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ON THE COVER Women dance at Liberian Independence Day event in Monrovia on July 26, 2018, as they await the arrival of President George Weah.

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or his Inktober challenge, graphic designer DeVonn Armstrong took a specific approach to his sketches: He decided he would tell a story.

After illustrating Alanda Posey’s children’s book, “Naomi Visits Letter City,” he says he found a niche in that world.

“I kind of am in this vein right now of storytelling with art work and illustration,” he says.

So for Inktober, he decided to do the challenge in the same vein, using a robot, pumpkin head and a kid as a storytelling tool for the different prompts. It gave him a firm foundation while allowing him to exercise his creativity, he says.

Armstrong has been doing art since he can remember, he says. He was born in Atlanta, and then he and his family moved to Hazelhurst in 1994, where his father, Le Yonn Armstrong, began working as a minister at World Overcomers Ministries Church.

They moved to Jackson in 1995.

In high school, Armstrong wanted to be an engineer but decided against the idea when he saw how much math was involved. Then his friend, graphic designer Carlos Taylor, told him about graphic design. “He was like, ‘It’s a way to make money doing art work,’” he says.

Armstrong attended Mississippi State University, where he

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DeVonn Armstrong graduated in December 2013 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design. After graduation, he worked at the University of Mississippi Medical Center as a patient transport technician. From 2015 to 2017, he worked for Mississippi Prison Industries in its print shop as a graphic designer. In January 2018, he became a graphic designer for the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

In his position, he has done everything from create illustrations and designs for projects to hanging decorations on the ceiling.

One of his favorite projects to do for MCM was an illustration he did for the museum’s Black History Month programming.

“That was really fun to do, and of course, you know, just the cause of it was something near to me as an African American,” Armstrong says.

For anyone who wants to be a graphic designer, he says it is best to find a vein in the industry and do things outside of projects for school and work, and look for other designers for inspiration.

“It’s always about being inspired and always pushing yourself to do what you like, and I think that’s where you find the passion and the quality in your work,” Armstrong says.

Follow Armstrong on Instagram at @isaiah_theillustrated and listen to his podcast Good+Medicine, with Carlos Taylor and Tommy Nalls Jr..

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by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

Dear Mississippi Republican leaders:

Like much of the recent 40 years, your actions toward African Americans in our state in the last 10 days have been atrocious. First, my mailbox was filled with glossy mailers from the Mississippi Republican Party falsely indicating that black U.S. Senate candidate Mike Espy is a “corrupt” criminal. You even included a jail image to bolster your hackneyed narrative that black men are surely criminal. The rub is that Espy isn’t; a political prosecution during the Clinton administration (which even Justice Antonin Scalia said was absurd) resulted in a full exoneration of charges.

Then we hear U.S. Sen. Cindy HydeSmith declare she would be on the front row for a “public hanging.” Hangings are no laughing matter in Mississippi, even if white Mississippians and their children (maybe some of your ancestors) attended

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public lynchings of black men like they were joyous garden parties, then mailing out postcards to loved ones with pictures of men dead in the trees. Her only response?

It was some weird “expression of regard” to the white man introducing her.

Then Gov. Phil Bryant, who appointed her, opened a press conference about her support for no-abortion-no-matter-what by declaring that black women (many of them already mothers) were causing “black genocide.” This wasn’t, of course, to ingratiate yourselves with furious black Mississippians (it didn’t), but to soothe your white voters back into their false belief that black people are their own worse enemies.

Except that, in our state and increasingly in the U.S., today’s white GOP leaders are the worst enemy of anyone with darker skin or different beliefs. Here in Mississippi, you will do nothing of import to change the view that you run a care-about-whitesonly party that has no concern about black children once the umbilical cord is cut.

You won’t support medical services for mothers and children once they’re born, or

prenatal care; you defund majority-black schools and shift funds to more affluent whiter schools to “reward” them (the word of your gubernatorial hopeful Tate Reeves); you embrace Confederate mythology and icons in the public square; you’ve long sent out crazy mailers, often depicting a scared white woman looking out her window due to all the Jackson (meaning: black) crime.

You want employers to prohibit workers from using earned insurance for birthcontrol pills, and now your leaders “joke” about “hanging,” as Hyde-Smith and her listeners laughed, the worse accompaniment to racism. You respond by accusing black women who can’t afford to raise another child (and perhaps didn’t have access to contraception) of, wait for it, genocide.

As astute black women point out, you don’t also accuse white women choosing abortion of “white genocide.” You want to make black people look bad to enough bigoted white voters to get them to vote Republican, even as your racist approach becomes glaringly atrocious to more voters, including in Mississippi. Your message to younger or more educated voters who can’t stomach your “southern strategy” of growing the bigoted vote? “Leave.” And you continue to falsely call everyone who cares about racial healing commies, socialists and liberals just like bigots did in the 1960s.

But guess what? We’re staying because we’re tired of your political and real intolerance running off people who could blow up this horrendous cycle in our home state.

This strategy isn’t new, but it has come into full relief under Donald Trump, who now have y’all over his transom. He’s the president that southern strategists like former Gov. Haley Barbour and his late mentor Lee Atwater and all the presidents

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GOP Leaders, Stop Disrespecting Black Mississippians

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith would not own the problem of her “hanging” remark.

from Nixon to Reagan to the Bushes who benefitted from hawking bigotry installed for us. You have milked the bunk “race science” that black people are more prone to crime (see the Espy mailers) every way you can to draw enough white voters to shore up a party on life support 50 years ago.

The initial target was those Dixiecrat types who fled the Democratic Party in the 1960s because it supported federal civilrights laws. You’ve since done your damned best to make sure white southerners, and increasingly Americans, do not turn the corner from our racist past or try to together fix the problems white supremacy created.

You want us divided so non-wealthy whites will vote against our own best interests and give you and your corporate backers tax cuts and ways to avoid responsibility for unsafe practices, products and climate change. You want us divided so you get to ensure this sick, bullshit white-supremacist

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Ko Bragg

Dustin Cardon

Ashton Pittman

City Reporter Ko Bragg is a Philadelphia, Miss., transplant with master’s in journalism. She loves traveling and has been to 25 countries to date. She wrote the cover story with an International Center for Journalists fellowship to report in Liberia.

Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He wrote about local Thanksgiving food options and kept jfpdaily alive and kicking butt.

Politics reporter Ashton Pittman is from Hattiesburg. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied journalism and political science. He wrote about the Nov. 27 run-off election. Follow him at @ashtonpittman on Twitter.

privilege will last for generations. And you’re willing to lie about voter fraud and Mike Espy’s past, or anyone else who tries to stop you, to ensure it happens.

This continual racist drumbeat is deafening around the country, but as everything is, it is magnified in Mississippi. The telling moment for me this week was when Cindy Hyde-Smith, who has sold out lock-stockand-conscience to y’all’s strategy—wouldn’t broach why her “public hanging” statement might be offensive to black Mississippians.

Hyde-Smith could have said, truthfully or not, “I didn’t mean it the way it sounded. I know it was painful to many of my constituents in our state with its horrendous history of race violence and division. I pledge to mend those divides. I’m sorry.”

But no, she couldn’t risk losing one racist vote. She is a puppet of Bryant and GOP leaders, who can’t show compassion for black people and be on the inside. (Ask former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman who apologized to the national NAACP in 2005 for the party’s racist strategy.)

Although imperfect, the earlier version of the party—Lincoln’s—was very different before the modern GOP pivoted and fully sold out to racism. Y’all can change and be a decent party again, but you have to start now before you help Trump destroy our nation from the division you’ve stoked on the inside. Why not start that change, and healing, right here in Mississippi?

To borrow from an authority you may be familiar with, it is time to sweep away “your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist.” Redemption is only possible with real, intentional change.

Follow Donna Ladd at @donnerkay.

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The Right, and Wrong, Way to Change a Flag

by Donna Ladd

U.S. Senate candidate David Baria took what many would say was a daring political stand on the Mississippi flag during his campaign.

Ku Klux Klan co-opted the flag well after the Civil War. Alas, that cautious change strategy has failed dramatically to date as the symbol still flies overheard.

Does that mean it’s time to try a more straightforward approach such as what Baria attempted? Some native Mississippi Republicans believe it is.

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‘Race Is Probably the Key’

Republican political strategist and writer Stuart Stevens, who grew up in Jackson, was named for a great-uncle named for Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. He is also a persistent Donald Trump critic, including over race division.

Stevens, the son of an FBI agent who

later founded what is now called the Butler Snow law firm, badly wants the state flag changed, even as Mississippi leaders drag their feet to avoid political backlash.

Now based in Washington, D.C., Stevens, 65, says his family was “cognizant on race,” with a civil-rights attorney uncle and a grandmother who co-founded the

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t’s hard to know whether it cost him votes, but there was a moment during Mississippi Rep. David Baria’s unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate that caused a surprised buzz around a state where the conventional wisdom is that criticizing odes to the Confederacy is a political death knell.

After he won the Democratic primary, Baria released a campaign video where, at one point, he stands confidently in front of the Mississippi state flag, points his thumb backward at it, scrunches up his face and says “really!?”

Baria’s take on the absurdity of the continued use of the most iconic Confederate battle emblem in the state flag is one that many Mississippians, of all races and even political parties, feel on a regular basis—a flag saluting a war to preserve slavery; really!?—but it is not a position that politicians of any party have felt very comfortable expressing here over the years.

For many white Mississippians, Confederate iconography was part of their upbringing, used to frame the Civil War as a “lost” and glorious cause—a way to justify a very bad war fought by a state where 49 percent of white households owned slaves as that war began.

And it is, after all, a state where it is a legitimate concern whether U.S. Sen Cindy Hyde-Smith made her “public hanging” comment purposefully in order to draw the bigoted voting bloc.

That kind of racist dog-whistle is common, with the politician almost always immediately calling any race associations “ridiculous,” as she did Sunday.

Still, many white Mississippians, even powerful politicians and businessmen, have long wanted the flag to change, but treat it like the third rail of state politics—they will surely be electrocuted if they dare say they want to replace it for any other reason than that it makes outsiders like and invest in Mississippians less. The last thing they’ve been willing do, even back in the failed 2001 referendum to change the flag, is say the S-word in relation to it. That is, don’t talk about slavery; just say bad people like the

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Still, until recently, he didn’t think of the Confederate flag as having more significance than the love for Ole Miss football he shared with his father back when the cheerleaders waved rebel flags on the field.

“It was not really on my radar,” Stevens admits now. He changed his mind during discussions about Confederate statues in recent years. “This idea that somehow history demands that we put up statues of (Confederate Gen.) Robert E. Lee I think is insane. I am completely against this revisionist history of the ‘lost cause,’ which I was very much taught to believe in school.”

Stevens, a Murrah High graduate, criticizes what he frames as a timid 2001 campaign to change the “bad for business” state flag because outsiders did not like it.

“I don’t think we ought to change the flag just because we could get a car plant,” he says. “… For 40 percent of the state, it

‘Why Should We Change It’ After 17-year-old honor student Raynard Johnson was found hanging by a belt from a pecan tree in his yard in June 2000, his death ripped like a tornado through rural Marion County in south central Mississippi, leaving raw dissension in its path.

Authorities ruled Johnson’s death a suicide, but his parents believed the well-adjusted black teenager was lynched, maybe because he sometimes dated white girls. (The U.S. Department of Justice later closed an investigation into Johnson’s death.)

TJ Harvey, now 35, had shared a third-grade class with Johnson in a conservative area not exactly known for enlightened race dialogue.

“It drove division in ways people didn’t expect,” Harvey, who is white, says of the hanging on the road where his grandparents lived.

Raised as a conservative Christian, Harvey never thought much about Confederate emblems. Still a “Republicanlibertarian” today, Harvey believes in small government and states’ rights to be free from federal oversight.

Ten months after Johnson’s death, the

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2001 referendum to replace the Mississippi flag—based largely around the change being good for business rather than the flag’s roots in slavery and oppression—drew then-18-year-old Harvey to the polls for the first time. He voted to keep the old banner because he despised the primary campaign message that the existing flag offended people beyond state lines.

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TJ Harvey of Jackson voted for the first time in the 2001 flag referendum—to keep the old flag because he didn’t like the “outsiders” campaign.

reminds them of when white people owned black people. Why aren’t you trying to protect them from that pain?”

When it comes to race, self-interrogation is needed across the country, Stevens believes, including far from the heart of Dixie. “They haven’t done this reckoning in Queens,” he says of the New York City borough. “Parts of Queens are horribly racist.

“But arguably there is a greater responsibility for a state like Mississippi to address this. Race is probably the key to all American life—certainly in Mississippi.”

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Republican writer Stuart Stevens says the only way to change the flag is to talk openly about what it means.

is ours, so why should we change it?”

After studying for a business degree at

Mississippi State University and extensive travel, Harvey had a change of heart. He now prefers a popular replacement option designed by artist Laurin Stennis, the granddaughter of now-deceased U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis, a long-time segregationist Democrat who became more tolerant on race issues late in life.

But Harvey only shifted on the flag about a year ago. Several years back, he was with a reporter friend at a pub in Jackson, where he now lives, and admitted to voting to keep the Mississippi flag.

“Would you vote for it again?” his friend asked Harvey.

“Yeah, probably,” he responded.

“I thought she was going to lose her mind,” he says, smiling. He started asking friends, especially African Americans, to talk to him about it—dialogue he now believes is vital to bridging such a divide, even between conservatives and liberals.

“I think we’d find more common ground if we educated ourselves,” he adds.

Harvey advises that people start small with simple conversations about what the flag really stands for and how it hurts people. “You don’t have to wave a banner or post on social media,” he says.

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hanging “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”

—U.S. Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith at a campaign stop in Tupelo on Nov. 2

Read in-depth coverage of response to the remark at jacksonfreepress.com/ elections2018. Go there to find more election coverage and interviews as well.

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Anti-Feminist Agenda

Like Espy, Hyde-Smith’s background is steeped in agriculture. A cattle rancher who was raised in Lincoln County, she started her first job at age 15 at Piggly Wiggly, where she worked for five years. In 2000, she became a Democratic state senator, switching parties in 2010 to run for state commissioner of

she has voted as President Trump would like “100 percent of the time.” Her embrace of the man accused of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women and known for calling women “pigs,” “slobs” and “horseface” (to name a few) extended to her decision to defend Brett Kavanaugh when he was a Supreme Court nominee in September.

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t 64, Mike Espy stills remembers being called the n-word at public school in Yazoo City after Mississippi finally began to enforce the Supreme Court’s order to desegregate public schools. Early on, his parents homeschooled him before sending him to a parochial school. After the parochial school shut down, though, he and his twin sister became two of just 17 black students at a public school with about 800 kids. “Every day, I was the n-word,” Espy said at a Mississippi Association of Educators meeting in Hattiesburg on Nov. 1. “The teachers called me the n-word, practically.”

Also in the room was State Rep. Jeramey Anderson, D-Moss Point, a black millennial who, at age 22 in 2013, became the youngest African American elected to any state legislature in the United States. “My generation is kind of distant from that, but I’ve come to realize that those same battles still exist in the state Legislature, and I’ve fought every day to make sure that we don’t go backwards,” he said.

Despite coming of age in a Mississippi where daily acts of overt race were still commonplace, Espy went on to break barriers. In 1986, Mississippians in the 2nd Congressional District sent him to the U.S House of Representatives, making him the state’s first black U.S. representative since the Civil War. Then, in 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed him as the nation’s first black secretary of agriculture.

On Nov. 27, Espy hopes to become the first black U.S. senator since Blanche K. Bruce, who served from 1875 to 1881. “I’d be the first black senator since Reconstruction,” Espy told the Jackson Free Press. “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.”

Espy would like to negotiate better trade deals for the U.S., help improve the Affordable Care Act and save the state’s rural hospitals by ensuring that Mississippians have access to expanded Medicaid, and fight to make the country more equal.

First, though, he’ll have to unseat a senator who is historic herself. In April, Gov. Phil Bryant appointed Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to former Sen. Thad Cochran’s. That triggered a Nov. 6 special election. With Republican State Sen. Chris McDaniel trailing far behind on election night, Hyde-Smith would be the state’s first woman duly elected to serve

Mike Espy (left) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (right), will be in the run-off election for the U.S. Senate on Nov. 27. The polls are open in Mississippi 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

agriculture and commerce.

She successfully beat back a challenge from McDaniel, who sought to tie her to her past as a Democrat and cast her as a false conservative, buoyed by an August endorsement from and an October rally with President Trump.

While Hyde-Smith is not shy about the pride she takes in being the first Mississippi woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, she is openly anti-feminist. Already, she is attacking Espy for having once supported a 1992 bill that would have protected the right of women to have abortions pre-viability. On Oct. 29, she proudly accepted the endorsement of Penny Nance, the president of Concerned Women for America— an organization that opposes the Violence Against Women Act on the basis that it is a part of a “war against men.”

When The Clarion-Ledger asked her in October about whether she would support an equal-pay law for women in Mississippi, Hyde-Smith would only say that she “trusts the judgment of leaders in Mississippi to address wage discrepancies.”

Then there is Trump. While she is light on policy specifics, Hyde-Smith boasts that

rape her, Hyde-Smith took to the Senate floor and said that it was her “duty … as the first woman to represent our great state in Congress to speak in strong support of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.”

When the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh despite accusations from several women, Hyde-Smith announced that “good won over evil,” implicitly putting Kavanaugh’s accusers in the “evil” camp.”

Espy, who criticized Hyde-Smith’s support for Kavanaugh and describes himself as anti-abortion personally but pro-choice legally, has criticized Hyde-Smith’s position on women’s issues on the campaign trail.

Democrats Fail to Flip Seats

Espy was not the only Democrat on the ballot seeking to turn a Republican seat blue. State House Minority Leader David Baria, who ran on an openly liberal platform, conceded defeat in his bid to unseat Sen. Roger Wicker.

“We have built a political infrastructure that we have not had in the Democratic Party in Mississippi for 20 years,” Baria told supporters in his concession speech. “This is important, folks, because

we need to sustain this and improve this going forward, and we have elections next year where we can do that.”

Next year, Mississippians will elect a new governor, and all seats in the state legislature will be on the ballot. Democratic candidates in Mississippi’s three GOP-held congressional districts failed to flip seats.

In the 1st District, voters re-elected Republican incumbent U.S. House Rep. Trent Kelly over Democratic challenger Randy Wadkins. Voters also re-elected Republican incumbent U.S. House Rep. Steven Palazzo in Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District over challenger Jeramey Anderson.

In the 3rd Congressional District, from which incumbent Republican U.S. House Rep. Gregg Harper will retire in January, voters chose Rankin and Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest, a Republican, over conservative Democrat Michael Evans. Of the three Democrats attempting a flip, Evans was the only to run as a conservative.

Second District Congressman Bennie Thompson, who has held the seat since Espy left it to serve in the Clinton administration in 1993, easily won reelection on Nov. 6.

Any Mississippian who registered to vote

by Oct. 29 will be eligible to vote in the runoff, even if they could not vote in the Nov. 6 election. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Mississippi’s Economic Inequality and Conventional Wisdom

by James M. Thomas

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or the past several weeks, students in my Social Stratification course read and discussed “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the international bestseller from French economist Thomas Piketty. Published in 2014, the book’s analysis spans more than 750 pages, and aims to show that in spite of—or perhaps due to—massive demographic and economic transformations over three centuries, economic inequality is increasing.

Piketty’s analysis reveals the myth of meritocracy—people gaining power based on their ability—and challenges conventional wisdom on economic inequality and its root causes.

For example, many people believe economic inequality is rooted in a lack of courtesy James M. Thomas

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training and skills. Here in Mississippi, those running for state-wide offices often structure their campaigns around conventional wisdom that says the pathway to economic mobility is through better workforce training. If only schools and colleges provided “real-world skills,” they claim, then more Mississippians would have access to better-paying jobs and a better quality of life.

While many accept this as common knowledge, the data on economic inequality tell us a different and much more complex story. Consider the first chart, which compares Mississippi’s gross domestic product, or GDP, per capita with the state’s median personal income over the past 40 years. GDP per capita reflects the average value of goods and services produced, per person, in Mississippi.

Since 1974, Mississippi’s workforce productivity has more than doubled, from roughly $26,500 per capita in 1974 to more than $55,000 per capita in 2017, adjusted for inflation. Yet workers’ incomes have

not kept pace. In 1974 the median personal income in Mississippi was just under $23,500. In 2016, it was barely $31,000.

In addition to the significant increase in productivity, we also find a significant increase in the educational attainment of Mississippi’s workforce population, shown in the second chart.

From 1990 to 2016, the percentage of Mississippians ages 25 years and older with at least a high school diploma increased from just over 64 percent to more than 84 percent. During that same time period, the percentage of those ages 25 years and older with at least a bachelor’s degree increased from less than 15 percent to nearly 22 percent.

On their own, these two charts show that Mississippians are more educated than ever, and creating more value than ever. Yet their paychecks do not reflect this. If Mississippi’s workers are producing more value than ever, yet receiving very little in return, where is all that value going? In the last chart, I draw from the World Inequality Database (find it at wid.world/world/) to help shed some light.

The chart shows the distribution of income to the bottom 90 percent, the top 10 percent, and the top 1 percent of all earners.

In 1917, the bottom 90 percent of earners in Mississippi received three-quarters of all income, compared to one-quarter for the top 10 percent. The top 1 percent received 12 percent of all income, or roughly twelve times the average wage.

Yet by 2014, the top 10 percent’s share increased from 25 to 45 percent, and the top 1 percent’s share increased from 12 to 15 percent, or roughly 15 times the average wage. Meanwhile, the share going to the bottom 90 percent—the working class— fell to just 45 percent of total income.

If we put these three charts in conversation with one another, an important conclusion emerges: At the same time that Mississippi’s workforce became more educated and more productive than ever, income inequality accelerated.

Improving our K-12 system and increasing people’s opportunities for a college education are important goals that many of us share. Yet we should not fool ourselves into thinking that education is the pathway to economic equality. To meaningfully address economic inequality in Mississippi and elsewhere will require a complete restructuring of how income and wealth are distributed.

This restructuring begins by putting control of the economy in the hands of workers, and out of the hands of the elite and the powerful.

James M. Thomas is Assistant Profes-

sor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi. Follow JT on Twitter at @Insurgent_Prof.

This essay does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Jackson Free Press.

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NAFTA to USMCA: An Even Trade?

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Is Trump a hero for what he calls ‘the most important trade deal we’ve ever made’?

NAFTA was a rotten deal from the minute President Bill Clinton signed it into law in 1994. Within three years, it had cost the United States 100,000 jobs, a toll that would rise to 1 million by 2005, most of them in manufacturing. The U.S. textile industry dissolved as companies packed up and moved to the sweatshops of Mexico

ing for schools and hospitals, prison reform and free textbooks for indigent children yet poisoned their speeches with such vile and odious racism that that’s all we remember.

When Trump came to Southaven in October, he bragged how his Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency “grabs (undocumented immigrants) by the neck,

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“Demagogues have winning ways, especially with the man who has no one else to whom he can turn in his troubles,” Mauldin wrote in his book, “Back Home,” first published in 1947.

Mauldin, creator of the scraggly bearded, foxhole-digging infantrymen Willie and Joe in his “Stars and Stripes” cartoons, would have a field day with Donald Trump, another demagogue who talks the talk but rarely walks the walk.

On first inspection, Trump seems to have indeed walked the walk with the recent new trade deal that replaces NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. Under the agreement, a significant percentage of a newly manufactured automobile—estimates range from 30 to 45 percent—must be made by workers who earn no less than $16 an hour.

Furthermore, 75 percent—compared to NAFTA’s 62.5 percent—of the parts in that automobile must be made in the three-nation region.

The new deal also partially eliminates the odious corporate-dominated InvestorState Dispute Settlement process that allowed a corporation to sue a government if it imposes discriminatory regulations that inhibit that corporation’s profits. ISDS has been scratched between the United States and Canada, but not between the United States and Mexico.

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The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement requires a significant percentage of newly manufactured cars to be made by workers who earn no less than $16 per hour. But is this requirement too good to be true?

and the Far East. At one point, Mississippi ranked third among states that NAFTA hit the hardest.

Between January and August 1997, nine garment plants in Mississippi shut down, including Carhartt in Drew, Sunsport Apparel in Lena, Active Sportswear in Kosciusko and Action Apparel in Starkville.

In August 1997 nearly 900 workers at MagneTek in Mendenhall learned their plant was moving to Mexico.

The fact that your town—wherever it is—now has a Latino community can be traced at least in part to NAFTA, which tripled U.S. corn exports to Mexico and forced countless farmers there north to support their families.

Only a corporate-schmoozing Democrat like Bill Clinton could have pushed NAFTA through in those days—a Republican president could have never secured the Democratic votes—and he did it by promising protections for U.S. workers, a promise never delivered.

So is Trump a hero for what he calls “the most important trade deal we’ve ever made”? He reminds me of those old Mississippi pols James K. Vardaman and Theodore Bilbo, who pushed for increased fund-

and they throw them the hell out of our country, or they throw them into jail.”

Never mind that many of those immigrants are the victims of the same NAFTA deal he claims to despise.

Trump’s new trade deal, which still needs congressional approval, also includes a huge boost to Big Pharma and agrochemical giants like Monsanto, which will get to keep patents on drugs, seeds and pesticides for a decade or more, driving prices further up, and to Big Oil & Gas by encouraging environmentally destructive fracking practices. Even the wage promise to autoworkers may be a double-edged sword as U.S. autoworkers average $22 an hour. Will there be pressure to bring those wages closer to $16?

Like Mauldin wrote 71 years ago, the man and woman who have no one else to turn to are vulnerable to demagogues.

A Democrat sold them down the river back in 1994, and now a Republican claims he’s their savior.

Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, columnist and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi.

This column does not necessarily reflect the views of the JFP.

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welve-year-old Harry Ross, his younger brothers and their father, Samuel, were on the move in 1990.

The Rosses had been living in the Bong Mine Community in Liberia, where Harry’s dad worked as an electrical engineer for a German-based mining company until the outbreak of the Liberian Civil War stunted the company’s efforts.

Boys in tow, Samuel headed for the only exit out of the town at the time.

A line of about 200 people formed at a rebel-held checkpoint. Harry noticed that not everyone made it to the other side. The soldiers pulled some out of line, behind a house at the checkpoint. Harry heard gunshots, but only saw the soldiers return from behind the house.

A soldier with bloodshot eyes signaled for the Rosses to step forward. One question would determine if they lived or died: What is your tribe? The rebels withheld their weapons if they got responses in an indigenous Liberian dialect.

Otherwise, they escorted you to your final destination behind the house.

Sixteen tribes with their own unique

by Ko Bragg dialects compose the ethnic makeup of most of Liberia, a country on the western coast of Africa, 5,700 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States.

They long predate the freed African American slaves who are credited with founding the country in 1847 with help from the American Colonization Society.

Many say the legacy of those black Americans, or Americo-Liberians, living and ruling over Liberia for more than 150 years ignited two Liberian civil wars that spanned 14 years off and on, claiming at least 250,000 lives. The wars displaced at least 1.5 million Liberians and discouraged many from ever coming back.

The Rosses descend from the Kru tribe, but didn’t speak the language. Assuming they were all Americos, the soldiers prepared to execute Samuel and his sons at the checkpoint, until another rebel intervened.

“This man is not one of those—I know him,” Harry recalls a soldier saying of his father. “He’s a good man.” The young man used to work for Harry’s dad.

Their brief reunion saved the Ross family but stuck with Harry as the war

waged on in Liberia until 2003.

Now 40, with a salt-and-pepper beard lining a still-youthful face, Harry fidgets as waves of painful memories crash over his brow while we sit in the altar of United Christian Assembly Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. His church home is a warehouseturned-worship hall where a congregation of Liberians just finished Sunday service.

The Kru tribe is native to the area surrounding Sinoe County in Liberia, where Mississippi slave owners began sending emancipated slaves in 1835.

The largest group to ever emigrate to Liberia came from the Prospect Hill Plantation in Lorman, Miss. Harry is 80-percent sure he descends from the black Americans who toiled the cotton fields for Prospect Hill’s owner, Isaac Ross.

Like many of the freed slaves who went to Liberia, Harry’s dad also learned only English. Harry was even further removed, as he has still never even been to Sinoe County. On a dark night in 1990, this cultural dissonance almost got them killed.

“Liberians’ whole cultural system is messed up,” Harry said. “We don’t know

whether we’re Americans or whether we’re Liberians. It’s just messed up.”

Harry now works as a youth counselor in New Jersey, where he lives with his wife and kids. He has intentionally been on a path for answers and healing that took him all the way to Prospect Hill last year. He hopes to find answers for himself, but also for a generation of ailing Liberians still getting over the trauma of war.

“I think Liberia still needs healing, reconciliation,” he said. “Just telling the story of the Mississippians that left Prospect Hill, I think that’s a good platform that we can start the conversation of how do we heal ourselves?”

‘Back’ to Liberia

Prospect Hill sits off a gravelly dirt road just past The Old Country Store, a buffet renowned for some of the finest chicken ever seasoned and fried to a golden crisp. The towering witness trees, likely older than the state itself, almost form a tunnel leading up to a dark green gate that appears out of nowhere.

The clicks of Cicadas communicating

‘A Nobler Cause?’

The American Colonization Society stepped in and helped litigate the proceedings around Issac’s will.

As James Ciment writes in his book “Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It,” on the evening of winter solstice in 1816, a group of men met to establish the American Colonization Society in Washington, D.C. Present were U.S. Rep. John Randolph of Virginia; Rep. Robert Wright of Maryland; Robert E. Lee; Francis Scott Key; Sen. Daniel Webster, and speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Clay, who led the meeting.

like Harry’s are one of the long-lasting determining factors of heritage and ancestry in Liberia.

However, some native Liberians have adopted “American” last names over the years, sometimes while working essentially as indentured servants for well-off Americo-Liberians.

But now, as the political climate shifts under a new president, George Manneh Weah, who ran a campaign that touted his roots as a native Liberian, some are hopeful that his symbolic leadership will heal the country. Others, like Harry, who have lasting memories of the violent war that divided the country along tribal lines, too, are skeptics at best.

“There are still traces of that bad blood between the natives and the descendants of the free slaves,” Harry said. “Even the Weah government, I think that’s one of the challenges.”

Liberian President George Weah arrives at Barclay Training Center in Monrovia

to salute the troops on Independence Day, July 26, 2018.

“Can there be a nobler cause than that ‘It’s Pro-Poor Times!’ which, whilst it proposed to rid our country On a welcome hot day in July, which of a useless and pernicious, if not dangerous falls during the monsoon-like rainy season, portion of its population, contemplates the the Sinkor neighborhood of Monrovia, Lispreading of the arts of civilized life, and the beria, teemed with shoppers and salesmen possible redemption from ignorance and alike. In front of an ATM adjacent to the barbarism of a benighted quarter of the Royal Grand Hotel, security guards with globe?” Clay said then. sing-song Liberian accents cracked jokes.

The reason for manumitting slaves on “It’s Pro-Poor times, so it’s on you,” the condition that they expatriate was that one said, referencing Weah’s platform. white men feared black insurrection. This Weah, now 52, took the oath of ofwas especially true after the Haitian Revo- fice in January 2018 as an unabashed native lution of 1791, Nat Turner’s rebellion in Liberian. Weah follows Africa’s first duly 1831 and other lesser-known slave revolts elected woman president, Ellen Johnsonthroughout the nation.

Sirleaf, who came into office after three

Banishing them to Africa under the years of a post-war transitional government. guise of freedom and missionary work miti- Sirleaf led for 12 years, or two terms, keepgated those fears. Many states, Mississippi ing the country relatively calm. She won included, then chartered their own coloni- the Nobel Peace Prize jointly in 2011 with zation societies to continue this tradition Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman until money, and interest, ran dry. for “their non-violent struggle for the safety

Seeing that many freed slaves took of women and for women’s rights to full the surname of their owners, last names participation in peace-building work.”

Women-led protests resulted in ousting warlord Charles Taylor. But JohnsonSirleaf also drew criticism for supporting Taylor financially in his early days.

Liberia’s new president did not garner public attention as a politician, but rather as an internationally acclaimed soccer star from the 1980s into the early 2000s. Weah campaigned on “Pro-Poor” sentiments, which Liberians find both inspirational and hilarious.

“It just has become a cliché—it’s not anything in action anymore,” said Liberian journalist Siatta Scott-Johnson. “It’s just become a joke: I’m in my Pro-Poor dress, or I’m eating my Pro-Poor food. To mean slang, it can mean you’re broke.”

Two administrations and nearly two decades after the end of civil war that defined life for a generation of Liberians that still grapple with its aftermath, child soldiers mull over whether they should have fought at all. Students wonder if this celebrity president will make lasting change.

Women wonder how they will feed their families. Some, not convinced that Weah’s identity politics will build bridges, see a teetering country with potential to backslide.

“The majority of those that voted for Weah voted for him on the platform that he identifies with the natives,” Harry said.

“If we still have that mindset, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Liberia going back to the last 20 years. It just needs something to trigger us.”

For the Love of Liberty...

Throughout the days leading up to July 26, 2018—Liberia’s Independence Day— teenage boys weaved in and out of traffic on foot to sell assorted goods and Liberian flags on Tubman Boulevard, the main thoroughfare in Liberia’s capital of Monrovia.

The city takes its name from James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States and supporter of the American Colonization Society. The main strip takes its name from President William Tubman, who led Liberia from 1944 to his death in 1971 as a member of the True Whig Party.

The harsh midday sun bounced off the hundreds of white lonestars in the blue canton of the Liberian flag. The design, from the color scheme to the star and stripes, is a nod to the country’s status as the first western republic in Africa. The 11 red and white stripes represent each of the signatories, all former American slaves, who officiated the country’s Declaration of Independence, constitution and motto—For the Love of Liberty Brought Us Here.

“From the get-go, when Liberia was first founded, the settlers came in with that individualistic mindset,” Harry told me.

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appeal the will’s conditions. Around 140 Prospect Hill workers set sail for Liberia on Jan. 22, 1849, and Wade continued contesting the will in court until the U.S. Civil War began in 1861.

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echoed throughout the woods, and wasps sought refuge from the scorching Mississippi July sun in the hole where a doorbell should be.

The home on a hill showed years of neglect from peeling wallpaper to rickety stairs from the original house—the first one had burned in 1845 allegedly from a slave revolt that resulted in the death of a 6-yearold girl, Martha Richardson, who is buried in the cemetery on the grounds.

This is the scene Harry Ross saw in June 2017 when two documentarians from Blue Magnolia Films flew him down to visit as part of a project about the space. Harry got into the network of Mississippians invested in Prospect Hill’s history when he read Alan Huffman’s opus “Mississippi in Africa” soon after he won a green card lottery and moved to the New York area in 2007.

Huffman’s book, and Harry’s subsequent conversations with the author, helped assuage his long-stemmed curiosity about his American-sounding name.

Samuel Alfred Ross was once the vice president of Liberia like his father before him. He was born in the capital of Sinoe County, Greenville, named after Jefferson County Judge James Green, who sent some of the first freed Mississippi slaves to Liberia in 1835. Samuel Ross was also the name of Harry’s great-great-great grandfather.

These Rosses are said to have come from Georgia, but it is hard for even historians like Huffman to know for sure.

“That’s what I have for now,” Harry told me in October.

Isaac came to Mississippi when he was in his 40s after fighting in the Revolutionary War army as a captain. In 1808, near present-day Alcorn State University, he started a slave-fueled cotton plantation.

By 1836, Isaac probated his will stipulating that when his daughter Margaret Reed died, Prospect Hill would go up for sale, and that money would fund the voyage for slaves who chose to emigrate to the Mississippi in Africa colony in Liberia.

Others would be sold in family units. Isaac also wanted to use proceeds to build an institution of learning in Liberia, and if the colony didn’t work out, then it would be erected in Mississippi. He died in 1838.

However, Huffman writes that Isaac’s grandson and namesake, Isaac Ross Wade, was slated to only get a secretary desk and case of books as part of the will. In 1838, at age 20, Wade moved into the Prospect Hill mansion. He and his mother, Jane—Isaac’s last surviving child—took to court to keep control of Isaac’s property.

Their legal argument was that Isaac’s will violated state code prohibiting manumitting (freeing) slaves. After a decade of court battles that exhausted most of Isaac’s estate, Wade was out of options to

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that we met here?”

Former American slaves migrated to Liberia as an early Back-to-Africa movement, colonized the land, formed the governmental structure and ruled the country under the True Whig Party from 1847 to 1980. Despite making up just around 5 percent of the population, black Americans in Liberia implemented a rule similar to the oppression they left behind.

Americo settlers depended on the native population in Liberia to help them survive the transition into their new home.

The U.S. government only backed the effort with $100,000, and within three weeks of the first voyage in 1820, one-fourth of the immigrants had died of various illnesses. Survivors often wrote letters to their former owners asking for more money.

Once they got their footing and bullied their way into getting land from the natives, many Americo-Liberians built grand homes and all but enslaved native Liberians to do chores and labor for them.

Their rule came to a head when President William Tolbert, former vice president under Tubman, was assassinated in a coup in 1980 in Monrovia.

Samuel Doe, who led the Krahntribe-fronted Armed Forces of Liberia, ordered Tolbert’s murder. Doe had control for nearly 10 years.

Meanwhile, Charles Taylor plotted his own rise through the National Patriotic Front of Liberia with help from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Around the same time, however, Taylor’s former ally, Prince Johnson of the Gio tribe, actually captured Monrovia with a rival faction that tortured Doe on video, which is allegedly still circulating on YouTube. Johnson sipped an American beer while men sliced Doe’s ear before killing him. Johnson later fled, and in his absence, Taylor ushered in a civil war along ethnic lines.

Liberia under Taylor was unabashedly violent. During a pause between wars in 1997, Taylor ran for president and won on the campaign slogan: “He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him.” The election was democratic, but fear-laden.

Fighting resumed in 1999 and continued until 2003, with the formation of two native-led rebel groups fighting to get Taylor out of office. Following women-led protests and negotiations that went all the way to Ghana, Taylor was arrested and ultimately convicted of 11 counts of “aiding and abetting” war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to 50 years at The Hague in 2013.

Taylor’s ex-wife, Jewel, currently serves as Liberia’s vice president alongside Weah.

The flags’ stripes blurred in the wind

the boys created behind them as they ran up the middle of the highway, hoping to make a sale. As the boys hustled, others prepared for upcoming Independence Day celebrations, cookouts, parades and presidential sightings. But there was also a lot of whispering about how whether people would celebrate at all because of the state of the economy under Weah.

‘A Dead Body Woke Up’

Sianneh Beyan, 32, lives down a winding dirt road about an hour outside Monrovia and 8,000 miles from the similarly disrepaired, unmarked gravel streets of Mississippi. Still, many remark how far the streets have come since car-sized craters lined the roads post-war.

Two days after Independence Day, Beyan sat as her son played in the severed half of a plastic white barrel filled with water. The hearty 11-month-old toddler,

wiggle, and as the motion continued, she punched the air until she hit the ground.

Beyan woke up in a white body bag as workers in hazmat suits carried her on a stretcher, likely headed to the incinerator.

Doctors sent early cadavers infected with Ebola to be burned to limit spread of the virus while the government decided on a burial plan. No one wanted to go near Beyan in the bag because she had seemingly risen from the dead. “They said a dead body woke up,” she recalled.

She remembers people, including medical staff, running from her and screaming. Finally, someone got the courage to cut Beyan out of the bag.

As Beyan recovered at a treatment center, the nurses would not come near her—some would get just close enough to toss food at her.

Other times, Beyan just went to get food and drink herself.

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The Student Unification Party, led by Butu Levi and Martin Kollie (center), protest the president on July 26, 2018, Liberian Independence Day.

Charles Allen, soon whimpered in hunger, as he crawled into his mother’s lap. Beyan removed her breast from her black T-shirt with a sideways McDonald’s arch on it and fed her boy as she continued to chat. They hadn’t celebrated the holiday.

“I didn’t have nothing to do,” she said to me as she nursed her son.

Beyan was almost one of the 4,800 lives the Ebola virus claimed in Liberia between 2014 and 2015. Her fight against the virus began with a headache in August 2014. The pain persisted into the next day, and once she began vomiting and feeling weak, she went to an Ebola treatment unit where she slipped into a coma.

When she finally came to, Beyan remembers seeing a white light and feeling like she could hear her mother’s voice. She felt like she was bouncing, so she started to

“That woman, she died,” Beyan recalled people saying of her.

Now, a single mother after losing her husband to Ebola, Beyan said she suffers from the lasting Ebola stigma that catalyzed a suicide attempt in April. She and her kids sleep at a red-roofed house across a pasture because her home, a single-room lined with dirt floors underneath a tin-scrap structure, floods with water whenever it rains. She worries the woman will find out she had Ebola and force Beyan and her kids to sleep in what she calls “the leaking house.”

Beyan blames her suffering, in part, on President Weah.

“We’re suffering under the new president because the people say the new president, no money,” she said with a thick Liberian accent. She explained how tough it is to afford rice. She said a half bag of rice

costs 2,250 LRD, or $12.

Rice became a political commodity in 1979 when President Tolbert implemented a rice tax to encourage in-country production, rather than depending on imports. It is a staple of most Liberian dishes, and also a point of comparison for price surges.

“We’re suffering more than before; everything is high,” she added.

Beyan sees the way out of her circumstances through a better leader in the executive mansion.

“I pray for Liberia to get a good, good president,” she said just before recalling the good old days in the country—ones her children have not seen.

“The president will make the nation to look good. But with no good leader, the nation will always be down. Yeah.”

‘Liberia Is Very Peaceful’

In July in Paynesville, a suburb of Monrovia, Joseph Duo, now 40, had just returned from playing soccer. He sat on a lawn chair in his yard off a nondescript road that seemed to exist only on a needto-know basis. On the road up to his house from Monrovia to Paynesville, women hand-washed clothes and hung linen out to dry. The Independence Day spirit seemed to miss this side of town.

“What party when 95 percent of the citizens are suffering, ain’t got food to eat?”

Duo said.

One of the most iconic images of the Liberian civil wars is of Duo in his 20s mid-air, rifle in hand, twisted hair affray on a bridge leading into Monrovia, as he and other child soldiers he commanded aimed their weapons. The late Chris Hondros snapped it for Getty. Duo had left school in 10th grade to join Charles Taylor’s army.

“Nobody knew what they were fighting for,” Duo said. That included him.

Duo said every day was his worst day, but he recalled one in particular in 2000 when a rocket-propelled grenade burned his face and scarred his legs. Bad days continued after the war ended. From 2004 to 2005, he said he didn’t associate with people much and felt like he heard mosquitoes buzzing when others spoke to him.

With the war’s end soon after the iconic photo, Taylor fled into exile in August 2003. The photographer later returned and found Duo living in a shack. He offered to pay the young man’s way through night school. Duo later studied criminal justice at a Monrovia university, and got work as an actor and then training police officers in Paynesville.

Now, he struggles with feeling both disappointed about fighting in the war but also like a hero who contributed to a revo-

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Harry Ross, a Liberian who believes he descends from Mississippi, stands in front of his church in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Oct. 7, 2018.

in an “economic war.” “Liberia is very peaceful,” he told me on July 26. “Only economic crisis we got now.”

Duo said he will run again in 2022, and in the meantime supports the president, whom the former soldier believes is “doing his best.” Seven months in office wasn’t enough for Duo to pass judgment— President Weah needs two to three years, he added, perhaps diplomatically.

‘Happy 26 on You’ This economically dark year marked President George Weah’s first Independence Day in office. Morning light on July 26 danced atop the military barracks at the Barclay Training Center in Monrovia. Armed forces lined up to salute the president upon his arrival in a fleet of all-black, mid-sized SUVs topped with flashing police lights.

Weah stepped onto a red carpet that led to a raised platform, also lined with red carpeting. He placed his hand over his heart as “Hail to the Chief” blared over the speakers. Drones buzzed overhead.

Without saying a word, the president got back into his black car to head over to the Centennial Memorial Pavilion to

deliver a speech in one of the oldest parts of Monrovia. For hours, barefoot dancers and drummers in patriotic colors sang and tossed their hips as they circled around another red carpet that would soon host the president.

“Happy 26 on you,” people in red, white and blue scarves, diplomats and women in traditional garb uttered to each other as they processed into the pavilion to hear Weah.

“No matter who you are and where you are, opposition or not, in the rural parts of the country or in the Diaspora, in the towns or villages or in the city; so as long as you are a Liberian, it is your patriotic and nationalistic duty to put your hands on deck to help us build our country,” Weah said in his remarks.

About an hour before the president arrived to salute the troops, Martin Kollie, a student-protester with the Student Unification Party, texted me to say about 200 students had gathered to protest Independence Day, and that police pepper-sprayed them. They regrouped in front of the U.S. embassy—about a half-mile away from the pavilion where Weah spoke.

Police showed up near the embassy four minutes after I did. Residents of the shanty town directly across the street walked up the slippery rocks to get a better look at the commotion, some smiling, some laughing.

Students in khaki combat outfits that constitute the Student Unification Party uniforms, held signs that condemned the president and made demands. “Instead of Pro-Poor it is Pro-Rich,” one read. “Declare your Assets Now!” another said. “Weah has lost the fight against corruption,” read a third handwritten sign.

“We are sending a message to the international community that George Weah is becoming a dictator, say!” Butu Levi, another leader in the Student Unification Party, cried out, almost singing.

More Police Attacks Kollie and Levi, both 29, are leaders of SUP, the university-based activist group that formed in 1970. Kollie invited me to meet him at a house across from a funeral home in Sinkor—the wealthiest area in Monrovia. But this home did not reflect the luxury of the compounds on the other side of the main Tubman Boulevard.

In a damp house beyond a gate, women prepared chicken in a dark kitchen. The young men watched soccer on a mounted plasma-screen TV, listened to the radio and planned their protest.

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lution that gives indigenous Liberians the permission to speak their minds and complain even about the government.

Duo has since traded in twists for a closely shaven haircut and guns for politics. He ran unsuccessfully for a legislative position last year during the campaign of now-President Weah. Duo wanted to tackle the country’s economic and corruption faults, as an example of transformation.

He believes the wealthy oppress the poor

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Ibrahima on the condition that he go to Liberia. Only his wife could join him, leaving behind their children. He died there five months after arriving in 1829.

Gaye grew up with tales from his grandmother about this distant, royal relative. So, when he finished his master’s in 2003 in Evanston, Ill., he and his cousin

“I found it so intriguing that we are going through the same crisis of qualified populism at its best,” he said. “(P)eople think that George Weah should be a unifier or Donald Trump should be unifying the country because he was an outsider. Our countries are so divided right now.”

In a nod from one celebrity president to another—Trump sent a presidential delegation to witness Weah’s inauguration in January. In a June letter, Trump promised to continue supporting Weah.

“The United States is deeply committed to our long-standing relationship with Liberia. We will continue to support Liberia’s historic democratic transition and to support peace and prosperity in Liberia,” Trump’s letter reads. “Please accept my sincere wishes for the success of your administration and for the personal well-being A Prince in Shackles of you, your family and the

Artemus Gaye, 44, in no people of Liberia.” mistaken terms, does not like

Harry Ross does not President Weah. like to get into the politics of

“George Weah is a Trump, but he harped on the disaster,” he told me over the United States’ role in setting a phone in October. He says tone in Liberia. that his Liberian friends and

“Most African counfamily think he is being too tries look to the U.S. as the harsh, but he does not think superpower of the world,” A July 6, 2018, image of Prospect Hill Plantation in Lorman, Weah can unify the country. he said, walking down a treeMiss., the home of slaves later sent to Liberia.

A U.S. resident since lined Brooklyn block. “The 1999, Gaye graduated high United States sets the imagischool in Liberia in 1994 and went to bought a $500 car that kept sputtering out nation of what happens for the world. …

Zimbabwe on a scholarship after rebels un- to make the drive down to Mississippi.

But, seeing the way things are now, it kind der Taylor had burned and mutilated five “It was worth more than money,” of makes us rethink, that maybe what we Catholic nuns from the U.S. in 1992— Gaye said. “I almost felt that all our ances- have is better than what we were getting.” one of whom Gaye says was the principal tors, those that suffered, were taking that Many Liberians will soon be swept up of his school. journey along with me. I cannot forget in the Trump administration’s anti-immi After university in Zimbabwe, Gaye about it. I cannot at all.” gration and refugee policies. Since 1991, the went to the U.S. for a graduate fellowship Gaye and his cousin made it down to U.S. provided Temporary Protected Status, and stayed in Chicago. Gaye traced his Natchez and visited the plantation where or TPS, for Liberians during the civil wars. roots back to Prince Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibrahima worked for almost a half-century. In 1999, President Bill Clinton authorized Ibn Sori, a West African prince who was Now, Gaye makes the journey to Missis- Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians captured in 1788 during the slave trade. sippi every year because he has found heal- on a one-year term during a pause between The prince ended up at Foster Mound, a ing in chasing history. civil wars, but he soon reauthorized it when plantation near Natchez, Miss., where he “We have to understand a shared his- tensions ramped up again. spent the next 40 years in slavery. tory helps us to understand the power of Both President George W. Bush and

No one believed he really had royal narrative, and it is really through our story President Barack Obama renewed this proroots until 1807, when John Coates Cox, and our narrative that we are not just an iso- gram. Obama’s most recent renewal expired an Irish surgeon, recognized him. The lated people,” he said. in March 2018. That month, Trump anprince’s father had saved Cox’s life when he nounced he would finally end the program got lost in West Africa in 1781.

Populism Crisis in March 2019, forcing Liberians who have

The nation stirred as newspapers got In 2011, Gaye got his Ph.D. from been here legally for two decades to leave or involved and the story made it to then-Pres- Loyola University in Chicago, and he is risk deportation. ident John Quincy Adams and American working on a book that explores compari- “I have been informed that conditions Colonization Society founder and Secretary sons between the U.S. and Liberia, includ- in Liberia have improved,” Trump wrote in of State Henry Clay. In 1828, Clay freed ing Presidents Trump and Weah.

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Some students were apparently flogged and beaten, as well.

This added to a growing tension among university students about life under Weah. The Liberian Observer reports that in Weah’s first six months in office, Liberian National Police invaded the University of Liberia more than eight times, flogging, harassing, injuring and arresting students.

“Every time we raise an issue, they send police to attack us,” Kollie said.

Amid the calls for police brutality to come to an end, the students had also been rallying for the president to declare his assets—not unlike the process that many U.S. presidents before Donald Trump had done.

“(Weah) does not know the difference between a sports stadium and the executive office,” Levi said.

armed conflict and has made significant progress in restoring stability and democratic governance. Liberia has also concluded reconstruction from prior conflicts, which has contributed significantly to an environment that is able to handle adequately the return of its nationals.”

‘If He Fails ...’

George Bull, 39, is pleased about Trump. In July, he sat sipping a Pepsi at a seafood restaurant in Monrovia after a slight mishap when the waiter initially brought him a Coke.

“I told you Pepsi,” he said, straightfaced and cold, as the server placed the incorrect drink on the table.

A television mounted to the wall overhead grasped Bull’s attention as Trump appeared on the screen. “I love Donald Trump’s policies” Bull said. “You know, sometimes people will be against you for what you say. But he said he wants to build a wall…” Bull trailed off but later added that he wants to see the wall built.

He has a brother living in the U.S., who sent a car for him to use to make money as a taxi driver. Bull is also pleased Trump will end TPS in Liberia soon, and the people who went to “hustle” in America will have to return. He said he loves the U.S. because we have policies, and no matter who they impact, “there is order,” he said.

Bull fled his home in Nimba County on the eastern side of the country during the 1990s. He took a day off from selling used clothes in Monrovia only to get arrested as he came out of a movie theater and recruited into fighting.

“I suffered too much,” Bull said after showing me scars.“I saw some things some people don’t see. There are no good things in war. People were raped. People were killed. There were a lot of things.”

Bull mulled over the differences between “Congo people,” a colloquial term sometimes used to describe descendants of Americo-Liberians, or at least those who give that appearance.

“Like you,” he told me when I asked about the term. “Congo people are extra because they have money, and they appear different, they speak different—they speak like Americans.” Bull further described them as upper-class people who don’t want people to pass by their yards, so they live in gated compounds.

Bull’s mother is of the Mano tribe, and his father is Gio. Bull got his last name when his dad lived with “Congo people” and adopted their surname in the 1960s.

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Americo or Native?

Harry Ross harbors a lot of grief. In 1994, his dad was walking home after shopping at the Waterside Market in Monrovia.

Samuel Ross was 6’5”, maybe 155 pounds and fair-skinned for a black person.

“Maybe like your complexion,” Harry said pointing to my arm.

His dad had a large bag with him on the walk. A man approached and hit Samuel, who then fell and fractured his skull.

He bled internally for two weeks, as a medical system deeply ruptured by war could not save him. Harry says the perpetrator was arrested and then escaped from jail.

Harry blames the war for his dad’s death.

“It was the aftermath of the war. At the time, there was no formal law-and-order— anyone could do anything,” he told me after a church service in October. “It was not in the direct war situation, but because of the war, the justice system was not working at the time. My dad came from work, and he was robbed in the process, and he got killed. I do attribute it to the war.”

Harry, about 15 at the time, said his father’s passing made his life much harder.

He remembers fighting for food and taking odd jobs thereafter, while family members took in his younger siblings. Harry has been to counseling since moving to the United States, and he said he does not harbor resentment against anyone. But he thinks he is only at peace because he moved away from Liberia, and could be retriggered if he put himself back in that environment.

There is another layer of trauma many like Harry are trying to unravel—one of the existential realm.

During a brief stint when Harry was back in school during a lull in fighting, he remembers learning about the island of Fernando Po, host of a government operation

trafficking indigenous tribes for labor on coffee plantations on the small, Spanishheld island. Huffman wrote in his book that many of the perpetrators were highranking Americo officials. Harry’s relative, Samuel Alfred Ross, for whom the port in Greenville, Liberia, is still named, played a major role in the humanitarian crisis.

Classmates turned to Harry in disgust, blaming him by way of his ancestors for supporting slavery. While Harry had been acutely aware of his privileges—a new bike every year and three square meals a day— his classmates made him feel like less of a Liberian that day.

“That was the first time it ever occurred to me the there was some kind

pians, and Americans, too.

“I think we haven’t gotten to that place where white Americans acknowledge race was orchestrated by the white man,” he said.

“I never had any experience with racism. I experienced class culture, but when I came to the U.S. and seeing the police interacting with minorities, black and Latinos, hearing about the history of the whole race culture in America, I was like, wow. So, I think we still need healing as a culture, as a people.”

‘A Good Case for Healing’

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“Native people wanted typical Liberians to become president,” he said. “Nobody could stop George Weah because we would do everything for him to win. All the natives are behind him … for now.”

Still, Bull said he and other former soldiers live with many of the same difficulties he has experienced since turning in his arms after the war—a lack of jobs for his friends who did not take up a trade, and the mental illness exacerbated by memories of war. He wants the international community, including the U.S., to help out.

In the meantime, Bull hopes Weah will do a good job, or he knows there will be lasting consequences.

“If he fails the Liberian people…” Bull pauses and shakes his head. It will take a long time for a “pure native” to be president again, he says.

Joseph Duo, who was captured in one of the most iconic photos from the Liberian civil war, sits in his yard in Paynesville, Liberia, on July 26, 2018.

of division between the slaves (and the natives),” Harry said.

That ostracization stuck with him. He could no longer ignore the fact that Liberia had never been able to truly mesh as one people, and he didn’t know where he, or his country, stood.

“At one point, I actually questioned myself: Am I more of an Americo-Liberian, or am I more of a native Liberian?” Harry wondered aloud. “That dual historical culture, I think it kind of interfered with our own nationalistic ideology because we didn’t know who we were.”

Harry is not alone. Duo said he thinks people love themselves more than they love the country. Gaye thinks Liberia could use something like Alex Haley’s “Roots” to grapple with everything.

But Harry has a charge for Mississip-

in July. Her brother, my oldest cousin, had recently married a woman of Liberian descent whom we all love, so she jumped at the opportunity to accompany me. I ended up staying with my cousin-by-marriage’s family in Monrovia to report this story.

To get to Crawford, my cousin and me drove through Utica, Miss., the place where a white mob hung our grandmother’s greatuncle from a tree next to the courthouse after church in 1888. He and his friends had allegedly not yielded the sidewalk to some white people that morning, brushing a white girl in the process.

Wasps greeted us at the door of my station wagon like valets once we pulled up behind Crawford’s pick-up truck. The conservancy bought the land in 2011 at Crawford’s plea. “This is the house,” she said, laughing.

Crawford has put in a lot of sweat equity at Prospect Hill. Before raising money for a new roof, she came out on weekends and holidays to set up kiddy pools to catch leak water. She has read Alan Huffman’s book, too, and they organized a reunion there in 2017 for descendants of both the Ross slaves and those who owned them.

She hopes for a massive donation to fix the house and use it as a reconciliation tool.

As Crawford let us roam the home, the history spilled out of her.

“People like to say that he was a good slave owner, he was benevolent,” she said of Isaac Ross. “Well, you know, shit. I don’t really buy that. Why didn’t he free his slaves when he was alive?”

She takes us to the cemetery just yards from the house. A huge tower sits in the middle of the cemetery. It is a dedication to Isaac Ross that cost $25,000 in 1838.

Some of the slaves who could have gotten their freedom in Liberia were sold to meet the bill. Isaac’s grandson, Isaac Ross Wade, who fought the will, is buried there, too.

His tombstone faces the opposite way from the others, but Crawford does not think it was done on purpose. His tombstone is also rusty, but this is intentional.

“My cleaner is expensive, and I’m not going to waste it on his grave,” Crawford told me, as butterflies fluttered through the cemetery, one landing on her shirt. “I kind of like his grave to be a little bit dirty.”

She was at Prospect Hill when Harry took his pilgrimage to Mississippi.

“The attitude that he brought here, it wasn’t bitterness—I would feel some bitterness,” Crawford said. “It would give me an appreciation, also, but he was just really cool about it.”

Harry has a mixed bag of emotions about Prospect Hill and Isaac Ross, but dreams one day of bringing his vision of an educational center to life in Sinoe County.

With the war having destroyed a lot of things—his childhood, his family structure and even his country’s sense of self—today, he focuses on what he can build.

“My goal one day is to bring to reality the vision of Isaac Ross, which sounds dumb. Why would you want to bring the vision of a slave master?” he said as we sat in his car in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, in October.

After church, he drove me back to the place I was staying. We had long arrived, but he seemed to have a lot on his heart.

“I speak a whole lot about healing; I don’t know how that story would be told.

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Broad Street’s Thanksgiving menu includes honeyglazed ham, half turkeys, fried turkey breast, deep-dish quiche, cheese grits, gumbo with smoked chicken and andouille sausage, roasted cauliflower soup, spinach-andgoat-cheese salad, cranberry relish, brioche bread, sweet potato casserole, pumpkin pie, chocolate-chip-pumpkin spice bread and more. Thanksgiving catering orders must be in by 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18, and pickup is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 21. The bakery is also offering a new cake for the Thanksgiving season: the “Death by Chocolate” pumpkin cake. It is available by special order from Nov. 12 through Nov. 25. For more information, visit broadstbakery.com.

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Cookin’ Up a Storm (1491 Canton Mart Road, Suite 1, 601-957-1166)

This Thanksgiving, Cookin’ Up a Storm will have dishes such as stuffing with sage sausage, apples and pecans; sweet potato casserole; spinach Madeline; scalloped pineapple; corn souffle; broccoli salad with craisins, pecans, bacon and sweet dressing; desserts such as key lime pie with a pecan praline crust, chocolate pecan pie and pumpkin pie; and more. For more information, visit cookinupastorm.kitchen.

Whole Foods Market (4500 Interstate 55 N., 601-608-0405, wholefoodsmarket.com)

Whole Foods has a Thanksgiving catering menu that includes roast and hickory-smoked turkeys, spiral-sliced ham, prime rib roast, roasted butternut squash with cranberries and sage, green bean casserole, cornbread stuffing, mashed citrus sweet potatoes, cranberry orange sauce, corn pudding, fig-stuffed brie, cranberry crumble pie, pumpkin pie and more. All food items are cold and come with reheating instructions.

The Pig & Pint (3139 N. State St., 601-326-6070, pigandpint.com)

The Pig & Pint will have 10- to 12-pound smoked turkeys for Thanksgiving. The restaurant also has a Thanksgiving catering menu that includes smoked meats such as brisket, turkey, pulled pork and chicken; sides such as smoked macaroni and cheese, collard greens, southern baked beans, potato salad and comeback cole slaw; containers of The Pig & Pint’s housemade Carolina mustard sauce and Mississippi “Sweet” barbecue sauce; and deserts such as bananas Foster banana pudding and whitechocolate-and-cranberry bread pudding. Orders must be placed by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 20, and picked up by 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 21. For more information, visit pigandpint.com.

Olivia’s Food Emporium (820 Highway 51 N., Madison, 601-898-8333, oliviasfoodemporium.com)

This year, Olivia’s Food Emporium’s Thanksgiving menu includes meats such as smoked or fried turkey; spiral-cut brown-sugared ham and Cajun stuffed turduckens; cornbread dressing; sides such as green bean, baked potato, sweet potato or squash casseroles, cheesy broccoli rice; appetizers such as cranberry walnut chicken salad, pimento cheese and spinach dip; barbecue pork skins or fried chips; desserts such as lemon ice box, Hershey or sweet potato pies, rainbow, red velvet or coconut cakes, and more. Customers must place orders by Friday, Nov. 16, and pick them up by 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 21.

Primos Cafe (515 Lake Harbour Drive, Ridgeland, 601898-3600; 2323 Lakeland Drive, Flowood, 601-936-3398)

For Thanksgiving, Primos has dinner packages that serve 10 to 12 people and include whole ham or turkey, cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls, a choice of pie and more.

Primos also offers office catering that includes sliced white meat turkey, cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, two veggies, cornbread or rolls, cranberry sauce, dessert and iced tea. The restaurant also has sides such as cranberry sauce, squash, sweet potato and green-bean casseroles, cornbread muffins; and desserts such as lemon-ice-box pie, sweet potato pie, pound cake and more available for purchase. For more information, visit primoscafe.com.

Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood, 601-420-4202)

For Thanksgiving, Table 100 will have meats such as half boneless smoked hams, four whole sweet-tea-brined chickens, and whole sweet-tea-brined and hickory-smoked turkey; sides such as sweet-potato casserole, braised turnip greens, cornbread dressing and cranberry relish; chicken and sausage gumbo; and desserts such as pumpkin pie, sticky

toffee pudding, lemon-ice-box pie and bread pudding. The restaurant also offers party trays of hot and cold dishes for 10 to 12 people, and a package that includes a choice of meat, three sides, dressing and gravy, cranberry relish and a choice of dessert. Customers must order by Thursday, Nov. 15, at 4 p.m., and pick orders up by Wednesday, Nov. 21.

For more information, visit tableonehundred.com.

Sugar Magnolia Takery (5417 Highway 25, Suite F, Flowood, 601-992-8110)

Sugar Magnolia Takery’s Thanksgiving menu includes meats such as herb-roasted turkey, boneless turkey breast, glazed spiral ham, pork tenderloin and beef tenderloin; sides like cornbread dressing, and sweet-potato and squash casseroles; salads like fruit and potato salads; soups like chicken and dumplings, and broccoli and cheese soup; pies like pecan and apple; and more. Sugar Magnolia will be taking orders until Monday, Nov. 19, at 6 p.m. Customers can pick up their orders on Tuesday, Nov. 20, and Wednesday, Nov. 21, until 6 p.m. For more information, visit sugarmagnoliatakery.com.

The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 N. State St., Suite 100, 601-398-4562, themanshipjackson.com)

This Thanksgiving, The Manship’s catering menu includes meats such as a fried or smoked turkey, and beef tenderloin roast with au jus; sides such as braised greens, chicken tetrazzini, turkey gravy, cranberry relish, oyster

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Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road, 601-957-2800, hiltonjackson.com) On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, the Hilton Jackson will have a buffet from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Menu items include garden salad with dressings, a Wellington salad,

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Day of Dialogue Nov. 15, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Mississippi Youth Media Project (125 S. Congress St.). Dialogue Jackson hosts event featuring facilitated discussions between diverse people from the metro area around topics such as race, ethnicity and equity. Lunch and refreshments provided. Registration required; email todd@ jacksonfreepress.com; dialoguejackson.com.

Accelerate: Conference on Technology Innovation Nov. 14, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at The Westin Jackson (407 S. Congress St.). Innovate Mississippi presents the 19th annual conference focused on the future of technology and entrepreneurship in the state. Includes guest speakers, breakfast and lunch keynotes, and more. $75 per person; accelerate.innovate.ms.

Holiday Open House Nov. 15, 5-8 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). The event features drink samples from Mississippi Cold Drip Coffee & Tea Company, treats from Nandy’s Candy, signed copies of books for sale, visual-art displays and more. Free admission, prices vary; find it on Facebook.

Northpark Grand Opening Nov. 15-17, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Nov. 18, noon-6 p.m., at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland).

The grand opening event features the Glow in the Park 5K, cooking classes, story times, visits from Christmas characters, a pet adoption drive and more. Free admission; visitnorthpark.com.

Fondren Unwrapped Nov. 15, 5 p.m., in Fondren. The annual Christmas-season kickoff event features open houses in Fondren businesses, vendors, choral music, live bands, visits from classic holiday characters and more. For all ages. Free admission; fondren.org.

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hen Meredith Gonzalez moved to Jackson from California in 2015, she many unique kinds of media and demonstrate new ways to handle projects.” found what she described as a small but vibrant and passionate art com- Gonzalez, 34, was born and grew up in Charlottesville, Va. She went to high school munity, but was not sure of where an artist new to the city’s art scene at Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, N.C., and then attended George Macould “plug in,” she says. son University in Fairfax, Va., where she received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in

“In those first days, I wanted to be able to find out who 2007. She worked as a graphic designer for the local artists are and where they meet,” Gonzalez says. “I two years, and moved to Santa Ana, Calif. thought we needed something like a centralized art meeting in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, she worked as area in Jackson. I also have a dream of creating a commuan art instructor for Acaciawood Preparatory nity art center where artists can have studio space, and where Academy in Anaheim and then Camelot middle- and high-school students can create and learn about Academy of Arts, Science and Technology in all sorts of art from video to multimedia works.”

Orange from 2010 to 2013. She moved to

Gonzalez’ dream led her to establish the JXN Art Colab, Jackson the following year. an initiative to create more community in the art scene.

Today, Gonzalez paints and draws out

In March 2016, she started hosting events called of her Jackson home and runs an Etsy galPaint Nite, which took place inside local small businesses lery, where she sells her pieces. She also doand restaurants and allowed participants to receive two nates artwork for local events and art shows hours of art instruction from local artists while enjoying in partnership with the Greater Jackson Arts food and drink specials.

Council. Gonzalez is also a graphic designer

“Paint Nite gave people the chance to come in and lisfor Mississippi Public Broadcasting, where ten to music, socialize and paint,” Gonzalez says. “It wasn’t she creates web-related graphics, marketing like a normal art class but instead let visitors drink, unwind material, set designs for shows, and brochures and just be creative.” and flyers. She also puts out MPB’s monthly

After she found out that she had to change the name programming guide. over a legal issue, she decided to revisit the JXN Art Co While she has not yet set up a physilab, and put more of a focus on the art cal space for the JXN Art Colab, she says she community in it. has her eye on a number of locations within

As the name implies, the JXN Art walking distance of schools and residential Colab has a central focus on collaboraareas, including old church buildings that are tion. Currently, the project is centered no longer in use. Gonzalez’ plans for the fuaround an Instagram where Gonzalez inture JXN Art Colab building include studio vites any Jackson artist to submit images space for local artists, classrooms, and spaces of their work to, regardless of medium. dedicated to video and music production.

Artist Meredith Gonzalez created the JXN Art She plans to eventually expand the JXN

“Jackson is full of disparate pocket Colab as a way to create more of a community Art Colab into a platform that will highcommunities that do their own thing but in the local arts scene. light local artists and their work, as well don’t see a lot of overlap,” Gonzalez says. “I as announce receptions, art platforms, want JXN Art Colab to be a community fogallery shows and other things that benefit artists. rum that bridges those populations and shows older traditionalists how young, new

“In setting up the Instagram page, the goal was to provide thought-provoking im- artists are handling new media and techniques. I want to foster relationships in the art agery and pieces of art that could serve as inspiration when scrolling through your feed,” community and bring people together to inspire, connect and inform them.”

Gonzalez says. “Even one image can inspire an artist to produce something. As a former For more information, find the JXN Art Colab on Instagram at @jxnartcolab. See her educator, I want to increase understanding of the creative process, teach people about art at @meredith_gonzalez.

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THURSDAY 11/15 “Museum After Hours: Currents & Connections” is at 5:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The event takes inspiration from the opening of the Water/Ways traveling exhibit and features artwork depicting Mississippi bodies of water TRIP BURNS / FILE PHOTO from the museum’s permanent collection. Includes food and drinks for sale, music from Scott Albert Johnson, a screening of “Annie,” and more. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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WEDNESDAY 11/14 “The Village Social | Bend & Brew” is from 6:15 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road) in the courtyard. The yoga class is open to all fitness levels and includes a free craft beer or popsicle from Deep South Pops after the session. Free admission; call 601-982-5861; find it on Facebook.

Millsaps Forums: Reproductive Health in Mississippi Nov. 16, 1-2:30 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex room 215. The guest speaker is Felicia Brown-Williams, the Mississippi state director for Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates. Free admission; millsaps.edu.

Capital City Natural Hair Expo Nov. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Regency Hotel & Conference Center (400 Greymont Ave.). The second annual family-friendly expo features vendors, natural beauty workshops, raffles, live styling demos, swag bags and more. $10 admission, $25 VIP, $40 DIY workshop; eventbrite.com.

Handworks Holiday Market Nov. 16, 9 a.m.7 p.m., Nov. 17, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The 37th annual arts and crafts shopping event features more than 150 exhibitors with products such as jewelry, pottery, children’s furniture and clothes, gourmet foods, spa products, holiday decorations, garden art and more. $8 admission, free under age 12; call 601-397-9651; email juliadaily@bellsouth.net; handworksmarket.com.

Wild About Gobblers Nov. 20, 10 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The event allows visitors to meet live turkeys, examine feathers under a microscope, learn about egg anatomy and more. $6 for adults, $4 for ages 3 and up; mdwfp.com.

Conversation About Community: Rise to the Future Nov. 16, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Operation Shoestring presents the event featuring keynote speaker Christopher Emdin, breakfast, workshops and a luncheon from noon to 1:30 p.m. Also includes a concert at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) from 7-10 p.m. $50 full-day pass, $30 for breakfast, $30 for luncheon; operationshoestring.org.

• Look & Learn with Hoot Nov. 16, 10:30-11:30 a.m. 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.

Protest of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Nov. 16, noon, at 190 E. Capitol St., Suite 550. The

KIDS Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.)

• Family Day: Materials & Movement Nov. 17, 9 a.m.-noon. The event features crafts, art, music and dance activities throughout the museum.

Includes studio activities focused on painting and working with beads and textiles. Doors open at 8 a.m. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

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“Conversation About Community: Rise to the Future” is from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.).

Operation Shoestring presents the event featuring keynote speaker Christopher Emdin of the #HipHopEd movement, breakfast, interactive workshops and a luncheon. Also includes a 50th anniverLAURA YOST PHOTOGRAPHY sary concert at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. featuring Kerry Thomas, Krystal Gem, Bamboo and more. $50 full-day pass, $30 for breakfast, $30 for luncheon, $10 concert in advance, $15 at the door; operationshoestring.org.

event brings together Mississippians in protest of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in response to her recent comment about public hangings, as well as her approval of many policies that have been detrimental to disenfranchised people in our state. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Events at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.)

• “Journey to the North Pole” Exhibit Opening Nov. 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The special holiday exhibition features a magical winter village featuring lights, train cars and the 45-foot Snowflake Slide.

Includes special times for children to have their photo taken with Santa, build gingerbread houses and more. The exhibition is open through Jan. 6, 2019. Included with admission ($10 per person); call 601-981-5469; mschildrensmuseum.org.

• Visiting Artist: Chuck Galey Nov. 24, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Watercolor artist Chuck Galey leads the craft event during which children can create their own holiday-themed greeting cards.

Included with admission ($10 per person); call 601-981-5469; mschildrensmuseum.org.

Explore: Dinosaurs Nov. 20, 4:30 p.m., at Willie Morris Library (4912 Old Canton Road). The children’s event features dinosaur-themed crafts and activities in celebration of “Dino-vember.”

Free admission; jhlibrary.com.

FOOD & DRINK Beaujolais Nouveau Celebration Nov. 15, 4-9 p.m., at Anjou Restaurant (361 Township Ave., Ridgeland). Chef Christian Amelot prepares a four-course dinner with a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau, in honor of the French national holiday. Reservations recommended. $50 per person, plus tax and gratuity; call 601-707-0587; anjourestaurant.net.

Fall Wine Dinner Nov. 19, 6 p.m., at Lou’s FullServ (904 E. Fortification St.). The event features a five-course dinner with pairings from New World Wines. Representatives from Beaumad Wines will be present to teach participants about wine. Reservations encouraged. $75 per person; find it on Facebook.

Black Friday/Outcider Release Party Nov. 23, noon-7 p.m., at Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave.). The event features limited-edition Record Store Day releases for sale, special discounts on records, and the release of Outcider, Offbeat’s collaborative beverage with Backwater Cider Company and Lucky Town Brewing Company.

Free admission, prices vary; call 601-376-9404; find it on Facebook.

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Ridgeland). The 5K glow run/walk features prizes for overall fastest male and female runners, as well as individual age groups and most decorated participant. Includes a post-race “Silent Glow Disco” featuring DJ 51-50. Participants ages 21 and up receive a free beer after the race.

Proceeds benefit Adam Malone, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. $35 per person; visitnorthpark.com.

12Ks for the Holidays Nov. 17, 7:30-9:30 a.m., at The Cedars (4145 Old Canton Road). The annual holiday race features a 12K run, a 5K run/walk, a kids’ one-mile fun run with Santa Claus. Proceeds benefit the Good Samaritan Center. Includes a holiday costume contest, door prizes, an after-race party and more. $40 early bird, $50 regular, free fun run 12 and under; call 601-355-6276; christmas12k.com.

Metro Jackson Heart Walk Nov. 17, 8 a.m., at Mississippi State Capitol (400 High St.). The non-competitive 5K walk/run raises money for the American Heart Association. Includes vendors, a “top dog” pet contest, family activities and more. Walk begins at 9:15 a.m. Free admission, fundraising encouraged; metrojacksonheartwalk.org.

Cyclocross Festival Nov. 17-18, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Freedom Ridge Park (235 W. School St., Ridgeland). The festival features adult and junior race categories, with proceeds going toward the Mississippi Cyclocross Project. Includes food trucks, face painting and more. All racers must have USA Cycling license. $35 per day for adults in advance, free ages 19 and under; ridgelandcyclocrossfestival.com.

Fleet Feet Turkey Day 8K Nov. 22, 7-10 a.m., at Fleet Feet Sports (500 Highway 51, Suite Z, Ridgeland). The Thanksgiving run/walk includes awards for overall female and male runners, and overall male and female masters winners, as well as the top three finishers in age groups. VIP runners receive a massage, indoor-bathroom access, food and beverages. $30 or $60 for VIP through Nov. 18, $40 or $70 for VIP from Nov. 19-20; fleetfeetjackson.com.

SATURDAY 11/17 “Bravo II: Magical Moments” is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs a concert featuring Mozart’s overture to “The Magic Flute,” Strauss’ “Death and Transfiguration, Op.

The Village Social | Bend & Brew Nov. 14, 6:15-7 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). In the Courtyard.

The yoga class is open to all fitness levels and includes a free craft beer or popsicle from Deep South Pops after the session. Free admission; call 601-982-5861; find it on Facebook.

Monster Jam Nov. 16-17, 7 p.m., Nov. 17, 1 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The monster-truck event includes racing, freestyle and two-wheel skill competitions featuring famed trucks such as Grave Digger, Brutus, Hurricane Force, Scooby-Doo and more. $15-$40; monsterjam.com.

Glow in the ‘Park 5K Nov. 16, 7-9 p.m., at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road,

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24,” and Sibelius’ “Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43.” Includes a preconcert lecture from Timothy Coker at 6:45 p.m. on the mezzanine. $21$64; msorchestra.com.

Courtesy Artists of the Roundtable

WEDNESDAY 11/14 1908 Provisions - Dan Gibson 6:30-9 p.m.

Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 5:30-8:15 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Jonathan Womble 7-11 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Jason Turner 6 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Crocker 7-11 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6-9 p.m. free Jackson State University, F.D. Hall Music Center - JSU African & Drum Ensemble 7:309 p.m. $10, $5 students, seniors & military Kathryn’s - Phil & Trace 6:30 p.m.

Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30-9 p.m. $10, $5 w/ student ID McClain - Chris Gill Pelican Cove - Two for the Road 6-10 p.m.

Iron Horse - Davis Coen 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Phil & Trace 6:30 p.m.

McClain - Joseph LaSalla 6 p.m.

MS Museum of Art Scott Albert Johnson 6-7:30 p.m. free Old Capitol Inn - Stacy Andrews 7 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6-10 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - DJ Mason 9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m.

Soulshine, Flowood - Jason Turner 7 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Friday 11/16 1908 Provisions - Marvin Curtis 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Ameristar, Vicksburg - Area Code 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Lovin Ledbetter 8 p.m.midnight

Martin’s - Funk You 10 p.m. $10 McClain - Robert Jones Mississippi College - Ceruti String Quartet 7:30 p.m. $20 admission $5 for students Old Capitol Inn - Jason Turner 7 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Hunter & Rick 6-10 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Just Cauz 9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 5:30 p.m.; Roadhouse Atlanta 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m.

Soulshine, Flowood Brandon Greer 7 p.m.

Soulshine, Ridgeland Stevie Cain 7 p.m. free WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

Saturday 11/17 A1 Event Center - “Captial City Classic” After-party feat. DJ Freddy Lee & DJ Q 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Ameristar, Vicksburg - Area Code 8 p.m.

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Kathryn’s - Todd Thompson & the Lucky Hand Blues Band 7 p.m.

Martin’s - Toubab Krewe 10 p.m. $12 advance $15 door McClain - Tommie Vaughn MS Museum of Art “Rise to the Future” Concert feat. Kerry Thomas, Krystal Gem, Bamboo, Jamie Weems, PyInfamous & DJ Sean Mac 7-10 p.m. $10 advance $15 door Pelican Cove - Jason Turner 6-10 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Burnham Road 9 p.m.

Shucker’s - The Axeidentals 3:30 p.m.; Roadhouse Atlanta 8 p.m. $5; Brian Jones 10 p.m.

Soul Wired - Ebony w/ Jeannie Holliday & Cortland Garner 8 p.m. $10 Thalia Mara Hall - MS Symphony Orchestra’s “Magical Moments” 7:30 p.m. $21-$64 WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m.

Sunday 11/18

Krystal Gem Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Thursday 11/15 1908 Provisions - Barry Leach 6:30-9 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Unfinished Business 7-11 p.m.

Drago’s - Hunter Gibson 6-9 p.m.

Duling Hall - Charlie Hunter Trio 7:30 p.m. $15 advance $20 door F. Jones - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood Aaron Coker Georgia Blue, Madison Chad Wesley Hal & Mal’s - Brian Jones 6-9 p.m. free

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Doe’s, Florence - Two for the Road 6-8 p.m.

Drago’s - Luckenbach 7-10 p.m.

Duling Hall - The Molly Ringwalds 7 p.m. $25 advance $30 door El Paso, Vicksburg Simpatico 6 p.m.

F. Jones - Sherman Lee Dillon & the MS Sound midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood Shaun Patterson Georgia Blue, Madison Aaron Coker Iron Horse - Lonn’e George 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Chris Gill 7 p.m.

Lounge 114 - 601 Live 8-11 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Ronnie McGee Band 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

F. Jones - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Sherman Lee Dillon & Jesse Robinson midnight $10 Fenian’s - Womble Brothers 10 p.m.

Fillup with Billups - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m.

Freelon’s - Yung Bleu 10 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood Mayday Georgia Blue, Madison Brandon Greer Iron Horse - King Edward Blues 9 p.m.

ISH - DJ Unpredictable 601, DJ Eightyate & DJ Frat House 10 p.m.

Jose’s, Pearl - Pearl Jamz 6 p.m.

1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - Mac Powell & the Family Reunion 7 p.m. $15 advance $20 door $50 VIP The Hideaway - Sunday Jam 4-8 p.m. free Iron Horse - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Jackson Revival Center - Dathan Thigpen & Geoffrey Golden 6 p.m. free with toy donation Kathryn’s - Faze 4 6 p.m.

Millsaps College - MS Youth Symphony Orchestra 3-4 p.m. $5 Pelican Cove - Larry Brewer noon-4 p.m.; Phil & Trace 5-9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Greenfish 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 11/19 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5

See more music at jfp.ms/musiclistings.

To be included in print, email listings to music@jacksonfreepress.com.

Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m.

McClain - Doug Hurd Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Tuesday 11/20 Bonny Blair’s - Chris, Sonny & Carlos 7-11 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Chris Gill 6-9 p.m.

Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m.

Galloway UMC - Millsaps Singers’ “Magnificat” 7 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - Raphael Semmes & Friends 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Road Hogs 6:30 p.m.

McClain - Gena Steele Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 11/21 1908 Provisions - Bill Ellison 6:30-9 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Charade 7 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Lounge 114 - “Jackson Got Talent” 7:30-9 p.m. $10, $5 w/ student ID

Martin’s - “Jacktown Clown-Around” feat.

Dave Jordan, John Shirley, David Shirley, Cloud Wars, Scott Albert Johnson & John Scanlon 9 p.m.

McClain - Zach Bridges Pelican Cove - Robin Blakeney 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

THURSDAY 11/22 F. Jones - Maya Kyles & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood Phil & Trace Hilton Jackson Ballroom Andy Hardwick Trio 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

FRIDAY 11/23 1908 Provisions - Chuck Bryan 6:30-9 p.m.

Ameristar, Vicksburg - Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Soul Stew 8 p.m.-midnight Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Ralph Miller 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones - The Amazin’ Lazy Boi midnight $10 Hal & Mal’s - Taylor Hildebrand 6-9 p.m. free Hops & Habanas - Risko & Friends 7-10 p.m.

Iron Horse - Sherman Lee Dillon 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Jackson Gypsies 7 p.m.

Martin’s - Flow Tribe 10 p.m. $15 McClain - Tommie Vaughn Pelican Cove - Chris Gill Trio 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Barry Leach 5:30 p.m.; Spank the Monkey 8 p.m. $5; Billy Mauldin 10 p.m.

Soul Wired - Georgia Dish Boys 7 p.m.

Soulshine, Flowood - Brian Smith 7 p.m.

WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.

SATURDAY 11/24 Ameristar, Vicksburg - Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Chasin’ Dixie 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

F. Jones - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Dexter Allen midnight $10 Iron Horse - Mark Doyle & Mr. Bud 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m.

Martin’s - The Busty Petites 10 p.m.

McClain - Tommie Vaughn Monsour’s, Vicksburg Simpatico 8 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Stace & Cassie 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Steele Heart 3:30 p.m.; Spank the Monkey 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m.

WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m.

SUNDAY 11/25 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Brandon Assembly of God - Shawn & Luwanda Morris 10:30 a.m.

Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

The Hideaway - Sunday Jam 4-8 p.m. free Iron Horse - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Soul Stew 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander noon-4 p.m.; Gena Steele & Buzz Pickens 5-9 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 11/26 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 - Barry Leach 6:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

TUESDAY 11/27 Bonny Blair’s - Chris Gill & Sonny Brooks 7-11 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Simpatico 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.

McClain - Bill & Temperance w/ Jeff Perkins Millsaps, Ford Academic Complex - Jackson Choral Society 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 11/28 1908 Provisions - Dan Gibson 6:30-9 p.m.

Alumni House - Doug Hurd & Gena Steele 5:30-8:15 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Chris Gill 6-9 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m.

McClain - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jesse Howell 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Proximity 7:30 p.m.

Soul Wired - When Particles Collide 8 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

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MUSIC

The Man with the Horn & a Brush

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the drummer, the limbs. I didn’t understand who it was or the magnitude of the drummer, of the music. But it was just like when you’re a kid fixated on something, like you’re watching cartoons.”

As a teenager, he played in a Chicago band, and Miles Davis would call his sister—Wilburn’s mother—and have her set the phone down so he could hear the young MICAH SMITH

rin Davis and Vince Wilburn Jr. came to a stop after stepping into the art gallery at Jackson State University’s downtown campus.

“Oh wow,” Wilburn said quietly, eyes wide under his broad-brimmed hat.

At least a few people might have shared his response later that evening on Nov. 8, when JSU held the opening reception for “We’re Miles Ahead: The Miles Davis Exhibition.” However, for Erin and Wilburn—the late music icon’s youngest son and nephew, respectively—there was a special power in seeing their most famous family member’s artwork on display again.

“A lot of people don’t even know that he painted, so we try to expose them to that because that was a big part of his life, you know?” Erin says.

“He painted every day or sketched or drew. He could draw Vince and give him the sketch, sign it or write something on it, or paint a full-blown 20-foot canvas. So those are things we try to show people.”

Jackson State is the first university in the United States to host a gallery of Miles Davis’ visual artwork, with more than a dozen of his paintings and personal photographs appearing in the exhibit.

“It’s another side of his genius, and we want to share it,” Wilburn says. “Erin and I want to share with the world the genius of Miles Davis in whatever capacity we can. That’s our mission. We’ve been all around the world doing this.”

In their youth, both men got to experience and take part in the legendary trumpet player’s artistic process. As a child, Wilburn said he would stand in the wings whenever “Uncle Miles” would play in Chicago. It was at those shows that he set his mind on playing drums.

“I said, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ So from a young age, I knew that,” he says. “It was just the movement of

(Left to right) Erin Davis and Vince Wilburn Jr., the youngest son and nephew of iconic trumpet-player Miles Davis, attended the opening reception for “We’re Miles Ahead: The Miles Davis Exhibition,” which is on display at Jackson State University’s downtown campus through Nov. 30.

musicians’ rehearsal and critique. Then, around 1980, the trumpeter invited his nephew and the band to come to New York and play on his now-legendary album “The Man with the Horn.”

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SUNDAY 11/18 Mac Powell and the Family Reunion perform at 7 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Former Third Day vocalist Mac Powell fronts the Americana band, which performs to promote its debut self-titled album.

Doors open at 6 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 day of event; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

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STAGE & SCREEN “After We Become Rain” Nov. 14-17, 7:30 p.m., at Pat’s Place on West South Street (address given upon reservation). Hearth & Mantel Theatre presents the Mac Mitchell-penned comedic drama. Includes complimentary coffee and a conversation about the play following the performance. $10 online reservation, $15 at the door; hearthandmanteltheatre.com.

Fall Dance Concert Nov. 16-17, 7 p.m., at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). In the

Growing up, Erin said that his father, whom they call “Chief,” would often have him help record musical ideas on a four-track and run out to get art supplies for his latest work. As he got older, Erin also began a music career, serving as a percussionist for his father’s band, then as drummer for blues-rock act Bloodline in the 1990s and then working as an artist manager.

These days, Erin is less involved with the music industry, while Wilburn leads the Miles Electric Band, an internationally touring ensemble featuring former Miles Davis players. However, the cousins still collaborate as managers for Miles Davis’ estate, helping handle areas such as merchandising, music licensing, films such as actor-director Don Cheadle’s 2015 biopic “Miles Ahead,” and of course art galleries like the new exhibition at Jackson State.

“I don’t really think of it personally as, ‘I’m curating his legacy,’ even though that is what we’re doing,” Erin said.

“We just like everything to be as it should be, take care of the music and take care of the images. The important job to me is to expose him to younger audiences, to try to have people understand why they should like Miles Davis and what they should know about him.”

“The legacy speaks for itself. What Erin and I do—I mean, it’s fun,” Wilburn said. “What better way to have a part of our lives in this music? … It’s an honor to do.

Promoting the music is just what we do. And we promote each other! If Erin’s got some things he’s working on, I’m like, ‘Erin, let me hear it,’ or if I’ve got some things, Erin’s like, ‘Yeah, let me hear what you’re doing.’ It’s family, you know what I mean? It’s love.

“It’s like walkin’,” he added, chuckling lightly as he hummed a bar from Davis’ song of the same name.

“We’re Miles Ahead: The Miles Davis Exhibition” is at the Jackson State University downtown campus (101 W. Capitol St.) through Nov. 30. For details, visit jsums.edu.

Bitsy Irby Visual Arts and Dance Center. The concert includes a showcase of choreography from dance faculty and guest artists in classical and contemporary ballet, as well as modern dance. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $10 admission, $5 seniors and students; belhaven.edu.

Joking Around Comedy Series Nov. 24, 8 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N.). The comedy show features stand-up comics Rodney Perry, Marvin Hunter and Kaution, with host Nardo Blackmon. Doors open at 7 p.m. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; eventbrite.com.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS “The Masks We Wear” End of Semester Showcase Nov. 14, 7 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.). In the F.D. Hall Music Center. The Jackson State University African Drum and Dance Ensemble performs. $10 admission, $5 seniors, students and military with ID; call 601-979-2141; find it on Facebook.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Charlie Hunter Trio Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. The jazz guitarist’s latest album is titled “Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 day of the event; ardenland.net.

• The Molly Ringwalds Nov. 16, 9 p.m. The 1980s tribute is based in New Orleans, La., and is known for its theatrical performances and costuming. Doors open at 7 p.m. $25 in advance, $30 day of the event; ardenland.net.

• Mac Powell and the Family Reunion Nov. 18, 7 p.m. Former Third Day vocalist Mac Powell fronts the Americana band. Doors open at 6 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 day of event; call 877987-6487; ardenland.net.

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TUESDAY 11/20 “Wild About Gobblers” is from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The family-friendly event allows visitors to meet live turkeys, examine feathers under a microscope and investigate egg anatomy. Includes turkey-themed crafts. $6 for adults, $4 for ages 3 and up; call 601-576-6000; mdwfp.com.

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Music/Events New Bourbon Street Jazz Band Dining Room - 6pm - Free

Thursday 11/15

Brian Jones

Dining Room - 7pm - Free

Friday 11/16

Patrick Carpenter Dining Room - 7pm - Free

Saturday 11/17

Restaurant Open Monday 11/19

Central MS Blues Society presents:

Wednesday 11/21

CLOSED FOR DINNER

MAC POWELL and the family reunion

CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Saturday, December 1

Thursday 11/22

Friday 11/23

CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

lead singer of christian rock band third day brings solo musical project to jackson!

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

Saturday, December 1

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

Saturday, December 8

chad wesley album release show WITH MAGNOLIA BAYOU

Saturday 11/24

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

Sunday 11/25

oxford, ms jam band bringing funky goodness to jxn

Wednesday, December 19

Restaurant Open

Mac Demarco

THE BUSTY PETITES Friday, December 21

MUSTACHE THE BAND

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

Saturday, December 22

Big Room - 8pm - $27 at Door

Monday 11/26

Central MS Blues Society presents:

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

Tuesday 11/20

$3 Members $5 Non-Members

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

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

Blue Monday Dining Room - 7 - 11pm

THE VAMPS

Saturday, December 29

cowboy mouth

Tuesday 11/27

Restaurant Open Jazz with Raphael and Friends will return 12/4

Saturday, January 12

Steve forbert

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

just announced!

Upcoming

11/28 New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 11/29 D’Lo Trio 11/28 Bill, Temperence & Jeff 12/1 Scott Albert Johnson 12/6 Jesse Robinson Hosts: Musician Christmas

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SILAS album release party and concert

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

day!

12/7 Art Soup 12/7 HRC: Drag Bingo

Tuesday, March 5

jared & the mill

arizona indie rockers touring in support of their new album “this story is no longer available”

just announced!

Friday, April 5

12/12 New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 12/29 Jason Turner

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200 s. Commerce St.

jonathan mcreynolds

rising gospel star brings the #makemoreroomtour to jackson!

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aTo Do Listd “Rise to the Future” Concert Nov. 16, 7-10 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The concert celebrates the 50th anniversary of Operation Shoestring and features musical performances from Kerry Thomas, Krystal Gem, Bamboo, Jamie Weems, PyInfamous and DJ Sean Mac. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; operationshoestring.org.

Ceruti String Quartet Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., at Mississippi College (200 Capitol St., Clinton).

In the Aven Recital Hall. The chamber music quartet features faculty of the University of Memphis’ Scheidt School of Music. $20 for adults, $5 for students from any school; mc.edu.

Events at Martin’s Downtown (214 S. State St.) • Funk You Nov. 16, 10 p.m. The Augusta, Ga., funk-fusion band performs. Doors open at 9 p.m. $10; martinsdowntownjxn.com.

• Toubab Krewe Nov. 17, 10 p.m. The Asheville, N.C.-based band is known for its fusion of African traditional and rock-and-roll music. Doors open at 9 p.m. $12 in advance, $15 at the door; martinsdowntownjxn.com.

• The Jacktown Clown-Around Nov. 21, 9 p.m. The concert features music from Dave Jordan, John and David Shirley, Cloud Wars, Scott Albert Johnson and John Scanlon.

Admission TBA; martinsdowntownjxn.com.

• Flow Tribe Nov. 23, 10 p.m. The New Orleans funk band performs. Doors open at 9 p.m. $15; martinsdowntownjxn.com.

Bravo II: Magical Moments Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.).

The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs a concert featuring Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” overture, Strauss’ “Death and Transfiguration,

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• “Breads & Spreads” Nov. 27, 5 p.m. Sheree Rose Kelley signs copies of her latest cookbook. $24.95 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The School of Soft-Attention” Nov. 28, 5 p.m. Poet Frank LaRue Owen signs copies. $16.95 book; lemuriabooks.com.

Leif Enger Book Signing Nov. 15, 5-7 p.m., at Eudora Welty House & Garden (1119 Pinehurst St.). Leif Enger signs copies of his latest book, “Virgil Wander.” Reception and program follow signing. Books for sale; mdah.ms.gov.

Wyatt Waters Calendar Signing Nov. 16, 2-4 p.m., at Persnickety Shops (2078 Main St., Madison). Mississippi artist Wyatt Waters signs copies of his 2019 calendar, which features some of his most recent paintings. Calendars for sale.

Free event, books for sale; find it on Facebook.

Painting in the ’Park—Ladies Night Nov. 17, 6-9 p.m., at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). Local artist Henry Muse leads women in creating a magnolia painting while they enjoy live music, wine, cheese and refreshments. Register in advance. Free admission; call 601-863-2300; visitnorthpark.com.

Fall Floral Workshop Nov. 18, 1:30-3:30 p.m., at Elle James Bridal (118 W. Jackson St., Suite 2A, Ridgeland). Leman Floral presents the workshop teaching participants to create a fallinspired floral centerpiece. $150 per person (supplies included); find it on Facebook

ARTS & EXHIBITS “That’s Amore!” Exhibition Nov. 15, 5-8 p.m., at CAET Wine Bar (3100 N. State St., Suite

Fleet Feet Turkey Day 8K is from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Fleet Feet Sports (500 Highway 51, Suite Z, Ridgeland).

The Thanksgiving run/walk includes awards for overall female and male runners, and overall male and female masters winners, as well as the top three finishers in age groups. VIP runners receive a massage, indoor-bathroom access, food and beverages. $30 or $60 for VIP through Nov. 18, $40 or $70 for VIP from Nov. 19-20; fleetfeetjackson.com.

Op. 24,” and Sibelius’ “Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43.” $21-$64; msorchestra.com.

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Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “The Dinosaur Artist” Nov. 14, 1 p.m. Paige Williams signs copies and reads from her new book, “The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy.” $28 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Dust in the Road: Recollections of a Delta Boy” Nov. 14, 5 p.m. Hank Burdine signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The BRAVO! Way” Nov. 23, 5 p.m. Dawn Dugle, Jeff Good and Dan Blumenthal sign copies. $35 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Mississippi Gulf Coast” Nov. 24, 11 a.m. Photojournalist Timothy T. Isbell signs copies. $40 book; lemuriabooks.com.

The 2018 C Spire Conerly Trophy Presentation is from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive). The trophy goes to the best college football player in Mississippi each year. Includes a recep-

102). Art Space 86 hosts the event featuring an exhibition of Italy-themed artwork from David West, Katey Carter and Jerrod Partridge. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Museum After Hours: Currents & Connections Nov. 15, 5:30 p.m. The event takes inspiration from the opening of the Water/ Ways traveling exhibit and features artwork depicting Mississippi bodies of water from the museum’s permanent collection. Includes food and drinks for sale, music from Scott Albert Johnson, a screening of “Annie,” and more. Free admission; msmuseumart.org.

• Gallery Talk | Gender, Race & Making Nov. 23, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Tougaloo College professor and artist Phoenix Savage discusses the three special exhibitions at the museum through the lenses of gender and race. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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

Bad officiating was on display all over the country in college football. The biggest blown calls might have happened in the MSU-Alabama game, helping the Crimson Tide build and keep a big lead.

THURSDAY, NOV. 15

Women’s college basketball (7-9:30 p.m., SECN+): Lamar v.

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“Breathe In, Breathe Art” Silent Art Auction Nov. 15, 6-8 p.m., at The Flamingo (3011 N. State St.). The silent auction features work from artists Dylan Mortimer, Samara Thomas, H.C. Porter, Jerrod Partridge and more. Includes live jazz music, food, drinks, raffles and more. Proceeds benefit Kid Logistics, a charity for Mississippi children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Cocktails & Canvases Nov. 16, 6-9 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The art show features work from Harris Fyfe, Leslie Baskin, Lee Clark Malouf, Mack Sullivan, Allen Butler, L&L Fine Jewelry and Sean Starwars.

Includes live entertainment, games, food vendors, tours and tastings. The event is kid- and dog-friendly. Free admission; call 601-667-3038; find it on Facebook.

BE THE CHANGE 8th Annual Saving Grace Nov. 14, 6-10 p.m., at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The fundraising gala for Grace House, a local nonprofit that provides services to the homeless community. Includes food, live music, a silent auction and more. $100 per person; find it on Facebook.

HRC Mississippi: Friendsgiving Nov. 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Fondren Presbyterian Church (3220 Old Canton Road). Human Rights Campaign of Mississippi hosts the potluck-style dinner, which raises funds for the Mississippi Food Network. Bring a cash or canned food donation.

Participants should also bring a side dish if possible. Must RSVP. Free admission; act.hrc.org.

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NFL (3:25-6:30 p.m., FOX): Eagles v. Saints MONDAY, NOV. 19

NFL (7:15-10:30 p.m., ESPN): Kansas City Chiefs v. L.A. Rams TUESDAY, NOV. 20

Men’s college basketball (6-8:30 p.m., SECN): Nicholls State v. UM WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21

Women’s college basketball (7-9:30 p.m., SECN+): Furman v.

Mississippi State THURSDAY, NOV. 22

College football (6:30-9:30 p.m., ESPN): MSU v. UM FRIDAY, NOV. 23

College football (7:30-10:30 p.m., FOX): Washington v. WSU SATURDAY, NOV. 24

Women’s college basketball (2-4:30 p.m., SECN+): JSU v. MSU SUNDAY, NOV. 25

NFL (7:20-10:30 p.m., NBC): Packers v. Vikings MONDAY, NOV. 26

Men’s college basketball (7-9:30 p.m., SECN+): Alcorn v. MSU TUESDAY, NOV. 27

College football (6-7 p.m., ESPN2): “Playoff Rankings Show” WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28

Men’s college basketball (6:30-9 p.m., SECN+): San Diego v. UM

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

The U.S. is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top exporter of food. In second place is the Netherlands, which has 0.4 percent as much land as the U.S. How do Dutch farmers accomplish this miraculous feat? In part because of their massive greenhouses, which occupy vast areas of nonurbanized space. Another key factor is their unprecedented productivity, which dovetails with a commitment to maximum sustainability. For instance, they produce 20 tons of potatoes per acre, compared with the global average of 9. And they do it using less water and pesticides. In my long-term outlook for you Scorpios, I see you as having a metaphorical similarity to Dutch farmers. During the next 12 months, you have the potential to make huge impacts with your focused and efficient efforts.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The world is like a dropped pie most of the time,â&#x20AC;? writes author Elizabeth Gilbert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on.â&#x20AC;? From what I can tell about the state of your life, Sagittarius, the metaphorical pie has indeed fallen onto the metaphorical floor. But it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been there so long that it has spoiled. And the floor is fairly clean, so the pie wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make you sick if you eat it. My advice is to sit down on the floor and eat as much as you want. Then carry on.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Novelist Anita Desai writes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it strange how life wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forward in a kind of flood?â&#x20AC;? I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because I suspect that the locks she refers to will soon open for you. Events may not exactly flow like a flood, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing they will at least surge and billow and gush. That could turn out to be nerve-racking and strenuous, or else fun and interesting. Which way it goes will depend on your receptivity to transformation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them,â&#x20AC;? writes author Mark Helprin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.â&#x20AC;? Those descriptions could fit you well in the coming weeks, but with one caveat. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have no need to take on the melodramatic, almost desperate mood Helprin seems to imply is essential. Just the opposite, in fact. Yes, risk defeat and be willing to exhaust yourself in the struggle to accomplish the impossible, but do so in a spirit of exuberance, motivated by the urge to play.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear,â&#x20AC;? warned author G. K. Chesterton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It annoys them very much.â&#x20AC;? My teachers have offered me related advice. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask the gods to intervene, they say, until you have done all you can through your own efforts. Furthermore, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask the gods for help unless you are prepared to accept their help if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different from what you thought it should be. I bring these considerations to your attention, Pisces, because you currently meet all these requirements. So I say go right ahead and seek the godsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; input and assistance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

where it started.â&#x20AC;? 5. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.â&#x20AC;?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Adolescence used to be defined as a phase that lasted from ages 13 to 19. But scientists writing in the journal The Lancet say that in modern culture, the current span is from ages 10 to 24. Puberty comes earlier now, in part because of shifts in eating habits and exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. At the same time, people hold onto their youth longer because they wait a while before diving into events associated with the initiation into adulthood, like getting married, finishing education and having children. Even if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re well past 24, Gemini, I suggest you revisit and reignite your juvenile stage in the coming weeks. You need to reconnect with your wild innocence. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll benefit from immersing yourself in memories of coming of age. Be 17 or 18 again, but this time armed with all you have learned since.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Cancerian baseball pitcher Satchel Paige had a colorful career characterized by creative showmanship. On some occasions, he commanded his infielders to sit down and loll on the grass behind him, whereupon he struck out three batters in a rowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ensuring no balls were hit to the spots vacated by his teammates. Paigeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success came in part because of his wide variety of tricky pitches, described by author Buck Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neil as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ball.â&#x20AC;? I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because now is an excellent time for you to amp up your charisma and use all your tricky pitches.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head,â&#x20AC;? writes fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Always. All the time. We build ourselves out of that story.â&#x20AC;? So whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your story, Leo? The imminent future will be an excellent time to get clear about the dramatic narrative you weave.

Be especially alert for demoralizing elements in your tale that may not in fact be true, and that therefore you should purge. I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to draw on extra willpower and creative flair if you make an effort to reframe the story you tell yourself so that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more accurate and uplifting.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Interior designer Dorothy Draper said she wished there were a single word that meant â&#x20AC;&#x153;exciting, frightfully important, irreplaceable, deeply satisfying, basic, and thrilling, all at once.â&#x20AC;? I wonder if such a word exists in the Chamicuro language spoken by a few Peruvians or the Sarsi tongue spoken by the Tsuu Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ina tribe in Alberta, Canada. In any case, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pleased to report that for the next few weeks, many of you Aries people will embody and express that rich blend of qualities. I have coined a new word to capture it: tremblissimo.

In describing a man she fell in love with, author Elizabeth Gilbert wrote that he was both â&#x20AC;&#x153;catnip and kryptonite to me.â&#x20AC;? If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent time around cats, you understand that catnip can be irresistible to them. As for kryptonite, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the one substance that weakens the fictional superhero Superman. Is there anything in your life that resembles Gilbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paramour? A place or situation or activity or person thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s both catnip and kryptonite? I suspect you now have more ability than usual to neutralize its obsessive and debilitating effects on you. That could empower you to make a good decision about the relationship youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have with it in the future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

According to my astrological intuition, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re entering a phase when you will derive special benefit from these five observations by poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are truths that you can only say after having won the right to say them.â&#x20AC;? 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;True realism consists in revealing the surprising things that habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.â&#x20AC;? 3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.â&#x20AC;? 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You should always talk well about yourself! The word spreads around, and in the end, no one remembers

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