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ON THE COVER Protest at USM on Jan. 30, 2017, in response to President Trump announcing a Muslim travel ban, photo by Ashton Pittman

4 Editor’s Note 7 Talks

8 Roe Test Case? The 15-week abortion ban moves ahead.

12 opinion 14 Cover Story

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for the Mississippi Community Partnership from February 2006 to July 2009. In January 2010, she stepped into her current position at NCADD. She also returned to JSU and received a master’s degree in public policy and administration with a concentration on economic development in 2014. While NCADD helps people fight addictions, it also aims helps those in recovery in other areas, such as housing and health insurance, Carter says. “We are a community-based organization making sure that our communities have what they need,” she says. For Carter, one of the ways she sees the nonprofit make a difference in the community is through its recovery bookstore, which has resources on eating, sexual, drug and alcohol addictions, among others. The people who work and volunteer there are often either new to recovery or have completed their program, she says, and are looking for ways to keep their mind on their sobriety. “We see them at their beginning stages of hating the fact that they have to let go of their best friend—their best friend being their addiction—and then having them say, ‘If it wasn’t for you guys, I wouldn’t be here today,’” she says. Carter attends True Light Baptist Church and has a 12-yearold son, Carter Wilson. —Amber Helsel

22 Mississippi Made Check out these gift ideas.

24 events 26 Music 29 music listings 30 sPORTS 32 Puzzles 33 astro 33 Classifieds

34 Christmas in Resin Add something creative to your tree.

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aisy Carter, executive director of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence of the Central Mississippi Area, says that when her family was dealing with an addiction when she was young, she wishes they knew there was an agency to call on to help with treatment. For more than 70 years, NCADD has worked to fight addiction across the country through providing a variety of recovery and prevention programs, as well as educational resources for those looking to break free from addiction or help another person fight the disease. “I just really love helping people and extending services, and that’s what we do,” Carter says. “... We do a lot to help people and help families.” Carter’s original career plan did not include working with NCADD Mississippi. Instead, she wanted to be a seventhgrade English teacher. However, an internship with education organization Friends of Children of Mississippi in 2004 piqued her interest in the nonprofit sector, although she continued her path toward a career in education through substitute teaching from 2005 to 2007. She graduated from Jackson State University in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in English and then served as the human resource director

20 Holiday Happenings

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by Amber Helsel, Managing Editor

ne day, I was sitting at one of the computers at church when my friend walked over and handed me something. “I saw this and thought of you,” she said. It was a package with something that felt like it was made of metal. I unwrapped it and found an orange and yellow lapel pin from designer Kate Gabrielle with the words “Make America Kind Again” written in ’70s-esque letters with little white flowers surrounding it. It was cute, and very much my style. When I wear it, it serves as a reminder, both for myself and anyone else who notices it, of the power of kindness. I will be the first to admit that “make America kind again” is a super hokey phrase, but it’s a good reminder, and also so necessary right now when we’re in the midst of a Senate race that’s brought out the worst in some

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It’s also about doing nice things for people— doing the right thing.

of our politicians (cough, cough, Cindy Hyde-Smith). Roll your eyes all you want, but we do need to make America, and Mississippi, kind again. One of my favorite people to follow on social media is Bob Goff, a lawyer, honorary U.S. consul for Uganda and the founder of nonprofit Love Does, which does work in education and human rights in post-conflict countries. He’s the kind of person who carries around balloons to give to people as a gesture of kindness. He wrote books such as “Love Does” and “Everybody, Always,” which I just finished reading. In “Everybody, Always,” Goff talks about the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Bible. You probably know the story. This is an extremely abbreviated version, but a man who was traveling was attacked and abandoned on the side of the road. A priest and a Levite passed him by. It was a Samaritan, essentially an outcast in that

time, who showed him mercy and took care of him. Jesus used this parable to answer the question of “Who is my neighbor?” The answer? “The one who showed him mercy.” It’s important to note here that the man on the side of the road was Jewish, and the one who saved him was Samaritan, who were the enemy of Jews back in that time period. Yet it was a Samaritan who showed the man mercy. Goff uses this story to illustrate his point that everyone is our neighbor. The people who work in our offices and buildings, those who make the dreaded small talk in elevators. The people who go to your church. The people who serve your food or coffee (for the love of God, please tip them). City-council members. Mayors. Governors. Senators. Parents. Friends. Enemies. Frenemies. People of different races. Immigrants. People who love differently than you do or identify differently. In this great big world, we’re all neighbors, and though we come from different backgrounds and paths of life, we all have one thing in common: We’re human. We deserve kindness and love. All of us, no matter who we are or where we come from. The day we go to press with this issue is Giving Tuesday, and my inbox is full of ways to give back, and if you did participate in giving back, good on you. But it’s not just about donating to a charity, though that’s helpful for all these organizations that are trying to make a difference. It’s also about doing nice things for people—doing the right thing. Showing them compassion and kindness, regardless of who they are. Psychology Today says one act of kindness can affect a person’s physi-

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‘Tis the Season for Kindness

This holiday season, let’s give back not just to businesses or nonprofits; let’s also give back to each other through one small act of kindness.

cal and mental health. Compassion and kindness reduce stress, boost immune systems, and help decrease emotions like anger, anxiety and depression. And I’m sure every single one of us could probably use more good stuff and less negativity in our lives right now. The holiday season gives us the perfect excuse to show a little more kindness toward other people. After all, it’s in the nature of the holiday. At least I hope it is. And it doesn’t even have to be a gift. It could be simple things like holding the door for someone or participating in cleaning up a local area, or just talking to someone you don’t know. It could even be something else simple like shopping local. When you shop at local businesses, you’re literally helping your neighbor, many times

contributors

Ashton Pittman

Ko Bragg

Dustin Cardon

Ashton Pittman is a freelance journalist from Hattiesburg, Miss. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied journalism and political science. He co-wrote the cover story with Donna Ladd.

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 abortion and the Fortner family’s lawsuit against the City of Jackson.

Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He wrote about holiday events for this issue and edits JFPDaily.com five days a week.

directly. And then you’re helping where you live because statistics show that if you spend $100 locally, roughly $68 of that goes back into the community. And you know what? Best of Jackson provides another great way to give back to local businesses. It’s your chance each year to let those businesses know how you feel about them. The finalist ballot goes online on Dec. 5, so make sure you show local business and people lots of kindness. Mississippi is being portrayed in a negative way, again, thanks to Hyde-Smith’s comments. People like her would have the rest of the world believe that we’re backward people who still believe that people of another race or economic background are beneath us. And sure, some people may believe that. But that’s not the Mississippi I know. The Mississippi I know isn’t perfect by any stretch of the imaginations. We still deal with ghosts of our past day in and day out, but many of us are fighting against that. We’re fighting for things like people’s right to marry who they want and for a woman’s right to bodily autonomy. We’re a creative bunch, and the only thing that stops us from accomplishing our goals is ourselves. We literally and figuratively stand on fertile ground. Let’s make something of ourselves and show our fellow people more kindness this holiday season. Managing Editor Amber Helsel is a storyteller who moonlights as an artist. You can often catch her running sound at CityHeart Church. Email story ideas to amber@ jacksonfreepress.com.

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Almost six months to the day of her death, Frances Fortner’s mother and father filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the City of Jackson and other businesses.

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n the last day of Frances “Franny” Fortner’s life, she drove her mother’s red convertible, a 1992 Mazda Miata, to graduation rehearsal on May 17. The 18-year-old was set to don cap and gown in celebration of the end of her high-school career at Jackson Academy the very next day. Superior Asphalt Inc. had been doing construction on Ridgewood Road, a main thoroughfare in Jackson that leads to the private school, since the end of her junior year. After various paving jobs, they returned in May to raise the manhole covers to road level. Although Kenny Bush, a spokesman with the company, said the covers had been fitted a week before Fortner’s graduation rehearsal, something clearly went awry that fatal day in May. When Fortner cruised down Ridge-

wood Road, she drove over a partially covered manhole near the intersection of Venetian Way. The torque flipped her car upside down, exposing the teen directly to the hot asphalt once under her tires. Fortner was pronounced dead at an area hospital. Almost six months to the day, her mother and father have filed a wrongfuldeath suit against the City of Jackson, Superior Asphalt, Sigma Corporation, IMS Engineers Inc., and Integrated Management Services Inc., their agents, contractors and employees on Nov. 16. The Fortner family did not outline a specific amount in damages—they request a jury or a bench trial determine how much would cover pain and suffering, funeral and burial expenses, loss of love and companionship, and other damages. The family of Frances Fortner also

want to teach the City of Jackson a lesson. “Plaintiffs affirmatively plead that they are entitled to an award for punitive damages in an amount which would punish the defendants and/or deter the defendants from such actions in the future,” it reads. Ignored Warning Signs The Fortners’ suit mentions that manhole covers in the immediate area caused injury or harm to others prior to their daughter’s accident. The same day as Fortner’s crash, people indicated via social media that the manhole cover was not properly fitted and may not have been placed or secured properly since a recent repaving of Old Canton Road. Jackson resident Jean Holmes told The Clarion-Ledger that she had hit an uncovered manhole in the same area, just

hours before Fortner drove by. Holmes punctured two of her tires, and she did not see a cover. After a tow truck and a Jackson officer responded then, she told the officer about the dangerous manhole. Despite some of his advisers urging him not to do so, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba took personal responsibility for the accident at a press conference four days later. “I feel that it is my responsibility as mayor of this city to be honest to the Fortner family and to be honest to the citizens of Jackson and acknowledge that the City of Jackson failed to appropriately secure the site at the time that we learned that the manhole cover was not properly in place,” Lumumba said then. This summer, the mayor told the Jackmore FORTNER, p 10

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‘They Want a Roe Test Case’: 15-Week Abortion Ban Moving Forward by Ko Bragg

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or eight months, the nation’s toughest abortion bill hung in limbo. The 2018 Mississippi Legislature sent the Gestational Age Act, called HB 1510, to Gov. Phil Bryant, who signed it into law on March 19. It prevented abortions after 15 weeks even in cases of rape or incest. The only listed exceptions were “severe fetal abnormality” or danger to the mother’s health. “I am committed to making Mississippi the safest place in America for an unborn child, and this bill will help us achieve that goal,” Bryant tweeted with a video of him signing the bill in a room of cheering white lawmakers. But the celebration didn’t last long. With an abortion scheduled for the day after Bryant signed the law, the medical director of Jackson Women’s Health Organization, colloquially known as The Pink House, and legally as the sole abortion provider in the entire Magnolia State, acted fast. The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Mississippi granted Dr. Sacheen Carr-Ellis a temporary restraining order the same day the 15-week ban went into effect. Carr-Ellis brought the suit against Dr. Mary Currier, state health officer of the Mississippi Department of health and other state entities. The final extension of that order was set to expire right around the Thanksgiving holiday. Judge Carlton Reeves provided a sharply worded ruling on Nov. 20 in his legal rebuke of the 15-week ban. “The fact that men, myself included, are determining how women may choose to manage their reproductive health is a sad irony not lost on the Court,” Reeves wrote in his Nov. 20 permanent injunction that says the ban would unequivocally infringe on the 14th Amendment’s due-process rights of women. However, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, the only Democrat in statewide office, will likely appeal the case to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Hood is also a 2019 gubernatorial candidate, as Bryant is term-limited. “Because there is no controlling deci-

The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the sole abortion clinic in Mississippi, received a permanent injunction in its case to prevent the 15-week abortion ban from going into effect. But, the State will likely appeal to higher courts.

sion from our Fifth Circuit, it is our duty to appeal this ruling,” Hood said in a statement to the Associated Press. Hood’s decision disappointed Diane Derzis, director of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization. “I think this is part of his tactics,” Derzis said in an interview. “A lot of these politicians that have these abortion issues, they never seem to have these issues until they’re

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ready to run for a certain office, and all of a sudden this is a major issue because this decides what a citizen is going to vote for.” This 15-week effort, however, is really just about a matter of seven days— Derzis’ organization does not perform abortions beyond 16 weeks after a woman’s last menstrual period, often abbreviated “lmp.” While she sees the legislation as a waste of taxpayer money, Derzis also knows this is

about the long game to stamp out Roe. V. Wade, which legalized abortion in 1973. “I’m sure many states and especially Mississippi are trying whatever they can to get a case to the Supreme Court, no matter what it takes,” Derzis told the Jackson Free Press. ‘Why Are We Here?’ Reproductive-justice advocates like

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‘NO CONFIDENCE’ The Jackson City Council voted “no confidence” in Cindy Hyde-Smith as U.S. senator on Tuesday, Nov. 20.

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DEBATING THE ISSUES Senate candidates Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy participate in a debate on Nov. 20 for the run-off election. Hyde-Smith demands no audience, no press other than approved panelists.

NOOSES AT CAPITOL State officials find two nooses and six signs on the grounds of the state capitol on Monday, Nov. 26.

ABORTION Laurie Bertram Roberts, co-founder and executive director of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund, know that this case is about more than it presents itself to be. “That’s why that whole 15-week abortion ban bill was totally useless—it was all for show,” Bertram Roberts said. “I’m telling you, it’s pro-life fear. It really is political theater, I don’t know how else to describe it. It makes me sick.” Roberts was thrilled when she read Reeves’ ruling—it did not just look at the singular impact of abortion, but also weighed male decision-making power. Approximately 85 percent of the Mississippi Legislature was comprised of men in 2018. They handed their anti-abortion act to a male governor to sign. Reeves not only pointed out how he, as a man who cannot get pregnant or seek abortion, can “only imagine the anxiety and turmoil a woman might experience when she decides where to terminate her pregnancy through abortion.” He also lambast-

ed legislators for their “history of disregarding the constitutional rights of citizens.” “Legislation like H.B. 1510 is closer to the old Mississippi—the Mississippi bent on controlling women and minorities,” Reeves wrote. “The Mississippi that, just a few decades ago, barred women from serving on juries. ...The Mississippi that, in Fannie Lou Hamer’s reporting, sterilized six out of 10 black women in Sunflower County at the local hospital—against their will.” Derzis agrees. “I think it serves no purpose,” she said of the law. “It shows us where we are and the fact that we’re constantly going backwards. As usual, you have health care mixed in with politics, and it shouldn’t be.” Reeves accused the Mississippi Legislature of “pure gaslighting” for its professed interest in women’s health because of silence on Medicaid expansion and infant and maternal mortality rates. His decision to look at the State’s impact on people’s lives across the board stood out to Roberts.

“[I] read so many legal rulings a year— I’d never seen one quite worded with that kind of lens before, with that kid of intersectional and kind of a reproductive justice lens to it,” she said. Reeves said that his court asked on many occasions, “why are we here?” especially at a tremendous cost to taxpayers. He called out the real reason he was called to preside over this case. “(T)he real reason we are here is simple,” Reeves wrote. “The State chose to pass a law it knew was unconstitutional to endorse a decades-long campaign, fueled by national interest groups, to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.” Reeves’ cites a Jackson Free Press report that proves Mississippi’s 15-week ban legislation derives from The Alliance Defending Freedom, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Christian conservative legal advocacy organization. ADF celebrated that Mississippi was the first to pass its model legislation designed to “reverse” Roe. more ABORTION p 10

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“We’re kind of basically baiting them, ‘come on, fight us on turf that we have already set up and established,’” Denise Burke, Alliance Defending Freedom’s legal counsel at the Evangelicals for Life conference January. The next step of the plan, Burke said, is to go for a complete abortion ban, except to save the mother’s life. Nationwide, the toughest ban is at 20 weeks, with states like Arkansas going for 12 weeks and others considering a heartbeat clause. Mississippi falls under the 20-week abortion law too, but, the de facto limit is 16 weeks because that is with the Pink House stops performing them. However, even Reeves’ ruling points out medical consensus that fetus viability begins at 23 to 24 weeks lmp, which is in keeping with the Mississippi Department of Health’s own position that a fetus at 15 weeks has no chance of survival outside the womb, as Reeves points out. MDH materials say fetuses at 22 weeks lmp have a small chance of surviving, and four in five infants born at 26 weeks lmp can survive with proper medical care. Still, the effort will continue, with hopes to get it before the conservative-majority Supreme Court cemented by its newest addition, Brett Kavanaugh. “With the recent changes in the membership of the Supreme Court, it may be that the State believes divine providence covered the Capitol when it passed this legislation,” Reeves wrote. “Time will tell. If overturning Roe is the State’s desired result, the State will have to seek that relief from a higher court. For now, the United States Supreme Court has spoken.” ‘They Want a Roe Case’ Despite Roberts’ excitement with Reeves’ vernacular, she continues to be a realist about the challenges her clientele faces when they try to get abortions. Her fund helps with not just funding the procedure, which can cost on average $600 totally out of pocket, but also with clearing other hurdles like transportation, childcare and securing a

consultation and actual appointment after factoring the 24hour wait period between each. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization amended its initial complaint to challenge existing abortion laws in the state. The court bifurcated the claims into two phases: Reeves ruled on Phase I with a permanent injunction against the 15-week ban, and Phase II encompasses the other grievances with abortion regulation, and it lives on in the court. The Pink House has been the only abortion facility in the state since 2004, leaving 91 percent of women without an in-county abortion clinic. The results? “The number of abortions provided annually in Mississippi has declined by almost two-thirds from 1991 to 2014,” Carr-Ellis’ com-

It’s pro-life fear. It really is political theater. plaint reads. “Nationally, women obtain abortions at almost four times the rate of Mississippi women.” The Phase II lawsuit points out that 2004 is also when “Mississippi’s efforts to eliminate access to abortion in the State through medically unnecessary and burdensome regulations began in earnest.” More broadly, the lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment finding unconstitutional the several other existing laws and regulations around abortion, such as Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers or “TRAP” licensing scheme that requires abortion clinics renew their licenses with a $3,000 annual fee, while other clinics that perform surgical and higher risk procedures either pay no fee or a one-time registration, the lawsuit reads. The Pink House is also required to file monthly reports about the demographic of its clients. Women also have to make two trips to the clinic: one as a

consultation, and then the procedure after a mandatory 24hour waiting period. Even if the 24-hour mandate stays in place, the suit advocates for the use of telemedicine for the initial consultation and counseling session, which is currently not allowed in abortion care. The suit also wants a larger scope of who can perform abortions. Right now, only medically licensed physicians can perform abortions and the state-mandated counseling that occurs in the woman’s first visit to the clinic. The Pink House only has a physician present in the clinic two to three days a week, limiting the option for care. Roberts points out that helping women go out of state gets pricey, and although her small-but-mighty fund does what it can, those costs quickly add up and so does demand. Still, lawmakers press on to win the long game. “They want a Roe case, that’s why the states keep doing all of these laws—they want a Roe test case,” she told the Jackson Free Press. Abortion is a popular talking point among conservative political candidates in Mississippi. More recently, it was a deflection point Gov. Bryant used to bat away reporters seeking follow-up comment from U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith following her public-hanging quip. She opposes abortion, period, and Bryant disparately accuses black mothers of “black genocide” for seeking the procedure. “See, in my heart, I am confused about where the outrage is at about 20 million African American children that have been aborted,” Bryant said at a National Right to Life event with Hyde-Smith. Roberts sees comments like Bryant’s as a way for the governor to take the spotlight off of his own shortcomings in state with the most African Americans per capita and also the highest infant mortality rate. “(Bryant) is not worried about none of these black women,” Roberts said. “But yes, let’s worry about potential humans that may have been aborted, not no living black babies that he doesn’t want to pay for education or mental health care or expand Medicaid for.” More: jacksonfreepress.com/abortion

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son Free Press that this accident presented a test of his values. “If I claim to be a radical mayor, and I claim we’re going to be a radical city, then we need to step away from the norms of finding every little way to avoid where we know we failed, and we have to be bold enough to even confront ourselves,” the mayor said. Afterward, the City responded by adding more phone numbers to call to report issues to the 311 system—a way for Jacksonians to report infrastructure in disrepair. As the mayor explained in the press conference following Fortner’s passing, Public Works is not a first-response department, but he still wants to get better equipped. The public-works director agrees. “I’ve had occasions to be exposed when there was serious injury or loss of life,” Miller said. “But that one, I expect, will grieve me for the rest of my life. It drives me to make sure that and all of the other possible

risks don’t ever happen again.” About the Companies in the Suit In addition to the City of Jackson as a named party in this suit, the family seeks to hold four companies accountable. Lawyers for the Fortner family served one of Superior Asphalt’s directors, William G. Yates Jr., with the lawsuit. Yates hails from the construction family based in Philadelphia, Miss. He currently serves as the director and president of The Yates Companies Inc. and director of W.G. Yates & Sons, which built a prototype for President Donald Trump’s infamous wall at the Mexico border in March. The Washington Post reports that Yates built two prototypes for nearly a million dollars total. At the test site near Tijuana, Yates used three concrete panels topped with a large, round pipe for $453,548 in its first prototype. In the second, it used

dark brown, corrugated metal panels with a round pipe at the top for $458,103. Sigma Corporation is the identified manhole manufacturer and designer that marketed and sold the product. The suit says the company failed to warn customers of the hazard “created by said defective manufacture or design.” It also claims the City and other named companies did not contact Sigma about any hazardous conditions their product created. “Said defective condition rendered the product unreasonably dangerous to the Plaintiff’s decedent and the defective, unreasonably dangerous condition of the product proximately caused the Plaintiffs’ damages for which recovery is sought,” the lawsuit reads. Sigma is a New Jersey-based company, and its founder Siddharth Bhattacharji, helped an investment group to acquire SIGMA International last summer.

The company has been around since 1985 and specializes in waterworks and piping products. Roderick “Rod” Hill of Jackson is listed as president of IMS Engineers Inc. and director of Integrated Management Services, which is like an umbrella organization for IMS Engineers, IMS Operations, IMS Logistics and Trensek. The Fortner family served Hill with the lawsuit. IMS headquarters is located in the Addkison Hardware Store in the historic Farish Street District. After getting his master’s degree from the University of Mississippi, Hill moved back to west Jackson and has since established himself as a prominent African American engineer and businessman. At press time, none of the defendants responded to the suit. Email city reporter Ko Bragg at ko@ jacksonfreepress.com.

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she had to drop out of college. To so-called pro-lifers like Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, the story of how the late Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois authored the “Hyde Amendment” to keep federal tax dollars from funding my abortion is a success. I, an irresponsible young woman, had to “live with her actions.” That is responsible, good

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n the late 1990s, a teen mother went to a Planned Parenthood clinic to get an abortion. She had cleared all the legal hurdles to get to her last appointment. She waited more than a day; in fact, she had waited weeks as she tried desperately to gather the money together. She was supposed to get her student loan that day, but

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“Part of Hyde-Smith’s pack of rambling falsehoods against Planned Parenthood is that they aren’t needed here.”

it was delayed. That day she was right on the line of the clinic’s gestational cut-off. She hoped the clinic had assistance for low-income women like her. She was certainly poor, even qualifying for Medicaid. Yet on this day she couldn’t get the health care she sought. She became what is called a “turn-away patient,” because she was “turned away” from clinics due to finances. She was told she couldn’t get her abortion, and if she didn’t have the money that day, then next week would be too late. There were other clinics out of state, but she couldn’t afford those, either. She looked into adoption but decided against it because the father wouldn’t consent. Instead, she hid her pregnancy for several months. During that time, she attempted to induce a miscarriage by throwing herself down some stairs, by slamming the car brakes with the seatbelt across her stomach, by taking hot baths, by drinking an excessive amount of vodka, even riding rides at the county fair. Eventually she gave up, prayed some more and cried. She finally settled into bed rest, eventually having a healthy baby and, yes, she loves her child. All that came at a price. She lost her job. She missed out on many activities with her other children. She risked her health, and

and righteous. To people like Hyde-Smith and Hyde, I should be grateful they “saved” me—just look at the beautiful child I was forced to have. I’m grateful for my children. I’m grateful I’ve been able to bond with them. I’m

The truth is that abortion is not at issue here. grateful they are happy, and we were able to make it. I am not grateful for the trauma I went through during that time. I’ll never be thankful for the fear that my high-risk pregnancy, which included preeclampsia and hypoglycemia, would leave my three other children without a mother. I’m certainly not grateful that we ended up homeless the next year. I shouldn’t have had fewer options because I worked an hourly job, was low-income and had to receive health care through the government. These past weeks, Hyde-Smith has done a great job of yelling “abortion, abor-

tion, abortion” every chance she gets, but the truth is that abortion is not at issue here. Mississippians already voted to keep it legal in 2011 when we defeated the Personhood amendment. Bodily autonomy is a human right that we voted to uphold, understanding that laws against abortion that take away a pregnant person’s right to their own body and decisions can have far-reaching impacts on reproductive health care. Part of Hyde-Smith’s pack of rambling falsehoods against Planned Parenthood, which isn’t even an abortion provider in Mississippi, is that they aren’t needed here. She asserted we already have a fantastic health department that provides care for people. Well, yes and no. Our health department system is a Title IX provider; the clinics receive federal reimbursement for free family-planning services they provide. However, they are currently experiencing underfunding and some offices have closed under Gov. Phil Bryant’s leadership. People often wait months to get birth control—and that’s if they can make during clinics’ limited hours. They have the option to go to a community health center where you may also wait, especially if seeking a long acting reversible contraception, or LARC, like an IUD. They are not always particularly friendly places for LGBT patients, either. If Hyde-Smith talked to voters beyond the pro-life lobby, she would know this, and she would know that the need for family planning/reproductivehealth services is greater than the capacity of MDH and community health clinics. What’s at issue here is her integrity. She has provided false data on abortion and birth-control access, and has men speak for her, hiding behind them like a child. What’s at issue are old racist views so ingrained in the water, air and soil that many do not even know when they are spewing them. It’s time to have honest conversations about abortion in this state; otherwise the only people talking are politicians, not the people their actions affect. Hyde-Smith and Bryant aren’t worried about our lives, and they certainly aren’t worried about black babies. They are invested in continuing to have the ability to weaponize abortion stigma and shame for political shame. That’s craven, and hello Cindy, we see you. Laurie Bertram Roberts, a black, queer, disabled reproductive justice activist, is the cofounder and executive director of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund. This column does not necessarily

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hen U.S. Sen. Cindy HydeSmith took the microphone on a chilly Nov. 2 in Tupelo, Miss., she could not possibly have known what lay ahead for her campaign. Wearing a long coat, she stood in front of a statue of Elvis Presley when she told the crowd that if her friend Colin Hutchinson “invited me to a public hanging, I would be on the front row.” The two reporters in the audience— which included Wayne Hereford, an African American broadcast reporter for WTVA—did not seem to think a whole lot of the comment at the time. Maybe it was a bit crude or “frontier bravado,” Tupelo’s Daily Journal reporter Caleb Bedillion would later write in a mea culpa column, but “reporting these remarks didn’t occur to me.” “More bluntly put, however, I heard what I heard because I am white.” Once the video went viral on Sunday, Nov. 11, many black Mississippians and Americans, and their more attuned white allies, though, immediately heard what sounded like the biggest racist dog whistle since the Willie Horton days of the late Republican strategist and party chairman Lee Atwater, a South Carolinian who loved to get fellow southerners to vote Republican by pandering to racist tendencies and pulling the bigotry out of latency if needed. How dare this white woman talk glibly about a hanging in the state with the most lynchings? The state where black men hanging dead in trees was treated like a white-glove garden party with children milling about? The state where white people mailed postcards with photos of the horrific scenes to friends and family? Once the video went viral on Sunday, Nov. 11, underlying race tensions catapulted to the surface of the run-off race between Hyde-Smith and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy, with a series of other race-related reveals emerging about Hyde-Smith: a “joke” about voter suppression of liberal college students and photos of her wearing a Confederate cap at Jefferson Davis’ last home, calling the Civil War “Mississippi history at its best!”

Mississippians turned out to support a protest at the University of Southern

Mississippi in 2017 right after Donald Trump implemented a Muslim traval ban.

Then, this newspaper revealed four days before the run-off that Hyde-Smith had attended one of Mississippi’s original segregation academies surrounded regularly by Confederate icons. She then sent her daughter to one nearby that had one black student as recently as 2016. Notably, these revelations indicating at

least the embrace of a “lost cause” romanticism about the Old South also upended the usual Mississippi Republican playbook, or at least ripped it open for more to examine and vet what’s inside. That meant an intense two weeks of a national and local public conversation about racism, school choice, Confederate symbols and more—a

much louder public dialogue on racism than most probably have witnessed. Republicans, especially Hyde-Smith, who kept hiding from the press, seemed on their heels and worried about the impact on the run-off, bringing both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for two rallies before the run-off in Biloxi and, yes, up in Tupelo where her “hanging” comment had thrown her campaign into defensive mayhem. As for Democrats, African Americans and allies of other races, it was an enthusiasm rush, with visions of finally sending the first black U.S. senator from Mississippi back to Washington since the nation caved and gave the South its desired end to Reconstruction, setting up another century of oppressive Jim Crow laws and black codes that still haunt and hurt the South. The question after the run-off ballots are counted—regardless of who won—is whether a nearly 50-year-old strategy to use bigotry to get Republican votes is finally entering its twilight stage. Will the suddenly honest dialogue about the tools, strategy and symbols of white supremacy be enough to force a new kind of politics? The Ghost of Lee Atwater It was a vicious, and misleading, 1988 television ad that ushered in today’s toxic race politics. Lee Atwater, George H.W. Bush’s campaign manager, decided to “go negative” on Democratic opponent and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, with an eye on winning more southern voters for Bush, who wasn’t exactly a downhome southern type. He chose the case of William Horton, a convicted felon who went home on a Massachusetts furlough program, didn’t return on time, and committed rape and robbery. A documentary on Atwater and his tactics, “Boogie Man,” shows an ad designed to make Horton look scary to white people, an approach Atwater later apologized for using when he was dying. They even called him “Willie,” which he never went by. But the strategy worked, helping hand Bush the victory, and is still considered by many the moment the “southern

she planned to vote for Mike Espy against Hyde-Smith and may well support a Democrat for governor next year. When he was in Congress, Mattiace said, Espy reached out to the Mississippi Republican Party. “He invited the entire delegation to come to his office,” she said in an interview. “... I’ve always seen him as a leader.” With the polls not yet closed in the U.S. Senate run-off between Espy and Hyde-Smith as of this writing, it is impossible to know if the strategy worked again to help Hyde-Smith keep her appointed seat—or if a large enough coalition of African Americans, whites and others came together to upend it to elect Mississippi’s first black senator since Sen. Blanche K. Bruce, who served from 1875 to 1881, during the end of the Reconstruction era. Regardless of who won, though, Mis-

Until Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s hanging comment, many of her supporters pointed to Chris McDaniel as the most racist choice on the ballot.

who ironically loved to play and sing the blues, told himself that his strategy would help Republicans move past race. “My generation,” he insisted in the 1981 interview, “will be the first generation of southerners that won’t be prejudiced.” But the Republican Party in Mississippi has gotten whiter since the days when Atwater used to pop into the state for strategy visits and socializing. Jan Mattiace, a white Jackson businesswoman and long-time Republican, worked for the Mississippi Republican Party in the 1980s. She remembers Atwater’s visits at a time when more black members were still actively involved in a party that used to be called the “black and tan party” due to black support until the racial upheaval of the 1960s. Now, though, Mattiace is backing away from the party because of the divisiveness of Donald Trump. (She voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson for president in 2016). She said before the run-off that

sissippi feels different since Hyde-Smith’s hanging comment and subsequent refusal to speak a sincere apology and use the incident to try to heal division. More people are facing the realities of such toxic politics, and lack of truly empathetic apologies, and the state GOP was on its heels in Mississippi for the first time for the race-soaked stunts since it started seizing power here in the 1970s, and ensuring that black and white voters stayed on two different tracks. From Dixiecrat to Republicans Politicking has long been hot and heavy at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss. In the 1960s, racist Democrat Ross Barnett would take to the stage under the pavilion to play his ukulele and call for resistance against all the “communist” and “liberal” “outside agitators,” as anyone fighting racism in the state has long been called. And he wasn’t the only one. But there was a gentleman’s code

about how to play politics within the state. That cracked apart when a young Republican, 34-year-old Haley Barbour, decided to run against long-time U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis. The senator from Dekalb, by then almost 82, was a segregationist for much of his more than six-decades-long political career, although he softened somewhat later. He was an old Democrat, after all. Barbour was one of the early new Republicans who came of age during the civilrights strife of the 1960s who wanted confused and left-behind segregationist Democrats to bring their votes to the GOP he and others were trying to give new life to. That ultimately successful goal meant that many poor and middle-class whites would end up voting on behalf of the large corporations Barbour would eventually lobby on behalf of in Washington, D.C. So Barbour decided to run against Stennis to start the wave. At the Neshoba County Fair that year, Barbour introduced the kinds of tricks against the elderly statesman that would hint at the un-gentlemanly southern political strategy that lay ahead. He went after an old man’s age. The morning of what was then called “Jackson Day,” young volunteers were out at the fair early to hang a huge “Happy 82nd Birthday” banner for Stennis near the pavilion. When close to time for Stennis to speak, they suddenly rolled out a cake with 82 lit candles as Students for Stennis volunteers surrounded to keep it from getting to the senator for the cameras. (The co-author of this story, Donna Ladd, was one of those volunteers surrounding the cake). The point, of course, was to beat Stennis with trickery to show he was too old. Barbour failed, though, and Stennis was reelected. He would die at age 93 still a Democrat, but one stuck in that era between the past of the two political parties and their rapidly changing futures. Becoming the Party of Strom Often when the subject of racism in the modern Republican Party comes up, party leaders and supporters will point to the Democratic Party’s history of slavery, lynching, Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan. They will contrast it to the Republican Party, which was founded as a party devoted to the abolition of slavery, at least in principle, and certainly to stopping its spread to new states as the South insisted. Today’s Republicans point to the Grand Old Party’s first president, Abraham Lincoln, who ended up issuing the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves after a devastating Civil War. When Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens—a Democrat—announced the Confederate Constitution in more RACE POLITICS p 16

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rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*gger, n*gger.” (Astericks added) Fast-forward to today’s GOP mailers with lies of omission or half-truths at best accusing opponents of corruption or Jackson crime or African dictators or kids denied pre-existing conditions to tie those candidates to something that white people fear. It may be toxic and usually dishonest, but it’s been a winner since Atwater perfected the science. The southern strategy hasn’t been around since the 1960s for nothing. Atwater himself, a boisterous figure

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strategy” of appealing to racist beliefs for votes kicked into high gear. By the time the “hanging” tape of Cindy Hyde-Smith went live on Nov. 2, a series of mailers for the state GOP’s negative flyers falsely indicating that opponent Espy was a “corrupt” “criminal” were already distributed statewide. In the week before the Nov. 6 election, where the two candidates defeated the supposedly most racist candidate Chris McDaniel (according to state GOP leaders, including Gov. Phil Bryant and chairman Lucien Smith), the Mississippi GOP sent glossy mailers daily depicting Espy as a corrupt criminal who doesn’t pay taxes and can’t be trusted. It is easily recognizable as Atwateresque dog-whistling to make white voters fear a black candidate, right down to darkening Espy’s skin tone and showing him with jail bars. The mailers did not mention that he was exonerated on decades-old charges that even Justice Antonin Scalia said were bogus. The mailers left the impression that Espy is another black ex-con that Republicans want their constituents to fear, just like Atwater fanned when he conceived attack ads back in the 1980s. It’s a game a Mississippian—Haley Barbour—helped Atwater play to bring southern voters to vote for Republican Ronald Reagan, who campaigned for president at the Neshoba County Fair talking about state’s rights, near where three civil rights workers killed by the Klan were buried under a damn in 1964. And it’s a game that has pushed conservatives gradually toward the Republican Party since the 1960s with the final transformation coming into full fruition after President Barack Obama’s election, culminating in a supermajority in the Mississippi Legislature in 2016. The strategy also laid the groundwork for the election of Donald Trump. By the time he kicked off his campaign saying Mexicans were racists and murders, America had adjusted to four decades of dog-whistle rhetoric passing for truth. The current rules are simple: Stoke the embers of racism in every white person possible by associating the Democratic opponent with President Obama or Rep. Bennie Thompson from the Delta, or the Clintons, who have long been popular in much of the black community. Atwater himself explained in a 1981 taped interview how racist political strategy had developed over time since Dixiecrats were yelling the n-word in the 1950s to the new Republican Party he helped create— who instead fixated on about welfare cuts and entitlements by the 1980s to convey the wink-wink race-baiting message. “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘N*gger, n*gger, n*gger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’

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explanation of the civil-rights disagreement that brought the change. “As many white voters switched, the Republican Party became dominant in state politics.” As an example of a politician who started out Democratic, then became Republican (while maintaining the same views), the museum points out former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott—first a Democrat, later a Republican—who often interacted with white-supremacist groups and praised the n-word-using Sen. Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrat movement, ending his political career. The party switch started as early as the 1940s, but got a jolt of energy in 1964. In July of that pivotal year, as white resistance to civil-rights efforts turned bloody in the south, Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, enraging white southerners who had identified as Democrats since slavery, secession and Reconstruction times. Then, in August 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, led by civil-rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, demanded that their delegates be seated at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, rather than the segregationist Democrats— as they were also called—who dominated the official state party. That led to a walkout of the all-white Mississippi delegation, and the MFDP refused a party offer to compromise by giving them just two seats with no voting power. Segregationist Mississippi politician Charles Pickering—later a prominent Republican judge whose name would surface

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Lee Atwater launched decades of racist political ads for Republicans with his Willie Horton ad for the 1988 George H.W. Bush campaign. Horton, in the back of the line to the left, is the only black man pictured in this ad.

The Mississippi Museum of History has an exhibit explaining the party switch. “Over time, the more conservative Republican position appealed to many white Mississippians,” the placard concludes after an

in the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings—attributed the actions of Hamer and her compatriots to his decision to leave the Democratic Party. Pickering said the people of Mississippi “were heaped with

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1861, on the other hand, he said its “foundation” and “cornerstone” rests “upon the great moral truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.” Lincoln has never been a particularly popular figure among southern conservatives, whether they were Democrats or Republicans. At the same Tupelo rally where Hyde-Smith made her infamous “public hanging” remark, she seemed unaware of the modern GOP’s preference for reimagining today’s southern white conservatives as having been Republicans all along—the heirs of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, and absolutely not the ideological offspring of racist Dixiecrats who divorced the Democratic Party and took on a grand new name: Republican. “You have people that say, ‘She used to be a Democrat,’” Hyde-Smith told the crowd as she stood in front of a statue of Elvis that November morning. “Anybody in Mississippi 40 years old or older has voted for a Democrat. I’ve got news for you. Many years ago, everybody was.” Indeed, most white Mississippians did vote for Democrats 40 years ago because the realignment of the Democratic and Republican parties was not yet complete in Mississippi, especially in state and local races. That complete transformation would not occur fully in the South until Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, leading to many defeated Democrats and defections, such as Democrat Cindy HydeSmith, to the Republican Party by 2010.

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Haley Barbour was an early new Republican convert and strategist.

humiliation and embarrassment at the Democratic Convention.” Pickering left the Democratic Party a month later, encouraged by his law partner, Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin, a fierce segregationist Democrat who fought against the Supreme Court’s order for Mississippi to integrate its public schools until his dying day in 1966. Gartin, whose name graces the Mississippi Supreme Court building in Jackson, built in 2011, also presided over the creation of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission in 1956. The state-funded agency spied for years on “communists” and “liberals” supporting civil rights for black people like the right to vote, or on a gas-station owner allowing a black man to use his station bathroom in Philadelphia, Miss. ‘The Uptown Klan’ Carroll Gartin, law partner of Charles Pickering, was a member of the Citizens Council, known colloquially as the White Citizens Council and called the “uptown Klan” by newspaper editor Hodding Carter Jr. because it attracted so many upstanding businessmen, including in Jackson. The organization formed after the 1954 Brown v. Board decision as an overtly white-supremacist group that preached until it closed in 1989 that black people were genetically and biologically inferior, more prone to crime and were poor workers. Citizens Council leaders certainly did not want white kids going to school with black ones because that would, in its words, disrupt white “racial integrity.”

The Citizens Council, led from Jackson by William J. Simmons with chapters around the country, even in San Francisco, would have many devastating impacts on the city and the state. One of those was plowing the ground for the later “southern strategy” by constantly publishing overhyped accounts of black-on-white crime (from a state where white-on-black violence was rampant and seldom prosecuted). But none were more devastating than the Citizens Council’s efforts to get white families to flee the public schools once the group realized that federal enforcement of Brown v. Board was inevitable. After the Supreme Court definitively ordered immediate desegregation in 1969, the Citizens Council extended its influence by helping white families bypass integration by funding all-white “segregation academies” and itself setting up multiple Council schools around Jackson. Many of those schools were quickly cobbled together once it became clear that white parents’ only other option was to continue to send their children to public schools where they would soon be joined by an abundance of black classmates. The schools taught the “scientific racism” of black inferiority and kept materials espousing the bunk science right in school libraries for students to study. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant attended one of the Citizens Council academies, Council McCluer, which was on the site of what is now called New Horizon Ministries, a complex of small businesses, a gym, aftermore RACE POLITICS p 18

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school programs for children and more run by Ronnie Crudup Jr., an African American man working to bring back the vigor of south Jackson since white flight devastated it in recent decades. He had no idea that the property used to house a Council school until the Jackson Free Press told him. In the 1970s, local newspapers treated announcements from those schools about sports and other honors the same as public schools, while running photos of children with a “Citizens Council: States Rights, Racial Integrity” placard in front of them. Bryant does not publicize that he attended Council McCluer School in south Jackson, but a local historian confirmed it by examining yearbooks for a column in the Jackson Free Press last year. Cindy Hyde-Smith also attended a segregation academy, as the Jackson Free Press reported on Nov. 23. Lawrence County Academy opened in 1970, just after the desegregation order. In one group photo in a 1975 yearbook, a young short-haired Cindy Hyde, in her sophomore year, poses with her fellow cheerleaders; at the center of the photo, the mascot, dressed in what appears to be a Confederate general’s uniform, holds up a large Confederate flag. Hyde-Smith cannot be held accountable for where her parents sent her, many pointed out after the story published. Still, as an adult, she sent her daughter, who graduated in 2017, to Brookhaven Academy, which opened as a segregation academy the same year as Lawrence County Academy, and received help early on from the Citizens Council. As recently as the 20152016 school year, Brookhaven Academy had only one black student, despite the fact that Brookhaven is majority black. Perhaps most telling is Hyde-Smith’s and the governor’s reticence about talking about their education in their formative years, unlike many who openly discuss experiences in “seg” schools over the days since that story published. Jan Mattiace, for instance, recently talked about her family sending her to allwhite Canton Academy as the answer to forced integration. She also grew up loving the Confederate flag—not knowing what it represented. As an Ole Miss student, she remembers stadiums full of people waving little rebel flags at games now rejects that teaching as an adult. “I waved those flags,” she said, adding that she hadn’t been taught anything different. It wasn’t until the university’s first black cheerleader, John Hawkins, refused to carry a large rebel flag on the field in 1982 that Mattiace started understanding. Now, Mattiace serves on the board

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of Dialogue Jackson, an organization that promotes deep conversations about race division and reconciliation. For many in the Deep South, private schools born out of race hatred—as opposed to ones created out of religious faith or devotion to a complete education—remain a fact of life, and it’s no secret that many white parents still send their children to them to avoid schools with significant numbers of black students. Others insist the segregation academies serve the purpose today of giving parents a higher quality educational option than some public schools allow. The academies, much like the state flag, are the elephant in the room that many

peaceful counter-protester Heather Heyer. The next day, the Delta Flaggers showed up on campus carrying state flags and Trump flags. This time, though, they were met with resistance from dozens of students who spontaneously organized on social media to take a stand, as Heyer had done in Charlottesville. The scene at the front of the campus was like a dysfunctional but authentic Mississippi family photo, complete with young Mississippians—white and black— holding up a Black Lives Matter banner and raising anti-racism placards in front of a massive state flag guarded by a group of mostly older, mostly white Mississippians, courtesy WLBT

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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith read a weak apology over her “hanging” remark in a debate with challenger Mike Espy that essentially blamed him for the uproar.

Mississippians would rather not prod. People born and raised in Mississippi—like the authors of this story—know we are not supposed to talk about this recent race history and its effects on today. But, if not, little changes. Besides, many Mississippians of all races are ready to talk about it now. ‘We Have to Do This Continually’ In late 2015, the University of Southern Mississippi took down the state flag, which has the Confederate battle emblem in its canton, from one of the three flagpoles in front of campus where it once flew alongside the American flag. Every Sunday since, the Delta Flaggers—a group of dedicated supporters of the current state flag— have shown up to campus to fly, not one, but sometimes dozens of Mississippi state flags of various sizes. For nearly two years, the Flaggers met little resistance from students on campus or residents of Hattiesburg. That all changed, though, after neo-Nazis carrying the flag of the Third Reich marched alongside Confederate-flag-wielding white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., with one murdering

who on several occasions burst into singing choruses of “Dixie.” A week later, the students’ protest grew to hundreds, and included professors and other town residents. For about two months, the Delta Flaggers, who had previously claimed the campus entrance unchallenged, met resistance from students and townspeople who were no longer content to see a symbol of slavery given free reign to fly on their campus. “We come in masses, we come strong,” Jojo Virgil, an African American student, told the crowd as they gathered around him at one of the dueling Sunday protests. “We pack a powerful punch. People don’t see it, people don’t know it. But when we come together, it can be felt, and it can be heard. So we have to do this continuously.” State flags flying on college campuses was “normal”—until enough Mississippians decided it was not. Academies that operate under the guise of offering a superior private school education while still functionally serving as segregation academies is “normal,” but after this Senate election, Mississippians are questioning that, too. Even Hyde-Smith’s “public hanging” re-

mark was once a common southern phrase during the time when lynchings were also common, University of Alabama linguist Paul Reed told The New York Times. Clearly, many now would rather never hear that phrase again. What Next, Mississippi? As a whirlwind of race-related debates draw to an end with this week’s run-off election, what happens next? Certainly, parts of the mis-education of many Mississippians—and Americans—about seldomdiscussed realities like “seg academies” was erased in recent days and weeks. The country learned that “school choice” and vouchers started out as ways to incentivize white families for pulling their children out of public schools in the South and enrolling them in all-white schools. The dialogue nationally also moved organically to the question of the problem of de facto segregation schools, public and private, far from Mississippi that offer better education and service to affluent white children. Here in Mississippi, our history of toxic race policies were laid bare, from the “criminal” mailers about Mike Espy to open talk about schools built to shield white children from societal diversity. It’s easy to wonder if, as with many state elections, this fervor dies down as we have a winner and move into the holidays and toward state elections. The difference this time seems palpable, at least as we approach the closing of the polls. The number of Mississippians who voted swelled for the Senate election, including many African Americans and young people of various races. Volunteerism spiked, and get-out-the-vote efforts, such as by Mississippi Votes and Black Voters Matter, was intense. It’s hard to imagine these zealous efforts, or the conversations provoked by revelations during the election cycle, just dying out now. Rukia Lumumba is an attorney and founder of the People’s Advocacy Institute, an organization that leads grassroots voter awareness and registration drives; she is also Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba’s sister. She spent weeks working with other organizers to turn out the vote on Election Day and then to the run-off. Lumumba takes the long view, believing the fervor will continue. “It’s time that we take back our democracy, and Tuesday is just the start; it is not the end,” Lumumba told JFP reporter Ko Bragg just before the run-off. “It’s a continuation of a struggle we’ve always been waging in Mississippi because what happens in Mississippi really does matter to the world.” Comment: jacksonfreepress.com

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Holiday Under the Stars Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.) will host Holiday Under the Stars on Thursday, Nov. 29, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza. The event will have holiday-themed activities, live entertainment and a visit from Santa Claus. For more information, find the event on Facebook.

Chimneyville Arts Festival This year’s Chimneyville Arts Festival is Nov. 30 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Dec. 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.) The preview party is Thursday, Nov. 29, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The festival features 150 vendors selling items in mediums such as metalwork, jewelry, clay and more. The preview party will have music, hors d’oeuvres, drinks and more. The tickets to that event, which are $50 in advance or $60 at the door, include admission for both days. The cost for Friday and Saturday is $10. For more information, call 601-856-7547 or visit craftsmenguildofms.org. Photos With Santa From now until Dec. 23, families can get their photos taken with Santa at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The event is on Friday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Photos are $39.95, and families will receive a memory card with the files. For more information, call Lynsie Armstrong at 601-982-5861 or email lynsie. armstrong@wsdevelopment.com.

“Journey to the Northpole” The Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.) will opened its “Journey to the North Pole” exhibit on Tuesday, Nov. 20. The special holiday exhibit features a winter village with lights, train cars and a 45-foot Snowflake Slide. Children will also be able to have their photos taken with Santa, build gingerbread houses and more. The exhibit is open through Jan. 6, 2019. For more information, call 601-981-5469 or visit mschildrensmuseum.org.

before Clinton’s annual Christmas parade. All participants will receive a race T-shirt, finisher medal and swag bag. Special awards will go to the top three male and female finishers in 5K walk, and 5K and 10K runs. The races will begin at Olde Towne Clinton (298 W. College St.). The current registration fee is $35, and the cutoff to register for the race is Nov. 30. For more information, visit yulerunclinton.com or find the event on Facebook. Photo by Mike Arney on Unsplash

Festival of Trees The Westin Jackson will host the inaugural Festival of Trees from Nov. 29-Dec. 15. The event begins with a Holiday Gala at The Westin Jackson (407 S. Congress St.) on Nov. 29 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., which will showcase decorated Christmas trees from local designers such as Erik Kegler Interiors and Betsy Mosby. After the event, the trees will be on display at The Westin until Dec. 9. Also, from now until Dec. 15, the hotel will have an ice-skating rink on the outdoor patio, complete with hot-chocolate stands, treat cats and more. On Nov. 27, Soul Spa will host a shopping night that will feature free Champagne, small appetizers and onenight-only holiday discounts. The Westin’s Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro (407 S. Congress St.) will host Brunch with Santa on Sunday, Dec. 2, and Sunday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu includes cinnamon rolls, pancakes and other brunch foods. Guests can take photos with Santa and also hear stories from him. Reservations are required. From Dec. 8-9, The Westin will also host the Sugarplum Fairy’s Tea Parties. The only seating left at press time is Dec. 8 at 11:30 a.m. For more information, visit jacksonsfestivaloftrees. com or find the event on Facebook.

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“Black Nativity: The Musical” MADDRAMA at Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.) will host “Black Nativity: The Musical,” an adaptation of the Langston Hughes play that tells the story of Christmas through gospel, poetry and dance, from Thursday, Nov. 29, through Sunday, Dec. 2. Performances on Thursday through Saturday are from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and Sunday from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday will also have a 10 a.m. performance. Regular admission is $15, and the cost for students and seniors is $10. For more information, visit jsums.edu. Singing Christmas Tree The 86th annual holiday event is at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.) on Friday, Nov. 30, and Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. During the concert, a tree made of Belhaven choral arts students, faculty and staff, and more will perform traditional Christmas music. The doors open at 7 p.m., and the event is free. For more information, visit belhaven.edu. Yule Run Clinton 2018 The Clinton Chamber of Commerce will host the inaugural Yule Run Clinton on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The event will have a 5K and 10K walk and run

New Hope Christian School’s Holiday Bazaar New Hope Christian School (5202 Watkins Drive) will host its annual Holiday Bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The market will have local vendors, food, photography, live music and more. For more information, call Rosemary McClinton at 601-850-0572 or email rosemarymcclinton@yahoo.com. Cookies With Santa The Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.) will host Cookies with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The event will have animal encounters, cookie decoration, writing wish letters, a visit from Santa Claus at 2:45 p.m. and more. For more information, visit jacksonzoo.org. Jingle Bell Jog Southern AgCredit will host the 2018 Fit for Ag / Jingle Bell Jog Half Marathon, 10K and 5K is Saturday, Dec. 1, at Madison Central High School (1417 Highland Colony Pkwy., Madison) from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will have a half marathon, 10K run, 5K walk and run, and a children’s one-mile fun run. The race will have prizes for overall male and female runners, the top three male and female runners in each age group, and more. The deadline

to register is Nov. 29, and packet pickup is Nov. 30 at Southern AgCredit (402 W. Parkway Place, Ridgeland) from noon until 8 p.m. Race day packet pickup is at MCHS at 7 a.m. For more information, visit raceroster. com or find the event on Facebook. Jingle Bell Market The Pearl Chamber of Commerce will host the holiday market on Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Clyde Muse Center (515 Country Place Pkwy., Pearl) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will have arts-and-crafts vendors, food for sale, live entertainment, pictures with Santa Claus for children and pets, a car show and a children’s play area. For more information, call 601-939-3338 or visit pearlms.org. Cookies & Milk With Santa Sister, Sister Monogramming & Boutique (509 Liberty Road, Flowood) will host Cookies & Milk with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. During the event, participants can have milk and cookies with Santa from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. There will also be door-prize drawings from 10 a.m. to noon, grand prize drawings at 2 p.m., and Christmas crafts and store discounts all day. For more information, find the event on Facebook. The Mustard Seed Open House The annual open house at The Mustard Seed (1085 Luckney Road, Brandon) is Saturday, Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature performances from the Bells of Faith Handbell Choir at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., a Christmas raffle at 2 p.m., and food from the Seedster Families Bake Sale. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit mustardseedinc.org.

Midtown Holiday Studio Tours The Business Association of Midtown will host its annual Holiday Studio Tours on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free to attend and will feature food trucks on Wilson Avenue, as well as handmade crafts, food, coffee, beer and more for sale at participating Midtown businesses. Attendees can also tour businesses such as the North Midtown Art Center, and The Hatch and The Hangar throughout the day. Businesses will also have different events. For more information, find the event on Facebook. “A Christmas Carol” New Stage Theatre will perform “A Christmas Carol” Dec. 1-21. Playwright Michael Wilson adapted the Charles Dickens classic, which tells the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, for the stage. Tickets are $35 for regular admission, and $28 for seniors, students and military. Performances on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays begin at 7:30 p.m. Performances on Sundays begin at 2 p.m. For more information, newstagetheatre.com. Priced to Move: Vol. 9 Priced to Move: Vol. 9 is Friday, Dec. 14, and Saturday, Dec. 15, at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.). The event features work from 30 visual artists, each piece priced under $100. Priced to Move will also have music from Silent G, DJ Frecious, Skipp Koon, Vitamin Tea and more on Friday, and performances from Spacewolf and Vibe Doctors with guest artist 5th Child on Saturday. The hours on Friday are 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., and on Saturday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, find the event on Facebook.

“Amahl and the Night Visitors” The Mississippi Opera will present Gian Carlo Menotti’s Christmas opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” at Bellwether Church (4624 Old Canton Road) on Sunday, Dec. 2. Regular admission is $25, and the cost is $5 for students and active military. For more information, visit msopera.org. “Twas the Night Before Christmas: The Musical” The Center Players Community Theatre will perform “Twas the Night Before Christmas: The Musical,” based on Clement C. Moore’s famous holiday poem, at Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison) Dec. 6-9. Regular admission is $15, and the cost is $12 for senior citizens, students and military. For more information, call 769-300-1359 or find the event on Facebook. Christmas by Candlelight Tour The Mississippi Department of Archives and History will host the Christmas by Candlelight Tour on Friday, Dec. 7, from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The event will feature live music, tours, decorations, and refreshments at the places such as the Governor’s Manson, Eudora Welty House and Garden, the Manship House Museum and the Mississippi State Capitol. Christmas by Candlelight will have transportation from site to site, and parking will be at the Old Capitol Museum and Mississippi State Capitol. For more information, call 601-576-6998 or visit mdah.ms.gov. This list is not an extensive list. See and add more at jfp. ms/holidayevents2018. For more events, see jfpevents.com.

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THURSDAY 11/29 The Festival of Trees Holiday Charity Gala is at 7 p.m. at The Westin Jackson (407 S. Congress St.). The fundraising gala features a silent auction, live music, festive foods, eggnog and more, along with a display of elaborately deco-

WEDNESDAY 11/28 Poet Frank LaRue Owen signs copies of his latest book of poetry, “The School of Soft-Attention,” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $16.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. FILE PHOTO

partner with the community, assess district needs and identify assets. Free admission; call 601-2080775; bettertogether.formississippi.org. Christmas Open House Nov. 29, 5-8 p.m., at The Township at Colony Park (1107 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). The holiday open house celebrates the 15th anniversary of The Township, and includes photos with Santa Claus at Renasant Bank, face painting, and treats and sales at participating shops. Free admission; find it on Facebook. Homestead for the Holidays Nov. 29-30, 5-8 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). The annual event includes a sampler breakfast for dinner, crafts, live music, story time with Mrs. Claus, photo opportunities with Santa Claus and Rudolph, live demonstrations in Small Town, and the Fortenberry-Parkman Farmstead, which shows visitors what Christmas was like in the late 1800s. $6 for adults, $4 for children, half price with canned food donation; msagmuseum.org.

Events in downtown Jackson • “Christmas Lights, Winter Nights” Parade Dec. 1, 5 p.m. The City of Jackson presents the parade through downtown at 5 p.m. and a tree lighting at Jackson City Hall at 6 p.m. Free admission; find it on Facebook. • Christmas by Candlelight Tour Dec. 7, 4:30-8:30 p.m. The holiday event features live music, tours, decorations and refreshments at locations around downtown Jackson including the Governor’s Mansion, Eudora Welty House and Garden, Manship House Museum, Mississippi State Capitol, Old Capitol Museum and Two Mississippi Museums. Free transportation from site to site, and parking at the Old Capitol and State Capitol. Free admission; call 601-576-6998; mdah.ms.gov.

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fering featuring panelists Vicki Slater, R. Allen Smith and Rocky Wilkins. Registration includes lunch. $150 MAJ members, $200 for nonmembers, $25 for students; call 601-948-8631; email deanna@msaj.org; msaj.org. Better Together Commission Meeting Nov. 29, 4-5:45 p.m., at Margaret Walker Alexander Library (2525 Robinson St.). The meetings provide an opportunity for the Better Together Commission to provide information, updates on current efforts and responses to public questions. The commission is designed

New Hope Christian School’s Holiday Bazaar Dec. 1, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., at New Hope Christian School (5202 Watkins Drive). The annual family-friendly holiday market features a variety of local vendors, food, photography, music and more. Free admission; call 601-8500572; email rosemarymcclinton@yahoo.com. Jingle Bell Market Dec. 1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Clyde Muse Center (515 Country Place Pkwy., Pearl). The Pearl Chamber of Commerce hosts the annual Christmas market featuring arts and craft vendors, food for sale, live entertainment, pictures with Santa Claus for children and pets, a car show and a children’s play area. Free admission; call 601-939-3338; pearlms.org.

Entrepreneur Quarterly Meetup Dec. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza and Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.). Local entrepreneurs network and hear from a panel of speakers from various groups and co-working spaces. Includes pizza and drink specials. Free admission; call 601-982-4443, ext. 17; email susanf@bravobuzz.com; find it on Facebook. Teen Takeover Dec. 7, 6-9 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The Mississippi Museum of Art Teen Council presents the event for high-schoolers featuring music, art activities, free food, games, a photo booth and more. Free admission (student ID required); call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. Women’s Worth Conference Dec. 8, 9 a.m.5:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.). In Student Center Ballroom A and B. The faith-based women’s conference features a luncheon and empowerment sessions with guests such as Ebony Lumumba, Robert C. Blaine, Carla Lane, Toni Alvarado, Pamela Confer and more. Includes panels, a VIP jazz reception and more. $25; email wroyalty7@yahoo.com. A Golden Holiday Dec. 8, 7-11:30 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The Tau Sigma Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho, Inc. presents the event benefitting the chapter scholarship fund. Includes food from the culinary arts program at Hinds Community College in Utica, entertainment and more. BYOB, limited to two bottles per person. Semiformal attire. $40 per person, $75 per couple, $220 for table of six; eventbrite.com.

Holiday Under the Stars Nov. 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.). At Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza. The family-friendly holiday event features activities, live entertainment and a visit from Santa Claus. Free admission; find it on Facebook. Millsaps Forums: “From Liberty to Magnolia” Nov. 30, 1-2:30 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex room 215. The speaker is Mississippi native Janice S. Ellis, who has been a writer for more than 30 years. She discusses her new book, “From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream,” which tells the true story of the journey of a black woman facing the dilemmas of navigating American society. Free admission; call 601-974-1005; millsaps.edu.

with Disabilities presents the annual party honors leaders and advocates for Mississippians living with disabilities. Includes drinks, food, music from Patrick Harkins, the “Keep Building Jackson” LEGO and VSA Community Arts Group exhibits, and more. $40 per person; call 601969-0601; find it on Facebook.

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FRIDAY 11/30 Cole Swindell and Dustin Lynch perform at 7 p.m. at the Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The Nashville, Tenn.-based country artists perform as part of the “Reason to Drink… Another” Tour. Lauren Alaina also performs. $30.75-$159; call 877987-6487; ardenland.net.

Fondren After 5 Dec. 6, 5 p.m., in Fondren. The family-friendly street festival takes place on the first Thursday of each month and includes live entertainment, food and drinks for sale, art and crafts vendors, and more. Free; fondren.org. Coalition Torchbearers Celebration Dec. 6, 5:30-8 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The Coalition for Citizens

Starry Night Gala Dec. 8, 7-11 p.m., at St. Anthony Catholic School (1585 Old Mannsdale Road, Madison). The annual holiday event features live and silent auctions, a $5,000 raffle, entertainment from The Tip Tops, and food from local restaurants such as Seafood R’evolution, Drago’s and Amerigo. $100 per person; call 601-607-7054; find it on Facebook. Musicians’ Party Dec. 9, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., at Pelican Cove Grill (3999 Harborwalk Drive, Suite A, Ridgeland). The annual party allows musicians to sign up for performing opportunities for the next year, and includes drink specials, a free buffet and a raffle that goes toward the restaurant’s upcoming Sara Sebren’s Angel Above Benefit. Free admission; find it on Facebook. Shop the City #6—Holiday Edition Dec. 9, 4-7 p.m., at 201Capitol (201 W. Capitol St.). BigPrettyPictures and PINK Leopard present the holiday shopping event featuring prize giveaways and sessions such as “Natural Hair Tips & Holiday Hair Pinups,” “Holiday Makeup & Skin Care Tips” and “How to Wear Your Sequins This Holiday Season.” VIP tickets include a taco bar, mistletoe mimosas, prizes and a swag bag. Free admission, $10 VIP; find it on Facebook.

Jingle & Mingle Dec. 11, 5-7 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The holiday open house includes hot chocolate, kettle corn, s’mores, a story time with Santa, kids’ crafts and more. Free admission; find it on Facebook. 2nd Annual Ladies’ Night Out Dec. 11, 6-9 p.m., at Bridlewood of Madison (3024 Highway 22, Madison). The event for women features more than 30 vendors of crafts, jewelry, adult’s and children’s clothing, and more. Includes door prizes, wine, light hors d’oeuvres, sodas and beer for sale. $5; find it on Facebook.

KIDS Story Time with Uncle Story Dec. 4, 10-11 a.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Children ages 2-5 can enjoy the puppet show and story time event on the first Tuesday of each month. Included with admission; find it on Facebook. ‘Twas a Night at the Museum Dec. 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). The annual latenight pajama party features themed activities, story times with visits from holiday characters, bingo and more. Included with admission ($10 per person); mschildrensmuseum.org. “Snow Much Fun!” Dec. 7-8, 6-8:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Visitors can enjoy crafts, games, STEM experiments, dancing at the “Snow Ball,” photos with Santa, playing in scheduled “snowfalls,” and more. In advance: $8 for adults, $4 for children ages 3-18, and free under age 3; at the door: $10 for adults, $6 for children ages 3-18, and free under age 3; find it on Facebook.

SUNDAY 12/2 “Choirs at the Old Capitol” is at 3 p.m. at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). The Anderson United Methodist Church Choir performs a concert of traditional holiday music in the museum rotunda. Free admission; call 601576-6920; email info@oldcapitol museum.com; mdah.ms.gov.

“The Tempestuous Trial of Maybelline Meriweather” Story Time Dec. 8, 10 a.m., at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Sarah and Michael Hewes sign copies and read their children’s book. $20 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. Hoot & Holler Family Creation Lab Dec. 9, 2-3:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). A museum educator leads families with children ages 6-10 in an art project taking inspiration from a different artist each month. This event takes place on the second Sunday of each month. $10 per child; msmuseumart.org.

FOOD & DRINKS Breakfast with Santa Dec. 1, 7:30-9:30 a.m., at Applebee’s (111 Clinton Center Drive, Clinton). The Crown Club of Clinton presents its annual pancake breakfast featuring a visit from Santa Claus. $5 per person; find it on Facebook.

Looking for something great to do in Jackson? Visit JFPEVENTS.COM for more. Yule Run Clinton 2018 Dec. 1, 8-10 a.m., at Olde Towne Clinton (298 W. College St., Clinton). The Clinton Chamber of Commerce presents the inaugural holiday event, which includes a combined 5K and 10K walk/run before the annual Christmas parade. $30 early bird, $35 regular price; call 601-924-5912; clintonms.org.

SATURDAY 12/1 The SILAS Album Release Party is at 9 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Jackson-native hip-hop artist performs to promote his latest album, “The Last Cherry Blossom.” Aha Gazelle, DevMaccc, Vitamin Cea and Judson Wright also perform. Doors open at 8 p.m. 15 in advance, $20 day of show; call 877-9876487; ardenland.net.

Jingle Bell Jog Dec. 1, 8-10 a.m., at Madison Central High School (1417 Highland Colony Pkwy., Madison). Southern AgCredit presents the sixth annual race featuring half marathon, 10K run, 5K run/walk and children’s one-mile fun run options. Includes prizes for overall male and female runners, top three male and female runners in each age group, and more. $50 half marathon, $40 10K, $35 5K, $10 fun run; find it on Facebook.

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Cookies & Milk with Santa Dec. 1, 9 a.m.2 p.m., at Sister Sister Monogramming & Boutique (509 Liberty Road, Flowood). The family-friendly event features cookies and milk with Santa Claus from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., door prize drawings from 10 a.m. to noon, a grand prize drawing at 2 p.m., and Christmas crafts and store discounts all day. Free admission, prices vary; find it on Facebook. Taste for the Space Dec. 1, noon-3 p.m., at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road). The food festival features local restaurateurs, chefs and food trucks compete to win a dining space at Northpark. Attendees will sample a signature dish from each competitor and vote on which is their favorite. Includes kids’ activities, live entertainment, a tasting bar from Cathead Vodka and more. Proceeds benefit Mississippi Food Network. $7 admission, ages 10 and under free with canned food donation; visitnorthpark.com. “After the Hunt” Christmas Cooking Demo Dec. 1, 1-3 p.m., at Seafood R’evolution (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). Chefs John Folse and Rick Tramonoto demonstrate and allow participants to taste six Christmasinspired game dishes. Wine served. Limited seating. $75 per person (plus tax and gratuity); call 601-853-3474; find it on Facebook. Cookies with Santa Dec. 1, 1-4 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The annual family-friendly Christmas event features animal encounters, cookie decorating, writing wish letters, a visit from Santa Claus at 2:45 p.m. and more. $10.25 for adults, $7.25 for ages 2-12, free under age 2; jacksonzoo.org. Brunch with Santa Dec. 2, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro (407 S. Congress St.). The family-friendly event invites customers to enjoy sweet cinnamon rolls, pancakes and other brunch foods from chef Matthew Kajdan, while taking photos with and hearing stories from Santa Claus. Reservations required. Food prices vary; find it on Facebook. Uncork & Fork: Cakebread Cellars Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m., at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). The dinner features pairings from Cakebread Cellars, a winery based in Napa Valley in California. Reservations required. $129 per person (tax and gratuity included); find it on Facebook.

Espolon Tequila Dinner & Tasting Dec. 6, 7-9 p.m., at Cantina Laredo (200 District Blvd.). Chef Scott Kyser prepares a four-course dinner with tequila pairings from Espolon. Cocktail service and seating at 7 p.m., and dinner at 7:30 p.m. Reservations required. $59.99 per person; call 601-982-7061; find it on Facebook. Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Breakfast Dec. 8, 7:30-9:30 a.m., at Applebee’s (124 Grandview Blvd., Madison). Families can enjoy a pancake breakfast while meeting popular Disney characters. Proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. Must register in advance. $10 per person before Dec. 3, $15 after; find it on Facebook. Breakfast with Santa Dec. 8, 7:30-10:30 a.m., at McClain (874 Holly Bush Road, Brandon). The event includes a visit from Santa Claus with photo opportunities, a breakfast buffet and a drink. The available time slots are 7:30-8:30 a.m. and 9-10 a.m. Limited space. $50 four-top table (gratuity included); find it on Facebook.

Holiday Open House Party Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., at Soul Synergy Center (5490 Castlewoods Court, Suite D, Flowood). Soul Synergy offers yoga, massage, reiki, salt cave therapy and more. The open house features a raffle, mulled cider, snacks, and special discounts on items in the store. Donate at least $10 to enter the raffle. All donations go to Cheshire Abbey animal shelter. Free admission, donations encouraged; call 601992-7721; soulsynergycenter.com. Winter Polemencement & Open House Dec. 7, 6:30-8 p.m., at Taboo Dance & Aerial Fitness (856 S. State St.). The women-only pole fitness event celebrates the graduation of beginner and intermediate students, and includes performances, refreshments, prize giveaways and more. RSVP required. Free admission; find it on Facebook. Events at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.) • Harlem Globetrotters Dec. 7, 7 p.m. The exhibition basketball team is known for its combination of theatricality, comedy and athleticism. $18-$90; ticketmaster.com. • UM Rebels Basketball Game Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m. The University of Mississippi basketball team plays against the Southeastern Louisiana University Lions. $2-$17; find it on Facebook.

MONDAY 12/3 “Cooking 201 with Chef Kenny Ray” is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 201Capitol (201 W. Capitol St.). 201C apitol chef Kenny Ray leads the cooking class focused on presenting participants with a variety of new cooking techniques. Includes student participation and tastings. $25 per person; eventbrite.com. KABOOMPICS.COM / PEXELS

Ribs ‘N Rides Car, Truck & Bike Show Dec. 8, 2-8 p.m., at Little Willie’s BBQ (3015 Highway 80 E., Pearl). The auto show features trophies for the top 10 vehicles and best in show. Includes barbecue, music and a toy drive. $20 show entry; find it on Facebook.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Brain Injury Association of Mississippi Golf Tournament Nov. 30, 1 p.m., at Whisper Lake Country Club (414 Annandale Pkwy., Madison). The four-person scramble tournament and features a former NFL athlete, coach or celebrity on each team. $150 per person, $600 per team; msbraininjury.org.

Reindeer Run Dec. 8, 7:30-10:30 a.m., at First Baptist Church Brandon (309 S. College St., Brandon). The 5K run/walk and one-mile fun run invites runners to dress in their favorite Christmas costume. $25 5K, $15 fun run; call 601-825-6766; find it on Facebook.

STAGE & SCREEN Murder Mystery Dinner Nov. 28, 6-9 p.m., at Char Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 142). The Detectives present the comedic dinner theater show with a three-course meal. Seating and cocktail hour at 6 p.m., and show at 7 p.m. $49 plus tax and gratuity; find it on Facebook.

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DOXA Dance Concert Nov. 28-29, 7 p.m., at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). In the Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center. The dance concert showcases student choreography and performances. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $10 admission, $5 for seniors and students; belhaven.edu. “Black Nativity: The Musical” Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 7 p.m., Dec. 2, 3 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.). MADDRAMA presents its annual adaptation of Langston Hughes’ classic holiday musical, which tells the story of Christmas through gospel, poetry and dance. $15 admission, $10 for students and seniors; call 601-454-1183; maddrama.com. “Closed for the Holidays” Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 2, Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 9, 2 p.m., at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus’ comedic play tells the story of a group

hip-hop artist together in 2014 after Mayberry pitched the idea to him. “From the first show where we tried it where it was drums, a DJ and him— his manager at the time, Cortez, took my

mer I’ve got back there, he’s like a one-man band. He sounds like 50 people.’” Since then, “One-Man Band” has become part of Mayberry’s branding as Yayo the Drummer, appearing on much SHOTS ON TAYLOR

potlights burst and reveal the stage setup for platinum-selling rapper Lil Wayne, his name superimposed against a black background, reaching at least 25 feet over the screaming audience. As the DJ begins spinning the track, though, the first thing fans may notice is not which song is playing but the energy of a new element: hip-hop percussionist Matthew Mayberry, better known as Yayo the Drummer. The Jackson-native musician has been performing with Lil Wayne for about two years, but he says that he has worked to promote live instrumentation in hip-hop shows for a long time. Mayberry says: “I think—not throwing shade or being negative or anything— but to me, one of the most boring shows for me growing up was to see an artist with a DJ and that be it, when they’re not one of those artists that dances or moves, or they’re just not one of those entertainers.” While he likes the image of an artist and a DJ together onstage, he says there is nothing quite like bringing an audience face to face with the instruments, which livens not only the fans but the artist. Mayberry did not immediately make the jump to hip-hop, though. He grew up playing piano for his church before picking up the drums and other instruments, and then, he began playing a variety of musical styles while attending Tuskegee University. Lil Wayne’s former manager, Cortez Bryant, a longtime friend of Mayberry and a fellow Callaway High School graduate, brought the drummer and the popular

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Jackson-native percussionist Matthew Mayberry has made a career as a percussionist for hip-hop artists such as Lil Wayne and is currently working on a solo release titled “The Rhythm Wars Project.”

idea and wanted to run with it—when Wayne was introduced to it, he kept turning around in the middle of the show like, ‘Man, what is he doing back there?’ … He (told) Cortez after the fact, ‘That drum-

of his merchandise, and Lil Wayne has continued using the name to introduce him during performances. He recently shared the stage with Lil Wayne on the Nov. 10 episode of NBC sketch-comedy

show “Saturday Night Live,” performing the songs “Uproar” and “Can’t Be Broken” with guest vocalist Halsey. Over the past few years, Mayberry’s heightened profile has opened the door for him to play with other artists, as well, including Drake, Mannie Fresh and Preme, when not on tour with Lil Wayne. He is also currently in the process of making a solo mixtape titled “The Rhythm Wars Project,” which is scheduled for release in spring 2019. “Instead of it being more 808 (drum machine) and pad based, I’m going to add the live drums to the tracks that I make, but the reason it’s called ‘Rhythm War Project’ is that it’s going to sound like a war between instruments—not (out of control) but to the point where it sonically makes sense, and it’s something you’ve never heard before.” After two years of nearly full-time touring as a hip-hop drummer, Mayberry says that he still is blown away every time he steps onstage. It is a blessing, he says, but not one that comes without work. He is constantly developing his style while working to make sure he balances his playing with the vibe of the artists and DJs he is performing with. “It’s not one of those things where, ‘Oh, this happened, and that led to this,’” he says. “God just opened up doors and was placing people in my path to help me with it, but I was preparing it all along. When preparation meets opportunity, it equals success every time.” For more information, visit yayo thedrummer.com.

Looking for something great to do in Jackson? Visit JFPEVENTS.COM for more. of travelers stranded on Christmas Eve due to a blizzard. $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, children and military; blackrosetheatre.org. Mystery Dinner Theater Nov. 30, 6-9 p.m., at Anjou Restaurant (361 Township Ave., Ridgeland). The Detectives present the comedic, holiday-themed dinner theater show with a three-course meal. Seating and cocktail service at

6 p.m., and show at 7 p.m. Limited seating. $52 per person plus tax and tip; find it on Facebook. “A Christmas Carol” Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 2, 2 p.m., Dec. 6-8, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 9, 2 p.m., Dec. 12-15, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 16, 2 p.m., Dec. 18-21, 7:30 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). New Stage Theatre presents the classic holiday story from Charles Dickens, which

TUESDAY 12/4 “Uncork & Fork: Cakebread Cellars” is at 6:30 p.m. at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). The dinner features pairings from Cakebread Cellars, a winery based in Napa Valley in California. Reservations required. $129 per person (tax and gratuity included); find it on Facebook. CLIPART

playwright Michael Wilson has adapted for stage. Appropriate for ages 8 and up. $35 admission, $28 for seniors, students and military; call 601948-3533; newstagetheatre.com. “Amahl and the Night Visitors” Dec. 2, 3 p.m., at Bellwether Church (4624 Old Canton Road). The Mississippi Opera presents the annual production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act Christmas opera, which was the first opera composed for television and initially performed at Rockefeller Center in 1951. $25 admission, $5 for students and active military; msopera.org. “Soul Damage” Film Screening Dec. 6, 7 p.m., at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). Phoenix Rising Entertainment presents the screening of the first feature-length film from Mississippi writerdirector Maximus Wright. “Soul Damage” is based on his novel of the same name. Limited seating. $15 per person.

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CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI RECORD CONVENTION sellers from throughout the south selling vinyl and other music related memorabilia.

Wednesday 11/28

New Bourbon Street Jazz Band Dining Room - 6pm - Free Thursday 11/29

D’Lo Trio Dining Room - 7pm - Free

Friday 11/30

Bill, Temperance & Jeff Dining Room - 7pm - Free

Saturday 12/1

Scott Albert Johnson Dining Room - 7pm - Free

Monday 12/3

Central MS Blues Society presents:

Wednesday 12/5

Restaurant Open Thursday 12/6

Jesse Robinson’s 25th Annual Musicians

Christmas Ball

Tuesday 12/4

Dinner Drinks & Jazz with Raphael Semmes and Friends Dining Room - 6pm

Art Soup:

Christmas Edition Big Room - Free HRC: Drag Bingo Red Room $10 in advance/$15 @ door 21+

Saturday, December 8

chad wesley album release show WITH MAGNOLIA BAYOU

jackson guitar rocker chad wesley celebrates release of new album! rock and roll, baby!

Wednesday, December 19

THE BUSTY PETITES

oxford, ms jam band bringing funky goodness to jxn

Friday, December 21

MUSTACHE THE BAND

it’s a party when mustache comes to town! come hear all of your favorite 90s country hits!

Saturday, December 22

THE VAMPS

jxn favorites - the vamps - are back at duling for their annual holiday show!

Thursday, December 27

DEREK NORSWORTHY

Saturday 12/8

mississippi rocker blending country and southern rock inﬂuences for a magniﬁcent live show

Monday 12/10

new orleans legends serving up a dish of rock and roll gumbo

Restaurant Open

Saturday, December 29

cowboy mouth Saturday, January 5

Central MS Blues Society presents: Dining Room - 7 - 11pm $3 Members $5 Non-Members

THE DISCO STRANGLERS EAGLES TRIBUTE BAND

incredible tribute to classic american rock band from a talented mississippi crew

Saturday, January 12

Tuesday 12/11

Dinner Drinks & Jazz with Raphael Semmes and Friends Dining Room - 6pm

Upcoming

12/12 New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 12/13 D’Lo Trio 12/14 Taylor Hildebrand 12/15 14th Annual Jackson Tacky Christmas Party 12/17 CMBS Blue Monday 12/18 Dinner, Drinks & Jazz with Raphael Semmes and Friends

celebrate the newest release from jackson favorite silas with a party and concert at duling!

Friday 12/7

Blue Monday Blue Monday Dining Room - 7 - 11pm $3 Members $5 Non-Members

SILAS album release party and concert

Red Room -$15 Cover at Door Doors: 6:30 Show: 7: 00 Complimentary Food AND A HOST OF OTHER MUSICIANS!

Waterworks Curve Dining Room -7pm - Free

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12/20 Brian Jones 12/21 Barry Leach 12/24 - 12/26 CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS 12/27 D’Lo Trio 12/29 Jason Turner 1/9 The New Bourbon Street Jazz Band

visit halandmals.com for a full menu and concert schedule 601.948.0888

200 s. Commerce St.

Steve forbert

folk rocker from meridian behind the hit “romeo’s tune” and decades of great music!

just announced!

Tuesday, January 29

FRUITION

WITH DANIEL RODRIGUEZ OF ELEPHANT REVIVAL

oregon quintet combining rock, bluegrass, and folk for a night of jam goodness

Saturday, February 2

THE SEDONAS / EMPTY ATLAS STONEWALLS / THE WOODLAND

it’s a four-band night with some INCREDIBLE local and touring acts!

Friday, February 8

THE VEGABONDS

ﬁve-piece crew blending americana and good ol’ rock and roll

just announced!

Saturday, April 6

MANDOLIN ORANGE

don’t miss the absolutely marvelous folk duo mandolin orange in jackson!

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aTo Do Listd Holiday Dinner Theater & Ugly Sweater Contest Dec. 6, 7-9 p.m., at Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano (970 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). The murder-mystery dinner theater show tells the story of a dysfunctional family and a holiday employee get-together that goes awry. Includes a three-course meal and an ugly-sweater contest for prizes. $52 per person (includes tax and tip); fringedinnertheatre.com. “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas: The Musical” Dec. 6-8, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 9, 2:30 p.m., at Madison Square Center for the

Looking for something great to do in Jackson? Visit JFPEVENTS.COM for more. Sergei Prokofiev, and “The Nutcracker Sweets,” which features popular melodies from the ballet. $8 in advance, $10 at the door; call 601-9779840; find it on Facebook.

• CBDB Dec. 8, 10 p.m. The progressive-rock jam band hails from Tuscaloosa, Ala. The Revelries also perform. Doors open at 9 p.m. $10-$12; martinsdowntownjxn.com.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Central Mississippi Record Convention Dec. 1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The annual convention provides an opportunity for record collectors, enthusiasts and casual listeners to purchase, sell and trade LPs, 45s, 78s, CDs, cassettes, vintage audio equipment and more. $5 admission, prices vary; email earthtojay@bellsouth.net; find it on Facebook. • SILAS Album Release Party Dec. 1, 9 p.m. The Jackson-native hip-hop artist performs to promote his latest album, “The Last Cherry Blossom.” Aha Gazelle, DevMaccc, Vitamin Cea and Judson Wright also perform. Doors open at 8 p.m. 15 in advance, $20 day of show; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net. • Night of Musical Artistry Dec. 7, 7 p.m. The Mississippi Jazz Foundation presents the 15th annual event featuring music from Eric Roberson and Mike Burton. Comedian and gospel artist Palmer Williams Jr. of Tyler Perry’s “Love Thy Neighbor” is the host. $40 in advance, $50 at the door; missjazzfoundation.com. • Chad Wesley Album Release Party Dec. 8, 8 p.m. The Mississippi blues-rock artist performs to promote his latest album on Old Trace Records, “Bluezy.” Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 admission; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

Cole Swindell & Dustin Lynch Nov. 30, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The Nashville, Tenn.-based country artists perform as part of the “Reason to Drink… Another” Tour. Lauren Alaina also performs. $30.75-$159; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

THURSDAY 12/6 “A Christmas Carol” is at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). New Stage Theatre presents the classic holiday story from Charles Dickens, which playwright Michael Wilson has adapted for stage. Appropriate for ages 8 and up. Additional dates: Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 2, 2 p.m., Dec. 7-8, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 9, 2 p.m., Dec. 12-15, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 16, 2 p.m., Dec. 1821, 7:30 p.m. $35 admission, $28 for seniors, students and military; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com. COURTESY NEW STAGE THEATRE

Arts (2103 Main St., Madison). The Center Players Community Theatre presents the musical based on the classic holiday poem by Clement C. Moore. $15 admission, $12 for seniors, students and military; find it on Facebook. “The Nutcracker” Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 8-9, 3 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Ballet Mississippi presents the classic holiday ballet based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” $15-$40; balletms.com. “The Nutcracker” Dec. 8-9, 2 p.m., Dec. 8, 7 p.m., at Jackson Academy Performing Arts Center (4908 Ridgewood Road). The Mississippi Metropolitan Ballet presents its rendition of the classic holiday ballet based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” $22-$25; msmetroballet.com.

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“Lyric: Falling in Love with All the Wrong Men” Dec. 8, 7 p.m., at Alamo Theatre (333 N. Farish St.). The event includes the stage play from Te’Ambera Ware and musical performances. Kinoy Brown of “The KRBS Show” is the host. Doors open at 6 p.m. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; eventbrite.com.

LIT AF Tour Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The stand-up comedy tour features Martin Lawrence, DeRay Davis, Rickey Smiley, Adele Givens and Benji Brown. $42-$397; ticketmaster.com. Holiday Dinner Theater & Ugly Sweater Contest Dec. 11, 7-9 p.m., at Georgia Blue (223 Ridge Way, Flowood). The mystery dinner theater show tells the story of a dysfunctional family and a holiday employee get-together that goes awry. Includes a three-course meal and an ugly-sweater contest for prizes. $52 per person (includes tax and tip); fringedinnertheatre.com. “Peter & the Wolf” and “The Nutcracker Sweets” Dec. 12, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). The Mississippi Puppetry Guild presents the productions of “Peter & the Wolf,” which tells the classic fairytale to the music of

Singing Christmas Tree Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). The 86th annual holiday concert features a “tree” made up of Belhaven choral arts students, faculty and staff. Doors open at 7 p.m. Free admission; belhaven.edu.

Choirs at the Old Capitol Dec. 2, 3 p.m., at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). The Anderson United Methodist Church Choir performs a concert of traditional holiday music in the museum rotunda. Free admission; call 601576-6920; mdah.ms.gov.

Events at Lounge 114 (105 Capitol St.) • Lyfe Jennings Nov. 30, 8 p.m. The platinumselling R&B artist is known for hit albums such as “The Phoenix” and “Lyfe Change.” $35-$1,000; find it on Facebook. • Rashad the Blues Kid Dec. 1, 8 p.m. The Laurel, Miss., blues artist’s latest single is “If You.” Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

Mississippi Girlchoir Holiday Concert Dec. 2, 3-4:15 p.m., at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (5400 Old Canton Road). The Mississippi Girlchoir’s Bella Voice and Bel Canto singers perform a selection of music for the annual holiday concert. $15 per person; msgirlchoir.org.

Events at Martin’s Downtown (214 S. State St.) • Grass Is Dead Nov. 30, 10 p.m. The Floridanative band is known for its Americana and bluegrass reinterpretations of iconic songs from The Grateful Dead. Doors open at 9 p.m. Admission TBA; martinsdowntownjxn.com.

Singing Together Jackson Dec. 4, 6-9 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Cathedral (305 E. Capitol St.). Working Together Jackson presents the fifth annual event celebrating cultural and religious diversity through music. $15 admission; workingtogetherjackson.org.

SATURDAY 12/8 The LIT AF Tour is at 7:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The stand-up comedy tour features Martin Lawrence, DeRay Davis, Rickey Smiley, Adele Givens and Benji Brown. $42-$397; ticketmaster.com. SUVAN CHOWDHURY / PEXELS

• Big Freedia Dec. 1, 10 p.m. The New Orleans-based rapper and self-proclaimed “Queen of Bounce” performs. Doors open at 9 p.m. For ages 18 and up. $17 in advance, $20 at the door; martinsdowntownjxn.com. • Joe Marcinek Band Dec. 7, 10 p.m. Joe Marcinek fronts the funk, jazz-fusion and rock band, with guest players John Papa Gros, Tony Hall of Dumpstaphunk and Deven Trusclair of Russ Liquid Test. Doors open at 9 p.m. Admission TBA; martinsdowntownjxn.com.

Attaché Fall Revue Dec. 5-8, 7:30 p.m., at Clinton High School (401 Arrow Drive, Clinton). Clinton High School’s award-winning Attaché Show Choir performs for its 39th annual season revue. $9-$10; call 601-924-0707; attache.org. Jesse Robinson’s Musician Christmas Ball Dec. 6, 7 p.m.-midnight, at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The 25th annual concert and Christmas party features music from blues artist Jesse Robinson and other performers, complimentary food and more. Sen. John Horhn is the

FRIDAY 12/7 The Christmas by Candlelight Tour is from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in downtown Jackson. The holiday event features live music, tours, decorations and refreshments at locations around downtown Jackson including the Governor’s Mansion, Eudora

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Welty House and Garden, Manship House Museum, Mississippi State Capitol, Old Capitol Museum and Two Mississippi Museums. Free transportation from site to site, and parking at the Old Capitol and State Capitol. Free admission; call 601576-6998; mdah.ms.gov. host. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $15 admission, $10 for musicians; find it on Facebook. Baby in the 90s Dec. 8, 8 p.m.-11 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The Baton Rouge, La., math-rock band’s latest single is titled “Time.” Empty Atlas also performs. For all ages. $5 admission; find it on Facebook. Derez DeShon Dec. 9, 8 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). The Atlanta hip-hop artist performs as part of the Beat the Odds Tour. Doors open at 7 p.m. $24.50 admission, $49.50 VIP reserved; find it on Facebook.

LITERARY SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “The School of Soft-Attention” Nov. 28, 5 p.m. Poet Frank LaRue Owen signs copies of his latest book of poetry. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $16.95 book; lemuriabooks.com. • “Igniting Your Purpose” Nov. 29, 5 p.m. Chris Kellum signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $19.95 book; lemuriabooks.com. • “Looking to the Stars from Old Algiers” Dec. 1, 4 p.m. Jan Risher signs copies. Reading at 4:30 p.m. $20 book; call 601-3667619; lemuriabooks.com. • “The Hate U Give” Dec. 4, 5 p.m. Angie Thomas signs copies of her young-adult novel. Attendees can also preorder signed copies of her next book, “On the Come Up.” $20.99 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. • “Portals” Dec. 5, 5 p.m. Glennray Tutor signs copies. Presentation at 5:30 p.m. $55 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. • “The Beast of Theydon Garnon” Dec. 6, 5 p.m. Peter Gilderson signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26.95 book; lemuriabooks.com.

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WEDNESDAY 11/28 1908 Provisions - Dan Gibson 6:30-9 p.m. Alumni House - Doug Hurd & Gena Steele 5:30-8:15 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Chris Gill 6-9 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30-9 p.m. $10 $5 students McClain - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m. Pelican Cove - Jesse Howell 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30 p.m. Soul Wired - When Particles Collide 8 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Thursday 11/29 1908 Provisions - Bill Ellison 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Hunter & Chris 6-10 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Friday 11/30 1908 Provisions - Ronnie McGee 6:30 p.m. Ameristar, Vicksburg - B.B. Secrist 8 p.m. Belhaven University “Singing Christmas Tree” 7:30 p.m. free Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Church Triumphant Global - “The Gift: A Christmas Concert” 7 p.m. $10 advance $12 door Drago’s - Jacob Lipking 6-9 p.m. F. Jones - Sorrento Ussery midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood Jason Turner Georgia Blue, Madison Brandon Greer Iron Horse - Ben Peyton 9 p.m.

Soulshine, Flowood - Brian Jones 7 p.m. Soulshine, Ridgeland Barry Leach 7 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Saturday 12/1 Ameristar, Vicksburg - B.B. Secrist 8 p.m. Belhaven University “Singing Christmas Tree” 7:30 p.m. free Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. Duling Hall - SILAS Album Release Party feat. Aha Gazelle, DevMaccc, Vitamin Cea & Judson Wright 9 p.m. $15 advance $20 day of show F. Jones - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; T Baby midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood Mayday Georgia Blue, Madison Jason Turner Courtesy Big Freedia

Pelican Cove - Jason Turner 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m.

Sunday 12/2 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Bellwether Church Mississippi Opera’s “Amahl & the Night Visitors” 3 p.m. $25, $5 students & military Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Iron Horse - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Kathryn’s - Jay Wadsworth 6 p.m. Old Capitol Museum - “Choirs at the Old Capitol” 3 p.m. free Olde Towne Community Church, Ridgeland “Olde Town Christmas Concert” 6-7:30 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Hunter & Chris noon-4 p.m.; Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 5-9 p.m. St. Philip’s Episcopal Church - Mississippi Girlchoir Holiday Concert 3-4:15 p.m. $15 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.

Monday 12/3 Big Freedia Bonny Blair’s - Gena Steele 7-11 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Doug Hurd 6-9 p.m. F. Jones - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood Chad Wesley Georgia Blue, Madison Aaron Coker Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio 7-10 p.m. free Iron Horse - John Causey 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 6:30 p.m. MS College, Provine Chapel - “Festival of Lights” Concert 7:30 p.m. $15, $10 seniors, $5 kids & students

Kathryn’s - Chris Gill 7 p.m. Lounge 114 - Lyfe Jennings 8 p.m. $35 Martin’s - Grass Is Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) 10 p.m. $10 McClain - Robert King MS Coliseum - Cole Swindell, Dustin Lynch & Lauren Alaina 7 p.m. $30-$56, $159 VIP MS College, Provine Chapel - “Festival of Lights” Concert 7:30 p.m. $15, $10 seniors, $5 kids & students Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads 6-10 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Hairicane 9 p.m. Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 5:30 p.m.; Jason Miller Band 8 p.m. $10; Jason Turner 10 p.m.

The Hideaway - Love Gun (KISS tribute) w/ Hairicane & Shatterframe 8 p.m.2 a.m. $23.16-$149.85 Iron Horse - Anissa Hampton 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - The Travelers 7 p.m. Lounge 114 - Rashad the Blues Kid 8 p.m. Lucky Town Brewing Co. Brother Oliver 3-5 p.m. Martin’s - Big Freedia w/ 5th Child 10 p.m. $17 advance $20 door McClain - Steve Chester & Fred Lovett MS College, Provine Chapel - “Festival of Lights” Concert 7:30 p.m. $15, $10 seniors, $5 kids & students

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m. McClain - Doug Hurd Mississippi College, Aven Hall - Jazz Band Concert 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Tuesday 12/4 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Simpatico 6 p.m. Fairview Inn - “Irish Slow Session” 5:30-6:30 p.m. free Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Stace & Cassie 6:30 p.m. McClain - Bill & Temperance w/ Jeff Perkins St. Andrew’s Cathedral - “Singing Together Jackson” 6-9 p.m. $15

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Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 12/5 1908 Provisions - Bill Ellison 6:30 p.m. Alumni House - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8:15 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Clinton High School Attaché Fall Revue 7:30-9:30 p.m. $9-$10 Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m. Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30-9 p.m. $10, $5 students McClain - Chris Gill Pelican Cove - Robin Blakeney 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

THURSDAY 12/6 1908 Provisions - Ronnie Brown 6:30 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Clinton High School Attaché Fall Revue 7:30-9:30 p.m. $9-$10 F. Jones - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Hal & Mal’s - Jesse Robinson’s Musician Christmas Ball 7 p.m. $15 cover, $10 musicians Iron Horse - Steve Chester 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Steele Heart 6:30 p.m. McClain - Joseph LaSalla Pelican Cove - Chris Gill 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

FRIDAY 12/7 1908 Provisions - Vince Barranco 6:30 p.m. Ameristar, Vicksburg - The Chill 8 p.m. Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Clinton High School Attaché Fall Revue 7:30-9:30 p.m. $9-$10 Duling Hall - MS Jazz Foundation’s “Night of Musical Artistry” feat. Eric Roberson & Mike Burton 7 p.m. $40 advance $50 door F. Jones - Lonn’e George & Flasche Band midnight $10 Hops & Habanas - Jacob Lipking 7-9 p.m. Imari Obadele Center “Art House/Tech House” feat. DJ Akili 7 p.m. free Iron Horse - Nellie Mack Project 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m. Martin’s - Joe Marcinek Band feat. John Papa Gros, Tony Hall & Deven Trusclair 10 p.m. McClain - Tommie Vaughn Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6-10 p.m. Soulshine, Ridgeland Thomas Jackson 7 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Underground 119 Keeshea Pratt Band 8 p.m. $15 WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

SATURDAY 12/8 1908 Provisions - Dan Gibson 6:30 p.m. Ameristar, Vicksburg Tony Sands (Frank Sinatra tribute) 6 p.m. & 9 p.m. Cerami’s - Ron Sennett 6 p.m. Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. Clinton High School Attaché Fall Revue 7:30-9:30 p.m. $9-$10 Duling Hall - Chad Wesley Album Release Party w/ Magnolia Bayou 8 p.m. $10 F. Jones - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Stevie J Blues midnight $10 Iron Horse - Jesse Robinson 9 p.m. Jose’s, Pearl - XK Jones 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Fade 2 Blue 7 p.m. Martin’s - CBDB w/ The Revelries 10 p.m. McClain - Stevie Cain Oaks House Museum “Historic Christmas at the Oaks” feat. St. Brigid’s 10 a.m.2 p.m. free Offbeat - Baby in the 90s w/ Empty Atlas 8-11 p.m. $5 Pelican Cove - Gena Steele & Buzz Pickens 6 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m.

SUNDAY 12/9 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

First Pentecostal Church Jackson - “Still the Lamb—A Soulful Christmas Celebration” 6:30-8:30 p.m. free The Hideaway - Derez DeShon 8 p.m. $24.50, $49.50 VIP Iron Horse - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Kathryn’s - The Xtremez 6 p.m. Offbeat - “Snuff” Release Party feat. DJ Phingaprint, Mr. Fluid & more 8 p.m. $7 Pelican Cove - “Musicians’ Christmas Party” feat. Silvertree Crossing 3:30 p.m.; Just Cauz 8:30 p.m. 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.

MONDAY 12/10 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Stevie Cain 6:30 p.m. McClain - Doug Hurd Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

TUESDAY 12/11 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Keys vs. Strings 6:30 p.m. McClain - Barry Leach MS Museum of Art St. Andrew’s Parish Choir 5:45 p.m. free Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 12/12 1908 Provisions - Dan Gibson 6:30 p.m. Alumni House - Johnny Crocker 5:30-8:15 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30-9 p.m. $10, $5 students McClain - Gena Steele Pelican Cove Jonathan Alexander 6-10 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

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SUNDAY 12/9 “The Nutcracker” is at 3 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Ballet Mississippi presents the classic holiday ballet based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” The special guest performers are international ballet stars Joseph Philips and Katherine Barkman. “Ballet, Blue Jeans & Beer Night” is on Dec. 7, for which attendees are invited to wear casual attire COURTESY BALLET MISSISSIPPI. and enjoy pre-show jazz music. Additional dates: Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 8, 3 p.m. $15-$40; balletms.com.

• “Heavy: An American Memoir” Dec. 8, noon. Kiese Laymon signs copies and reads an excerpt. $26 book; lemuriabooks.com. • “The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis” Dec. 8, 4 p.m. Ben Wynne signs copies. $47.50 book; lemuriabooks.com. • “America First: Understanding the Trump Doctrine” Dec. 11, 5 p.m. Danny Toma signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $28.99 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. • “Whirlwind” Dec. 12, 5 p.m. Charlie Spillers signs copies. $26 book; lemuriabooks.com.

CREATIVE CLASSES “Just Bombing It!” Bath Bomb Class Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 6-8 p.m., at Kundi Compound (3220 N. State St.). Southern Scentsations hosts the event, which teaches participants to make their own bath bombs. Limited space. $30 per person; southernscentsationsms.com.

• Holiday Open House Dec. 4, 4-7 p.m. Participants can shop for a variety of jewelry, accessories, décor, soaps, holiday arrangements and more while enjoying champagne, food samples, a presentation from artist Glennray Tutor on his book, “Portals,” and more. Free admission, prices vary; msmuseumart.org. • Art Nights: CAPE Lab Dec. 4, 5:45 p.m. Monique Davis, managing director for the Center for Art and Public Exchange, hosts the reveal of CAPE Lab, an experimental space for museum staff and visitors to collaborate on exhibition programming. Cash bar opens at 5:15 p.m. Free admission; msmuseumart.org. PRGS in the Gallery: Homework Dec. 1, 3-8 p.m., at Pearl River Glass Studio (142 Millsaps Ave.). The exhibition features work from Pearl River Glass Studio artists Orchid Berch, Chris Bowron, Rob Cooper, Tom Crouch and more. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

St. Nicholas Crafts Dec. 3, 3-4 p.m., at Manship House Museum (420 E. Fortification St.). Children ages 5-12 learn to create different Christmas crafts from the Victorian era. RSVP. Free admission, reservations required; call 601961-4724; mdah.ms.gov. Paint & Sip: New Moon Intention Setting Ritual Dec. 7, 6-8 p.m., at The Community Canvas at Jax-Zen Float (155 Wesley Ave.). The painting party in honor of the new moon invites students to paint their own dreamcatcher to help manifest big dreams. Participants should bring an adult beverage of their choice and a personal writing journal. Bring a friend, and you will each receive a $5 discount. $35 per person (materials included); find it on Facebook.

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Chimneyville Arts Festival Nov. 29, 6-9 p.m., Nov. 30, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Dec. 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The annual art and craft festival features 150 vendors selling items in mediums such as metalwork, glass, jewelry, clay and more. The preview party is on Nov. 29 and includes music, hors d’oeuvres, drinks and early access to vendors. Party tickets include admission for both days. $50 advance, $60 door for preview party; $10 per day; craftsmensguildofms.org. Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Art & Coffee: Brandi Turner + Sipp Culture Dec. 1, 10-11 a.m. Makeup artist Brandi Turner joins the discussion of community, culture and artwork, and talks about her work with the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, or Sipp Culture. Includes free coffee. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

recent work and signs copies of his new book, “Portals.” Free admission; find it on Facebook. • Richard Kelso Exhibition Dec. 6, 5-7 p.m. The exhibition features paintings from Cleveland, Miss.-native artist Richard Kelso. Free admission; call 601-291-9115; fischergalleries.com. “Water/Ways” Exhibit Opening Dec. 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). The traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program examines the impact of water on climates, agriculture, transportation, industry and the arts. Exhibit is on display through Jan. 19, 2019. Included with admission; msagmuseum.org. NuRenaissance Annual Art Showing & Gala Dec. 8, 7-9 p.m., at 440 Grill at Freelon’s (440 N. Mill St.). The arts showcase features can work from Jackson arts company NuRenaissance and guest artists in a social environment. Free admission; call 601-372-8088; nurenaissance.com.

BE THE CHANGE Salute to Our Heroes Gala Nov. 29, 6-9 p.m., at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive). The Brain Injury Association of Mississippi hosts the gala featuring master of ceremonies Marshall Ramsey and NFL Hall of Famer Robert Brazile. Includes a silent auction and cash bar at 6 p.m., and dinner and an awards program at 7 p.m. $125 per person; call 601981-1021; msbraininjury.org. Festival of Trees Holiday Charity Gala Nov. 29, 7 p.m., at The Westin Jackson (407 S. Congress St.). The fundraising gala features a silent auction, live music, festive foods, eggnog and more, along with a display of elaborately decorated Christmas trees from local designers. Proceeds benefit Friends of Children’s Hospital. $75 per person, $1,000 VIP table for 10; call 601-9688200; jacksonfestivaloftrees.com.

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Best Dressed Jackson Nov. 29, 6:30-11 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The cocktail event recognizes 10 men and 10 women committed to making an impact on society and fighting against cancer. Includes an auction, food from local restaurants, wine, spirits, beer and more. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. $75 per person; bestdressedjackson.org.

The University of Mississippi Rebels Basketball Game is at 6:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The UM men’s basketball team plays against the Southeastern Louisiana University Lions. $2-$17; ticketmaster.com.

Pink Table Talk: Purpose, Balance & You Dec. 1, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Rankin County Community Complex (2230 Spillway Road, Brandon). Genesis Project presents the women’s empowerment brunch and panel discussion featuring guest panelists Kristy Johnson, Valerie Grace, Candace Coleman and Amber Jones. $7-$25; find it on Facebook.

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Midtown Holiday Studio Tours Dec. 1, 3-8 p.m., in midtown. The annual event features tours of local studios and businesses, music, locally made products for sale and more. Participating businesses include AND Gallery, Coffee Prose, Jax-Zen Float, Lucky Town Brewing Company, North Midtown Arts Center, N.U.T.S., Offbeat, Pearl River Glass Studio and more. Free admission; find it on Facebook. Events at Fischer Galleries (736 S. President St.) • Glennray Tutor Gallery Talk & Book Signing Nov. 28, 6-7:30 p.m. Missouri-native painter Glennray Tutor discusses his most

JIM Week Donor Party Dec. 6, 6-9 p.m., at 201Capitol (201 W. Capitol St.). The party is a fundraiser for the next Jackson Indie Music Week, a local music festival that promotes Mississippi music and businesses around Jackson. Attendees can donate in advance or at the party. RSVP. Donations encouraged; eventbrite.com.

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USM waited until the last weekend of the regular season but is now is bowl eligible. Meanwhile, MSU won the Egg Bowl, and Alcorn got ready for the SWAC Championship Game with the week off. THURSDAY, NOV. 29

NFL (7:20-10:30 p.m., FOX): New Orleans Saints v. Dallas Cowboys FRIDAY, NOV. 30

Men’s college basketball (6-8 p.m., CBS Sports): MSU v. Dayton SATURDAY, DEC. 1

College football (3:30-6:30 p.m., ESPNU): Southern v. Alcorn State SUNDAY, DEC. 2

Women’s college basketball (2-4 p.m., SECN+): Jacksonville State v. University of Mississippi MONDAY, DEC. 3

NFL (7:15-10:30 p.m., ESPN): Washington v. Philadelphia TUESDAY, DEC. 4

Men’s college basketball (7-9 p.m., SECN): McNeese State v. MSU WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5

Women’s college basketball (7-9 p.m., Longhorn Network): MSU v. Texas THURSDAY, DEC. 6

NFL (7:20-10:30 p.m., FOX): Jacksonville Jaguars v. Tennessee Titans FRIDAY, DEC. 7

College football (7-10 p.m., ESPN2): NCAA FCS Football Championship quarterﬁnal SATURDAY, DEC. 8

College football (2-5 p.m., CBS): Navy v. Army SUNDAY, DEC. 9

NFL (noon-3 p.m., FOX): New Orleans v. Tampa Bay MONDAY, DEC. 10

NFL (7:15-10:30 p.m., ESPN): Minnesota Vikings v. Seattle Seahawks TUESDAY, DEC. 11

Documentary (8-9 p.m., ESPN): “30 for 30: 42 to 1” WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12

Women’s college basketball (11 a.m.-1 p.m., SECN+): Louisiana-Lafayette v. UM

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What has become of the metaphorical seeds you planted during the weeks after your last birthday? Have your intentions flourished? Have your dreams blossomed? Have your talents matured? Have your naive questions evolved into more penetrating questions? Be honest and kind as you answer these inquiries. Be thoughtful and big-hearted as you take inventory of your ability to follow through on your promises to yourself. If people are quizzical about how much attention you’re giving yourself as you take stock, inform them that your astrologer has told you that December is Love Yourself Better Month.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

If you want to play the drinking game called Possum, you and your friends climb up into a tree with a case of beer and start drinking. As time goes by, people get so hammered they fall out of the tree. The winner is the last one left in the tree. I hope you won’t engage in this form of recreation anytime soon—nor in any other activity that even vaguely resembles it. The coming weeks should be a time of calling on favors, claiming your rewards, collecting your blessings and graduating to the next level. I trust your policy will be: no trivial pursuits, no wasted efforts, no silly stunts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

In his song “Happy Talk,” Academy Award-winning lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II offered this advice: “You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” Where do you stand in this regard, Pisces? Do you in fact have a vivid, clearly defined dream? And have you developed a strategy for making that dream come true? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to home in on what you really want and hone your scheme for manifesting it. (P.S. Keep in mind Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s idea: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”)

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

In recent years, a few pioneers have gotten microchips implanted under their skin. These technological marvels enable them to open doors and turn on lights with merely a wave of their hands, or receive up-to-the-minute readings on what’s transpiring inside their bodies. Now, an additional frontier has arisen: people using do-it-yourself kits to experiment on their own DNA. For example, some have tweaked their genes so their bodies create more muscle than is natural. I would love for you to change yourself around in the coming weeks, Taurus, but not in these particular ways. I’d rather see you do subtle psychological and spiritual work. The astrological omens suggest it’s a favorable time for focused self-transformation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Does an elusive giant creature with a long neck inhabit the waters of Loch Ness in northern Scotland? Alleged sightings have been reported since 1933. Most scientists dismiss the possibility that “Nessie” actually exists,

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Does moss really “eat” rocks, as Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert attests in her novel “The Signature of All Things”? Marine chemist Martin Johnson says yes. Moss really does break down and release elements in solid stone. Gilbert adds, “Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.” Furthermore, this hardy plant can grow virtually everywhere: in the tropics and frozen wastes, on tree bark and roofing slate, on sloth fur and snail shells. I propose that we make moss your personal symbol of power for now, Cancerian. Be as indomitable, resourceful and resilient as moss.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Let’s shout out a big “THANKS!” and “HALLELUJAH!” to the enzymes in our bodies. These catalytic proteins do an amazing job of converting the food we eat into available energy. Without them, our cells would take forever to turn any particular meal into the power we need to walk, talk and think. I bring this marvel to your attention, Leo, because now is a favorable time to look for and locate metaphorical equivalents of enzymes: influences and resources that will aid and expedite your ability to live the life you want to live.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground,” writes author Judith Thurman. I’m guessing you will experience this feeling in the coming weeks. What does it mean if you do? It may be your deep psyche’s way of nudging you to find an energizing new sanctuary. Or perhaps it means you should search for fresh ways to feel peaceful and well-grounded. Maybe it’s a prod to push you outside your existing comfort zone so you can expand your comfort zone.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Venice, Italy, consists of 118 small islands that rise from a shallow lagoon. A network of 443 bridges keeps them all connected. But Venice isn’t the world champion of bridges. The American city of Pittsburgh, Penn., holds that title, with 446. I nominate these two places to be your inspirational symbols in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to build new metaphorical bridges and take good care of your existing metaphorical bridges.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

To aid and support your navigation through this pragmatic phase of your astrological cycle, I have gathered counsel from three productive pragmatists. First is author Helen Keller. She said she wanted to accomplish great and noble things, but her “chief duty” was “to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” Second, author George Orwell believed that “to see what is in front of one’s nose” requires never-ending diligence. Finally, author Pearl S. Buck testified that she didn’t wait around until she was in the right mood before beginning her work. Instead, she invoked her willpower to summon the necessary motivation.

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but there are photos, films and videos that provide tantalizing evidence. A government-funded Scottish organization has prepared contingency plans just in case the beast does make an unambiguous appearance. In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you prepare yourself for the arrival in your life of intriguing anomalies and fun mysteries. Like Nessie, they’re nothing to worry about, but you’ll be better able to deal gracefully with them if you’re not totally taken by surprise.

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Blackjack is a card game popular in gambling casinos. In the eternal struggle to improve the odds of winning big money, some blackjack players work in teams. One teammate secretly counts the cards as they’re dealt and assesses what cards are likely to come up next. Another teammate gets subtle signals from his card-counting buddy and makes the bets. A casino in Windsor, Ontario, pressed charges against one blackjack team, complaining that this tactic was deceptive and dishonest. But the court decided in the team’s favor, ruling that the players weren’t cheating but simply using smart strategy. In the spirit of these blackjack teams, Sagittarius, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to better your odds in a “game” of your choice by using strategy that is almost as good as cheating but isn’t actually cheating.

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f you’ve been on Instagram lately, chances are you’ve probably seen artists who create ornaments, key chains ,and more using resin and alcohol ink. It sounds like intimidating crafting, but it’s not as hard as you may think.

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Put on the gloves and make sure you’re wearing clothes you can ruin. Pour the same amount of resin and then the hardener into two different measuring cups. After that, pour the resin into the third measuring cup. Once you’re done pouring that, pour the hardener on top. With resin, you want to measure by volume, so make sure the levels are even. You can use a scientific scale for this, but I did not. Scrape the cups with a tongue depressor as needed. The key here is to measure out the exact one-to-one volume. The mixture being even a hair off could affect the curing process. Set a timer and stir the mixture for three to five minutes. Stir slowly with one of the tongue depressors in circular motions, occasionally stirring up from the bottom. Slowness is the key here. If you go too fast, you’ll create bubbles. The mixing time depends on how much resin you have, but don’t go more than five minutes.

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Once the resin is mixed, pour it into the mold, but be careful not to pour too much into each cavity. I generally stop about half way or a little after that, depending on what I’m doing. Use a butane torch on bubbles. At this point, you can take off the gloves (trust me—you don’t want to get resin on your ink bottles) but make sure not to touch the resin with your bare hands. It’s super sticky, and really only comes off with rubbing alcohol or a super-heavy-duty soap. Put drops of one color onto one cavity of resin, then another color. After that, put white drops on top. This creates a mushroom-

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