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hen St. Andrew’s Episcopal School senior Kennedy Owens saw that many of Jackson Public School’s third-graders did not pass the Third Grade Reading Gate Reading test in 2015, he knew he had to do something. Owens says that when he joined Boy Scouts at age 10, he set a goal to become an Eagle Scout after seeing how successful they were with their Eagle community-service projects. He knew that when he began his project, he wanted it to make a difference in the community. His plan solidified after he heard about the reading test. “All of a sudden, I hear that the year that I was doing this, the third graders failed the reading test,” he says. Owens, 18, says he has been reading since he was about 5, so it was disheartening for him to hear that some 9-yearolds in the state could not read. He went to organizations and put out boxes for book donations, and then partnered with barbershops to raise awareness for the literacy problem through his project, Books in Barbershops. “In the black community, a barbershop is so strong,” he says. “It’s the place to be, and the place needs to do something helpful for the community.”
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While growing up, he says he would often watch TV or listen to people talk when getting his hair cut. “I feel like a barbershop ... since you (go) at least once a month, that’s a place where you could be using your reading skills and making them better,” he says. “That’s 10 to 15 minutes ... right there where you could be reading.” For the project, he collected around 800 books over the course of four weeks and put them in about 10 barbershops in Jackson. The books include everything from entry-reading-level books such as Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat” to more complex ones such as books from the “Harry Potter” series. In school at St. Andrew’s, Owens plays football, track and lacrosse. Though he is currently undecided about where he wants to go to college for his undergraduate coursework, he knows he wants to attend law school. He wants to practice criminal and corporate law. “That was influenced by some things going on in our country that could be changed, and I want to make a difference in that,” Owens says. When he is not at school or doing Eagle Scout activities, he likes to hang out with friends and practice sports. —Amber Helsel
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A group of 21 Jacksonians, so far, will decide the city’s policy on releasing officers who shoot citizens.
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26 Flowing Into the Blues
“I plan to keep doing what I do—just letting life flow, taking that old magic-carpet ride at this stage of my life and career.” —Johnny Rawls, “Johnny Rawls: Letting Life Flow”
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Simple Ideas for Effecting Change
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round 9:45 a.m. on Record Store Day, Saturday, April 21, a line of people stretched out into the street as they waited for Offbeat to open its doors at 10 a.m. Owner Phillip Rollins finally swung open the doors, and in poured the crowd of people—parents with kids, lawyers, DJs, musicians, teenagers. While parents shopped in Offbeat, some of their kids hung out with daniel johnson and Lesley Collins at Significant Saturday (a free art event at Offbeat every third Saturday). They had tables set up— one for snacks; one with construction paper and cardstock, tempera-paint sticks, colored pencils and crayons scattered about; and the other covered with back issues of National Geographic magazines and one of Collins’ favorite tools, a heavy-duty hole puncher that cuts out giant circles. The activity for that particular day made sense considering it was also Record Store Day—they asked participants create album covers. The first 30 minutes or so was filled with that activity, but after a while, most people got out in the streets and sidewalk-chalked the strip of Wesley Avenue in front of Offbeat. It ended up being a community effort in its own right, complete with a giant moon, two competing Offbeat logos and a bunch of doodles. A free community art activity. On the surface, it seems simple, but it goes deeper. A study from the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association shows that 45 minutes of visual art-making can lower stress levels in adults, and other studies show that for kids, creating art is often helpful in their development. The sad part is when funding gets tight in schools, the arts are often one of the first things to go. In the grand scheme of life, we may
often overlook ideas that seem too simplistic, but it’s often the simplest of ideas that can have the biggest impact. Take Kennedy Owens. (See page 3.) He has been reading for most of his life, so it was hard for him to hear that 28 percent of third-graders in Jackson Public Schools failed the Third Grade Reading Gate test in 2015. To fulfill his goal of becoming an Eagle Scout, he had to do a community service project, and his idea was fairly simple:
A giant moon, two competing Offbeat logos and a bunch of doodles. put books in barbershops. “In the black community, a barbershop is so strong. It’s the place to be, and the place needs to do something helpful for the community,” he told the JFP. Since needing a haircut is a regular occurrence, he said that kids could use that 10 or 15 minutes while they sit in the chair to read. He collected about 800 books and put them in 10 barbershops around Jackson. Reading increases a person’s knowledge, expands vocabularies, improves memory and creates stronger analytical skills, and reading can also expand horizons because it exposes people to different lives and stories and cultures. Ten to 15 minutes may not seem like much time, but those
few minutes could make a difference in a child’s life. Simple ideas have revolutionized our world and often became solutions to problems. For example, Johnson & Johnson created an ultra-durable tape during World War II to protect front-line soldiers’ ammunition cases. When veterans came home from the war, they recommended it to heating- and air-conditioning contractors to hold ventilation ducts together. Now, we know it as duct tape. Samuel Fay created the paper clip when he needed to attach a claim ticket to fabric, but he didn’t want to use a pin. Alexander Fleming discovered the mold penicillium (where penicillin comes from) by accident. Many of us either see or use these items every day, and without them, life might be harder (especially in penicillin’s case). But we probably don’t think about the impact they have on our lives, just like when it comes to simple ideas like a free art activity or giving a kid 10 to 15 minutes to read. Those are simple and maybe even small ideas, but it’s important to remember that a giant oak tree grows from a small seed, and as Lao Tzu said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Think about it another way: One tiny seed (like say, a bamboo shoot that eventually takes over your yard) can lead to massive problems if not dealt with properly in the beginning. Issues like prejudice and racism begin with a tiny seed, but they can spread like wildfire if we don’t properly address them. Luckily, it seems like the current generation of teenagers understands those issues, and they’re working to fight them—often with simple ideas. Owens’ idea gets kids, specifically Af-
rican American kids, to read, which in turn fights a decades-long inequity for black and poor students. Mississippi Youth Media Project students such as Kaitlyn Fowler, Kelsee Ford and Ruben Banks are finding and using their voices to tell stories and to fight injustices in Jackson, Mississippi and in the country. (See jxnpulse.com) As a young person, it may be easy to feel invisible or like you don’t have a valid voice. But Fowler believes otherwise. “You have a voice. You just have to find it,” she told the Jackson Free Press. Fowler said that when was 4, her parents put her in taekwondo so she wouldn’t get run over on the playground (“not on purpose, just because nobody knew I was there,” she said) and to build her confidence. As Fowler got older and began writing essays and talking to people, she realized that she had something to say and something she wanted to change. Her editorial on education-funding bill HB 957 this year went viral, through one small action of sitting down and writing about something she wanted to change. Had it not been for students raising their voices after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February, the conversation on gun control probably would not have changed in the way it has. Some people may believe that change has to come from the top down, but that’s not always true. Real and last change often comes from the bottom up, and often from simple ideas. Managing Editor Amber Helsel is a feminist, writer, artist and otaku. She loves cats, food, music, anime and storytelling, and often runs sound for CityHeart Church. Email story ideas to amber@jacksonfreepress.com.
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Mike McDonald
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Arielle Dreher
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Mike McDonald attended the University of Montana. He enjoys listening to rap music, writing short stories and read ing books about American his tory. He interviewed “Amazing Teens” for this special issue.
ShaCamree Gowdy recently turned “I’m not on the red car pet yet, but I’ve started writing my speech just in case,” into her life’s motto. She hopes to casually run into Blake Lively someday. She wrote about “Amazing Teens.”
Abigail Walker is a freelance writer from Clinton, Miss., who spends most of her time playing with her corgi puppy, Eudora Welty. You can find her at Lemuria Bookstore in Jack son. She interviewed “Amaz ing Teens.?
Staff Photographer Stephen Wilson is always on the scene, bringing you views from the six. He photo graphed “Amazing Teens,” including the cover photo of Kelsee Ford of Murrah High School.
City Reporter Ko Bragg is a Philadelphia, Miss., transplant who recently completed her master’s in journalism. She loves traveling and has been to 25 countries to date. She wrote about the mayor’s task force on officer-involved shootings.
News Reporter Arielle Dreher is trying to read more than 52 books this year and wants to foster an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her tips and story ideas at arielle@jacksonfree press.com. She wrote about criminal-justice reform.
Brinda Fuller Willis often plays tricks on people with her iden tical twin. She’ll go anywhere to hear the blues, and she is a real farmer’s daughter. She wrote about blues artist Johnny Rawls.
Art Director Kristin Brenemen is a meganekko with a pen chant for dystopianism. She’s recovering from two intense months of sewing and leath erwork, and already wants to do more. She designed much of the issue.
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“I think in this state we built too many prisons, and we were over-incarcerating at some point. Well, the trend has turned.” — MDOC Commissioner Pelicia Hall at a hearing at the Mississippi Capitol.
WEEK IN REVIEW
Thursday, April 19 The Mississippi College Board approves a plan for all of Mississippi’s eight public universities to raise tuition by an average of 4 percent next fall. ... Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and the City of Jackson host a Crime and Justice Summit at the Convention Center. Friday, April 20 The Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously rules that the city of Ridgeland acted improperly in rezoning property for what would be Mississippi’s first Costco store. Saturday, April 21 Four former U.S. presidents join 1,500 people for the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas. ... North Korea announces that it will suspend nuclear tests and intercontinental ballistic missile launches ahead of its summits with Seoul and Washington, but does not say it will give up its nuclear arsenal.
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Sunday, April 22 A gunman named Travis Reinking kills four people and wounds four more in a Nashville Waffle House before a customer named James Shaw Jr. rushes him and wrestles his AR-15 away. Reinking flees, and police arrest him in a wooded area near his home Monday.
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Monday, April 23 The Council of Great City Schools publishes its review of JPS’ instructional program and makes several recommendations for improvement, including changes to its leadership and structure. Tuesday, April 24 The Jackson City Council votes on Public Works Director Bob Miller’s proposal to amend the city’s contract with Siemens Inc. and get its water billing system fully functioning in six months. Get updates at jfpdaily.com.
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What Jacksonians Want in a New JPS Supe by Arielle Dreher
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ozens of applicants are interested in being the next leader of the second-largest school district in Mississippi. Thomas Jacobson, CEO at the search firm McPherson and Jacobson, said 38 people began the application process for the superintendent position. He told the Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees last week that this is a good sign—the majority of applications come in the last two days of the search, and that deadline is May 14. Jacobson’s team came to Jackson last week to meet with stakeholder groups, including some outside the district. They met with more than 600 people to solicit feedback about the district, what is needed and what a good leader looks like. The consultants will write up a report with the feedback, which should be finished this week. “We encourage you to post that on your website so your community members can see what was said,” Jacobson said last week. JPS is paying the Nebraska-based firm $24,900 to help conduct the superintendent search, which includes working with the new superintendent once he or she is selected. The contract guarantees that if the new superintendent quits before
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Wednesday, April 18 Six Republicans running for an open congressional seat in Mississippi speak at a forum in Jackson sponsored by Americans For Prosperity, a conservative political-advocacy organization founded by the Koch brothers.
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Jackson Public Schools Board Vice President Ed Sivak asked stakeholders how the board can ensure the community’s concerns are worked into their interview questions for superintendent candidates.
two years have passed, the firm will repeat the search process. The JPS Board received input from not only the consultants but also from Jackson residents last week in meetings across the district. A year ago, before the potential for a state takeover threw the district into survival mode for several months, local leaders had organized discussions about what they wanted to see in a new leader. Jacqueline McClendon-Griffin,
president of the Jackson Association of Educators, presented the findings of the 2017 community chats to the board last week. She said about 1,000 citizens participated in the conversations over three months. McClendon-Griffin said Jacksonians who participated in the chats, which consisted of mainly educators, want to see a leader who brings a strategic vision and plan and is a “proven change agent.” “(We want) one who understands that being a leader is an inclusive process, (has) experience in leading a school district similar to JPS and a proven track record of turning around a district,” she told the JPS Board last week. McClendon-Griffin also emphasized the importance of teacher development, support and training. The 2017 superintendent search chats reflected similar sentiments in the district today. ‘A Candidate with Experience’ Jason Thompson, co-founder of the Fahrenheit Creative Group, shared results of recent listening sessions with local organizations and Jacksonians who attended sessions at JPS schools. The results echo what McClendonGriffin told the board. “Folks definitely want to see a candidate with experience in an urban district similar to Jackson, thinking about size,
“Frankly, I told the folks from Siemens that in six months, I never want to see you again.”
“[I] thought that if we were going to truly make a decision for the community, the community should be involved.”
— City Public Works Director Bob Miller to the Jackson City Council about Jackson’s broken water billing.
— Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba on the creation of the 21-member officer ID task force, which has met twice.
Debtors’ Prisons Out, Parole For More People by Arielle Dreher Courtesy MDOC
Starting July 1, more Mississippians behind bars will be eligible for parole after the Mississippi Legislature passed House Bill 387 and the governor approved it.
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riminal-justice reform is and has been a bipartisan issue in the Mississippi Legislature in recent years, and 2018 is no exception. Lawmakers unanimously passed House Bill 387, which had the support of conservative and progressive local and national organizations from Americans for Prosperity to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The legislation stops the State from running what is, in essence, a debtors’ prison for Mississippians who cannot afford their fines and court fees. Judges must determine a defendant’s indigence before sending him or her to prison for nonpayment of fines and fees. If a defendant’s income is at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, the judge must allow the person more time to pay, reduce the amount needed to pay the fines, or allow community service instead of fines. A single person making $15,175 or less a year would be considered indigent under the
new law, which goes into effect July 1. A defendant in a household of four that makes less than $31,375 annually would be considered indigent. Zoë Towns is the senior director of criminal justice reform at Fwd.us, a bipartisan advocacy organization that follows immigration and criminal justice. She pointed to other lawsuits, including in municipalities in Mississippi where this practice has been deemed unconstitutional. “(HB 387 is) trying to make sure that the law does not allow the practice of debtors’ prisons,” Towns told the Jackson Free Press. “Fees and fines and other criminal-justice payments are resulting too often in being pulled back in jail.” No More Stacking Part of House Bill 387 ensures that the massive criminaljustice reform package the Legislature passed in 2014 has the impact it was intended to have. One part
of the new law will prevent judges from stacking technical violations when a person violates the terms of probation or parole. This clarification will ensure that instead of a judge sending someone back to prison or revoking parole entirely on the first technical violation, he or she will go to a technical violation center instead. Towns said this stacking issue came, in part, from a lack of clarity from the 2014 law. “We expect that (change) to have a broad impact since there are such high numbers of these revocations,” she said. State Public Defender André de Gruy, who serves on the state’s re-entry council, estimates that if judges adhere to this change, it could mean a savings of between $12 million to $20 million for MDOC. The logical outcome of this reform would mean fewer Mississippians getting parole or probation revoked and more more PRISON, see page 8
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location and some of those other socioeconomic and health indicators that are unique to Jackson,” Thompson told the school board. Jacksonians also said they want someone who is sensitive to the specific cultural and socioeconomic factors in the capital city—and what impact problems such as poverty and homelessness have on the education system. “The community desires to have somebody that wants to be here, that wants to not only live in Jackson but be a part of the community through and through,” Thompson said. “… They want to see someone who is committed to Jackson in the long haul.” McPherson and Jacobson will give the board the results of their stakeholder meetings this week, and they encouraged the board to release the report to the public. “We encourage you to post that on your website, so your community members can see what was said,” Jacobson told the board last week. What’s Next Candis Finan, one of the consultants who interviewed stakeholders for the search firm, told the board that the main issues identified in the district are certification and retention of teachers, curriculum and accountability concerns, and infrastructure needs. She said Jacksonians she interviewed wanted a results-oriented leader who is visible in the city and schools. “How would you recommend we take this feedback as we move into the decision-making process to make sure all voices are heard?” Board Vice President Ed Sivak asked Finan. She recommended that the board not only publish the McPherson and Jacobson report of stakeholder feedback on its website but also use those comments to create the questions for superintendent questions who come to interview. McClendon-Griffin told the board that local involvement is going to be crucial in the coming months. The board wants to get a new leader in place by July. McClendon-Griffin, who is an educator, said the community wants to know they are heard. She suggested that the final candidates for the position participate in a public town hall. She also told the board that she would like to see a small vote in-house by local school stakeholders before the board makes its final decision. “One thing we heard very clearly was frustration from parents … that there’s distrust and mistrust and that won’t be repaired just by naming a superintendent,” Thompson said. “That’s a process to rebuild that (trust).” McPherson and Jacobson is taking applications for the superintendent position through May 14. They will begin to sort and vet applications, creating a shortlist for the board. The firm also will give the full list of candidates to the board. The board will interview candidates in June. Jacobson recommends that the board interview one candidate per day, once it gets to the interview phase. The board will next need to finalize its interview questions, which all finalists will answer. It plans to release the names of the finalists to the public. Email reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@ jacksonfreepress.com and follow her on Twitter at @arielle_amara for breaking news.
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Inside Jackson’s Officer-Involved Shooting Task Force by Ko Bragg Stephen Wilson
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At the City’s first officer-identification task force charged with crafting city policy around releasing names of officers who shoot civilians, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba and JPD Interim Chief Anthony Moore sat in to offer guidance and show support.
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of them going to a technical violation center for 90 to 180 days as state law allows. MDOC already plans to expand its technical violation center operations this spring, re-opening the Delta Correctional Center in Leflore County as a new 300bed TVC. The new reform law also loosens parole eligibility for nonviolent offenders who received enhanced sentences before 2014 (when House Bill 585 passed). De Gruy estimates that about 177 people will eventually become parole-eligible under this new law, more than 140 of them on July 1. He provided numbers showing that MDOC could save $1.1 million in fiscal-year 2019.
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One Passed, Another Vetoed While Gov. Phil Bryant signed the new reform law with advocates and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers surrounding him, he quietly vetoed another reform effort. Senate Bill 2841 contained a handful of other reforms, including language to allow those in prison to keep their drivers licenses and drug courts to administer opioid drug treatment. Bryant said he vetoed the bill primarily because a provision would have required
MDOC to determine whether an inmate is indigent before making him or her pay parole, probation or supervision fees. Current Mississippi law requires an inmate to pay a monthly $55 fee when he or she is paroled or on probation or supervision 30 days after their release. When Bryant vetoed the bill, he said MDOC risked losing “millions” of dollars due to the fact that certain inmates paying supervision fees could be deemed indigent. These fees will total an estimated $13.5 million, or about a third of MDOC’s community corrections budget, in fiscal-year 2019, legislative budget office documents show. MDOC estimates it would have lost as much as 75 percent in supervision fee collections in fiscal-year 2019 if SB 2841 became law. This means in the upcoming fiscal year MDOC could collect as much as $10 million in supervision fees from inmates that the legislation would have deemed unable to pay in the first place because they cannot afford it. SB 2841 would have allowed inmates to be out from behind bars for 90 days before paying their first $55 fee. The bill also would have guaranteed that an inmate deemed indigent did not have parole or probation revoked because they could not pay the fee. While the reform law Bryant signed allows judges to determine whether or not someone can pay a court fine or fee,
ast month, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba had prepared to make an executive decision about how the Jackson Police Department would handle transparency following officer-involved shootings. There have been two deadly ones in Jackson this year alone, and the mayor fundamentally supports releasing the names of officers who shoot citizens, he says, even though the police department is against naming them. But in the name of a people-oriented government, Lumumba opted to create a task force of citizens and law enforcement to develop the City’s policy on how it will handle these instances in the future. “[I] thought that if we were going to truly make a decision for the community, the community should be involved,” the mayor said April 11 at the first officer-involved shooting identification task-force meeting. Some have critiqued the mayor for choosing “bureaucracy,” but Lumumba contends that this is the best way forward, entrusting that the task force will move swiftly but not at the sacrifice of being diligent and prudent. The task force has the full ability to request any City documents it needs, to have officials to come and speak before them, and to determine how long the process of developing policy needs to take. While this could be the first task force of this exact nature the nation has ever seen, the 21-member group has a lot to work through including getting nearly two dozen people to reach a consensus on an extremely divided issue.
it does not cover parole or probation fees collected by MDOC in its language. Vetoing SB 2841 will continue a scenario that can go like this: If formerly imprisoned people have appointments with their probation officers, but they do not have their probation fees, they can either show up and risk a violation for nonpayment, or they do not show up because they do not have the money and get a violation for not showing up. “It really cannot be overstated how mentally and emotionally draining it would be going to your appointment every month knowing that they could revoke your probation or parole that day,” criminal-justice advocate Blake Feldman said. “… It really becomes a shakedown with so much on the line.” Rep. Joel Bomgar, R-Madison, who advocated for and supported both criminal justice reform measures during the session, said SB 2841 would have helped improve employability in the state. “This bill would have helped increase employment prospects for those reentering society after an interaction with the criminal justice system. The bill restored driver’s licenses to individuals, as long as their offense wasn’t related to driving. This is a common-sense reform that is essential to gainful employment in a rural state like ours. The bill also included provisions to encourage work training in prisons and
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ensure that fees and fines don’t stand as a barrier to employment for those reentering society,” Bomgar said in a statement to the Jackson Free Press. Other states have supervision fees as well, Towns said, but the trends and evidence seem to be moving in the opposite direction as states begin to examine who can pay these fees and who’s being punished when they cannot. “The point of supervision needs to be for public safety, not debt collection,” she told the Jackson Free Press.
TALK | city Who’s Who on the Panel? Rukia Lumumba, the mayor’s sister and a social and economic justice advocate, walked into the second officer ID task-force meeting with a list of suggestions on April 16, although she had missed the first meeting. Most of her motions passed, including moving the meeting times, expanding public comments to at least 20 minutes and adding an additional youth member. She also suggested the group meet in more neutral spaces, as the first meeting took place in a city building across from Jackson City Hall and the second at the police academy. The group tabled her suggestion of incorporating a citizen affected by an officer-involved shooting with no pending litigation. The other members who join Rukia Lumumba on the task force include at least five Jackson police officers, who sit next to each other in a bloc. The task force has not yet gone into the weeds of everyone’s viewpoint on releasing officers’ names, but Paul Hobson, a detective with JPD and president of the Jackson Police Officer Association and member of the task force, has spoken on behalf of JPD’s views recently and often in meetings. “I can tell you and assure you that 100 percent of our department is against the release of officer names as it pertains to shootings,” Hobson said in March. The mayor and JPD Interim Police Chief Anthony Moore sat in on the first meeting to offer guidance and show support, but they are not members of the task force. With not everyone coming to both meetings, it is fuzzy as to who will remain as the core group of devoted individuals throughout this process. Keyshia Sanders of constituent services for the City of Jackson and the mayor’s chief of staff, Safiya Omari, represent the City as non-voting members. Former school-board member Jed Oppenheim of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation takes the minutes for the group. Kay Gex, who only came to the first meeting, is the mayor’s neighbor who said she is
committed to law enforcement. Nsombi Lambright, a past executive director of the ACLU of Mississippi and current director of a nonprofit called One Voice, is also on the task force. There is also Matt Bolian, a former military intelligence officer and now the channel development manager at C-Spire, and Frances Greer-Morris, who served on the City’s Historic Preservation Committee. Others include consultant Mike Walker; coach James Davis; Ricky Jones, a former JPS school board member; attorney Edley Jones, consultant Mike Walker and Michael Starks. Attorney CJ Lawrence, the mayor’s former law partner and close friend who created the #iftheygunnedmedown campaign following Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, is the chairman, and Jim Hill High School student Ruben Banks serves as the co-chairman of the task force. The Clarion-Ledger critiqued the mayor for including a man named Terun Moore on the task force. Moore was convicted of capital murder in 2001 at the age of 17 and was sentenced to life without parole. The late Chokwe Lumumba served as his lawyer back then. A Mississippi Supreme Court judge vacated Moore’s sentence in 2014, citing a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that life without parole for juveniles is unconstitutional. At the City’s Crime and Justice Summit on April 19, the mayor called out the Ledger for the pushback, although their reporter had left for the evening. “I knowingly put a member on that board who was someone that was a ‘returning citizen’ because I thought that that perspective needed to be incorporated in the conversation… . I think that the perspective that does not allow for that to be added to the conversation is an elitist one,” the mayor said during the discussion.
Bob Miller, the City’s director of public works, is giving Siemens Inc. six months to get the water-billing system fully functioning because nearly one-third of Jacksonians are receiving water without paying for it. He is pictured here at a press conference on April 16, 2018.
Time Will Tell Nationally speaking, Jackson is taking a unique approach to figuring out how the City will handle police shootings in the future. This is not a citizen’s review board
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Siemens Contract Faces Changes at Council Meeting by Ko Bragg
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s the Jackson Free Press goes to print, the city council is voting on public works director Bob Miller’s proposal to amend the Siemens Inc. contract. Jacksonians could start getting accurate water bills in the next couple of weeks after some have gone as long as a year without paying for water or have been slapped with thousand-dollar bills after not getting one for months on end. Miller found that the City has not received at least $10 million in revenue from water bills in the last six months. At least
20,000 customers, one-third of around 57,000 accounts citywide, are getting water pumped through their homes without paying for it. Customers are “stranded in the system” meaning they either do not get billed at all or the bill is arbitrary and not based off an actual meter reading. Without the money from water payments, Miller said the City runs the risk of not meeting its bond payments, not paying its debt services, not paying regular bills and not providing safe drinking water to the residents of Jackson. The Siemens issues could also affect the City’s obliga-
tions to the Environmental Protection Agency’s consent decree with Jackson over wastewater violations. At a Monday work session, Miller explained a proposal to the Jackson City Council to fix the billing system by the end of September and then send Siemens on its way. “Frankly, I told the folks from Siemens that in six months, I never want to see you again,” Miller said before the city council. Read more and get an update on the council’s vote at jfp.ms/siemens.
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“100 percent of (JPD) is against the release of officer names.”
as seen in other cities like Charlotte, N.C., and Atlanta, Ga., where a group of appointed citizens review police misconduct, among other things. However, the officer ID task-force could implement a citizen’s review board in the forthcoming policy. What is not different is that police departments throughout the nation have been trying to decide how to deal with releasing names or withholding them in the postMichael Brown and Ferguson era. In 2016, The Washington Post found that following the 990 lethal officer-involved shootings in 2015, one in five officers’ names went undisclosed, with departments citing state laws or departmentwide practices for keeping the names a secret. But, there is more than just the police department feeling unsavory toward a potential release of officers’ names. Adofo Minka, a criminal defense attorney who used to work with the mayor in the early days of both men’s legal career, interrupted and effectively brought the first task-force meeting to a close. He wanted community members to be able to speak and brought a list of 15 questions he wanted to raise before the task force. As he sat with the wife and sister of Lee Edward Bonner, whom JPD shot and killed in February, he demanded to know why nobody from a victim’s family was appointed to the task force. When Minka got up toward the end of the meeting and passed out the list of questions to the task-force members, Omari asked him to stop. “This is a public meeting, ma’am,” Minka said to Omari. “This is a meeting of this task force, the public is invited…,” Omari responded before motioning to adjourn. Ultimately, the Bonner family walked out in tears after not being given a chance to speak, as tensions rose between Minka and Omari. With Rukia Lumumba’s motion a week later to include an impacted family member still out on the floor, a family like the Bonners may be included in the future, but only time will tell.
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Racists Can Change After All
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y the time I got to middle school, I’d come to terms with the world we live in. I was aware that people weren’t always welcoming and that racists ruled the world. But after attending Jeffery B. Howell’s “History is Lunch” talk about his upcoming book on white newspaper editor Hazel Brannon Smith in the summer of 2017 with the Youth Media Project, I was faced with something I didn’t think was possible: a converted racist. Of course, I’d rattled with the idea of change. Many things change: the time, the weather, the president. Change, in itself, wasn’t new to me. What was new was the fact that change is constant. Before last summer, I thought racists were raised with their parents’ ideals and just stayed … racist. It never occurred to me that those types of people could walk away from the mindset they’d always known, which is crazy because I’ve always thought of myself as “developing” and “ever-changing” and “not gonna end up like my parents,” but racists are forever. So, I was sitting in the Old Capitol on June 21, 2017, listening to Mr. Howell describe Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor Hazel Brannon Smith as this outgoing, courageous and brave woman who helped changed the world of Mississippi journalism in the 1960s only to find out that she thought she was better than me. She thought she was better than peo-
ple like me—people of color. Smith wrote with a sense of neutrality, but would always tip-toe back to her old mindset in her personal life. But during her career, even with her holier-than-thou attitude, the editor and journalist changed. Something lit a fire in her heart and made it impossible for her to tell nothing but the truth, no matter who it applied to. Knowing that makes me think of
She knew journalism was about truth. where we are today. Even after having an African American president for eight years, we still seem to be living in the past. Research from the Southern Poverty Law Center says there are currently 954 hate groups in our country and 15 in our state. And we know that many unarmed people—too often black people—are killed with justice still not served. As Smith became more and more outspoken about the brutal reality for black people in the South, she began to actually see African Americans as more than just a stepping stool to get on her high horse. She started to see them as people. She even
went as far as to work side-by-side with civil-rights leaders like Medgar Evers and organizations such as the NAACP, even printing a Civil Rights Movement newspaper, the Mississippi Free Press. One could argue that was because she couldn’t get a job anywhere else because she was ostracized from every white newspaper in the land, but one could also say that she knew journalism was about truth. Both were probably true for her. She knew deep down that journalism was for the people. If we implement that ideal into our everyday lives, maybe we can channel all the hate that surrounds us into something greater. If we can connect with one another and see each other as more than the stereotypical thug or soccer mom, maybe we could change the world. Maybe. Makallen Kelley is a senior at Murrah High School. She wrote this essay as a student in the Mississippi Youth Media Project last summer. It just won honorable mention in the Mississippi Scholastic Writing Awards. She was also part of the YMP team that won the Adam Ford Youth Filmmaking Award this month at the Crossroads Film Festival for their documentary, “Minor Setback, Major Comeback: Supporting Black Dollars and Businesses in Jackson, Mississippi.” See all YMP films and stories at jxnpulse.com and apply to attend at youthmediaproject.com. This column does not necessarily reflect the views of the JFP.
Reform Requires Long-Term Planning, Reducing Private Prisons
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ipartisan criminal-justice reform is something to sing about, and we applaud the Mississippi Legislature and the governor for passing and signing House Bill 387 into law this session. The measure follows a trend of steady reforms intended to keep nonviolent inmates from serving long sentences and enable them to come back to society. In 2014, the Legislature passed House Bill 585, which began the wave of reforms, as the State of MisMississippi sissippi realized savings in corrections prisons are costs and judges began to adjust their upside down sentencing habits. What is missing in costs and from these discussions, particularly at the Legislature, however, is how the conditions. State and counties will pay off their bonds, issued back in the 1990s and early 2000s to build more prisons. Criminal-justice reform means decreasing reliance on incarceration, which means less money from locking people up. The 10 sheriffs in 22 counties that operate regional jails understand this
firsthand and went to the Capitol this week to say so. The majority of those counties are losing funds, while still paying off prison bonds they issued years ago. Similarly, the State of Mississippi, despite closing the privately run Walnut Grove Correctional Facility in 2016, will be paying for the prison until 2027. These costs need to be at the heart of criminal-justice reform conversations, as well as repairing conditions. As savings are realized in the Mississippi Department of Corrections, justice reinvestment is crucial in helping the state and counties counter their lost revenue with fewer inmates to lock up. The State cannot idly stand by and shrug as MDOC and local counties lose funding—and eventually jobs—due to a shrinking prison population. It is time to be innovative and evaluate how reentry and employment programs can help Mississippi communities provide jobs for local people and second chances for those coming out of the prison system. State leaders must start using basic math and smart planning when it comes to long-term spending on prisons. The State must choose Mississippians over running these facilities as taxpayer-funded enterprises that exist to benefit private prison corporations.
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n the current political climate in the U.S., teens have shown that they are a force to be reckoned with, and that they are pretty amazing. Each year the Jackson Free Press honors some of the local teens doing amazing things. Here are this year’s.
Caleb Singleton
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While Provine High School junior Caleb Singleton, 16, likes politics, being a page for the Mississippi Senate taught him about more than just the political process. “This experience taught me hard work, responsibility, (how) to keep up with stuff (and) make smart choices,” he says. Sen. Sollie Norwood, D-Jackson, offered him the position in early 2017, and Singleton was a page for a week near the end of February. While learning about how state government works, he also had duties such as running errands for officials and Senate staff. His favorite part of the experience was meeting other students from around the state. Singleton plays first base, outfield and pitcher for Provine’s baseball team. He began playing the sport in 2006 and found it so interesting that he wanted to stick with it. Baseball is fun, he says, but the sport can teach lessons as well, including using common sense and learning to follow the rules. Singleton wants to go to the University of Mississippi, play baseball and major in public service. “If it doesn’t work out for me in baseball, then I might try the political thing,” Singleton says. He says he would like to be a city council member one day. In addition to baseball, Singleton plays basketball, too, although not for the school. He often plays for fun with a group of friends, and like baseball, he says he finds the sport interesting. —Mike McDonald
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When Kaitlyn Fowler was around age 4, her parents, Kristen and Joshua Fowler, made her take taekwondo. “I always got run over on the playground trying to get to the slide because I was small, and I was 4, and I didn’t really assert myself or presence,” she says. She gained more confidence through the Korean practice, she says. And when she got older, that confidence helped her find her voice both as a writer and someone who wants to make a difference in the community and the world. Fowler, who is a junior at Murrah High School, also read a lot as a child. “My parents joke that the summer between pre-(school) and kindergarten, I was going to teach myself how to read, and I did,” she says. “I haven’t slowed down since.” After falling in love with reading, a love affair with English and writing seemed like the natural second step, she says. Fowler, 16, is currently the editor in chief of Murrah’s school newspaper, The Hoofbeat, and participated in the Mississippi Youth Media Project in summer 2017. She likes to write about topics that deal with inequities in society. During YMP last summer, she did research on the violent 1963 Woolworth sit-in in Jackson and was also on the team that followed Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba. In 2017, she also wrote an in-depth story about JPS’ probation for The Hoofbeat. Her story made the finalist list during Mississippi Scholastic Press Association’s Best of Mississippi. She has also written about JPS’ shutdown earlier this year over the city’s water issues, and her editorial on House Bill 957 (had it passed, it would have reconfigured the state’s education-funding formula) went viral this year. “When I started writing essays and stuff, and just when I started having conversations with people and realized something that I wanted to say and something that I wanted to change, then that’s how I found my voice,” Fowler says. “I had to find my confidence first, and I had to find what I cared about.” Fowler also participates in the theater group at the Power Academic and Performing Arts Complex. She plans to attend Mercer University and major in communications. —Amber Helsel 14
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Currently, Lanier High School girl’s basketball point guard Keshuna Luckett has 17 Player of the Game awards from MaxPreps. Her most recent one was from Lanier’s Dec. 27 game against Provine High School. Luckett, a Jackson native, has been playing basketball since sixth grade. She played for Powell Middle School in seventh and eighth, and has played for Lanier since her freshman year in 2015. So far, she has played 79 games and has an average of 13.1 points, 2.4 assists, 4.3 rebounds, 2.1 steals and .0 blocks per game. “(Basketball) just keeps my mind off things,” she says. “It’s something I’m really good at.” On Jan. 8, Jackson Public Schools nominated her for Hardwood Hero of the Week for a game against Raymond High School, in which she accumulated 20 points, nine rebounds, eight
assists and two steals. “If you perform good, if you have the best performance in JPS student athletes, you get named Hardwood Hero of the Week,” she says. She was also in the running for the Circle B Hardwood Hero winner, though Ladarius Marshall of Forest Hill High School won. After Luckett graduates in 2019, she has plans to play basketball wherever she goes to college. She says that if basketball does not work out, she wants to be an engineer. “I just want to deal with math and numbers,” Luckett says. When she’s not playing basketball or learning about her favorite subject, math, she likes to hang out with her brothers and sisters, and play games such as Uno on her phone. —Amber Helsel
Jackson native Moriah Renee Roland may be just a freshman at Murrah High School, but she already has art accolades under her belt. She was a 2018 American Visions Nominee and a Gold Key recipient in the Mississippi Scholastic Art & Writing awards for her mixed-media creation, featuring colored pencil and cut paper that show her parents, relatives and friends sitting down for a meal to celebrate the life of her aunt, Genise Crayton, after Crayton passed away. “It’s a celebration,” Roland says, “not a funeral.” Roland says she has been an artist for as long as she can remember, going all the way back to when she and her family would go out to eat and the restaurant would give her some crayons and paper to create with. As she has gotten older,
drawing has become a way to channel her emotions and be creative. She is a member of the Power Academic and Performing Arts Complex and is also a member of Murrah’s debate team. She says she loves the diversity of topics and going head-to-head with an opponent, even if she is on the opposite side of the argument from her personal beliefs. One of her favorite topics to debate is politics, specifically economic inequality. “I like being out of my comfort zone,” she says. Roland, 15, says her future plans include attending a prestigious university and becoming an art therapist. “I want to use art to help others achieve comfort and happiness and give them a tool to better handle life,” the freshman says. —R.H. Coupe
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Though Logan Hicks, 18, is the drum major for Northwest Rankin High School’s marching band, his real passion lies in his position as a trombone player for the school’s concert ensemble, which performs at festivals such as the State Concert Band Evaluation, and holds concerts each December and April. He has been part of the concert and marching bands for four years and has been the drum major for the marching band for two. Hicks has been playing trombone for seven years, starting after a school field trip to NWRHS when he was in fifth grade at Oakdale Elementary School. He and his fellow students were allowed to try out various instruments as part of the trip, and Hicks says he chose the trombone because he found its slide mechanism interesting. “I ended up joining the band (in sixth grade) and staying in all through
middle and high school,” Hicks says. “Music is something I really enjoy because it gives me an outlet for my creativity and lets me express who I am in a way I couldn’t do otherwise.” Hicks has been a member of the Mississippi All State Band for three years and was named its principal trombone player this year. He also plays in the United States Army All-American Band and is the lead trombone player for the Mississippi AllState Jazz Band. After graduating ,Hicks plans to attend the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and major in music education. He also has plans to pursue a graduate degree in trombone performance from Indiana University Bloomington and try out for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which has “one of the best brass sections in the world,” he says. —Dustin Cardon
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He then hopes to obtain a master’s degree in bioengineering from Mississippi State University. Smith says his interest in farming developed further through Wingfield’s gardening program and the 4-H Club, of which he has been president for the past three years. One of his personal goals in the field of agriculture is to design his own tractor. “There ain’t really too many black manufacturers nowadays. There are no African Americans,” he says. “So I figure that if I can really get into agriculture like I want to, then me and my friends who are also into it can band together, and try to actually make our own tractor and massproduce it around the world.” When not in school or involved in extracurricular activities, Smith says he enjoys volunteering and helping out at his church, New Hope Missionary Baptist Church. —Micah Smith
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Throughout his career at Wingfield High School, senior JKennethon Smith, 18, has been just as active outside the classroom as he is in it. The Jackson native has a variety of athletic pursuits, which include playing football and practicing jujitsu. He is also involved with the chess team, which placed fifth in the annual Mississippi Scholastic Chess Tournament in March. “It’s basically a mind game, thinking about all the different ways you can checkmate people,” he says of chess. “You can meet new people, there are all these different places you can go because of it, and you can even get scholarships from chess.” Smith wants to continue playing the game during college. After graduating from Wingfield in May, he plans to attend Hinds Community College in Utica and then study agribusiness, and plant and floral science at Alcorn State University.
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Roaman Zhou
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When Roaman Zhou attended Whittier Christian High School outside of Los Angeles, he says that with the large Chinese and Asian population in California, the students often didn’t speak English. “There’s a lot of places where you can just speak Chinese and live there,” Zhou says. However, both he and his parents wanted him to have wider experiences than that environment. Zhou, who is from southwest China, visited Jackson Prep during Easter break in 2017 and says he loved the school. He then applied for the international program. Zhou, now 17, started at Jackson Prep at the beginning of the 2017-
2018 school year. “Everything is cool here,” he says. When he came to Prep, he decided to try out for the football team, and he is now a linebacker and running back. He was part of the JP team that won the 2017 AAAA Division 1 State Championship in the game against Parklane Academy on Nov. 17. At press time, Zhou was in middle of basketball tryouts at Jackson Prep. When he is not playing football or learning about his favorite subject, chemistry, Zhou is also in Prep’s Chess Club. He is also learning to play guitar and started driving this year and got his license. —Amber Helsel
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Tatyana Lenard, 17, has her hand in many different pots. The Forest Hill High School junior is a part of the culinary arts program at the Jackson Public Schools Career Development Center and a member of the National Technical Honor Society. In early March, she won first place at the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America state culinary competition in the nutritional wellness category. She will compete with her project on the national level in Atlanta, Ga., this summer. “I enjoy learning about food and how nutrition can help others,” she says. Lenard is the clarinet section leader for the Forest Hill marching band and seventh clarinet chair for the All City Honors Band. She was also a Top 10 Finalist in the 2017 National American
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Miss pageant and competed in the 2017 Miss Mississippi Teen USA pageant under the title, “Miss Magnolia State Teen.” “I always dreamed of being in a pageant,” Lenard says. “It’s fun getting to know new people and learn from them.” When she’s not taking part in her numerous activities, Lenard works at McAlister’s in Pearl. “I try to bring a positive atmosphere to wherever I am,” she says. “I want people to know that they are beautiful, and as long as you put your mind to it, you can do anything.” Lenard plans to major in law and minor in culinary arts at Mississippi University for Women. Her goal is to be a paralegal. “I want to give back to the community,” Lenard says. —Abigail Walker
Kelsee Ford Originally, Kelsee Ford took Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps to avoid physical-education class, not even realizing what the organization was, but she soon found something that attracted her to it. “JROTC has taught me how to work in a team and how to get along with very different personalities,” she says. Ford, an 18year-old Murrah High School senior, has been a member of JROTC since her freshman year of high school. Most recently, Jackson Public Schools named her Cadet of the Year for 2018. To receive the award, candidates had to demonstrate excellence in areas such as academics, physical fitness, writing and oral-communication skills. ”There are many things that I’ve accomplished, but this was like no other,” Ford says. “I made my parents proud, my Stephen WIlson
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season. She finished last year playing her final season for Mississippi Elite, a traveling softball team that played games in Alabama, Florida, Tennessee and Louisiana. Bonney is also an elite bowler and finished as the girl’s top player in the 2015 State Bowling Championships. When she isn’t playing softball, Bonney volunteers at Women’s Place nursing home, where she eats, watches TV, talks and does crafts with residents. She has helped with Toys for Tots, filled a food truck for the needy and has given blood at Madison Central. The senior says she only drinks water and eats at Red Samurai Express after every softball game, and loves to shop, fish and jam out to early-2000s music when she isn’t playing the sport. Bonney plans to attend Mississippi State University in fall 2018 and major in business. —Bryan Flynn
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Britney Bonney Madison Central High School senior Britney Bonney loves softball. She began playing when she was 5 years old. In seventh and eighth grades, she was also a member back-to-back 6A runnerup softball teams for the Jaguars. She is now a star pitcher for the Jaguars. Bonney surpassed her strikeout total from her junior season, with a current total of 101 strikeouts as she prepares to lead Madison Central in to the playoffs. The 17-year-old hits clean for the Jaguars, with a .354 batting average and 23 hits, 20 runs batted in and 13 runs. “I am super competitive and hate to lose,” she says. “I’m determined to win and will cry after (losses), but my goal is to bring a state championship back to Madison Central in my final season.” On April 10, she was nominated for Player of the Week for her play from April 3-9. She earned a selection to the 2017 Fast Pitch Softball All-Stars last
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cadre, my battalion, my true friends, and above all myself.” She is also on the school’s tennis team, the yearbook staff and is a member of the Murrah Concert Singers. She is active in the White Oak Missionary Church has rung bells for the Salvation Army at Christmas time, and participated in the Mississippi Youth Media Project, developing a love for photography. Last summer, she attended the American Legion Auxiliary Girl’s State, a week-long program designed to teach responsible citizenship. Ford is currently completing her application to attend the U.S. Army’s military academy in West Point, N.Y. “I want to be a (military police officer) in the Army because it is my passion to help people,” she says, “and because it is a skill I can use in civilian life.” —R.H. Coupe more AMAZING TEENS, see page 18
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Kennedy Owens JFP AMAZING TEEN 2018 “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
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Congratulations JFP Amazing Teen 2018 You are wonderfully made. -Mom MATTHEW 6:33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.
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Randolph Maxwell, who goes by Dolph, was born and raised in Jackson. The youngest of five, Maxwell says his siblings did well in sports, academics and performing arts, so they always embodied the type of student he wanted to be. Maxwell was homeschooled until third grade when he started attending Jackson Academy, where he is currently a senior. He currently serves as Mr. Jackson Academy and class president, and in the past he was elected class vice president, and named class favorite, class beau, and he was also on the Winterfest Court. Jackson Academy also voted Maxwell as its STAR Student of the Year for 2017. Some of his other achievements include being in the Cum Laude Honor Society, a National Merit Finalist and a Mississippi Economic Council All-Star
Student, and he was also a Jernberg Scholar, earning a competitive scholarship that provides full tuition and fees to gifted students with financial needs, two years in a row. He works part-time at a downtown Jackson law firm, Pollan Dobbs, PLLC, and participates in show choir, theater, football and track. Maxwell says he will most likely attend Washington and Lee University located in Lexington, Va., in the fall, where he will major in physics before transitioning into pre-medical on his path to becoming a doctor. “I’ve been blessed with amazing opportunities, going to a good school and coming from a great family,” he says. “(I’m) surrounded by good people who encourage me along the way makes me feel really lucky and blessed to be in a position to do the things I’ve done.” —ShaCamree Gowdy
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Aaron Thornton, an 18-year-old senior at Callaway High School, did not considered being a trombonist. “I wanted to play the drums like any other sixth grade student, but I had a teacher who thought the trombone would be better for me,” he says. Thornton learned how to read music in elementary school, and since he could also produce a sound from the trombone, his teacher thought he would be good at the instrument. Through playing the trombone, he received scholarship to Jackson State University, where he plans to major in industrial engineering and minor in music. Thornton was a page for the House of Representatives in early February during the 2018 Mississippi legislative session. While serving in the position, he says he felt intimidated initially, but became 18
eventually a part of the action. “I wanted to (have) my own input,” he says. Even though he does not want to go into politics, he found the experience rewarding. “I think everyone should do it,” he says. Thornton says that his generation can be misunderstood at times. “Other generations want to give us advice because they have done something before so their advice is good,” he says. “On the other hand, the world is evolving and some things are just not the same. They don’t understand our decisions at times, how we use technology or our fashion.” In his free time, he listening to r&b music, playing basketball, attending Lampton Chapel AME Church in Canton and spending time with his family. —Mike McDonald
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Vaibhavi Mahajan “Expropriate” sealed the Mississippi State Spelling Bee win for 14-year-old Vaibhavi Mahajan on March 13. In May, she will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., as Mississippi’s delegate. Mahajan, a middle child with two brothers, Vihaan and Varad, says that reading so much when she was younger got her into spelling. “I don’t think i would be as good at it as I am today if I hadn’t read so many books as a kid,” says the eighth grader at Northwest Rankin Middle School. In the age of autocorrect and spell check, she does not believe the art of spelling is dead because in preparation for spelling bees, it is important to also know the definition of the word and the origin. To prepare, Mahajan says she flips through the dictionary, does quizzes onStephen Wilson
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line, and anywhere she goes, she is looking for new words to practice. Mahajan was surprised to win the bee this year because she didn’t know what the other 50 middle-schoolers in the competition would be like. Last year, Mahajan lost in the school spelling bee on the word “higgledypiggledy,” a word that means confusion or disorder, and ironically was the same feeling Mahajan says she felt when she had to take a stab at that word. Outside spelling-bee prep, Mahajan dances jazz, hip-hop and an Indian classical style of dance called bharatnatyam. She is also in the Beta Club, an honor society. The teen also has dreams of being an astronomer. She says she is interested in black holes and space exploration. “I would totally go (to Mars),” she says. —Ko Bragg
Ruben Banks After seeing a commercial for the Marines for the first time, Ruben Banks decided the military was the path for him. The 17-year-old has been part of the Jim Hill High School’s Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps since ninth grade. “I like seeing people in uniform and wanted to be able to wear one of my own, and being in the program also gives me the chance to work with retired military personnel,” he says. “I feel like I’ve been able to learn a lot about leadership and communication since I joined.” Jackson Public Schools named Banks, who is an executive officer in JROTC, the Jim Hill Cadet of the Year in February. The program selected him for the honor following a district-level competition in January in which participants demonstrated physical fitness, essay writing, and public speaking and presentation skills. Banks says that courtesy Ruben Banks
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candidates also had to be in a leadership position in JROTC and demonstrate exemplary leadership skills. When it comes to school, he says he likes all subjects because they are all equally needed. In his free time, he likes doing work in the community. He plans to attend Florida A&M University after graduating in 2019 and major in mechanical engineering. He also plans to join the university’s ROTC program and work toward being commissioned as a second lieutenant. “I chose Florida A&M because I wanted a place that’s not too far from home but has a different feeling and lots of attractions,” Banks says. “I also want to be at a school with both an HBCU background and a good engineering program because I feel it’s my calling to work on machines like planes and trains.” —Dustin Cardon
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AMERICAN/SOUTHERN CUISINE Eddie & Ruby’s Snack Bar 7BMMFZ 4U +BDLTPO t Eddie & Ruby’s Snack Bar is one of the original fish houses that still serve their original homemade batter recipe.
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Hickory Pit $BOUPO .BSU 3E +BDLTPO t The “Best Butts in Town� features BBQ chicken, beef and pork along with burgers and po’boys.
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The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 N. State St., Suite 100, 601-398-4562, themanshipjackson.com) When: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. What: Main dishes such as biscuits and gravy, sausage biscuits, fried French toast, and duck leg or pork belly and eggs; and sides such as house maple sausage, polenta, smashed hash browns and home fries.
and pancakes with seasonal fruit, maple syrup and candied pecans; and drinks such as a mimosa, nitro cold-brew coffee and Saltine’s blood Mary. The Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St., 601398-0151, theironhorsegrill.com) When: Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. What: Waffle bar that includes toppings such as maple syrup, blueberries, strawberries,
Babalu Tapas & Tacos (622 Duling Ave., Suite 106, 601-366-5757, eatbabalu.com) When: Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. What: Dishes such as torrijas (Babalu’s version of French toast) and Baba-tine (the restaurant’s take on poutine with housecut fries, Chihuahua cheese, Fresno peppers, green onions, braised beef short rib, jus and a sunnyside-up egg); desserts such as cayenne chocolate truffles and cinnamon bread pudding; and drinks such as the Bloody Maria (spicy bloody Mary mix with blue agave tequila, jalapenos, candied bacon and a Tajin-spiced rim). BRAVO! Italian Restaurant & Bar (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 244, 601-982-8111, bravobuzz.com) When: Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. What: Dishes such as breakfast pizza with a bÊchamel sauce, mozzarella, smoked bacon, Italian sausage caramelized onions and scrambled eggs, shrimp and grits, and crab cakes with tomato-tarragon beurre blanc, crispy shoestring potatoes and seasonal vegetables; a cocktail menu with drinks such as a screwdriver with Cathead vodka and orange juice; the Mississippi red dress with Cathead vodka, muddled strawberries, lemon juice, simple syrup and a splash of soda; and a bubbly menu with drinks such as the 1994 with chilled sparkling wine, limoncello, Cointreau and a lemon twist. Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro (The Westin Jackson, 407 S. Congress St., 769-235-8400, estellejackson.com) When: Sunday, noon to 3 p.m. What: Dishes such as omelets, fried chicken biscuits, the butcher burger with bacon heirloom tomatoes, red onions and fried egg, pancakes, sweet potato pancakes, chicken and waffles, and a Lox bagel; sides such as cheddar grits and potato hash; and a special cocktail menu for brunch. Saltine Restaurant (622 Duling Ave., Suite 201, 601-982-2899, saltinerestaurant.com) When: Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. What: Dishes such as a quiche, Scotch egg (an egg that’s wrapped in maple breakfast sausage and then deep fried); cinnamon roll
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pecans and powdered sugar; and an omelet bar with toppings such as sausage, bacon, crab meat, mushrooms and bell peppers. Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood, 601-4204202, tableonehundred.com) When: Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. What: Brunch dishes such as buttermilk fried chicken, slow-roasted angus prime rib, Table 100 signature eggs Benedict (buttermilk biscuit, hickory-smoked pulled pork, poached eggs and a smoked-tomato-barbecue hollandaise sauce; entrees such as the Table 100 burger, fried jumbo Gulf shrimp and Ashley Farms chicken breast; and more. Char Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 142, 601-956-9562, charrestaurant.com) When: Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. What: Appetizers such as the “Sin City� barbecue shrimp with cheddar stone grits, mushrooms and a spicy creole garlic butter, and spinach crisp with a flour tortilla, spinach, bacon, mozzarella, baby greens and a tomatobasil relish; main courses such as croquet Madame with country ham, gruyere cheese, sunny-side-up egg, griddled bread and housecut fries, and chicken and waffles; desserts such as pecan pie and a pecan-caramel butter crunch; and more. See and add more at jfp.ms/brunch. For more food coverage, visit jfp.ms/food. Email amber@jacksonfreepress.com about ideas for food stories.
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Hal and Mal’s 4 $PNNFSDF 4U +BDLTPO t Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials.
Martin’s Restaurant and Lounge 4PVUI 4UBUF 4U +BDLTPO t Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection.
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THURSDAY 4/26
SATURDAY 4/28
SUNDAY 4/29
Charles Frazier signs copies of “Varina” at the Eudora Welty House & Garden.
The Mississippi Opera performs “Turnadot” at Thalia Mara Hall.
The Italian Breads Baking Class is at Gil’s Bread in Ridgeland.
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The Charles Krug Wine Dinner is from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Char Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 142). Chef Derek George presents a four-course menu with wine pairings. Special guest Andy Ruffner speaks about the featured wines. $60; jackson.charrestaurant.com.
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Courtesy Chef Katie Dixon
The JFP Lounge is from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St.). The Jackson Free Press hosts a “drink and think” event featuring a discussion of what residents love and would like to add to the city of Jackson. Includes complimentary appetizers, doors prizes and more. Free admission; jfpevents.com. … The Lane of Lanterns Farm-to-Table Fundraising Dinner is at 6 p.m. at the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Chefs Nick Wallace and Katie Dixon prepare a family-style from local ingredients. Includes a cocktail hour, a silent auction and more. $75; eventbrite.com.
New Stage Theatre continues its production of “Shakespeare in Love” through Sunday, April 29.
1970s and features frontman Larry Raspberry, a founding member of the Gentrys. Doors open at 7 p.m. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; ardenland.net. … “Country Cousinz Concert Series: JXN vs. AL/FL” is at 8 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The concert features hiphop artists from Jackson, Alabama and Florida. $10 before 10:30 p.m.; find it on Facebook.
SATURDAY 4/28
The Islamic Heritage Month Festival is from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Performers include Quais Essar and Neelamjit by Rebecca Hester Dhillon, Turab Belandi, Lari Johns’n, Shaheed & DJ Supreme, jacksonfreepress.com and the Indonesian Dancers. Includes children’s activities, food Fax: 601-510-9019 vendors, a bazaar and more. Free Daily updates at admission; call 601-960-1515; jfpevents.com eventbrite.com. … The Boychoir Bowtie Jazz Brunch is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rickhouse by The Manship (717 Poplar Blvd.). The Mississippi Boychoir presents the second annual fundraising brunch featuring music from the Raphael Semmes Jazz Quartet. $50; mississippiboychoir.org.
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Chef Katie Dixon is one of the special guests preparing food for the Lane of Lanters Farmto-Table Fundraising Dinner on April 26 at the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum.
FRIDAY 4/27
Larry Raspberry & the Highsteppers perform at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Memphis22 native rock-and-roll band has been performing since the
SUNDAY 4/29
“Shakespeare in Love” is at 2 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The comedic play is an adaptation of the Academy Award-winning 1998 film that tells the
fictional tale of William Shakespeare’s love affair with Viola de Lesseps, who inspires him to write “Romeo & Juliet.” Recommended for ages 14 and up. Additional dates: April 25-28, 7:30 p.m. $30 admission, $25 for seniors, students and military; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com.
MONDAY 4/30
The David S. Sollish Faculty Showcase is at 9 p.m. at the Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive) in the Blackbox Theatre. The Belhaven theater chair and wife Kelsey Sollish perform a collection of duets and scenes from plays such as “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Macbeth,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Death of a Salesman,” “Guys and Dolls,” and more. Limited seating. Free admission; belhaven.edu.
TUESDAY 5/1
Team JXN Luncheon: “All About Food” is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Up in Farms Food Hub (352 E. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). The guest speakers are Jeff Good, Jordan Butler of Refill Café and David Watkins Jr. of Up in Farms. $30 per person, $20 for members; call 601-589-1552; teamjxn.com.
WEDNESDAY 5/2
History Is Lunch is from noon to 1 p.m. at the Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). Ellen Meachem discusses her new book, “Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi.” Free admission; mdah.ms.gov.
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JFP Lounge April 26, 5:30-7 p.m., at The Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St.). The Jackson Free Press hosts the “drink and think” event featuring a discussion of what residents love and would like to add to the city of Jackson. Includes networking, complimentary appetizers, doors prizes and more. Free admission; jfpevents.com.
Discovery U April 27, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). Children learn about the world of biomedical science. $10 admission; mschildrensmuseum.org.
Boychoir Bowtie Jazz Brunch April 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Rickhouse by The Manship (717 Poplar Blvd.). The Mississippi Boychoir presents the second annual fundraising brunch featuring food and drink from Rickhouse and live music from the Raphael Semmes Jazz Quartet. $50 per person; sponsorships available; call 601-6657374; mississippiboychoir.org. Team JXN Luncheon: All About Food May 1, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at Up in Farms Food Hub (352 E. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). The speakers are Jeff Good, Jordan Butler of Refill Café and David Watkins Jr. of Up in Farms. $30, $20 for members; call 601-589-1552; teamjxn.com.
COMMUNITY “Imagining a Place: The Role of Literature in Visualizations of Mississippi” April 25, 11:30 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Museum Director Betsy Bradley discusses the relationship between the state’s visual and literary histories. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26
NFL (7-11 p.m.): The first round of the 2018 NFL Draft kicks off on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, FOX and the NFL Network, as teams select the first 32 picks. FRIDAY, APRIL 27
NFL (6-11 p.m.): The second and third rounds of the 2018 NFL Draft air on ESPN, ESPN2, FOX and the NFL Network.
“Salute to Women” 40th Anniversary Celebration April 28, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive). Women for Progress of Mississippi presents the celebration of Women’s History Month. Includes an honoree program, live entertainment and a guest speaker. $40-$65; eventbrite.com.
SUNDAY, APRIL 29
Puppers in the Park April 29, 1 p.m., at Mississippi Braves Stadium (1 Braves Way, Pearl). Participants can bring their dogs to the game. $6 admission, $2 pup tickets; find it on Facebook. Community Health Fair May 2, 9 a.m.-noon, at Clyde Muse Center (515 Country Place Pkwy., Pearl). The health fair includes free health screenings, giveaways, door prizes and more. The theme is “backyard picnic.” Free admission; rankinchamber.com.
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Autism MS Third Annual Benefit Gala April 28, 6 p.m.-11 p.m., at Hilton Garden Inn (235 W. Capitol St.). The fundraiser features a red carpet, photo booth, silent auction, guest speakers, dinner service, an open bar, music from Cooper DeNiro and more. $75 individual, $125 couple, $500 table for 10; eventbrite.com.
Racing for Donation 8K Run/Walk April 28, 7:30 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency (4400 Lakeland Drive, Flowood). The race benefiting Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency includes the Celebration of Life Picnic with free food, health screenings, door prizes, a kids’ zone and more. $30 registration, $10 kids’ fun run; racingfordonation8k.com.
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Metro Master Gardeners Plant Sale April 28, 8 a.m.-noon, at Mynelle Gardens (4736 Clinton Blvd.). Gardeners from around Jackson metro area sell a variety of plants, perennials, shrubs and trees. Prices vary; email sadiecat17@comcast.net.
Birdsong & Bluegrass April 28, 4-8 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The family-friendly event includes hands-on birding activities, birdhouse building, nature walks, and bluegrass music from Alan Sibley & the Magnolia Ramblers, Bryan Ledford & the Accumulators, and the Crooked Creek String Band. Food will be available for purchase. $6 for adults, $4 for ages 3-18, $5 for seniors; call 601-576-6000; mdwfp.com.
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CU at the Zoo April 28, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W Capitol St.). Includes interactive booths, bounce houses, face painting, games, giveaways, a scavenger hunt, information about financial literacy, and more. Free admission for the first 2,500 guests; jacksonzoo.org.
event for the American Cancer Society includes a survivor’s reception at 5 p.m., food vendors, live entertainment, children’s activities, games and more. Free admission; main.acsevents.org.
NFL (11 a.m.-6 p.m.): Round four through seven as the 2018 NFL Draft wraps up with coverage on ESPN, ABC and the NFL Network. College baseball (3:30-7 p.m., SECN): After a successful series against Arkansas on Super Bulldog Weekend, Mississippi State will look to stay hot while finishing out a series against Texas A&M in the SEC West.
MONDAY, APRIL 30
College softball (6-9 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels finish up a series on the road against Arkansas while trying to fight their way out of last place. TUESDAY, MAY 1
NFL (8-10 p.m., ESPN): See what experts think of your favorite team’s draft results on the SportsCenter special “Draft Grades.” WEDNESDAY, MAY 2
College softball (6-9 p.m., SECN+): UM hosts Alabama State in a nonconference showdown. … College baseball (6:30-10 p.m., SECN+): UM hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the Rebels’ second-to-last game in the nonconference slate. The 2007 NFL Draft didn’t produce nearly the talent that the 2006 class did for New Orleans. The Saints will try to avoid another bust after a sensational draft last year.
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Charles Krug Wine Dinner April 25, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at Char Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 142). Chef Derek George presents a four-course menu with wine pairings. $60 per person; jackson.charrestaurant.com.
“Shakespeare in Love” April 25-28, 7:30 p.m., April 29, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The comedic play tells the fictional tale of William Shakespeare’s love affair with Viola de Lesseps. Recommended for ages 14 and up. $30 admission, $25 for seniors, students and military; newstagetheatre.com.
Lane of Lanterns Farm to Table Fundraising Dinner April 26, 6-10 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). The fundraiser features a family-style dinner from chefs Nick Wallace and Katie Dixon. Includes a cocktail hour, a silent auction and live music. $75 per person; eventbrite.com.
SPORTS & WELLNESS Relay for Life of Rankin County April 27, 6 p.m.-11:30 p.m., at Winner’s Circle Park (100 Winners Circle, Flowood). The fundraising
CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Pigeons Playing Ping Pong April 25, 7:30 p.m. The electro-funk band from Baltimore performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $13 in advance, $15 day of show; ardenland.net. • Larry Raspberry & the Highsteppers April 27, 8 p.m. The Memphis rock-and-roll band has been performing since the 1970s. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; ardenland.net. Events at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.) • Country Cousinz Concert Series: JXN vs. AL/FL April 27, 8 p.m. OurGlass Media Group hosts the concert featuring hip-hop artists from Jackson, Alabama and Florida. $10 before 10:30 p.m.; find it on Facebook. • Hush & Rave: Silent EDM Party April 28, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. The silent party includes performances from DJ URI, DJ Cadillac, DJ Tam, DJ Tricky, DJ Loop and DJ T-Money. Partygoers listen to the music through headphones; $15 admission; eventbrite.com. Events at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.) • Once and Future Band April 27, 10 p.m. The Oakland, Calif., psychedelic and progressiverock band’s latest release is a reissue of their debut EP, “Brain.” $10; martinslounge.net. • Jeff Crosby & the Refugees April 28, 10 p.m. The Idaho-native Americana band’s latest album is titled “Postcards from Magdalena.” Admission TBA; martinslounge.net. Islamic Heritage Month Festival April 28, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Performers include Quais Essar and Neelamjit Dhillon, Turab Belandi, Lari Johns’n and more. Includes children’s activities, food vendors, a bazaar and more. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; eventbrite.com. Worship Night in America April 28, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The contemporary-Christian concert features performances from Chris Tomlin, Kim Walker-Smith of Jesus Culture, Matt Maher, Christine D’Clario and more. $12-$126; ticketmaster.com.
LITERARY SIGNINGS History Is Lunch May 2, noon-1 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). Author Ellen Meachem discusses her new book, “Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi.” Free admission; mdah.ms.gov. “Varina” Book Signing April 26, 5 p.m., at Eudora Welty House & Garden (1119 Pinehurst St.). Charles Frazier signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $27.99 book; lemuriabooks.com.
CREATIVE CLASSES
Moving Images in Mississippi—“The Reivers” April 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The Academy Awardnominated 1969 film stars Steve McQueen and is an adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel of the same name. Includes a panel discussion. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.
Italian Breads Class April 29, 1-7 p.m., at Gil’s Bread (655 Lake Harbour Drive, Suite 500, Ridgeland). Participants learn to bake a variety of Italian breads, including focaccia, ciabatta and country loaves. $135 per person; gilsbread.com.
“Turandot” April 28, 7:30-10:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Mississippi Opera performs Giacomo Puccini’s classic three-act opera about a cold and bloodthirsty Chinese princess. $35-$65; msopera.org.
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Ameristar, Vicksburg - BB Secrist 8 p.m. Bonny Blair’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 7:30-11:30 p.m. Castlewood Country Club - Jason Turner 7 p.m. Center Stage - Gerald Richardson, Mike Rob & more 8 p.m. $15 Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Doe’s, Florence - Jacob Lipking 6:30-8:30 p.m. Drago’s - Gena Steele & Buzz Pickens 6-9 p.m. Duling Hall - Larry Raspberry & the Highsteppers 8 p.m. $20 advance $25 door F. Jones Corner - Sherman Lee Dillon & the MS Sound midnight $10 Fenian’s - Blind Dog Otis 10 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jason Turner Georgia Blue, Madison - Shaun Patterson Hal & Mal’s - Singer-Songwriters Night 7-10 p.m. free; Renee Lee, Jo’De Boy, Kenyon Green, D.O.L.O., Q Dot Davis & more 8 p.m. $10 before 10:30 p.m. Iron Horse - Eric Deaton 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Travelin’ Jane 7 p.m.
April 28 - Saturday Ameristar, Vicksburg - BB Secrist 8 p.m. Bonny Blair’s - Ronnie Magee Band 7:30-11:30 p.m. Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. Club 43, Canton - Snazz 9 p.m. $10 CS’s - Millsaps Groove Juice 10 p.m. Doe’s, Florence - Jonathan Alexander 6:30-8:30 p.m. Courtesy Larry Raspberry
Bonny Blair’s - Phil & Seth 7-11 p.m. Cerami’s - Ron Sennett 6 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m. F. Jones Corner - Maya Kyles & the Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fenian’s - Zach Day 9 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - May Day Georgia Blue, Madison - Chad Wesley Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio 7-9:30 p.m. free; The Mammoths 7 p.m. $5 Iron Horse - David Vidal 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Chad Perry Band 6:30 p.m. Kemistry - DJ T-Money 9 p.m. Lakeshore Park - Trey Miller & Zack Bridges 5-8 p.m. Majestic Burger - Doug Hurd 6 p.m. Pelican Cove - Sid Thompson 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Greenfish 7:30 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - TJ Burnham 7 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m. Underground 119 - Stevie J Blues 7-10:30 p.m.
Larry Raspberry F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Sherman Lee Dillon & the MS Sound midnight $10 Fenian’s - Cooper Miles 9 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - Chad Wesley Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner Hal & Mal’s - Sherman Lee Dillon 7-10 p.m. free; “Hush & Rave” Silent EDM Party feat. DJ Uri, DJ Cadillac, DJ Tam, DJ T-Money & more 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Iron Horse - Sister Lucille 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Chris Gill & the Soul Shakers 7 p.m. Kemistry - DJ Trigga 9 p.m. Lucky Town - Kicking, Spacewolf & Bad Magic 4-8 p.m. free Martin’s - Jeff Crosby & the Refugees 10 p.m. MS Coliseum - “Worship Night in America” feat. Chris Tomlin, Kim Walker Smith, Matt Maher, Christine D’Clario, Tauren Wells & Pat Barrett 7 p.m. $12-$47 MS Museum of Art - Islamic Heritage Festival feat. Quais Essar & Neelamjit Dhillon, Lari Johns’n, Shaheed & DJ Supreme & more 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. free MS Museum of Natural Science “Birdsong & Bluegrass” feat. Alan Sibley & the Magnolia Ramblers, Bryan Ledford & the Accumulators, & more 4-8 p.m. $6 adults $4 ages 3 & up
Pelican Cove - Stace & Cassie 2-6 p.m.; Todd Thompson & the Lucky Hand Blues Band 7-11 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Trademark 9 p.m. Rickhouse - Boychoir Bowtie Jazz Brunch feat. Raphael Semmes Quartet 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $50 Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m.; Spunk Monkees 8 p.m. $5; Billy Maudlin 10 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - Brian Jones 7 p.m. Spacecamp - Parker Hodges w/ Cody Rogers & Bea Troxel 8 p.m.-midnight Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Thalia Mara Hall - MS Opera’s “Turnadot” 7:30 p.m. $35-$65 Underground 119 - Good Paper of Rev. Robert Mortimer 9 p.m.
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1908 - Bill Ellison 6:30 p.m. Alumni House - Hunter Gibson 6:30-9:30 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m. Duling Hall - Pigeons Playing Ping Pong w/ Funk You 7:30 p.m. $13 advance $15 day of show Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-9:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30-11:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.
Kemistry - Kujho & The Nasty Sho 9 p.m. Martin’s - Steve Chester 6-8:30 p.m. free; Once & Future Band w/ El Obo 10 p.m. Pelican Cove - Chris Gill & the Soul Shakers 6-10 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Snazz 9 p.m. Shucker’s - Sonny Duo 5:30 p.m.; Spunk Monkees 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - Barry Leach 7 p.m. Soulshine, Ridgeland - Casey Phillips 7 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Underground 119 - Johnny Rawls Blues Revue 8:30 p.m.
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Mississippi blues artist Johnny Rawls performs Friday, April 27, at Underground 119.
April 29 - SUNDAY 1908 - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Anjou - David Keary 3 p.m. Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. The Hideaway - Sunday Jam 4-8 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Jay Wadsworth 6 p.m. Lounge 114 - Chris Gill 7 p.m. Millsaps College - MS Youth Symphony Orchestra 3-5 p.m. Pelican Cove - Road Hogs noon4 p.m.; Waylon Halen 5-9 p.m. Shucker’s - Steele Heart 3:30 p.m. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral - Metro Chamber Orchestra 3-4:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m. Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
April 30 - Monday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society (rest) 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Two for the Road 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.
May 1 - Tuesday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m. Fenian’s - Open Mic Kathryn’s - Stace & Cassie 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Doug Hurd 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.
May 2 - Wednesday 1908 - Bill Ellison 6:30 p.m. Alumni House - Johnny Crocker 6:30-8:30 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Clinton High School - Attaché Spring Revue 7:30 p.m. $10 Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 6-9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Keys vs. Strings 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30-11:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.
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ississippi bluesman Johnny Rawls encountered the music for the first time on a cool Christmas morning when he was 12 years old. His father and grandfather were playing the blues guitar together, and young Rawls decided then that he wanted to do the same. “And from that, I went on to playing on the porches of friends and family in Purvis and Gulfport, Mississippi, where I was raised,” he says. “But as a teenager, while I was at Purvis High School, I was good enough to play professionally with the likes of ZZ Hill, Little Johnny Taylor, Joe Tex and The Sweet Inspirations.” Around 1970, when Rawls was still in his late teens, he went to work as bandleader for Tennessee soul and blues artist O.V. Wright, best known for hits such as “You’re Gonna Make Me Cry” and “That’s How Strong My Love Is.” Rawls later took on the same position with Little Johnny Taylor after Wright died of a heart attack in 1980. Both Wright and Rawls are honored on the Mississippi Blues Trail Marker at the former Hi-Hat Club in Hattiesburg. “I always pay homage to O.V. Wright during my shows because he gave me my big break,” he says. “He allowed me to be his bandleader for over 10 years.” Rawls launched his solo career in 1985, releasing his first recording on the Rainbow Records label and his debut album, “Here We Go,” on JSP Records in 1996. While he has worked with several labels over the course of his career, including Touch Records, Rooster Blues, Catfood Records and Topcat Records, he started his own label, Deep South Soul, in 2002. Over the years, Rawls has put out more than a dozen albums, including his popular 2008 album, “Red Cadillac,” and
2009’s “Ace of Spades,” which earned him his first Blues Music Award. In September 2017, he released his most recent album, “Waiting for the Train,” which has garnered him nominations for Soul Blues Album of the Year and Best Soul Blues Male Artist in the 2018 Blues Music Awards. The Blues Foundation will announce the winners with a ceremony in Memphis on May 10. Even outside of his own music, Rawls has made a name for himself as a producer, songwriter, vocalist and musician with his skills on the saxophone, clarinet, piano, bass and electric guitar, among other instruments. He has contributed to albums from artists such as Johnnie Marshall, Willie Cobbs and Deitra Farr. Today, Rawls, 66, performs for audiences around the world, with more than 200 national and international tour dates per year. Despite the heavy workload, he has continued to handle both the business and artistic sides of his music. “I am my own manager and booking agent, traveling with me and Jesus,” Rawls says. “I like driving and seeing the countryside. When you fly, you miss a lot of good things, people and places. … I plan to keep doing what I do—just letting life flow, taking that old magic-carpet ride at this stage of my life and career.” Rawls and his touring group, the Johnny Rawls Revue Band, will come through Jackson on Friday, April 27, for a performance at 8:30 p.m. at Underground 119 (119 S. President St.). This will be the first time that the Mississippi native has performed in the capital city. “Tell the people in Jackson, it won’t be the same once me and that red Cadillac leave town,” he says. Visit johnnyrawlsblues.com.
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“The Simpsons” is the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series. But it had a rough start. In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier, and the results got better. When the program completes its 30th season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own burgeoning project will ultimately have as enduring a presence, Taurus, but I’m pretty sure that, like “The Simpsons,” it will eventually become better than it is in the early going. Stick with it.
The coming weeks might be an interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream you abandoned in a wasteland; or rescue and restore a moldering treasure you stopped taking care of a while back; or revive a faltering commitment you’ve been ignoring for reasons that aren’t very high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve been denying yourself without good cause? Renew your relationship with it. Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to make smart use of it? Maybe you’re finally ready. Are you brave enough to dismantle a bad habit that hampers your self-mastery? I suspect you are.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
The Hollywood film industry relies heavily on recycled ideas. In 2014, for example, only one of the 10 top-grossing movies—“Interstellar”—was not a sequel, remake, reboot or episode in a franchise. In the coming weeks and months, Cancerian, you’ll generate maximum health and wisdom for yourself by being more like “Interstellar” than like “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” and the six other top-10 rehashes of 2014. Be original!
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Long ago, in the land we now call Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of fields. He was the fertility god who ripened the food crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for his blessings. But as the Roman Empire arose, and warriors began to outnumber farmers, the deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror. In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to evolve in the opposite direction. Now is an excellent time to transmute aggressiveness and combativeness into fecundity and tenderness.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
You sometimes get superstitious when life is going well. You worry about growing overconfident. You’re afraid that if you enjoy yourself too much, you will anger the gods and jinx your good fortune. Is any of that noise clouding your mood these days? I hope not; it shouldn’t be. The truth, as I see it, is that your intuition is extra-strong and your decision-making is especially adroit. More luck than usual is flowing in your vicinity, and you have an enhanced knack for capitalizing on it. In my estimation, therefore, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to build up your hunger for vivid adventures and bring your fantasies at least one step closer to becoming concrete realities. Whisper the following to yourself as you drop off to sleep each night: “I will allow myself to think bigger and bolder than usual.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
The bad news is that 60 percent of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news -- at least for historians, tourists, and hikers -- is that the Old West town of St. Thomas has re-emerged. It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake. But as the lake has shrunk in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared. I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life, Libra: the return of a lost resource or vanished possibility or departed influence.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
I hope the next seven weeks will be a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. The astrological omens suggest it can be. Would you like to take advantage of this cosmic invitation? If so, try the following strategies. 1. Arrange for you and each of your close companions to
relive the time when you first met. Recall and revitalize the dispensation that originally brought you together. 2. Talk about the influences you’ve had on each other and the ways your relationship has evolved. 3. Fantasize about the inspirations and help you’d like to offer each other in the future. 4. Brainstorm about the benefits your connection has provided and will provide for the rest of the world.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Now is one of the rare times when you should be alert for the potential downsides of blessings that usually sustain you. Even the best things in life could require adjustments. Even your most enlightened attitudes and mature beliefs may have pockets of ignorance. So don’t be a prisoner of your own success or a slave of good habits. Your ability to adjust and make corrections will be key to the most interesting kind of progress you can achieve in the coming weeks.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Capricorn author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist. In her book “A Transatlantic Love Affair,” she made a surprising confession: Thanks to the assistance of a new lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at age 39. Better late than never, right? I suspect that you, too, are currently a good candidate to be transported to a higher octave of pleasure. Even if you’re an old pro at sexual climax, there may be a new level of bliss awaiting you in some other way. Ask for it! Seek it out! Solicit it!
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Can you afford to hire someone to do your busy work for a while? If so, do it. If not, see if you can avoid the busy work for a while. In my astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine your skills at lounging around and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and loudly and energetically suggest that you should be soft and quiet and placid. It’s time for you to recharge your psychospiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches to making love, making money, and making sweet nonsense. Please say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo, my dear. Trust the stars in your own eyes.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
I believe it’s a favorable time for you to add a new mentor to your entourage. If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find one. In the next five weeks, you might even consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, coaches, and initiators. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re primed to learn twice as much and twice as fast about every subject that will be important for you during the next two years. Your future educational needs require your full attention.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Imagine you’re one of four porcupines caught in frigid weather. To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and pool your body heat. But whenever you try to get close, you prick each other with your quills. The only solution to that problem is to move away from each other, even though it means you can’t quell your chill as well. This scenario was used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as a parable for the human dilemma. We want to be intimate with each other, Freud said, but we hurt each other when we try. The oft-chosen solution is to be partially intimate: not as close as we would like to be, but only as much as we can bear. Now everything I just said, Aries, is a preface for better news: In the coming weeks, neither your own quills nor those of the people you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.
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