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ississippi Mass Choir Director Dorcus Thigpen says the only meeting of the musical group she has ever missed in the nearly 30 years since its founding was the first one—and she was on maternity leave. Her brother, David Curry Jr., asked her to direct the group before it properly got its start in April 1988. “One day, David called me and said that he and a friend of his named Frank Williams were going to start a choir group and that he wanted me to be part of it,” Thigpen says. “I was the director of the choir at the church he and I attended, Oakley Street Church of God in Christ, so he wanted me to conduct for this mass choir. Since then, they’ve been such a blessing to me. We’ve been in and out the country to places I never would have gone if it wasn’t for the Mississippi Mass Choir.” After Williams, an executive in the gospel music division of Malaco Records, and Curry brought in Thigpen to conduct for the group, the three held open auditions and selected 100 people from across the state to form the original Mississippi Mass Choir. The group recorded its first album, “The Mississippi Mass Choir Live,” on Oct. 29, 1988. Since its founding, the choir has grown to more than 200 members, released

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10 albums, and has performed all across the United States and around the world. Thigpen first became involved in choir as a child when her father, David R. Curry Sr., asked her and her brother to sing at Oakley Street Church of God in Christ—now called Liberal Trinity Church of God in Christ—which Curry Sr. founded in 1922. Thigpen decided to continue working with choral groups as an adult after seeing how her church choir brought people together. “I stayed with it because seeing people come together through the choir was magnificent,” she says. “People from different backgrounds just all became one during a rehearsal, even people who came in who had moved away to another state. That same unity is there with the Mississippi Mass Choir. I’ve stayed all this time because I know Christ is the head of this choir.” Thigpen, who is a Jackson native, graduated from Central High School (now closed) in 1974 and studied business administration at Jackson State University for two years. At that time, she met and married her husband, Don Thigpen, and left JSU after her first son, Donavon Thigpen, was born. The couple has four other sons— Dominick, Dathan, Dorran and D’Andre Thigpen—and nine grandchildren. —Dustin Cardon

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4 ............ Editor’s Note 6 ............................ Talks 12 ................... editorial 13 ...................... opinion 16 ............ Cover Story 20 ........... food & Drink 22 ......................... 8 Days 23 ........................ Events

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6 Pothole, Shmothole

The city’s new leader begins to weigh new options to fix the city streets.

20 Wining and Dining

Jackson restaurants won awards for their wine selection recently.

24 .......................... music 24 ........ music listings 26 ............................ Arts 28 ...................... Puzzles 29 ......................... astro 29 ............... Classifieds

24 Invisible Whip

“Really, I’m just looking for an outlet to express some of the other parts of music that I love but don’t necessarily get to do with other bands that I’ve played with.” —Jimmy Herring

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editor’s note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

The Future of the JFP Chick Ball

irst, I’ll share the sad news in case you haven’t heard. We have reluctantly decided to postpone the JFP Chick Ball again this year, as we did in 2016, and it’s for essentially the same reason: If we can’t do it well, we’re not going to do it. Last summer was the first session of the Mississippi Youth Media Project, a separate organization from the Jackson Free Press, that I started as my third-year project of my W.K. Kellogg Community Leadership Fellowship. If you haven’t heard about YMP, it is a serious, profound, time-consuming and exhausting project, and I love it to pieces. Helping our young people, regardless of background, achieve greatness and tell the community’s stories has long been a personal obsession of mine, as is improving the media narrative about young people. Of course, women’s economic and physical safety has long been my passion as well, and the JFP Chick Ball was the result more than a decade ago. The charity event, hosted and organized by JFP staff and volunteers, has raised tens of thousands of dollars to help eradicate domestic abuse in central Mississippi and help victims over the years, which makes me very proud. I started the Chick Ball to be a different kind of fund-raising event—intentionally inexpensive to get into ($5) with lots of ways to contribute once you get inside (including one of the best silent auctions around). It was an 18-and-over event because I believe that philanthropy must start young. It has attracted people of myriad ages and backgrounds. It celebrated women musicians front and center in a state where they are often pushed to the side. Put simply, I designed the JFP Chick Ball to be a people’s fundraiser. I love that events targeting wealthy people proliferate

our metro; they raise a lot of vital money for important causes, and I salute them. But the Chick Ball is something different. Now that I’m putting so much time into YMP, though, as well as deep work here at the JFP on crime prevention and policing (jfp.ms/preventingviolence), I have faced the fact that I don’t have the time or stamina to run the Chick Ball the way it should be, nor do my staff members in these uncertain economic times when small businesses like the JFP must keep innovat-

affecting women, children and families, including over-worked, stereotyped single mothers. I and the JFP will continue to support, promote and help organize the JFP Chick Ball, but we need help from good partners to keep it going, raise the funds and host a great event. And as long as you don’t want to turn it into an exclusive fundraiser that loses its grass-roots creativity, I’m open to ideas on making it even better than it was in its first decade. Please reach out to me if you have

I want to talk about women in our state and what we need. ing to stay ahead of industry changes. And my time is certainly limited while running a project serving nearly 30 teenagers every weekday for two months this summer. One thing that the powerful W.K. Kellogg fellowship taught me is the need to collaborate with good, focused people and organizations. I don’t and won’t waste my time on people and groups who waste a lot of time, because there is too much to do for our community, state and nation, and especially our more vulnerable residents. But I have figured out, with the help of my fellowship, how much we can get done in organized collaborations and networks. So, I want to collaborate in a significant way on the Chick Ball. I’m looking for partners for the Chick Ball—focused people (not just women) who want to raise significant awareness about domestic abuse, as well as potentially other issues specifically

ideas and share our bottom-up vision. While on the subject of chicks, I want to talk about women and what we need. Women don’t have it particularly easy in our state and nation, and women of color have it even worse. Right now, we face a mean political climate in which many elected officials are more blatant than ever about the desire to take away gains women have made—to outlaw not just safe abortions, but birthcontrol pills and even in vitro fertilization; to close a Planned Parenthood clinic in Mississippi that saves lives but doesn’t even do abortions; to take us back to the dark ages when insurance companies could rip people off and deny coverage on any whim; to blame sexual assaults on college campuses equally on victims as perpetrators, as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has done. Single mothers are just as much a

source of scorn today as they were back when presidential candidate Ronald Reagan started dumping on them, acting like they don’t want to work, when so many of them work multiple jobs to care for children. YMP opens me up to these issues in a more intimate way than I’ve ever seen. Many of our kids live with their mothers who run themselves ragged to get them where they need to go for opportunities they might not otherwise get. I’m in awe of them. The teenagers themselves constantly talk about how their mothers inspire them. When I feel tired at the end of a long day, after answering one more teenager’s questions about their project, I think of those mothers and how their work never ends. So many women at all income levels, along with some wonderful men, have stepped up to ensure that YMP keeps going and growing as its own entity to serve young people while they tell stories about their realities. Our first YMP GoFundMe donation was $10 from a young, married mother of two who just had her second child. She is a black woman who has written for us about her fears of the dangers that await her son in the world. She does her part and speaks out, and I salute her. That $10 means as much to me as anything anyone has ever for the JFP Chick Ball or now my newest side project, YMP. Each of us must do what we can do. I want both these projects to survive and grow and effect change. Please let me know if you’d like to get involved with transforming the Chick Ball into its next life. Our entire state prospers when women and children prosper. Let’s keep doing this, all. We’ll be back better than ever. Email donna@jacksonfreepress.com to join the JFP Chick Ball revival effort.

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contributors

Devna Bose

Cam Bonelli

Rachel Fradette

William H. Kelly III

Arielle Dreher

Imani Khayyam

Micah Smith

Kimberly Griffin

Freelance writer Devna Bose is a print journalism and prelaw student at the University of Mississippi. She loves spicy food, good music and all things Mississippi. She wrote Chicks We Love blurbs.

Editorial intern Cam Bonelli is a photographer and movie buff who can usually be found wearing a Wavves hat. She wrote the heck out of Chicks We Love blurbs.

News intern Rachel Fradette is a student at Michigan State University and is originally from Livonia, Mich. Send her news tips on all things from education to health care at rachelfradette@gmail.com. She wrote a Chicks We Love blurb.

City Reporting Intern William H. Kelly III is a student at Jackson State University and is originally from Houston, Texas. Send him city news tips at william@jacksonfreepress.com. He wrote about potholes and blight.

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 drug addiction.

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 photos for the issue, including the cover.

Music Editor Micah Smith is married to a great lady, has two dog-children named Kirby and Zelda, and plays in the band Empty Atlas. Send gig info to music@jacksonfreepress.com. He interviewed Jimmy Herring.

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“Let go of shaming and blaming begin to move forward.” — Marsha Stone, the CEO of a long-term addiction recovery program in Texas, at the Mississippi Drug Summit last week, discussing the need for communities to address long-term treatment options for recovering addicts.

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Ward 7 Gets a Pothole Demo

Wednesday, July 12 Mississippi Department of Corrections officials find more than 100 cellphones, bags of tobacco, and shanks at the Alcorn County Regional Correctional Facility and immediately put the facility on lockdown.

by William H. Kelly III

Thursday, July 13 Jackson Police Department holds an award program before its weekly COMSTAT meeting to acknowledge the Traffic Unit and Direct Action Response Team Unit, formerly known as D.A.R.T., for performance in the field. Friday, July 14 U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson orders the government not to enforce Donald Trump’s travel ban against people with grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins in the United States. Saturday, July 15 Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delays a vote to repeal and replace the nation’s health care law after Sen. John McCain’s announced absence due to surgery. Sunday, July 16 Donald Trump’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, insists there was nothing illegal in the meeting Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer during last year’s presidential campaign.

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Monday, July 17 Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and Jim Johnston, founder of the nonprofit organization Revitalize Mississippi, announce their partnership to eliminate blight in the City of Jackson.

Tuesday, July 18 Donald Trump blames congressional Democrats and “a few Republicans” over the failure of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law after two GOP senators announced they would vote against it. ... The White House confirms that Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin had an previously undisclosed private meeting at the G-20 summit with no Americans present. Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

Workers for Gluckstadt-based Mega Technologies, LLC fill potholes on Northview Drive in Fondren. The potholes were marked with an orange circle. The company uses a polymer-based product rather than asphalt.

ack Wilson Sr. kneeled on the pothole-dotted asphalt road with a hammer in his hand the afternoon of July 14. The determined 81-yearold man wore a light blue polo shirt that was drenched like that of a football coach after a big game win. A large group of city officials and workers, firefighters and local media surrounded the sweaty man on Northview

Drive on the west side of Fondren. He raised his hammer and slightly damaged a medium-sized patch in the road that his company workers recently filled with a black substance. In the background, the sound of the polymer-based mixing machine reverberated through the neighborhood. “You see that dent?” Wilson asked Mayor Chokwe Lumumba who stood

in the circle watching. Lumumba continued his conversation about potholes with Ward 6 Councilman Aaron Banks. “You see the dent?” Wilson asked again. “Yeah,” Lumumba responded. “You want that. Because you want to be able to mill it. If it’s too hard, you would tear up the milling blades,” Wilson told the city’s new mayor. He stood up and walked closer to

Film Fatale by Micah Smith In honor of JFP’s annual “Chicks We Love” issue, which is all about celebrating strong women, we wanted to play a game with a few recent Hollywood films that have followed suit. See if you can match these movies with their kick-ass leading ladies. Hint: Not all the actresses play protagonists!

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“I’d like to see more data that supports the success of the product and also talk about other questions of cost.”

“I feel strongly that we have started a movement that is going to ensure that Mississippi takes care of Mississippi.”

— Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba at a pothole-filling demonstration last week by Mega Technologies LLC.

— Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy at the close of the Drug Summit last week.

Navigating Mississippi’s Opioid Epidemic by Arielle Dreher

the mayor. “If you took a good street— not one that’s got cancer—and you overlay it with a polymer composite, you’d never have a pothole,” Wilson promised. “Never.” The apparent pothole expert began to point at cracks in the road. Some were wide. Some were small. Wilson said the asphalt roads are flawed because the sun’s ultraviolet rays damage them. Those rays heat the asphalt and result in cracks, which then become a passage for water flow and separates the asphalt base. That, Wilson said, creates the potholes that have plagued Jackson streets roads for years. “What’s happening today is a test run of a new material that is more durable than asphalt. That can help eliminate the recreation of the potholes that we have,” Lumumba told those gathered to watch the Mega Technologies LLC’s demonstration. Wilson founded the company, which has a plant in Gluckstadt. The company uses a polymer, water-based substance that is free of asphalt and petroleum products. Wilson says his company guarantees his pothole formula

ter in Texas, where she now lives, called Bringing Real Change Recovery. The program employs a social model of recovery that ideally lasts 15 months in order to keep former addicts from relapsing. Stone advocates for long-

“We have got to stop thinking of addiction as a chronic illness but treating it as acute” term care—as opposed to the typical and standard 30- or 90-day program—because research shows that the longer a person stays in care, the higher the chances they have of not relapsing. “We have to stop thinking of (addiction) as a chron-

for five years but said it can last up to a decade. The polymer-based product is different because it lacks bitumen, a product Wilson says is included in many asphalt-based road-construction materials. Bitumen is a black, sludge-like substance that is a byproduct of petroleum distillation. Lumumba made it clear that the City has not decided to use the product, yet, and provided no potential cost. “There are several questions that still have to be answered,” he said. “It will prevent that particular pothole from opening up, but you have to lay a material across the entire surface in order to resolve that.” Wilson explained to the mayor that his polymer-based product works best with asphalt as the road base and then covered with the polymer solution. “Obviously, that process is more expensive than just laying the asphalt down. But the question becomes whether it becomes more cost-effective to do that because if you don’t, you may be looking at the expense of re-applying the same asphalt on that road five years from now,” Lumumba said. “So, obviously, if you have to come and redo a street within five years that

ic illness but treating it as acute (or short-term),” Stone told the room of health-care providers, law enforcement officers and state agency workers last week. Just the Beginning? The number of deaths related to drug overdoses in Mississippi continues to edge up. From 2013 to 2016, 563 Mississippians died to reported drug overdoses, a press release from the attorney general’s office says. Eighty-five percent of those deaths involved opioids. Gov. Phil Bryant formed a task force to address the opioid crisis in December 2016, and its recommendations will be ready to propose as legislation in 2018, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy said. Early next month, the governor will have a chance to review the task-force recommendations. Dowdy could not give details on what would be included but said it involved treatment and prevention.

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costs more money in the long run than it would initially if you put a good covering over it, that prevents it.” Wilson told the mayor that his product is indestructible: “Not acid. Not oil. Not petroleum. Not jet fuel. Nothing will cut through it.” “I’d like to see more data that supports the success of the product and also talk about other questions of cost,” Lumumba said back. Ward 7 Councilwoman Virgi Lindsay was present for the demonstration. “I think this is something that benefits the City, and I’m really anxious to see how this works because we have a few potholes to fill,” Lindsay said. The councilwoman added that during the previous election season, she drove every pothole-filled street that

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makes up her ward. “I can attest to the fact that this is not the worst one in Ward 7,” Lindsay said. “I’m blown away by how smooth it is and how fast it’s setting up.” Lumumba’s constituent services director, Keyshia Sanders, emphasized that this is only a demonstration, not a partnership at this point. “This is just an opportunity for a company to come out and show us a possible solution to our problem that is reoccurring with our infrastructure and our potholes,” Sanders said. “No contracts have been initiated. There have not even been any contract negotiations.” Email city intern William Kelly III at william@jacksonfreepress. com. Comment at jfp.ms.

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arsha Stone made it out of college, but not without a drug and alcohol addiction she could not shake. She found herself at the age of 24 with three children and a husband who succumbed to his addiction and died. She applied for law school, got in and graduated but still could not shake her addiction. It was not until the Georgia Child Protection Services agency workers showed up at her doorstep that she realized she had to face her problem. “I was suffering from a disease I had no control over,” Stone said at the Mississippi Drug Summit last week in Madison. Stone’s children went to live with her mother, and she was de-barred from practicing law in her hometown in Georgia, where she said she had been recommending sentences for people that she could have received herself. Stone cycled through several recovery programs, but did not get the actual help she needed until she went into long-term recovery care. In 2006, she started her own long-term care cen-

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OPIOID from page 7 John Meynardi, a federal prosecutor in the narcotics division, spoke on a panel of lawyers at the Drug Summit. Meynardi said his office focuses on going after the big players: drug dealers, traffickers and occasionally doctors. He emphasized, however, that doctors are the ones unknowingly driving the opioid crisis. Opioids are intense painkillers that are only prescribed for conditions like post-surgery and hospice care in Europe, one MBN agent told the Drug Summit last week. In the U.S., over-prescription of the drugs is common. Mississippi has the fifth-highest prescription rate of opiates in the country. “What’s driving the crisis is not criminal doctors or pill mills,” Meynardi said. “What’s driving this problem is the good doctors don’t know better.” The task force’s recommendations, Dowdy said, will include changes to Mississippi’s various medical-board policies, in order to ensure doctors are not over-prescribing or prescribing opiates when they do not need to. Tammy Reynolds, an MBN enforcement officer, spoke about the crisis in Mississippi and what she sees in her day-to-day work. She said a prescription for opioids costs around $75 at the pharmacy with insurance but between $1,800 and $2,500 on the street. Consequently, if a person addicted to opioids cannot get them anymore, they turn to a cheaper drug instead: the highly addictive heroin. “Heroin is much cheaper,” she said. District prosecutors who sat on a panel with Meynardi said they have not seen much heroin yet in their busts or prosecutions, but Meynardi predicted that they

Marsha Stone, who runs an addiction recovery center in Texas, said Mississippi should look at increasing options for long-term recovery and care in the state for those addicted to drugs and alcohol.

will soon as more opioid users turn to the drug. “Heroin is coming. … Until we deal with the demand, there’s going to be a supply,” he said.

Finding Solutions The Department of Mental Health certifies primary residential services for Mississippians suffering substance abuse disorders throughout the state. Adam Moore, the DMH communications director, said that the average stay at a primary residential facility in the state is from 30 to 45 days and then transitional residential services can last an additional 30 to 90 days. The maximum length of stay varies depending on the program and the person, he said. Stone’s program in Texas lasts almost 15 months if residents choose to participant for that long, and she said this is important in order to be able to catch patients who might be about to relapse. At BRC Recovery, patients go to residential treatment for three months, then graduate to what she calls “sober-living environments,” which are like group homes separated by gender. During their time in the sober-living environment, patients receive wraparound services that help them get back into a career or school. After three months in group homes, Stone said patients can then graduate to their own sober-living environment like apartments, where they still get tested weekly for drugs and alcohol but have a lot more independence. Stone said the incremental model gives patients something to look forward to and move into. She said a year to 15 months of recovery, like what patients at BRC Recovery get, is ideal to keep people from relapsing. “We’ve got to let go of the idea that acute, episodic treatment works,” she said at the summit, adding that 50 to 69 percent of people in acute treatment will relapse. “Let go of shaming and blaming begin to move forward,” Stone added. Comment at jfp.ms.

Secretary of State and Revitalize Mississippi Partner to Eliminate Blight by William Kelly III

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ecretary of State Delbert 2016 to provide affordable StateHosemann and Jim Johnowned properties to Jacksonians. ston, founder of the non So far, Revitalize Mississippi profit organization Revitalize has cleaned 48 lots and performed Mississippi, announced a partner16 demolitions with the State. ship to eliminate blight in the City of In their continued efforts to Jackson Monday morning. eliminate blight, Revitalize Missis Johnston and Hosemann stood sippi and Hosemann are hoping to with Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumget these properties back in private ownership and on the tax roll to inba and several city council members crease revenue for the City of Jackson at 3120 Sears St. on a lot where and for Hinds County. a blighted property once stood. “This is a demonstration of op Behind them, another dilapierational unity,” Lumumba said. dated house, which the State owned “When we can identify our before neighbors purchased it, stood Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann (center) stands with Mayor Chokwe common goals and our common waiting to be demolished. Lumumba (left) and Sen. John Horhn, D-Jackson, (right) to announce a needs and work collaboratively, it “Blight is a cancer, and it’s partnership with Revitalize Mississippi to help eliminate blight in Jackson. looks good. It feels good when we spreading rapidly in this City,” can work together.” Johnston said during a press conEmail city reporting intern William Kelly III at ference. “And it requires aggressive therapy, or Revitalize Mississippi and the Secretary of we’re going to lose it. State’s office have worked together since late william@jacksonfreepress.com. Comment at jfp.ms.

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ing preliminary and bail hearings, case investigation and plea negotiation,” Wingate’s order says. The order directs the Mississippi 8th Circuit Judicial District judges to “meaningfully consider alternatives other than money bail in determining how best to assure a defendant’s presence at trial.” A Rural Problem Brandon Buskey, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU, said his staff’s investigation led to the lawsuit. They discovered that rural counties do not hold court very often and, thus, do not assign lawyers until after a person is under indictment. The Mississippi Supreme Court develops rules based on state law to govern the courts, but judges by and large Kvng Zeakky/ File illustration

cott County law enforcement officers arrested Joshua Bassett on Jan. 3, 2014, under a warrant for grand larceny and possession of meth. Bassett could not know then that he would sit in jail without legal representation for almost a year before standing trial due to a muddled and slow judicial process. Bassett appeared before Justice Court Judge Bill Freeman two weeks after his arrest for his initial appearance. Freeman set his bail at $100,000 without any individualized hearing or consideration of other options besides bail, court documents show. (For perspective, a man charged with killing a 17year-old in Jackson received a $50,000 bond offer.) The suspect could not afford this bail nor a property bail bond of that amount, so the judge sent him to the Scott County Detention Center. Bassett sat in jail for more than three months before he completed an application for legal representation. By then, law enforcement officials had served Bassett with a second arrest warrant for one count of burglary and two of petty larceny. A month later, Senior Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon denied Bassett’s application for a lawyer because Gordon and Scott County officials “refused to appoint counsel until Mr. Bassett was indicted,” the amended complaint, brought by Bassett and another Scott County man, says. Bassett, who is white, and Octavious Burks, who is black, brought a lawsuit against Scott County, the 8th Circuit Judicial District judges they faced, as well as the district attorney after they were detained without legal representation and before indictment in 2014. The complaint also details the time Burks was behind bars before having a trial or legal representation. The sheriff released Bassett on a recognizance bond, a written promise that the accused person will appear in court, in late September 2014 two days after the American Civil Liberties Union and the MacArthur Justice Center filed a federal lawsuit on his and Burks’ behalf. Eventually, a grand jury did not indict Bassett on the felony charges, and he was released after his hearing in December. The damage was done, however—Bassett spent a year behind bars for no apparent reason. The ACLU, MacArthur Justice Center and the 8th Circuit Court District Attorney’s office (along with the judges in that district) in Mississippi reached a settlement agreement on June 27, which will change judicial precedent in at least four counties: Leake, Neshoba, Scott and Newton. The order clarifies that a person charged with a crime has a right to legal representation as early as the first formal judicial proceeding. “The prompt appointment of counsel following attachment is necessary to protect an indigent arrestee’s fundamental right to pretrial liberty,” U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate’s order says. Wingate also outlined that not appointing counsel until after a grand jury indicts an arrestee could support an Equal Protection Clause claim. “Such delay impermissibly risks creating a dual system of justice wherein only arrestees who can afford coun10 sel have meaningful access to the pretrial process, includ-

Two men in Scott County settled their complaint against the 8th Circuit Court there after sitting in jail before their trials or indictments without legal representation for months.

have a lot of discretion in how they run their courts. The settlement agreement follows the national trend of counties no longer detaining people just because they cannot afford the bond, Buskey said. A criminal-justice reform package, which Gov. Phil Bryant killed after a lastminute change, lowered the amount of time “habitual offender” inmates could have to serve before they were parole eligible, included several measures would have banned judges from detaining arrestees just because they cannot afford bail. Buskey said similar lawsuits across the country are all leading to the same conclusion: “This idea of wealthbased detention pre-trial is simply impermissible.” “You’ve got to have a holistic view on all of this,” he added. “I think it is true that based on what we know, African Americans tend to be jailed more frequently because they can’t afford the bail set in their case. There are huge disparities of who’s in jail based on being poor.” Mississippi Department of Corrections statistics bear

this out. The racial makeup of inmates in the state’s custody are opposite the state’s demographics: African Americans make up 62 percent of the prison population despite making up only 37 percent of the state’s total population. Beyond bail, the right to legal representation is also important, Buskey said, because research shows that people with lawyers for their bail hearings get results. The Pretrial Justice Institute compiled research showing that pre-trial detention leads to more severe punishments and longer stays in jail or prison. It also encourages those charged with crimes to confess—even to things they did not do. “(When) you find that you’re in Scott County where you wait in jail for a year, you’ve lost a lot of time to mount an effective defense,” Buskey said. Changing the Rules The Mississippi Supreme Court released changes to the Mississippi Rules of Criminal Procedure that seem to mirror parts of the Scott County case settlement. From now on, if an accused person does not appear before a judge within 48 hours, he or she is entitled to a minimum bail bond. This small rule change would have meant a year of Bassett’s life back. It took a judge almost two weeks to hold his initial appearance hearing, court records show. The new rules also set broad bond ranges for felonies and misdemeanors, based on the potential severity of punishment state law requires. Cliff Johnson, an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center who worked on the case, said those bond guidelines never existed in previous versions of court rules. Johnson said the center actually objected to the bond ranges because it believes bond should be used so rarely that a schedule isn’t necessary. The Center’s investigations for previous legal cases and the Scott County lawsuit show the system operates just the opposite, however. Johnson told the Jackson Free Press that judges and sheriffs use the bond and bail system in most criminal cases statewide. The result is often overjailing or incarcerating people who have not faced trial just because they cannot afford their bond amount. “There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people incarcerated in Mississippi simply because they don’t have enough money to make bail, and they haven’t been convicted of a crime,” Johnson told the JFP. The new court rules, which are still based on the same state laws, also require a periodic review of release conditions for all felony defendants who are eligible for bail and have been in jail for 90 days, another rule that could have significantly aided Bassett’s access to a quicker trial had it been in place sooner. Buskey said the Scott County case also supports the need for a strong public defender’s office. “This case highlights that (what) many folks are now focusing on is the lack of a strong, centralized statewide public-defender office. A lot of defendants fall through the cracks,” the attorney said. Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com and follow her on Twitter at @arielle_amara.

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couple of weeks ago, I watched in amazement during an acrimonious Jackson City Council debate regarding a proposed partnership with the Mississippi Roadmap to Health Equity & Urban League that would allow a community landmark to remain open. We feel compelled to clarify the record. Our model to manage the Grove Park Golf Course is similar to agreements the City has in place at the Jackson Zoo, Parham Bridges Tennis Center, Tennis South, and the city-owned softball and baseball fields on Lakeland Drive. The Roadmap’s motivation for investing in the Grove Park Golf Course is simple: The City, because of budget constraints, said it could no longer afford to operate the golf course and planned to close the nine-hole facility, which was one of the first in the country for African American golfers, and located in our service area. We just couldn’t sit back and watch that happen to this valuable community amenity. We plan to hire the expertise and invest resources into the golf course that will make all of Jackson proud. The centerpiece of our efforts at Grove Park will be a job-training program for non-college-bound high-school graduates. Too many of these young people receive diplomas with no prospects for employment. We plan to teach various vocations in the golf industry, including landscaping, smallengine repair, catering, golf club re-gripping, customer service and general management. These skills are transferable to jobs in the private sector. In addition to helping the city preserve a valuable community asset, our work will engage young people in positive and creative ways to help them become productive, tax-paying citizens. This initiative should help deter them from crime and other negative behavior, which also is good for our quality of life. The National Urban League is keenly interested in this effort and has pledged its support. We have also identified other revenue streams that will allow us to help return the golf course to a first-rate facility. We also plan to teach the game of golf and its life lessons to students enrolled in nearby G.N. Smith Elementary School. The Grove Park Junior Golf Program will continue to operate at the course, and the First Tee of Central Mississippi will also have a presence there. We believe this initiative will be great for Grove Park, our trainees and the City of Jackson. We encourage others to join us. Beneta D. Burt is the executive director of Mississippi Roadmap to Health Equity, Inc.

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‘Will Vote’ “In the coming days, the Senate will vote to … repeal Obamacare with a two-year delay to provide for a stable transition.” — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Why It Stinks: The odds of the Senate voting on health-care legislation are slim at this point. At first, it seemed like a repeal-and-replace approach to Obamacare might work, but after weeks of back and forth, some stubborn GOP senators said “nope” to that plan early this week. Then, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pitched Plan B—to just repeal Obamacare instead. Three women GOP senators batted down that proposal, saying they won’t repeal without a replacement. Looks like the GOP should have 12 invited women to their health-care discussions in the first place. Womp.

Patching Potholes: A Metaphor for Jackson

unning a city for a four-year (or sometimes shorter) term is an admittedly daunting task, with the transfer of political strategies, staff and power. It requires flexibility, nimble-mindedness and persistence, but it’s doable. What helps is when leaders have the people, the city and its future at the forefront of their vision, and not themselves. Even though the mayor and city council members only serve four-year terms, it is vital to the health of Jackson’s future leaders and community that they have the city’s future in mind beyond their terms. Patching up budget holes with one-time, and shoddy, fixes or signing quick contracts to address the immediate problem without thinking about the long-term strategy is the equivalent of filling a pothole with sand: a short-term solution in dire need of a larger solution quickly, before it gets worse. We encourage the new city council and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba to proceed with this in mind, and there are early signs that they are, including the mayor continually talking about finding long-term solutions. Urgency is critical, but leaders need to consider the lasting effects of contracts and decisions concerning issues such as the city budget, our streets and our water. The city cannot afford to continue patching up problems.

We must focus on the lasting health of Jackson in our finances, our infrastructure, and our water’s availability and safety. A transparent process that shows citizens how and why certain decisions need to be made is important to build trust and ensure Jacksonians that we are headed in the right direction. Belt-tightening is a trend in this state, it seems, and while it’s understandable that we may have struggles ahead, planning for the city’s future in light of potential funding cuts will be necessary. The Lumumba administration plans to engage with citizens in the mayor’s first 100 days to get Jacksonians involved in the political process. It’s imperative that citizens communicate exactly what is at stake for this administration. Long-term fixes, such as paving streets or perhaps finding solutions to cracking cement, are so important to the future of this city. Appointing three solid leaders to the Jackson Public School Board of Trustees is crucial in the midst of a potential state takeover. Contracts need to be re-evaluated to ensure the city is not losing money or not getting what we’re supposed to be paying for. In many areas, this administration will have to start planning for a Jackson that we want to see not just today but a decade from now, too.

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Tilling Dreams into Reality

henever Daddy drove to the top of our street and turned to the left, I knew we were heading to “The Garden.” I wasn’t a kid who enjoyed playing in dirt much, so I wasn’t a huge fan of driving to Bolton, Miss., to The Garden. Besides, it required so much time. It wasn’t very entertaining for a youngster like me. I spent most of the time on the curb watching. I was fascinated by the big tractor that turned flat land into rows of plowed earth. Sometimes Daddy would let me ride with him. But mostly, I just watched and tried to stay out the way. The Garden started as a dream intended to service the community. But it had an even larger purpose. My family’s first real lesson in teamwork began in those fields in Bolton. When we were working in that garden, everyone having a job of their own sparked the backbone of togetherness for us. We learned to lean on each other. Each person’s contribution was significant, and no one’s job could be done well if the person before them didn’t do their job well. If each person did their assigned task, the vegetables were planted, picked, cleaned and packed in the van so that the next day would be “Sell Day.” My part didn’t start until all the veggies were ready for distribution. I repeated after my daddy, yelling from the passenger side window, “Fresh vegetables here! Get your turnips, mustards, greens for sale!” Oh my, the power I felt sitting next to him. He’d often just look over at me and smile. I am certain he was proud of himself for having a daughter so excited about doing something he enjoyed. It was indeed exciting. It was an opportunity to see my dad take something he’d nurtured and cared for and turn it into something profitable. It became a significant part of his income, and I got to see him take the steps to make it a reality. I had no idea that money was a challenge, and this was his way to make ends meet. For him, my glee was pleasurable, but he still had the pressure of feeding his family. A pressure that, as a youngster, I knew nothing about. My daddy probably had days when he wanted to just stay in bed and call in. But he was the head of this family and the business, so who would he call in to? How would we eat if he didn’t get up and go get the food? How would my mom feed us if

she had nothing to cook? We had a good meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I’m sure that was his first thought every day. He took careful consideration into making plans and nurturing these plans into reality. He didn’t simply decide, “I’m going to start a garden,” and then start laying out fresh foods on the kitchen table. He had to take steps to accomplish the end result, which was selling the vegetables. A lot of work went into getting to the final pay off. Each person had a responsibility, and each job had significance. The value of creating something worthwhile from start to finish seems to have lost its steam. People want to go from idea to being rich, skipping the work in the middle. The idea of working to serve others gets crossed with the need to gather fans, followers and fame. Having a mind of leadership is a blessing, and I don’t believe everyone has it innately. I do believe people can achieve it through pure desire and hard work. But having a heart to serve isn’t something that can be taught. It’s an awesome notion to want to be in business for oneself. It’s commendable to want to make your own money and not have to clock in or make someone else rich. We all have dreams of being great. But, a dream without action is a plan. A plan without precise study is an idea. Ideas don’t turn into successful businesses without determination and sweat. It doesn’t matter what you choose to do—success will not fall in your lap while you hope and dream. The only way to win is to prepare and suit up for the game. When you fail, you don’t stop. You keep going. That is, if you really have a desire to succeed, and you’re not just pitching ideas into the wind. Be prepared to fall down. Be prepared to make sacrifices to get to the big pay off. Even if the pay-off only feeds you one day, it gives you strength to go back the next day and start again. One day I may find myself in a garden, growing my own food—or not. The point is that my daddy taught me how to, and if I chose to, I could do it. I could feed my family and create another business owner by simply dragging my daughter along for the ride. Thanks, Daddy! Funmi “Queen” Franklin is a word lover, poet, a truth yeller and community activist. She is the founder of an organization that promotes self love, awareness and sisterhood.

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his year’s Chicks We Love help our communities in many ways, from giving a smile to every patient at a local women’s clinic, to making people laugh with comedy, to playing music and advocating for the metro area’s LGBT community, to helping women who are victims of domestic violence. We salute all women who are working to make Jackson, and Mississippi stronger.

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Donyale Walls

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lthough Donyale Walls chose psychology as her focus as an undergraduate student, she didn’t let that stop her from pursuing a career in the music industry. Walls was born and raised in Detroit, Mich., and came to Jackson in 1998 to attend Jackson State University on a band scholarship for the trumpet. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in music education in 2003. “The band program and the Sonic Boom initially attracted me to JSU,” Walls says. “I was fascinated with child psychology, yet my love for music never wavered.” A year after she graduated, Jackson State University offered her a job as the administrative assistant for the JSU band, the Sonic Boom, a position that she held for five years. She currently works alongside JSU alumnus Cortez Bryant, who is also the manager of rapper Lil’ Wayne, and coordinates various music events. In August 2016, Walls moved to Atlanta, Ga., though she still travels to Jackson often. She represents and manages two popular Jackson-based hip-hop artists, Coke Bumaye and Skipp Coon. She also serves as a coordinator for the annual Jackson Indie Music Week, which is a multi-night, multi-venue music festival that takes place during the second week of January. She is now in the process of planning the 2018 Jackson Indie Music Week. “I enjoy being present and in the midst of great talent,” Walls says. Aside from her work within the music field, Walls is also a cultural activist, which she defines as “someone who has an idea to effectively and positively make a change, and has the resources to effectively make that change.” Some of her hobbies include deejaying for small intimate events and collecting “dad hats,” she says. Walls finds inspiration in God, family and friends, and says that she tries to follow two simple words of wisdom at all times: “Stay focused.” —Maya Parker

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obbie Fisher says that she sees filmmaking as a visual extension of Mississippi’s rich literary heritage and mostly focuses her body of work on the state’s residents and culture. As an advocate for the Mississippi LGBT community, a member of the Human Rights Campaign and film producer, her passions often coalesce in the form of documentaries. Fisher says when she sees how people react to her films, she knows it was her calling. While it took several career changes to find her way to films, she says it was always an area of interest. “Even in high school, I not only had an interest in watching films but dreams of filmmaking,” she says. “I’d be driving, see a beautiful piece of roadway and think to myself, ‘Wow, it would be cool to use this location in a film.’ In high school, I didn’t know that you could go to school for film.” Fisher graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and French, and then attended Suffolk University Law School in Boston, graduating in 1991. After practicing law out of state for several years, she returned to her hometown, Greenville, Miss., in 1995 to work at Henderson Dantone, P.A., while starting her film career on the side. Over a six-year period, she worked on “Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound,” a documentary film that debuted on Mississippi Public Broadcasting in 1999. During that time, Fisher also became worked the state director for the Nature Conservancy, a position that she held for nearly a decade before deciding to focus on filmmaking full time. “It started dawning on me—I’m a native Mississippian,” Fisher says. “I can really tell Mississippi’s stories or help others by make films by producing films here.” She launched Fisher Productions, LLC in 2008, and each film that she has worked on has won awards. Her most recent short, “A Mississippi Love Story,” follows the journey of Jackson married couple Justin and Eddie Outlaw, and won Best Direction at the 2017 New York Premiere Film Festival. “There’s so much more I want to tell, I’ve only just started,” Fisher says. “There are parts of those films that I’ve made where I know I got it right, and I’ve seen the power. I want to keep telling stories.” —Cam Bonelli

Carlyn Hicks

self-described cheerleader for the city of Jackson, Carlyn Hicks has dedicated her life to serving the citizens of her hometown. The Jackson native graduated from Murrah High School in 2002 and went on to attend Jackson State University, where she earned her a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 2006. Hicks then enrolled at the Mississippi College School of Law in a dual juris doctorate and Master’s of Business Administration program there because she always knew she wanted to be in some aspect of public service in order to serve her community. Along in the way, Hicks met her husband, Derrick, while at Jackson State, and they had their daughter, Leigh Marie. Hicks, 33, has been a practicing, decorated attorney for nearly seven years, and she is known for her work in parent representation in the field. The Parent Representation Movement began gaining momentum in 2012 through the work of the Administrative Office of the Courts, which emphasizes counsel for parents in dif-

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Phelps, who was searching for meaningful work and a place to share her thoughts, says she has the opportunity to lead tough discussions in the South. “I really like to have meaningful conversations, even if they’re difficult,” she says. “In my small town, the topics of religion, sex or politics were not appropriate. What I found in the South is that there are a lot of struggles here. We can’t not talk about race; that’s not an option.” She has spent the last year as a chaplain at Millsaps, even though she isn’t ordained, living in a home close to campus with her husband and son, William Winter PhelpsTownsend. She also speaks at conferences across the country and performs music at various institutions. She says she is constantly looking for new ways to make herself an asset to the community and a mouthpiece for the unheard. “Right now, I’m allowing myself to be in a posture of response to emerging needs,” she says. “I admit that I’m privileged, but how can I use that privilege to speak back and act towards justice?” —Devna Bose

ficult situations. After she first learned about the issue of parent representation in 2012, a new and relatively unstudied frontier in law, she says that she couldn’t sleep well. “I could not fathom the prospect of (Child Protective Services) knocking on my door to remove my daughter, and not having anyone to navigate that with me or tell my story,” Hicks says. She began working at the Mission First Legal Aid Office in September 2010, and her position there has evolved from staff attorney to the director of the parent representation program, a division that she developed there. Hicks is also a self-proclaimed foodie. She created the Facebook group Jackson Foodies to promote the local restaurant industry, and the group has more than 7,000 members today. She attributes her heart for service and helping the city of Jackson to the way she was raised. “In the soul and essence of Jackson, we help each other,” she says. “You have to love where you live, and there’s no place I’d rather be.” —Devna Bose 17 July 19 - 25, 2017 • jfp.ms

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aith-based activist Ann Phelps, 32, doesn’t shy away from a hard conversation. She attended a small liberal-arts college, Hastings College, in her hometown of Hastings, Neb., where she created her own major, a bachelor’s degree in theology and the arts, which she received in 2007. “I was interested in how to infuse non-religious and religious society with music, opening people up to new ideas,” Phelps says now. After spending a year studying theology and German in Germany, Phelps attended Yale University, where she earned a master’s degree in religion and the arts in 2009. It was at Yale that she met her husband, Kenneth Townsend, a native of Kosciusko, Miss. The duo married in 2010 and moved to Mississippi when Millsaps College President Robert Pearigen approached Townsend about taking in an administrative or teaching position at the college. “Mississippi kind of stuck with me,” Phelps says. “I felt like it was a place I could be useful to the community and be part of something bigger than myself.”

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Maranda Joiner

aranda Joiner, 35, has made her mark on local radio, but she says that she wants to continue stretching her hand in other areas, as well. Joiner is a Jackson native who graduated from Callaway High School in 1999. She attended Hinds Community College in Raymond, where she earned her associate’s degree in 2001. From there, she attended Belhaven University (then known as Belhaven College) and received her bachelor’s degree in mass communication in 2004. Working in radio wasn’t always the goal, she says, but an internship in the midst of a delayed graduation changed her path. “Initially, I wanted to go into public relations, but I had to stay at Belhaven an extra year for one class,” she says. “After that, I received an in-

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Bell, 36, grew up in Clinton and graduated from Clinton High School in 1998. From a young age, she says that she wanted to be a medical missionary, so 18 she decided to attend Evangel University

in Missouri to work toward becoming a doctor. She graduated in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in chemistry. She met her husband, Eric Bell, during her junior year. As they were both in pre-medical classes, they had every class together and also sang together in choir. “We were the only two in choir getting ready for the (Medical College Admission Test),” she says. “During spring break on a choir trip, we both sat in the back of the bus studying flash cards. ... Sparks started flying, and we fell in love.” The duo married during medical school and both graduated from UMMC, where Eric specialized in emergency medicine, and Bell specialized in internal medicine and pediatrics. The couple began finally acting on their dream to become medical missionaries this past year, preparing for a move to Litein, Kenya, next spring. “We always knew we wanted to impact whatever community we were in,” she says. “At UMMC, raising up compassionate doctors to serve the community has been my main goal, and I’m looking forward to this new chapter in my life.” —Devna Bose

around the country in response to the 2016 presidential election and President Donald Trump. Her poem “America ‘the great,’” is about the experience of being a black woman in Mississippi. For four years, she has also been the host of Synergy Nights, which is an open-mic event that has music and live painting at the Mediterranean Fish & Grill in Northpark Mall. Joiner has a blog at “marandom. blog,” and also manages comedian Rita Brent, with whom she has been working since 2015. She has a 12-year-old son, Daniel, and says she enjoys writing and feeding her creativity. She says she lives by these words: “Any ‘no’ you receive isn’t failure; it’s God leading you in a different direction. Be patient and trust the process.” —Maya Parker

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n 2012, Jackson resident Laurie Bertram Roberts was the Mississippi state president of the National Organization of Women, working as an advocate for women and their reproductive rights. In 2013, Roberts took her advocacy a step further when she co-founded the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund with two of her daughters, Sarah and Kayla Roberts, along with Lori Gregory and Yolanda Walker. “What we want is everyone to have access to all of their options,” Roberts says. “Your poverty shouldn’t be a barrier to a service that you want or need.” The fund helps women acquire contraceptives, health care and abortions, and also provides support through avenues such as one-on-one family planning and sex education. Roberts received an associate’s degree human sciences from IV Tech State College of Indiana (now known as IV Tech Community College of Indiana) in 2005. She then attended Jackson State University to study political science, but had to leave school due to health and family issues. She uses her own experiences in life as a way to relate to women she works with in the organization and during community outreach. “I am a low-income woman of

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r. Jericho Bell, assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, says she loves showing residents how take care of people.

ternship at WJMI (99.7), and after months of being there, an overnight person quit, and (Program and Operations Director) Stan Branson offered me the job on the spot.” That started Joiner on a 13-year career in the radio industry, beginning in 2003. She decided to bring that path to an end this past March. Joiner says that some of her favorite moments from being a radio personality included interviewing people such as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in March 2016 and hearing peoples’ stories. She is currently working as the public-relations specialist for My Brother’s Keeper, but that’s only a portion of her work. In March, she had a poem published in a book titled “Nasty Women Project: Voices from the Resistance,” which featured stories from women

like me when they are on the phone. They are me at 25. They are me now.” Roberts, 39, is a mother of seven. She is on Medicaid and SNAP, which she says relates her to the women they help fund. “I tell my story because I know I’m not alone, and I know other women need to hear it,” Roberts says. —Rachel Fradette

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every day,â&#x20AC;? she told the Jackson Free Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She never used a recipe and just came up with her own ideas, and dinner was always great. I learned (from) just being in the kitchen and experimenting with different ingredients with her, and cooking became a hobby of mine that I eventually decided I wanted to make into a profession.â&#x20AC;? FEAST has a different dinner menu each week, along with frozen foods such as soups, gumbo, casseroles and more. The menu on FEASTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website is for the following week, and all orders are due by 9 p.m. each Sunday. Deliveries are on Wednesdays and Thursdays between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. For more information, visit feast-sf.com, call 601-941-4757 or find the business on Facebook. FILE PHOTO

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WEDNESDAY 7/19

THURSDAY 7/20

FRIDAY 7/21

The Showcasing Excellence Forum is at Jackson State University’s Downtown Campus.

The “Guys Night Out: Wild Summer” cocktails class is at Farmer’s Table Cooking School in Livingston.

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WEDNESDAY 7/19

The General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi Youth Concert is at 7 p.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E Pascagoula St). The concert features a performance from the Voice Youth Choir and gospel artist Smokie Norful. $10 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-720-3062; gmbsc.org. … Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit performs at 8 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Americana and southern-rock band performs. Amanda Shires also performs. $30.50-$49.50; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

Memphis-based hip-hop artist Marco Pavé hosts a listening party for his debut album at Offbeat on Friday, July 21.

THURSDAY 7/20

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“Museum After Hours: Uncommon Spirit” is at 5:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Features work from artists George “Sky” Miles and Rosalind “Roz” Roy, a ‘sipp-Sourced menu, music and a screening of a documentary about activist Dorie Ladner. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

album, “Welcome to Grc Lnd,” and shares insight into the making of the record. Free admission; find it on Facebook. … A Denim & White Tiger Affair is from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.) in the Mississippi E-Center. Features music from DJ Corey. Proceeds go to scholarships for future Jackson State University students from Byram, Terry, Raymond, Utica, Bolton and Edwards. $25; find it on Facebook.

SATURDAY 7/22

“Jump Start: The Back to School Jam” is from 10 a.m. to by TYLER EDWARDS 3 p.m. at the Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). At the Thad Cochran Cenjacksonfreepress.com ter. Comedian Rita B. is the host. Fax: 601-510-9019 Includes a school supply giveaway, Daily updates at free health screenings, games, a taljfpevents.com ent show and a performance from Sunjai of the TV show “Bring It!” Free; jacksonmedicalmall.org. … “Pro Ego Wrestling: Out with the Old” is at 7 p.m. at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Features a variety of matches between professional wrestlers. Doors open at 6 p.m. $10 for adults, $8 for ages 5-11; find it on Facebook.

Believers, Damon Little, Paul Porter, Pastors Douglas Noel and Friendz, The Hobbs Brothers, and Bishop Kenneth Robinson and Chosen. $20-$30; find it on Facebook.

MONDAY 7/24

Ferrari-Carano Wine Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. at Bravo! Italian Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Includes a five-course meal paired with five of FerrariCarano Vineyard’s best wines. The guest speaker is Celine Bufkin, the Ferrari-Carano Vineyards Southeast sales manager. $90; call 601-982-8111; eventbrite.com.

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Rosalind “Roz” Roy is one of the featured artists at “Museum After Hours: Uncommon Spirit,” which takes place at the Mississippi Museum of Art on Thursday, July 20.

FRIDAY 7/21

The Marco Pavé Listening Party is from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The Memphis, Tenn.22 based hip-hop artist hosts a listening session for his latest

SUNDAY 7/23

The Mississippi Gospel Awards are at 5 p.m. at the Jackson Marriott (200 E. Amite St.). Includes performances from Melvin Williams, Doug Williams, The True

The “Make America Canada Again” Comedy Tour is at 9 p.m. at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). Stand-up comedians Caleb Synan and Adam Christie perform. $10; call 601-376-9404; find it on Facebook. … Matthew Sweet performs at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The rock singer-songwriter performs. Tommy Keene also performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

WEDNESDAY 7/26

Paws on the Patio is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Library Lounge at Fairview Inn (734 Fairview St.). The fundraiser features a menu of cocktails, beer and wine, and includes live music. Pets are welcome. Proceeds benefit the Animal Rescue Fund of Mississippi. Free admission, donations encouraged; call 601-948-3429; find it on Facebook.

Showcasing Excellence Forum July 19, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at Jackson State University Downtown Campus (101 W. Capitol St.). The forum features the opportunity to promote and share JSU’s vision for the downtown campus, discussions on the resource potential of the 101 Capitol Building and more. Free; call 601-9798783; email ester.w.stokes@jsums.edu; jsu.edu. Tiki Night July 20, 5-7 p.m., at Buffalo Peak Outfitters (4500 Interstate 55 North Frontage Road). Features cocktails from Fondren Cellars, kabobs from Bravo!, pops from Deep South Pops and giveaways. Participants in Hawaiian shirts receive 15 percent off Olukai brand. Free admission; call 601-366-2557; find it on Facebook. A Denim & White Tiger Affair July 21, 7:3011:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). At the Mississippi E-Center. Features music from DJ Corey. Proceeds go to scholarships for future Jackson State University students from Byram, Terry, Raymond, Utica, Bolton and Edwards. $25; email jsunaabtc@ hotmail.com; find it on Facebook. Back to School Event July 22, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The City of Jackson and The Salvation Army Jackson Command present the event for children in grades K-12, which features school supplies giveaways, eye exams, nail care for girls, haircuts for boys, physicals and more. Free; find it on Facebook. Jump Start: The Back to School Jam July 22, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). At the Thad Cochran Center. Rita B. is the host. Includes a school supply giveaway, health screenings, games, a talent show and a performance from Sunjai of the TV show “Bring It!” Free; jacksonmedicalmall.org. Green Market & Craft Fair July 22, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Dogwood Festival Market (150 Dogwood Blvd., Flowood). Features local produce, baked goods and crafts for sale. Free entry; call 775-354-7437; email brandi.sonicboomnv@ yahoo.com; shopdogwoodfestival.com.

KIDS Look & Learn with Hoot July 21, 10:30 a.m.noon, at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). This educational opportunity for children ages five and under emphasizes creative play and literacy through hands-on art activities and story time. Free; msmuseumart.org. Preschool Adventures July 26, 3 p.m.-3:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The event for preschool children features themed fun and educational activities. The theme for this week is “Bubbly Bubbles.” Included with admission; call 601576-6000; mdwfp.com.

FOOD & DRINK “Guys Night Out: Wild Summer” Cocktails Class July 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Farmer’s Table Cooking School in Livingston (1030 Market St., Flora). Participants learn to make cocktails such as Taylor’s Toil, locust grove julep, smoked summer plum smash, Livingston 17 and 463 shandy. $39; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

’sipp Sourced: Lunch Counter 2.0 July 20-22, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., July 20, 5 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). This month features the symbolism of the 1960s Southern lunch counter and honors the courage of activists such as Mississippian Dorie Ladner. Food prices vary; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. Cotton Candy Cocktail Tasting July 20, 5-8 p.m., at Sugar Rays Sweet Shop (224 W. Capitol St.). Features free cotton candy and champagne cocktails to sip while costumers shop. Free; call 601-955-2916; find it on Facebook.

SLATE

Pro Ego Wrestling: Out with the Old July 22, 7 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Features a variety of matches between professional wrestlers. Doors open at 6 p.m. $10 for adults, $8 for ages 5-11; find it on Facebook. Pub Run July 26, 6-9 p.m., at Soulshine Pizza Factory (1111 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). The two- to four-mile walk or run includes a free post-run beer and participants are eligible for door prizes. Free admission; call 601856-8646; find it on Facebook.

the best in sports over the next seven days

by Bryan Flynn, follow at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports

No one really knows how entertaining the University of Mississippi will be on the football field this fall. But one thing is for sure: The program is becoming a must-watch off the field. Thursday, July 20

Soccer (6:30-11 p.m., FS1): The quarterfinals of the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup wrap up. Jamaica takes on Canada, and Mexico faces Honduras, with all four teams fighting for a spot in the semifinals. Friday, July 21

Poker (8-10 p.m., ESPN): Coverage of the 2017 World Series of Poker main event’s final table continues, as one competitors comes closer to earning a huge cash prize. Saturday, July 22

Soccer (9 p.m.-midnight, FS1): The first of two semifinal games in the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup sees the winner advance to the finals. Sunday, July 23

Soccer (8-11 p.m., FS1): The 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals continue, determining which teams will face off in the finals.

Ferrari-Carano Wine Dinner July 24, 6:30 p.m., at Bravo! Italian Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 Frontage Road). Includes a five-course meal paired with five of Ferrari-Carano Vineyard’s best wines. $90; call 601-982-8111; eventbrite.com. Farm to Ferment Series: Part 2 July 26, 5-7 p.m., at The Hatch (126 Keener Ave.). Participants learn to make their own fermented beverages at home. $30; call 601-354-5373; eventbrite.com.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Bike Night July 20, 5-9 p.m., at Slop Shop (1237 Vine St.). The community bike ride ends at Lucky Town Brewing Company where riders can purchase beers and socialize. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Monday July 24

CFL (6:30-9:30 p.m., ESPN2): Tune in for some Canadian-style Monday night football as the Toronto Argonauts take on the Ottawa Redblacks. Tuesday, July 25

College basketball (7-9 p.m., SECN): As MSU takes over the SEC Network, relive the women’s basketball team’s Final Four game against UCONN. Wednesday, July 26

College softball (6-9 p.m., SECN): During the Rebel’s SEC Network takeover, tune in for UM’s SEC Softball Tournament title game against Louisiana State. … Soccer (8:30-11 p.m., FS1): One champion will take the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup crown. The UM Rebels are facing lawsuits and an NCAA investigation, and aren’t able to go to a bowl game this season. It is going to take a major effort for the wheels not to come off this season.

STAGE & SCREEN “Make America Canada Again” Comedy Tour July 25, 9 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). Stand-up comedians Caleb Synan and Adam Christie perform. $10; find it on Facebook.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi Youth Concert July 19, 7 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E Pascagoula St). The concert features the Voice Youth Choir and Smokie Norful. $10 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-720-3062; gmbsc.org. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit July 19, 8 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Americana band performs. Amanda Shires also performs. $30.50-$49.50; ardenland.net.

New JXN Kick-off Concert July 20, 6-9:30 p.m., at Sneaky Beans (2914 N. State St.). Allison Jenkins, Jesse Christeson, Adam Almeter, Tyler Kemp, Ben Williams and Hagen Curl perform modern classical music. Includes art from Van Blue, Mary Ansley Chitwood and Scott Sorensen. Free; find it on Facebook. Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Jimmy Herring & the Invisible Whip July 20, 7:30 p.m., July 21, 7:30 p.m. The guitarist is a founding member of Widespread Panic. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $35 in advance, $40 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net. • Matthew Sweet July 25, 7:30 p.m. The rock singer-songwriter performs. Tommy Keene also performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; ardenland.net. Marco Pavé Listening Party July 21, 7-11 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The Memphis, Tenn.-based hip-hop artist hosts a listening session for his latest album, “Welcome to Grc Lnd,” and shares insight into the making of the record. Free admission; find it on Facebook. Events at Jackson Marriott (200 E. Amite St.) • Mississippi Gospel Awards July 23, 5 p.m. Includes music from Melvin Williams, Doug Williams, The True Believers, Damon Little, Paul Porter, Pastors Douglas Noel and Friendz, and more. $20-$30; find it on Facebook. • Jackson Music Awards July 24, 6 p.m. Features live performances from Tito Jackson, Benny Lattimore, Lacee, Tre Williams, Ron Etheridge, B Lynn, Big Yayo, Mr. Sipp and La’Porsha Renea. $20-$30; find it on Facebook.

LITERARY & SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “Some Bore Gifts” July 21, 5 p.m. A. G. Harmon signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $19.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. • “Living in Mississippi: The Life and Times of Evans Harrington” July 26, 5 p.m. Robert W. Hamblin signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $40 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS Museum After Hours: Uncommon Spirits July 20, 5:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Features artwork from George “Sky” Miles and Rosalind “Roz” Roy, a ‘sipp-Sourced pop-up menu, music, games and a screening of a documentary about activist Dorie Ladner. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

BE THE CHANGE Paws on the Patio July 26, 5-8 p.m., at Library Lounge at Fairview Inn (734 Fairview St.). The fundraiser features cocktails, beer and wine for sale, and live music. Pets are welcome. Proceeds go to the Animal Rescue Fund of Mississippi. Donations encouraged; 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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Music listings are due noon Monday to be included in print and online listings: music@jacksonfreepress.com.

July 19 - Wednesday

July 20 - Thursday Bonny Blair’s - Phil & Trace 7:3011:30 p.m. Capitol Grill - Jesse Robinson & Friends 7:30-10:30 p.m. County Seat, Flora - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6-10 p.m. Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m. Duling Hall - Jimmy Herring & the Invisible Whip 7:30 p.m. $35 advance $40 door F. Jones Corner - Raul Valinti & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fenian’s - DJ Young Venom 9 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - Aaron Coker Georgia Blue, Madison - Zack Bridges Hal & Mal’s - Waterworks Curve free Iron Horse - Betsy Berryhill 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 6:30-11:30 p.m. Kemistry - DJ T Money 9 p.m. Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m. Shucker’s - Lovin Ledbetter 7:30 p.m. free Sneaky Beans - New JXN Kick-off Concert 7 p.m. Sombra, Flowood - Jason Turner 6-9 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m. Underground 119 - Lady L & the River City Band free

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July 21 - Friday

The Big Muddy, Vicksburg - Andy Hardwick 7-10 p.m. Capitol Grill - The Deltaz 8 p.m. Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Cowboy’s Saloon - Kern Pratt & Friends 10 p.m. Drago’s - Robin Blakeney 6-9 p.m. Duling Hall - Jimmy Herring & the Invisible Whip 7:30 p.m. $35 advance $40 door F. Jones Corner - Smokestack Lightnin’ midnight $10 Fenian’s - Southern Grass 10 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - Brandon Greer

July 22 - Saturday Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Mr. Sipp 8 p.m. $10 Bonny Blair’s - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Hairicane 9 p.m. Reed Pierce’s, Byram - Lovin Ledbetter 9 p.m. free Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m. free; Hunter & the Gators 8 p.m. $5; Todd Smith 10 p.m. free Sombra, Flowood - Bradley Parker 6-9 p.m. Underground 119 - Good Paper of the Reverend Robert Mortimer

Capitol Grill - Georgia English 8 p.m. Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. Drago’s - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m. Cowboy’s Saloon - Silvertree Crossing 10 p.m. F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; Smokestack Lightnin’ midnight $10 Fenian’s - Jonathan Alexander Georgia Blue, Flowood - Andy Tanas Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner The Hideaway - Jason Miller Band 9 p.m. $10 Iron Horse - Chris Derrick & the Psychedelic Blues Experience 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Shadz of Grey 7-11:30 p.m. Kemistry - DJ Wheezy 9 p.m. Kowboy’s 43, Canton - Georgetown 9 p.m. Martin’s - Garry Burnside Band 10 p.m. Pelican Cove - Ronnie McGee Trio 2 p.m.; Chris Gill & the Sole Shakers 11 p.m.

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July 23 - Sunday 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Char - Big Easy Three 11:45 a.m.1:45 p.m. Kathryn’s - Rhythm Masters 6-11 p.m. Pelican Cove - Road Hogs noon; Acoustic Crossroads 5 p.m. Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Jazz Brunch feat. Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.2 p.m.; Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m.

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July 26 - Wednesday Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 5:30-7:30 p.m. Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band free Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:3011:30 p.m. Kemistry - KujoNastySho 9 p.m. Pelican Cove - Barry Leach 6 p.m. Shucker’s - Road Hogs 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

(L-R) Jason Crosby, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe, Kevin Scott and Matt Slocum of Jimmy Herring and the Invisible Whip perform July 20-21 at Duling Hall.

udiences all over the world have gotten to know guitarist Jimmy Herring pretty well after his nearly three decades on the scene. While many music fans know him from his work with jam band Widespread Panic, Herring has also played with bands such as Col. Bruce Hampton, the Derek Trucks Band and the Allman Brothers Band. Over the course of his career, the renowned sideman has taken center stage on many occasions, as well. He is currently on the maiden tour for Jimmy Herring and the Invisible Whip, which teams him up with drummer Jeff Sipe, organ and clavinet player Matt Slocum, bassist Kevin Scott and multi-instrumentalist Jason Crosby. The Jackson Free Press spoke with Herring over the phone before the band’s two-night stand at Duling Hall to learn what they’ll be whipping up in Jackson. What’s it like to step into the role of frontman for this project? Bandleader is kind of a weird phase for me to be in because I’ve always been a sideman. I think of myself as a sideman. This band, I’m sort of a bandleader, but really, the idea of putting these people together is to put the tunes in front of them and see what they come up with rather than sitting down and telling people, “I want you to do this, and I want you to do this.” There might be certain things that I want, and I might tell them, “OK, can you do this, and can you just play this little melody here?” But after that, it’s up for open interpretation. That’s why I want to use guys that I have something in common with already—I don’t want to tell anyone anything, really, in a perfect world. … I’m a fan of bands, and band (members) don’t tell each other what to play. Maybe bandleaders tell each other what to play, but I’m more of a fan of the school where you just play, and you let it organically evolve.

What separates your work with the Invisible Whip from your work with Widespread Panic? I would say that this music, in its nature, its instrumental, so it’s going to be a little more on the instrumental plane. Because we don’t have vocals, at certain times of the night, I’ll sort of be taking the place of singing in songs, and sometimes, the keyboards will be doing that. ... It’ll be busier. It’s a smaller band. I know we’re five pieces, and Panic is six, but I think Panic is a big six-piece band, you know what I mean? It’s like a freight train, and this band would be more like a sports car. I don’t mean just because it’s faster. I mean it can turn quicker, it can brake quicker, it can accelerate faster and sort of things like that. How did that leaner, quickchanging style come about? I just think that when I get to do something with this group of people, I want to try to do something different than I have with the other bands that I might have played with. Because it’s smaller, we’re playing in smaller places, and we’re not traveling with semis and all that, we’re not playing giant festival crowds and stuff like that. We want to try to get in some music that’s a little bit … more harmonically adventurous, leaning toward all the different aspects of jazz and the avant-garde. And I don’t consider this to be either one of those, but it may dip into elements of all that at any given time. Really, I’m just looking for an outlet to express some of the other parts of music that I love but don’t necessarily get to do with other bands that I’ve played with. Jimmy Herring and the Invisible Whip performs at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 20, and Friday, July 21, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Tickets are $30 in advance or $35 at the door. Visit ardenland.net.

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uthor Sarah Campbell likes to combine her love for words, children and science in her books and seeks to spark kids’ interest in the world of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. A native of Evanston, Ill., Campbell moved to Mississippi with her family when she was 7. She earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University in England. After completing her undergraduate and graduate education, she returned to Mississippi with her husband, Richard, where she has been living now for 27 years. Campbell worked as a reporter for local newspapers while living in Jackson, but after the birth of her third son in 1999, she transitioned to writing children’s books. She says she looked at what she was doing most, which was reading to her sons. “We were reading great books and going to libraries and checking out the newest stuff,” she says. “I thought to myself, ‘This is great research. I could learn to write like this.’”

Author Sarah Campbell tries to simplify complicated concepts in her children’s books.

One day, she made an important discovery with her middle son Nathan. “He found a wolfsnail,” she says. “We started on this incurably fun odyssey of finding out what this snail does. The first thing we did was go to the library and try to find a book, and we couldn’t find one.

I saw that as an opening in the market. I wrote about it for Highlights, a children’s magazine.” The editor at Highlights was also the science editor for Boyds Mills Press and helped get her first book, “Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator,” published through Boyds Mills Press. Along her journey, Campbell fell in love with macro photography, which led her to the topic of her second book, “Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature”—patterns in nature. Her third book is about fractals: “Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature.” She is currently writing her fourth book, “Infinity,” which delves into the science and math behind the concept of infinity. She says that much of what fuels her writing is her own curiosity. “I love to learn new things,” she says. “Writing about it in this way, I have to get a really deep understanding to explain it simply enough for a young audience.” The concepts that she presents in her books may seem complex to some people, but Campbell says she simplifies it enough

by Devna Bose to get kids excited about math, technology and science. “Essentially, all of these are shapes,” she says. “We teach shapes to elementary school kids. Why not teach fractals?” Campbell also is the assistant regional adviser for the Louisiana and Mississippi region of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and volunteers in the community through public schools in Jackson. Her oldest son, Graeme, recently graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and computer science. Her middle son, Nathan, is at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., studying biomedical engineering, and the youngest, Douglas, is at Swarthmore College studying math and computer science. “My passion is with little ones first learning to read, getting excited about these ideas,” Campbell says. “I had curious kids and was one myself. I like for my books to feed that interest and spark that kind of magic and sense of wonder.” For more information on the author, visit sarahccampbell.com.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):

I predict that four weeks from now you will be enjoying a modest but hearty feeling of accomplishmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on one condition: You must not get diverted by the temptation to achieve trivial successes. In other words, I hope you focus on one or two big projects, not lots of small ones. What do I mean by â&#x20AC;&#x153;big projects?â&#x20AC;? How about these: taming your fears; delivering a delicate message that frees you from an onerous burden; clarifying your relationship with work; and improving your ability to have the money you need.

Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most revered mystic poet was St. John of the Cross, who lived from 1542 to 1591. He went through a hard time at age 35 when he was kidnapped by a rival religious sect and imprisoned in a cramped cell. Now and then he was provided with scraps of bread and dried fish, but he almost starved to death. After 10 months, he managed to escape and make his way to a convent that gave him sanctuary. For his first meal, the nuns served him warm pears with cinnamon. I reckon that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon be celebrating your own version of a jailbreak, Leo. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be less drastic and more metaphorical than St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, but still a notable accomplishment. To celebrate, I invite you to enjoy a ritual meal of warm pears with cinnamon.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very attracted to things that I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t define,â&#x20AC;? says Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love for you to adopt that attitude, Virgo. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entering the Season of Generous Mystery. It will be a time when you can generate good fortune for yourself by being eager to get your expectations overturned and your mind blown. Transformative opportunities will coalesce as you simmer in the influence of enigmas and anomalies. Meditate on the advice of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to beg you to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves.â&#x20AC;?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve compiled a list of four mantras for you to draw strength from. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re designed to put you in the proper alignment to take maximum advantage of current cosmic rhythms. For the next three weeks, say them periodically throughout the day. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to give the gifts I like to give rather than the gifts Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m supposed to give.â&#x20AC;? 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do things with excellence and integrity, I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do them at all.â&#x20AC;? 3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I intend to run on the fuel of my own deepest zeal, not on the fuel of someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passions.â&#x20AC;? 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My joy comes as much from doing my beautiful best as from pleasing other people.â&#x20AC;?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

The world will never fully know or appreciate the nature of your heroic journey. Even the people who love you the most will only ever understand a portion of your epic quest to become your best self. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for you to be generous in giving yourself credit for all you have accomplished up until now and will accomplish in the future. Take time to marvel at the majesty and miracle of the life you have created for yourself. Celebrate the struggles youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve weathered and the liberations youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve initiated. Shout â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glory hallelujah!â&#x20AC;? as you acknowledge your persistence and resourcefulness. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to do this tricky but fun work.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

I suspect you may have drug-like effects on people in the coming weeks. Which drugs? At various times, your impact could resemble cognac, magic mushrooms and Ecstasy -- or sometimes all three simultaneously. What will you do with all that power to kill pain and alter moods and expand minds? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one possibility: Get people excited about what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited about, and call on them to help you bring your dreams to a higher stage of development. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another: Round up the support you need to transform any status quo thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boring or unproductive.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.â&#x20AC;? So said psychologist Carl Jung. What the hell did that meddling, self-important know-it-all mean by that? Oops. Sorry to sound annoyed. My cranky reaction may mean Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m defensive about the

possibility that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sometimes a bit preachy myself. Maybe I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like an authority figure wagging his finger in my face because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m suspicious of my own tendency to do that. Hmmm. Should I therefore refrain from giving you the advice Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d planned to? I guess not. Listen carefully, Capricorn: Monitor the people and situations that irritate you. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll serve as mirrors. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll show you unripe aspects of yourself that may need adjustment or healing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

A source of tough and tender inspiration seems to be losing some of its signature potency. It has served you well. It has given you many gifts, some difficult and some full of grace. But now I think you will benefit from transforming your relationship with its influence. As you might imagine, this pivotal moment will be best navigated with a clean, fresh, open attitude. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be wise to thoroughly wash your own brainâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not begrudgingly, but with gleeful determination. For even better results, wash your heart, too.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

A â&#x20AC;&#x153;power animalâ&#x20AC;? is a creature selected as a symbolic ally by a person who hopes to imitate or resonate with its strengths. The salmon or hare might be a good choice if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeking to stimulate your fertility, for example. If you aspire to cultivate elegant wildness, you might choose an eagle or horse. For your use in the coming months, I propose a variation on this theme: the â&#x20AC;&#x153;power fruit.â&#x20AC;? From now until at least May 2018, your power fruit should be the ripe strawberry. Why? Because this will be a time when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be naturally sweet, not artificially so; when you will be juicy, but not dripping all over everything; when you will be compact and concentrated, not bloated and bursting at the seams; and when you should be plucked by hand, never mechanically.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

The Greek word philokalia is translated as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;love of the beautiful, the exalted, the excellent.â&#x20AC;? I propose that we make it your keyword for the next three weeksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the theme you keep at the forefront of your awareness everywhere you go. But think a while before you say yes to my invitation. To commit yourself to being so relentlessly in quest of the sublime would be a demanding job. Are you truly prepared to adjust to the poignant sweetness that might stream into your life as a result?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a favorable time to strengthen your fundamentals and stabilize your foundation. I invite you to devote your finest intelligence and grittiest determination to this project. How? Draw deeply from your roots. Tap into the mother lode of inspiration that never fails you. Nurture the web of life that nurtures you. The cosmos will offer you lots of help and inspiration whenever you attend to these practical and sacred matters. Best-case scenario: You will bolster your personal power for many months to come.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

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