V15n34 - Election Issue 2017 by Jackson Free Press Magazine

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The Case for Lumumba pp 4, 13

Downstream Worries About ‘One Lake’ Dreher, p 10

The Weeks Come Home Smith, p 26

OUT SHADOWS OF THE

Ronnie Crudup Jr. Makes a Case for Youth, Business Kelly III and Ladd, pp 16-20

Mayoral Interview #5

more at jfp.ms/election2017

JOHN HORHN HAS ALWAYS BROUGHT RESULTS TO JACKSON AND AS YOUR MAYOR HE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING RESULTS TO THE CITY.

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Jackson needs proven leadership that can bring RESULTS to City Hall. As your State Senator for the last 24 years, I know what needs to be done to ﬁx our problems, and move us into the future.

JACKSONIAN Kira Cummings Imani Khayyam

rtist Kira Cummings pulls out several wire insects with wings made of colorful beads. To make them, she says she takes a big piece of wire and wraps it around a frame many times, and then adds the beads. Cummings, 28, says her artistic work is often philosophical or based on her interactions with people. She says that the insects are a form of atonement, as she was often cruel to bugs as a child. She also figures that people wouldn’t normally buy artwork that features the creatures, so the wire art elevates the insects in a way. The Jackson native graduated from Jackson State University in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in painting and a minor in graphic design. Cummings, who is also an oil painter, was one of the featured artists for the Nasty Woman Exhibition at Bottletree Studios in Jackson on March 23. She says her paintings explore aspects of femininity, and she incorporates objects that “most definitely (resemble) the feminine being,” she says, including flowers, fruits and vegetables. She says she chooses oil as a medium as opposed to acrylic because of the paint’s longevity and quality. “(Oil) paintings have a lasting legacy and come with more financial benefits,” she says. Cummings hopes to create her art as

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a full-time job one day but considers it a side job right now. She currently works at a local ceramics studio. She also does pyrography, or woodburning, and creates images of everything from Pokemon to professional wrestlers to hip-hop artists to animals and other creatures. Some of her wood burnings include one of Eminem and another of the hiphop group Run the Jewels. To make these, she sands a piece of wood to make the surface uniform. Then, she takes a wood-burning tool that looks similar to a pen and burns small lines across the surface. “Closer to the wood would make the burn marks darker,” she says. “I’ve had to practice quite a bit to get the texture just right and all the intricacies involved with the piece to flow naturally.” She says these nuanced artistic mediums challenge her levels of creativity and also make her work more marketable. “Some people focus on one medium, and that’s all they look for,” she says. “I like doing all these different things because if I am stuck on one project, I just move to another one simultaneously. Reminds me of my studies at Jackson State: painting and graphic design. Two totally different subject areas. I loved it, though.” —Mike McDonald

cover photo of Ronnie Crudup Jr. by Imani Khayyam

6 ............................ Talks 12 ................... editorial 13 ...................... opinion 16 ............ Cover Story 22 ........... food & Drink 24 ......................... 8 Days 25 ........................ Events

10 Where the Pearl Flows

Will the proposed “One Lake” project impact the Pearl River’s downstream flow?

26 The Weeks: ‘Easy’ Writers Read about The Weeks’ new album, “Easy,” ahead of its release show on April 28.

25 ....................... sports 26 .......................... music 26 ........ music listings 27 ............................ ARTS 28 ...................... Puzzles 29 ......................... astro 29 ............... Classifieds

27 Nuanced Views

“Too much of the time, we get lost in the rhetoric of the politicized part of abortion and don’t think about the actual people it’s effecting. … It’s why I believe in documentaries so much.” —Maisie Crow, “‘Jackson: Exploring Reproductive Health in Mississippi”

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4 ............ Editor’s Note

courtesy Maisie Crow;l courtesy Sacks & Co.; Imani Khayyam

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JFP Endorsement

by JFP Editorial Board

Chokwe A. Lumumba for Mayor

f the 10 Democrats running for mayor of Jackson, five of them seem to have a shot at a primary victory based on the polling. Incumbent Mayor Tony Yarber is a smart guy. One on one (see his interview at jfp.ms/election2017), Mayor Yarber talks the talk on education and criminal justice, and he has a better handle on infrastructure and management needs than when he took office. He now knows first-hand how the “politics of politics” can work against you. Everyone needs a little “ramp-up” time to be mayor and get a handle on the issues. It’s pleasing to see Yarber running a campaign this year that is a lot more about the serious issues facing the city and a less about personality and social-media prowess. In the end, though, we’re left with two problems in endorsing Yarber. First, there’s the open loop of two sexual-harassment claims against him. Even if those allegations are baseless, as Yarber maintains, his past behavior and the people around him as he came into office open him up to exposure on issues of character and maturity. Second, although two and a half years is a short time in which to judge, the truth is that Jackson does not seem stronger for having had Yarber as mayor. Newcomer Ronnie Crudup Jr. shows an impressive dedication to young people, entrepreneurship and home ownership. However, he seems to lack a concrete grasp on all the issues he’d face as mayor. As a creative thinker and as someone plugged into both religious and business communities locally, Crudup might be a fit for a position the next administration or for a future city council race, if he’s open to it. Former Hinds County Supervisor Robert Graham’s platform is straightforward—offer good customer service from

the city, pave more streets, focus on education, hire more police officers and save money by running the city well. It’s a technocratic approach that, arguably, would be a good fit for a man who has 20 years’ experience with the Police Department and 10 years as a Hinds County supervisor. We don’t have a sense that things would change dramatically under Graham’s tenure. He represents himself as the more experienced candidate, particularly in exchanges with Chokwe Lumumba. The subtext is that Graham is concerned that Lumumba is presenting a more compelling vision for Jackson, and on that we agree.

Vote May 2, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. We’re concerned that Graham hasn’t put forth a vision on where and how Jackson will tackle the daunting problems of infrastructure, consent decrees, and a hostile metro and state government; likewise, smart programs for justice reform and redirecting troubled youth are core issues for the JFP on which we hear little from him. Sen. John Horhn is the other high-profile candidate touting broad political experience, and he has a lot of say on infrastructure, cross-governmental negotiation, and funding from state and federal sources. In the Senate, there’s no question that Horhn has been front-and-center on a number of initiatives from the 1-percent sales tax to the Capital City Complex, both of which bring more resources into the city.

Horhn has stepped up on crime-prevention issues, seeming to widen his view beyond policing to reduce violent crime. He seems genuinely interested in potential solutions our team has dug into, such as training former criminals as violence interrupters, and we certainly appreciate his work on the BOTEC study. We believe an unflinching look at Jackson crime and potential solutions is key to Jackson’s future. If Lumumba were not in this race, we would probably endorse Horhn. But, ultimately, Horhn hits a troubling flat note when he talks more about Jackson’s problems than about its future potential. Too often, he uses negative descriptors for Jackson or JPS that don’t offer the positive vision we think the city needs in a big way. Chokwe Antar Lumumba is a dedicated family man whose wife and sister are fiercely active and effective advocates in his campaign. The strong women in Lumumba’s family will bring additional resources and ideas to bear on the city’s challenges, helping to dig deep into the roots of and solutions for poverty, as well as crime. Lumumba’s strong national presence will bring recognition and resources from outside Jackson to help raise our stature as a progressive and creative capital city that appeals to young people and innovators. On the question of relationships with the state and region, Lumumba criticizes Horhn for some of the flaws in the 1-percent commission and the Capitol Complex District—valid points. Lumumba’s goal of organizing Jackson and negotiating from a position of strength and leverage has merit; Horhn has had decades in state government, but it is not clear that transferring that experience to an executive position in Jackson will necessarily improve the deals he’s made at the state level.

Lumumba offers smart thinking on criminal justice, economic development and tackling infrastructure (read his platform at lumumbaformayor.com). He takes a broad and a grass-roots approach at the same time—moving easily from the idea of raising money by leveraging the 1-percent sales-tax legislation or finding legal remedies in the Siemens debacle to encouraging intervention programs for teens such as basketball teams and clean-up crews. He’s an agile thinker and promises out-of-the-box solutions and willingness to collaborate. Ultimately, our endorsement boils down to whether we want Jackson to just be led or to also be organized. We think that only by getting organized will we really make a difference in Jackson’s future. It’s our opinion that Jackson needs more than an executive in City Hall who offers competence or relationships—both great things. What Jackson desperately needs is shared vision and purpose. We’ve heard concerns that Lumumba will not represent all of Jackson, but we have spent enough time with him to believe that he is gifted, as his father turned out to be, with the ability to bring together very different people and groups, including the City Council and legislators, over their commonality of loving Jackson and wanting to see it succeed as the capital city. The people of Jackson need to be encouraged to get involved not just by electing a candidate but by building a positive, hopeful movement designed to unite Jackson’s citizens to tackle our collective problems and do the hard work of solving them. From what we’ve seen, the best candidate for that type of leadership in Jackson is Mr. Lumumba. See jfp.ms/election2017 for mayoral and council interviews and questionnaires.

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contributors

William Kelly III

Arielle Dreher

Imani Khayyam

Tyler Edwards

Mary Osborne

Kristin Brenemen

Micah Smith

Kimberly Griffin

City reporting intern William H. Kelly III is finishing his junior year at Jackson State University where he is the editor of the Blue & White Flash newspaper. He helped interview Ronnie Crudup Jr. and wrote about gated communities.

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 about the Pearl River and licensing.

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 lots of others.

Events Editor Tyler Edwards loves film, TV and all things pop culture. He’s a Jackson native. Send events to events@jacksonfreepress. com. He interviewed “Jackson” director Maisie Crow.

Sales and Marketing Assistant Mary Osborne is seeking out new ways to share all things good, all the time, because what the world needs now is love. Send your thoughts to mary@jacksonfreepress.com.

Art Director Kristin Brenemen is an meganekko with a penchant for dystopianism. Sh wants to learn leather crafting for two space heroines but it’s scary. Follow her online at WyldKyssCostumes. She designed much of the issue.

Music Editor Micah Smith is a longtime fan of music, comedy and all things “nerd.” He is married to a great lady, has two dog-children named Kirby and Zelda, and plays in the band Empty Atlas. He wrote about The Weeks.

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

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“The meat of the coconut is to what extent are these boards protecting the public, or are they protecting the profession, and they exist to protect the public.”

Will the ‘One Lake’ project affect the Pearl downstream? p 10

—Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, on the role of occupational licensing boards in the state.

Wednesday, April 19 Fox News fires Bill O’Reilly after an investigation into harassment allegations that showed Fox News paid five women a total of $13 million to keep quiet about encounters with O’Reilly.

Friday, April 21 Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and 19 other attorneys general write a letter telling Donald Trump and the Republican leaders of Congress not to pass health insurance changes that would stop the flow of federal drug treatment money. Saturday, April 22 Scientists, students and research advocates around the world host a day of rallies called March for Science, conveying a global message about scientific freedom without political interference.

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Sunday, April 23 Researchers with the Japanese antivirus firm Trend Micro announce that the campaign of French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron has been targeted by Russia-linked hackers.

Monday, April 24 Biloxi Mayor Andrew “FoFo” Gillich orders the Mississippi state flag pulled from display at all municipal buildings. … Mississippi State University officials announce that the school will lead a major drone research project on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Tuesday, April 25 Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann says he’s “disappointed” so far with what appears could be a low voter turnout for Jackson’s primary municipal elections next week. Breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

by William H. Kelly III

istressed residents from the Villages of Northpointe in far northeast Jackson gathered at the Jackson City Council meeting on April 18 to address Councilman President Tyrone Hendrix on his lack of support for a gating ordinance that has dawdled for about a year due to concerns ranging from neighborhood unfairness, to safety challenges, to charges of “intentional segregation.” “Last spring the gating ordinance was passed by the Rules Committee unanimously, y’all all know that,” Northpointe resident Lynn Coleman told the council. “It was also passed by the full council unanimously, and so I’m just trying to figure out what happened.” Part of what happened is that residents inside the would-be gated communities, such as Woodland Hills near Fondren, could not all agree on the virtues of gating some city streets and not others, including within established neighborhoods. Carl Menist of Woodland Hills spoke out at a Nov. 14, 2016, public hearing against gating, saying that they could lower the property value of his home and bring a negative, dangerous feel to his charming neighborhood, which already has low crime. Gates might “turn off” younger families, Menist warned. “[T]hey like it the way it is,” he said, adding, “It’s a lot better than it was a few years ago.” Mayor Tony Yarber had asked the city council then to repeal the ordinance

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Thursday, April 20 The Mississippi College Board announces that Mississippi’s eight public universities are raising tuition by an average of 6.6 percent next fall, saying state budget cuts require them to raise more revenue from students. … The NAACP hosts a Jackson mayoral forum where candidates debate the role of age and experience in a potential mayor.

Gate Debate Rankles City Council, Again

Jackson City Council President Tyrone Hendrix took the brunt of the ire from residents of the Villages of Northpointe on April 18, who want gates installed.

presented by Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote and rework language to try to address concerns. That led to the Nov. 14 hearing. Part of the controversy is that only parts of neighborhoods could end up with gates that many consider unattractive, a barrier to public-safety vehicles and a way to segregate their communities—after only those who would live behind the gates get the chance to vote on them. Coleman of Northpointe pushed back on the segregation point: “Mr. Hendrix, you are here. At that rules committee meeting we learned that you now see gates

as a form of segregation. Quite frankly that offended me. The Villages of Northpointe is a very diverse neighborhood. … I would invite you to come to Northpointe any time, but I would like for you to come on a Saturday night, down Northpointe Parkway or Waterford Drive, and you would learn why we want gates. … We’re not trying to keep anybody out.” The Villages of Northpointe is across Old Canton Road from the County Club of Jackson, spreading north to County Line Road; homes list from $68,000 to $549,000, with many selling for

Headlines That Don’t Exist—But Should

by Micah Smith Paper is light, but news can be pretty heavy. Political leaders are making plenty of tough decisions all over the world, from overseas to City Hall, and the JFP does its best to make sure you’re hearing about some of the significant goings-on. Imagining some—let’s say, “whimsicalized”— headlines can be a fun and cathartic exercise. Here are a few ripped from the alternate-universe front page.

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“Jackson is more of a small-business town. How can we help the small businesses grow more? And not only that, but we need to support them.”

“In a multi-race like Jackson, it’s very doubtful that there will be a 51-percent (winner), I anticipate a Democratic run-off in three weeks.”

—Mayoral candidate Ronnie Crudup Jr. discussing how he would approach business development if he becomes mayor (full interview p. 16)

—Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann discussing the likely outcome of the May 2 primary election in Jackson.

Do Gates Bring Safety? The next Northpointe resident, Swinney Sumrall, said children are at risk with no gates present. She shared that her children are now adults. “Y’all have heard me say this before,” Sumrall told the council. “I can move tomorrow if I wanted to. I love Jackson, I don’t want to move, but I want it to be safe for the people that I represent in my neighborhood. Kids can’t go out and ride their bikes. It is super dangerous.” Dr. E. J. Blakely, an expert on urban planning and specifically neighborhood

CITY OF Jackson PRIMARIES: May 2, 2017

n Tuesday, May 2, Jacksonians will cast their votes in mayoral and council primaries. The primaries are crowded this year with 16 candidates qualifying to run for mayor, 10 of them Democrats. A May 16 run-off is highly likely. The general election is June 6. Additionally, most of the city council races are competitive this year, with Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon and Ward 6 Councilman Tyrone Hendrix not running for re-election. To find your polling place visit www.cityclerkjxn.wixsite.com/cityclerk or call the city clerk’s office at 601960-1033. Polls are open 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

gating at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, studies the effects of what is called “intentional segregation” in urban-planning circles. “The ambiguous and spotty successes and failures of gates and barricades as

’Kids can’t go out and ride their bikes. It is super dangerous.’ measures to control crime indicate that although people may feel safer, they probably are not significantly safer,” Blakely wrote in 1998. “Thus, fear and anxiety feed on themselves. Gates and walls reflect fear and serve as daily reminders of the perceived dangers on the other side at the same time they do little to improve the reality.” Amy Kraus, who has lived in upscale Woodland Hills since 1968, warned council last fall that gates can just push crime to areas outside the barriers. “It’s not slowing down crime for everyone else until we take some other measures,” she said then. Kraus said gates divide and exclude people who already live in a neighborhood if gates are allowed in just parts of them.

Mayoral Election Democratic Candidates:

• Robert Graham • Chokwe A. Lumumba • Monroe Jackson Sr. • Sidney H. Gladney

• Antrione Evans • John Horhn • Jessie Jones • Ronnie Crudup Jr. • Tony T. Yarber • Brian Reynolds

City Council Election Ward 1:

• Ashby M. Foote (Republican) • William “Bill” Jordan (Independent) Ward 2:

• Melvin V. Priester (Democrat) • James Paige (Democrat) Ward 3:

• Kenneth I. Stokes (Democrat) • Patricia Ann Williams (Democrat) • Th’marves Brooks (Democrat)

“It’s really hard to hear that you can put a gate up in the middle of the street that actually goes right up to our home,” she said. A Shoddy Process? Lisa Nettles addressed council on April 18, calling for action on allowing gates on public streets—blaming a shoddy process. “In May of 2016, this council sitting before us passed a gating ordinance. Many of us spent many days pounding the pavement, gathering the items necessary to complete this ordinance only to be told that when we applied that you were not accepting applications,” she said, exhaling deeply. “At a committee meeting held earlier in the month of March, Councilman Ashby Foote was publicly chastised because he had not turned in his changes to the ordinance on a Friday before the meeting on Monday. Yet last Monday, we walked in to this meeting and were handed changes as we walked into the meeting.” Nettles also confronted Hendrix, who is soon leaving council: “You spoke and said that those who wanted gates were under the illusion that gates would provide us with safety. No sir, we understand that while we live in the city of Jackson, none of us are going to be 100 percent safe.” Although Nettles had reached her time limit, she refused to leave the podium before reiterating her point. “I ask you to

carefully consider when voting for this gating ordinance the time and the effort that we have put into this,” she said. Hendrix thanked the speakers. “Whether I agree with you or disagree with you, this is your city council. This job is not always easy, and it’s not always about what we want to hear, and it’s not always about us agreeing. It’s about us doing so respectfully, so I appreciate you all coming and voicing your opinions,” he said. “Many of my views haven’t changed since the Rules Committee meeting,” Hendrix said. “I can be for the gating ordinance under certain conditions. One in which I don’t believe that a gate should be put in the middle of a neighborhood. I think that’s common sense for me … when we write ordinances we are writing them for the entire city of Jackson … so if we allow it one neighborhood that means we also have to allow it another neighborhood.” The ordinance’s future is uncertain, pending a compromise. “We thought we had an agreement when we did the original revision to the gating ordinance, only to have the administration say we don’t agree to doing it this way after people have already spent a bunch of time and money trying to comply with the revised ordinance,” Ward 1 Councilman Melvin Priester said. This story includes reporting on earlier council meetings by Tim Summers Jr.

Republican Candidates:

Independent Candidates:

• Jason D. Wells • Walter R. Slone Sr.

• Gwen Ward Osborne Chapman • Kenneth A. Swarts • Jaclyn Mask

Libertarian Candidate:

• Corinthian Sanders

Ward 4:

Ward 5:

• Mary Hatchett McClendon (Democrat) • De’Keither A. Stamps (Democrat) • DeGerald Williamson (Democrat) • Lonnie Holmes (Democrat)

Ward 6:

• Charles Tillman (Democrat) • Kenneth Lofton (Democrat) • Christopher Oliphant (Democrat) • Patty Patterson (Democrat) • Aaron B. Banks (Democrat) • Shabaka K. Harrison (Democrat) • Jonathan Cottrell (Democrat) • Lee A. Bernard Jr. (Democrat) • Antonio Porter (Democrat)

• LaCurtis Powell (Democrat) • Ernest E. Slaughter Sr. (Democrat) • Ponto R. Downing (Republican) Ward 7:

• Virgi Lindsay (Democrat) • Ladarion Ammons (Democrat) • Patrick Edmond (Democrat) • Bruce Burton (Democrat)

Source: Candidates listed in the order they qualified to run,via the candidate-qualifying list from the Jackson City Clerk’s Office. Read more candidate interviews and election news visit jfp.ms/election2017.

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more than $200,000. The racial demographic breakdown is not clear. Coleman then targeted Councilman De’Keither Stamps. “Mr. Stamps, you know I can’t forget you,” she said, chuckling at him. “In December 2015, you were quoted in the Northside Sun referring to Northgates, Northlake wanting gates: ‘If the neighborhood wants something, and they’ll be responsible for maintaining it, I support them on that endeavor.’ ... We want to be responsible for it, the City’s making us responsible for it, and we are dedicated to taking that on as a neighborhood.” Coleman said Northpointe’s homeowners’ association would be liable and responsible for damages gates caused vehicles as well as gate maintenance and repairs.

TALK | state

Shifting the Power to Regulate Nurses, Barbers, More By Arielle Dreher

Protecting the Public? The new law, which Gov. Phil Bryant signed April 11, has two goals for occupational regulations in the state—to “increase economic opportunities for all of its citizens by promoting competition and thereby encouraging innovation and job growth” and to “use the least restrictive regulation neces-

sary to protect consumers.” Rep. Cory Wilson, R-Madison, who authored the legislation, said it puts Mississippi on track with other states around the country that are relaxing regulations and subsequently growing at a faster pace with more economic activity. Wilson said four states regulate more moderate income professions than Mississippi, citing the libertarian think tank Institute for Justice’s study which found that

public,” he told the Jackson Free Press. House Bill 1425 will affect 26 state licensing boards, a list from the governor’s office circulated during the session shows. They all have “active market participants” on them, meaning professionals are on panels that regulate their own professions. That may mean that they understand their industry more than outsiders might, but it also presents a potential conflict because they are making decisions that affect their Arielle Dreher

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elony Armstrong did not want to cut hair; she wanted to braid hair in her own shop. She believed that the time and money spent on beauty school would be useless for what she wanted to do, she says now. So she trained for half a year before she had learned enough from other hair braiders in different states to open up her own shop. But she struggled to get a license and open her own hair braiding shop in the state due to what she calls daunting regulations back in the 1990s. The Mississippi State Board of Cosmetology requires beauty practitioners to attend beauty school for no fewer than 1,500 hours in nine months. “By 1994, I finally felt I had enough experience to start my hair-braiding career, and that’s when the government got in my way,” Armstrong said at an Americans for Prosperity press conference at the Capitol in February. AFP is a conservative Koch brothers-supported organization that lobbies on behalf of businesses against overregulation. Armstrong said she tried to get the board to loosen regulations and not require her to attend beauty school where she would learn nothing about hair braiding. The regulators granted her a one-time license in wigology, a practice for wig specialists, Armstrong said, but when she wanted to train other hair braiders around the state, she found out she needed more training hours herself to be able to train others. Then in 2005, former Gov. Haley Barbour signed a bill specifically changing requirements for hair braiders in the state. Today, Mississippi law has a specific section for hair braiding, and anyone engaging in the profession must pay a $25 fee and register with the Mississippi Department of Health. There are over 3,000 hair braiders registered with the department. AFP brought Armstrong to the Capitol to speak in support of House Bill 1425, which will affect about two dozen professions in the state including nursing, architecture, counseling, pharmacy and others that state boards regulate.

Russ Latino, the Mississippi director for the right-leaning Americans for Prosperity, publicly supports loosening the state’s occupational regulations.

Mississippi has “erected barriers to entry” in 55 of 102 low- and middle-income jobs. The study also found that the actual licensing burdens are “fairly light” in the state, however, and ranks Mississippi 45th in most burdensome licensing laws. The institute also highlighted Armstrong’s career and entrepreneurship in a 2009 paper. The law’s opponents argue against using “least restrictive regulations,” and the majority of Democrats voted against all versions of the bill, which they say is an effort to reduce needed safety regulations. Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, vocally opposed HB 1425 on the Senate floor, saying occupational licensing boards are in place to protect members of the public. Blount, a licensed real-estate agent, emphasized that the Real Estate Commission did not exist to protect him but to protect the public from service providers. “The meat of the coconut is to what extent are these boards protecting the public, or are they protecting the profession, and they exist to protect the

competitors. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners back in 2015, which attempted to block people who were not licensed dentists from whitening teeth in the state. Typically, state agencies are exempt from anti-trust laws in place to protect competition, but the U.S. Supreme Court said any board with members with an active interest in blocking competitors are not necessarily exempt from those laws. The country’s leaders established antitrust laws back in the late 1800s to make sure the United States maintained a free, competitive market and to ensure that a group of people does not necessarily hold a monopoly on an industry. Or as Nashvillebased Bradley Law Firm attorney and antitrust specialist Chris Puri told the Jackson Free Press, “When you have (active) market participants, there’s a natural tendency for them to have bias against competitive decisions (that) will disadvantage them.” States now have the responsibility to ensure that boards do not go too far in

their regulations. The Supreme Court said that “states may provide active supervision” of boards, spurring national conversation about what could and should happen. Limiting Job Growth House Bill 1425 creates a commission of the governor, secretary of state and the attorney general who will meet quarterly to review changes to state policies of 26 occupational licensing boards. Wilson said the commission will have the power to veto any new rules, as the U.S. Supreme Court opinion suggested. The governor already appoints members to most of the state’s occupational licensing boards, and in most cases, state law requires the governor to appoint professionals with a lot of experience in their fields. For example, the Board of Psychology has seven members, six of whom must be licensed psychologists in Mississippi. Lawmakers opposed to the new law asked why another layer of bureaucracy is necessary, and more importantly, why the governor, secretary of state and attorney general are needed to oversee boards regulating industries from architecture to funeral services. “I guess the question would be if there’s going to be a second layer of rule-making, do those people know anything about the profession that they’re regulating?” Blount told the Jackson Free Press. AFP supported the bill from its conception. Russell Latino, Mississippi’s AFP director, said his group is supportive of limiting occupational licensing, especially when those rules place hurdles in the way of a person’s ability to get a job. House Bill 1425, Latino argues, is something a bipartisan coalition could get behind: a checkand-balances approach to state regulations. Latino points to a framework study that the Obama administration released in 2015, which found that more than a quarter of American workers have to get a license to do their jobs, and that while “licensing helps to ensure high-quality services (and) safeguard against serious harms … licensing can reduce total employment in the licensed professions.” AFP is not responsible for the bill’s language, Latino said. But when asked about the lobbyist’s client report from 2016 that shows the group spent a little over $500 on meals and receptions for lawmakers that year, he admitted that the group did try to influence the lawmakers.

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Economics of Oyster Reefs The state’s largest oyster reef is on the western Gulf Coast, just off Hancock and Harrison Counties to the right of where the Pearl empties into the sound on a map. Consequently, the Pearl is vital to oyster production, a fickle and variable process from year to year. Oysters depend on a mix of salt and freshwater to grow well, 10 and storms, water salinity and quality are

all factors that affect the delicate process of harvesting good oysters. Jamie Miller, the executive director of the Department of Marine Resources, said his agency has monitored the developments with the Levee Board’s plan to flood parts of the Pearl and add a weir (a dam) at the bottom of the “lake.” Miller said it was premature for his department to say definitively whether or not the project would have an impact on the oyster industry.

down project to offer flood control as well as waterfront development on both the Jackson and Rankin sides of the river. Quinn says the project will not lower the already low-flowing water currently released from the Ross Barnett Reservoir. The report will address evaporation rates as well as the flow of water. The project proposes building a weir at the bottom of the “lake,” something that has drawn the ire of multiple groups and residents downstream. Imani Khayyam

he Pearl River winds its way down the center of the state, eventually creating the boot of the LouisianaMississippi border, emptying into Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Borgne and the Mississippi Sound. A ways below Jackson, the Pearl splits apart, first to a canal and then into two parts, half flows southwest to the state of Louisiana, while the Mississippi side flows southeast, creating the borders of Pearl River and Hancock Counties. A few levees dot the Google Earth map of the river’s tracks. Several communities rely on the Pearl downstream not only to sustain wildlife and natural wetlands but also to fuel their economies. Environmental groups and downstream communities in Louisiana and Mississippi are keeping a sharp eye on any proposed levee or lake project in Jackson, such as the current “One Lake” strategy, due to potential impacts of damming water further south. Additionally, the Pearl provides freshwater to a delicate balance, called water salinity, needed for oyster growth. “One Lake” promoters say they have overcome any potential problems downstream for the environment and seafood industries. “We’ve understood the importance,” Keith Turner, the lawyer for the RankinHinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District, or Levee Board, said on March 17. “We’ve met with the Department of Marine Resources, St. Tammany (Parish in Louisiana) multiple times, Hancock County (Miss.). We’ve spent a lot of time down there. We hear the concerns.” Still, Turner added, some people downstream are “spreading complete misinformation,” adding that a rumor of a study about negative downstream effects of the lake plan is “fictitious.” “We recognize that there was a downstream concern, and we’ve addressed it in the (environment impact study).” That environmental document should be public by May or June. Others further downstream still have their doubts, though.

Representatives pushing the “One Lake” project, which will flood parts of the Pearl River and surrounding wetlands (including the area pictured), say their project will have little to no environmental impact on areas downstream.

A 2015 report from the governor’s Oyster Council lists “insufficient fresh water quantity” as one of the challenges facing the oyster industry on the Mississippi coast. Miller said Hurricane Katrina wrecked most of the reefs in 2005, and the state has been rebuilding them ever since. Altering the amount and natural fluctuation of freshwater inflow is one of several factors that affects the freshwater flow to the oyster reefs, the report says. Mississippi’s oyster reefs are public, so the State owns the oysters, technically speaking. The commercial fishing industry uses the state-regulated reefs to harvest and sell oysters to dealers. The latest One Lake project proposal promises to not affect the quantity of water flowing downstream in a significant way. “Our report will show that there is a minimal, if any, impact to the quantity and quality of water going downstream,” Dallas Quinn, who represents the Pearl River Vision Foundation, said. The PRVF was founded in 2001 to support damming the river into, first, two lakes and now a scaled-

In 2015, the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources passed a resolution against any proposed reservoir on the Pearl River. “Significant financial harm to the State of Mississippi and its citizens would result from any further reduction to natural freshwater inflows to Mississippi’s fragile estuarine areas,” the resolution says. “This harm impacts the commercial and recreational fishermen, natural and artificial reefs, and the economy of the Coast and State of Mississippi ... the Commission is opposed to the permitting or construction of any dam or weir that would further reduce the natural seasonal flows of freshwater into Mississippi’s estuarine waters.” Miller said the commission has passed no new resolutions to replace or negate the 2015 one. He said the oyster industry and his agency are waiting for the PRVF’s report to be released with more environmental impact information in it. “We hope a project exists that can do no harm, but we will certainly make it known if it has an adverse impact to oyster

resources,” he told the Jackson Free Press. About More Than Flow Julia Cherry, a biology professor at the University of Alabama, has studied the wetlands and marshes along the Pearl River, specifically in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area. She said that while weirs and dams can affect flow, what she is most concerned with is how they catch sediment necessary to cultivate the growth of wetlands on the coast. “Coastal wetlands along the Gulf Coast are sediment deprived in most cases, so part of the reason why that’s happened … (is there’s been) 100 years of levees and dams along most of our waterways; dams hold water and sediment back,” she said. Wetlands along the coast provide flood mitigation as well as shelter to what is behind them from storms and hurricanes. On the coast, these wetlands can take the brunt of a storm’s damage, depending on how the storm hits land. While marshes, groves and wetlands make up a small part of environments worldwide, Cherry cited a 2014 study that found that wetlands, specifically tidal marshes and mangroves, have significantly increased in value because of they provide “storm protection, erosion control and waste treatment.” “Wetlands act like sponges and the kidneys of the landscape. They can soak up water and release it more slowly so you don’t get those flood spikes,” Cherry said. Proponents of the “One Lake” project maintain that their project will not affect downstream flows—and more details will be clear in the environmental report, once released. Turner said that once the EIS goes public, independent engineers will vet the plan as the Corps requires. To date, the local Pearl River Vision Foundation has hired and overseen all engineering, economic and environmental studies. It raised $1.8 million to pay for the draft EIS, which should go public by May. “(The foundation) took no money; all went to the professionals for their services,” Turner said, adding that the Levee Board signed off on the expenses. Turner said the board has been talking to the Corps throughout the prep of the EIS and believes it meets most local and downstream concerns. “We don’t expect to have huge changes we have to make, I’m hoping,” he said March 17. Additional reporting by Donna Ladd. Read earlier reports at jfp.ms/pearlriver.

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r. Announcement: “Ghetto Science Public Affairs Network television presents coverage of Clubb Chicken Wing’s Emergency Preparedness and Strategic Planning Hot Wing Happy Hour. Your moderator for this session is Congressman Smokey ‘Robinson’ McBride.” Smokey “Robinson” McBride: “This is my lament regarding an end to strategic patience. We witness a nerve-gas attack killing innocent people, followed by bombs and the “Mother of All Bombs.” In Atlanta, Ga., highway infrastructures burn and collapse, and a homeless crack addict gets blamed. Loyal constituents of the Ghetto Science Community, don’t you see the warnings? These images and sounds of violence and destruction cloud my mind with uncertainty. We definitely live in dangerous times. “Then, I hear my late great-granny McBride always referring to a quote from the book of Matthew, chapter 24, verses 6-8: ‘You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.’” “This is why I want us to develop a plan to prepare our community for the casualties of these wars and rumors of wars. I’m talking about building fallout shelters, food pantries, etc. Right now, I am on ‘Life is Like a Box of Chocolates’ mode. I want our community to be ready the next time another ‘Mother of All Bombs’ drops.”

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his legislative session, Mississippi lawmakers went backwards on equity for school funding. They not only underfunded MAEP, but they took millions from that program and gave it to “successful” schools. It is interesting to see that of the approximately $16 million that will go to “A” and “B” schools, about half of that money goes to schools in only five counties: DeSoto, Harrison, Jackson, Rankin and Madison. These are areas that are mostly white and middle class, where there is a solid tax base, and the parents are well-educated. Of the 37 districts that got nothing out of this funding stream, most are poor and largely African American. This shift away from the concept of equity funding is appalling. Rims Barber Jackson

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Vetoing Criminal Reforms Shortsighted, Dangerous

hether it was due to a “mistake” or a poison pill inserted at the last hour, Gov. Phil Bryant vetoed House Bill 1033 last week after both houses passed the criminal-justice reform measure unanimously. Bryant blamed his veto on a provision to allow inmates convicted of their third felony, under Mississippi’s “habitual offender” law, to be eligible for parole after serving 25 percent of the sentence. The governor vetoed the bill even though it specifically excluded inmates convicted of violent or sex crimes. Mississippi’s version of “three-strikes” law requires a judge to order the maximum sentence for third felony or federal crime even if those felonies were nonviolent like drug possession or larceny. Mississippi’s sentencing laws provide no judicial discretion. HB 1033 gave judges a way to give relief to those caught by the three-strikes law, allowing the Parole Board to consider granting parole after the prisoner had served a quarter of their current sentence. Parole eligibility is not a free pass by any means; plenty of inmates are denied each year. Vetoing HB 1033 is another short-sighted step backward for the state’s criminal-justice system. In 2014, the Legislature passed a large criminal-justice reform package, HB 585, to start unwinding decades of bad policy that can actually increase crime and costs to the State due to prison overcrowding. But since then, it’s been one trip-up after another here, even as other states such as Texas invest in more reforms and re-entry programs rather than packing prisons and, thus, increasing the odds of re-offending after inmates get out. The Legislature

paid $500,000 for a study that details this cycle. Still, while the state’s inmate population was decreasing this time last summer, April is almost back to June 2016 levels with more than 19,000 inmates. Both parties supported the reforms in HB 1033, including not throwing a person in jail or prison for not paying fines they cannot afford. Before drastic changes, the bill included other reforms from the state’s Reentry Council such as not revoking a person’s driver’s license immediately upon arrest. Several lawmakers have acknowledged the sentencing disparities across the state that contribute to our growing inmate population of prisoners at high risk of re-offending when released. Mississippi’s criminal-justice system is in disarray, from high employee turnover rates to one of the country’s highest recidivism rates. HB 1033 was the tip of a massive iceberg of problems that state leaders need to deal with—and while the Legislature did its part, the governor failed Mississippians. Cuts to state government only exacerbate the problem. The Department of Corrections needs financial support to fund re-entry programs and help rehabilitate those in their custody who need everything from mental-health care to job skills. The longer leadership ignores this state’s incarceration crisis, the larger the disservice to future Mississippians and those who want to get out of prison, get jobs and make a change in their lives, not to mention future victims of crimes that could be prevented through smarter criminal laws. See jfp.ms/preventingviolence for evidence-based crime-prevention solutions.

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Look Ahead But Stay Present in the Jackson Mayor’s Race

s I look back on the many years I spent living in the city of Jackson, romanticism sometimes begins to set in. When I contemplate the notion of clicking my red Jordans three times to send me back to Jackson, I find myself missing the atmosphere, the restaurants, the hospitality, the people, the nightlife—hell, I even miss dodging the potholes in Jackson. This romanticism often allows me to imagine the city as a shining example of Mississippi excellence. Then reality sets in, and I ask myself, “Do I miss what the city of Jackson is or what the city of Jackson can become?” As a former citizen, looking forward was, at times, very hard to do. The idea of looking ahead seemed asinine because of the perilous problems that ailed the city at the time. But is the idea of looking ahead that hard to do, along with solving the current ills within the city of Jackson? Doesn’t the city deserve both? I grew up with privileges many folks in the city of Jackson and across the country don’t have. In all honesty, I never worried about the bare necessities. Hell, punishment for me was having to turn off one of the many gaming systems my parents purchased so I could complete my homework. Because they obtained degrees and lived in affluent neighborhoods and surrounded themselves with policy-makers, they carried influence; they had a voice as to what direction the city of Jackson should go. As I look back at it, how fair was this? Did my parents and others like them deserve to have their concerns heard? Of course, but what about the other citizens of Jackson who weren’t as fortunate as my parents or my friends’ parents? Were there voices less important because they lived in Ward 3 instead of Ward 2? Observing the people who are currently running for mayor in the city I love—with bias—I wonder which candidate has the acumen to presently tackle the issues facing the city of Jackson along with the vision to look ahead.

Out of the 16 candidates, one person successfully stands out, in my opinion, and that person is Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Now, for the sake of full disclosure, I recall only meeting Chokwe once, maybe twice, and besides us both sharing the same profession and having fathers who participated in the Jackson political arena, I don’t think we share many commonalities. Well, there is one commonality I would like to add, and that is caring deeply about where the city of Jackson is headed. Chokwe’s campaign focuses the citizens of Jackson, especially those I would consider to be voiceless. The People’s Platform was an ideology his father, the late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, ran on and one Chokwe Antar co-authored. This ideology embraces the notion of political, economic and social empowerment for every citizen of Jackson, the haves and have-nots. Chokwe’s People Platform is not a policy-less idea. The platform is also centered around infrastructure, a sales tax that would help streamline muchneeded revenue, addressing the increasing homicide rate by creating better opportunities so people will have something better to do than commit nefarious activities, revitalizing downtown, bridging the complex relationship between the City and the State Legislature and, most importantly (to me), investing in Jackson’s future. The city’s future revolves around inclusiveness, and for its citizens to have a voice, no matter their nationality, race, gender, sexual orientation or income. Jackson needs someone who has ambitious dreams for its citizens as well as fixing potholes on Mill Street. So again, I ask, doesn’t the city of Jackson deserve both? Leslie McLemore II, a Jackson native, is now in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University School of Law and American University Washington College of Law.

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any Jacksonians did not know Ronnie Crudup Jr. before he announced as a candidate for mayor. But due to sharing a name with his prominent dad, the 39-yearold quickly emerged as one of the presumed top-five candidates, alongside Tony Yarber, attorney Chokwe Lumumba, Sen. John Horhn and Supervisor Robert Graham. Crudup does not shy away from the paternal leg-up. He regularly quotes his father, who is the primary backer of his

Like his father, Crudup’s touchstone is business, and although he can come across shy and unassuming, he does not hesitate to criticize public entities he perceives as wasteful or slothful, whether in cutting grass, painting a gym or demanding excellent educational leadership such as Dr. Willie Killins has brought to Wingfield High School in recent years. And like his father and fellow church member Socrates Garrett—both with strong Republican connections—Crudup Jr. can sound less like a Democrat than his primary opponents. He supported charter schools in Jackson, Imani Khayyam

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campaign. It is not Bishop Ronnie Crudup Sr.’s first political rodeo; the founder of New Horizon Church International helped long-time U.S. Sen Thad Cochran, a Republican, weather a re-election firestorm that Tea Party candidate state Sen. Chris McDaniel caused in 2015. This Crudup is aiming for the capital city’s top office even though he has no government experience. He is relying heavily on his own history of ministry work and social entrepreneurship that seeks to bring Jackson’s most needy out of poverty and onto a path of home ownership and business acumen to help them become self16 sustaining and to start building wealth.

for instance, although he now criticizes the local ones, and he thinks many people rely too much on the government. Both the senior Crudup and Garrett were part of a group of black business owners who pushed back against the awarding of government contracts during the Yarber administration, which the mayor says ending up costing him Garrett’s support. Crudup Jr. talked at length about contracting, not denying that he wants more minority contractors eligible for city contracts, as well as be taught how to get them and then perform well once they have them. Crudup is a graduate of Murrah High School now lives in Alta Woods.

With no political background, why did you run for mayor? The people in my community wanted me to run for political office for a while now. They have tried to get me to run for city council, they’ve tried to get me to run for the Legislature, also the last supervisor’s run. … A guy in my community kind of grabbed me by the suit coat and said, “You know what? It’s not about you.” ... I’ve been doing a lot of work in my community in south Jackson over the years, and this was just out of the love for my community because I believe in trying to have a good quality of life for the residents in the area. … I think the people in my community saw that and said, “You know what, you’re a guy that’s already doing the work, so we need you to be kind of more on a broader scale of public service to do that on a larger scale.” Who grabbed you and told you to run for mayor? I don’t want to say his name right now. He is just a really good friend of mine. ... I just want to that confidential. I can tell you this. It’s not a family member. ... This person ain’t give any campaign money. … I did ask my father. I did ask my father-inlaw because not only is my father a pastor, but my wife’s father is a pastor. So both of them (said,) “You know what, Ronnie, I think you should do it.” ... What can you offer that the other candidates can’t? I can offer my relationships. I have a lot of relationships in the business community. The work that I’ve been doing has really been a collaboration of myself pushing but kind of giving a vision to the business community of like, what we can do. For instance, I would take a school like Wingfield High School, where Dr. (Willie) Killins (is principal). The first time I went and saw Dr. Killins, I was hearing about such good work that he was doing at Wingfield, so I went to go see for myself. I was really impressed by the work that he was doing, but I see that they needed a lot

Ronnie C. Crudup, Jr., 39 Education:  Murrah High School; Hinds Community College; B.A., History, Belhaven University Political Experience: None Job: Executive Director, New Horizon Ministries Inc. Family: Wife Andrea Crudup; daughters Nya, 10, and Robin, 5; Son David, 3 of help. So I was able to rally some of the businesses in south Jackson, bring them together and say, “Hey, we gotta help Dr. Killins at Wingfield, get him the resources and funds that he needs.” At the beginning of the year, they didn’t even have an air-conditioning unit. ... We were able to push to purchase them some new air-conditioning units, portable ones. ... I believe from my relationships and the work I’ve been doing already for the south Jackson community, I feel like I can transfer that same work all over Jackson. How long have you lived in south Jackson? Off and on, probably about 20 years. My dad moved us to south Jackson in 1993. I was a junior in high school (when) we moved there, but I was going to Murrah. My dad worked some connections that still allowed me to go to Murrah. You have name recognition due to your father, but you aren’t as well known, especially in whiter communities. Before this, I kind of liked it that way. (Laughs) (I was not) trying to stay out of the public light, but I’ve always been one of those guys that all I care about is getting the work done. So the thing that I was doing

How do you convince people to spend money inside Jackson? Jackson is more of a small-business town. How can we help the small businesses grow more? And not only that, but we need to support them. … Every month I want to have what they call a lunch with the mayor. I would announce it on social media and say, “Hey, today I will be at this local restaurant, come have lunch with me.” That’s going to drive people to come to that local shop to come hang out and ask the mayor questions. … Let’s have (the State of

In Jackson, we’ve got to start looking at ourselves more like a family. We have outside cities that talk (negatively) about us a lot of times, but in your family you know you may have a sister or brother that you can talk about, but you won’t allow anybody else to talk about them. I think Jackson has to look at it like, “You know what, we may have our dysfunctions, but we’re still a family, and we have to take up for each other.” So if there’s something good happening in north Jackson, let’s all rally to it. We’re going support each other and see that the businesses of Jackson are growing, the people here are flourishing, and everybody feels like Jackson is the best city in this entire state. That’s my vision for the city. I want Jackson to be the number-one city in Mississippi, and I feel like we can do that. We have the people already; we’ve just got to bring the people all on one page and under one vision and bring our power together. Not just the financial power but the people power to really rally the mass and say, “Hey, come to Jackson.” Let’s get people to move back from some of these other places. That way we could say, “Buy Jackson. Eat Jackson.” Really just have a wonderful place and wonderful quality of life.

A lot of young people to move to bigger cities. I’ve been trying to encourage a lot of youth, especially people who are coming out of college, like I did myself. When you’re in college, first thing every summer, you can intern somewhere else. Go and see the other cities around you. If you graduate, go do an internship for two or three years What needs to happen to but come back to Jackson. Bring that improve economic develsame knowledge, those same skills opment in Jackson? that you learned in Atlanta, or D.C., I think we do have some ecoor Dallas. Bring those back to help nomic development that’s happenmake Jackson a place. ing, especially over in that Eastover We are constantly losing people area in north Jackson. The problem and losing students going to these is it’s not enough economic develplaces like Atlanta. When are we opment happening in south and going to stop making Atlanta rich? west Jackson and some parts in When are we going to stop maknorth, too, that northwest part. So The Crudup family, seated from left: Robin, 5; wife ing Dallas and Nashville, all of these I want to be very proactive of try- Andrea; David, 3; Nya, 9. Ronnie Jr. stands in back. places rich around us? We can help ing to recruit businesses to come to make Jackson a wonderful place. We those parts of town. the City address) at businesses ... to drive can make Jackson rich. For example, I was very instrumen- traffic to these places ... and a lot of times tal when Kroger decided to leave (south people don’t know they necessarily exist. What are specific reasons for Jackson). I sat in the meeting with John How can we use our public-access that brain drain? Horhn and Mayor Yarber with the Kroger channel a little bit better? How can we I would say part of it are the politics. exec they sent down here. … We wanted to highlight and do marketing for businesses People feel like we have so many racial ismake sure Kroger did not put a restriction who don’t have the funds to do that? … sues still in Jackson right now. We see cerdeed on that building, like they’ve done in We have to really scale down and make sure tain laws that are put in place by the governthe past. We (did that). that the people who are starting businesses ment and state that tend to rub people the From that, we have Cash & Carry in Jackson know that we are going to be wrong way. ... Let’s not worry about what now, but it moved to that Terry Road very business-friendly and know that we are our state leaders or some of those guys say. building. Now we have to do a better job going to come check on you. We don’t need They’re going to do what they do, so let’s at making sure we get the word out and another business leaving Jackson. not focus so heavily on them. ...

No matter what they say, no matter what the governor says, no matter what the speaker of the House says that may be in opposition of what we think, we can still think determine what’s going to be our outcome here in Jackson. So that’s the kind of attitude that I want to bring. Let’s not have any more excuses. ... I’ve met so many great individuals around the city that want to do better for this city. How can we bring all of those people to the table, to the masses and say, “Hey, we’re going to let you try your ideas.” I’m a visionary, I’m an ideas guy. ... I’ll share this. ... [I]n south Jackson we started a somewhat of an online media paper called the South Jackson Sound It didn’t get much traction at all. It was a startup because we were trying to create some new positive media for south Jackson. I think we only did about two or three articles, and then I got involved in this. Starting a media outlet is harder than people think. A couple of months (in,) I was like, “Man, I’ve got to get somebody else to do this.” Usually I’m the guy that has the visions and the ideas, but I have to have somebody around me that I can kind of pass it along to, to take it to that next step further. My wife always tells me, “You’re the guy that needs to start something and then get out of it because you’ll start over-thinking stuff sometimes and sometimes make a little bit of a mess out of it.” ... You’re saying you’re the guy that likes to start things and get out of it. How do you translate that into running a city? I think there’s two parts to that. When I say I’m a visionary, those are the things that’s the ideals. Take, for instance, the Jubilee! JAM that we used to have in the city. I want to be a guy that can help hopefully start something. I know we have the Jackson R&B Festival right now. What can I bring that can help start something else in this city that can really go further along and really bring people back to the city? From that standpoint, I can start a new event and then pass that along to somebody else, but when it comes to running a city, that’s when my management skills really kick in. ... That’s the difference: I’ve been managing people pretty much all my adult life. ... I’m (an) executive director now; we run a childcare center. We have a staff of about 14 employees. Even when I was working for (my father’s) church, the church has a pretty large staff. From fulltime staff to part-time staff, I was the guy that was pretty much the overseer of that staff. I’ve been on a number of boards like

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start supporting them. … Cash & Carry has just opened up, but a lot of residents in that south Jackson part … now drive all the way to Byram to go to that new Walmart … or a lot of people drive all the way to the Kroger in Clinton. So that’s money that is lost in the City of Jackson. When we come down to the 1-percent sales tax, we’re not getting (enough of) those dollars because people are going to those outside stores. Jackson is losing some of that revenue.

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… I was actually letting certain individuals take the credit for it. Because I really didn’t care about who got the credit as long as the work got done. Matter of fact, the swimming-pool project that we did over on Terry Road, I called Councilman (Tyrone) Hendrix at the time, and I said, “Councilman, I want to paint that pool.” ... I gathered a group of youth together, (and) we went and painted the pool. … Ace Hardware is right there on Terry, right across the street from them, so just trying to keep those funds inside the community, and so we painted the pool. The kids painted the best they could, but then I came on after that and paid for the rest of it to be professionally done. Once that was over, the guy who was over the youth program, Tyrone Hendrix, wanted to honor us. I told Tyrone, “I appreciate it, but I don’t have to come. Let the youth program go, let them be honored.” Nobody kind of knew that I did it. So there’s a number of things like that. ... Every time something was happening in the news, it was happening in south Jackson. So I just kind of got fed up with it and said, “You know what, we’re going to do something about this.” We started a T-shirt group called South Jackson Proud. We started wearing that proudly to try and tell people to be proud of where you come from. We wanted to change the image of south Jackson even more so we started doing a lot of business highlights … doing kind of free marketing for businesses that were staying in the community … because everybody at that point could have left. ...

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What about the police chief? I’ve said it constantly. I don’t think that when it comes to the crime in Jackson, that it is all to blame on Chief (Lee) Vance. I believe we have a systematic problem. ... We have to invest in our youth. We have youth that’s ages 15 to 23 who are committing a lot of crimes, and I think that’s happening because a lot of those youth are disconnected from the educational system, from work, and from recreation, so we have to bring those things back. Then, I want to work very hard to make sure that police have proper training they need. I want to make sure that they have the support from the administration, the technology and the equipment. When it comes to Chief Vance, I think that he’s doing the best that he can do. (Replacing 18 him) is not really on my radar right now

If crime is a systemic problem, then we have to tackle it systemically. How would that work with you as mayor? I want to be very, very involved in the youth and education system. I started a program called the Development Academy. Its program motto is “Better Player, Better Person,” and we started that with the idea and the knowledge that every child is gifted in a certain way. Our thing is, how can we find out what is that gift that child has that we can cultivate it even more? So, the five programs that we have (that) are going on over there at this very moment is a basketball program, South Jackson Warriors. We have a football program called the South Jackson Cowboys. We have a music program called HD, which stands for High-Def Performing Arts. We have a tumbling program called

in high school, and cross country. So, I gave a lot of my own personal resources to the track team because I believe in investing in those. I was able to get shoes over to the track team and cross-country team when they needed stuff. I bought them Gatorade and other foods because I think high-school students are eating lunch at like 11 a.m. and then they have a track meet at 5 p.m. in the evening. They didn’t have anything, so I provided the snacks. ... So when JPS says, “Hey, we cannot get something accomplished,” let’s bring in power players to the table and take care of it. We have alumni all over this city who went to Murrah, who went to especially Lanier. How can we bring those individuals back to their schools and say we need you guys to invest back into your schools? Does the city need to be involved in that effort? courtesy

Stewpot, Working Together Jackson, the Spencer Perkins Foundation, the Voice of Calvary Ministries. I’ve done collaborations with Habitat, the CJ Stewart Foundation, I’ve worked for Young Life, so I have a lot of management experience, management experience across the board dealing with whites and blacks. So that’s the difference between me and a lot of other candidates. That I come with executive-level managerial experience. ... I’m not a micromanager. I’m one of those guys that believes in hiring good, competent individuals. A lot of times I believe in hiring people that’s smarter than me and trusting them to do the job. So when I tell them that this is what I want, I expect them to do that job and do it well. We will go and evaluate that to see how’s it going, and if it’s not meeting the standards, we will see if somebody needs to be moved to another position.... I believe in hiring good people of integrity. I always kind of operate by this principle. I only have two things in my life—I have my name, and I have my word. If I mess those two things up there, I don’t have anything. So, if I’m hiring people, I think about if this somebody is going to mess my name up. Also, when I give my word to something, I keep my word. Who are you considering to be your chief administrative officer and chief of staff? I can’t give you any names because right now I really don’t know. We’re still looking. We want to hire somebody that’s very confident, who can do the job. I want to bring people in that’s new with some new fresh ideas who can handle a really large budget like the city’s. People who understand money and finances, (and) grants and all of that type of stuff.

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Ronnie Crudup Jr. is proud of helping young people paint a pool on Terry Road.

Tumble Cheer, which teaches tumble and gymnastics. We have a mixed martial arts program called Marshall Arts MMA. ... When I was in high school, one of the things that really kept me in high school—I’m going to be honest with you; I was a terrible student when I was at Murrah and when I was at Chastain—but one of the things that I really appreciated was shop class. I really love woodwork. ... Also gym class. Learning that I had a lot of athletic gifts that I didn’t know about. I was a pretty good volleyball player but didn’t know that until I was really involved in P.E. ... So when I say systematically, we have to work with the educational school system to create new programs. That’s why I love what Wingfield is doing. They started the chess club, they started a robotics club, they started the mixed martial arts program at the end of the day. I ran track when I was

I think so. I know they have a liaison right now between the mayor’s office and JPS, but I want to be very hands-on with that. I want to be very hands-on (with) who’s going to be the next superintendent. This is something that I feel that I have to be because my own children are there. I have two children right now in the JPS school system and in about two more years, I’m going to have three. So I want to know who’s going to be the superintendent, and hopefully we can have somebody who’s going to be there for a long time. I believe that Jackson Public Schools needs some stability. Not just from the superintendent but also at these local schools like the elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. We have a constant cycle of constantly turning principals over. They’ll stay there three years, and after that they’ll send them somewhere else. We can

no longer do that because it takes a parent usually about two years to build trust in the administrators. ... (Citizens, leaders, nonprofits and churches) have to bring the resources that we have to our school system; our children need it, but not only just that, our children need to see positive examples … of what a person should look like. We don’t know what these children are dealing with day in and day out when they come to the schools in the morning. We just can at least have somebody there on a weekly basis to put a smile on their face. To come and say, “Hey, it’s going to be OK.”, “What can I help you with?”, “What can I guide you through?” What do you think about the charter schools? I will be totally honest about it. I did support charter schools in the beginning. I stay in south Jackson and when my daughter first started in elementary school, I worried about the middle schools. … A lot of parents are comfortable with the elementary schools in Jackson, but it’s the middle schools when you really begin to get a little worried. So (when I heard) a middle school was coming to south Jackson,’ I was kind of in support of that, thinking about my own self-interests of my own children to have a decent middle school to go to. ... Right now I don’t necessarily like them, but I think parents still have that choice of what they want to do. At this very moment we know that it’s here, it’s not going anywhere, but I want to talk to the folks who are running the charter schools, (to see) what can we possibly do together … because it’s not going anywhere. Matter of fact, we see the state is constantly giving them more money. So I want to figure out how can we collaborate a little better. As mayor, how would you instruct the police department to deal with young people? We have to have community policing, but I also believe we have to go back to what we used to do. We used to have Officer Friendlys going to the schools. I know JPS has their own police force right now, but I think we have to have a stronger collaboration with that force that lets JPD come in there. A lot of those officers, they are from Jackson. They have connections to these schools as well. So you can let them know that the police are not anybody you have to be afraid of. We need to bring more policeman back to the community. I’ve talked to a number of policemen who do not own more CRUDUP, see page 20

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Isn’t the point of Trump’s plan is to give tax breaks to businesses to do infrastructure? Well, I’m not necessarily for a lot of tax breaks for the wealthy, but we’ve just got to find some kind of way to get some infrastructure help. One of the things that I think I can bring to the table is working again with our business community. I’ve met (businessmen) across this city who say, “I wouldn’t mind helping to pave a street.” We need to possibly have a fund in place where people can give money to that fund to address some of those needs. But I think that comes back down to trust. That they know that if we have the money that’s put into that pot, that it’s going to be spent, and it’s going to be spent wisely. That it’s not going to end up in the wrong person’s hand, and so that’s what I want to bring to the table. ... A lot of the stuff that we did at Wingfield, with those private dollars and individuals, they were saying: “You know what, I don’t necessarily feel like I want to give my money to JPS. I want to make sure I put it in the hands of people who are going to do right with it.” I’m not saying that JPS is stealing but some people feel that sometimes throwing money into the school system is like throwing it down the drain, and I think people feel the same way when 20 it comes to the City of Jackson.

If there’s somebody who really can do this job and can do it well, these are the people that we’re going to seek to hire. It’s not going to be a pay-for-play tactic. We’re going to make sure that people feel like it’s a fair chance to get the job and get it done well. ... I want people to know that I’m going to be a guy they can trust and know. I’m not going to be a guy just trying to pay back favors or anything like that if I’m the mayor. How do you as mayor ensure the best people are getting the contracts even if some bidders blame you if they lose bids? We’re going to have a better vetting process. I can deal with people being upset with me about them not getting certain contracts. That doesn’t bother me. People are going to like you some days, they (are) going to hate you some days, so that doesn’t really bother me. The main thing is that the File Photo

How would you address Jackson’s infrastructure issues? I think it’s two levels; we need a shortterm plan and a long-term plan. The shortterm plan would be strictly about fixing potholes … because we’ve got to bring a better quality of life for the citizens of Jackson. A long-term plan is we have to work with our city council, our state leaders, our federal government, all the way up to get the dollars that we need to handle our infrastructure problem. This is not an overnight thing, and this is not just a Jackson problem. This a national problem. A lot of urban communities all across the country are having huge infrastructure problems, and that’s the one thing I will continue to say that President Trump has said. He said he’s been trying to get over, I think, a trillion dollars for infrastructure needs all over America. So how can we get some of those funds here in Jackson to address our infrastructure problems?

What would you do differently from this administration on paving and infrastructure? First of all … it seems like Mayor Yarber and people on the 1-percent sales tax commission don’t get along very well. I want to have a better working relationship with those guys. ... If there’s money that’s there, if there’s money allocated to fix stuff, let’s have a quicker plan to get streets paved. Why do we have to wait 60 to 90 days to get money spent? Let’s have a faster bidding process to fix streets when it needs to be fixed and addressed. We’ve got a bridge out right now in south Jackson over there on Robinson Road Extension that’s been out for over a year now. There are businesses on that street that are losing revenue because people can’t go down that way anymore.

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What needs to happen to improve city contracting? First of all, I believe that we need a better, I guess, bidding process. More transparent. I want to bring those things to the table a little bit earlier. One thing that seems to happen right now is that if there’s a contract brought to the table, sometimes it seems like the city council members don’t see the contracts themselves until the day of (the) council meeting. I want to work with the city council beforehand (so) that I’m not just throwing them something the day of and say, “Hey, I need you guys to sign this now because if not we’re going to lose it.” We can’t operate in that manner. I want to have a more transparent way of working with the city council so people will know that we’re not going to be giving these contracts to certain individuals.

mayor’s job is to make sure that business is getting done in this city. Taxpayers are paying taxes to get things done, and I’m going to be there to make sure they get it done. The contractors are not going to be the guys that are going to come first in my book; it’s going to be the taxpaying citizens of the city of Jackson. I have to answer to them, not to the contractors. That’s my position. We want to have a good working relationship with contractors, but it is not my duty to see that all the contractors of Jackson are just so happy. I want to make sure residents in Jackson are happy first. What are your ideas on training potential contractors? Hopefully, we can work with some of the larger contracting firms to hopefully mentor some individuals and certain con-

tractors. As the city of Jackson … we have to look at growth for new leadership over this city. I could go on and on but, how do I say this, we’ve got to start training the younger generation, and a lot of times that’s not happening. ... My dad likes to say, “Most things are caught and not taught.” Sometimes that means you’re just hanging around certain people, and you will catch certain things. ... We’ve got to have a group of individuals, and contractors, and businessmen, and leadership all over this city say, “We have to train this next generation.” We have to rebuild this city. This city is not looking that well right now. In certain areas of the city, it’s dirty; it’s not clean. We have to train a new generation of some of those old things that I was taught. When I was growing up, people would say things like, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” ... Do you have any concerns about the Capital City Complex District law? I do. I’m glad we got the bill passed, (but) it’s not enough money. They’re starting off next year with, I think, $3 million first, then it continues to escalate and then once you get to a certain point, it’s supposed to stay there, but I don’t think it’s enough money. I think that comes back to trust. I believe, I really believe that the state leaders probably decided, “We’re going to put it there because we don’t know right now who’s going to be the mayor.” I believe once they feel like they got somebody in there that they can possibly trust and work with, I believe that we possibly can bring more resources to the table then. That’s just my theory. I’m glad we finally got it because I believe the state has to do their part. Talk about “One Lake.” I think it’s a good deal. My family’s from Doodyville. That area, right now, it still floods all the time. That’s probably one of the first places that floods when the river starts to get high, and in that ’79 flood, my family from that area lost pretty much everything and had to start over. ... So, it can still happen at any time. I believe that we need that “One Lake” project. If not, if it floods in Jackson again, you’re talking about over $1 billion in repairs. My only issue is I want to see that most of the development happens on the Jackson side, and I think that’s still to be seen. I know they said that it’s supposed to be half and half, but you know how that works. Read Crudup’s position on HB 1523, Trump’s immigration mandates, and much more on contracting in the full version of this interview at jfp.ms/election2017.

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Sika’s Bottle Share On Thursday, April 27, Hops & Habanas will again host Sika’s Bottle Share from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., where guests can bring their favorite beers and try different ones. The event will also include music from singer-songwriter SIKA. For more information, find the event on Facebook.

BRAVO!’s Farm-to-Table Dinner BRAVO! Italian Restaurant & Bar (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 244) will be hosting the Farm-to-Table Dinner on Monday, May 1, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The dinner puts an emphasis on produce and meats from local farms and producers, such as Two Dog Farms and Country Girls Creamery. John Proctor of Home Place Pastures, Lise Foy of Farmgirl Grocery and Calvin Head of Mileston Cooperative will also give a presentation on the health and economic benefits of buying local. Tickets are $75 per person at eventbrite.com.

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WEDNESDAY 4/26

The Big & Juicy IPA Dinner is from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). Includes four tastings of Lazy Magnolia’s latest brews along with paired dinner courses. $35 per person; table100.com. … Turkuaz performs at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) The Brooklyn-native “power-funk” band performs. Organ Freeman also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net. (Left to right) Blake Gallant, Gavin Donati, Ben Cooper and Carson Brown of funk-rock band Backup Planet perform Saturday, April 29, at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar.

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The “Jackson” film screening is at 7 p.m. at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). The documentary, which looks at the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding abortion access, screens in partnership with the Crossroads Film Society. A Q&A session with director Maisie Crow follows. $9; call 601-790-3090; jacksonthefilm.com.

books.com. … The Weeks Record Release Show is from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.) The Mississippi-native rock band performs in celebration of its latest album, “Easy.” The Lonely Biscuits also perform. $18, $38 VIP; find it on Facebook.

SATURDAY 4/29

The Boychoir Bowtie Jazz Brunch is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 N. State St.). The Raphael Semmes Jazz Quartet performs. Proceeds by TYLER EDWARDS benefit the Mississippi Boychoir. $65; mississippiboychoir.org…. Backup Planet performs at 10 jacksonfreepress.com p.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Fax: 601-510-9019 Bar (214 S. State St.). The funkDaily updates at rock band hails from Nashville. jfpevents.com The Heavy Pets also perform. $10 in advance, $12 at the door; call martinslounge.net. … Super Powers JXN is at 9 p.m. at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). Performers include LV Baby, Cash Prince June, Mac Corleone, Mildred Noor and Yung Jewelz. $10; offbeatjxn.com.

MONDAY 5/1

The Farm-to-Table Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. at BRAVO! Italian Restaurant & Bar (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N.). The dinner features locally grown and raised produce and meats. $75; call 601-982-8111; eventbrite. com. … May Day Cabaret is at 7 p.m. at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (5400 Old Canton Road). Jamie Ward and James Martin perform. Reception at 6 p.m. features hors d’oeuvre, wine and punch. Proceeds benefit Grace House. $25 at the door; email csullivan@gracehousems.org; gracehousems.org.

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Children’s author Debbie Ridpath Ohi presents a story time with her book “Sea Monkey & Bob” on Friday, April 28, at Lemuria Books.

FRIDAY 4/28

“Sea Monkey & Bob” Story Time is at 4 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi shares her latest work 24 with children. $17.99 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuria

SUNDAY 4/30

“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” is at 2 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The farce is about a self-absorbed movie star who returns home to visit her brother and sister. Additional dates include: April 2629, 7:30 p.m. $28, $22 for seniors; newstagetheatre.com.

The Paleontological Research Museum Talk is from noon to 1 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Curator of Paleontology George Phillips discusses the last 40 years of paleontological research at the museum. Free with admission ($6); call 601-576-6000; mdwfp.com. … PRGS in The Gallery is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Pearl River Glass Studio (142 Millsaps Ave.). The showing presents the work titled Boundary Lines from artist Elizabeth Fowler. Free; call 601353-2497; find it on Facebook.

WEDNESDAY 5/3

Boston performs at 8 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The classic-rock band performs as part of its Hyper Space Tour. Doors open at 7 p.m. $59.50$99.50; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

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Boychoir Bowtie Jazz Brunch April 29, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 N. State St.). The menu includes French toast, bread pudding, fruit, bacon, hashbrown casserole, quiche and drinks. The Raphael Semmes Jazz Quartet performs. Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Boychoir. $65; call 601-6657374; mississippiboychoir.org.

Big & Juicy IPA Dinner April 26, 6:30-9 p.m., at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). Includes four tastings of Lazy Magnolia’s latest brews along with paired dinner courses. $35 per person; Table100.com.

“Jackson” Film Screening April 27, 7 p.m., at Malco Grandview (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). The documentary looks at the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding abortion access. A Q&A session with director Maisie Crow follows. $9; call 601790-3090; jacksonthefilm.com.

Sika’s Bottle Share April 27, 7-9 p.m., at Hops & Habana’s (2771 Old Canton Road). Participants bring bottles of beer to share and swap. Sika J performs live music. Free; call 769-572-4631; find it on Facebook.

“Oh, Freedom!” April 29, 3 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S Lamar St). New Stage Theatre presents the Peter Manos production about the Underground Railroad. Free; call 601960-1515; msmuseumofart.com.

JFP Chick Ball July 22, 6 p.m.-midnight, at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The fundraising event features local food vendors, drinks, live music and a silent auction. Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Contact to donate money or items for the silent auction, or to volunteer. $5 admission; call 601362-6121, ext. 16; jfpchickball.com.

COMMUNITY Fair Housing Fair Lending Conference April 27, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., April 28, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). The conference features national and local speakers sharing information in regards to housing and education. $150; heedhousing.org. Project Rezway April 27, 6-9 p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Features a recycled-product fashion show and gala featuring a runway show in which local designers contribute. $20; email keeptherezbeautiful@ gmail.com; keeptherezbeautiful.org. Podcasts LIVE: Token Talk April 27, 7-9 p.m., at Podastery Studios (121 N. State St.). The hosts of Token Talk record an episode in front of a studio audience. Includes drink passes, free T-shirts, a prize drawing and more. $10; eventbrite.com. Tour and Restoration Presentation April 28, 9-11 a.m., at Mississippi River Basin Model (6180 McRaven Road). Friends of Mississippi River Basin Model host a tour and discussion of the experiment in hydraulic engineering. Free; call 601-376-9131; find it on Facebook. Final Friday April 28, 5 p.m., in Midtown Arts District. Includes studio tours, live entertainment, extended store hours, food and drink vendors, and more. Free; madeinmidtownjxn.com. The Great Hangout April 28, 6 p.m., at Clinton Community Nature Center (617 Dunton Road, Clinton). Features hammock camping, a hotdog roast, s’mores, disc golf and more. $3 for members, $8 for non-members; find it on Facebook. Events at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive) • Birdsong & Bluegrass April 29, 3-8 p.m. Features a guided nature walk, bluegrass music, birding activities, and a live birds of prey program. Free with admission ($6); mdwfp.com. • Paleontological Research Museum Talk May 2, noon-1 p.m. Curator of Paleontology George Phillips discusses the last 40 years of paleontological research at the museum. Free with admission ($6); mdwfp.com.

KIDS Harry Potter Day April 29, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). Children mix scientific potions, battle in Quidditch and choose their house with the Sorting Hat. $10; mschildrensmuseum.org.

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the best in sports over the next seven days by Bryan Flynn

Even with the NFL Draft this week, Mississippi State’s baseball team deserves acknowledgement for crushing preseason predictions. The Bulldogs are currently 13-5 in the SEC. Thursday, April 27

NFL (7-11 p.m., NFLN/ESPN): Tune in for round one of the 2017 NFL Draft; as of now, the New Orleans Saints have two picks to make in the first round. Friday, April 28

NFL (6-11 p.m., NFLN/ESPN): Rounds two and three of the 2017 NFL Draft get underway; ESPN’s coverage switches to ESPN2 at 7 p.m. if you plan to watch the “worldwide leader’s” coverage. Saturday, April 29

NFL (11 a.m.-8 p.m., NFLN/ESPN): The final day of the 2017 NFL Draft begins with round four and ends with round seven for a grand total of 253 new faces in professional football. Sunday, April 30

College baseball (noon-3 p.m., SECN): See if the MSU Bulldogs can keep defying the preseason projections as they finish a three-game series with the Auburn Tigers. Farm-to-Table Dinner May 1, 6:30 p.m., at BRAVO! Italian Restaurant & Bar (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N.). The dinner features locally grown and raised produce and meats. $75; call 601-982-8111; eventbrite.com.

STAGE & SCREEN “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” April 26-29, 7:30 p.m., April 30, 2 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The farce is about a self-absorbed movie star who returns home to visit her family. $28; newstagetheatre.com. “The Game’s Afoot” April 27-30, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Black Rose Theatre Company (103 Black St., Brandon). The play is the story of a Broadway cast on a weekend getaway when one guest is stabbed to death. $15, $10 students; blackrosetheatre.org.

Monday, May 1

College softball (6-9 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels host one of the top teams in the SEC, the Alabama Crimson Tide, who are currently 37-11 overall. Tuesday, May 2

College baseball (6:30-10 p.m., SECN+): In a non-conference affair, the UM Rebels host a bad LouisianaMonroe team that may have lost 30 games by the time these teams meet. Wednesday, May 3

College softball (6-9 p.m., SECN): There’s nothing better to get over the midpoint of the week than watching two in-state teams battle as the UM Rebels host the USM Golden Eagles. How much has MSU overachieved this season in baseball? The Bulldogs currently lead the conference after being picked to finish fourth in the SEC West division alone. Follow Bryan Flynn at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Turkuaz April 26, 7:30 p.m. The Brooklynnative “power-funk” band performs. Organ Freeman also performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net. • Mac McAnally April 28, 8-10:30 p.m. The country artist performs in celebration of his latest album, “AKA Nobody.” Doors open at 7 p.m. For all ages. $35 in advance, $40 at the door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net. Hinder & Nonpoint April 28, 7-11 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N.). The modern rock bands perform. Nine Shrines also performs. $28 in advance, $30 at the door, $35 under 21; call 601-291-4759; eventbrite.com.

The Weeks Record Release Show April 28, 10 p.m., at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The rock band’s latest album is called “Easy.” The Lonely Biscuits also perform. $18, $38 VIP; martinslounge.net. Mississippi Chorus Spring Concert: Ancient Wisdom, Timeless Music April 29, 7:30 p.m., at Galloway United Methodist Church (305 N. Congress St.). The concert features performances of works by composers Felix Mendelssohn and John Rutter. $20, $5 students; mschorus.org. Bethlehem Center Benefit Concert April 30, 3-4:30 p.m., at Central United Methodist Church (500 N. Farish St). The Metro Male Chorus performs. Proceeds benefit the Bethlehem Center. Free admission, donations encouraged; 601-355-0224; find it on Facebook. May Day Cabaret May 1, 6 p.m., at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (5400 Old Canton Road). Jamie Ward and James Martin perform a collection of songs. Reception features hor d’oeuvres, wine and punch. $25; gracehousems.org. Spring Revue May 3, 7:30 p.m., at Clinton High School (401 Arrow Drive, Clinton). Clinton High School’s Attaché Show Choir performs. $10; call 601-924-0707; attache.org. Boston May 3, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The classic-rock band performs. $59.50-$99.50; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

LITERARY & SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). • “Fish Girl” April 27, 3:30 p.m. David Wiesner signs copies. Reading at 4 p.m. $25 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. • “Sea Monkey & Bob” Story Time April 28, 4 p.m. Debbie Ridpath Ohi shares her latest work. $17.99 book; lemuriabooks.com. • “General Fox Conner” April 29, 2 p.m. Steven Rabalais signs copies. $34.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

CREATIVE CLASSES “The Passion of Painting” Workshop April 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Susan Russell Studio (736 S. President St., Suite 201). Erin Lee Gafill and Tom Birmingham lead the class. All skill levels welcome. Limited space. $100; email susan@ susanrussellstudios.com; eringafill.com.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS Erin Lee Gafill Artist Reception April 27, 5-7 p.m., at Susan Russell Studio (736 S. President St., Suite 201). Includes a meet and greet with the Big Sur, Calif., artist and an exhibition of her latest artwork. Free; find it on Facebook. PRGS in The Gallery May 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Pearl River Glass Studio (142 Millsaps Ave.). The showing presents the work titled “Boundary Lines” from artist Elizabeth Fowler. Free; call 601-353-2497; find it on Facebook. Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.

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April 27 - Thursday Burgers & Blues - Alanna Mosley 6 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. County Seat, Flora - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6 p.m. free F. Jones Corner - Raul Valinti & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jason Turner 6 p.m. free Georgia Blue, Madison - Jim Tomlinson 6 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio 6 p.m. free Hops & Habanas - Bottle Share w/ Sika J 7 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - McKinney Williams 6 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Road Hogs 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Ryann Phillips 6 p.m. free Shucker’s - Barry Leach 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m. Underground 119 - Jesse Robinson & Friends 5 p.m. free

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Burgers & Blues - Doug Hurd & Chris Link 6 p.m. free Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. free Drago’s - Barry Leach 6 p.m. free Duling Hall - Mac McAnally 8 p.m. $35 advance $40 door F. Jones Corner - The Blues Man 10 p.m. $1; Smokestack Lightnin’ midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Shaun Patterson 6 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - Leo Moreira 6 p.m. The Hideaway - Hinder & Nonpoint w/ Nine Shrines 7 p.m. $28 advance $30 door Iron Horse Grill - Kern Pratt 9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m. free

April 29 - Saturday Beau Ridge, Ridgeland - BBQ & Blues Open House feat. Chris Gill 3 p.m. free Burgers & Blues - Baby Jan & Chalmers Davis 6 p.m. free Center Stage - R&B Hits feat. Terrell Moses & Krystal Gem 9 p.m. $10, $15 reserved seating Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. free Dot Products, Clinton - Dot & Deeply feat. Jillian Edwards 7:30 p.m. $15

LV Baby Drago’s - Johnny Crocker 6 p.m. F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; jj Thames & the Violet Revolt midnight $10 Galloway UMC - MS Chorus Spring Concert: Ancient Wisdom, Timeless Music 7:30 p.m. $20 adults $5 students Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner 6 p.m. free Georgia Blue, Flowood - Kevin Ace Robinson 6 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - Thomas Jackson 6 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - Heather Crosse 9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Todd Thompson & the Lucky Hand Blues Band 7 p.m. free Martin’s - Backup Planet w/ The Heavy Pets 10 p.m. $10 advance $12 door Next Level - Tre Williams Album Release Party 9 p.m. Offbeat - Super Powers JXN feat. LV Baby, Cash Prince June, Mac Corleone, Mildred Noor & Yung Jewelz 9 p.m. $10

Pelican Cove - Grosshart & Gaines 2 p.m.; Shadz of Grey 7 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Nashville South 9 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m. free; Bonfire Orchestra 8 p.m. $5; Josh Journeay 10 p.m. free T’Beaux’s, Pocahontas - Zach Day 6 p.m. free Underground 119 - Lady L & the River City Blues Band

April 30 - Sunday Burgers & Blues - Jesse Smith 4 p.m. free CS’s - Sinai Vessel, Alex Fraser & Bad Magic 7 p.m. $5 Central UMC - Bethlehem Center Benefit Concert feat. Metro Male Chorus 3 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Chris Gill & the Sole Shakers 6 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Road Hogs noon; Robin Blakeney Trio 5 p.m. Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Dan Michael Colbert 6 p.m. free

May 1 - Monday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 cover $3 members Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 7 p.m. Pelican Cove - Chad Perry 6 p.m. St. Philip’s Episcopal Church - May Day Cabaret feat. Jamie Ward & James Martin 7 p.m. $25 Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

May 2 - Tuesday CS’s - I Was Afraid, Surfwax & Deering 8 p.m. $5 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fenian’s - Open Mic Kathryn’s - Stace & Cassie 6:30 p.m. free Last Call - Top-Shelf Tuesdays feat. DJ Spoon 9 p.m. Pelican Cove - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. free Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

May 3 - Wednesday Alumni House - Doug Bishop 5:30 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Clinton High School - Attaché Show Choir Spring Revue 7:30 p.m. $10 Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m. free Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m. free Thalia Mara Hall - Boston 8 p.m. $59.50-$99.50

4/29 - Billboard Jazzfest Jam feat. Wyclef Jean - House of Blues, New Orleans 4/30 - Lettuce - Tipitina’s, New Orleans 5/1 - Silversun Pickups - Iron City, Birmingham

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The Weeks: ‘Easy’ Writers by Micah Smith

t’s been four years since Jackson-native Williams says this is also the first rerock act The Weeks released a true fol- cord where the band had time to write low-up to their 2013 album, “Dear Bo more than the 10 or so songs on the final Jackson,” although the band has been album. In the past, The Weeks approached far from quiet. Vocalist Cyle Barnes, his the album with a loose blueprint: two to twin brother, drummer Cain Barnes, bass- three down-tempo songs, one or two midist Damien Bone and guitarist Sam Wil- tempo songs, an epic closing track and so liams have been on the road for much of on. With “Easy,” they would take four or their 11-year career, and it’s that fact that five nights a week to just hang out, rehearse both delayed and inspired their latest album, “Easy,” which came out April 7. The Weeks wrote “Easy” while they took a year off from touring—a stark contrast to “Dear Bo Jackson,” which they wrote entirely on the road and recorded in a twoweek span sandwiched between months-long tours. However, that break wasn’t (Left to right) Cyle Barnes, Damien Bone, Sam always the plan. Williams and Cain Barnes of The Weeks perform “With this record, Friday, April 28, at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar. we started recording it in late 2014,” Williams says. “We still were touring ‘Dear Bo Jackson,’ and write at the band house in Pegram, and we hopped in the studio thinking that Tenn., a small town west of Nashville, was the right move. But about two weeks where the band is currently based. into those sessions, we kind of realized, ‘If “We probably wrote 20 or 30 songs, we keep going and put this record out in and I’d say 20 or so got really fleshed out,” three months or whatever, we’re going to he says, “so we were kind of able to form have to get right back on the road. That’ll whatever record we wanted. The big thing be three or four years straight; it’s going to was keeping it slow. We went to the studio be six years before we get a stop.’ We were to kind of pair it down, and we really took like, ‘Let’s pump the brakes a little bit.’” our time with everything.” After finishing a two-month Euro- As different as the writing process on pean tour, The Weeks got off the road for “Easy” was, Williams says the sound of The most of 2015, using the year to mend band Weeks is still the same at its core, despite friendships and reflect on their own lives. the fact that the members have never disWilliams says that time also allowed them cussed what that sound should be. to consider The Weeks as a band—what “You know, those things people say, they do well, what they do poorly and what ‘This is what The Weeks are,’ they’re kind they could learn from past releases. of right,” he says with a laugh. “But that’s “We’ll be buried with our records, one thing that’s nice. A lot of bands that but it’s good to take as much of an objec- have been around since they were 14 or tive step away as you can and say, ‘OK,’” whatever, they change their band name, he says. “Maybe one of the things, if I had they disassociate themselves with the stuff to be critical of our records, is that … we they wrote in high school, and they ‘grow like so many different types of music, and up.’ But we don’t. Part of what I love is that when you play this long with each other, our first record came out when we were 16 you get really good at a lot of different styles or 17, and we have the same band name. of music. So we were like, ‘You know what? It’s on our Spotify. It’s right there.” We’re a rock band first.’ We always have The Weeks’ record release show is at been, and even if we play country, soul, 10 p.m., Friday, April 28, at Martin’s ResR&B or anything like that, we always, in taurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The Lonely the band we call it ‘Weeks-ing it up.’ We Biscuits also perform. General admission is put a rock twist on it. But with this one, we $18, and VIP admission is $38. For more said, ‘Let’s just make a rock record.’” information, visit martinslounge.net.

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‘Jackson’: Exploring Reproductive Health in Mississippi by Tyler Edwards

During this time, Crow developed relationships with three women: JWHO Director Shannon Brewer, Center for PregCOURTESY MAISIE CROW

n June 2012, Maisie Crow came across a story on the website Jezebel about Mississippi’s House Bill 1390, which newly elected Gov. Phil Bryant had signed into law that April. The law required every doctor who provides abortions to be a certified OB-GYN with admitting privileges to local hospitals, something that people saw as a thinly veiled attempt to shut down Mississippi’s lone abortion clinic (a federal district court permanently blocked the law on March 17, 2017). “I was pretty surprised there was a state with just one abortion clinic,” Crow told the Jackson Free Press, “and that there was a law that could potentially shut it down.” This led the Texas-native filmmaker to come down to Mississippi and make her 2013 documentary short film “The Last Clinic,” which profiles the Jackson Women’s Health Organization. While working on the short, Crow realized there was potential to tell a larger story, and continued what became a four-year journey to complete her first feature-length documentary, “Jackson.”

Director Maisie Crow’s ﬁlm “Jackson” explores reproductive health in the state of Mississippi.

nancy Choices Director Barbara Beavers and April Jackson, a 24-year-old mother of four who was pregnant with her fifth during filming. These women became the vehicle for telling the experiences and viewpoints on reproductive health in Mississippi.

able to learn how they see the world.” Crow also wants this understanding to extend to Brewer, the staff at JWHO and the women who enter the clinic. One way that Crow decided to do this was the visual depiction of the clinic. “One of the things we worked to do was every time you, as the viewer, enter the Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization, you go past protesters because it’s the same thing the providers have to go through and what the women have to go through.” Crow hopes that her film will cut though a lot of the noise that surrounds issues of women’s access to reproductive health, especially in a place like Mississippi. “Too much of the time, we get lost in the rhetoric of the politicized part of abortion and don’t think about the actual people it’s effecting. … It’s why I believe in documentaries so much.” “Jackson” screens at 7 p.m., Thursday April 27, at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison), and premiers on Showtime on May 2 at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit jacksonthefilm.com.

While the film’s focus is split three ways, two of which are on women whose views on abortion are polarized, April is the film’s lens into the people whom decisions regarding access to reproductive-health care affect. Crow acknowledges the responsibility she has for telling this part of the story. “I think sometimes with documentaries, we simplify things too much,” she said. “And with this issue, there are going to be different layers and complexities, and if we don’t show those, we’re doing a disservice to the women whose stories we’re telling.” A word that Crow says she would like viewers to walk away with is “nuance,” which extends to also presenting points of view that don’t align with her own in order to show the complexity of the subject. “Any time you tell a story in the realm of an issue that’s so divisive, it’s important to try and understand it from both sides,” Crow said. “So that was the goal of filming Barbara and the (Center for Pregnancy Choices). … It’s always a learning experience, even if it’s someone who I have completely different set of beliefs from. It’s valu-

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

“One of the advantages of being disorderly,” said author A. A. Milne, “is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” I wouldn’t normally offer this idea as advice to a methodical dynamo like you. But my interpretation of the astrological omens compels me to override my personal theories about what you need. I must suggest that you consider experimenting with jaunty, rambunctious behavior in the coming days, even if it generates some disorder. The potential reward? Exciting discoveries, of course.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to take a break from the magic you have been weaving since your birthday in 2016. That’s why I’m suggesting that you go on a brief sabbatical. Allow your deep mind to fully integrate the lessons you’ve been learning and the transformations you have undergone over the past 11 months. In a few weeks, you’ll be ready to resume where you left off. For now, though, you require breathing room. Your spiritual batteries need time to recharge. The hard work you’ve done should be balanced by an extended regimen of relaxed playtime.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Apparently, a lot of kids in the UK don’t like to eat vegetables. In response, food researchers in that country marketed a variety of exotic variations designed to appeal to their palate. The new dishes included chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn, and cheese-and-onion-flavored cauliflower. I don’t recommend that you get quite so extreme in trying to broaden your own appeal, Cancerian. But see if you can at least reach out to your potential constituency with a new wrinkle or fresh twist. Be imaginative as you expand the range of what your colleagues and clientele have to choose from.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

In speaking about the arduous quest to become one’s authentic self, writer Thomas Merton used the example of poets who aspire to be original but end up being imitative. “Many poets never succeed in being themselves,” he said. “They never get around to being the particular poet they are intended to be by God. They never become the person or artist who is called for by all of the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet. They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else’s experiences or write somebody else’s poems.” I happen to believe that this is a problem for non-poets, as well. Many of us never succeed in becoming ourselves. Luckily for you, Leo, in the coming weeks and months you will have an unprecedented chance to become more of who you really are. To expedite the process, work on dissolving any attraction you might have to acting like someone other than yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

On numerous occasions, French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across a tightrope that spanned the gorge near Niagara Falls. His cable was three and a quarter inches in diameter, 1,100 feet long, and 160 feet above the Niagara River. Once he made the entire crossing by doing back flips and somersaults. Another time he carried a small stove on his back, stopped midway to cook an omelet, and ate the meal before finishing. Now would be an excellent time for you to carry out your personal equivalent of his feats, Virgo. What daring actions have you never tried before even though you’ve been sufficiently trained or educated to perform them well?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Ready for some subterranean journeys? They may not involve literal explorations of deep caverns and ancient tunnels and underground streams. You may not stumble upon lost treasure and forgotten artifacts and valuable ruins. But then again, you might. At the very least, you will encounter metaphorical versions of some of the above. What mysteries would you love to solve? What secrets would be fun to uncover? What shadows would you be excited to illuminate?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Why would you guzzle mind-clouding moonshine when you will eventually get a chance to sip a heart-reviving tonic?

Why spoil your appetite by loading up on non-nutritious hors d’oeuvres when a healthy feast will be available sooner than you imagine? I advise you to suppress your compulsion for immediate gratification. It may seem impossible for you to summon such heroic patience, but I know you can. And in the long run, you’ll be happy if you do.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“You’ll always be my favorite what-if.” Many years ago, I heard that phrase whispered in my ear. It came from the mouth of a wonderful-but-impossible woman. We had just decided that it was not a good plan, as we had previously fantasized, to run away and get married at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and then spend the next decade being tour guides who led travelers on exotic getaways to the world’s sacred sites. “You’ll always be my favorite what-if” was a poignant but liberating moment. It allowed us to move on with our lives and pursue other dreams that were more realistic and productive. I invite you to consider triggering a liberation like that sometime soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

I’d love to see you increase the number of people, places and experiences you love, as well as the wise intensity with which you love them. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to upgrade your appreciation and adoration for the whole world and everything in it. To get you in the mood, I’ll call your attention to some unfamiliar forms of ardor you may want to pursue: eraunophilia, an attraction to thunder and lightning; cymophilia, a fascination with waves and waviness; chorophilia, a passion for dancing; asymmetrophilia, a zeal for asymmetrical things; sapiophilia, an erotic enchantment with intelligence.

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You could go online and buy an antique Gothic throne or a psychedelic hippie couch to spruce up your living room. For your bathroom, you could get a Japanese “wonder toilet,” complete with a heated seat, automated bidet and white-noise generator. Here’s another good idea: You could build a sacred crazy altar in your bedroom where you will conduct rituals of playful liberation. Or how about this? Acquire a kit that enables you to create spontaneous poetry on your refrigerator door using tiny magnets with evocative words written on them. Can you think of other ideas to revitalize your home environment? It’s high time you did so.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

Among America’s 50 states, Texas has the third-highest rate of teenage pregnancies. Uncoincidentally, sex education in Texas is steeped in ignorance. Most of its high schools offer no teaching about contraception other than to advise students to avoid sex. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you can’t afford to be as deprived of the truth as those kids. Even more than usual, you need accurate information that’s tailored to your precise needs, not fake news or ideological delusions or self-serving propaganda. Make sure you gather insight and wisdom from the very best sources. That’s how you’ll avoid behavior that’s irrelevant to your life goals. That’s how you’ll attract experiences that serve your highest good.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

I have misgivings when I witness bears riding bicycles or tigers dancing on their hind legs or Aries people wielding diplomatic phrases and making careful compromises at committee meetings. While I am impressed by the disciplined expression of primal power, I worry for the soul of the creature that is behaving with such civilized restraint. So here’s my advice for you in the coming weeks: Take advantage of opportunities to make deals and forge win-win situations. But also keep a part of your fiery heart untamed. Don’t let people think they’ve got you all figured out.

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3246 Hwy 80 W., Jackson, (601) 360-2444 Certified Technician, David Rucker, has 40+ years of experience. Mr. Rucker specializes in a/c, front end, part replacement, brakes, select services and repairs. Appointments only.

-------------------- BANKS/FINANCIAL ------------------Members Exchange

107 Marketridge Dr. Ridgeland, 5640 I-55 South Frontage Rd. Byram 101 MetroPlex Blvd. Pearl, (601)922-3250 Members Exchange takes the bank out of banking. You will know right away that you are not just a customer, you are a member.

Guaranty Trust

2 Professional Parkway, Ste A Ridgeland, (601)307-5008 Your friendly source for mortgage advice and service in FHA, USDA, VA, Jumbo and conventional mortgages.

------------------- FOOD/DRINK/GIFTS ------------------Beckham Jewelry

12th Annual

July 22, 2017

4800 N Hwy 55 #35, Jackson, (601)665-4642 With over 20 years experience Beckham Jewelry, manufactures, repairs and services all types of jewelry. Many repairs can be done the same day! They also offer full-service watch and clock repair.

Fondren Cellars

633 Duling Ave, Jackson, (769)216-2323 Quality wines and spirits in a relaxed environment. Voted Best Wine and Liquor store by Jackson Free Press readers.

Nandy’s Candy

Maywood Mart, 1220 E Northside Dr #380, Jackson, (601)362-9553 Small batch confections do more than satisfy a sweet tooth, they foster fond traditions and strong relationships. Plus, enjoy sno-balls, gifts for any occasion and more!

McDade’s Wine

Maywood Mart, 1220 E Northside Dr #320, Jackson, (601)366-5676 McDade’s Wine and Spirits offers Northeast Jackson’s largest showroom of fine wine and spirits. Visit to learn about the latest offerings and get professional tips from the friendly staff!

Playtime Entertainment To donate money or items for the silent auction, or join the committee, call 601.362.6121 ext. 16, or email the chick crew at info@jfpchickball.com

1009 Hampstead Blvd, Clinton, (601)926-1511 Clinton’s newest high energy video gaming and sports grille destination.

-------------------- TOURISM/ARTS ----------------------Mississippi Museum of Art

380 South Lamar St. Jackson, (601) 960-1515 MMA strives to be a fountainhead attracting people from all walks to discuss the issues and glories of the past and present, while continuing to inspire progress in the future.

Ardenland

2906 North State St. Suite 207, Jackson, (601) 292-7121 Jackson’s premiere music promoter with concerts around the Metro including at Duling Hall in Fondren. www.ardenland.net

April 26 - May 2, 2017 • jfp.ms

Natural Science Museum

SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE!

Make checks payable to Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence or use your credit card at mcadv.org

2148 Riverside Dr, Jackson, (601) 576-6000 Stop by the museum and enjoy their 300-acre natural landscape, an open-air amphitheater, along with 2.5 miles of nature trails. Inside, meet over 200 living species in the 100,000 gallon aquarium network.

Mississippi Children's Museum

2145 Museum Boulevard, Jackson, (601) 981-5469 The Mississippi Children’s Museum provides unparalleled experiences that ignite a thirst for discovery, knowledge and learning in all children through hands-on and engaging exhibits and programs focusing on literacy, the arts, science, health and nutrition.

---------------- BEAUTY SHOP/SALON ------------------Barnette’s Highland Bluff

PROCEEDS HELP FIGHT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN MISSISSIPPI

4400 Old Canton Rd, Jackson, (769) 230-4648 Barnette’s specializes in custom hair color as well as beautiful precision cuts.

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SMALL PLATES

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1060 E County Line Rd #22, Ridgeland, MS 39157 601-899-0038

COMING UP _________________________ WEDNESDAY 4/26

NEW BOURBON STREET JAZZ BAND Dining Room - Free

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THURSDAY 4/27

D’LO TRIO Dining Room - Free

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FRIDAY 4/28

LEO MOREIRA Dining Room - Free

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SATURDAY 4/29

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THOMAS JACKSON Dining Room - Free

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MONDAY 5/1 CENTRAL MS BLUES SOCIETY PRESENTS:

BLUE MONDAY Dining Room - 7 - 10pm $3 Members $5 Non-Members

Best of Jackson 2017

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INDUSTRY HAPPY HOUR

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Visit HalandMals.com for a full menu and concert schedule

601.948.0888 200 S. Commerce St. Downtown Jackson, MS

4/27

ON THE HALF SHELL 5-9 P.M.

FRIDAY

4/28

THE WEEKS RECORD RELEASE SHOW

Wednesday, April 26

TURKUAZ

W/ THE LONELY BISCUITS 10 P.M. // 18+

SATURDAY

4/29

BACKUP PLANET & THE HEAVY PETS

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9-piece “powerfunk” outﬁt from brooklyn, blending elements of pop, r&b, and soul with their aggressive funk core

Friday, April 28

“THE HEAVY PLANET TOUR” 10 P.M.

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MAC MCANALLY scott mcquaig

country music association named him musician of the year for the past six years

Wednesday, May 10

JEREMY KITTEL & NATHANIEL SMITH acoustic ﬁddle and cello duo Thursday, May 11

BONNIE BISHOP

americana artist who has won a grammy and a usa songwriters award

Tuesday, June 6

ELIZABETH COOK cary hudson

“a world of her own, but if you must classify: americana, old-school country, bluegrass, folk”

Friday, June 9

COREY HARPER

blend of acoustic folk/americana, country, and blues

just announced!

Thursday, June 22

ROBERT EARL KEEN legendary texas country singer/songwriter with a reputation as one of the nation’s ﬁnest musical storytellers

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