving a drink, like a Bloody Mary or mimosas, set up a an area so the guests can make their own drinks. If you are serving coffee, have the sugar and milk ready to go on the table so you are not hustling and can enjoy your company.

5. Store-bought items are also key. For example, if you are having children over or you want an additional item, you can always add something such as donuts. To keep it simple and different, I would buy donut holes and place them on a platter for those who want a small bite of something sweet.

The Best Sausage and Egg Casserole

A neighbor gave this recipe to me over 10 years ago, and it’s the only recipe I make when I entertain and I need something savory. If a guest is a vegetarian, you can substitute a can of artichoke hearts for the sausage. You can find the green chiles in the Mexican section of the grocery store, usually sold in four-ounce cans.

Ingredients 12 ounces premium pork sausage roll 1 tablespoon butter 4 scallions, chopped 1/2 pound mushrooms, sliced 16 ounces cottage cheese 1 pound Monterey Jack cheese, shredded 8 ounces green chiles, chopped in the can 10 large eggs 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup butter, melted Directions The Day Before

Place sausage in a 10-inch frying pan and cook it over medium heat until it is evenly browned and cooked through. Then, drain the oil and place the cooked sausage in a large bowl.

In the same frying pan, melt the butter, add the mushrooms and cook for three minutes or until they are just beginning to become soft. Add the scallions

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In the Morning

Remove the egg mixture from the refrigerator and set aside. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9-inch by 13-inch baking dish by spraying it with a nonstick spray. Set aside.

Melt the butter and set aside. In a small bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the melted butter and mix well. Stir the flour mixture into the egg mixture and pour into the prepared baking dish.

Then, place it into the oven.

Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until lightly brown.

Let the casserole stand for 10 minutes before serving.

Morning Cake with Pecans and Coconut

While this recipe is perfect for a brunch, it is also a perfect recipe if you are in need of bringing something last minute to a friend’s house. The batter uses pancake mix, which makes it super easy and fast. To keep it easy for entertaining, make just the cake the day before.

Once the cake has cooled off, wrap it with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator. First thing in the morning, remove the cake from the refrigerator to bring it to room temperature. Fifteen minutes before you plan on eating it, add the topping and broil the cake for three to four minutes. Remove the cake and serve.

For the cake

Ingredients 1 1/2 cups pancake mix 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup milk 2 tablespoons butter or shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon orange extract, optional 1 large egg

For the topping With recipes such as this morning cake, your brunch will be a proverbial piece of cake.

and continue to cook until the vegetables are tender.

Remove from the stove and place the cooked vegetables on top of the sausage. Set it aside.

In a large bowl, lightly beat the eggs then add the cottage and Monterey Jack cheeses, and the green chiles, the cooked sausage, green onions and mushrooms and mix thoroughly. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Ingredients 1/2 cup coconut flakes 1/3 cup brown sugar, packed 1/4 cup pecans, chopped

3 tablespoons butter, room temperature 2 tablespoons milk Zest from one orange Directions for the cake

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare an 8-inch baking pan by spraying it with cooking spray and lining it with parchment paper. In a large bowl place the pancake mix, sugar, milk, shortening, vanilla extract, orange extract and the egg, and mix on low for 30 seconds. Beat on medium for four minutes, making sure you scrape the sides. Pour the batter into

the prepared baking pans and bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes before applying the topping. Be sure to leave the cake in the pan when you add the topping.

Directions for the topping

Set the oven to broil. Mix the coconut, brown sugar, pecans, butter, milk and orange zest. Spread the topping on top of the cake. Place the cake in the oven and broil for two to three minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool before serving.

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Hickory Pit Barbecue (1491 Canton Mart Rd. 601-956-7079) The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Butts in Townâ&#x20AC;? features BBQ chicken, beef and pork along with burgers and poâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;boys.

Pig and Pint (3139 N State St, Jackson, 601-326-6070) Serving up competition style barbecue along with one of the of best beer selections in metro.

COFFEE HOUSES Cups Espresso CafĂŠ (Multiple Locations, www.cupsespressocafe.com) Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s local group of coffeehouses offer a wide variety of espresso drinks. Wi-fi.

BARS, PUBS & BURGERS Bonny Blairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (1149 Old Fannin Rd 769-251-0692)Traditional Irish pub food and live entertainment. Open 11am daily.

Burgers and Blues (1060 E. County Line Rd. 601-899-0038)Best Burger of 2013, plus live music and entertainment!

Cherokee Inn (960 Briarfield Rd. 601-362-6388) Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Hole in the Wall,â&#x20AC;? has a great jukebox, great bar and a great burger.

Fenianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub (901 E. Fortification St. 601-948-0055) Classic Irish pub featuring a menu of traditional food, pub sandwiches & Irish beers on tap.

Hal and Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (200 S. Commerce St. 601-948-0888) Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials.

Legends Grill (5352 Lakeland Dr. 601-919-1165) Your neighborhood Sports Bar and Grill.

Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant and Lounge (214 South State Street 601-354-9712) Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection.

Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St. 601-960-2700) Pub food with a southern flair: beer-battered onion rings, chicken & sausage gumbo, salads, sandwiches.

One Block East ( 642 Tombigbee St. 601-944-0203) Burger joint and dive bar located in downtown Jackson. Great music, tasty beverages and Bad Ass Burgers is what we do.

Time Out (6270 Old Canton Road, 601-978-1839) Your neighborhood fun spot! Terrific lunch special and amazing Happy Hour!

Underground 119 (119 South President St. 601-352-2322) Pan-seared crabcakes, shrimp and grits, filet mignon, vegetarian sliders. Live music. Opens 4 p.m., Wed-Sat Wing Stop (952 North State Street, 601-969-6400) Saucing and tossing in a choice of nine flavors, Wing Stop wings are made with care and served up piping hot.

ASIAN AND INDIAN Fusion Japanese and Thai Cuisine (1002 Treetop Blvd, Flowood 601-664-7588) Specializing in fresh Japanese and Thai cuisine, an extensive menu features everything from curries to fresh sushi VEGETARIAN High Noon CafĂŠ (2807 Old Canton Road in Rainbow Plaza 601-366-1513)Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own strict vegetarian (and very-vegan-friendly) restaurant adjacent to Rainbow Whole Foods.

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The Art of Happiness W henever the Mississippi Museum of Art is open during January and February, you might find as many as 25 people of all ages playing with photo prints, scissors, glue, stamps and stencils in one of the facility!s classrooms.

The mostly amateur photos come from across the state (and from Mississippi expats), taken on smart phones or whatever digital camera might be handy to snap a picture of a baby, a garden, a pair of sparkly high heels or a meal. What they have in common is that they

ferent people will collage them completely differently, focusing on different parts of the image. %!All of these things are what make Mississippians happy.$!!

The first week in March, the team at Jackson!s HannaBerry Workshop"artists Sarah Qarqish and Welch"will transfer the scanned collages to scrim, a net-like architectural material, and create an undulating walk-through pavilion in the museum!s Art Garden during the second week in March. ! #When you walk up to it, you’re going to be able

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This year’s C3 Project at the Mississippi Museum of Art, created by Sarah Qarqish and Morgan Welch, allows Mississippians to create collages based on their happy memories of the state.

answer a question: What are your happy memories of Mississippi?

Armed with those photos, other folks make collages"at MMA or an offsite workshop"blending and combining the pictures into new forms. Collage, a most democratic art form, requires only a bit of imagination and a willingness to explore shapes and images. No artistic training is required. A mistake could simply be a new direction to follow. ! #The images get used over and over again throughout the whole project,$!says Morgan Welch, one of the coordinators. #It!s fun to get to see them get used. Dif-

to see it right in your face,$!Qarqish says. #You may see below you the imagery. You may look above you and see it. I love the idea of the sun hitting the pavilion and the scrim. It!s like netting, so light, and the wind can go through it easily, and (you!ll) see what colors happen on the ground from the sun hitting all of that imagery.$ The project, #Looking Forward to Happiness,$! is the fourth in the museum!s annual participatory series: #C3: Creativity, Conversation, Community.$! Every year, artists lead Mississippians to create an installation representing the creativity of the state and its people.

The museum provides a grant to make the project possi-

ble; the people provide the creativity. Everyone, whether submitting a photo, making a collage or viewing the final project, is an involved participant. ! #We wanted to achieve something important to Mississippi,$!Qarqish says. #%!We wanted to connect with the community and not have it feel intimidating.

Everyone uses their phone (to take photos); everyone uses Gmail.$ Qarqish,, 24, and Welch,, 25, met in 2011 as students at Mississippi State University, where both earned bachelor’s degrees in art in 2013. Both hail from the Jackson area, she from the city, he from Madison.

Their collaboration, which combines their artistic skills and interests, also touches their personal lives: They!re planning a February wedding. Their professional persona, HannaBerry, combines the couple!s middle names (which are also their mothers!! maiden names), and together, they produce fine art (with a love for large-scale installations) and fine, hand-crafted furniture. They have an exhibition, #Qarqish + Welch: Art as Form ... Art as Function,$!at the Ohr-O!Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi through March 17, and they held a reception about the C3 project there recently.

The venture is a challenging departure for the team. As artists, Qarqish and Welch work primarily in isolation, but between gathering photos and leading collaging workshops, #Happiness$! puts them squarely into the community to make art with few or no rules in a collaborative visual conversation. #It!s interesting to see how many people make an art piece with the collage, or make a story or do something really simple, a simple statement,$!Quarqish says, emphasizing that the results are for the people. #I think back to how does that make them happy? And then I realize they were having fun, and that!s what came to them at that moment. %!We!re OK with what happens.$! ! #Everyone just gets into it,$!Welch adds of the collaging process. #You can tell that they!re just enjoying themselves. %!That!s when some of the most interesting things have been made.$ Submit photos for “Looking Forward to Happiness” through the end of February. Email images to c3project2015@gmail.com or submit them via Instagram using the hashtag #c3project2015. Collage makers can create at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601-960-1515) during regular hours (Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday noon-5 oon-5 p.m.). .m.). HannaBerry artists will be on hand to lend expertise and inspiration on Thursdays and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The pavilion is on display March 7-14 in the Art Garden. Participation is free.

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THURSDAY 1/29

FRIDAY 1/30

SATURDAY 1/31

JXN Tech on Tap is at Burgers & Blues.

Merle Haggard performs at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi.

Farmhouse Breakfast Cooking Class is at Farmer’s Table in Madison.

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WEDNESDAY 1/28

Project H2O—Africans in America Monthly Film Fest is from 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. at the Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). See the film “Great & Mighty Walk” in the Community Room. Free; call 601-983-3900 or 601-918-2698; email realsoulutions@yahoo.com.

THURSDAY 1/29

The opening reception for “Leaving Mississippi: Reflections on Heroes and Folklore” is from 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. at Gallery1 (One University Place, 1100 John R. Lynch St., Suite 4). Black Art in America founder Najee Dorsey’s exhibition includes Delta-inspired mixed-media collages. Show hangs through April 22. Free; call 601-960-9250. … The Snarky Puppy Side Projects perform at 9 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Cory Henry, Mark Lettieri and GhostNote perform. $12 advance, $15 at door; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

The Suchon Woodwind Quintet, which features members of the renowned Slovak Sinfonette Zilina, performs in the United States for the first time at St. James Episcopal Church Friday, Jan. 30.

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SATURDAY 1/31

The Magic of Books Event to Promote Literacy is from 2 p.m.-7 p.m. at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The event includes writing workshops, presentations, signings, readings and a party. Mississippi First Lady Deborah Bryant is one of the readers. Registration required.

Proceeds go toward literary programs. $25, free under

BY MICAH SMITH 18 and students with ID; call 601-813-0480; email events@ themagicofbooks.com; theJACKSONFREEPRESS.COM magicofbooks.com. … The FAX: 601-510-9019 Celebration Tour is at 6 p.m.

DAILY UPDATES AT at Doc 36 Skatepark (931 JFPEVENTS.COM Highway 80 W.). Performers include T-lo Da Champ and Lil’ Chris Manne. Includes music from DJ Roqsii. $8 show only, $10 show and skating; call 272-2758; find The Celebration Tour on Facebook.

MONDAY 2/2

The “Exploding Universe” Sky Show is at 3 p.m. at the Russell C. Davis Planetarium (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The film discusses the latest scientific understanding of supernovae, colliding black holes and high-energy particles, and the way these shape the universe. Shows Mondays-Saturdays at 3 p.m. through May 30. $6.50, $5.50 seniors and $4 children; call 601-960-1550; jacksonms.gov.

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Drummer Robert “Sput” Searight and percussionist Nate Werth of Grammy Awardwinning band Snarky Puppy perform as GhostNote at Duling Hall on Thursday, Jan. 29.

FRIDAY 1/30

The Suchon Woodwind Quintet performs at 7:30 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church (3921 Oakridge Drive) in Fowler Hall. Principal players of the Slovak Sinfonette Zilina perform with Michiko Otaki. Wine bar at 7 p.m. $20, $5 students; call 601-594-2902; email royce@castlemedia.net.

SUNDAY 2/1

“Visiting Artist: Marshall Ramsey” is from 1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). Illustrator Marshall Ramsey gives illustration and animation lessons in Inspiration Studios. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months of age and members free); call 601-981-5469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

“The Black Codes to Brown vs. Board of Education” is at 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). Speakers include Tougaloo College assistant professor of history Daphne Chamberlain, and University of Southern Mississippi history professor Max Grivno. Free; call 601-576-6920; mdah.state.ms.us. …

Jesse Robinson and His Legendary Friends perform at 6:30 p.m. at Underground 119 (119 S. President St.). $5 suggested donation; call 601-352-2322; underground119.com.

WEDNESDAY 2/4

The Natchez Trace Discovery Series is from 10 a.m.11:30 a.m. at Hinds Community College in Raymond (501 E. Main St., Raymond) at the District Adult Education Center. The topic is “The Natchez Trace and Gen. Andrew Jackson: Becoming Old Hickory.” RSVP. Free; call 601-857-3773; email mfield@hindscc.edu; hindscc.edu.

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JXN Tech on Tap Jan. 29, 5:30 p.m., at Burgers & Blues (1060 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland).

The topic is “Utilizing Facebook for Business & Organizations.” Includes a craft beer tasting.

RSVP. Free; call 601-899-0038; jxntech.com.

Jimmie Travis Civil Rights Legacy Symposium Series Jan. 29, 6 p.m., at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road, Tougaloo). In Woodworth Chapel. The theme is “From Freedom Summer to Ferguson: The Value of Black Life in ‘Post-Racial America.’” Free; call 601-977-7914; email mississippicivilrightsveterans@gmail.com; mscivilrightsveterans.com.

Metro Jackson Heart Ball Jan. 30, 6:30 p.m.11 p.m., at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive). The annual gala with art auctions, dinner and entertainment is a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. $250 each; call 601-321-1214; email michelle.alexander@ heart.org; heart.org/metrojacksonheartball.

Mississippi Stories in Motion - Retold Jan. 31, 6:30 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Includes a performance from Front Porch Dance, a silent auction, refreshments, and music from Southern Grass and Redeemed. The event is a fundraiser for the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum to aid in the recovery from a recent fire. $15 at the door, $10 students; call 432-4500; email frontporchdance@gmail.com; frontporchdance. org.

30/243 7%,,.%33 Yoga Workshop with Jordan Bloom Jan. 30, 10 a.m.-noon, Jan. 30, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., Jan. 31, 10 a.m.-noon, Jan. 31, 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m., at Tara Yoga Studio (Energy in Motion, 200 Park Circle, Suite 4, Flowood). Sessions include a therapeutic session, all-levels session, the hip opener session and more. Registration required. $45 per session, all sessions $165; call 601-720-2337; email info@tara-yoga.net; tara-yoga.net.

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Project H2O - Africans in America Monthly Film Fest Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). See the film “Great & Mighty Walk” in the Community Room. Free; call 601-9833900; email realsoulutions@yahoo.com.

“Back on Broadway” Jan. 29, 7 p.m., at Holmes Community College, Grenada (1060 J.K. Avent Drive, Grenada). In the Corey Forum. The Grenada Arts Partnership: Grenada and Holmes Partner for the Arts present scenes and songs from shows such as “The Producers,” “Legally Blonde” and “Hello, Dolly!” $20; call 662-227-2302.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • The Black Cadillacs Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m. The blues-based indie-rock band comes from Knoxville, Tenn. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m. $5 in advance, $10 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

• The Molly Ringwalds Jan. 30, 9 p.m. The rock band from Sheffield, England plays 1980s music. Doors open at 8 p.m. All-ages show. Adults must accompany children. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

,)4%2!29 3)'.).'3 Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • "The Up-Down" Jan. 28, 5 p.m. Barry Gifford signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $23.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks. com; lemuriabooks.com.

• "Driving the King" Feb. 4, 5 p.m. Ravi Howard signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25.99 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@ lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

#2%!4)6% #,!33%3 Events at Farmer’s Table Cooking School (Town of Livingston, 129 Mannsdale Road, Madison) • Tuscan Dinner Party Cooking Class Jan. 29, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Topics including using garden tomatoes, slow cooking pork shoulder, and making Zabaglione and serving it over fresh berries. Registration required. $99; call 601506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

• Farmhouse Breakfast Cooking Class Jan. 31, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Learn to prepare an upscale farmhouse breakfast with a spin.

Registration required. $59; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

%8()")4 /0%.).'3 Through Our Eyes: The Delta as Seen by Deltans Jan. 29, 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at Spectacles Gallery (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 143). See works from artists including J.N. Dean, Melanie Tucker and Park Neff. Jim Wilkerson of the Fondren Renaissance Foundation is the jurist. Includes music from Bill Abel. Free; call 720-8849; email the_art_agency@live.com.

"% 4(% #(!.'% Chili for Children Cook-Off Jan. 31, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Lady Luck Casino (1380 Warrenton Road, Vicksburg). Benefits the Warren County Children’s Shelter. Free, $5 chili; call 601-6362340; ladyluckvicksburg.com.

Celebration of Light Event Jan. 31, 7 p.m., at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (4000 W. Tidewater Lane, Madison). In the Family Life Center. Mississippi Talent Education hosts the production that includes music, art, dance and storytelling. Proceeds benefit Mississippi Children’s Home Services.$10; call 601-832-6901; email jpbain@webmte.com.

Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.

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Events at William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.) • History Is Lunch Jan. 28, noon-1 p.m. Jennifer Baughn and Brenda Davis present “Revising History: The State Capitol Restoration.” Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

• The Black Codes to Brown vs. Board of Education Feb. 3, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Speakers for the Black History Month event include Tougaloo College assistant professor of history Daphne Chamberlain, and University of Southern Mississippi history professor Max Grivno.

Free; call 601-576-6920; mdah.state.ms.us.

• History Is Lunch Feb. 4, noon-1 p.m. Playwright Carole Cannon and actor Jasmine Rivera present scenes from the one-woman play, “The Women of Farish Street.” Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strange to call a cover band â&#x20AC;&#x153;original,â&#x20AC;? but the Molly Ringwaldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; creative collision of 1980s music and cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;along with the band membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; wild personas and stage presenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;make for a rare throwback experience. The band brings its signature time warp to Duling Hall Friday, Jan. 30.

The Molly Ringwalds, billed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ultimate â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s cover band,â&#x20AC;? takes on a variety of genres and artists, including .38 Special, Bon Jovi, Run DMC and Madonna. Each musician also takes on an idiosyncratic stage character, adding to the musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural theatricality. Lead singer and guitarist Sir Devon Nooner, who dresses like Adam Ant, leads the Molly Ringwaldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; motley crew, featuring Devo-inspired lead guitarist Platinum Randi Wilde, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Karate Kidâ&#x20AC;?-clad drummer Sir Liam Thunders, Pee Wee Herman (and occasionally Flash Gordon or Freddy Mercury)-inspired keyboardist Dickie English and Dee Snider-based bassist Lord Phillip Wang.

Nooner says he is looking forward to the Molly Ringwaldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; return to the capital city, where the band will perform at Duling Hall for the first time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new venue to us, but Jackson is one of our favorite places to play,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted something more simple this time, but the crowd will still be in for a great show like always.â&#x20AC;?

After moving from Sheffield, England, to New Orleans about 15 years ago, the Molly Ringwalds set out to carry â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s music around the world. Taking inspiration from The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Queen, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Journey and Guns â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;N Roses, the Molly Ringwalds brings a wide variety of musical backgrounds and experiences to create a show that is rarely the same twice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will look at the set list from the previous show in that city and do our best to have a whole new list of songs,â&#x20AC;? Nooner says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have a few new songs that we just started playing that the crowd will really like. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always looking for ways to make the show different for our fans.â&#x20AC;?

Even though the band has played in the Jackson area many times over the years, the Molly Ringwaldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goal hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get the good, the bad and sometimes the ugly from the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s. Everything from Rick Springfield to the Clash and everything in between,â&#x20AC;? Nooner says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;Ś The amazing interactive show will still be there. Big sound, big fun and big presentation.â&#x20AC;?

The band will also play several songs from its new album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glitterdome,â&#x20AC;? which is available on iTunes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good mix of hits from the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s on the first half and sort of a B-side of lost songs from the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s,â&#x20AC;? Nooner says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s had a lot of good songs that are fun to play but may not be as familiar to the casual fan. We brought those songs to life.â&#x20AC;?

The Molly Ringwalds perform at 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave., 601-292-7121). Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For more information, visit themollyringwalds.com.

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SATURDAY, JAN 31 College basketball (1-3 p.m., SECN): Mississippi State tries to keep turning things around when they host the LSU Tigers at The Hump. â&#x20AC;Ś College basketball (3-5 p.m., FSN) Ole Miss tries to stay with the lead pack of the SEC best as they hit the road to face SECâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worst team, Missouri.

SUNDAY, FEB 1 NFL (5:30-9 p.m., NBC): The Seattle Seahawks look to win back-to-back Super Bowls against the New England Patriots, who want to add another title to cap the Brady-Belichick era.

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MONDAY, FEB 2 College basketball (6-8 p.m., ESPN): Check out the best basketball conference as second-ranked Virginia hits the road to clash with 15th-ranked North Carolina.

TUESDAY, FEB 3 NHL (7-10 p.m., NBCSN): Your weekly hockey fix features a Western Conference clash between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Minnesota Wild.

WEDNESDAY, FEB 4 College basketball (6-8 p.m., SECN): The Ole Miss Rebels can continue to climb up the SEC standings if they can get a home win over the Texas A&M Aggies.

My guess is that the Super Bowl will be closer than last year, but Seattleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense gets the best of another future Hall of Fame quarterback. New Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brady will go out on his shield in defeat.

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ississippi will enjoy plenty of representation in Super Bowl XLIX this Sunday. Several players on the roster played high school or college football in our state.

The Seattle Seahawks defense features former Mississippi State University linebacker K J Wright, who hails from Olive Branch. The fourth-year player out of MSU is one of the big-game stars on a defense full of stars. Wright could make a play that ends up winning the game for the Seahawks. He is fast enough to cover on passing plays and strong enough to make plays in the running game. He is a true three-down linebacker.

Joining Wright on the Seahawks roster is wide receiver Kevin Norwood who played college football at the University of Alabama but first made his name in Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Iberville. The Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson does have ties to our state.

His father, Harry, was born in Jackson, and his grandfather Harrison coached basketball at Jackson State University.

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England Patriots are loaded with players with ties to Mississippi.

One player who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be in the game is running back Stevan Ridley who tore his MCL and ACL and is on injured reserve. Ridley was born in Natchez and played high school football at Trinity Episcopal before moving on to LSU. If the game comes down to a field goal to win it for New England, then the Patriots hopes will rest on a Mississippian. Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski, who was a star soccer and football player at Madison Central High School before playing college football for the University of Memphis. Former Southern Miss linebacker Jamie Collins has shined since being drafted by the Patriots. Collins went Franklin County High School before becoming a Golden Eagle.

Much like Wright for the Seahawks, Collins in a true three-down linebacker.

He can stop the run and cover on passing situations. Collins is also one of the best pass rushers New England.

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