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ON THE COVER Mike Espy, photo by Ashton Pittman

4 Editor’s Note 7 Talks

7 Kavanaugh’s Other Thorn Hint: It’s a Mississippi judge.

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oshua Quinn originally wanted to be a traveling psychologist, but overseas excursions changed his mind. While working on his first master’s degree in psychology, he had the opportunity to research and teach in countries such as Bahrain, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. His overseas excursions made him more passionate about education. “It changed my perspective on education as opposed to the education that I got here back in the states,” he says. “... It opened my mind up to different perspectives, different even attitudes about just education period.” Quinn, a Jackson native, received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2010 and a master’s degree in psychology from the Chicago School of Psychology in 2012, and is working on a master’s degree in international education from Grand Canyon University. He joined the Army National Guard in 2008 and left in 2017. Quinn currently teaches at Murrah High School. He came back to Mississippi in 2013, ready to start making change. But when he got here, he saw a lot of problems—low literacy rates, obesity and other health problems, and more. “I wanted to ... use my knowledge and everything that I’ve gained to make changes for people in my community,” he says.

Joshua Quinn He also knew that dropout rates, discipline and learning habits were often different for boys of color, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. He combined what his knowledge of teaching, education, psychology and cultural psychology, and military science to create the BARS Institute Inc. He started the program as a trial in summer 2016, and though he did not think anyone would show up, he ended up having a full house of boys. BARS has grown since then. This summer, Quinn took participants to Washington, D.C., where they visited Frederick Douglass’ mansion, the Washington Monument and more, and went on a three-state Civil Rights Movement tour, where they saw historic civil-rights places such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. BARS has also partnered with Apple for a finance and technology program, where participants learn how to make videos on Apple products, and also topics such as robotics. Quinn is also doing a medical mentoring program to show the students that “black and brown doctors exist,” he says, and expose them cardiologists, podiatrists, psychologists and nurses. “I want them to see representation outside of what’s on TV, or just sports and entertainment, that we can be more than that, that we have been more than that,” he says. —Amber Helsel

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Change the Rape Culture for Women and Men Alike

Many conservatives are defending allegations against Brett Kavanaugh by indicating that all men and teenage boys assault women. This is wrong.

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’ve written before about being raped as a teenager. He was a really popular athlete who lived in a house; I was a mouthy girl who lived in a trailer. My girlfriend and I went “riding around” with him and another boy one night, and he took us to his house in Neshoba County. I made the mistake of going into his room with him where he turned the music up; he then held me down, rather expertly I realize now, and raped me as I struggled to get loose, with one hand covering my mouth. If there is anything the #metoo era has taught me, it’s that I wasn’t the only girl this happened to, even though then it was easy to imagine that it was my fault. Certainly, there was no reality in which I could report it; I know that now as well as I did then. No one would believe me; they would blame me; my name would be dirt for keeping the star off the field and ruining his future. As I write this, it’s been about 24 hours since Professor Christine Blasey Ford finally stepped into the terrifying space of telling her story publicly about Brett Kavanaugh, alleging that he tried to hold her down and rape her as a 17-year-old. Her story was partially out there, and she wanted to speak for herself. Her therapist has notes from years back; her husband knew long before Kavanaugh was up for this post; she passed a lie-detector test; she is credible. I can only imagine what it would feel like for me now—decades after I was raped—if the teenager I’ve never named publicly, but can see with his family on

Facebook as I wonder if he raped again, was up for a U.S. Supreme Court post with the power to affect and dictate women’s lives for the rest of his life. That would be the time to risk it all, I can see. You do it for other women and men. It’s to make sure that a system that has long shielded male abusers in our society doesn’t hand an abuser the power to ensure others’ ability to get away with abuse, too, regardless of gender. This is bigger than what a Supreme Court nominee may have tried to do, or what happened to me in that teenager’s bedroom. It’s about finally shredding the systemic protection of abusers—from the religious institutions, to corner media offices with automatic locks, to the halls of government and law. There is no

more excusing it, looking the other way, blaming the victim, acting like it’s just a “boys will be boys” thing, or what all men do or want to do. The part that is often overlooked is that we must change this culture for boys and men as well. Young men too often grow up in a toxic masculine environment where their friends and even fathers or uncles celebrate some level of abuse. Many are challenged to be macho and to at least brag about rough sexual exploits or contexts. Some learn to help each other with assault, as Kavanaugh and his odd-duck buddy Mark Judge are accused of doing. That’s bad enough. But here’s a toooften ignored historic tragedy that the last 24 hours have shown—not only are men and boys encouraged to engage in horrendous behavior without consent, and tell each other is just part of the sexual game, but they too often talk about each other as if all men are rapists or would like to be. After Professor Ford came forward Sunday, Ed Rollins, co-chairman of a pro-Trump PAC, chose the well-worn logic that Kavanaugh’s alleged behavior is the kind of thing that all men do. “If this is the new standard, no one will ever want or be able to serve in government or on the judiciary,” he told the world. Other media reported that a lawyer close to the White House said, “If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried.” What? Why in hell would every man be worried? I was around and went out with a fair number of men in the years before I settled down with my life partner and, you know what? That one guy is the only one who ever forced himself on me. Other women

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Ashton Pittman

Ko Bragg

Amber Helsel

State and politics reporter Ashton Pittman is from Hatties burg, Miss. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied journalism and political science. He wrote the cover story. He interviewed Mike Espy.

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 a fatal Jackson Police Department shooting.

Managing Editor Amber Helsel is a storyteller who moonlights as an artist. She loves food, cats, anime and art supplies. Email story ideas to amber@jackson freepress.com. She wrote about the BankPlus International Gum bo Festival.

will tell you the same thing—we don’t believe all men are rapists or want to be. We just want the ones who are to be held accountable. We want to be believed. It’s not like you’d put yourself through the same hell as the multitudes of women who have come forward just in the last year for fun. The default in our society is to blame the woman in one way or the other. It always has been, because these rules were put in place back when society believed men owned women and cover for them. Some men still believe that, but certainly not all. The solution here, as I’ve seen many great men say in the last 24 hours, is for non-rapists to (a) believe women when we share what’s happened to us and (b) to hold the rapists accountable. Our society has operated on a twisted logic that if a woman speaks out against one man for

Why in hell would every man be worried? rape or abuse, she is blaming them all. This has never been true, and it’s a trope that just provides cover for those who abuse. It is devastating for many women to watch what is unfolding in Washington with so many Republicans kneejerking to defend Kavanaugh no matter what. That is dumb partisanship, and it is shortsighted and dangerous. I urge others to use the same logic I chose when I publicly supported Bill Clinton’s impeachment— apply the same standard against members of one party as you would the other for sexual harassment and assault, abuse of power and lying to the American people. Members of all parties abuse. Imagine a world where men and women stand side-by-side in support of those revealing abuse—looking at all the evidence the same regardless of ideology. That is a society that we should build for future American women, as well as the millions of men who do not take what they want without asking first. Follow Editor-in-chief Donna Ladd on Twitter and Instagram at @donnerkay. Read her blog at donnaladd.com.

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Charles Pickering, left, recites the oath of office, as he is sworn on to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, Jan. 16, 2004, at the federal courthouse in Jackson. Giving the oath is fellow Appeals Judge Rhesa Barksdale, right, while Pickering’s wife, Margaret Anne Pickering and Judge Henry T. Wingate watch.

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y late January 2003, White House attorney Brett Kavanaugh’s frustration grew as he and other White House lawyers struggled to correct course on the narrative surrounding the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Charles Pickering. The Mississippi judge faced criticism not only for pushing for a more lenient sentence for a convicted cross burner in the 1990s, but for his past ties to segregationists and other allegations of racism. “Any luck on submitting Judge’s op-ed?” Kavanaugh wrote in an email to President George W. Bush’s White House spokeswoman Ashley Snee. “We just continue to take it without any meaningful Administration response.” “Judge” referred to Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel, under whose name a pro-Pickering oped should’ve already been published. Now, some current and former senators say that email, along with others, suggests Kavanaugh—now President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme

Court—may have lied under oath in 2006 about his role in promoting Pickering. ‘False Charges of Racism’ In 2006, President George W. Bush nominated Kavanaugh to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. During Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate, Kavanaugh told then-Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., that Pickering was “not one of the judicial nominees I was primarily handling.” Emails released in August and September of this year from Kavanaugh’s time as a White House attorney show he sent dozens of emails to fellow staffers about Pickering and that he not only helped with research and strategy on the nominee, but was the ghostwriter of the Gonzales op-ed. In a Sept. 17 op-ed after the second batch of emails were released, Feingold, who left the Senate in 2011 after losing his bid for re-election, pointed to the emails as “clear evidence showing that Kavanaugh lied under oath during the 2006 confir-

mation hearing for his spot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., made similar comments after the first batch released in August, saying the emails “show that he led on key parts of the Charles Pickering nomination, which he denied.” In one March 2002 email released on Sept. 13, Bush White House lawyer Bradford A. Berenson wrote that he would “defer” to Kavanaugh and another attorney on Pickering-related issues. “Brett and Noel have been much more involved in the Pickering fight,” Berenson wrote. In another, a Justice Department official asked Kavanaugh for “blessings and instructions” before calling Pickering. In a May 2003 email, a White House staffer named Wendy Grubbs told Kavanaugh she had requested “the Pickering package they are distributing.” Who is “they.” Kavanaugh asked. “The Pickering team,” Grubbs responded. Chip’s (chief of staff) and whoever else they are using. You should know them. Hehe.”

In a January 2003 email, Kavanaugh pasted the contents of news articles about Pickering to keep staff abreast of coverage, including one unattributed column that argued that criticism of the judicial nominee was not about “false charges of racism,” but about Pickering’s views on abortion. “Playing the race card on Pickering is an easy play indeed for the pro-choice lobby,” the column reads. Above the pasted column, Pickering described it as “an interesting and probably accurate analysis.” Chip Pickering is Judge Pickering’s son and a former U.S. congressman from Mississippi, whose career ended with him embroiled in an affair. His estranged wife later sued, alleging that the affair started while he was “a United States congressman prior to and while living in the well-known C Street Complex in Washington, D.C.” A number of lawmakers involved in sex scandals lived in the C Street Complex, known as a Christian fellowship home. Judge Pickering’s nomination failed more KAVANAUGH, p8

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“(T)he criminal justice system has failed Crystalline’s family—just like it has failed many victims of police misconduct around this country.”

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Back to the Citizens’ Council In his 2003 hearings, senators questioned Pickering about a case in which he argued for a reduced sentence for a crossburner who was convicted of a hate crime. Pickering defended his decision, saying that man’s sentence was unfair because two others involved in the case got off with no prison time thanks to a plea agreement. Pickering also faced criticism for a 1959 law-review article that advised Mississippi legislators on ways to shore up the state’s law banning interracial marriage to help it withstand constitutional scrutiny in the aftermath of the U.S Supreme Court’s ruling ordering school desegregation. The Legislature followed his advice. Rather than repudiate the article, Pickering defended it as “an academic exercise.” Former Democratic Mississippi Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin, another Laurel native and Pickering’s old law partner, also came up during the hearings. Gartin was a segregationist who fought racial integration every step of the way. As Millsaps College history professor Stephanie R. Rolph describes in her recent book, “Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954-1989,” Gartin was extremely active in the racist Citizens’ Council and a member of the active Jackson chapter. “His advocacy for legislation to outlaw the NAACP in Mississippi had endeared him to Council leaders in previous years... ,” Rolph writes of Gartin’s campaign against Ross Barnett for governor in 1959. Gartin’s devout racism forced Barnett to prove his anti-segregationist cred and devotion to the Citizens’ Council. As lieutenant governor, Gartin had helped create the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, the state-funded spy agency that tracked civil-rights activity, as well as instances of white business owners allowing black people to simply use their bathrooms. Gartin lost to Barnett by less than

During hearings for Mississippi judge Charles Pickering’s nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, he faced criticism for his ties to former state Gov. Carroll Gartin, a known segregationist who fought racial integration.

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sive” whose segregationist views were mild. Like Kavanaugh’s emails, old newspapers told a different story for Pickering. In 1955, Gartin pulled out of attending a football game in Pasadena, Calif., where Jones County Junior College would be playing as guests after learning the California team would include black players. Previously, Gartin said he would travel and be the “number one booster” of the game. The story appeared in the Oct. 4, 1994, issue of the Los Angeles Sentinel. In the March 1, 1956, edition of the Abilene Reporter newspaper, Gartin declared his support for a resolution in the Mississippi Legislature that says states have “the right to maintain, operate, and control their school systems”—a response to Brown v. Board of Education, which ordered the desegregation of southern schools. “We are not willing to sit idly by and be trampled underfoot by the Supreme Court of this nation,” Gartin said. In the Nov. 25, 1958, the Greenville Delta Democrat Times reported that Gartin praised “the willingness of our Legislature to enact every conceivable law aimed at protecting our segregated system,” and “the work and untiring efforts of organizations such as the Citizens’ Councils and the belief by an overwhelming majority of both races that segregation is best for both white and the Negro race.” Fannie Lou, the ‘Embarrassment’ Pickering would have been aware of his law partner’s views when he loudly

however, those views were downplayed. Pickering described Gartin as a “progres-

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in the Senate after Democrats filibustered over his segregationist associations and advocacy for a reduced sentence on behalf of a convicted cross burner. However, Bush appointed him to the Fifth Circuit in January 2004 anyway while the Senate was on recess; Pickering served until that December.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING DOWNTOWN by Amber Helsel Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about new development downtown, from the City developing land to a grocery store coming to the area in 2019. Take a look at has come and what is to come.

2. DOWNTOWN DIGS The Capitol Art Lofts ofﬁcially opened this year, with 31 apartments spread across two buildings.

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3. GREEN ACRES? Nine acres of land across from the Jackson Convention Complex sit mostly untouched. The City is planning to redevelop it, though plans are still in the early phases. The planning department held a “Downtown Design Dialogue,” where it showcased ideas for what the space could be. Ideas include apartments, ofﬁce space, green spaces, a movie theater and a hotel. 4. NEW MISSISSIPPI TRADE MART Now-Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith announced the construction of a new Mississippi Trade Mart in early 2018, with construction from spring 2018 to 2020. The new space will have 105,000 square feet, be more energy efﬁcient, and will have WiFi and a new kitchen. The current space will remain open through construction.

7. LANDMARK CENTER TO ADD MORE LIVING SPACES, BIZ Plans are underway to renovate the Landmark, adding apartments, and two businesses: Hattiesburg-based grocery store Corner Market and local technology business Fuse.Cloud. Development manager Weinstein Nelson Management aims to complete construction by 2020. 8. EDISON WALTHALL TO RISE AGAIN The Edison Walthall is undergoing construction after the city council passed an ordinance in October 2017 for the parking structure. The development includes 155 loft apartments on the second through eighth ﬂoors.

KAVANAUGH Democrats. Bush appointed him to the 5th Circuit unilaterally using a recess appointment in January 2004, but the appointment ended in December. The Mississippi Supreme Court building in downtown Jackson, completed in 2011, now bears Gartin’s name: the Carroll Gartin Justice Building. Charles Pickering is now on the board of directors of Alliance Defending Freedom, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based legal group that drafted Mississippi’s anti-LGBTQ “Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” also called HB 1523. The ADF also provides legal assistance to Gov. Phil Bryant who signed the legislation allowing discrimination against LGBTQ Mississippians into law in 2016 based on religious objections. Follow reporter Ashton Pittman on Twitter @ashtonpittman. Email him at ashton.e.pittman @gmail.com. Additional research by Donna Ladd.

4 Important Things To Know About DA Smith’s Rankin County Trial by Ko Bragg

Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith alongside his attorney, Vicki Gilliam, (left) on Sept. 12, 2018,

inds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith’s most recent trial for aggravated stalking and robbery charges spanned two days in a Rankin County courtroom. An all-white jury of four men and eight women found him not guilty of robbery, but could not decide about the aggravated stalking charge. The charges stem from a August 2015 incident between Smith and his ex-girlfriend, Christie Edwards at his trailer in Pearl, Miss., DA Smith and Edwards had broken up at the time, but he allowed her to stay there. If you missed the Jackson Free Press coverage of the quick but meaty trial, here

is the CliffsNotes version. But if you want to sift through the details of Smith’s last three trials, head over to jfp/ms/dafiles for our award-winning archive. 1. It Might Not Be Over Attorney General Jim Hood’s office only prosecuted Smith for robbery and aggravated stalking. However, the AG’s office has not yet dealt with two misdemeanor counts of simple domestic violence against Smith stemming from the August 2015 altercation with his ex-girlfriend. The State could also retry Smith for the aggravated stalking charges that deadlocked the jury. Hood’s office would not comment directly about whether or not they would prosecute Smith again. 2. Third Time: Strikeout or ‘The Charm’? This Rankin County trial represents the third time Hood’s office has prosecuted DA Smith in the last two years. The previous two trials were for hindering the prosecution of Christopher Butler, whom the State of Mississippi later convicted of drug charges that brought a 30-year sentence. The DA’s first trial resulted in a mistrial, and the jury acquitted him last summer on all charges more DA SMITH p 11

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ering, is a very able person and I think he will mean a great deal to the Republican Party in Mississippi,” Gartin wrote to a Republican Party official in September 1964. “Personally, I have been so busy converting my law partner lately that I haven’t been out too much, but I still think Goldwater will easily carry the state.” Barry Goldwater, the anti-civil rights Republican presidential nominee that year, won the state with 87 percent of the vote, despite being the first Republican to win Mississippi since the Reconstruction Era. His party switch is widely credited with accelerating the switch of segregationist southern Democrats—called Dixiecrats—to the Republican Party after national Democrats supported federal civil-rights legislation, which the Citizens’ Council and Mississippi leaders vehemently opposed. Pickering’s 2003 nomination ended in a filibuster by

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supported Gartin’s failed bid for governor in 1959. “Tonight see and hear Charles Pickering speaking in behalf of the candidacy of Carroll Gartin for Governor,” reads a newspaper ad from Aug. 14, 1959, previewing an appearance on WDAM TV. In 1964, Pickering left the Democratic Party and became a Republican, after chaos erupted at the Democratic National Convention when the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, led by civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, demanded representation of black delegates at the convention. Pickering called Hamer’s actions a source of “humiliation and embarrassment” for the state. In 2003, Salon reported then-newly unveiled documents showing Gartin—who was secretly working with Republican leaders despite remaining a Democrat—had been behind the push for Pickering to switch parties to the GOP. “This boy, Charles Pick-

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Family of Woman Killed by JPD Sues for $10 Million by Ko Bragg

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er’s estate. The boy fidgeted and waved at reporters who made eye contact with him once he finally looked up from a virtual Connect 4 game he played on a cell phone. The girl, headphones still lodged in place, remained focus on the cell phone. Baltimore-based attorney Jason Downs, who also once represented the Freddie Gray family, did all the talking. He said the family is not yet ready to speak publicly, but likely would in the future. Perhaps unbeknownst to the kids, Downs talked about pursuing justice for them after an April Hinds County grand jury declined to indict the officers who shot Barnes. “The fact that the criminal-justice system has not even indicted anyone, part of justice is just completely unattainable at this point,” he said. “But then the next question is, what is it worth for a 6-year-old to wake up in the morning knowing that her mother was shot in the back of the head? What is it worth for a 2-year-old to put on his book bag and say ... ‘I’m leaving this morning, I’m going to find my mom’”? ...Those are questions that are very difficult to answer.”

The lawsuit accuses Officers Rakasha Adams and Albert Taylor of subjecting Barnes to excessive, unreasonable and unnecessary physical force when they fired shots into her vehicle on Jan. 27. An April no-bill list from a Hinds County grand jury

Months Without ‘M-O-M-M-Y’ Eight months after two Jackson Police Department officers fired fatal shots at 21year-old Crystalline Barnes following a traffic stop, her family filed a $10 million federal lawsuit on Sept. 17 against three JPD officers and the City of Jackson in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

shows that neither Adams nor Taylor was indicted in this incident. Officer Adams appears a second time on this no-bill list for allegedly shooting and killing an unidentified man in November 2017. The civil-action suit comes on behalf of Barnes’ two young children—a 2-year-old boy referred to as “K.B.” and a 6-year-old girl called “J.H.”—and their legal guardian, Lenda Burns of Jackson. Jason Downs, a Baltimore-based lawyer who once represented Freddie Gray’s family, his law partner Tiffani Collins, and local attorney Carlos Moore represent the Barnes family and the victim’s estate. This legal team alleges that JPD and the City of Jackson failed to ensure that officers would not use excessive force and deprive “persons, including Crystalline Barnes, of her constitutional right to be free from excessive force.” The suit also accuses a third officer, Eric Morris, of conspiring with the other two to cover up the incident in police reports and “hide the truth about the circumstances of Ms. Barnes’ slaying, and to obstruct the administration of justice.” “But despite this conspiracy, the Barnes family remains undeterred in seeking justice for Crystalline’s death,” Downs said as he stood behind the Barnes family in Moore’s law office in Ridgeland this

morning. “Justice comes in many forms as we know. One form is the criminal justice system. But, in this case the criminal justice system has failed Crystalline’s family—just like it has failed many victims of police misconduct around this country.” Ko Bragg

p in a law office tucked away in the Renaissance outdoor shopping mall in Ridgeland, Miss., a 2-yearold boy sat at a large wooden table with his legal guardian, as she asked him to identify colors around the room: a black television, his navy shirt the boy thought was also black, and a taupe curtain the woman decided was white for the toddler’s sake. They were passing time ahead of a press conference about the boy’s mother, 21-yearold Crystalline Barnes, whom two Jackson Police Department officers shot and killed following a traffic stop in January. Barnes’ 6-year-old daughter arrived clad in a khaki school uniform jumper, a white polo underneath, and a pink and white bow atop a ponytail cascading with slim braids. She played a cellphone game and sat mostly quiet with pink headphones in her ears. Before the press conference began on Sept. 17, Lenda Burns, the legal guardian of Barnes’ young children, mentioned that Barnes’ young son had recently packed a backpack to leave and go find his mother. She was concerned about keeping an eye on him, not sure of how far he would go to find Barnes. Burns did not speak of the boy’s mother by name, but rather spelled out “m-o-m-m-y,” so as not to alert him. Lawyers representing the Barnes children and her estate soon came to stand behind the family seated at the table to announce a $10-million federal lawsuit on behalf of Barnes’ children and their moth-

Lawyers representing Crystalline Barnes held a press conference on Sept. 17, 2018, after filing a federal lawsuit against Jackson Police Department for shooting and killing the young mother in January. Her children are in front.

The Jackson Police Department could not be reached for comment by press time. Trouble Identifying Officers It is likely that the only reason the names of the two officers are in the public sphere is because of Downs’ and Moore’s legal efforts. The Jackson Police Department has never publicly released the names of officers in any officer-involved shooting in the history of the city. “We had to file a legal pleading to confirm the names,” Downs told the Jackson Free Press. In May, Downs and Moore filed a petition for the City of Jackson to release names in Barnes’ shooting. In those documents, Downs and Moore said that they filed a public-records request in April for any and all 911 calls, documents, footage including those from body cameras, police reports, and virtually any media or documentation involving the Barnes death. In return, Downs and Moore said JPD provided them a one-page incident report without including the name of either officer in the shooting. About a week before filing the petition, Downs told reporters on the lawn of City Hall that he knew Officer Rakasha Adams had shot Barnes and that he suspected

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Albert Taylor had been the second officer, but needed confirmation. Attorneys Downs and Moore told the Jackson Free Press that this now-dismissed petition resulted in attorneys for the City of Jackson revealing Adams’ and Taylor’s names to them. Notably, neither legal party released those names in public record, as court documents merely state that parties “reached a resolution” on June 13. The Jackson Free Press has not independently reviewed the incident report about Barnes’ death, but has sent in a public-records request to obtain it. However, this newspaper has previously reported on inconsistencies in JPD’s initial description of the incident compared to that of Barnes’ lawyers. The federal lawsuit repeats Downs’ claims stemming from an investigation into Adams that CORRECTION: In “Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue,” in one of the photos of couple Whitney Anglin and Jeff Sharp, the Jackson Free Press accidentally identified Sharp as Jeff Brown. We apologize for this error.

uncovered she has allegedly described herself as “easily irritated and angered.” Barnes’ lawyers accuse JPD of failing to take “any action” to properly psychologically screen, train and discipline officers after Adams was allowed to return to duty after allegedly killing an unidentified man in November 2017. Beyond issues with individual officers, Downs has expressed issues with the City’s silence around these issues and lack of transparency. He echoed those grievances today. “For far too long, the Jackson Police Department has used excessive force against people with no fear of being held accountable, but that stops today,” Downs said at the Ridgeland press conference. “Today, the Barnes family has taken a step toward holding those officers responsible for shooting Crystalline in the back of the head, in the back of the neck and in the back.” A Jackson Free Press analysis of news reports and JPD public statements uncovered nine officerinvolved shootings since July 2017, with three deadly incidents in 2018 thus far. JPD’s lack of transparency makes it difficult to keep track of

officer-involved shootings, both fatal and non-fatal. Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba appointed a task force of community members to draft policy relating to the timeline the City will release officers names after shooting citizens. After five months, the task force submitted its draft to the mayor on Sept. 7. Mayor Lumumba has not yet made any subsequent policies around the matter, and has only offered vague remarks about the taskforce’s conclusions to date. “Currently, the recommendations brought forth from the Police ID Task Force have only been presented as a draft. We are still awaiting an official recommendation to be given to myself and the City Attorney’s Office,” Lumumba said in a statement on Sept. 12. “We look forward to receiving the official recommendations from the Task Force and adopting new policies as they relate to the handling of officer involved shootings in the City of Jackson.” Email city reporter Ko Bragg at ko@jacksonfreepress.com and read more at jfp.ms/policeshootings

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during the redo trial. Assistant Attorney General Stanley Alexander was one of the prosecuting lawyers in the Rankin County trial, and he also ran against Smith for the Hinds County District Attorney seat in 2015. DA Smith’s attorney, Michael Sterling, raised concerns about this after the trial. “You are not supposed to be prosecuted by a political opponent. It was wrong for that to happen,” Sterling said.

the gun for “everyone’s safety,” nor did he deny pushing Edwards or that her injuries could have come from the shoves. Smith testified that he “had to” push Edwards in order to leave. In Alexander’s line of questioning during cross-examination, Smith said that “pushing is not” violent. “You’re not saying that your pushing didn’t cause those bruises?” Alexander asked. “I really don’t know,” Smith replied.

3. State Got Rid of Black Jurors? During a post-trial conversation with reporters, Sterling also told reporters that the prosecuting attorneys excused every African American that had been on the jury who had not been disqualified for cause during jury selection. Sterling said the defense team raised a Batson challenge, which is an objection to what they saw as the state excluding jurors from the pool based on race. The attorney general’s office declined to comment about the jury selection process.

4. Love Triangle, Exposed Or maybe it’s more accurately a trapezoid. Smith’s wife was formerly known as Wanda Fears when she was married to a man named William Fears. He testified on Sept. 11 because he was romantically involved with Smith’s ex-girlfriend, Edwards, in August 2015, and he was at the trailer when the incident took place. He testified that he hid in the closet when he heard DA Smith enter the trailer. In 2015 Smith began dating Wanda Fears and married her in September 2015, a matter of months after ending his relationship with Edwards.

3. Smith Took the Stand On Sept. 12, Smith waived his Fifth Amendment right and served as the defense’s only witness. The DA did not deny he took

Read more about a witness hiding in the closet and Smith’s comments about this case being a modern-day “Emmett Till” at jfp.ms/dafiles.

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XFORD—Father Walter J. Ciszek’s only crime was to minister to laborers in a remote Ural Mountains village, but it was 1941, and the American-born priest soon found himself swept into the Soviet Gulag, where he would spend the next two decades. “I could not overcome the shock occasioned by the total loss of freedom and the sense of complete control held by someone else over my every action, my every liberty, my every need,” Ciszek would later write. “People could disappear into those prisons and never be heard of again.” The world’s largest gulag today is in the United States, where a quarter of the world’s prison population is behind bars, and Mississippi is at the heart of that gulag with the nation’s fifth-highest incarceration rate. Although the state has reduced its prison population in recent years, new arrivals from as far away as India and Nepal may reverse that trend, and what’s more, many of these new arrivals have committed no crime. The epicenter of this new trend appears to be the for-profit, CoreCivicowned Tallahatchie Correctional Facility

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Asylum seekers have committed no crime. in the Delta town of Tutwiler. The U.S. Marshals Service this summer contracted to send 1,350 federal inmates to the 2,672-bed prison, and sources say hundreds of asylum seekers are also being housed there. Like Ciszek, asylum seekers have committed no crime. They came to the United States believing the words on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, and seeking refuge from either gut-wrenching poverty or the violence and corruption of drug cartels 12 and dictatorships in their homeland.

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The United States houses a quarter of the world’s prison population, and Mississippi is at the heart of that with the fifth-highest incarceration rate in the country. Among those are reportedly hundreds of asylum seekers.

“These are people who spent their last dime to get here, probably being picked up God knows where,” says Lisa Graybill of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. “Asylum seekers don’t know what rights they have.” I contacted the prison, CoreCivic, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and none of them is willing to break down the numbers or provide specifics on what is going on inside the prison walls. Many of the detainees or inmates may be undocumented migrants. At least some have come from prisons in other states like South Carolina. President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on undocumented migrants has been a boon to the private prison industry—in this writer’s mind an abomination that turns the judicial system into a profitseeking enterprise. The month that the U.S. Marshals Service announced its plans for the Tutwiler facility, CoreCivic’s stock rose 3.5 percent. One of the nation’s largest private prison companies, CoreCivic, like the industry as a whole, benefits not only from government largesse, but also from the financial backing of major banks like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. CoreCivic, by the way, was a financial contributor to Trump’s inauguration. Asylum seekers are supposed to

be given a court hearing and vetted in a process that shouldn’t take longer than a month. However, CoreCivic and ICE won’t confirm or deny their presence, much less their length of stay, their access to family and legal counsel, and the scheduling of hearings. If the past is prelude to the future, the situation must be scary for anyone behind the walls of the Tallahatchie Correctional Facility. “The Tutwiler facility has a sordid record,” says Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance. Indeed, it was the scene of a violent riot in 2004 in which inmates set fire to a portable toilet, clothing and mattresses. Another CoreCivic facility, the Adams County Correctional Center, was the scene of an inmate riot in 2012, with inmates taking guards hostage. One correctional officer died in the incident. So, you tired, poor, “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” and who’ve just arrived at Tutwiler, welcome to Mississippi! Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, columnist, and journalism professor at the University of Mississippi. Do you like to write and tell stories? Tell us one through an opinion column. Email amber@jackson freepress.com to learn more. This column does not necessarily reflect the views of the JFP.

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Ottowa E. Carter, Jr.

Over 27 years of courtroom experience in domestic relations, estate, civil and criminal litigation

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p p Served on the Clinton Parks and Recreation Advisory Board p Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia School

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of Law and a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Jackson State University

Member of numerous bar and civic organizations District 5 encompasses thirty (30) precincts including Bolton, Byram, Cayuga, Chapel Hill, Clinton, Dry Grove, Edwards, Learned, Raymond, Spring Ridge, St. Thomas, Terry, Utica, and four precincts in South Jackson (88, 90, 91, 94). Approved by Candidate. Distributed by the Committee to Elect Ottowa E. Carter, Jr. Chancery Court Judge.

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Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Mike Espy served as the U.S. secretary of agriculture under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994. He is pictured at his office and campaign headquarters in Jackson.

‘It Only Matters What You Answer To’

The JFP Interview with Mike Espy

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n every wall of U.S. Senate candidate Mike Espy’s office in Jackson hangs a photo or a painting that means something to the Yazoo City native. On a Friday afternoon in August, he points to a painting of Mississippi civil-rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, describing as his “matriarch” the woman who co-founded the Freedom Democratic Party and famously demanded equal representation for black voters at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. The candidate proudly displays photos of his father and grandfather, men who were both historic in their own right. His grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Huddleston, was born the son of former slaves, but went on to found a health-care company, owned 36 funeral homes, owned a newspaper with more than 100,000 subscribers and built a hospital in Yazoo City—the very hospital 14 where Espy was born in 1953.

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In 1994, when Espy was President Clinton’s secretary of agriculture, the U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation amid accusations that he had illegally accepted gifts from companies he was in charge of regulating. Espy resigned that December, but insisted he was innocent, refusing a plea deal that would have reduced 36 felony charges to a misdemeanor and risking years in prison. In 1998, a jury found him not guilty on all counts; a sketch artist’s image of the moment the verdict was read now hangs in his office. Espy has neither sought nor served in public office since that time; this year’s U.S. Senate special election marks Espy’s re-entry into politics as he runs in the special election for the seat formerly held by his friend, Republican Sen. Thad Cochran. If he wins, he will make history as the first black U.S. senator from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era, just as when he became the first black congressman from Mississippi since that period after the Civil

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Democratic candidate running for U.S. Senate in the special election for the seat former Sen. Thad Cochran retired from in March. In 1986, voters elected Espy to the U.S. House, making him the first black Congressman from Mississippi since Reconstruction. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed Espy as his U.S. secretary of agriculture, where he served until his resignation in December 1994.

War when the federal government made it easier for black people to both vote and run for office until Jim Crow segregation laws again suppressed black voting power.

Last month, Espy spoke to the Jackson Free Press about both his history and his approach to this campaign. Why has it been so long since you’ve run for public office since you last served in 1994? I haven’t held elected office in, you’re right, about 25 years because I had to rebuild a life, frankly. I got knocked off stride after my tenure as secretary of agriculture. Allegations were made against me. I had to fight those. It took four years to fight those. It cost the taxpayers of America $26 million, and it cost me about $1.3 million to defend my good name, and that came out of my pocket and (from) a lot of well-meaning friends. I also wanted to practice law. The political experience was searing for me. I enjoyed the policy of it, but I didn’t enjoy the process of it. I love policy. So I just decided to throw myself into my work. I got remarried, and I had a son. I’ve tried to be a good father to him

“It’s not my job to judge anybody; that’s God’s job.” work with anyone as long as the goal is to improve Mississippi. When you walked in his office, Thad didn’t ask you if you were a Republican or Democrat, black or white; he asked you to sit there and listened to you. I know I’m the same kind of person, and that’s the type of bearing I’ll bring to the Senate race. Talk about how your experience prepares you to be senator. I am the only person in this race if you look at the field of candidates with the depth and breadth of experience, period. I’ve been in the Congress for six years. I’ve been at the highest levels of the negotiating tables. I know I can do the job. Look at Mississippi, a state with so many needs— education, healthcare, jobs, housing—and

Can you explain the meaning of that painting of Fannie Lou Hamer for you? She’s my matriarch. When I decided to run, I called my wife, but I also went to Ruleville (Hamer’s hometown). I went to her grave. And I’m asking for her to give me the strength and energy for a race as difficult as this race, and I’m doing that in all humility because I’ve never been beaten in jail like Fannie Lou Hamer. I’ve been called the n-word time and time again, but not to the degree that she was. And ever since I’ve been born, we’ve had the right to vote. So she had to go through difficult circumstances to offer herself as a candidate for Congress in 1964 as a member of the Freedom Democratic Party. And she realized she would not be elected. She only did it to serve as that beacon to shine the light on justice and voting rights for those who had been oppressed and suppressed. The Voting Rights Act had just been signed, and she knew it would put her at great risk of harm and physical danger, but yet she did it. I see her as a person of great courage, and just a heroine to put herself in that position. If she could do it in 1964, then I could do it in 1986, and I did it; I was the first African American congressman to be elected since the Civil War (era). Not the first one to try it—the first one to do it. She was the first one to try. You would be the first black senator elected from Mississippi and the first to serve in Washington since Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce. I’ve read Hiram Revels’ book just like I’ve read the book of John Roy Lynch, who was the first black congressman before me. It’s a lot of the same things if you account for the march of history. I’d be the first black senator since Reconstruction. But I’m not dwelling on that,

because I tell people, it’s not just that I want to be something; it’s more that I want to do something. But history’s history. I didn’t know Cochran would resign and make this historical opportunity available. I didn’t know it when I ran in ‘86. (President) Ronald Reagan was in office at that time, and there were some policies which I felt were not to the benefit of the state or to my constituents. Would you support making sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes under the federal Civil Rights Act?

of whoever runs or what they’re saying or what they’re doing. I’ve noticed that both of them are trying to be the one closest to the president, and they have their reasons for doing that. I’m not in that game. I’m not trying to get close to the president. I’m trying not to mention him at all, really. I respect the office of the president of the United States, and regardless of who’s in the office, I will work with them if the issues concern uplifting the state of Mississippi. I tell everybody: I’m a Democrat. I’m going to caucus with (New York Democratic Sen.) Chuck Schumer. But if Chuck Schumer proposes something against the AShton Pittman

Why did you choose this race? I know I’ve got the knowledge, and I know I have the experience to bring to bear results to solve the big problems. So when the senator resigned, I shut my door, and I prayed about it. I called my wife to get her blessing, and we launched it. Because I believe, really, that there’s three big things I can bring to this race and Mississippi right now: the first is process, the second is policy, and the third is image. On process, I think the solution to what ails us in so many ways depends on consensus building. Not believing that everybody else is stupid. Not calling names, but because if you got up there, it’s because you’ve got something to offer. I believe I can be a bridge builder and someone who reaches across the chasm— whether it’s a racial chasm or a party chasm. I am a Democrat, but I’ll never be the Democratic nominee because this race doesn’t call for any primaries. So to me, the scenario of this race would enable me to speak more as an individual, as Mike Espy. Yes, Mike Espy’s a Democrat, but Mike Espy’s an independent thinker, an independent person who doesn’t allow anybody to tell him what to think or what to say. So I’ll

just people not having aspirations like they should. I think I could bring to bear my experience in Washington and the gravitas. I have been there in those rooms, and I know what they’re pitching, I know what they’re saying, and I believe I can be trusted to bring positive benefits to all those issues. We are the forgotten state in so many ways. People disparage Mississippi, and people don’t think well of Mississippi. And I know they do, and you know they do. And some of those criticisms are well placed, but many of them are not. And I believe that on November 7, if they wake up, and I’m senator, that image will change overnight. They’re choosing new symbols and new representatives and people who comport themselves in such a way as to bring credit to the state.

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Mike Espy, who served as the U.S. secretary of agriculture under President Bill Clinton from 1993-1994, has memorabilia around his office, including this photo of him and Clinton.

When I sat down at my computer when I got the notice that Cochran was going to resign, before any consultants, before any wordsmiths, before anybody came in to coach me on what to say, I wrote my statement of candidacy. I wrote it myself. Every word comes from my fingers. And in that statement, it says that we believe in the dignity of all people irrespective of race, gender, religion, disability or sexual orientation. It’s not my job to judge anybody; that’s God’s job. It’s my role to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to improve their lot in life. I put that in my statement of candidacy, and I put it online for everyone to read. I don’t want to repress, demean or ostracize anybody. So I’m open. Your Republican opponents’ campaigns have each focused a lot on who supports President Trump most. How can you break through the appetite that many Mississippians have for conservative bravado? First, I’m not trying to focus on either of the other two candidates. I’m running for office of U.S. Senate irrespective

interests of Mississippi, I’m going to oppose Chuck Schumer. When the other candidates talk about who’s more conservative—cutting the taxes or reducing the budget, whatever—I chuckle. At the Neshoba County Fair, I said, “People come up here talking about what they want to do and putting on the mantle of conservatism when I’ve already done this.” All I can do is tell you what I’ve done. And if you want to call it conservative, that’s what you call it. I call it common-sense policies. Can you provide an example of a conservative action you’ve taken? When I walked into the (U.S. Department of Agriculture) in 1993, I had 124,000 employees. And that might’ve been OK in 1863 when President Lincoln created USDA because the majority of Americans were farmers. But when I walked in in ’93, only 2 percent of the people farmed. I said, it’s just too many. I know we don’t do just farming, but it’s still way too many employees.

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and to them. And you just snap your fingers, and 20 years have gone by. I had to rebuild my economic base. My name was always good. But I just had to rebuild myself and my profession.

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If elected, U.S. Senate Democratic candidate MIke Espy would make history as the first African American senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction.

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AShton Pittman

“I’m not trying to get close to the president.”

In U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Mike Espy’s office is a courtroom sketch of when a jury found Espy not guilty in his federal trial.

So I said, I’m not going to make everybody leave, but I’m going to give you an incentive package. So we put on the table an incentive package of $25,000 for every person who would leave within 30 days. And we had 7,500 people who took advantage. Look what we saved in overhead costs, in salaries, in benefits, in retirements. 16 So when the Republicans talk about

how government is too big and downsizing government, I’m chuckling, because I’ve already done this. I have measurable outcomes. Go back and read my speeches. Go back and factcheck me. I’ve already done what you’ve said, and I was a Democrat. When former Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree ran to become Mississippi’s first

I’m not naive. I know this race will turn on the excitement of African Americans as well. They have to know that I’m viable, that I was historic in 1986, and they have to know that there’s a possibility of another historic victory on November 6. And that’s up to me and the (other) people in this room to generate that turnout. Mayor DuPree is a friend of mine. He’s very frank, and he told me (winning is) a matter of resources. So, my first job is to bring greater resources into the campaign. I believe we’re going to get everything we need resource-wise to win the race, and then we have to be very efficient. It wasn’t

black governor, but lost. How are you getting your message to black voters? I can’t win with black votes alone. I know that. Hell, I shouldn’t even be senator if that was the case because I wouldn’t be senator of everybody. I have to go and ask everybody for their support because I have to earn the support of everybody. And that’s what I’ve been doing since March.

that they didn’t vote for Mayor DuPree; it was that maybe they didn’t know he was running. Maybe they weren’t informed about the race. There a lot of African Americans in Mississippi that have not voted for anyone since Barack Obama’s re-election. But we know where they are. We’ve got them in our file system. We know where they live. We know how many times they’ve voted. We know everything that technology can give you. Now whether we get them out, that’s something else.

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You showed me an NRA award you got in 1988 and said your views on gun rights have changed since then. From ‘71 to ‘75, I was a member of the NRA because I was using their rifle range (as a student at Howard University in Washington, D.C.). When I ran for Congress, there was an opportunity to get their endorsement. I looked at their code and what they believed in and what I believed in, and I decided to renew my membership in 1986. That’s because I believe in the Second Amendment—I did then and I do now. I’m not running away from that, but things have changed. You know how Republicans who were Democrats say, “I didn’t leave the party; the party left me”? I can just say, “I didn’t leave the NRA; the NRA left me.” Because now they’re really right wing. I believe that anyone who has been declared a danger to himself or others should not own a firearm at all. I don’t mind assault weapons being sold, but I don’t think anyone should own them unless they’re 21 years of age. I think we should have enough technology to outfit every school if it comes to that to detect firearms if they come in the school. That’s the farthest I’m going to go. I do not believe teachers need to be armed. I am sobered about the number of school shootings. I got the Silver Rifle in 1988 because my voting record was almost 100 percent. I still have firearms in the my house right now. I’m less of a hunter than I am a fisher, but I taught my son and my wife how to shoot at a fire range here in Jackson, so if you come to my house with an evil intent, you’re 18 going to get a big surprise.

“I didn’t leave the NRA; the NRA left me.”

There’s a push for a voter initiative in Mississippi on medical marijuana for 2020. What’s your position? I’d be open to reviewing the statistics. The main thing for me is, is it safe? Is it a revenue enhancer? We need more revenue in Mississippi. So just like legalized betting, I’d be open to reviewing the facts and the economic estimates of what that would AShton Pittman

What about millennial voters? I’ve got gray hair, so I’ve got to surround myself with millennials. They’ve got to give me advice and knowledge and show me the best way to inform them and excite them. And I think the best way to excite them is to tell them what I can do for them—such as how I can help eliminate their student debt. The second thing to do is to make sure that when they graduate schools ,there are jobs available. We can work with state officials to make sure two-year technical schools are free or very low cost. So we just have to make sure we sit down with them on a peer-to-peer basis. They call them the “me generation,” and so we’ve got to sit down with them to show what we can do to make sure their “me” is a better “me.”

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U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Mike Espy’s office contains memorabilia that means something to him, including this photo of his father, Henry Espy Sr.

Explain your abortion stance. I’ll say it this way: I’m anti-abortion, but I’m pro-choice. My daughter has one child, my only grandson. I’ve got three grandchildren, but only one grandson. She’s my only daughter. I’m glad she had the baby. But if there was an issue at the time, and she had called me for counseling, I would have counseled her to have the baby. But at the same time, it’s her choice not to. That’s her legal choice.

bring to the state’s coffers. So I would never tell you no to either one of them. If we did it, maybe medical marijuana first. But there are a lot of studies out there about how if you are under the influence it still impairs your ability. I would just have to know if it was safe and if it was a financial benefit to the state. Talk about the investigation and your trial in the ’90s.

I refused all plea bargains because I was innocent. I plead not guilty when the judge asked me, and I was proven not guilty by the jury. I followed American jurisprudence. I was a defendant in a lawsuit. And they put up 70 witnesses against me. If you read the history, I put up any in my own defense. Why? Because I was not guilty. I wanted to be so demonstrably not guilty that the jury would see the whole thing was silly—and they did. After I was acquitted, there were two jurors who made statements publicly, and one said it was the most bogus thing she’d ever seen, because the prosecution could not connect the dots, because there were no dots to connect. Another juror said it was all a waste of time. It took four years—not because of anything I did, but because of the process the independent counsel had to follow. Every piece of paper they asked me for I gave to them. They could not find—after four years of investigation—where I gave any favors to any companies I regulated. They couldn’t find any because there weren’t any. About a month before trial, the prosecutor told me that if I would plead guilty they would go from 36 counts to one count. And I said, ‘No, I’m not guilty.’ About a week before trial, they said, “OK, OK, we’ll go from 36 to one, and you can choose your prison.” They said they’d recommend a prison in Florida or wherever. And I told them, “No, I don’t play golf like that.” Now, if (opponents) want to raise all this again, they can, but I can only say this: It doesn’t matter what they call you; it only matters what you answer to. I answer to exonerated. I answer to someone who sat four years through that, and I believe I’m stronger, I’m wiser, and I’m more faithful, because I believe in God, I believe in the Lord, I believe that through me he’s working his will, and if it’s his will, I’m going to win this race. What parts of Senator Cochran’s legacy do you hope to continue in the Senate? Calm demeanor. Professional disposition. Extensive knowledge. Friend of those even in the other party. And not a demagogue. All of that about him is also me. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Comment at jfp.ms/2018elections. Follow Ashton Pittman on Twitter @ashtonpittman. Email him story ideas to ashton@ jacksonfreepress.com. Elections for Mississippi’s U.S. Senate seats are Nov. 6. In the special election for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s seat, if no one gets more than 50 percent of the vote, the election goes to a runoff. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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When David Robertson needed to fill vacant space in his building on Briarwood Drive, he decided to create one of the first business incubators in Jackson.

Though the full-time office space at Triad Business Centers is at 90 percent occupancy, the company has virtual office packages, some of which allow business owners to use the incubator space on the first floor.

but after her first interview, she says she was blown away by the company’s mission of helping startup businesses. “I’ve signed up people that just got their LLC,” Edwards says. “It’s just, the opportunity to have a business presence without having to pay an arm and a leg. That excited me.” She moved up through the ranks and into her current position of assistant manager, which she took in March 2018. Triad has full-time office packages, but Robertson says the business has 90percent occupancy in those. The business also has virtual office packages. “It’s basically something for everyone,” Edwards says. “Let’s say you’re just starting out, and really all you need is a business address and a presence, but then you can advertise that this is where you are.” At the most basic level, the virtualoffice package includes a professional business address, mail and package receipts, and a personal mailbox. Starting at the coworking level, participants get access to the open desk spaces, and the included amenities go up with the package. “Think of it as kind of a timeshare for office space,” Robertson says. Triad currently has about 100 virtual-office members, including VetGuard Medical Supply, BB General Contractors and more. In the past, nonprofits such as the The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute have had virtual office presences. For more information on Triad Buisness Centers (460 Briarwood Drive, Suite 400, 601-709-4610), visit triadbusinesscenters. com or find the business on Facebook. Delreco Harris

that are working, and they just need to get out of the house and away from the kids, and off the kitchen table, and they need somewhere where they can have a professional business address, can conduct meetings, can work either solo ... or together as

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pril Edwards walks through double doors and down a hallway at Triad Business Centers, and then stops in a conference room to drop the items in her hands off. She then heads toward a room filled with small clusters of wide white desks, each individual space divided with a light green partition. Off to the side is a kitchen, its overhead cabinets stocked full of Keurig cups, straws and other coffee paraphernalia. “We come fully stocked,” she comments. At the moment, the Triad’s coworking office space, is empty, but on any given day, it could be filled with entrepreneurs and business owners looking for a place to work besides a coffee house or at home. David Robertson opened Triad in 2010 and made it an LLC in 2012. At the time of its opening, it was one of the only locally owned business incubator spaces of its kind. Robertson, who owns the building, needed to fill some vacant spaces after a large tenant moved out. He decided to turn them into incubators for businesses. “I saw this as a real opportunity to grow and create incubator space for the building itself,” he says. The idea was that small businesses would use the spaces, and then as they grew, would eventually become tenants of the building. “Over time, you kind of realize, we’re really developing into a more mobile workforce. People are willing to travel with their cell phones and their iPads, and they don’t need the, I guess, historically, what was your typical conventional office-type setup. The large number of independent entrepreneurial sole practitioners out there

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Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) • Constitution Day Reflections: Judge Carlton Reeves Sept. 21, 1-2:30 p.m. In Ford Academic Complex room 215. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves presents on the role of the federal judiciary, the current legal and political climate, and more. Free; millsaps.edu. • Bipartisanship in a Partisan Era Sept. 28, 1-2:30 p.m. In Ford Academic Complex room 215. Northern District Mississippi Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Tagert, a Republican, and Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley,

FRIDAY 9/21 PARK(ing) Day is from noon to 10 p.m. in downtown Jackson, on Congress Street between Capitol and Amite streets. The block party is to raise awareness of the need for more public space and to discuss development. Includes games, food, art installations, and music from Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne, Bryan Akili, Pink Palaces, Judson Wright, Kicking and DJ Scrap Dirty. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

a Democrat, reflect on their friendship and working relationship across party lines. Free admission; millsaps.edu. Discovery Night: Around the Campfire Sept. 22, 6-9 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). The family fundraising event celebrates children’s literature and delves into STEM education. Includes food, drinks, music and more. $25 for adults, $10 for children; mschildrensmuseum.org. History Is Lunch Sept. 26, noon-1 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). Lucy Allen, David Morris and Jimbo Harwell present on “The Architecture of the Two Mississippi Museums.” Free admission; mdah.ms.gov. MAAN Summit Sept. 27, 4-8:30 p.m., Sept. 28, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). The Mississippi Advisory & Action Network hosts the summit to address HIV disparity in Mississippi. Registration required. Free admission; eventbrite.com.

WEDNESDAY 9/19 “Morningside” is at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). Mississippi playwright-director Topher Payne presents the southern comedy about nine women at a baby shower gone wrong in the neighborhood of Morningside. Recommended for ages 16 and up. Additional dates: Sept. 20-22, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 23, 2 p.m. $30 admission, $25 for seniors, students and military; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com.

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PARK(ing) Day Sept. 21, noon-10 p.m., in downtown Jackson. On Congress Street between Capitol and Amite streets. The block party is to raise awareness of the need for more public space and to discuss development. Includes games, food, art installations, and music from Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne, Bryan Akili, Pink Palaces, Judson Wright, Kicking and DJ Scrap Dirty. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

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Network Your Net Worth—September Mixer Sept. 27, 6-7:30 p.m., at Kundi Compound (256 E. Fortification St.). Jackson Black Pages presents the networking event for business owners and entrepreneurs. The speaker is McKinley Pierce. Free admission; find it on Facebook. A.R.E. Southeast Workshop Sept. 29, 10 a.m.5 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum Education Center (3010 Lakeland Cove). A.R.E. Southeast presents the workshop entitled “Mastering Your Life Mission.” The speaker is Peter Woodbury. Registration at 8:30 a.m. Admission prices: A.R.E. members—$55 before Sept. 24, $70 at the door; non-members—$65 before Sept. 24, $80 at the door; are-southeast.org. “Paddlefish in Mississippi” Lecture Oct. 2, noon-1 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Jan Hoover presents on “The Paddlefish in Mississippi: Living Fossil, Natural Resource and Engineering Marvel.” $6 for adults, $4 for ages 3 and up; call 601-576-6000; mdwfp.com.

KIDS Look & Learn with Hoot Sept. 21, 10:3011:30 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The educational event for children up to 5 years of age and their parents features creative play, a hands-on art activity and story time with Hoot, the museum’s education mascot. $10 per child; msmuseumart.org.

“T. Rex Time Machine” Sept. 22, 10 a.m., at Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Author and illustrator Jared Chapman presents a story time of his children’s book and signs copies. $16.99 book; lemuriabooks.com. Visiting Artist: Kathryn Wilson Sept. 29, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). Kathryn Wilson of Kinetic Etchings leads the ballet workshop to expand children’s knowledge of classical dance vocabulary, coordination and more. Included with admission; mschildrensmuseum.com. Story Time with Uncle Story Oct. 2, 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; msagmuseum.org. Events at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.) • New Stage Fall Classes [Grades 1-3] Saturdays through Nov. 17, 9-10:30 a.m. Children learn the fundamentals of theater, including acting, character development and storytelling to create an original script. $200; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com. • New Stage Fall Classes [Grades 4-6] Saturdays through Nov. 17, 10:45 a.m.12:15 p.m. Children learn the fundamentals of musical theater, including movement, character development and storytelling to create an original script. $200; newstagetheatre.com.

THURSDAY 9/20 Symphony at Sunset is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Cedars (4145 Old Canton Road). The annual outdoor concert features the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performing a program of popular music, light classics and Americana. Blankets, chairs and picnics welcome. Free admission; call 601-981-9606; fondren.org.

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Staglin Family Vineyard Wine Dinner Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m., at Char Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N.). Chef Derek George presents a fourcourse dinner featuring Staglin Family Vineyard wine pairings with each course. Reservations required. $125 plus tax and gratuity; call 601956-9562; jackson.charrestaurant.com. The Gathering Dinner Series: Mississippi Gulf Seafood Sept. 21, 6:30 p.m., at The Gathering at Livingston Mercantile (106 Livingston Church Road, Flora). The three-course dinner features Gulf Coast seafood with drink pairings. Champagne hour at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. $45; livingstonmercantilestore.com. Mississippi Whole Hog BBQ Sept. 23, 5:308:30 p.m., at The Cedars (4145 Old Canton Road). The event features a barbecue dinner from Andy Cook, David Crews, Mitchell McCamey, Nathan Glenn, Scott Koestler and Derek Emerson. Includes music from The Hustlers, a bourbon tasting and a cash bar. Proceeds benefit Farm Families of Mississippi. $25 for adults, $15 under age 10; msfoodandwine.com. French Wine Tasting Sept. 25, 6 p.m., at Amerigo Italian Restaurant (6592 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland). The casual wine tasting features four French wines paired with Bruschetta Amerigo and tiramisu. Reservations encouraged. $25 per person, plus tax and gratuity; amerigo.net. Wine Maker’s Dinner Sept. 26, 6:30 p.m., at Rickhouse by The Manship (717 Poplar Blvd.). The event includes a five-course dinner with wine pairings and special guest Roger Roessler. Seating and reception at 6 p.m. Limited seating. $75 per person, $55 food only; eventbrite.com. Mississippi SKATE Fair: Fair-Food Cook Off Sept. 29, 5-8 p.m., at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.). Chefs compete to see who can create the best version of traditional fair foods, based on audience votes. All proceeds go toward the Mill Street skatepark. $5 one food item, $20 to try all food; find it on Facebook. MadCAAP’s Food for Thought Oct. 2, 6-9 p.m., at Livingston Chapel (116 Livingston Church Road, Flora). Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty hosts the fundraiser featuring food, wine, beer and specialty drinks from 39 area restaurants. Includes a silent auction and music from Rhythm Masters. $50; madcaap.org.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Ovarian Cycle Jackson Sept. 20, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., at The Club at The Township (340 Township Ave., Ridgeland). The indoor cycling event is to raise awareness of ovarian cancer and funds for research. All experience levels welcome. $50 registration, free for survivors; find it on Facebook. Scoring in the Name of Recovery Sept. 20, 9-11 a.m., at Hinds Behavioral Health Services (3450 Highway 80 W.). In the Hinds Behavioral Health Services adult lobby. Participants are invited to wear their favorite sports team attire. Includes opportunities to share recovery journey, prevention and addiction recovery resources, refreshments and speakers. Free; hbhs9.com.

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Chris Baker, executive director of Downtown Fitness Powered by Baptist Health Systems, got into spinning in 1998 thanks to a U.S. Olympics training center. Trainers there suggested that he use stationary exercise bikes to work on his foot speed ahead of a tryout for the national racquetball team. While he ultimately did not make the team, the exercise took him from having the slowest measured speed of all the athletes trying out to being the second fastest within a year. “The great thing about spinning is that it’s low impact, and you can train on a bike in a safe environment where you don’t have to worry about cars,” he said. Baker has more than 20 years of experience as a fitness instructor. He helped bring spinning to the

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Discovery Night: “Around the Campfire” is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). The Mississippi Children’s Museum’s family fundraising event celebrates children’s literature and delves into science, technology, engineering and math. The outdoor adventure theme encourCLIPART ages children to expand their horizons through reading and science. Includes food and drinks, music, special activities and a raffle. $25 for adults, $10 for children; mschildrensmuseum.org.

Milk Run 5K Run & Walk Sept. 22, 8-11 a.m., at Flowood Nature Park (4077 Flowood Drive, Flowood). The annual 5K run/walk is to raise awareness and funds for the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Mississippi. The nonprofit is the only human milk bank in the state. $30; raceroster.com. Central Mississippi Walk to End Alzheimer’s Sept. 22, 8:30 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi State Capitol (400 High St.). The Alzheimer’s Association Mississippi hosts the fundraising walk, which takes place in more than 600 communities. For all ages and experience levels. $100 fundraising minimum for T-shirt; act.alz.org. Walk to Defeat ALS Jackson Sept. 22, 9 a.m.noon, at Trustmark Park (1 Braves Blvd., Pearl).

Finalists: Denise Moulier (Guruz Fitness Studio, 6935 Old Canton Road, 747-666-5326, guruzfitness.com) / Lacee Chagnon (Guruz Fitness Studio, 6935 Old Canton Road, 747-666-5326, guruzfitness.com)

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5K4Kids Canopy Care Run Sept. 22, 8 a.m., at Colonial Heights Baptist Church (444 Northpark Drive, Ridgeland). The family-friendly fundraiser features a 5K run/walk, a one-mile fun run for ages 5-10, a “tot trot” for preschoolers, and a kids’ zone. Registration at 6:45 a.m., and warm-up at 7:45 a.m. $10 tot trot, $15 fun run, $25 run/walk; find it on Facebook.

metro area in 1998, when the now-closed Courthouse Racquet and Fitness that he managed in northeast Jackson became the first local gym to offer group spinning classes. That fitness center was also one of the first in the state to offer spin classes. Today, Baker leads several spin classes for Downtown Fitness that focus on areas such as endurance, power and speed. People getting in shape can also take part in the raceday classes that simulate real bike races. —Dustin Cardon

The ALS Association hosts the annual walk raising funds for care services, advocacy, education and research into the disease. Free to register, fundraising encouraged; walktodefeatals.org. Fall Wellness Fair Sept. 22, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at Jackson Revival Center Church (4655 Terry Road). The Beta Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. hosts the familyfriendly wellness event featuring giveaways, health screenings, a used shoes and eyeglasses drive, a kids’ zone, a financial forum and more. Free; email stephaniewbostic@yahoo.com. Pro Wrestling Ego: Feel Invincible 2 Sept. 22, 7 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). The event features fighters such as O’Shay Edwards, Ursa Major, Dax Anthony, Sterdust and The Cavemen. Doors open at 6 p.m. VIP entry is at 5:30 p.m., and includes a meet and greet and an extra match. $10, $6 for ages 5-11, $15 VIP; find it on Facebook. Trustmark Children’s Hospital Pro-Am Golf Tournament Sept. 24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The fundraiser for Batson Children’s Hospital’s Child

Life Program takes place simultaneously at the Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive), Annandale Golf Club (100 Annandale Golf Club Drive, Madison) and Reunion Golf & Country Club (150 Greensward Drive, Madison). Teams of five pair with a professional golfer and play a shamble-format game. Register in advance. Admission TBA; foch.org. Friendship Golf Tournament Sept. 27, 8 a.m., at Lake Caroline Golf Club (118 Caroline Club Circle, Madison). The four-person scramble golf tournament is a fundraiser for Dialogue Jackson, an organization that works to enhance relationships among people of all ethnicities. Includes lunch at 1 p.m. $125 per individual, $500 fourperson team; dialoguejackson.com. “Wells Done!” Run Sept. 29, 8-9:30 a.m., at Smith-Wills Stadium (1152 Lakeland Drive). The annual 5K run/walk and one-mile fun run is part of WellsFest and benefits Growing Up Knowing. The 5K starts at 8 a.m., and the fun run starts at 9 a.m. $10 fun run, $30 individual, $90 family; wellschurch.org.

The Village Social | Bend & Brew Sept. 30, 11 a.m.-noon, at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). Avery Forbes leads the yoga session. Refreshments to follow at Red Square, along with a pet adoption event. All fitness levels welcome. Bring your own mat if possible. Free admission; highlandvillagejxn.com.

STAGE & SCREEN “Morningside” Sept. 19-22, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 23, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). Mississippi playwright-director Topher Payne presents the comedy about nine women at a baby shower gone wrong. $30, $25 for seniors, students and military; newstagetheatre.com. “The Mountaintop” Sept. 20-22, 7 p.m., Sept. 23, 3 p.m., Sept. 24, 7 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.). In Rose McCoy Auditorium. Katori Hall’s drama tells the fictional story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s experiences the night before his assassination in 1968. $12 admission, $10 for seniors, $7 for students; jsums.edu.

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Austen Film Series: “Persuasion” Sept. 21, 5:30-9:30 p.m., at Eudora Welty House and Garden (1119 Pinehurst St.). The 1995 film stars Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds. Includes a program at 6:45 p.m. Blankets, chairs and snacks welcome. Free admission; mdah.ms.gov.

“These Shining Lives” Sept. 26-29, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 29, 2 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). The play is based on the true story of 1920s female factory workers and the dangerous conditions that they endured. Doors open 30 minutes prior to show time. $10 admission, $5 for students and seniors; find it on Facebook.

UniverSoul Circus Sept. 25, 7 p.m., at New Horizon Church International (1750 Ellis Ave.). The circus has been touring internationally for

“Man of La Mancha” Sept. 27-29, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 30, 2 p.m., at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). The musical is about of

TUESDAY 9/25 The French Wine Tasting is at 6 p.m. at Amerigo Italian Restaurant (6592 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland). The casual wine tasting features four French wines paired with Bruschetta Amerigo and tiramisu. Reservations encouraged. $25 per person, plus tax and gratuity; call 601-977-0563; amerigo.net. CLIPART

Miguel de Cervantes, who tells the story of Don Quixote in prison. $15, $10 for seniors, children and military; blackrosetheatre.org.

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n one year during the International Gumbo Festival’s first pursuing a degree in culinary arts and hospitality and touriteration in the ’90s, Hal White sought to make one of the ism management from Hinds Community College. In addiworld’s largest pots of gumbo. tion to the funds, the scholarship also gives the recipient a “It was so much gumbo that after the festival was over, chance to intern at a minimum of 20 hours at Hal & Mal’s. the pot still looked full,” festival organizer Bill Bissell says. “This is pretty unique in that the people that receive Bissell, White and his brother, Malcolm White (the cur- the scholarships have to work in the food industry, so they rent executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission), have to kind of earn their way, and this a supplement to help decided to feed prisoners at the Hinds County jail in down- them,” he says. “It’s got a great cause, and there’s so many town Jackson with the leftovers. young people that start out in the restaurant industry, and “We found something good to do with gumbo, the pris- it’s not as simple as washing dishes anymore. oners had the best meal they’d ever had, and we all had a “They have to go through that process and learn how to good time,” Bissell says. But the next day presented a challenge for him: He had to get the pot cleaned out. “After a night of celebrating getting all the prisoners fed, it was a little bit of a challenge the next morning, but I made it through OK,” he says. Bissell took it to a car wash and says had to get inside of it to clean it. “We’ve never had a pot of gumbo that big again,” he says. The festival began in 1992. “It is a fun food, and gumbo is such a mixture of products and different things,” Bissell says. “We (also) had musicians that played The 2018 BankPlus International Gumbo Festival is Saturday, Sept. 22, at around town that wanted to be a Smith Park from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. part of something.” It ran through 2004 when the major sponsor, Jitney Jungle, left Jackson. After Hal work and run a restaurant, so they get an education and can passed away in March 2013, organizers restarted the go on and be successful like Hal & Mal’s was.” festival that fall For Bissell, picking the festival back up meant giving the The 2018 BankPus International Gumbo Festival is Satcity something it needed. urday, Sept. 22, at Smith Park (250 N. West St.) from 11 a.m. “Jackson had no festival of any consequence that was to 5 p.m. The event will have gumbo tastings and a cook-off, downtown and in the heart of the city,” he says. a kid’s area, live music from bands such as Webb Wilder and Since the festival restarted in 2012, proceeds each year The Beatnecks and Cedric Burnside, and more. Tickets are $10 have gone toward the Harold T. & Hal White Memorial in advance, $15 on the day of the event and $30 for a fourScholarship fund at Hinds Community College. The schol- pack. For more information, visit jacksongumbo.com or find arship goes to a freshman or returning sophomore who is the event on Facebook.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Symphony at Sunset Sept. 20, 7-9 p.m., at The Cedars (4145 Old Canton Road). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs for the annual outdoor concert. Blankets, chairs and picnics welcome. Free; fondren.org. Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Derek Norsworthy Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m. The Mississippi singer-songwriter performs. The concert will be filmed and recorded. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Free; ardenland.net. • Muscadine Bloodline Sept. 22, 8 p.m. The Mobile, Ala., country duo’s latest EP is titled “Movin’ On.” Jobe Fortner and Jordan Fletcher also perform. Doors open at 7 p.m. $12 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net. • Ian Moore Sept. 27, 8 p.m. The Seattle singersongwriter performs. Magnolia Bayou also performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net. Jason Turner Band Album Release Party Sept. 21, 8-11 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The Mississippi-native rock singersongwriter’s latest album is titled “In Honor of Number 8.” Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 admission; halandmals.com. One Mic : Five Emcees Sept. 21, 8-10 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The hip-hop showcase features Mr. Fluid, Yung Jewelz, Ray Kincaid, Metaphive and Montshadow, with a beat set from Preda-Kon. $8; find it on Facebook.

MONDAY 9/24 “The Mountaintop” is at 7 p.m. at Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.) in Rose McCoy Auditorium. Katori Hall’s award-winning drama tells the fictional story of Martin Luther King Jr.’s experiences

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She began developing “The Meal Plan” while working to find her voice as a solo artist after Calico Panache disbanded in 2013, but she put the project on hold when she decided to move back to Jackson in 2015 to be closer to family. The Clarksdale, Miss., native says her

SIKA performed at the “Queendom Come” concert on Saturday, Sept. 14, at The Flamingo as part of the release schedule for her debut EP, “The Meal Plan.”

music stayed on the shelf for almost a year as she resettled in the capital city. Then, she took the stage for her first solo performance during Jackson Indie Music Week’s “Many Moons” showcase in 2016. It was a turning point, Noxolo says, as she finally felt comfortable with her status as a solo act. That paved the way for more shows

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William Boyle signs copies of “Gravesend” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25.95 book; lemuriabooks.com.

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passed. I’m kind of starting over.’ I literally ended up not using any of the songs I made while I was living in Atlanta,” she says. “But … I’m glad that life put up its roadblocks because I wasn’t ready as an artist. I was still getting used to my voice as a solo artist in the first place.” That question of identity became

one of the themes of “The Meal Plan,” which features Jackson artists such as Coke Bumaye, Vitamin Cea, Yung Jewelz and Dolla Black, who engineered, mixed and mastered the project. The EP also features beats from producers DJ Lake Gang, Cory Page and Fred Nice. Rather than providing guest vocals, though, Noxolo asked her musical peers to leave her voice messages to appear as skits on the EP, giving their answers to the question, “Who is SIKA?” Her choice to include the messages, which double the project’s runtime, was not without careful deliberation. She says that wife Ashley Noxolo caught her off guard the first time she asked why the callins were on “The Meal Plan.” “I think when you’re first coming out, just introducing yourself, yeah, people have an open ear, but they’re not really listening,” she says. “It’s like, ‘Let’s get to the music. Let’s see what you’re really about.’ So as far as just really trying to explain to people who you are, what you are, what you like, I think that having other voices kind of sculpt that thought in your head, it gives you a plethora of different ideas. “So when you meet me, you’ll probably be more open-minded than if it was just my perspective given to you.” SIKA’s “The Meal Plan” EP is available now on iTunes, Bandcamp, Spotify and most digital retailers. For more information, find SIKA on Facebook and Instagram.

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Events at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.) • John “Papa” Gros Sept. 21, 10 p.m. The New Orleans-native musician is known for his blend of funk, rock, jazz, blues and Americana music. Admission TBA; martinslounge.net. • Truett Sept. 22, 10 p.m. The Atlanta rock artist’s latest EP is titled “Lies and Lightning.” Admission TBA; martinslounge.net. • MONTU Sept. 29, 10 p.m. The Oklahomabased electronic jam band’s latest single is titled “Phases.” Admission TBA; martinslounge.net.

and a return to the material she had begun recording for “The Meal Plan” in Atlanta. Unfortunately, Noxolo realized that she simply didn’t like the songs. Initially, she says it was discouraging to toss out the work she had put in. “I was like, ‘Man, two years have SABIR ABDUL-HAQQ

essica Noxolo’s solo debut, “The Meal Plan” EP, may feature a song titled “The Appetizer,” but the Jackson neo-soul artist, who performs as SIKA, says she sees the recording project itself as a teaser of things to come. The three-song EP, which Noxolo officially released on Sept. 14, is an introduction and perhaps reintroduction for fans who might remember her as the keyboard player for all-female R&B and soul act Calico Panache. The group formed in Jackson in 2009 while its members attended Tougaloo College and continued on after their graduation in 2011, with some musicians, including Noxolo, relocating to Atlanta for more opportunities. The move helped open doors for the band, including a feature on the popular BET show “106 & Park” and a performance slot in the annual “Southern Showcase of the South.” However, it also meant that some of the women had to travel across the country from states such as California, Maine and Illinois. “It was one of those things where we formed in college, and everybody was stationary here, and then, eventually, once everyone hit that graduation point, a lot of people had to move back home,” Noxolo says. “Like, our lead singer was from L.A. She can’t just drive down the street. If it was like that, we would have been able to keep everything going.”

artists Keith and Kristyn Getty present the day summit and evening concert. The summit includes discussions on worship and a special workshop for children and their parents. A lunch Q&A with Keith Getty is also available. Free summit and concert, $12 lunch; eventbrite.com. Mississippi Science Fest Sept. 22, 10 a.m.4 p.m., in LeFleur Museum District. The festival features activities, demonstrations and more at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive), the Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.), the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive) and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum (1152 Lakeland Drive). $10 admission; mssciencefest.org.

BankPlus International Gumbo Festival Sept. 22, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., at Smith Park (200 E. Amite St.). The festival features a gumbo cook-off, drink vendors, music from Cedric Burnside, Webb Wilder Band, Chris Gill and the Sole Shakers and Matt Willis, and more. $10 in advance, $15 day of event; jacksongumbo.com. “Back to the 90s” Day Party Sept. 22, 3-7 p.m., at Uncle Ray’s Lounge (111 Millsaps Ave.). The 1990s-themed party features performances from Vitamin Cea, Yung Jewelz, Jo’De Boy and Krystal Gem, and vendors such as Hygge Apparel, Disayah Boutique and more. Advance tickets include food and drink. $10; eventbrite.com. “Dancing Queen: The Music of ABBA” Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and the vocalists of Jeans ‘n Classics perform a concert featuring hit songs from the Swedish pop band. $16-$51; msorchestra.com. Farish Street Heritage Festival Sept. 28, 5-11 p.m., Sept. 29, 4-9 p.m., on Farish Street. The festival features music from After 7, Tre Williams, Lacee, Big Yayo, Cupid, Karma, Iam Smoke and more. $10 Friday, $25 Saturday, $30 two-day ticket; farishstreetheritagefestival.com.

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9/19 - 10/3 WEDNESDAY 9/19 1908 - Carlos Calabrese 6:30-9 p.m. Alumni House - Johnny Barranco 6:30-8:30 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Barry Leach 6-9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30 p.m. $10 McClain - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m. Pelican Cove - Stace & Cassie 6 p.m. Playtime Ent., Clinton - Musiq Theory w/ Stephanie Luckett 8 p.m. Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Thursday 9/20 The Cedars - MS Symphony Orchestra’s “Symphony at Sunset” 7-9 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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

Friday 9/21 1908 - Hunger Gibson & Ronnie McGee 7-10 p.m. Ameristar, Vicksburg Fortag 8 p.m. Castlewoods Country Club - Brian Jones 7 p.m. Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Congress Street “PARK(ing) Day” feat. Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne, Bryan Akili, Pink Palaces & more noon-10 p.m. free Drago’s - Greenfish 7 p.m. F. Jones - Sherman Lee Dillon & the MS Sound midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood Shaun Patterson Georgia Blue, Madison Brandon Greer Hal & Mal’s - Jason Turner Album Release Show 8 p.m. $10

Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Shucker’s - Barry Leach 5:30 p.m.; Hairicane 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - Josh Journeay 7 p.m. free Soulshine, Ridgeland Casey Phillips 7 p.m. free Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Saturday 9/22 Ameristar, Vicksburg Fortag 8 p.m. Bonny Blair’s DoubleShotz 8 p.m. Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. Christ UMC - Keith & Kristyn Getty 6 p.m. free CS’s - Eye Jammy, Dumspell, DBL Take & Giggle 7:30 p.m. $5 Duling Hall - Muscadine Bloodline w/ Jobe Fortner & Jordan Fletcher 8 p.m. $12 advance $15 day of F. Jones - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Sherman Lee Dillon & the MS Sound midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood Mayday File Photo / Imani Khayyam

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Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Thalia Mara Hall - MS Symphony Orchestra’s “Dancing Queen: The Music of ABBA” 7:30 p.m. $16-$51 Uncle Ray’s - “Back to the 90s” feat. Vitamin Cea, Jo’De Boy & Krystal Gem 3-7 p.m. $10

Sunday 9/23 1908 - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Iron Horse - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Dagnabbit noon; Travelin’ Jane 5 p.m. Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 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 9/24 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Crocker 7-11 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m. MS Museum of Art ACLU’s “Fight for Freedom” Art Show & Garden Party feat. Southern Komfort Brass Band 5:30 p.m. $50 Pelican Cove - Two for the Road 6 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

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Drago’s - Skip MacDonald 6-9 p.m. Duling Hall - Derek Norsworthy 7:30 p.m. free F. Jones - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood Jason Turner Georgia Blue, Madison Chad Wesley Hal & Mal’s - Sherman Lee Dillon 6-9 p.m. free Iron Horse - Randy “19th Street Red” Cohen 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - DoubleShotz 6:30 p.m. MS Museum of Art Clouds & Crayons 6 p.m. free

The Hideaway - Mustache 9 p.m. $15 Hops & Habanas - Gena Steele & Buzz Pickens 7-9:30 p.m. Iron Horse - Sherman Lee Dillon 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Chris Gill & the Sole Shakers 7 p.m. Lounge 114 - Press Play 601 w/ Mz Kathy 9 p.m. Martin’s - John “Papa” Gros 10 p.m. MS Museum of Art - Meat & Greet 11:30 a.m. free Offbeat - Mr. Fluid, Yung Jewelz, Metaphive & more 8-10 p.m. $8 Pelican Cove - Jackson Gypsies 6 p.m. Pop’s - Just Cauz 9 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison Skip McDonald Iron Horse - Barry Leach Band 9 p.m. Kemistry - Kujho & the Nasty Sho 9 p.m. Lounge 114 - Eddie Cotton Jr. 9 p.m. Martin’s - Truett 10 p.m. Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads 6 p.m. Pop’s - Pop Fiction 9 p.m. Shucker’s - 4 on the Floor 3:30 p.m.; Hairicane 8 p.m. $5; Topher Brown 10 p.m. Smith Park - “Int. Gumbo Fest” feat. Cedric Burnside, Webb Wilder Band, Chris Gill & more 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 advance $15 day of

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Johnny Crocker 6-9 p.m. Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Raphael Semmes & Friends 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Keys vs. Strings 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Simpatico 6 p.m. Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 9/26 1908 - Bill Ellison 6:30-9 p.m. Alumni House - Jerry Brooks & Jack Beal 6:30-8:30 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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Drago’s - Jonathan Alexander 6-9 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6:30-9:30 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m. Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Stace & Cassie 6 p.m. Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

THURSDAY 9/27 1908 - Dan Gibson 5:30-9 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Drago’s - Jacob Lipking 6-9 p.m. Duling Hall - Ian Moore w/ Magnolia Bayou 8 p.m. $10 advance $15 day of F. Jones - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fitzgerald’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 7-11 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio 7-9:30 p.m. free Iron Horse - McKinney Williams 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Bill & Temperance 6:30 p.m. Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads Duo 6 p.m. Shucker’s - Lovin Ledbetter 7:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

FRIDAY 9/28 1908 - Andrew Pates 6:30-9 p.m. Ameristar, Vicksburg Doug Allen Nash 8 p.m. Castlewoods Country Club - Jason Turner 7 p.m. Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Drago’s - Hunter Gibson 6-9 p.m. F. Jones - The Amazin’ Lazy Boi midnight $10 Farish Street - “Farish Street Heritage Fest” feat. Iam Smoke, Terrell Brinson, Karma, Cupid & more 5-11 p.m. $10 single-day $30 both days The Flamingo - “Country Cousinz: JXN vs. Louisiana” feat. KC Young Bone, Bluz Brothers, JT ALI & more 8 p.m.-midnight Georgia Blue, Flowood Phil & Trace Hal & Mal’s - Crooked Creek 7-10 p.m.

Iron Horse - Casey Phillips 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m. Last Call - DJ Spoon 9 p.m. Lounge 114 - Amira Carey 9 p.m. Martin’s - Newscast w/ Fides 10 p.m. MS Museum of Art - Sonja Stamps 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Road Hogs 6 p.m. Pop’s - Time to Move 9 p.m. Shucker’s - Gena Steele & Buzz Pickens 5:30 p.m.; Mississippi Moonlight 8 p.m. $5; Jonathan Alexander 10 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - Ron Etheridge 7 p.m. free Soulshine, Ridgeland Barry Leach 7 p.m. free Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

SATURDAY 9/29 Ameristar, Vicksburg Doug Allen Nash 8 p.m. Cathead Distillery “Oktoberfest” feat. Rooster Blues & Passing Parade 2-8 p.m. $10-$30 Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. F. Jones - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Dexter Allen midnight $10 Farish Street - “Farish Street Heritage Fest” feat. Montrell, Big Yayo, Greg P., Lacee, Tre Williams & more 4-9 p.m. $25 singleday $30 both days Fondren Corner - Young Valley’s “Rock & Roll BBQ II 6-11:30 p.m. Hops & Habanas - Robert James Starr 7-9:30 p.m. Iron Horse - The Lucky Losers 9 p.m. Jamie Fowler Boyll Park “WellsFest” feat. Krystal Gem, These Days w/ Jewel Bass, Travelin’ Jane, Jesse Robinson & Friends, Spacewolf & more 10 a.m.-5 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Faze 4 7 p.m. Lounge 114 - Stephanie Luckett 9 p.m. Martin’s - MONTU 10 p.m. Offbeat - “The Concert, Pt. 2” feat. Yung Jewelz 7-11 p.m. Pelican Cove - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6 p.m. Pop’s - Trademark 9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Chris Gill 3:30 p.m.; Mississippi Moonlight 8 p.m. $5; Josh Journeay 10 p.m. Soul Wired - Cortland Garner, Rashaard & Stanstantana 10 p.m. Soulshine, Flowood - Brian Jones 7 p.m. Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Underground 119 - Dexter Allen 8 p.m. WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m.

SUNDAY 9/30 Ameristar, Vicksburg - Vicksburg Blues Challenge 2-9 p.m. free 1908 - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 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. Pelican Cove - Wayward Jones noon; Fannin Landin’ 5 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 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 10/1 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Barry Leach 6:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

TUESDAY 10/2 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Raphael Semmes & Friends 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Stace & Cassie 6:30 p.m. MS Museum of Art Michael Boyd 5:15 p.m. Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 10/3 Alumni House - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-8:30 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m.

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SUNDAY 9/30 “Man of La Mancha” is at 2 p.m. at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). The musical tells the story of playwright Miguel de Cervantes, who tells the other prisoners the story of Don Quixote while awaiting trial. Reservations encouraged. Additional dates: Sept. 27-29, 7:30 p.m. $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, children and military; blackrosetheatre.org. CLIPART

• To Tell the Truth: The Art of Creative Nonfiction Sept. 24, 6:30 p.m. Participants learn to generate topic ideas and explore narrative writing fundamentals. Class meets on Mondays through Nov. 5, except for Oct. 15. $110; millsaps.edu. • Beginning Knitting Sept. 25, 6-8 p.m. Participants learn basic knitting techniques, such as casting on, purling, decreasing stitches, seaming and more. Class meets Tuesdays through Oct. 16. $70 plus materials; millsaps.edu.

ARTS & EXHIBITS The Town of Livingston Food & Wine Festival Sept. 28, 6-9 p.m., Sept. 29, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sept. 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Town of Livingston (116 Livingston Church Road, Flora). The inaugural festival features food and drinks from a variety of chefs, restaurants, vintners and brewmasters. $50-$130; find it on Facebook. Country Cousinz Concert Series 8: JXN vs. Louisiana Sept. 28, 8 p.m., at The Flamingo (3011 N. State St.). The event features hip-hop artists representing Jackson and Louisiana, including KC Young Bone, Ray Kincaid, JT ALI, The Bluz Brothaz, Chris Valentine and more. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook. WellsFest Sept. 29, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at Jamie Fowler Boyll Park (1398 Lakeland Drive). The festival features music on two stages, food and drinks for sale, kids’ activities, a 5K run/walk and kids’ fun run at 8 a.m., a pet parade at 9:30 a.m., vendors, a plant sale and more. Free admission; wellschurch.org. Cathead Oktoberfest Sept. 29, 2-8 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The event features music from Rooster Blues and Passing Parade, football on big screens, craft and domestic beers, food from Dave’s BBB, and a gaming competition. $10, $20 stein-holder ticket, $30 gaming competition; find it on Facebook. Young Valley Rock & Roll BBQ II Sept. 29, 6-11:30 p.m., at Fondren Corner (2906 N. State St.). The Jackson country band hosts the outdoor festival featuring music, food and drink vendors, and more. Gates open at 5 p.m. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

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Events at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.) • History Is Lunch Sept. 19, noon-1 p.m. Dr. Rick de Shazo presents on his book, “The Racial Divide in American medicine.” Sales and signing follow. Free; mdah.ms.gov. • History Is Lunch Oct. 3, noon-1 p.m. Robin S. Lattimore and Marc Matrana present on their book, “Southern Splendor.” Sales and signing follow. Free; mdah.ms.gov. Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “The Good Demon” Sept. 19, 5 p.m. Jimmy Cajoleas signs copies and reads an excerpt. $18.99 book; lemuriabooks.com. • “Suffer the Children” Sept. 22, 4 p.m. Adair Sanders signs copies. Reading at 4:30 p.m. $12 book; lemuriabooks.com. • “Gravesend” Sept. 26, 5 p.m. William Boyle signs copies. $25.95 book; lemuriabooks.com. • “Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South” Oct. 2, 5 p.m. Marc R. Matrana and Robin S. Lattimore sign copies. $40 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Southern Discomfort” Oct. 3, 5 p.m. Tena Clark signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $27 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. I!Can Imagine: Voices of A-TEAAM Young Authors Sept. 23, 4 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). At Center Court. The book signing celebrates the work of 130 writers from the Ambassadors of the Evers Academy for African-American Males. Books for sale; jsdfoundation.com.

CREATIVE CLASSES Watercolor Mandala with Sadara Evans Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-noon, at The Community Canvas at Jax-Zen Float (155 Wesley Ave.). Watercolor artist Sadara Evans guides participants in creating a watercolor mandala painting. $35 (includes supplies); find it on Facebook. Events at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.) • Movement for the Working Actor Sept. 24, 5:30-7 p.m. The adult acting class uses basic dance techniques to help musical-theater actors learn to be physically motivated onstage. Class meets on Mondays through Oct. 29. $180; newstagetheatre.com. • Theatre for Social Change Sept. 24, 7-9 p.m. Participants learn to use storytelling, sound and movement onstage to explore complex issues. For ages 16 and up. Class meets on Mondays through Oct. 29. $180; newstagetheatre.com. Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) • Beginning Photography Sept. 24, 6:30 p.m. Participants learn to operate a camera and compose pictures. Class meets Mondays through Oct. 15. $185; millsaps.edu.

Museum After Hours: Art & Craft Sept. 20, 5:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The event features an exhibition from the Mississippi Craftsmen’s Guild, music from Clouds & Crayons, a screening of “School of Rock,” and more. Free; msmuseumart.org.

WEDNESDAY 10/3 “Racial Literacy for the 21st Century” is from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (222 North St.). The Greater Jackson Arts Council presents the lecture from Ruha Benjamin, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. This event is part of the Creative Empowerment Series. Limited seating. Free admission; eventbrite.com. WellsFest Art Night Sept. 25, 5:30-9 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The art sale features a preview party and buy-now section at 5:30 p.m., a live auction at 7 p.m., music, live painting from Wyatt Waters and Ellen Langford, and more. Free admission; wellschurch.org. “Creatures Among Us” Opening Reception Sept. 27, 5-7 p.m., at Mississippi Library Commission (3881 Eastwood Drive). The Mississippi Arts Commission presents the exhibition featuring work from artists Sean Starwars and Anne Campbell. On display through Nov. 2. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

BE THE CHANGE Zoo Party Expedition Sept. 27, 6-9 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The fundraiser features music from Time to Move, artwork from the Jackson Watercolor Group, food, drinks, an art sale and more. For ages 21 and up. $30, $50 per couple; find it on Facebook.

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“Art Nights: A Closer Look at ‘Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer’” is at 5:15 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The event series examines works in the museum’s latest changing exhibition. Cash bar available at 5:15 p.m., and program at 5:45 p.m. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

Mississippi: A Roadblock to Human Trafficking Oct. 3, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The summit features an in-depth look at human trafficking in Mississippi. Free; eventbrite.com.

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the best in sports over the next two weeks by Bryan Flynn, follow at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports

New Orleans avoided its fifth straight 0-2 start, thanks to Cleveland not having a sound field-goal kicker. Missed kicks have been a big story in the first two weeks of the 2018 NFL season. THURSDAY, SEPT. 20

NFL (7:20-10:30 p.m., NFLN): Jets v. Browns FRIDAY, SEPT. 21

College football (6-9 p.m., ESPN): Florida Atlantic v. UCF SATURDAY, SEPT. 22

College football (11 a.m.-2 p.m., SECN): Kent State v. UM … (6-9 p.m., ESPN2): Mississippi State v. Kentucky SUNDAY, SEPT. 23

NFL (noon-3 p.m., FOX): Saints v. Falcons MONDAY, SEPT. 24

NFL (7:15-10:30 p.m., ESPN): Steelers v. Buccaneers TUESDAY, SEPT. 25

Documentary: (8-9 p.m., SECN): “SEC Storied: By Grantland Rice” WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26

Women’s volleyball (6-8 p.m., ESPNU): Auburn v. MSU THURSDAY, SEPT. 27

NFL (7:20-10:30 p.m., FOX): Vikings v. Rams FRIDAY, SEPT. 28

College football (7-10 p.m., ESPN): Tulane v. Memphis SATURDAY, SEPT. 29

College football (3-6 p.m., SECN): USM v. Auburn … (5-8 p.m., ESPN): Florida v. MSU … (8:1511:30 p.m., ESPN): UM v. LSU SUNDAY, SEPT. 30

NFL (3:25-6:30 p.m., CBS): Saints v. Giants MONDAY, OCT. 1

NFL (7:15-10:30 p.m., ESPN): Chiefs v. Broncos TUESDAY, OCT. 2

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MLB (Time TBA, TBS): American League Wild Card Game

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Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is represented in this grid by a number between 1 and 26. Using letter frequency, word-pattern recognition, and the numbers as your guides, fill in the grid with well-known English words (HINT: since a Q is always followed by a U, try hunting down the Q first). Only lowercase, unhyphenated words are allowed in kaidoku, so you won’t see anything like STOCKHOLM or LONG-LOST in here (but you might see AFGHAN, since it has an uncapitalized meaning, too). Now stop wasting my precious time and SOLVE! psychosudoku@gmail.com

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and supporting for fruits and trees. 2 yrs’ exp. growing and cultivating tropical fruits, including jujube, dragon fruit, lychee, and guava. A single workweek will be used to compute wages due. Employee paid every two weeks. All deductions from the worker’s paycheck required by law will be made. Employer will make housing available at no cost to workers, including U.S. workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of each working day. Housing includes kitchen and cooking utensils. Employer will provide workers at no charge all tools, supplies, and equipment required to perform the job. The employer guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least three-fourths of the workdays in each 12-week period of the total employment period. H-2A workers will be reimbursed in the first workweek for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, included those mandated by the government (excluding passport fees). Return transportation and subsistence will be provided if the worker completes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer. Daily subsistence will be provided at a rate of at least $12.26 per day during travel to a maximum of $51.00 per day, with receipts.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Virgo businessman Warren Buffet is among the top five wealthiest people on the planet. In an average year, his company, Berkshire Hathaway, adds $36 billion to its already swollen coffers. But in 2017, thanks to the revision of the U.S. tax code by President Trump and his buddies, Buffet earned $65 billion—an increase of 83 percent over his usual haul. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re entering a year-long phase when your financial chances could have a mild resemblance to Buffet’s 2017. I’m not predicting your earnings will increase by 83 percent. But 15 percent isn’t unreasonable. So start planning how you’ll do it!

As he stepped up to use an ATM in a supermarket, a Scottish man named Colin Banks found £30 (about $40 U.S.) that the person who used the machine before him had inadvertently neglected to take. But rather than pocketing it, Banks turned it in to a staff member, and eventually the cash was reunited with its proper owner. Shortly after performing his good deed, Bank won £50,000 (about $64,500 U.S.) in a game of chance. It was instant karma in dramatic action—the positive kind! My analysis of the astrological omens reveals that you’re more likely than usual to benefit from expeditious cosmic justice like that. That’s why I suggest you intensify your commitment to doing good deeds.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

As you dive down into your soul’s depths in quest for renewal, remember this testimony from poet Scherezade Siobhan: “I want to dig out what is ancient in me, the mistaken-formonster ... and let it teach me how to be unafraid again.” Are you brave and brazen enough to do that yourself? It’s an excellent time to douse your fear by drawing wild power from the primal sources of your life. To earn the right to soar through the heights in November and December, delve as deep as you can in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

According to author Elizabeth Gilbert, here’s “the central question upon which all creative living hinges: do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” When I read that thought, my first response was, why are the treasures hidden? Shouldn’t they be completely obvious? My second response was, why do you need courage to bring forth the treasures? Shouldn’t that be the easiest and most enjoyable task imaginable? Everything you just read is a perfect riddle for you to contemplate during the next 14 months, Sagittarius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

A blogger named Sage Grace offers her readers a list of “cool things to call me besides cute.” They include dazzling, alluring, sublime, magnificent, and exquisite. Is it OK if I apply those same adjectives to you, Capricorn? I’d like to add a few more, as well: resplendent, delightful, intriguing, magnetic, and incandescent. I hope that in response you don’t flinch with humility or protest that you’re not worthy of such glorification. According to my astrological analysis, now is one of those times when you deserve extra appreciation for your idiosyncratic appeal and intelligence. Tell your allies and loved ones that I said so. Inform them, too, that giving you this treatment could help mobilize one of your half-asleep potentials.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Many educated Americans and Europeans think of reincarnation as a loony delusion, even though it’s a cornerstone of spiritual belief for more than 1.5 billion earthlings. I myself regard it as a hypothesis worthy of intelligent consideration, although I’d need hundreds of pages to explain my version of it. However you imagine it, Aquarius, you now have extra access to knowledge and skills and proclivities you possessed in what we might refer to as your “past lives”— especially in those past lives in which you were an explorer, maverick, outlaw or pioneer. I bet you’ll feel freer and more experimental than usual during the next four weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

“When the winds of change blow,” says a Chinese proverb, “some people build walls while others build windmills.” Since the light breezes of change may soon evolve into brisk gusts of change in your vicinity, I wanted to bring

this thought to your attention. Will you be more inclined to respond by constructing walls or windmills? I don’t think it would be foolish for you to favor the walls, but in the long run I suspect that windmills would serve you better.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” So says poet and philosopher Mark Nepo in “The Book of Awakening.” Now I’m transmitting his observation to you. I hope it will motivate you to expend less energy fantasizing about what you want and devote more energy to becoming the beautiful, useful, irresistible presence that will attract what you want. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make plans to produce very specific blossoms.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

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In one sense, a “patron saint” is a Catholic saint who is a heavenly advocate for a person, group, activity, thing or place. St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, for instance. St. Francis of Assisi is the guardian of animal welfare, and St. Kentigern is the protector against verbal abusers. “Patron saint” may also be invoked poetically to refer to a person who serves as a special guide or influence. For example, in one of his short stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne refers to a veteran nurse as “the patron saint of young physicians.” In accordance with current astrological omens, I invite you to fantasize about persons, groups, activities, things or places for whom you might be the patron saint. To spur your imagination, here are some appropriate possibilities. You could be the patron saint of the breeze at dawn; of freshly picked figs; of singing humorous love songs in the sunlight; of unpredictable romantic adventures; of life-changing epiphanies while hiking in nature; of soul-stirring music.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

In August 1933, author Virginia Woolf wrote a critical note to her friend, the composer Ethel Smyth, lamenting her lack of emotional subtlety. “For you,” Woolf told Smyth, “either things are black, or they’re white; either they’re sobs or shouts—whereas, I always glide from semi-tone to semi-tone.” In the coming weeks, fellow Cancerian, you may encounter people who act like Smyth. But it will be your sacred duty, both to yourself and to life, to remain loyal and faithful to the rich complexity of your feelings.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

“People think of education as something they can finish,” said writer and scientist Isaac Asimov, who wrote or edited more than 500 books. His point was that we’re wise to be excited about learning new lessons as long as we’re on this earth. To cultivate maximum vitality, we should always be engaged in the processes of absorbing new knowledge and mastering new skills and deepening our understanding. Does that sound appealing to you, Leo? I hope so, especially in the coming weeks, when you will have an enhanced ability to see the big picture of your future needs for education.

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Making your own self-care products is a great way to save money and reduce your impact on the environment. This could also be a great creative gift idea for the holidays, which are definitely going to catch you by surprise again this year, so get started now. There are endless ways to customize this recipe once you have the basics. I just added lavender to mine for a nice smell when I go to bed, but you can make these into bronzers, sunscreens, insect repellents and more with the right additions.

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Troy & Ann Louise Woodson & Cash Eubanks say

“It’s a place where all are welcomed and all are loved.”

Weekly Services • Sun. 10am 650 E.South Street, Jackson • 601.944.0415 All are welcome here!

St. Alexis

Episcopal Church

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