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honda McCarthy Simmons, who goes by Shon, believes that it is important for her students at Hazelhurst High School to understand that art, literature, math and history are all related. “I actually use art as a tool to trick them into understanding that language arts and writing are fun,â€? she says. “When you have a business, you have to write your press release or your advertisement. That involves language arts; it’s not a difficult thing to do. If you can speak it, if you’re texting it, you can do it.â€? The art teacher says she teaches her students that an understanding of geometry, general math and history all play important parts in owning a business. Many of Simmons’ former students have managed to integrate the skills and opportunities she has equipped them with into their own businesses. One student, Timothy Young, whom she taught when she was at Northwest Jackson IBMYP Middle School from 2011 to 2014, now has his own business, where he designs T-shirts and custom-made tennis shoes. Simmons recalls another student, Kayla Love, who, with the help of her mother, has an Etsy shop where she sells cellphone covers. “That’s really exciting,â€? Simmons says. â€œâ€Ś I show them how you don’t necessarily have to rely on the mall or a fast-food restaurant in order to have revenue coming in. ‌ It’s important that the youth realize that they don’t have to be my age (to create).

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“You can create what you want now.� Simmons attended Bailey Magnet High School in 1992 and graduated from Millsaps College with a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in art in 1996. She received her master’s degree in arts and education from Jackson State University in 2014 and has been teaching at Hazelhurst since August 2014. Along with teaching, Simmons is a homeless-student liaison. “(Jackson), is a goldmine, and we don’t realize it,� Simmons says. “I had to move away from home (in 1999) and live in New York for 12 years to realize how great a place this is.� Other than the ample opportunity, Simmons moved back to Jackson because she found the environment more conducive to raising her son, Cody, who is now 6 years old and attends Jackson Academy. While in New York, Simmons owned a popular boutique, Lolli by Reincarnation, where she designed and created what she sold. Celebrities who purchased her items included, among others, Lindsay Lohan and Cameron Diaz. She currently sells items through her Etsy shop, Skyscrapersandtrees. This winter, she will teach a course on developing a fashion line for Millsaps’ enrichment program. She currently lives in west Jackson and is working on her doctorate degree in educational leadership at Jackson State University. “Education is very important,� she says. “I don’t think it’s something you should ever stop, it’s something you should always do.� —Adria Walker

cover photo featuring Jim Hood and Mike Hurst by Imani Khayyam

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African American ministers and small-business owners are looking for more city contracts to grow the capital city’s black business class.

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COURTESY SYLEENA JOHNSON; COURTESY JASON DANIELS; IMANI KHAYYAM

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PUBLISHER’S note

by Todd Stauffer, Publisher

Do the Anti-42 Politicians Feel No Shame?

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o you ever wake up in the morning and wonder why Mississippi’s Republican Leadership seems to hate democracy so much? I get that they hate Democrats; they can’t even get their name right. (It’s the Democratic Party, not the “Democrat Party.� Wonder how many times we’ll hear that this political season.) But what I’m talking about is “little d� democracy—you know, the “of the people� thing—and specifically when it comes to Initiative 42, the ballot initiative designed to get the Legislature to follow its own Mississippi Adequate Education Program formula when it sets the budget for state public-school funding. MAEP is the law in Mississippi; GOP leaders in the Legislature, however, have ignored that law for most of the time that it’s been the law. They are, in that way, not unlike Mexican undocumented immigrants whom conservatives like to call “criminals� because they’re “breaking the law� that specifies the number of immigrants allowed to emigrate from that particular country. The law says we follow the MAEP formula to set the school budget; the Legislature won’t do that. Law broken. After years of watching this happen, the people of Mississippi have stepped in to create a ballot initiative to force them to follow their own law. Now note, for the record, that up until this moment, there’s nothing that would have kept Republicans in the Mississippi Legislature from trying to overturn or replace MAEP. Why they didn’t try, so that they could continue to underfund education in a manner that would at least be legal under Mississippi Code, is something you’d have to ask them. My guess would be they didn’t want to be seen as “anti-education� in such an overt way,

when a covert one is more convenient. In other words, they won’t even stand up and own what they’re trying to do. During tough times such as Katrina and the Great Recession, people understood that some things might be underfunded, and there was less pressure on adhering the MAEP formula. (In hindsight, given the ineffectiveness of much of the corporate welfare of the Haley Barbour

They won’t even stand up and own what they’re trying to do. years, focusing on funding MAEP instead of fly-by-night alternative energy companies would have been the way to go. Just this week, the State is trying to sell off pieces of KiOR to get back some of the $79 million they owe us.) Now, with the Mississippi coffers full, the leadership still doesn’t want to fund MAEP. Why? The truth is that the powers-that-be have never funded Mississippi public education fully since it was desegregated. Starting in the early ’70s, publicschool districts were splintered into Council schools and seg-academies—in many cases the white folks grabbed the books and desks and moved them to another building because they didn’t want to educate their

kids alongside black kids. It’s just true. Since that time, Mississippi’s legacy of white supremacy has remained the dominant influence in public-school funding. MAEP was an attempt to correct that; after the confetti stopped dropping on that accomplishment, the legislators reverted to their mean, failing to fund public education because, presumably, it was going to help too many people that don’t look like them. So, the Legislature passes a law and then breaks it repeatedly; instead of locking themselves up, they pat themselves on the back. As a result, over the years, enough people (of all races) got sick enough of their hypocrisy that they mounted a citizen’s initiative to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot, giving the state’s citizenry the right to make a (“little d�) democratic decision about the future of public education in the state. So what happens when they get that item on the ballot? The Republicans in the Legislature make the unprecedented move of adding their own alternative initiative language in a clear attempt to subvert the democratic process from happening. Not content to allow the public to simply vote the initiative up or down on its merits, they work, instead, to confuse the matter. Not only is their language unclear and essentially meaningless, but also by adding the “alternative initiative� for the first time in the history of Mississippi’s initiative process, they’ve created new steps designed to ensure as much confusion as possible. One is reminded of Mississippi’s notdistant-enough-past, where questions on the “literacy test� designed to keep African Americans from voting included doozies such as “how many bubbles are in a bar of soap.� It’s an attempt to make participation in the democratic process impossible for regular citizens.

Next step ‌ the political commercials. With eerie music and black shadows, the opponents of Initiative 42 (I’d call them supporters of Initiative 42a, but since that “initiativeâ€? is meaningless, it’d be rude to assume it has actual supporters) are trying their best to “Willie Hortonâ€? Initiative 42 by suggesting that all the power of education funding will be placed in the hands of one (presumably black; see the graphic) “Hinds County judgeâ€? who will decide— again, presumably—that all the little black kids get free money on the playgrounds while the little white kids get nothing but knuckle sandwiches and pamphlets recounting their grandparents’ sins. Education is the bedrock of economic development. It’s the primary foundation of success in the global economy of the 21st century. It’s so much more important to invest in than failed ports, wood-intodiesel startups or tax abatements for bigbox retailers. Public education should be a non-negotiable in the state’s budget, just as the law set it up to be. And I guess it’s too much to ask, but I really am confused about this—how do Phil Bryant, Tate Reeves and Philip Gunn not feel a great deal of shame in this effort? They are literally working to subvert the machinery of democracy in their own state because they are afraid that the citizens may tell them something they don’t want to hear—that we want the kids of this state to get an adequate education. It’s a common refrain, but it’s an important one this time around—don’t be fooled by their game. Vote Yes (twice!) on Initiative 42, and let’s make the GOP in the statehouse finally do the right—which happens to be the legal—thing and fully fund public education in Mississippi. Todd Stauffer is the publisher and president of the Jackson Free Press and BOOM Jackson.

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News Editor R.L. Nave is a native Missourian who 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 the cover story and news stories..

Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took the cover photo and many of the inside shots in the issue.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com. She wrote a news story about mental health.

Business writer Scott Prather co-founded local indie label Esperanza Plantation. He recently returned home after doctoral work in ethics and theology in Scotland. His interests include everything that matters. He interviewed Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Freelance writer and attorney Julie Skipper works and plays downtown. Ask her about it if you want an earful. She hopes to learn to cook one day, but mostly thinks of the kitchen as additional closet space. She wrote an arts story about Martha Ferris.

Editorial Assistant Maya Miller is a senior psychology major at Jackson State University. She’s learned that adulthood means choosing her own bedtime, and she’s not equipped for that just yet. She wrote a music story about “A Night of Divas.�

Ad Designer Zilpha Young has dabbled in every medium she could get her hands on, from blacksmithing to crocheting. To see some of her extracurricular work (and lots of cephalopods) check out zilphatastic.tumblr. com. She designed many ads.

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Monday, October 5 The City of Jackson responds to a lawsuit from the Mississippi State Fair Commission over the refusal to provide Jackson police protection at the state fair, beginning on Oct. 7. Tuesday, October 6 Europe’s top court rules that data stored on U.S. servers isn’t safe because of government spying and declares invalid a pact allowing unfettered transfer of data from Europe to the U.S. by thousands of companies. Breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

Ministers, Black-Owned Businesses Want More Contracts and City Support by R.L. Nave

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errance Smith Jr. says he can meet with a city official because of the network he has built over time as the owner of Creative Depot, now at 931 U.S. 80 West in Jackson, which screenprints T-shirts. In all, Smith has been in the T-shirt business for two decades. Still, he explains, it can be a slog to navigate the city’s bureaucracy for getting help as a small-business owner and shudders to think how daunting it is for people who want to start a business but lack connections. Smith, 42, thinks the City of Jackson should better lay out the process of opening a business, including how to apply for business licenses, arrange a meeting with economic-development officials and how to do business with the City, especially if you’re based in Jackson. In his view, Jacksonheadquartered companies also should receive a leg up in awarding of city contracts. “If you’re doing work for the City, you need to be in the city. That’s how to get your money rotating back into your community,� Smith told the Jackson Free Press. Smith was one of three dozen business owners and clergy members, some of whom are also business owners, who gathered in front of City Hall on Sept. 30 to charge that infighting among city officials has thrown Jackson into economic paralysis. In recent weeks, the City has batted around a number of high-dollar contracts, most notably a multimillion-dollar deal to haul sludge from a wastewater treatment plant. Both companies that bid on the

project had locally based minority-owned partners: Fisher Construction is a partner of Baltimore-based Synagro, while Socrates Garrett Enterprises Inc. is the local partner of Arkansas-based Denali Water Systems. That contract remains tabled and under consid-

has said that no contractor receives preferential treatment from his administration. “We demand that any personal agendas come off the table,� said Pastor Dwayne Pickett of New Jerusalem Church at the City Hall press conference. IMANI KHYYAM

Wednesday, September 30 Rowan County clerk Kim Davis claims that she met privately with Pope Francis during his historic visit to the U.S. and that he encouraged her fight against same-sex marriage. The Vatican later debunks her claims, revealing that Francis’ meeting with Davis was not his idea or an endorsement of her views. ‌ The U.S. Senate approves a spending bill to keep the federal government open and the House approves the same measure, avoiding a government shutdown over Planned Parenthood funding.

Terrance Smith Jr., owner of Creative Depot, said Jackson-based businesses should receive preference in the awarding of city contracts.

eration amid controversy over the proposal evaluation process. On Oct. 6, the city council voted to send documents related to the contractawarding process to the Mississippi offices of the attorney general, state auditor and ethic commission for a review. Mayor Tony Yarber

Pickett said every day that officials don’t act, the City is “falling farther behind.� In terms of the sludge deal, Jackson’s consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires the City to remove the 304,000 wet tons of bio-waste now being stored at the sewage plant. If the waste

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Berry said HBHS needs more funding, especially to provide shelter and services to their clients. She said keeping track of clients, particularly those who can be defined as “chronically homeless� (including those who sleep on a relative’s couch), can be difficult. Anywhere between 50 to 100 cases at

that eventually the clinic would like to add dental care, but for now providing some primary-care treatment for patients is what HBHS is focusing on.

HBHS are homeless individuals that extended services and funding at Region 9 would benefit. HBHS was recently awarded the MH4R Grant (which stands for Mississippi

Housing for Recovery) from the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, to help pay for services and intake costs of chronically homeless patients who cannot afford to pay or do not have the insurance to cover the costs, Crockett said. “We have a systematic problem with the mentally ill not being tracked within the system,� she said. “They are lost amongst some of the systems, but of course they know us, so they come back here.� HBHS gets referrals from myriad locations: schools, primary-care doctors, hospitals, social-service organizations (like Stewpot), the Mississippi State Hospital and the Department of Human Services. Some clients refer themselves. Region 9 receives funding through the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, Medicaid health care providers and private insurance companies. Mental illness is a diagnosable illness that affects a person’s thinking, emotional state and behavior. The stigma attached to mental illness in society has led the staff at HBHS to us a wellness-recovery model, letting each client define what wellness looks like for them. “It’s like a GPS,� Rhonda Davis, a youth therapist at Region 9, said. “Put the destination address in so we know where you want to go, and we’ll help you try to get to that place.� For mental-health emergencies, dial 601955-6381. Comment at www.jfp.ms.

is not removed by Jan. 1, 2018, city taxpayers will be assessed daily fines. Pickett continued: “The state of our city requires that we initiate strategies to save our businesses and improve the quality of life of our citizens. We can no longer sit idle while business choose to locate outside of our city limits, further eroding our tax base.� Jackson is a majority-black city, where 73 percent of residents are African American. While Jackson’s unemployment rate of 5.5 percent is lower than the rest of the state’s, black Mississippians are more than twice as likely to be unemployed than whites. Yet, even in a majority-black city with pockets of black wealth and where African Americans hold political power, ministers and business owners said whiteowned firms get a “lion’s share� of large general contracts and minority firms can

only get “nickel and dime� subcontracts. James Covington, owner of an information-technology and consulting business, believes that many minority firms that often get subcontracts have the expertise to be prime, or primary, contractors. Covington, whose firm had the subcontract to develop a new customer care and billing system for the $91 million Siemens contract, said firms like his can help younger business owners grow their capacity as long as they’re willing to pay their dues. “There was a lot of failure—you ruin your credit, you ruin your marriages, all those things for the sake of building the black business class,� Covington told the Jackson Free Press. Covington added that the City should consider updating its disparity study, an evaluation of discrimination in an organization’s

procurement procedures. In July, the City took the first step by adopting an ordinance that Ward 6 Councilman Tyrone Hendrix pushed to require a disparity study every five years. The next step is to hire a company to complete the study, which could cost $100,000, a sum that could be covered with a portion of a $958,000 settlement from the 2010 BP oil spill. “The council and the administration have a commitment to minority-owned businesses. I think it’s important to have that here in the city. The problem comes in where minority businesses don’t get notification of proposals and feel disconnected from the process,� Hendrix said. He points to North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg metropolitan region, which conducted disparity studies in 2003 and 2011. Consultants in that city found

that one-third of minority and womanowned businesses were never solicited for contracts outside of the city’s Small Business Opportunity program. In addition, a quarter of minority- and woman-owned businesses said “there is an informal network that excluded their firms.� Armed with such hard data, Hendrix believes that Jackson could see to it that more business goes to minority businesses and that growth could mirror that of Charlotte, one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities. “It’s pretty hard out there for a young business starting up when you don’t have a track record,� said Robert Bell, co-owner of Bell Brothers Inc., a heating and air-conditioning business in Jackson. “We just want an opportunity to build a track record.� Comment www.jfp.ms. Email at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com.

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ome clients and their stories stay with Willie Mae Berry. Berry remembers one teenager who was referred through the state Department of Human Services after they took away her first child. The woman was pregnant with a second child and had nowhere to stay when she walked through the doors of Hinds Behavioral Health Services. Berry, the coordinator of community services at HBHS, remembers the woman because one nurse practitioner at HBHS took off her shoes and gave them to the woman—who had walked in without shoes. Berry convinced a shelter to house the woman for free that night, because other shelters were closed for the evening. She left HBHS with shoes and a place to sleep that night. “It took everything in me to keep the tears back because I (was) trying to put on my little professional face,� Berry said. “I couldn’t go home until I made sure she was safe.� After-hours work and long nights are business as usual at HBHS. A staff of about 170 therapists, nurses, doctors and administrative staff work on 6,500 cases annually, serving residents of Hinds County who experience mental illness. The community mental health center, or “Region 9,� is one of 14 Mississippi community health centers located throughout the state. Region 9 is looking to expand its services into a “one-stop shop� for their clients,

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Black America’s Promises and Perils by Scott Prather

I love making films, and I’m going to be talking, in a very autobiographical way, about how I fell in love with genealogy when

tive action, which meant that historically white institutions like Yale, for example, or Harvard, where I teach, decided in 1968 to open up and diversify, and to let qualified students of color and women into the student body. Now all these years later, FLICKR / JON IRONS

Is there a particular aspect of your work you’ll highlight in Jackson?

I was 9 years old. Little did I know that day it would become a film series that would reach millions of people and would help to contribute to this revolution in ancestry tracing through the paper trail and through DNA. It gives me an enormous amount of

Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, will discuss genealogy and genetics in America at this year’s Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture on Oct. 13.

satisfaction because my overall mission is to show that despite our apparent differences, we are all fundamentally the same, fundamentally related. Our ancestors came out of Africa 50,000 years ago, and our DNA is 99.95 percent identical. I’m hoping that it can be a contribution to human understanding and inter-ethnic harmony as we realize that we have the fundamental genomes, that we’re all the same. That the biblical story of Abraham ... if you look at the genetic makeup of Israelis and of Arabs in the Middle East, biologically, they’re cousins just like the Bible says, and that’s amazing. The Evers lecture is about genealogy, genetics and (how that relates to) doing American history.

people like me and Ben Carson, who was my classmate ... alongside a whole slew of lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, as a consequence of policies like affirmative action, we have this huge upper-middle class. On the other hand, the percentage of black children living at or beneath the poverty line is about the same as it was the day Dr. King was killed. Nobody would’ve predicted that. Doesn’t even seem logical—if the black upper-middle classes are growing, wouldn’t therefore the lower classes diminish? But that’s not how it happened. We have more children being born out of wedlock in the black community today than ever, 72 percent. We have humongous prison populations. When I was at Yale in mid-1960s, the average prisoner was a white man. No one can even imagine that now. So we have, for the black community today, the best of times and the worst of times. It’s as if a schism of class has riven the community into two, and no one seems to know what to do about it.

You’ve been very vocal about the way in which early political gains in efforts like affirmative action were important for opening up avenues for yourself. Have we seen progress or regress in terms of real opportunity at the highest levels for black America?

What was affirmative action’s role in this division?

We’ve seen two paradoxical results (for black America) since the day Dr. King died. On the one hand, the black uppermiddle class has quadrupled because people like me were able to benefit from affirma-

Affirmative action, as my colleague (Harvard law professor) Lani Guinier puts it, was a class escalator for our generation. Now, it’s a way to perpetuate our class status through the generations. So I’m looking

for political policies and governmental programs that can help move poor people and non-working people into the working class, and working people into the middle class. Remember, I’m from West Virginia … and it’s not exactly a hotbed of black culture. I grew up with white kids, and I know that the effects of poverty are colorblind. And I also know that the positive effects of employment opportunities are also colorblind. ... Most of the problems that we in this country attribute to race are really problems of class. But what we realized quickly was that the problems all along had also been economic. Other than the system adapting to diversify at the upper ends, with the uppermiddle classes, we haven’t ever really adjusted our analysis to figure out how we can improve the plight of poor people in America overall, and poor black people more specifically. When you add the three-strikes-you’reout drug laws, the presence of crack cocaine, which was coterminous with that drug law, and we have huge prison population, we have severe economic problems plaguing such a large percentage of the black community. It’s like there are two black Americas, not just one. What is the solution?

My colleagues and I are … develop(ing) a curriculum … that will change the way we teach science, biology, evolution, social science and history to inner-city poor kids, black kids. We’ll have them all do their family tree so that they learn archival research skills, which you and I take for granted but which are boring to these kids. We’ll have them analyze their DNA and, after they’ve spat in the test tube and await their results, we’ll teach them about what Watson and Crick were talking about with the double helix, how DNA works and about the history of the slave trade. That’s what the larger purpose of my TV series is—to show that we’re all united, that race is a convention and to inspire younger people to reignite the love of learning. When I was growing up in the 1950s, the blackest thing you could be was an educated man or woman, not a basketball player or an entertainer. I want us to get back to that, because far too many black kids think learning is white. And that’s suicide in the 21st century. That’s why I think God put me on Earth. And that’s what I’m doing as long as I’m standing. Comment and read more of this interview at www.jfp.ms/skipgates. Email Scott Prather at scott@jacksonfreepress.com.

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opular culture is always somewhat removed from a society’s intellectual vanguard. Still, recognizing that gap does not dampen the irony that one of the more prominent transmitters of African American history and culture alive today—Henry Louis Gates Jr.—is more widely known for being arrested on suspicion of breaking into his own home than for his life’s work. After writing 17 books, producing 14 documentaries, and his decades of behindthe-scenes work building black entrepreneurial and educational opportunity, Gates is known to most Americans as the guy President Obama invited to have a beer at the White House in 2009, after a Cambridge, Mass., neighbor and cop mistook Gates for a burglar. One might expect such a high-profile persona to have an ego or hold a grudge, but in conversation and in his writing, Skip—as he’s known to many—Gates comes off as both humble and grateful. A West Virginia native, he transferred to Yale in the mid-1960s. In New Haven, Gates became the first African American awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellowship in Cambridge, England, where he was also a correspondent for TIME magazine. Over the years, Gates has taught at Yale, Cornell and Duke universities and is director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. He is editor-in-chief of The Root, a daily online magazine focused on issues of concern for black Americans, and host of “Finding Your Roots,” a PBS series. “History will have to decide about the nature of the contributions, but both have given me enormous satisfaction,” Gates said about his work in academia and journalism. “My life feels blessed. If the Lord gives you a temperament and personality, a skillset and a set of interests like mine, then I think it’s natural to look for two different sets of outlets for your creative work” Gates will give this year’s Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Oct. 13 at Galloway UMC in downtown Jackson. The event will begin at 7 p.m., and is free. Gates spoke to the Jackson Free Press about his life’s work, his upcoming lecture in Jackson and the perils and promises of black life in America today.

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Anita Hill: Keep the Faith and Keep Moving by Donna Ladd

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ally is in some ways about strategy. The issue around child care some may not see as most important, because it’s not a factor women have to deal with throughout their lives, (but) there is an impact on everybody. Women, men, family, siblings. Not something men should be saying is a woman’s issue. We now know that many two-parent families require two incomes just to be able to stay in the middle class or reach the middle class. The ability for both to go to work, support and care for children is critical. You can’t have those two incomes, and child care is so costly that it takes away the entire income of

You are a champion of workplace equity. Talk about what it looks like.

one of the parents. ... When it comes right down to it, what we’re talking about for most women is family income. It affects everybody. It’s not just an issue for single women or even single women with children; it’s an issue for everyone in a modern economy. ... And, if you don’t access to (the) kind of health care you need to stay well and get routine (preventative) exams, again, it puts a drain on the entire family.

It looks like a lot of things, like equal pay for equal work. It looks like adequate health care for women, whether in the workplace or working from home. Making sure that harassment and sexual violence are removed entirely from the workplace. It looks like really a livable wage, so that women can afford basics like food and housing. ... It’s a big bundle of issues: We can’t prioritize just one. We have to respond to all of them. It’s easy to name them; the hard part is to figure out how to put together strategies and tactics for addressing the issue. ... We are giving some faces and names to the issue, instead of looking at them as abstract issues and numbers. I’m thinking this summit is going to energize people. In a state so unfriendly to women, where do we start?

I just said I can’t choose! The answer re-

are working on it every day. Keep the faith and keep moving. Black women must face both racism and sexism, both of which were so on display during the Thomas hearings. What advice do you have for our female readers of color?

We all know our country’s history; it’s not limited to Mississippi. We have to acknowledge that racial experience of women of color (and reexamine our) expectations of what government can and will do. People have to be open to that. We also have to be COURTESY ANITA HILL

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y the time attorney Anita Faye Hill pulled up to the Senate Judiciary Committee table in 1991 in Washington, D.C., to tell her story of sexual harassment, she had moved on in her career from the dark days she described in painful detail as legal adviser to Clarence Thomas, then the head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. She had left his employment and become a tenured professor at the University of Oklahoma’s College of Law in her home state. Hill’s life changed after she appeared before the committee to accuse Thomas, George H.W. Bush’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, of repeated sexual harassment while she was in his employment. The nation, and especially women, were riveted as she calmly told her story, as male lawmakers sought to discredit her, with Thomas himself accusing his opponents of a “hightech lynching for uppity blacks.” He would be confirmed by four votes. Since then, Hill, now 59, has dedicated her work to raising awareness of sexual harassment, domestic abuse, equity and workplace discrimination. In 1997, she became a professor of law, public policy and women’s studies at Brandeis University, near Boston, Mass., where she still teaches. Hill, the youngest of 13 children of farmers, is keynoting the Mississippi Women’s Economic Security Policy Summit this weekend in Jackson, where she will address ways to improve the economic security of women and families in Mississippi. She spoke to the Jackson Free Press by phone about why the women’s summit this weekend is a vital effort for women and families.

We don’t even teach the history of black women as black women. What has that been? The process didn’t even allow for questions about that. Would it have different had I been a white woman? I don’t think the Judiciary Committee was equipped to deal with issue of gender violence on any level. ... It might have changed alliances had I not need been an African American woman. One example was (now-deceased Sen.) Strom Thurmond. I’m not sure that Strom Thurmond would have been so willing to embrace Clarence Thomas had I been a white woman. ... We haven’t quite figured out what to do with (the race-sex question); we certainly hadn’t in 1991. So the questions that were asked, the alliances made, were shaped in part in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Is it getting easier for women of color to be heard in such situations?

Anita Hill says structural discrimination against black women was at play when she faced off against Clarence Thomas in 1991. She is the keynote speaker for this year’s Mississippi Women’s Economic Security Policy Summit this weekend.

Many Mississippians believe the state won’t change the way it neglects women and families. What words of hope can you offer?

... I understand people who feel despair. I also think that if they can’t draw on the energy and history of how far we’ve come in the last two or three generations, at least they can look at the kinds of people at this summit ... who keep working to make sure life is better for all the women in Mississippi. ... Women

open to hearing the ways that we’re similar to all women: Yes, experiences are unique ... even for African American women as opposed to African American men. How have you seen structural racism play into double discrimination against black women?

If we go back to the structures and the way our systems are built, one of the things that happened during the Thomas hearings, an odd thing, was there was a great deal of conversation around this thing of “high-tech lynching,” the whole idea that black men historically had been victimized because of their race, because they were men, by lynching, which was officially sanctioned. But there were no conversations bout the history of sexual abuse of black women. No acknowledgement of that. So built into this (confirmation) process was just a viewing of the racial experience to be seen only through the eyes of black men.

I think it’s getting better. One, you don’t want the shame onto your community ... you don’t want to play into that stereotype. You also don’t want to bring too much policing into the community that may not understand the impact on the family when there is domestic violence reported. Built into that understanding is this idea of hierarchy—who is deserving of protection? Who is most deserving? I’d like to just sum it up by saying: No community can be truly free and equal if half that community is subject to violence, if half of that community cannot count on the basic protections of the law, with anti-discrimination laws based on gender, policing and protection from domestic violence. None of us can be free unless all of us can be protected and safe. The African American community is stronger if all its members are safe and secure. ... What would you say to share some of your apparent strength for speaking out about injustice?

I direct a lot of what I say to people in power. They really should be the target. ... I just give them examples of women who have come through and feel stronger having come through. I also say to everyone: I’m not telling you what you should do with your strength. I’m not saying to every woman, you should come forward. ... But there are rewards on the other end (that) relieves you of the burden of holding secrets. ... Find allies, supporters, who believe in you, know you, love you unconditionally. I was fortunate because I have all of those things. Read more of this interview and comment at jfp.ms/anitahill. For details on the summit and Hill’s keynote, visit mswomensecure.org.

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Kids Who Die in the Swamps

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fter a weekend spent registering new voters, canvassing for Ballot Initiative 42 to fully fund our schools and visiting a young man I used to work for at the “correctional” facility in Yazoo County, it has become convincingly clear: We care little about our young people in Mississippi. The notion of being seen and not heard has put our young people in a position that leaves them far behind, swimming beneath deep waves meant to contain, not to love. On the road back from Yazoo, I thought about how I met this young man. It was the omnipresent school-to-prison pipeline. He was constantly getting pushed out of school for relatively minor behaviors. Eventually, he was sent to the local detention center for one of them, and everything spiraled down after that. He finally finished high school with a mostly meaningless “certificate of attendance.” Shortly after, he got himself moving in a positive direction and even began coming to organizing meetings to end mass incarceration in Mississippi. His voice was beginning to be heard and find traction. But then he got caught up and now he is in Yazoo, being “corrected.” His story is not unique in Mississippi or America. As a young black man in Mississippi, he went to schools that were falling apart, where his teachers were often under-qualified or incorrectly qualified, under-paid and didn’t get the support they needed, where his textbooks were often outdated and where school officials meted out “zero tolerance” disciplinary actions as if they were going out of style. Back then, his voice got him in trouble. It was clear how the adults and decision-makers that affected his life felt about him: “We don’t care.” Every October for the last five years, a group of youth and advocates have been organizing an amazing event called the “Youth Art, Poetry & Justice SLAM.” This yearly event deliberately creates a “safe” space for young people to speak out about issues they face in our community. We hear about schools and education; we hear about mass incarceration, teen pregnancy and being LGBTQ in a hetero-normative culture. We also hear about being misunderstood in an adultcentric society, and questioning authority that does not look out for the best interests of young people. We can all create these spaces for our young people if we care to do so. As adults, we need to let go of our own ideas of how things are supposed to be or “how they were when we were growing up” and realize that if we are not changing our habits, we will continue to fail our young people, isolate them and lose them. The SLAM is one simple opportunity to come, listen and learn from our most valuable voices. Witness the vision and listen to the expression that will leave you asking, “What have I done to change the world today?” There are countless voices that will participate and impart their knowledge on us. Inevitably, the sights and sounds will hopefully linger with you each morning when you wake up and decide what moves you to make our community great. When the young man leaves the swamps of Yazoo sometime in the next couple of years, he will walk back into a world that didn’t care much for him on the front side of prison, and probably won’t care on the back side, either. This young man’s voice has never been heard. Had it been heard, maybe he wouldn’t be where he is today or made the mistakes he may have made. The young man has lived a life that Langston Hughes summarized in his brilliant poem, “Kids Who Die,” when he notes, “Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi … and the sleazy courts/ And the bribe-reaching police/ And the blood-loving generals/ And the money-loving preachers/ Will all raise their hands against the kids who die/ Beating them with laws and clubs and bayonets and bullets …” Hughes warned us to listen and care long before we were talking about safe spaces, mass incarceration and the school-to-prison pipeline. Now it is up to us to wake up and pay attention. Please join us at the fifth annual Youth Art, Poetry & Justice SLAM Oct.10 at 6 p.m. in Bennie Thompson Auditorium at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road, Tougaloo). It’s free to attend and participate with cash prizes for the winners 12 and giveaways for the audience. For more information, call 601-214-3978. "VÌ LiÀÊÇÊ Ê£Î]ÊÓä£xÊÊUÊÊ v«° Ã

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fter months of being at odds, the City of Jackson and Mississippi State Fair Commission finally came to an agreement this week over security at the state fair, which begins today, Oct. 7. Under the agreement, hammered out between attorneys from Jackson and the State, JPD will assign 20 officers to the fairgrounds for the two-week-long yearly event. The City will pick up the tab for half the officers, while the State kicks in funds for the other 10. State Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith also pledged to try to find more funding for JPD in the next budget. Despite the fact that the matter wound up in court after the Fair Commission asked a judge to compel Jackson to provide police protection, in the end, the flap might be the best example of Jackson and the State working through a problem in a long time. It’s also a good example of Jackson’s strength and why the capital city should flex its muscle more often. Early on in the controversy, fair officials shrugged off Jackson’s refusal to assign JPD to the fair, as if to suggest that they could take or leave the City’s participation, saying private security could do the job of the state’s largest municipal police force. As the fair’s start date neared, they grew increasingly and publicly nervous about the absence of JPD.

Mayor Tony Yarber and the city council smelled blood in the water and held firm to their position. As Oct. 7 approached, the State got desperate and tried to sue, arguing, curiously, that because Jackson citizens will attend the fair, and the City has a statutory obligation to provide police protection to all citizens, Jackson was therefore required to spend more than $300,000 in overtime for JPD. The Fair Commission’s desperation is emblematic of how much trouble the State would be in if Jackson were not here to bail them out. Along the same lines, it affirms what Jacksonians have been saying all along: The State needs Jackson just as much as Jackson needs the State. The State of Mississippi should, therefore, pay its fair share for upkeep of infrastructure near State-owned properties, as well as for police and fire protection. Recently, the City renewed its State lobbying contract ahead of the 2016 legislative session. As the City showed in its negotiations with the Fair Commission, Jackson and the State should be open to compromise. However, the lesson here is that Jackson doesn’t need to go to the Legislature hat-inhand, happy for whatever budgetary scraps lawmakers are willing to throw out. Jackson has shown what is possible when the City stands up to the State and demands its fair share. We look forward to seeing more of that.

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ongratulations on your new dog,� I said to my son over the phone. I smiled when I heard a muffled groan from his end. He hadn’t wanted a dog, but his wife had said to him, “You don’t live here, and I’m getting a dog.� And like me years before, he had no response to that. Of course, he does live there, but he travels often for work, sometimes being on the road for weeks at a time. He reached Platinum Status in one month after a marathon stay of 23 days at a famous hotel chain. The peace and safety of our wives and family are foremost in our thoughts, although I still resent our dog’s presumption that she belongs in my bed when I am not there. I stopped chuckling, abruptly remembering the particularly nasty incident that had brought this about. The manager of the small apartment complex in Ocean Springs where they live had been savagely beaten and assaulted in her office in broad daylight. I had stopped in the office just two days before the assault to ask about a waiting list for a threebedroom apartment. Her daughter is 12, a petite blonde with a sassy mouth who is trying to wear clothes much too old for her. She had become fast friends with my 12year-old for the couple of weeks we stayed with my son in their apartment. This was a little too personal to be just another statistic. As I waited to board my flight back to France, where I currently live, it occurred to me that there had been one violent incident after another that was too personal to me during the time I had been in the U.S. over the summer. The first was the father of the professional golfer Bill Hurley, also called Bill Hurley, who committed suicide after disappearing from his family. His son had appealed for help on national television in locating his father, followed by the good news that he had been found and was apparently doing well, then followed by the news that he had died. I had only met Bill a few times many years ago, as he was a good friend of a lifelong friend of mine. I remember his stories as a police officer and especially about the search for John Wayne Bobbitt’s severed penis. The shooting in Virginia on live TV of a reporter and her cameraman by a former colleague, who also wounded the person they were interviewing, was ghastly. The shooter

subsequently killed himself, leaving a body count of three dead and one wounded. My connection with this shooting became clear a few days later while reading the blog of a young woman I know who works for Campus Crusade for Christ at Virginia Tech (she had been a student there when a lone gunman killed 33 people and then himself). She related how the cameraman had been a member of CRU when he was a student and talked about him and the brokenness of this world. The most recent violence for me just before leaving for France were the murders in Gautier and at Delta State University, again with the gunman committing suicide as the police closed in. I’ve been on the Delta State campus many times for the Delta Council’s annual meeting and catfish cookout, for soccer games and to buy Fighting Okra T-shirts for friends. Although I did not know any of the people involved, it felt like I did, as it was so close to home. After weeks in the U.S. visiting friends, relatives and attending to some business (paying taxes), I was ready to return to France, and I realized that one of the reasons was this relentless violence. It is almost like being under siege, not by foreign terrorists, but by our own people. France is, of course, not without its share of violence. The Charlie Hebdo attack, gruesomely fresh in our minds, is a prime example, but there seems to be less of the very personal violence that we have here in the U.S. Don’t get me wrong: I’m in France for a season, not the duration. America is my home, and I love it. France has a suffocating bureaucracy, an impossible language, less of an entrepreneurial spirt, and they are much further along the socialist continuum, which makes me uncomfortable. But, and sadly, I feel physically safer in France, with its baguette-eating, cigarettesmoking, non-church-going, slightly rude and less social population than with guntoting, Bible-thumping Americans. Something for discussion. Richard is a visiting scientist at the University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France. He lives there with his wife of 31 years and their youngest daughter, studying the movement of water and agricultural chemicals off of a vineyard, as well as tasting the products from the vineyard.

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n February, Mike Hurst, then an assistant U.S. weaknesses of candidates,� Nash said. “At least on the surface, attorney, stepped out of the federal courthouse in these candidates all appeared to have good credentials, but Jackson to speak to reporters about an indictment they all had major weaknesses when you scratch the surface. in the biggest public corruption case to rock Mis- Time will tell if the same is true for the current opponent.� sissippi in years. Flanked by several fellow federal and state officials, Hurst: A Rising Star Hurst talked to reporters about how an investigation Relatively unknown outside political-insider circles, showed that Mississippi Department of Corrections Hurst, 39, has the pedigree to climb as high as his party Commissioner Chris Epps orchestrated a bribery and lets him. kickback scheme with the help of Rankin County He was born in the town of Hickory, in Newton Counbusinessman Cecil McCrory that paved the way for billions ty, where his father, also named Mike, owned a trucking in prison contracts. company and his mother, Lucy, worked for the Mississippi John Grisham himself couldn’t have scripted a more Department of Transportation. The junior Hurst met his compelling storyline. Hurst, a tall, square-jawed, not-yet-40 wife, Celeste, during Bible camp in middle school. It wasn’t federal prosecutor brought down two men—one black and exactly a case of love at first sight for Celeste, Hurst said. one white, no less—who together had bilked the taxpayers of “Oh man,� he said, trying to remember how many he the nation’s poorest and, arguably, most corrupt state. Days asked Celeste out before she finally said yes. “I just wore her later, Hurst quit his job with the feds to run as a Republi- down, from seventh and eighth grade to twelfth grade (when) can for attorney general, the top law-enforcement post in the she finally went on a date with me.� state. But Hurst’s sights were not set on just his incumbent They both attended East Central Community College challenger, Jim Hood, a Democrat; he was also taking the in Decatur. Hurst then got his bachelor’s degree at Millsaps fight to his former bosses in the Barack Obama administration. “From Obamacare to the backdoor ammunition bans; from amnesty to job-killing regulations from the EPA: we need Mike Hurst to stand up and fight against federal overreach that threatens our individual rights, Mississippi’s policies, our economic security and jobs,� Hurst’s campaign website states. Of course, taking shots at Barack Obama is the currency of Mississippi conservative politics. The real prize is knocking off Hood, one of the last Democrats holding statewide office in the Deep South. Hood, a centrist from northeast Mississippi, has been a nagging source of pain for the state’s Republican establishment. He has incensed Republicans by R.L. Nave by declining to use the office to fight Obama on the Affordable Care Act and immigration enforcement. In some ways, Hood, 53, keeps the beleaguered Mississippi Democratic Party alive by keeping cash circulat- College (Celeste attended Belhaven University), and he went ing among Democratic-affiliated law firms, most notably to law school at the University of Mississippi. After his first that of his predecessor, former AG Mike Moore. year, the couple got married and moved to Washington, D.C., Although he has drawn the GOP’s ire, Hood’s tough- for summer internships, Hurst with the FBI and Celeste with on-crime populism appeals to many Democratic voters, the office of then-U.S. Sen. Trent Lott. When Celeste got including African Americans, and just enough Republicans a full-time job with Lott’s office, Hurst finished up his law to have helped him make easy work of a succession of unin- degree at George Washington University Law School. spiring GOP hopefuls in the last three cycles, each of whom A stint at the D.C. offices of Atlanta-based law firm Hood whipped by 20 points. Troutman Sanders led Hurst to work for the House Judiciary The closest thing to a debate in the current race came on Committee under Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., Sept. 14 when both men appeared at the Stennis Institute’s and then U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering of Mississippi, also a Recapital press luncheon in downtown Jackson. Hood was publican. As Pickering’s legislative director and counsel until folksy as always, talking about following Christ’s example of 2007, Hurst helped draft the Local Community Recovery fighting for widows, orphans and the elderly in “going after Act of 2006 after Hurricane Katrina and helped write the cybercrime, cyberbullying, perverts, educating parents, pro- Housing Opportunities and Mitigating Emergencies Act tecting vulnerable adults.� Hurst hammered Hood for being of 2005, which served as the model for Mississippi’s posttoo lax on corrupt public officials and touted his own record Katrina housing initiative implemented through community of prosecuting corruption as an assistant U.S. attorney. development block grants. Jere Nash, a veteran Democratic political observer who Hurst jokes that he moved the family back to Missisrecently co-authored a book on Hurricane Katrina with Gov. sippi because his oldest daughter, Anna Reagan, was starting Barbour, said Hurst has the right law-enforcement creden- to make fun of her parents’ accents, so he knew it was time tials to go up against Hood, who has fended off Republican to go home, where he accepted a job at the U.S. Attorney’s challenges for 12 years. Office in Jackson under Dunn Lampton. “The Republicans have thrown different candidates Under Lampton, who died in 2011, Hurst prosecuted against Jim Hood in previous elections. The problem is that a litany of white-collar cases, from a former director of the 14 Jim Hood and his campaign team are very good at exploiting U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicted for embezzlement to

a strip-club owner who lied on his federal tax returns to public-corruption cases. In 2013, Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield pleaded guilty to bribery charges. Hurst also indicted the mayor of Walnut Grove, Grady Smith, for a number of charges, including witness tampering. “First off, folks lose their faith in government when they see corrupt public officials, people who we’ve given our trust—whether it’s our vote of them running our government—acting simply on behalf of themselves without regard to what’s in the best interest in the public. I think it completely deflates our confidence in our form of government,� Hurst said during a recent interview at his campaign headquarters in Jackson. In a case like Epps and McCrory that involved hundreds of millions worth of contracts, in exchange for kickbacks and bribes Hurst said taxpayers aren’t getting the maximum return on their money. Since announcing his candidacy for the state AG’s office, Hurst has made fighting public corruption the centerpiece of his campaign as well as attacks against Hood, whom Hurst accuses of not being aggressive enough on the issue.

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On the Issues HOOD: Supports the schools-funding ballot initiative and says he plans to vote for it. HURST: Does not support Initiative 42 because, he says, the initiative would put too much power in the hands of an elected official. Abortion Issues HOOD: Supported the so-called Personhood Amendment in 2011 and considers himself pro-life. Also, his office has defended the state against a lawsuit over a 2012 state law that would shut down the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state’s only abortion clinic. HURST: Supports the attorneys general from around the nation calling for an investigation into Planned Parenthood over leaked videos in which officials from the organization discuss selling tissue from aborted fetuses. LGBT Issues HOOD: As AG, Hood’s office defended the state of Mississippi against lawsuits over state bans against same-sex marriage and, after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated such bans, same-sex adoptions. HURST: Believes churches have First Amendment right to refuse to perform same-sex weddings and worries about what will happen to churches’ tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.

Consumer Protection: HOOD: Says he has brought more than $2 billion to the state from settlements against corporations he says harmed Mississippi taxpayers. HURST: Says he would also prosecute corporations that have done harm to Mississippi taxpayers and points to his role in prosecuting companies for violating immigration laws, including Howard Industries and the Country Club of Jackson. Public Corruption HOOD: Maintains that he has prosecuted triple the number of public corruption cases as Hurst, but that he prefers to leave local corruption cases to local officials who know the terrain better than assistant attorneys general from his office. HURST: Touts the prosecutions of several high-profile cases, including former prisons Commissioner Christopher Epps and businessman Cecil McCrory, and vows to make fighting corruption a hallmark of his administration as AG. Enforcing Open Records HOOD: Said that district attorneys and county attorneys can prosecute campaign-finance disclosure violations, which are misdemeanors. “The problem is the law itself—it’s so vague,” Hood told the Jackson Free Press. HURST: Said if sunshine laws aren’t being followed in Mississippi, if he’s elected, he’s going to figure out why.

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AG’s Race ing that the governor “abused his office� and violated victims’ rights. Ultimately, the Mississippi Supreme Court sided with Barbour, and the pardons stood. That would not be the last time Hood chose the side of tough justice in the name of victim’s rights. He raised eyebrows again in March 2014, when his office requested execution dates—for Charles Ray Crawford and Michelle Byrom—for March 26 and March 27, respectively. Crawford was convicted of the 1993 killing of a college student

and the Federal courts.� At the time, Hood declined interview requests to explain why he appeared so gung-ho about moving forward with putting Byrom to death. Recently, Hood did talk about the case and about the death penalty. “That’s my duty,� he told the JFP. “People can disagree about the death penalty—my wife doesn’t believe in it— but I took an oath to enforce the law. I think people may perceive somehow that COURTESY HURST

and helped chart Hood’s course for the next 40 years. In 1977, Hood’s cousin and hunting buddy, Glenn Ford, was murdered outside a restaurant in Leake County. Hood sat in on the trial, which resulted in the defendant being convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in prison. At the time, Hood felt that his cousin’s character was on trial as much as the person charged with his murder. “It made me realize that it wasn’t fair for a victim who got murdered to go on trial. It wasn’t fair for a victim to be raked over the coals, and they are dead and can’t defend themselves. When I got to be DA, I always kept victims at the front. We never made any recommendations on cases without first running it by victims and the law-enforcement officers,� Hood said. Advocating for victims of crime—and, later, of corporate malfeasance—proved a winning populist message in Hood’s political life, which began under former Attorney General Mike Moore for whom he served as special assistant attorney for five years. In 1995, voters elected Hood as district attorney for the Third Circuit Court District in north Mississippi, where he served two terms. In 2003, when Moore stepped down, Hood ran to replace his mentor. In the past 12 years, Hood has kept up his persona as the No. 1 prosecutor, establishing units to combat cyber-crime and identity theft and crimes against vulnerable adults. The attorney general is especially proud of the domestic-violence unit. As one bit of evidence of success for the division, this year Mississippi dropped to 34th among states for domestic violence-related homicides, down from No. 5 one year earlier. Hood credits nonprofits like the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which recently presented Hood an award for his office’s work to improve domestic-abuse laws and victim assistance, as well as the Legislature for improving awareness in Mississippi. “They taught me more than I ever knew about domestic violence,� Hood said in an Oct. 2 interview with the JFP, adding that he plans to apply for a federal grant to continue anti-DV work. “Overall, it’s learned behavior. It’s not like you have a gene that says you’re going to beat your wife.� Domestic homicide came to the forefront in the state in 2008 and again in 2011 with then-Gov. Barbour’s pardons of more than 200 people, including six men convicted of killing women. In 2011, Hood moved to block many of the pardons, arguing that the former prisoners failed to follow the letter of the law before their release from confinement. “We give the governor the power of a king,� Hood told reporters at the time, add-

After Mike Hurst and wife, Celeste, wed, they moved to Washington, D.C. A native of Hickory, Hurst joked that the family moved back to Mississippi because their eldest daughter, Anna Reagan, started making fun of her parents’ accents. The family is, left to right: Anna Reagan, Asa, Celeste, Mike, Ainsley and Amelia.

named Kristy Ray in Tippah County. Byrom, a domestic-violence victim, was convicted of murder-for-hire in 1999 in connection with the death of her husband, Edward Byrom Sr. Even though questions loomed over the guilt of Byrom, whose son wrote several letters confessing to the crime and saying that his mother did not participate in it, Hood moved ahead with planning her execution. When the Mississippi Supreme Court issued Byrom a last-minute stay and, ultimately, a new trial, Hood seemed livid and demanded an explanation from the high court, writing in a brief: “The State would assert that the Court has embarked on an unprecedented course of action that leaves everyone questioning why. ...This is not the manner in which cases are reversed. Without any guidance from this Court, the State is doomed to repeat the presumed errors upon which this conviction was reversed. “With all due respect, the State would respectfully submit that the Court should stay the proceedings in this case until such time that a reasoned written opinion issues from the Court stating the basis for the reversal of this death penalty conviction that has survived all previous challenges in this Court

I’m just so supportive of the death penalty, but I’m just doing my job.� Comparing the Candidates On some issues, there is little distance between Hood and Hurst’s positions. Hurst also supports the death penalty even amid the national debate over the drugs used in lethal injection cocktails; Mississippi has been the target of several lawsuits from condemned prisoners who want the Department of Corrections to disclose the source of its drugs. “If we don’t have the drugs, we need to get the drugs. If juries have determined that is the punishment of certain individuals, then it’s our job to carry out that punishment,� Hurst said. On abortion, Hood said in 2011 of his endorsement of a ballot initiative to redefine when life begins that “from a personal standpoint, I have always honored the sanctity of life at every stage. As attorney general, I have defended every pro-life bill that has been adopted by the Mississippi Legislature. I have assisted our lawmakers with pro-life legislation and will continue to do so.� Since then, Hood has remained true to his word. In 2012, the Legislature passed a law that requires doctors at freestanding

abortion clinics to have OB-GYN board certification and admitting privileges at a local hospital. The law threatens to shutter the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only abortion clinic in the state, and became the subject of an inevitable lawsuit, which Hood’s office has defended on the state’s behalf to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could take up the case this fall. Hurst agrees with Hood’s defense of the suit, but believes Hood has not defended the law aggressively enough and has eschewed legal advice from experts in the pro-life community. Hurst also wants to launch an inquiry into Planned Parenthood after a pro-life group released a video in July of what abortion opponents characterize as selling body parts of aborted fetuses Lauren Carroll, writing for PolitiFact, a political fact-checking site: “It’s clear in the full-length video,� that Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, “believes she is speaking with representatives from a company that provides scientific researchers with tissue from aborted fetuses (a legal process that raises difficult ethical questions). She describes the process of getting consent from patients, as well as how Planned Parenthood clinics typically interacts with the companies that take the tissue from the clinics to the researchers.� Still, Hurst said he wants an investigation of Planned Parenthood’s Mississippi operations, even though the only location in the state, in Hattiesburg, does not perform abortions. For him, it’s about protecting Mississippi’s Christian values, which extends to the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. “Churches, religious organizations have a First Amendment right, too. This is their faith, this is their belief, according to the Bible. If they disagree with others who believe gay marriage is right, they shouldn’t be penalized in terms in their tax-exempt status,� Hurst said. After the 2015 SCOTUS decision nullified same-sex marriage bans everywhere, including Mississippi, Hood has continued to defend Mississippi in a lawsuit over the state’s ban on same-sex adoption, calling it a “procedural issue.� The Campaign for Southern Equality recently sued the Mississippi Department of Human Services to challenge the constitutionality of the ban, the last law in the nation that still absolutely bans same-sex couples from adopting regardless of the couples’ qualifications. In a motion filed Sept. 11, Hood stated that Mississippi is not required to allow same-sex couples to adopt, maintaining that the state should continue to encourage

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Contrasting the Candidates After Obama took office, Hurst said his office prosecuted exceedingly fewer immigration cases even though Obama has deported record numbers of immigrants. Citing reports of the alleged costs Mississippi taxpayers incur for undocumented immigrants, Hurst said as attorney general he would fight back against the immigration policies of the Obama administration. In 2013, Gov. Phil Bryant hired controversial attorney and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to represent the state in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security; Hurst says he would have represented Mississippi in that case. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states may not set foreign policy, which falls under the purview of the president, but Hurst says immigration is a state issue. “It’s a federal issue to the extent that it’s immigration, but it’s a state issue to the extent that we’re the ones that have to shoulder the burden of that illegal immigration,” said Hurst, who ordered immigration raids of the Country Club of Jackson in 2006 and Howard Industries in Laurel in 2008. “Congress has passed a law saying you can come into this country certain ways, and if you don’t come in this country certain ways, we have criminal laws that allow you to be prosecuted and deported. The president said we’re not going to enforce those criminal laws—that’s not foreign policy, that’s domestic policy,” Hurst said. Hood may have been willing to sit on the sidelines in the Obama lawsuit, but his office has helped with other immigration cases. For example, a raid took place this summer at American Dairyco in Raymond, when an I-9 audit opened the door to a Mississippi AG’s Consumer Protection Division probe. “This case is a great example of the sig20 nificance of our federal partnerships,” Hood

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pervision stopped and arrested people in the 2,500-person town; Barlow would then offer to dismiss or lessen the potential charges if the individuals forfeited property and cash, which he said would go to the department’s COURTESY HOOD

adoption by opposite-sex couples. In an interview with the Jackson Free Press in September, Hood said the plaintiffs should have gone through a chancery court and initiated an adoption proceeding. He added that it is his responsibility to defend the state in the case. “That’s who applies that law, not the attorney general, not the Department of Human Services,” Hood said in September, referring to chancery court. “There’s a difference between gay marriage and gay adoption, and they need to be in the proper forum, in state court.” Rob Hill, state director of the Human Rights Campaign Mississippi, criticized Hood’s office in a statement, accusing the attorney general and Gov. Phil Bryant of “continuing to keep the Magnolia State tethered to a discriminatory past.”

Jim Hood moved his family back to his hometown of Houston, Miss., in 2013. From left to right, the Hood family members are: Matthew, Debbie (wife), Rebecca, Jim and Annabelle.

and federal agencies has emerged as a central question to the race. Hurst claims that in his time with the feds, he never worked with the AG’s office on prosecutions; Hood told the Jackson Free Press that his office often works the federal agencies and never heard of Hurst before he announced his candidacy. But it’s the campaign rhetoric itself that provides the starkest contrast between the candidates and is now defining the race. The Hurst camp has been unmerciful in its assault on Hood for turning what it characterizes as a blind eye to corruption. In September, the campaign released a TV ad about the prosecution of former Mendenhall Police Chief Bruce Barlow. A federal grand jury indicted Barlow in February 2013 on eight counts related to a scheme to extort money from people traveling through Mendenhall. The indictment states that Barlow and officers under his su-

drug fund. “It is simply shocking that the Mississippi attorney general’s office would refuse to prosecute a public official who is extorting his fellow citizens, but it is nothing short of stunning that the office of Mississippi’s top law enforcement officer would actively help that individual evade prosecution,” Hurst told reporters at the Capitol. Hood called the claims “desperate” and “lies” and put out a statement from Denver Smith, a retired member of the state auditor’s office, stating: “In all the time that I worked on the Barlow case, we never heard anything about the attorney general’s office doing anything illegal or improper. I knew that the AG’s office had closed the case because we were already involved in it with the FBI.” The attorney general explains that he would rather his office focus on more specialized cases that require the resources of AG’s

office, which employs more attorneys than most law firms in the state, and leave local corruption to local prosecutors, who are more familiar with the judges and grand juries in their jurisdictions. “When I came in, I said let the DAs handle as much as they’re willing to. Now, if it’s some big public official (accused of corruption), then that’s when we may step in. I’ve prosecuted three times more public officials than my opponent has, and that’s just my AG time. I’m not even adding up the ones I did as (district attorney),” Hood said. The Money Race and Finish Line If fundraising and spending is an indicator, Hurst won’t go down easily. As of Sept. 28, Hurst’s campaign had spent $273,520 for TV commercials compared to Hood’s $217,590. Hurst’s Washington connections are also helping. In April, the Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation threw a fundraiser at the Washington, D.C. offices of The BGR Group, the lobbying firm founded by Barbour that he rejoined after he left the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion. At the end of July, Hurst reported having $305,589 in cash on hand compared to Hood’s $365,239. After the party primaries, where both AG candidates were unopposed, Hurst’s campaign bragged of raising more than $200,000 during August. He’s getting help from the Washingtonbased Republican State Leadership Committee, a political organization founded to support Republicans in down-ticket state-level races, including attorney general, secretary of state and lieutenant governor hopefuls. The RSLC has sent out a number of news releases attacking Hood in recent weeks. In addition, D.J. Eckert, the RSLC’s deputy political director and former campaign manager of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, is managing Hurst’s campaign. Most of Hood’s campaign cash this cycle has come from the Denver-based Democratic Attorneys General Association, which has contributed $300,000 to the campaign, which Jonathan Compretta, an attorney for Mike Moore Law Firm, manages. Nash, the Democratic political observer, believes it will take at least $1 million for Hurst to generate some recognition to even be competitive with the power of Hood’s political brand and the power of incumbency. The central question for voters in this election, in which turnout is likely to be driven by the school-funding ballot referendum initiative, Nash said, is: “Can they show that this incumbent” referring to Hood, “no longer deserves the job?” Comment at www.jfp.ms. Email rlnave@jacksonfreepress.com.

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hese days, many restaurants are hosting pop-up events or special dinners. Here’s a run-down of ones happening during the month of October.

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Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Ave., Suite 201, 601-9822899) hosts a Ramen Night most Mondays. Starting at 6 p.m. on Oct. 12 and 19, chef Jesse Houston will serve a house-made ramen. For more information, visit saltinerestaurant.com.

staples for working-class southerners and present them to the public in his own lens. “Historically, some of the best food has come from working class families,” Wallace said in a press statement. “Many times, these family cooks only had access to cheaper cuts. But that is where creativity came in. ... We can all easily go and grab ribeye and tenderloin which requires very little invention. The harder thing, from a culinarian’s standpoint, is to use a product that you really have to put deep love into. Many times these cuts and ingredients are overlooked. But they should be embraced.” Wallace will prepare dishes that will feature “scary” meats, such as chicken liver and pig ears; however, he’s also creating more approachable dishes such as a “beet-blood” risotto and dishes with normal meats. At press time, the menu hasn’t been finalized. For more information, visit msmuseumart.org. MELISSA BRYANT

Every Monday this month, La Finestra owner Tom Ramsey hosts his Stäge popup dinners at Taste of the Island Caribbean (436 E. Capitol St.) in downtown Jackson. “This will be food Jackson doesn’t see very much, out-there and interesting stuff from French to southern cuisine and more,” Ramsey told the Jackson Free Press in September. “The reason I put this together is because, with all the work I have to do running La Finestra, I don’t actually get to cook as much as I’d like to. This gives me a good opportunity to stretch and enjoy myself in the kitchen.” For the first event, which he titled “Stretch,” he served dishes such as On Tuesgrouper with green curry, lemongrass day, Oct. Saltine Oyster Bar hosts Ramen Night most Mondays. Local artist Melissa Bryant designed the art for it (pictured). nori and shishito peppers; a rabbit ter13, The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen rine with shallot-sherry jam and a car(1200 N. State St., 601-398-4562) will rot and carrot top gelée, and popcorn host its Grapes vs. Grains dinner. That ice cream with pistachio oil and pumpkin puree. For this month’s night, participants will get a four-course meal with dishes that For the Oct. 12 event, called “Comfort,” Ramsey Museum After include wood-fired stuffed crab, a beef short rib and panna will serve dishes such as a meatloaf and ketchup gelée Hours, the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., cotta for dessert. Each dish will be paired with a limited with macaroni and cheese and whipped potatoes, and 601-960-1515) has events themed around Halloween, edition Southern Prohibition beer and a Crimson Wine banana pudding with a nut crumble for dessert. such as the Screen on the Green, which is “Night of the Group wine. Participants can vote on whether the beer For more information and to see full menus for the Living Dead.” or wine pairs best with the dish and will also receive a Oct. 12, Oct. 19 and Oct. 26 Stäge events, visit stage For that ‘sipp Sourced, titled “Scary Good Creepy commemorative glass. For more information, find The popup.com. Cuts,” Nick Wallace will take ingredients that have been Manship Wood Fired Kitchen on Facebook.

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Sal & Mookie’s Makes Hot 100 List Pizza Today magazine, which annually ranks the largest independent pizza shops in the U.S. based on sales, named Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.) as No. 35 on its Hot 100 list. The original Sal & Mookie’s location is in Jackson’s Fondren neighborhood, and the pizzeria also has a second independently owned location in Biloxi, which opened in May 2015. Jeff Good and Dan Blumenthal, owners and operators of Mangia Bene Restaurant Management Group, opened Sal & Mookie’s in 2007. Man-

gia Bene also includes BRAVO! Italian Restaurant and Bar and Broad Street Baking Co. For more information on Sal & Mookie’s, call 601-368-1919 or visit salandmookies.com. View Pizza Today’s entire Hot 100 Independent Pizzerias list at pizzatoday. com. Pie Five Opens in Flowood Pie Five Pizza (96 Laurel Park Drive, Flowood) opened Friday, Oct. 2. The five in the

pizzeria’s name refers to five minutes or less, which is how quickly the restaurant creates made-from-scratch pizza for patrons. Customers can choose from numerous combinations of farm fresh ingredients, artesian sauces and handcrafted crust varieties. The pies bake in just 145 seconds in a customdesigned, state-of-the-art oven. First opened in Texas in 2011, Pie Five now has 65 locations nationwide, including one inside the Hard Rock Cafe in Biloxi. Plans are also underway to open locations in Clinton and Brandon. The pizzeria is open every day from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, call 769-243-6180 or visit piefive.com. The Flowood Pie Five also expects to have a Facebook page within a few weeks.

Cups Fondren Celebrates Renovation Cups in Fondren (2757 Old Canton Road) is hosting an all-day celebration Friday, Oct. 9, in honor of 22 years of business and the completion of recent renovations. Signature Cups drinks, such as Blondie and Brunette lattes, will be 50 percent off the entire day, and the cafe is offering giveaways and special pastries free to customers while they last. Baristas will give out free drinks to the first five customers who relay a password Cups will share on its Twitter page @cups_roasters and @CupsFondren. Cups’ Friday hours are 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. For more information, call 601-362-7422 or visit cups espressocafe.com.

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Author Jonathan Evison signs copies of his book “This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Jonathan Evison signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com. … The Mississippi State Fair begins at 5 p.m. at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds (1207 Mississippi St.). The annual fair includes livestock shows, rides, food, games and concerts. Performers include Bell Biv DeVoe, Cory Smith and Joe Nichols. Admission TBA; call 601-961-4000 or 601-353-0603; msfair.net.

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“A Raisin in the Sun” is at 7:30 p.m. at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.) in McCoy Auditorium. MADDRAMA presents the Lorraine Hansberry play about a poor black family who must

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FRIDAY 10/9

Next Level Comedy Series: These Are…Just Jokes, Vol. 3 is at 8 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Comedians include LaVale, Yancey Oatis, Nardo, David Mallard and Jay Smith. $11-$21; call 800-745-3000.

SATURDAY 10/10

The Mississippi Women’s Economic Security Policy Summit is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The goal of the event is to promote an economic security agenda for women. The keynote speaker is Anita Hill, professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis University. Registration required. Free; call 960-2321; mswomensecure.org. … A Night Of Divas Starring Syleena Johnson is at 7 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Syleena Johnson, an BY MICAH SMITH Illinois native, is an R&B singersongwriter and a cast member JACKSONFREEPRESS.COM of the reality show “R&B Divas.” Other performers include FAX: 601-510-9019 Tawanna Shaunte, Jj Thames, DAILY UPDATES AT Pam Confer and Jabria Randle. JFPEVENTS.COM $15-$35; call 800-745-3000.

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grieve the death of their patriarch and determine how to spend the resulting life insurance check. Additional dates: Oct. 9, 10 a.m., Oct. 9-10, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 11, 3 p.m., and Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m. $10, $5 seniors and students, $7 per person in groups of 20 or more; call 24 601-979-5956; jsums.edu/speechcomm.

SUNDAY 10/11

The opening reception for the Mississippi Watercolor Society Juried Invitational Exhibit is from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.) in the back main galleries. Show hangs through Nov. 22. Free; call 601-960-1557, ext. 224; email dakotadave7@aol.com.

MONDAY 10/12

The Jackson Touchdown Club Meeting is at 6 p.m. at River Hills Club (3600 Ridgewood Road). Club members with an interest in football meet on most Mondays through Nov. 30. The speaker is Bill Hancock, executive director of the College Football Playoffs. Call for information on membership dues. $30 non-members; call 601-506-3186; jacksontouchdownclub.com. … The Stäge Pop-up Dinner is from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at Taste of the Island Caribbean (436 E. Capitol St.). Enjoy an exotic seven-course dinner from La Finestra owner Tom Ramsey. Ticket required. BYOB. $50; call 601-624-7267; stagepopup.com.

TUESDAY 10/13

The Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series is at 7 p.m. at Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church (305 N. Congress St.). This year’s speaker is Henry Louis Gates Jr. of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Free; call 601-359-6850. … Lake Street Dive performs at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Brooklyn, N.Y., soul-pop band’s latest album is entitled “Bad Self Portraits.” The Congress also performs. Allages show. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7121; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

WEDNESDAY 10/14

Dedsa performs at 10 p.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The Nashville, Tenn.-based electronic rock band performs with The Vibe Doctors. Admission TBA; email ryboltproductions@comcast.net; call 601-3549712; find the “Dedsa with Vibe Doctors” on Facebook.

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Martha Ferris shows her artwork at Fischer Galleries for the month of October.

steel, but since had moved on to other media. As she worked on cityscapes of Los Angeles for this show, she also felt like returning to steel, and added aluminum as well, a medium she says is fun because it’s lighter than steel. “Foreign and Familiar Places” opens on Oct. 8 and will hang through the month at Fischer Galleries (736 S. President St.) in Jackson. For more information, visit fischergalleries.com.

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Former reality TV star and R&B singer-songwriter Syleena Johnson performs for “A Night of Divas” on Saturday, Oct. 10, at Thalia Mara Hall.

tunity to show their support. As most concerts have a mix of male and female artists, he thought it would be fun to see an all-female lineup, showing the diversity that not only exists in the genres but also within female musicians. “One of the things I wanted to start doing was doing things outside of the box,” Franklin says. “Let’s treat our city like it’s one of the bigger cities. It’s all about your attitude. Let’s put our homegrown artists on the same pedestal as some of these other big names.” The concept for the “We Are Jackson” weekend came from Mayor Tony Yarber’s idea of the “season of festivals,” which is the height of the event season in Jackson, from the Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade in March to Jacktoberfest on Oct. 16. “We want citizens to come out and have a good time, so folks can never say there’s never anything going on in Jackson,” Franklin says. “We are the entertainment capital of the state, and we need to start acting like it.” Confer says performing with so many

of her colleagues on the same stage, supporting and lifting each other up, is empowering. She says events like “A Night of Divas” let Jacksonians see the cooperative side of local music. “We can show that different genres don’t have to compete with each other but rather enhance one another,” she says. Thames, who has always been a fan of Johnson, says there’s just as much to look forward to about performing with her fellow divas as there is about helping further Jackson’s status as a hub of entertainment. While Thames is originally from Michigan, she has long been a local favorite in the soul scene and says she feels honored to be a part of Jackson’s premier artists. “I tell people that Detroit gave birth to me, but Jackson, Mississippi, musically, raised me,” she says. “A Night of Divas” is at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10, at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Doors open at 6 p.m. To purchase tickets, call 601-353-0603 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, find the event on Facebook. 27 "VÌ LiÀÊÇÊ Ê£Î]ÊÓä£xÊÊUÊÊ v«° Ã

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hen Jackson singer-songwrit- off the first round of his “On the Highwayâ€? er Jason Daniels realized that shows, which put him in states such as Calithe time was right for a vinyl fornia, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado, in re-release of his 2013 debut May. The second leg of the tour begins Oct. album, “Dashboard Visions and Rearview 16 and includes five more performances Reflections,â€? it wasn’t just about sound qual- across Colorado, which Daniels considers ity and having a product. While growing up one of his target markets. in St. Helena, Calif., his love of records was “I just kind of look at what’s going on, one of the first inspirations for writing his what the trends are and where bands I like own music. “Just as far as the creative process goes, my first love is vinyl,â€? Daniels says. â€œâ€Ś I’ve still got records that I grew up with that I love listening to, so to actually be able to hold a disc (I made) in my hands, put it on the turntable and drop the needle is a completion of the process when I was a little kid and wanted to be a musician.â€? From there, the timing came down to simple economics, he says. People aren’t buying CDs anymore, and vinyl has only grown in popularity since he first released “Dashboard Visions.â€? The new vinyl, which is scheduled for release in mid-November 2015, gives him a physical prodJackson singer-songwriter Jason Daniels performs Friday, Oct. 9, at Fenian’s Pub. uct. Even without the strenuous media campaign that came with the initial release, there’s still plenty of work are playing, and I take it from there,â€? he says and expense in reissuing the album on vinyl, of choosing his tour locales. including re-mastering and duplication. Daniels wrote and performed his roots“There are just so many different levels based music in Nashville for eight years that go on simultaneously with everything before moving to the Magnolia State and that encompasses putting out music, wheth- has struggled at times with finding backing er it’s touring or booking locally,â€? Daniels musicians here because there are far more says. “Then, there’s the press, and there’s so- “great musicians in Jacksonâ€? who are happy cial media, so this is kind of like another one staying that way. However, touring out of of those things on the list. But it’s maybe a Mississippi comes with its own benefits. little bit of a vanity item for me just because, “The thing I like about being a mugrowing up with records, to have something sician out of Jackson is that it’s kind of I created on vinyl is the neatest thing.â€? the cradle of American music, you know, Another “one of those thingsâ€? is bal- located right between Memphis and New ancing out-of-state shows and building a Orleans, Texas and Birmingham,â€? Danlocal fan base. It’s possible to book mostly lo- iels says. “And it carries a lot of weight. cal shows, Daniels says, but that would risk People might not think that. ‌ It cerover-exposing himself to his home market. tainly gives you some credibility because He recalls a conversation he had with Arden- you’re standing behind all the people who land owner Arden Barnett after moving to came before you.â€? Jackson from Nashville, Tenn., in 2012. Daniels hopes to create a “three-hour “Arden said, when I first moved to circleâ€? around Jackson in the next year, addtown and reached out to him about some ing regular gigs at venues in cities such as booking and things like that, something that Hattiesburg and Oxford. Then, maybe a I completely understand,â€? Daniels says. “He year or so down the line, he’ll be selling visaid he’s not interested in booking bands nyl of his sophomore album to music fans that are playing every week everywhere. ‌ in Europe. People are going to get tired.â€? Jason Daniels performs at 10 p.m. FriTo avoid that, Daniels only performs day, Oct. 9, at Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortificaabout twice a month in Jackson. At other tion St., 601-948-0055). For more informatimes, he tours and tours smart. He kicked tion, visit jasondanielsmusic.com.

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This weekend had perfect weather for football, as the days go shorter and colder. But it wasn’t the best weekend for Mississippi’s college-football teams. THURSDAY, OCT. 8 NFL (7:25-11 p.m., CBS/NFLN): Former Mississippi State University linebacker Benardrick McKinney leads the Houston Texans against the Indianapolis Colts. FRIDAY, OCT. 9 College football (6-9 p.m., CBSSN): Southern Miss hits the road to face one of the best teams in C-USA, the Marshall Thundering Herd. SATURDAY, OCT 10 College football (11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels look to bounce back after a devastating loss to Florida when they take on New Mexico State at home. … College football (3-6 p.m., SECN): Mississippi State tries to rally after its loss to Texas A&M with a home game against Troy. SUNDAY, OCT 11 NFL (Noon-3 p.m., Fox): The New Orleans Saints attempt to start a winning streak on the road against the struggling Philadelphia Eagles. MONDAY, OCT 12 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN) It is a battle of 2-2 teams on Monday Night Football as the San Diego Chargers host the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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eonard Fournette of Louisiana State University is undoubtedly the Heisman Trophy favorite. The sophomore athlete, who became the first SEC running back to have three straight 200-yard rushing games, has been spectacular to watch early in the season for the Tigers. While Fournette is starting for the Tigers, the media are debating whether he will soon be bound for the NFL Draft. The current draft rules state that a player has to be three years removed from high school before he is eligible for the draft. Fournette is only in his second season out of high school and would have to spend one more year in college before he can enter the draft in 2017. The question is: Should the rule change for Fournette, or should the running back sit out for the 2016 season if he can’t get in the draft this year? He could go and play in the NFL after this season in college, but he is the anomaly, not the norm. There are several arguments as to why Fournette

Letting him in the NFL Draft could open up the door for kids who aren’t ready to enter. It would be a disservice to these young players for the NFL to allow them to enter ill-equipped, especially in this day and age when the media screams about player safety. Football is not baseball or basketball. Football is a different beast when it comes to the physical part of the sport. Baseball and basketball have a minor league system and a chance to play overseas. Football doesn’t have either of those things, and it doesn’t look like a viable minor-league system or overseas league is coming anytime soon. What happens to those players who leave early and go undrafted? Last season, 24 underclassmen went undrafted. Ending the “three-year rule” would instantly raise that number, and without the opportunity to play in the minors or overseas, that would be a second disservice to those players. Fournette still has the option of sitting out next season. Anyone who would question his love of football should he choose that route would be wrong; however, the running back could get better at his craft by playing. He could learn to be a better pass-catcher out of the backfield and learn to pick up blitzing players in pass protection. Those are two things rookie running backs normally struggle with at the next level of play. College is the perfect place to work on those holes in his game. The last major argument for Fournette being able to enter the draft is the potential for injury during a college game that would risk his professional prospects. That might be the weakest Louisiana State University running back Leonard Fournette may be ready for the NFL Draft, but removing the “three-year rule” could open the argument of all. Gale Sayers, Bo Jackdoor for players who aren’t as well equipped. son, Terrell Davis, Ki-Jana Carter, Napoleon McCallum and Billy Sims are just a few running backs to have their should be allowed to play in the NFL already; however, careers cut short due to injuries. All were hurt in the NFL. taking a look at every line of reasoning, it’s not hard to find Injuries are part of the game, and Fournette could get where they fall short. hurt just as easily in a preseason NFL game like Carter, a The “but major league baseball and the NBA do Monday Night Football game like McCallum or in a playit” argument doesn’t work. The reason the NFL has the off game like Jackson. Injuries happen, and they can strike at “three-year rule” is because football requires players to reach LSU or in the pros. a higher level of physical preparedness than many other Overall, the “three-year rule” is best for players, both sports. Fournette is physically ready, but that won’t be true those in college and already in the NFL. Fournette just has for most players right out of high school, or even a year or to play by the same rules that the rest of his college-football two out of high school. colleagues are bound by, as well.

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