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or Arianna Marcell, dance was something that was easy to love and have fun with. At the age of 8, Arianna Marcell’s mother, Charmione, enrolled her in local dance studios in their hometown, McKinney, Texas. She started out taking mostly ballet and jazz dance styles, but modern dance was where she thrived the most. As she grew through middle and high school, she says dance became difficult. From then and throughout her college career, she wrestled a lot with what she could do with her skill in a structural manner. Seeing Marcell’s frustration, her mother suggested that it was okay to lay dancing to the side, but Marcell refused to quit. “It’s the thing that I just never let go (of),” Marcell said. Belhaven University offered modern dance, as well as ballet, which drew her into their dance department. Through gaining experience, Marcell, 22, says she learned that modern dance allows people to create their own movement vocabulary. After taking dance lessons for popular styles such as house dance, African and the Dunham Technique, which was named after dance creator Kathleen Dunham, who infused Afro-Caribbean styles with classical ballet, Marcell began to realize that was an area worth studying. “There is a unique kind of freedom you find in dance,” she says. “I think you find this kind of physical intelligence that I really believe is important for everybody.” When it comes to choreographing her
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own dances, the moves are either inspired by music or making movements in silence and trying them out on different songs to see what they become. She relies more on improv rather than coming up with a dance number in her mind. Her time for completing a dance can range from one night to up to five months, depending on its purpose. Marcell also likes to see the movements of others. “I love seeing people dance that don’t think that they can dance or are doing it for the first time,” she said. One of Marcell’s most significant projects at Belhaven is one that was dedicated to her late great-grandmother, Elizabeth Smiley. She was surprised at how vulnerable she felt sharing it with her audience because it was set to an audio recording of Smiley with no background music. Along with Marcell’s dedication project, she, took the opportunity to travel with other dancers to Washington D.C. to dance at the Kennedy Center and also participate in the National Dance Festival. Idealistically, to Marcell, dancing is movement that communicates, creates community and promotes freedom.“It’s just a community that you can’t quite create anywhere else,” she says. “It’s a really special thing to get to dance with other people and to move in a space or to interact with an accompanist. I encourage people to boldness because there is an amazing joy to be found in dance.” —Morgan Carol Gallon
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9 A Million for JATRAN?
Repairs to the city’s crippled public transportation system will cost $1 million, but can the City afford it?
13 Rebelling Against the Rebellion
“Mississippi and the South as a whole are still dealing with the legacy of what forced Newt Knight to rebel against the Southern rebellion.” —“Rebelling Against the Rebellion”
22 Seeing the Face of God
Read about Richard Coupe’s experience at a recent wedding.
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Defending Our Blackness, Unapologetically
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didn’t watch the 2016 BET awards last Sunday, but I did partake in the Black Twitter awards watch party where I retweet, lurk from afar and pop some tweets off for the sake of humor. It’s probably one of the rare things that brings us together on social media. Well, that and exposing racists. One of my favorite actors and TV doctors, Jesse Williams, accepted the 2016 Humanitarian award and gave a speech that lasted less than five minutes but stuck with me all of last week, in which he called out those who benefit the most from white supremacy, but also those of us directly affected from it, the fearful yet determined. “We know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day, so what’s going to happen is we’re going to have equal rights and justice in our own country, or we will restructure their function in ours,” he said, to which the room lit up. His speech, impassioned as it were, brought a flurry of responses online, and though I wasn’t surprised, it made me incredibly disappointed in humanity. There were people calling Jesse out for benefitting from “light-skinned privilege,” attacks on his wife’s appearance and angry “journalists” like Tomi Lahren and Stacey Dash calling him racist and saying he’s promoting a divide between races. It’s depressing to think that a man who fights for all of us, who owns his blackness being targeted for uplifting people that look like him. One thing I’ve always struggled with in the last quarter of my life is embracing my blackness. I’ve had to defend my blackness to both white and black people since my mother moved me out of Jackson Public Schools when I was in the second grade into a school where I was one of maybe two dozen kids of color in my class, and even then, I was one of the few who were at the top
of the class. That changed when I moved to another majority-white school when I was in the 10th grade, and somehow, even with the demographics split in half, I could never find that spot with “Maya Miller” written on it, academic or otherwise. I’m plagued often with the fear of not being black enough, not being urban enough, not getting the lingo, my AAVE being too precise. Hell, I can’t even rap
so many aspects of myself that I’m almost ashamed to admit it. I denied Trayvon Martin more than absolutely anything, simply because the reality that this poor black child was killed by some paranoid lunatic with a gun was too much for me to process. I hadn’t had an interest in having children at 18, but this whole idea of my future babies being killed for being black turned my heart cold, and I gave up on the
I’m definitely not here to comfort racists who believe that black lives somehow matter less. along to most of the songs my friends listen to, but that doesn’t keep me from bobbing my head and being in the background of a million and one snapchats, then running home to learn everything there is to know about the artist. I pride myself on being a vessel of useless knowledge, but not many people want to break down the chemical compounds that form our solar system at a random Thursday happy hour. As a teenager, it was tiresome to always have to defend my interests, my choice in clothing, the people I’ve liked and dated, and as a freshman in college, everything was exacerbated tenfold. I was known as the girl who somehow managed to attend a Historically Black University and have not one, but three white roommates, whom I still love dearly. It was as though I went out of my way, subconsciously, to stick with what felt safe to me. In seeking out what’s safe, I denied
black resistance. What was the point? It took me reading about Akai Gurley, Mike Brown and Rekia Boyd, or watching the video of Sandra Bland at a traffic stop, unwittingly knowing that she would die in jail or Eric Garner being choked to death on a New York street. It took 12-year-old Tamir Rice lying dead at a playground and John Crawford III in a grocery store for me to realize that it’s not my job to sit here and be silent and pretend that if they hadn’t done something wrong, they would be alive today. I’m not here to give a pass to police officers who kill innocent people, either accidentally or because they didn’t know how much force they were using, and I’m definitely not here to comfort racists who believe that black lives somehow matter less. “The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job. … If you have a critique for the re-
sistance, of our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression,” Williams said. “If you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions for those who do.” Just about every day, I see commentary on the Black Lives Matter movement, mainly from people who want us to stand down and be quiet, because slavery was so long ago, or because it’s not like we don’t deserve it. “What was he doing? Well, he did have a gun. Well, why did he run?” It’s people who have the most to say that seem to be blowing the most hot air around and calling it a solution. And yet, black people are still being killed twice as much as our white counterparts by police officers, and over-criminalization sets us back into this systemic cycle of oppression that hasn’t changed since the ’60s. The oppressors changed, but the effect remains the same. They kept us from voting. They kept us from buying homes in wealthier neighborhoods. We have some of the worst educational resources for our black children, and we’re overlooked for jobs that would allow us to do better than the generation before us. Williams’ speech reminded me that I have a voice as one tiny part of a community that wants better for our people. There will always be a critique of the black resistance, but we can’t be afraid to step up against police brutality, racism and white supremacy. Black people aren’t here to protect white fragility. That’s not our job. Deputy News Editor Maya Miller writes about crime, mental health, juvenile justice and her ever-growing obsession with Beyoncé. Email her news tips at maya@ jacksonfreepress.com. Read more about solutions to change the cycle of violence at jfp.ms/ preventingviolence.
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Ben Stocking
Sierra Mannie
Arielle Dreher
Dustin Cardon
Imani Khayyam
Richard Coupe
Latasha Willis
Mary Osborne
Ben Stocking is a Seattlebased freelance journalist. He has written for a wide array of U.S. newspapers, including the Seattle Times, where he covered education issues, and the San Jose Mercury News. He wrote the cover story.
Education Reporting Fellow Sierra Mannie’s opinions of the Ancient Greeks can’t be trusted nearly as much as her opinions of Beyoncé. She wrote about HB 1523 for this issue. She also writes for The Hechinger Report in New York City.
News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com. She wrote about abortion rights for this issue.
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 Small Time Hot Dogs for this issue.
Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took many photos in the issue.
Richard Coupe is a longtime resident of Mississippi He is currently a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Strasbourg and currently lives in Strasbourg, France with his wife Anne. He wrote the Hitched story.
Events Editor Latasha Willis is a native Jacksonian, a freelance graphic designer and the mother of one cat. See her design portfolio at latashawillis.com. She compiles event listings at jfpevents.com.
Sales Assistant Mary Osborne is a Lanier Bulldog by birthright and a JSU Tiger by choice. She is the mother of Lindon “Joc” Dixon. Her hobbies include hosting and producing “The Freeda Love Show,” which airs on PEG 18.
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“The Court is not persuaded. A robust record shows that HB 1523 was intended to benefit some citizens at the expense of LGBT and unmarried citizens.” —U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves in his decision to block House Bill 1523 from going into law
Wednesday, June 29 Mississippi House members return for a special session to finish giving Gov. Phil Bryant permission to take as much as he needs from financial reserves to cover a deficit of up to $75 million for the budget year ending at midnight Thursday. Thursday, June 30 The Mississippi Court of Appeals rules that local developer David Watkins must pay over $600,000 in restitution and fines for four counts of securities fraud related to a bond loan to be used by Retro Metro LLC. Friday, July 1 U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves blocks HB 1523 in its entirety before it was to take effect, ruling it unconstitutionally establishes preferred beliefs and creates unequal treatment for gay people. The laws opponents rally at the Mississippi state capitol Saturday, July 2 The FBI interviews Hillary Clinton about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state for 3 1/2 hours at FBI headquarters in Washington. … A 10-hour hostage crisis orchestrated by ISIS in a restaurant in Bangladesh’s diplomatic zone ends with at least 28 dead, including six of the attackers.
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Sunday, July 3 Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize winner who died recently at age 87, is memorialized at a private service in Manhattan.
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Monday, July 4 FBI Director James Comey states that his agency won’t recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state. Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.
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abbi Jeremy Simons knows his Bible too well to lend credence to people who cherry-pick verses to use it to support House Bill 1523, a law that many criticize as discriminatory against the LGBT community. “If you read those very same pages of the Bible, you will read the commandment: ‘You shall not oppress the stranger,’” Simons said at a rally at the state capitol just hours after U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Mississippi Judge Carlton Reeves blocked the bill from taking effect. But with five years of seminary under his belt, Simons says, he has counted the many ways that the Bible tells its adherents not to oppress others. A member of the Union for Reform Judaism, which for decades has advocated for inclusive treatment of LGBT people, Simons stands firmly against HB 1523. Simons stood on the steps of the capitol, speaking in turn with representatives from the NAACP, ACLU and other community stakeholders celebrating Reeves’ ruling on HB 1523. The rabbi spoke to the religious hypocrisy of the bill. “‘You shall not oppress the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt,’” he continued. “You will not read that once, you will not read that twice, you will read that 36 times in the Bible. That is more than any other commandment by far.” “A stranger is not simply someone who doesn’t live in your community. A stranger in the biblical sense is anybody who is a minority, anybody who is vulnerable. Anybody
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Judge Carlton Reeves’ HB 1523 ruling referenced four Jackson Free Press articles in its explanation of the decision. All stories are available at jacksonfreepress.com/lgbt:
who could be the victim of oppression, you shall not oppress. ... This is not about religion,” Simons said. “This is about bigotry.”
it legal for couples to have legally protected same-sex marriages. “Religious freedom was one of the ImanI Khayyam
Tuesday, June 28 The Supreme Court rejects appeals from Mississippi and Wisconsin seeking to put in place restrictions on abortion clinics that were struck down by lower courts. … U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves blocks the part of HB 1523 that says circuit clerks can recuse themselves from issuing same-sex marriage licenses due to a “sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction.”
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Rabbi Jeremy Simons showed up at the Mississippi Capitol to speak against House Bill 1523 the morning after Judge Carlton Reeves struck it down.
Midnight Justice In a 60-page opinion, Reeves discussed the discriminatory impact the bill would have on the LGBT community in Mississippi, saying that the “title, text and history of HB 1523 indicate that the bill was the State’s attempt to put LGBT citizens back in their place after Obergefell,” the case that made
building blocks of this great nation, and after the nation was torn apart, the guarantee of equal protection under law was used to stitch it back together,” Reeves wrote. “But HB 1523 does not honor that tradition of religion freedom, nor does it respect the equal dignity of all of Mississippi’s citizens. It must be enjoined.”
“Total Infringement’: Governor Signs HB 1523 Over Protests of Business Leaders, Citizens,” Arielle Dreher, April 5, 2016 “HB 1523: Bad for the Business Sector,” Arielle Dreher, June 8, 2016 “Hundreds Rally to Repeal HB 1523, State Faces Deadline Today Before Lawsuit,” Arielle Dreher, May 2, 2016 “Will Mississippi’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Act Impact Children in Public and Private Schools?” Sierra Mannie, Jackson Free Press, The Hechinger Report, April 8, 2016
“As a rabbi, as a person of faith, as someone who has read his Bible. ... This is not about religion. This is about bigotry.”
“In passing this law, the Mississippi government sought to take sides in matters religious people have very strong disagreements about today on both sides of this issue.”
— Rabbi Jeremy Simons speaking out against House Bill 1523 at a rally at the Mississippi Capitol on July 1 after it was blocked
—New York-based Attorney Roberta Kaplan on House Bill 1523
said. “And if there’s anything that violates the establishment clause, it’s doing that.”
for Southern Equality v. Bryant case. He and those plaintiffs released a statement applaudImanI Khayyam
Roberta Kaplan is a New Yorkbased attorney representing the Campaign for Southern Equality in one of the cases against HB 1523 in the state; she also served as the lawyer in the landmark United States v. Windsor case that repealed Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, forcing the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages as legal. She told the Jackson Free Press Friday that she was “elated” at the injunction, but that it wasn’t a surprise. “When you come back to the founding principles of this country, one of the most important ones is the idea that unlike in Europe and unlike, frankly, some of the early colonists who had really violent debates about matters of Christian beliefs, that the right thing for the government to do and the way to have a more perfect union is for the government to stay out of those debates,” Kaplan said. “In passing this law, the Mississippi government sought to take sides in matters religious people have very strong disagreements about today on both sides of this issue,” she
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves blocked House Bill 1523 late on June 30, just hours before the bill was set to go into effect.
Local attorney Rob McDuff argued against HB 1523 in Barber v. Bryant in a joint hearing before Reeves last week on behalf of a number of religious and community leaders along with Kaplan and the Campaign
ing Reeves’ decision to stop HB 1523. “The federal court’s decision recognizes that religious freedom can be preserved along with equal rights for all people regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation. Because
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HB 1523 was discriminatory, Judge Reeves properly held that it is unconstitutional. It is now time for all of us, as Mississippian to move beyond division and come together in the ongoing pursuit of a society that respects the rights of everyone,” McDuff said in the statement. Unhappy Governor Predictably, the injunction upset Gov. Phil Bryant, who said in a statement he looks forward to an “aggressive appeal” of the decision, the Associated Press reported. Kaplan, however, says though that the ball is in the state’s court, she is “very comfortable” Reeves’ decision will be affirmed on appeal. Matt Steffey, professor of constitutional law at Mississippi College, told the Jackson Free Press that the defendants could appeal the injunction on the law to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If overturned there, an outcome he said would be unlikely, the case would then remore HB 1523, see page 8
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Read the JFP’s award-winning coverage of House Bill 1523 and the fight for LGBT rights in Mississippi at jacksonfree press.com/lgbt. Sierra Mannie is an education reporting fellow for the Jackson Free Press and The Hechinger Report. Email her at sierra@ jacksonfreepress.com. Read more education stories at jfp.ms/education.
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epairs to the hard-hit JATRAN fleet of public transit buses, with 27 currently out-of-commission and in need of serious repairs, total an estimated $934,657. “This is a matter that we take very seriously, and we will get it resolved,” Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Marshand Crisler said on behalf of Mayor Tony Yarber during the June 28 meeting. “I think we have a good plan of action.” That “plan” as it turns out, is to have the contractor responsible and City representatives sit down and discuss a number of back-due invoices for repairs the company has made as well as which of the serious, major maintenance work projects the City can afford to start on first. The company responsible for maintaining the fleet for the city, National Express, handed out documents showing that the estimated total cost to rehabilitate all the buses is $634,657. In addition, the company has performed another $300,000 in repairs since October when they took over. “We are waiting on the City to approve those repairs to those
thing we can find … is a 1949 legislation, ordinance, by Mrs. J.R. Skinner, the city clerk, and in all of my years I thought that fireworks were illegal in the city, but the only thing we can find is that the sale of fireworks is made illegal.” Barrett-Simon said that she had been receiving phone calls from residents that were anxious in the days leading up to the June 28 meeting. One call, she said, was from a woman in south Jackson who reported that her house had been hit with both Roman candles and bullets during past July 4 celebrations. As a result, Barrett-Simon said she was willing to suspend the rules governing ordinances to rush new legislation through. “I don’t feel comfortable drafting an ordinance to push it through to meet this deadline,” Council President Melvin Priester said. The City has passed an ordinance recently to raise the penalty for discharging a firearm in the City to the fullest extent allowed for a misdemeanor. Marshand Crisler, the City’s deputy chief administrative officer, said during the meeting that a fireworks violation was usually handled as a disturbingthe-peace charge. Ward 4 Councilman De’Keither Stamps said that he was more worried about “celebratory fire” in the city, of firing guns into the air. “That kind of activity needs to cease and come to a halt,” Stamps said. Although this “celebratory fire” is illegal under city ordinance, it is notoriously difficult to prosecute, almost requiring the officer to witness the event personally. Imani Khayyam
turn to Reeves’ courtroom. Human Rights Campaign of Mississippi Executive Director Rob Hill emphasized, however, that though it is a huge victory, the sigh of relief is temporary. After the rally, Hill told the Jackson Free Press that the fight is not exactly over. “We’re still in legal limbo at this point until the federal courts decide,” he said. “The best way to do that is to call the legislators back and introduce a full repeal of HB 1523. It’s the only way we’ll feel completely safe.” Hill said he would love it if the governor called a special session in order to repeal the law. “The governor called the legislators back to fix the mess they created with the budget,” he said. “They’ve created a mess here.” “This puts an unnecessary target on LGBTQ people’s backs in our state,” Hill said. “They need to come back to this house, and they need to fix it and repeal this bill.” Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, the only statewide elected Democrat and who is named as a defendant, released a statement Friday morning saying he is not sure his office would continue to defend HB 1523. “The fact is that the churchgoing public was duped into believing that HB1523 protected religious freedoms. Our state leaders attempted to mislead pastors into believing that if this bill were not passed, they would have to preside over gay wedding ceremonies,” the attorney general wrote No court case has ever said a pastor did not have discretion to refuse to marry any couple for any reason. I hate to see politicians continue to prey on people who pray, go to church, follow the law and help their fellow man.” House Speaker Philip Gunn, RClinton, released a statement saying that he was “disappointed” in the ruling. “We felt like this was a good bill, protecting religious beliefs and the rights of the LGBT community,” he tweeted.
A Million for JATRAN, Fireworks and Contract ‘Capacity’ at City Council
Local Contractors and ‘Capacity’ The city council approved two 1-percent sales-tax commission contracts to firms from outside Jackson, despite reluctance from council members committed to keeping the dollars in the city. Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon found during her research that The council approved an agreement there was no ordinance outlawing fireworks in the city. with Infinity Engineering Consultants from New Orleans for the Hanging Moss Road Waterline Improvements and with Stuart vehicles so we can put those back in service,” National Express Vice Consulting Group from Metairie, La., for the Woodrow Wilson AvPresident Mark Foster said, adding that in the meantime they have enue to Erie Street Drainage Improvements, totaling over $300,000. considered using rented buses to fill in the gaps. Interim Public Works Director Jerriot Smash said that the two At the moment, the company is using paratransit buses, which companies were chosen based on their “capacity.” are smaller than the main fleet buses, to meet public demand. Howev- “They are not using the same personnel for those jobs to the er, this necessarily means that these paratransit buses are not available extent that when we call them they are not able to handle our requests to pick up people with disabilities that require the specialized vehicles. or our requirements in a timely fashion,” Smash said. Christine Welch, head administrator of JATRAN for the City, “That’s what we look at when we talk about capacity.” said that while the administration was waiting on the correct paper- “This was a quality-based selection. It had nothing to do with work for the repair work already finished, they are concerned that the pricing,” Public Works Engineering Manager Charles Williams said, needed repairs to the fleet cost more than the city had budgeted. adding that the department looked at over 50 companies. The City Council decided to put the matter to the next meeting “This is not about a competitive quote.” while the administration and National Express prioritized the repairs Barrett-Simon said that the City should focus on keeping conand assembled a cost to begin rebuilding the fleet. tracts, like the ones to clean up blight, in the city of Jackson, employing local companies and firms to perform the work. Fireworks and Ordinances “These are 1 percent funds so this is purely Jackson shoppers’ The City Council could not pass an ordinance to ban fireworks money,” Stamps said, following Barrett-Simon’s lead. “This money in the city before the July 4 holiday, amid concerns by members does not come back to Jackson, no way.” about the noise and its similarity to gunfire. “I’ve been getting calls about the city’s policy or law for or against fireworks,” Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon said. Email city reporter Tim Summers, Jr. at tim@jack“Our research analyst researched this extensively for us and the only sonfreepress.com See more local news at jfp.ms/localnews.
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me,” Smith tells the students. During the discussion, one student raises his hand and articulates his opinion on whether LGBT people should be treated equally (they should, because “what they do doesn’t affect my life and they can’t help who they love,” he says) and waits for Smith to reply. Smith is silent for a moment, and then a smile plays
operations management. GRAAFICS has more a dozen different programs that vary from afterschool to gang intervention, with classes for women, fathers and gang members. It includes training courses in behavior modification. In his day program, Smith offers 20 to 40 sessions during school hours that focus on subjects such as cyber bullying, Courtesy Kai Smith
he halls of William Alexander Middle School 51 in Brooklyn, N.Y., are buzzing, filled with a dozen bright, beaming brown faces at the end of a long school day. The school year is almost over, and the halls are being swept clear of art projects and “A+” papers. In the center of it all, nearly twice as tall as his students, is Dr. Kai Smith. Smith, a native of Harlem, runs GRAAFICS, Gang Diversion, Reentry And Absent Fathers Intervention Centers, a program he founded to give young men and women an outlet to avoid criminal behavior. He helps active gang members, inactive gang members, the incarcerated, the formerly incarcerated, and absent fathers with successfully reforming the attitudes and behaviors that directly contribute to unhealthy decision making, he and the GRAAFICS website explain. On this day, Smith is at MS 51 leading a class of a dozen 6th and 7th graders through an opinion questionnaire that includes statements such as “When I see a cop coming towards me, I am usually afraid because I think they will harass or shoot me” and “Gay people are people like all of us and should be treated 100% equal” with a space to mark “Agree” or “Disagree” off to the side. The class, filled with mainly young boys except for two girls and two female teachers, feels somewhat inviting, if not a little bit sterile with plain white posters filled with literary terms and book reports. The boys are rowdier than the girls, likely not out of disrespect, but because they’re 12 or 13—you can see the boyhood curiosity behind their eyes. Smith gives everyone a chance to voice their answers to the question, but he asks that they also flesh out their opinion because “‘it doesn’t make sense’ is not an answer.” He stresses that, one day, they may have to defend themselves to strangers without resorting to violence or a tantrum. He is tough on the class, demanding them to sit up straight, answer with respect and not to talk over each other. With a sharp “Focus up!”, the boys quiet almost immediately. From the first glance, it may feel like Smith is too hard on them, but the more he interacts, the more they pay attention and open up. Smith, too, shares bits about his past in prisons in New York, Virginia and South Carolina, how he got out and immediately went to school, and how he wants to set the example for them. “I’ve told you from the beginning that you’re never going to get a lie from
Kai Smith, who served time for six felonies, started GRAAFICS (Gang Diversion, Reentry And Absent Fathers Intervention Centers) in New York City in 2003 and has since helped more 500 gang members and countless children work toward a life free from crime and violence. Hear him speak at Millsaps College July 14.
on the edge of his lips. “I love you. You’re going to be the next black president,” Smith tells the young man. ‘Credible Messengers’ Though GRAAFICS has only been around since 2003, the idea for the intervention program came to Smith while he was incarcerated. An avid basketball player, Smith grew up playing and competing against men twice his age, eventually landing a full scholarship to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He had dealt drugs as a teenager, building a reputation for turning $50 worth of crack into 22 kilos of cocaine. He spent a combined total of 16 years in prisons, and says that when he was first locked up, he thought of it as an adult summer camp. After a few years, he realized he needed to get his act straight, and once he was released in 2002, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in human services and resources from the Metropolitan College of New York, an executive master’s degree in public administration from Rutgers University, and certification as a Professional in Human Resources. He is currently pursuing his PhD in organizational psychology and
stress and anger management, alternatives to aggression and breaking out of the cycle of violence. The gang-diversion course takes atrisk youth and gang members through all aspects of their gang relationships, asking members tough questions and examining the roots of gang violence, learning what it’s really like in prison and ways to remove themselves or stay away from violence. In his Models for Non Violence program, young girls and women work to decrease violence by increasing awareness and education through beauty, fashion, culture and social consciousness. Smith says his program is the only communitybased organization that allows women to use their intelligence and beauty to voice their frustrations against the biggest issues in the African American and Hispanic communities: gun violence. “You can’t stand on your terrace in the Hamptons and tell us what to do on Lenox Avenue,” he says, referring to a wealthy, largely white coastal getaway and a street in Harlem. “History is given by the person that’s alive to tell the story.” Through his work, Smith says he provides an innovative solution to violence by listening to his kids. He meets them on
their level and helps them reach the goals and earn the things they want, like tickets to basketball games or a new pair of shoes in exchange for perfect grades—things many of them can’t afford. Smith has five members on his team he calls credible messengers who are visible in the communities in New York and New Jersey. Each messenger is responsible for about five to 10 kids that they guide in school or teach them life skills. He is currently working to get contracts in more public schools, and says that one of the things that curbs crimes by children is to have someone available to mentor them as an educator or an authority figure. Smith stressed using credible messengers—people who grew up on the streets that they’re working to save and protect— because they know what it feels like, and what does and doesn’t work. The benefit of the mentorship is felt both ways, because the kids learn how to be responsible, and it gives the adults who have been in the system an opportunity to give them a job and a chance to love to kids that mean something to them. He often takes his kids to the park or a basketball game, with their parent’s permission, like mini field trips. To him, the mentoring doesn’t end once he leaves the classroom or his day is over. He has even had students reject gang violence just because he spent time with them. “Sh*t gets crazy at times, and we have to understand that there are things we need as a people that we don’t get, and because we don’t get it, we never are placed into the position to become our best, just because of certain little small things we don’t get,” Smith says. “I tell people all of the time my program works because I do things for my kids that I wanted people to do for me at my age, cut and dry,” he says. “I don’t perform magic. I don’t make promises. I don’t tell lies. I do for my kids what I wanted someone to do for me at my age, and majority of that has to do with giving a damn.” Kai Smith is visiting Jackson July 1116 as part of the JFP’s ongoing “Preventing Violence” program. Attend a free public conversation with him, JFP Editor Donna Ladd and Deputy News Editor Maya Miller at Millsaps College on Thursday, July 14 at 6 p.m., with a reception following. Learn more about the GRAAFICS program at graafics.org or find it on Facebook. Read more about crime prevention and juvenile justice in the JFP’s ongoing series at jfp.ms/preventingviolence.
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“violates the liberty interests of Plaintiffs’ patients, as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, because it imposes a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking pre-viability abortion.” The 5th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court have set precedent and now agree with that statement, four years later. ‘Unlicensed Rogue Practitioners’ In her concurring opinion on the Whole Woman’s Health case, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, “When a State se-
“I am disappointed in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today,” Gov. Phil Bryant tweeted. “This measure is designed to protect the health and safety of women who undergo this potentially dangerous procedure, and physicians who provide abortions should be held to the same standards as physicians who perform other outpatient procedures.” Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn agreed with the governor. “The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today endangers the lives of women f ile photo
erenda Hancock and two other Pink House Defenders were sitting anxiously outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization with donuts and coffee the morning of June 27, all checking their phones for the news. Hancock saw it first on SCOTUS Blog. The women jumped out of their chairs and screamed with excitement. “Yes, we won! We won!” The U.S. Supreme Court had struck down Texas’ anti-abortion laws: one that required abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at local hospitals and another that required clinics to have surgical facility certifications. The court found both laws unconstitutional because they place “undue burden” on women seeking abortion access in the state. The ruling had real consequences for Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s 2012 lawsuit against Mississippi for enacting an admitting privileges law. Hancock helped start the Pink House Defenders, a group of women who escort ladies coming to JWHO for services in and out of the building and, sometimes, fend off protesters. The group began, in part, as a response to a 2012 admittingprivileges law passed in the state. Four years later, the litigation has finally come to an end. Despite rulings in the clinic’s favor through federal court, the state appealed the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the case to the U.S. Supreme Court in February 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court did not take the case, instead issuing a sweeping ruling in the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case, defining more precisely what exactly constitutes an “undue burden.” “Both the admitting-privileges and the surgical-center requirements place a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking a previability abortion, constitute an undue burden on abortion access, and thus violate the Constitution,” the Whole Woman’s Health opinion says. “The record contains sufficient evidence that the admitting-privileges requirement led to closure of half of Texas’ clinics, or thereabout … those closures meant fewer doctors, longer waiting times and increased crowding.” Mississippi’s 2012 admitting-privileges law, House Bill 1390, required all physicians associated with an abortion clinic to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. Similar “trap laws” had been circulating through state legislatures around the country, and the clinic and one of its doctors sued. Plaintiffs said that House Bill 1390
Supporters of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization are pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court denied the State of Mississippi’s petition to review the lawsuit against an admitting-privileges law the Legislature passed in 2012.
verely limits access to safe and legal procedures, women in desperate circumstances may resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners, faute de mieux, at great risk to their health and safety.” Not all U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed, however; the vote came down 5-3. In his dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the court. “If our recent cases illustrate anything, it is how easily the Court tinkers with levels of scrutiny to achieve its desired result,” he wrote. “This Term, it is easier for a State to survive strict scrutiny despite discriminating on the basis of race in college admissions than it is for the same State to regulate how abortion doctors and clinics operate under the putatively less stringent undue-burden test.” Mississippi Republican leaders, who supported and helped pass a bill aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood—limiting Medicaid payments for health services at the Hattiesburg clinic that does not do abortions—voiced disapproval over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week.
and their unborn children in Mississippi and all across America,” Reeves said in a statement. “States should have the ability to protect their citizens through proper regulation of medical care.” “I’m disappointed with the decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Gunn in a statement. “The legislation struck down today is designed to protect women and their unborn children. For those of us who believe in the sanctity of human life, this ruling is a major setback.” From start to finish, defending and appealing the JWHO lawsuit from June 2012 to April 2016 cost the state, specifically the attorney general’s office, $117,000 not including consulting time or payment. The Impact on JWHO Pro-abortion rights advocates might be able to breathe a bit easier for now, but a bill the Legislature passed this session still affects JWHO, by blocking “any entity that performs nontherapeutic abor-
tions” or group affiliated with such an entity (like Planned Parenthood) from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. Federal funds cannot be used to pay for abortions, however, so this law would prevent both JWHO and the Planned Parenthood clinic in Hattiesburg from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for offering services such as birth control or STD testing. Planned Parenthood Southeast has filed a federal lawsuit in response to the law, as the organization has in several other states, successfully blocking similar measures. Hancock says the law that went into effect July 1 affects JWHO, which started offering birth control and other reproductive health-care options to women with Medicaid reimbursements in November. Staci Fox, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast, defended JWHO following the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of the state’s petition to keep their admitting-privileges law last Tuesday. “While we’re glad the health center remains open, we’re deeply concerned that this law passed in the first place and hope it will ultimately be struck down. We all want to protect patient safety, but admitting privileges won’t do that. Abortion providers have rigorous standards and training for staff as well as emergency plans in place because women’s safety is our first priority,” Fox said in a statement. “Data, including from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shows that abortion has over a 99 percent safety record. There is absolutely no medical basis to require abortion providers to have local hospital admitting privileges.” At JWHO, it is business as usual, for the most part. Hancock said a new wave of protesters seemed to crop up at the start of 2016, but since the Supreme Court’s ruling, things have been quiet. Five Pink House Defenders were there just in case there were a lot of protesters, but beyond six or seven in the morning, Hancock said things were relatively quiet. As a pro-abortion-rights activist, Hancock knows this is not the end. “This (Supreme Court) decision is going to help as far as defining what an ‘undue burden’ is,” Hancock said. “But it’s still not going to stop the trap laws … the fight’s not over.” Read related coverage at jfp.ms/abortion. Email State Reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.
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n Friday, U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves blocked House Bill 1523, an attempt by the Mississippi Legislature to permit discrimination against LGBT people by private citizens and public officials alike on the basis of “sincere religious belief.” The law’s supporters, including Gov. Phil Bryant, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn, have barely attempted to mask their bigotry; they have made no secret of the fact that their “sincere religious belief” is that they have both a right and a responsibility to God to make me into a second-class citizen who can be fired, evicted, and turned away from businesses and government agencies with no recourse. It saddens me that so much hate has taken root in the state where I grew up, but I am also proud to have overcome it. I am proud of the brave LGBT people and allies in Mississippi who are standing up against it. And I am proud of our legal system for stepping in to protect us where our democracy has failed. Last weekend, I had the honor and privilege of returning to my hometown to emcee Mississippi Pride. This is the second year that Unity Mississippi has put on an official Pride celebration, and to my knowledge, no Pride celebrations took place when I was a kid. Growing up in Jackson, I was certain that I wouldn’t see gay marriage in my lifetime. I was certain I would never find a partner to share my life with. Shortly after realizing I was gay at 10 years old, I vividly remember lying awake in bed, crossing possibilities off my list of childhood dreams. Could I become a politician like my grandfather? No one will vote for a pervert. A minister? Maybe in hell. An actor? Only in my dreams. It seemed my only options were to either stay miserable in the closet or live a broken life in exile. I started plotting my escape, and hit the eject button at age 16 to go to boarding school. I couldn’t imagine a world where my family would accept me. Thirty years into my life, I may not be a church leader or a congressman, but I am an actor, I am married to the love of my life, and I’m proud to say my marriage is recognized as equal under Mississippi law. My family not only accepts me, they celebrate me, and they all came out to support me at Pride. I am thrilled to be proven so wrong about the world’s capacity to change, and I hope I am the last generation of Mississippians to grow up so pessimistic about the future. Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who made the case against both HB 1523 and the recently overturned ban on gay adoptions (the final such ban to be overturned in this country), referenced the state’s history of Jim Crow segregation and racism in her arguments, declaring “there can’t be separate but equal marriage.” Both Gov. Phil Bryant and Judge Carlton W. Reeves came of age in the final days of segregation. Reeves is African American and grew up in Yazoo City, my father’s hometown. As a kid, did he ever imagine the nation’s first black president would nominate him to the bench? Or did he lie in bed at night crossing dreams like that off his list? At Mississippi Pride, I was blown away by the spirit of the crowd, even in the face of the 97-degree heat. There were a few protestors screaming themselves hoarse into megaphones on the other side of the barricades, but where I was standing, I only encountered thoughtful, kind people coming together with friends and families to celebrate our community. We held a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting, and I spoke with many activists, including Charlene Smith-Smathers, about their involvement in the struggle dating back to DOMA. It struck me that there was a community of Mississippians fighting for equality when I was a kid. Charlene saw that my mother was with me and exclaimed that they had gone to high school—and charm school—together in Batesville. As challenging as my childhood was, I can only imagine the bravery it took to stay in Mississippi and fight for equality back then. I may not be proud to be from the same state as Phil Bryant, but I am proud to be from the same state as Charlene Smith-Smathers. I am proud to be from the same state as Judge Carlton W. Reeves. I hope to live my life in such a way that someday I might inspire other Mississippians to be proud of where they are from, and who they are. Jackson native Kit Williamson is an actor, writer, director and grad student liv12 ing in Silver Lake, California. Years ago, he interned for the Jackson Free Press. July 6 - 12, 2016 • jfp.ms
I am proud to be from the same state as Judge Carlton W. Reeves.
To Prevent Violent Crime, Engage with Experts Like Harlem’s Kai Smith for Ideas In Jackson, and Mississippi in general, it is a sport to complain about crime, not to mention to sensationalize it. The TV stations love to milk crime, especially in the capital city, for viewers and ratings, often leading the evening news with it, as if nothing could be more important. But when a discussion about how to prevent crime comes up, often people aren’t as interested, or shrug and say that is the responsibility of “the family,” usually meaning black families. That may be the easiest thing for an individual to do, but it does nothing to actually stop crime. Usually, neither does incarceration. The reality is that the more times a young person comes into contact with the criminaljustice system, the more likely he or she is to commit a worse crime. That means that the favorite method of “crime prevention” by many people actually makes the community less safe. It is high time to get serious about preventing crime in Jackson. And as the Jackson Free Press is showing in our ongoing “Preventing Crime” series (jfp.ms/preventingviolence), that is not an easy thing to do, and there is no one way to do it. As a community, we need to develop a tight net around the young people most likely to commit violent crime, ensuring they have the love, mentoring, education, training and job opportunities they need, not to mention mental-health services and basic health care. And even the ability not to grow up next
to a dangerous abandoned house. In the spirit of furthering this conversation, the JFP is sponsoring the visit of a gang-intervention expert the week of July 11 through July 16. Kai Smith (see page 9) is a six-time felon who now runs acclaimed intervention programs in New York City. He called himself a “credible messenger” because at-risk youth can identify with him because he has been there. Research shows that is the best kind of “messenger” to interrupt the cycle of violence. Smith is bringing high energy and big ideas to Jackson as part of our journalistic efforts to explore crime solutions, sponsored in part by the Solutions Journalism Network. JFP Editorin-chief Donna Ladd and Deputy News Editor Maya Miller both watched Smith in action in New York recently, and will sit down with him at Millsaps College on July 14 at 6 p.m. for a free public conversation about ways Jackson can save what one study estimated is 225 young people in the city who are most risk of committing violent crime. (When told that number, Smith said he works with that many young people personally, an inspiring statement.) We urge you to attend this open conversation (with food and drink afterward) and pick the brain of this crime expert. He is also available to meet with other groups. Call 601-362-6121 ext. 12 to arrange to meet with Smith during his visit or for more information on his talk.
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XFORD—Newt Knight is described as a “deserter, renegade and assassin” on the website of the local Sons of the Confederate Veterans chapter in Jones County, but Lew Smith in nearby Sumrall has a different view. “Old Newt is a big hero to me personally,” says Smith, who describes himself as a “life-long Union man, white guy” who has been married to an African American woman for 45 years. “His willingness to stand tall for his ex-slave wife and bi-racial family.” Add to that Knight’s willingness to challenge the “rich man’s war and poor man’s fight” that essentially was the Civil War. Smith hasn’t seen the new movie “The Free State of Jones,” starring Matthew McConaughey and Mississippi-bred talent such as Oxford’s own Johnny McPhail. “In a way I’m hesitant to watch the movie. … So often Hollywood screws things up,” he says. He needn’t worry. I’ve seen the movie, and it’s excellent. Director Gary Ross, whose credits include the now-classic “Seabiscuit,” spent two years researching the complex history of Jones County, Miss., during the Civil War, research that included Victoria E. Bynum’s book, “The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War.” It’s a 150-year-old story that resonates today as Mississippi still wrestles with the Confederate symbolism that rests on its flag, as well as on its countless courthouse lawns. It’s a story that is also still current in its challenge to the racial divisions that have forever haunted Mississippi and the South. Newt Knight was a tee-totaling backwoodsman from southeast Mississippi who volunteered to serve in the Confederacy. He began his own rebellion against the Confederacy after the passage of the so-called “Twenty Negro Law,” which allowed southerners to avoid conscription if they owned 20 slaves or more. Most of the small farmers who dominated rural Jones County and surrounding counties owned no slaves and had little interest in preserving slavery. The Confederacy allowed troops to confiscate small farmers’ crops and livestock as a kind of insidious “tax” to support the war effort. “You think they do that to the plantation owner in Natchez?” McConaughey’s Newt Knight tells his fellow Southerners as he launches his rebellion. “We got no country. We are the country. No man ought to stay poor so another can get rich.” Knight leads an armed and violent resistance against the Confederacy that declares Jones County a “free state.” His break
with southern tradition extends to his personal life when he enters into a long-term relationship with a slave named Rachel and sires children by her. “The Free State of Jones” stands out in the recent crop of Civil War or slaveryrelated movies—“Lincoln,” “12 Years a Slave” and Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation.” Each challenges the myths and stereotypes embedded in Hollywood classics like D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” in 1915 and David O. Selznick’s “Gone With The Wind” in 1939. What distinguishes “The Free State of Jones” is its direct challenge to prevailing myths such as what Ross calls the “monolithic” antebellum South. “There were areas of Southern unionism all across the South,” he says in a Huffington Post Facebook video. Jones County may be one of the more famous examples, but another is the entire state of West Virginia, which exists because it refused to follow Virginia’s secession from the Union. Many of the small farmers and mountain folk in the western portion of my native North Carolina rebelled against the Rebels. They didn’t own slaves and saw no reason for the fight. “The Free State of Jones” points to a dark consistency in southern history that stretches from antebellum day until today. Soon after the Civil War, a landowning elite returned to power and instituted the so-called “Black Codes” that, among other things, allowed black children to be taken into a forced “apprenticeship,” which meant back to the fields. Of course, Reconstruction was eventually followed by Jim Crow, sharecropping and tenant farming—the entire retinue of the southern elite’s insistence on cheap and, if possible, free labor. Mississippi and the South as a whole are still dealing with the legacy of what forced Newt Knight to rebel against the southern rebellion. Witness the ongoing controversy about the Confederate flag emblem in Mississippi’s state flag. At the University of Mississippi, a plaque is being placed next to the Confederate statue on campus that says the monument may honor Confederate soldiers’ sacrifice, but it “must also remind us that the defeat of the Confederacy actually meant freedom for millions of people.” Knight’s story reaches beyond the South. His statement in the movie that “no man ought to stay poor so another can get rich” could be a rallying cry for the nation. Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist, columnist and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi.
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Luis Antonio Hernandez reads a story about Cinco de Mayo to students in Christy Crotwell’s first-grade class at Morton Elementary School. He reads each page twice, once in English, once in Spanish. He’s the only full-time translator at the school, which has 152 Spanish-speaking students in its 21 classrooms.
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ORTON, Miss.— It’s Cinco de Mayo in Christy Crotwell’s class, and Luis Antonio Hernandez is reading the firstgraders a story about the holiday’s origins. He reads each page twice—once in English, once in Spanish— and the students give him their full attention. One kid wears a large sombrero in honor of the occasion. If only every moment at Morton Elementary School were so tranquil for Hernandez, the only full-time translator here and one of just two Spanish-speaking staffers in a school where nearly a third of the students speaks Spanish. He spends most days racing from class to class, helping out as needed. It’s a hectic job. Like many schools across Mississippi, Morton is scrambling to adjust to an influx of Spanish-speaking students for which it was completely unprepared. In a state that ranks at or near the bottom in education spending nationwide, it can be a challenge just to maintain buildings and stock classrooms with basic supplies. It’s hard to find money to pay for teachers who specialize in helping kids who are learning English, known in academic circles as English Language Learners—ELLs for short. 15 The state doesn’t allocate money for ELL
programs, and direct federal funding for ELL kids everywhere is sparse at just $230 a year per student. The federal money is restricted to districts with at least 76 ELL students. Schools that receive Title I funding—those with high numbers of low-income students —can use some of that money to support ELL, but it means taking it away from other areas of need, according to an ELL specialist at the Department of Education. The Hispanic population is booming across the South, as newcomers get jobs in the construction, farming and food processing industries. A Pew Research Center analysis of census data, found that nine of the 10 states with the most rapid Hispanic growth are located below the Mason-Dixon Line. Between 2000 and 2011, Mississippi’s Hispanic population more than doubled, growing from 37,000 to 81,000. Hispanic advocates say the census significantly undercounted Hispanics; they estimate that s many as 200,000 now live in Mississippi. In any case, over the last five years, the overall number of Hispanic public-school students has mushroomed, rising from 12,208 to 16,486 last year, a 35 percent increase. And the jump in ELL students has also been sharp, rising from 7,078 to 12,100, or 70 percent, according to Monique Harrison-Henderson, who coordinates ELL programs for the state Department of Edu-
cation. (Disclaimer: Harrison-Henderson, a former journalist, wrote several articles for The Hechinger Report before she worked for the State of Mississippi.) “For a state our size, that is significant growth,” said Harrison-Henderson, the department’s English Learner Specialist, whose position was created this year to help local districts cope with the influx. “You can imagine that my phone rings a lot, and I get a lot of emails.” Among the regions that have seen the most dramatic growth is Scott County, home to Morton Elementary, a public school about 35 miles east of Jackson. The student body, now roughly 750 strong, is about one-third white, one-third black and one third Hispanic. The number of ELL students has tripled over the last three years, rising to 162, as jobs at a Koch Foods poultry plant, just a few blocks away, attracted Hispanic workers. A massive operation that is the backbone of the town’s economy, Koch Foods is a At Morton Elementary, the student body is now roughly one third-white, one-third African American and one-third Hispanic. The number of Spanish-speaking students has tripled over the last five years, rising to 162.
magnet for immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, the countries that fuel the majority of immigration in Mississippi. The plant looms over this rural crossroads town of 3,500 people, where a Mexican market and restaurant recently replaced the sole clothing store, its doors closed long ago. Maria’s Mercado, another Hispanic convenience store, is just a hop, skip and a jump from the local barbecue joint, The Ribcage. In addition to the Koch operation, Scott County is home to three more poultry plants, all of which have high turnover and a voracious appetite for new workers. In the window of a Morton Catholic outreach center, a sign in both Spanish and English seeks recruits: “Hang live birds for processing in a humane manner. Hang 26 live birds per minute for slaughter.” Hispanics began arriving in Morton during the late 1980s, said Tito Echiburu, a native of Chile, who played a large role in bringing immigrants here. Echiburu, 72, is the chief financial officer at the Bank of Morton. “Twenty percent of our loans and mortgages go to Hispanics now,” he said. “It’s working out for everyone.” The first Hispanic in town, Echiburu followed a circuitous path to Morton. A more EDUCATION, see page 18
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ful small-town atmosphere. Among these new residents is Josefa Matias, a Guatemalan whose husband earns about $600 a week deboning chickens, the most lucrative job at the plant. Matias also worked at the plant for several years, and the couple managed to save enough to buy their own home. “We bought this house for $35,000,” she said. “I’m happy here.”
panic students would drag down their test scores, which might result in a loss of federal funding. In 2002, MIRA and its allies in the state Legislature managed to pass a bill clarifying the responsibility of school districts to enroll students on proof of age, not nationality. A few school leaders dragged their feet even after the law was passed, but were eventually persuaded to comply. By MIRA’s count, state lawmakers have Ben Stocking
standout Chilean tennis player, he had been recruited to play on the team at Mississippi State, where he earned a business degree. After graduation, he returned to Chile, where he worked at the Arthur Anderson consulting firm and the Firestone tire company. But in the early 1970s, political conflict roiled his homeland, and Echiburu agreed to take a job as a tennis pro at the tony River Hills Tennis Club in Jackson. One of his students was John Rogers, whose family owned the Morton poultry plant until Chicago-based Koch Foods, the nation’s fourth-largest poultry producer, bought it 15 years ago. Rogers hired Echiburu as the plant’s chief financial officer. The company, then known as B.C. Rogers Poultry, was having trouble filling the overnight shift. The plant ran 24 hours a day, and the work on the line was brutal— slaughtering and deboning chickens, packing frozen chicken parts. Rogers, who had seen a TV news segment about out-of-work Hispanic immigrants in Florida, sent Echiburu to Miami to investigate. Echiburu placed a help-wanted ad in the Miami Herald, and, two weeks later, filled a Greyhound bus with 40 Cubans headed for work in Morton. The bus made that trip once a week for a year or two; before long, hundreds of Miami transplants were working there. Many newcomers found transition to small-town life difficult, Echiburu said, and at first, they didn’t find a warm reception in town. Some locals complained about drunk and disorderly conduct, and said the newcomers did a poor job of maintaining their property. And after the new arrivals’ first few months in Morton, somebody called immigration authorities, who swooped into town in a helicopter, searching for undocumented immigrants. But they only found a handful, Echiburu said, because most of the new workers had received asylum in the U.S. after fleeing communist Cuba. The Cuban workers, accustomed to the excitement of Miami, quickly became disenchanted with small-town life, and many left. “They called Morton ‘El Bosque’ — the woods,” Echiburu said. So the company shifted its recruitment efforts to Texas and its thousands of workers from Mexico and Central America. The plant brought close to 5,000 Hispanic workers to Morton during the 1990s, said Luis Cartagena, Echiburu’s brother-in-law, who was hired to oversee the company’s recruitment efforts. Since then, word of the jobs in Morton has spread through immigrant networks by word of mouth, and a recent wave has brought many Guatemalans to town. No one knows how many of Morton’s newest residents are undocumented. The immigrants keep coming because jobs are plentiful and housing is cheap. And many of 18 the newcomers say they appreciate the peace-
Karen, right, an ELL student from Guatemala, and Karla, left, an ELL student from Mexico, go over a worksheet in Luis Cartagena’s class at the Scott Central Attendance Center in Forest, Miss.
Matias’s daughter Maria, a student at Morton Middle School, grew up in Mississippi and speaks English with a southern drawl. “I do a lot of translating for my parents when one of my sisters is sick or my mom needs to go to the doctor,” Maria said. When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group. School officials
Hispanics receive 20 percent of all loans and mortgages at the Bank of Morton.
were unaware of the Supreme Court’s 1975 ruling in Plyer vs. Doe, which required schools to register students regardless of their immigration status. “Almost all of the school districts were refusing to enroll children who were undocumented or did not speak English or both,” Chandler said. “You had a lot of xenophobia, especially after 9/11. Anybody brown was suspicious.” Some districts, he said, feared that His-
filed 296 anti-immigrant bills since 9/11, including an English Only bill and another piece of legislation that would have required police to stop anyone suspected of being undocumented and ask them to show papers proving their right to residency. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, won the Mississippi primary handily in March, with his call for a massive border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. And Gov. Phil Bryant, who has endorsed Trump, also supported a legal challenge by the Texas attorney general opposing President Obama’s efforts to ease some immigration restrictions. The arrival of Hispanic immigrants has changed the dynamics of a region that has seen race and ethnicity primarily through a black-and-white lens. For decades, Jim Crow kept schools separate and unequal. Long after the Supreme Court ended school segregation with its 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, race remained a contentious issue in the educational sphere, and many white families enrolled their children in private schools known as “segregation academies.” White flight from urban areas caused further re-segregation. Federal education statistics for the 201314 school year show that Hispanic students in Mississippi lagged behind their white
peers on 8th grade math and reading tests, with a 65 percent proficiency rate in math and a 54 percent proficiency rate in reading, compared to 77 percent and 66 percent for whites. They outscored African American students in both subjects by 8 points. The graduation rate for white students was 84 percent that year, 80 percent for Hispanics and 71 percent for blacks. With immigration changing the face of public schools like those in Scott County, the student body at many schools is a patchwork of black, white and brown. At Morton Elementary, school officials are doing their best to accommodate the newcomers, Principal Debbie Herring said. “We’re going through so many changes here. It feels like we’re a border town,” said Herring, who keeps a large ornamental cross on her desk and a sign on her office wall that reads “In God We Trust.” “The growth has happened so fast, nobody has had time to prepare for it,” Herring said. When Hernandez, the school translator, is too busy to help, Herring sometimes resorts to using a translation app on her smart phone. That hasn’t worked very well, in part because it’s too cumbersome, in part because some of the Hispanic parents speak dialects with little resemblance to traditional Spanish. At the start of the last school year, Herring gave the parent orientation in both English and Spanish. But as the nonHispanic parents sat through the lengthy translation of her remarks, she could see them growing restless. “When you have a third of your population speaking Spanish, and they speak different dialects, you have to really slow down,” Herring said. “My English-speaking parents were becoming impatient.” The school has added two temporary classrooms to accommodate the new students, but staffing hasn’t kept pace. “If I had one interpreter per classroom that would help, but there’s no way,” Herring said. On Cinco de Mayo, Hernandez was busy translating in Ms. Crotwell’s class, where the door is adorned with a sign that says, “Taco about a great class.” ELL teacher Kathy Vaughn asked some of the Hispanic students questions in English, giving them a chance to show off their progress. “Where are you from?” she asked one boy, who fumbled his answer. Luis Vega, a first grader who wore his hair slicked back Elvis style, stepped in to help. “¿De donde vienes?” he translated. “Mexico!” came the reply. Crotwell feared situations like this when she learned that her class would have more EDUCATION, see page 20
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13 Hispanic students. “It’s very challenging,” Schools without adequate resources use Developed by the Washington-based have high hopes for their kids, said Sister Rita she said. “I wish I could speak Spanish.” the pull-out approach and turn to bilingual Center for Applied Linguistics, this method Goedken, who has worked there since 2008. While Hernandez was available to students to help carry the load, as Morton allows English learners to master the lan- “They’re committed parents. They translate that May day, he has to triage the is doing. Although imperfect, this approach guage while studying subjects such as math, want their children to be able to do what needs of 21 teachers daily as interpreting science or social studies. they couldn’t do. They encourage education needs arise. The school’s other Spanish The Tupelo School District, in the 100 percent.” Between 2000 and 2011, speaking staffer helps out but is not hired as northwest corner of the state, has found the Among the center’s students is ManuMississippi’s Hispanic a translator, like Hernandez, and must focus approach to be effective. SIOP emphasizes ela Lucas, a first-grader at Morton Elemenpopulation more than on teaching English to ELL kids. using visual aids, both pictures and real ob- tary. School was a big challenge for Manuela, doubled, growing from Much of the time, Crotwell is forced to jects, to convey concepts. And it encourages who, like many of her Hispanic peers, didn’t 37,000 to 81,000. rely on bilingual kids like Luis to interpret for teachers to connect whatever content they speak a word of English when she started. their less fluent classmates. are teaching to the culture and traditions of Her mother, Mariela Lucas, wants to “I have several really smart Spanish ELL students. help her daughter, but she can’t read or write kids,” Crotwell said. “They could read the can benefit both the student translators and “The whole thing with SIOP is, you’re in Spanish, let alone English. There were no story in two languages themselves.” the ELL kids they are helping. teaching language at the same time that schools in her home village, and she speaks Spanish-speaking students spend three “There’s research that shows this rein- you’re teaching content,” said Ruth Baker, a Guatemalan dialect that bears no resemhours a week in an ELL classroom, where forces learning for the student translators,” the ELL liaison for the Tupelo schools. “You blance to Spanish. they focus on improving their English. Gandara said. “Having to explain things to can’t wait for them to learn English before “I felt so sad because I couldn’t help The school has two full-time teachers someone else reinforces what they’re learn- you teach them regular classroom material, her with her homework. I couldn’t explain who are certified to teach ELL and two un- ing. If it’s done judiciously—if the kids aren’t or they’ll fall behind.” anything,” Manuela’s mother said, speaking certified assistants to help them. just used as substitute teachers—that can be In Morton, some newcomers have through a translator. “In a perfect world, we’d have an ELL a reasonable strategy.” sought assistance outside the classroom to Among the Scott County teachers helpteacher for every classroom,” said Vaughn, Harrison-Henderson, the state ELL help their kids keep up. They have found ing students like Manuela is Luis Cartagena, who coordinates Scott County’s ELL pro- specialist, said that good teachers know how help from an unlikely source—the Sisters the man who once recruited Hispanic workgram in addition to teaching at Morton Ele- to teach children in the same classroom who of St. Francis of Dubuque, a group of ers to the poultry plant. After he left that job, mentary. “We try to meet their needs, Cartagena worked as a bus driver and but it’s not easy. We haven’t kept up.” janitor for the county schools. A Mississippi native, Vaughn When school officials discovered lived in Brazil, where Portuguese is he was fluent in both English and spoken, for several years when her Spanish and had some high-school husband was a Southern Baptist misteaching experience in Chile, they sionary there. Her two children attook him on as an assistant ELL tended a Brazilian school where no teacher, although he lacked formal one spoke a word of English. training. “I know what it’s like when the He didn’t take the ELL job for the Hispanic parents bring their kids $19,000 salary. “I took it because I here,” she said. “I know how hard it love teaching,” he said. is to come to a new school where you Cartagena teaches at four differdon’t speak the language.” ent Scott County schools, each with In Morton, the kids who are smaller Hispanic populations than still learning English get pulled from Morton Elementary. He has a tiny their regular classrooms for about office at the Scott Central Attendance three hours a week to work with an Center, a K-12 school just outside ELL teacher, even though linguists Forest, the county seat. consider this “pull-out approach” the “I have to struggle for all the releast effective way to teach English sources I get,” he said. language learners. The maps on his wall—culled “That’s the least-favored model from National Geographic magaas far as what the outcomes look like, zines—came from his personal collecLuis Antonio Hernandez, the translator at Morton Elementary School, celebrates Cinco de but one does what one can,” said Pation. He uses old textbooks that the Mayo with students in Christy Crotwell’s class. tricia Gandara, an education profesdistrict was going to discard, teaching sor at the University of California, passages that he has translated and Los Angeles. copied himself. He even built a book By far the most effective model is du- are at different levels of learning. They tailor nuns from Iowa who operate a tutoring case to store them. al-language immersion, in which students their instruction to the individual needs of center in town. Cartagena has also translated short spend half their time learning all subjects in individual students. In the same fashion, The sisters have various missions in biographies about famous Latin AmeriEnglish, half in Spanish, Gandara said. Ex- they can adjust their teaching to meet the high-poverty areas outside their home state can writers. tensive research shows significant cognitive needs of ELL students, she said. and were already running education centers “I try to teach my students that they benefits accrue to students who learn more With ELL teachers in short supply, elsewhere in Mississippi. Nine years ago, belong to a culture with poets and authors than one language. Mississippi is trying to give regular teach- they decided to extend their efforts to Mor- and Nobel Prize winners. I’m trying to teach Both North Carolina and Georgia, two ers the tools and training they need to assist ton, where they run the Excel Community them that they have a culture they need to southern states with substantial Hispanic English language learners on their own, she and Learning Center. care about.” populations, have recently taken steps to said. The state has posted training videos on- Every afternoon, about 40 kids come This story was produced by The Hechinger encourage dual-language programs. But in line and organized several summer training here for help with homework and English. Report, a nonprofit, independent news organistates such as Mississippi, where immigra- sessions for which demand has been robust. Excel offers English and Spanish classes for zation focused on inequality and innovation in tion is a more recent phenomenon and re- One approach that enables teachers to adults in the evenings, too, and runs a Meals- education. Onelia Hawa assisted with transsources are scarce, this approach hasn’t yet do this has a cumbersome name: Sheltered on-Wheels program for people in need. lation of interviews. Read more about Missis20 taken root, Gandara said. Instruction Observation Protocol, or SIOP. The families who come to the center sippi’s education system at jfp.ms/education.
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Daniel spoke first. orchestrate the entire evening, from starting He gazed into her eyes with a deep intenthe music to lifting a finger here to send a sity; his powerful, sonorous voice and calm demeanor visibly grew louder and steadier. By the middle of her vows, Rachel bartender to a parched table, handing Daniel his coat when relaxed Rachel, and then he made a joke, too soft for me to was back and having fun. a photo was needed, or providing drinks to the bride and hear it, but her signature smile appeared. The toasts from the maid of honor and the best man groom after their dance. I love organization, and she is a The members of the bridal party were not lined up on were among the best I’ve ever heard. They were heartfelt, given great model. either side of the bride and groom segregated by gender but without notes and expressing a depth of love seldom (if ever) “Life at its very best,” I thought. It was late then, the instead alternated across the front of the space, bracketing a adequately acknowledged verbally. The bride’s sister, her fra- wedding reception almost over, and I sat alone at our table. white wooden trellis overflowing with flowers. The brides- ternal twin, who looks similar enough that you know they The guests had thinned out some, with just the hardcore maids looked stunning in their simple floor-length pleated are sisters, but dissimilar enough to know they are individuals, friends of Rachel and Daniel and relatives left. Most everyteal gowns with spaghetti strap shoulders and minimal jew- spoke of the intimacy of growing up with a twin, how they one was on the dance floor swaying to a beautiful rendition elry. The men wore black suits with matching ties, except for had no secrets, and when they couldn’t sleep, they would talk of “Stand By Me” by the House of Cards band from Yazoo Daniel who was wearing a bowtie. about their hopes and dreams and fantasize about their wed- City. Just in front of me was an active group of athleticlooking men and women in their late 20s—Daniel’s ultimate Frisbee friends. Bridesmaids within a larger group of childhood friends and the many relatives that come with growing up in a small town like Quitman, Miss., surWedding planner: Kendall Poole groom’s and groomsmen’s attire: Cake(s): Cakes by Iris rounded Rachel. To my right, a small circle of the groom’s Event Planning Kinkade’s Fine Clothing (cakesbyiris.com) brothers and their wives move lazily with the music. His (1481 Canton mart road, (120 West St., ridgeland, 601Florists: Fresh Cut Catering friends included a contingent of Old World Italians, distant Suite C, 601-941-1432) 898-0513) and Floral by Wendy Putt, relatives Daniel had met while on a Fulbright scholarship in Officiant: Rev. Frank Haynes Bride’s attire: The Bridal Path Green Floral, Inc. (210 town Italy. Sometimes the magic of life transcends the ordinary, (Christ united methodist (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 104, Square, Brandon, 601-825-8374) and for a short while, we are reminded of the deeper meanChurch, 6000 Old Canton Road) 601-982-8267) Photographer: Sully Clemmer ing of life: To love another person is to see the face of God Reception location: The South Caterer: Fresh Cut Catering Photography Warehouse (627 e. Silas (from “Les Misérables”). and Floral (108 Cypress Cove, Invitations: Kendall Poole Brown St., 601-939-4518) See Richard Coupe’s previous story about this couple’s enFlowood, 601-939-4518) Music: House of Cards gagement at jfp.ms/zabaldanowhaleyengagement.
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THURSDAY 7/7
SATURDAY 7/9
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AQUA—A Summer Art Show is at Fondren Art Gallery.
Question It? Discover It! Saturday—Brain Day is at Mississippi Children’s Museum
Pint Night is at Saltine Oyster Bar.
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WEDNESDAY 7/6
History Is Lunch is at noon at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). Authors David Dockery and David Thompson discuss their book, “The Geology of Mississippi.” Free; call 601-576-6998. … The Social Suite is at 6 p.m. at ISH Grill and Bar (5105 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Event II Eleven is the host. Enjoy drinks, an appetizer menu, cigars and networking at the biweekly event. Business groups and entrepreneurs are encouraged to participate. Attire is “deal closer.” No cover until 9 p.m., then $5; call 769-257-2723; email event11eleven@gmail.com.
THURSDAY 7/7
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Fondren’s First Thursday is at 5 p.m. in Fondren. Studio Chane hosts the mostly monthly neighborhood event, and the main focus will be the arts for 2016. Includes shopping, food vendors, live music, open houses, a pet adoption drive
(Left to right) Terryal “Teezy” Thomas and Amia Edwards star in “A Night Under the Stars” Dinner Theater on Monday, July 11, at Johnny T’s Bistro and Blues.
FRIDAY 7/8
The Love Jones’ “Best Love/Best Hate Poetry” Edition is at 9 p.m. at Soul Wired Cafe (111 Millsaps Ave.). Includes open-mic poetry, music and art, a light food buffet including purple chocolate strawberries, and music from Angela Walls and Taurean La’ Del. Cover charge applies; call 601-863-6378; find the event on Facebook.
SATURDAY 7/9
The Ice Cream Safari is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Local media celebrities and special guests serve flavors of Blue Bunny ice cream for your votes. Included with admission ($4 members, $10.25 adults, by Micah Smith $9.25 seniors, $7.25 ages 2-12, under 2 free); call 601-3522580; jacksonzoo.org. … The jacksonfreepress.com Mississippi Black Rodeo is at Fax: 601-510-9019 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the MisDaily updates at sissippi Coliseum (1207 Misjfpevents.com sissippi St.). The Real Cowboy Association hosts “The Baddest Show on Dirt.” Includes a concert (performer TBA). $10; call 800-745-3000; realcowboyassociation.com.
MONDAY 7/11
Acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith (“Rivers”) will engage in a free public One-on-One talk about writing, creativity, growing up in Mississippi and his thoughts on HB 1523 with JFP Editor-in-chief Donna Ladd at Coalesce: A Cooperative Working Environment (109 N. State St.). Starts at 6 p.m.; reception/book singing with free food/drink at 7:30 p.m. 601-966-0834. … “A Night Under the Stars” Dinner Theater is at 7 p.m. at Johnny T’s Bistro and Blues (538 N. Farish St.). J. Lee Productions is the host. Includes three-course dinner, interactive show and music from Kerry Thomas. Limited seating. RSVP. Also: July 12, 7 p.m. $39; VIP: $200 table of four, $300 table of six; call 404-721-0194; email jleeproductions@yahoo.com; jleeplays.com.
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7/12 events@ TUESDAY An Artist’s Look with Wyatt Waters is from 11:30 a.m.
Author Michael Farris Smith discusses writing, creativity and being a Mississippian with JFP Editor Donna Ladd at Coalesce at 6 p.m. Monday, July 11.
and more. Free; call 601-720-2426; fft.city. … The Opening Reception for VSA’s “The Art of Dance” is from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). See the Community Art Group of VSA Mississippi’s danceinspired art in conjunction with the USA IBC Grand Prix 24 Reunion Gala. Hangs through July 31. Free; call 355-9853.
SUNDAY 7/10
The Cherry Tomato Festival is from 3 to 9 p.m. at The Garden Farmacy (116 Church Road, Madison). In celebration of the tomato harvest, enjoy music, drinks from Simply Tended, Garden Farmacy tomato sandwiches from stäge and additional food from Deep South Pops and Small Time Hot Dogs. $15; call 769-226-6700; find the event on Facebook.
to 12:15 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the Barksdale Galleries. The artist discusses select artwork in the exhibit “When Modern Was Contemporary.” $20, $8 members; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart. org. … Author John Gregory Brown signs copies of his book, “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere,” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). $26 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.
WEDNESDAY 7/13
History Is Lunch is at noon at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). Author and MDAH Historic Preservation Division Director Jim Woodrick discusses his book, “The Civil War Siege of Jackson.” Free; call 601-576-6998.
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Fondren’s First Thursday July 7, 5 p.m., in Fondren. Studio Chane hosts the monthly neighborhood event. Includes shopping, food vendors, music, open houses, a pet adoption drive and more. Free; call 601-720-2426; fft.city.
stäge test kitchen July 6, 6:30-9 p.m., at CS’s Restaurant (1359 1/2 N. West St.). Enjoy an opportunity to sample new creations from stäge. Seating limited to the first 20 guests to arrive. Optional wine pairing available. BYOB for a corkage fee. $35; call 969-9482; stagepopup.com.
JFP One on One with Michael Farris Smith July 11, 6-8 p.m., at Coalesce Cooperative Work Environment (109 N. State St.). JFP Editor Donna Ladd sits down with the acclaimed novelist (“Rivers”) for a discussion about writing, creativity, growing up in Mississippi and his thoughts on HB 1523. A reception follows with food, drinks and a book signing. Free; call 601-966-0834; follow Jackson Free Press on Facebook.
COMMUNITY Events at William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.) • History Is Lunch: David Dockery and David Thompson July 6, noon. The authors discuss their book, “The Geology of Mississippi.” Free; call 601-576-6998. • History Is Lunch: Jim Woodrick July 13, noon. The author and MDAH Historic Preservation Division director discusses his book, “The Civil War Siege of Jackson.” Free; call 601-576-6998.
Cherry Tomato Festival July 10, 3-9 p.m., at The Garden Farmacy (116 Church Road, Madison). In celebration of the tomato harvest, enjoy music, beverages from Simply Tended, Garden Farmacy tomato sandwiches from stäge and more. $15; call 769-226-6700; find the event on Facebook.
CONCERTS & FESTIVALS New Blood JXN Showcase and Live Podcast Circle July 7, 6-9 p.m., at Cups, Fondren (2757 Old Canton Road). Enjoy music from Clouds & Crayons, Empty Atlas and Codetta South, and a podcast recording session with Token Talk, Local Elsewhere, The Rogueish Gent, Let’s Talk Jackson, The Kickback and Comprehensive Beatdown. Free; find the event on Facebook.
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AQUA—A Summer Art Show July 7, 5-9 p.m., at Fondren Art Gallery (3030 N. State St.). Enjoy nautical, coastline or swimming artwork. Free admission; call 981-9222; fondrenartgallery.com.
Question It? Discover It! Saturday—Brain Day July 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months free); call 981-5469; mschildrensmuseum.org.
Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.
SLATE
the best in sports over the next seven days by Bryan Flynn
The NFL preseason gets started in a month with the Indianapolis Colts and Green Bay Packers playing in the Hall of Fame game on Aug. 7. Training camps open later this month around the league.
Friday, July 8 NBA (9:30-11:30 p.m., ESPN): Former MSU center Jarvis Varnado and the Los Angeles Lakers face the New Orleans Pelicans. Saturday, July 9 Tennis (8 a.m.-2 p.m., ESPN): Watch the Ladies Championship at Wimbledon 2016 and another possible Grand Slam for Serena Williams if she can reach the final. Sunday, July 10 Soccer (1:30-4 p.m., ESPN): Watch the 2016 UEFA Euro championship as underdogs continue to surprise. Monday, July 11 College football (11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., SECN): 2016 SEC Football
Media Days kick off with day one from Hoover, Ala., with Florida, Auburn and Vanderbilt opening the annual event. Tuesday, July 12 College football (8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., SECN): 2016 SEC Football Media Days continue with MSU head coach Dan Mullen along with Georgia, Texas A&M and Tennessee. Wednesday, July 13 College football (9 a.m.-3 p.m., SECN): 2016 SEC Football Media Days roll on as Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri and Arkansas take center stage in Hoover.
Media days in college football mean the season is just around the corner. New Orleans Saints training camp begins with rookies reporting July 20 and veterans on July 27. Follow Bryan Flynn at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports and at facebook.com/jfpsports.
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Thursday, July 7 NBA (noon-2 p.m., ESPN3): The Orlando Magic Blue take on the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA summer league.
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Time Street Eats, across Mississippi since 2012, when they moved from New Orleans to Winona after Howard Jr.’s mother, Vickie, who lived in Winona with his father, Gary Howard Sr., fell ill in late 2011. Howard Jr. was the first to move out to Winona, and he decided to start selling New Orleans-style food-cart hot dogs. Gary Howard III joined his father at the new business around eight months later. “Growing up in New Orleans, you see tons of Lucky Dog and other hot-dog stands (and tamale stands) everywhere, and I just love them and couldn’t find anything like that here when I moved,� Howard Jr. says. “Any time I eat anything, I end up wondering how I can make into a hot dog, and I try and get my friends and family to try it, too. I saw a great market for something that offered that here in Mississippi.� Small Time Street Eats is a food truck, while Small Time Hot Dogs is a cart that can be towed behind a truck or pushed by hand. The operations share a menu, though the food truck offers additional items such as fried green tomatoes with homemade Cajun crawfish sauce, fried pickles with homemade ranch dressing, and daily specials such as crawfish sausage jambalaya, alligator sausage, seafood gumbo, fried Oreos and more. The hot dog cart offers all-beef sausage and hot dogs, hickory-smoked pulled pork barbecue nachos and barbecue sandwiches, and specialty hot tamales that Mark Azlin, a Delta chef and friend of Howard Jr. who owned the Bourbon Mall restaurant in Bourbon, Miss., before it burned down in 2012, prepares. Customers can also try any of seven specialty gourmet dogs such
as a Southern dog with slow-smoked pulled pork and coleslaw, a Ragin’ Cajun dog with Cajun crawfish sauce, a Reuben dog with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and Thousand Island dressing, a buffalo-wing dog with wing sauce, blue cheese and celery salt, and a French onion dog with potato sticks and French onion dip. “Not everything I’ve ever tried ended up being a hit, like this hummus dog that didn’t go over very well for example,� Howard Jr. says. “But other things, like this bacon and barbecued pineapple Hawaiian dog we made, people follow us around for stuff like that. ... At the end of the day, the important thing for us is that we love to serve and make people happy with what we make, and we’ve never given someone a hot dog and had them not smile back over it. It’s more than just food for us; it’s our life.� Since August 2015, the Howards have been making regular appearances at Fondren’s First Thursday. They have also taken part in other events in the Jackson metro area, including Stray at Home this past May, and try to make an appearance in this area at least once a week. Small Time has permits to operate in nine counties throughout Mississippi, and the food cart and truck have managed to garner more than 10,000 fans across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Howard Jr. hopes to be able to upgrade all of his food carts into food trucks in the near future and
Small Time Hot Dogs has hot dogs such as the French onion dog with potato sticks and French onion dip.
is expanding into preparing exotic sausages such as rattlesnake and ostrich ones. The business will be competing in the Hot Dog Wars during Fondren’s First Thursday on July 7, where around 15 local restaurants will compete to make the best original hot dog. “I believe we have a real chance of winning that, and I believe it’s because of our fans,� Howard Jr. says. “We’d truly be nothing without all of them.� For more information, find Small Time Hot Dogs or Fondren’s First Thursday on Facebook.
Danger Is Their Last Name
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Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Mark Roemer & Jamie Weems 6-8 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m. free Kemistry - Open Mic Night 9 p.m. 601-665-2073 Kristos, Madison - Jason Turner 6 p.m. Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads Duo 6:30 p.m. Shucker’s - Silverado 7:30 p.m. free
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(Left to right) Reid Haynie, Alex Thiel and Lee Ingram of Oxford, Miss., progrock trio Carlos Danger released their latest EP, “Now That’s What I Call Carlos Danger Volume Two!”, on May 13.
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rom its fruit-emoji cover to its tonguein-cheek song titles, including “George Bush Controls the Weather,” it is obvious that the latest album from Oxford, Miss., prog-rock trio Carlos Danger, “Now That’s What I Call Carlos Danger, Volume Two!”, which the band released May 13, isn’t exactly serious. That’s very much the point, guitarist and vocalist Alex Thiel says. “It’s obviously music that we’re really proud of, but it’s music that we can’t take too seriously,” he says. “It’s really self-indulgent and just really loud and in your face, and we kind of wanted the artwork to be like that and the song titles to catch your attention. It’s super gimmicky—I’ll fully admit that— but it’s fun.” Making the EP still required serious work, of course. While listeners only got their hands on the trio’s previous studio project, “The Return of Carlos Danger,” in January, Thiel, bassist Reid Haynie and drummer Lee Ingram were already writing songs for the new EP that they felt were more indicative of where they are as a band. “I feel like with our last album, we were on the verge of finding our sound,” Haynie says. “Half the album is reflective of that, and the other half of the album reflected our evolution to that point. With this album, I feel like we knew who we were. We knew what we wanted to sound like and the kind of music we played well together.” To fully realize that, the musicians, all Jackson natives, decided to move fast instead of waiting to record a full-length, and they also decided to record the six-track EP themselves. The trio worked with producer Andrew Ratcliffe of Tweed Recording Studio in Oxford on “Return,” but Thiel took the reigns on “Now That’s What I Call Carlos Danger” to allow more time for experimentation in the studio. “We kind of hinted at what direction we were pointing (on ‘Return’),” Haynie
says. “I mean, we came out of the studio and wrote ‘George Bush Controls the Weather’ that week. We had really gotten into a groove by the time we went into the studio and recorded our old material, and since then, we’ve almost shed that album from our set list and have really been going into this maybe a little heavier, maybe a little groovier, longer song.” It’s a direction in which the musicians say Carlos Danger was headed since forming in 2013. When Thiel and Haynie, who were roommates, began writing music, they reached out to Ingram, whom Haynie had jammed with since 10th grade, to see if he’d join on drums. Despite different influences, the band worked. Thiel says Ingram’s style transformed Carlos Danger into the heavy, groovy and gratuitous rock entity it is today. “The transition was basically that Lee came onboard, and Lee played drums so loudly that we were like, ‘We have to play as loud as possible,’” Thiel says. “It’s kind of taken off from there. We joke with Lee that the reason we’re so loud and heavy is that he’s the drummer.” “The space around Lee’s drum kit is just a graveyard of past drumsticks,” Haynie says. “He really pushed us in that direction. We had to double down on our speaker gear. I’ve blown out two bass cabs at this point, just trying to keep up.” “Now That’s What I Call Carlos Danger Volume Two!” is the culmination of their development as a unit, but it’s also somewhat of a roadmap to where they’re going next, now that they’ve figured out exactly who Carlos Danger is, Thiel says. “I think at every point as a band when we’ve decided to just sort of indulge ourselves and sort of ignore what people think, it’s generally worked out for us,” he says. “Now That’s What I Call Carlos Danger Volume Two!” is available for download at carlosdangerms.bandcamp.com.
Cerami’s - Stace & Cassie 6 p.m. Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Cups, Fondren - Clouds & Crayons, Empty Atlas & Codetta South 6-9 p.m. free Fenian’s - Emerald Accent Fitzgerald’s - Andrew Pates 7:30 p.m. Fondren Guitars - The AM/FM 6:30 p.m. free Georgia Blue, Flowood - Skip McDonald Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner Hal & Mal’s - Brotherly Love 6-8 p.m. free Hops & Habanas - Stonewalls 6:30 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - Sherman Lee Dillon 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. free Pelican Cove - The Neighbors 6:30 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m. free Soulshine, Flowood - John Causey 7 p.m. Sylvia’s - Thursday Night Live feat. The Blues Man & Sunshine McGhee 9 p.m. free
JULY 8 - FridaY Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Hairicane 8 p.m. Big Sleepy’s - EDM Night feat. Hyphee, Taboo, DJ Uri, DVDJ Reign, DJ C3 & DJ EzB 8 p.m. $5 before 10 p.m. $10 after Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Doc 36 Skatepark - The Funeral Portrait w/ The Ivory 7 p.m. F. Jones Corner - Kern Pratt midnight $10 Fenian’s - Vibe Doctors Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Barranco 7:30 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - Andy Tanas Georgia Blue, Madison - Scott Strickland Hal & Mal’s - The Hustlers 7-10 p.m. free The Hideaway - John & Angela, Hired Guns & more 7 p.m. $10 Iron Horse Grill - Niecie & the Second Wind 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Bill & Temperance 7 p.m. free
Lucky Town - Road to Revolution Wrestling feat. Rock Box 9-11 p.m. M Bar - Flirt Fridays feat. DJ T. Lewis free Martin’s - Braintapes w/ Table Manners & Surfwax 10 p.m. Ole Tavern - DJ 3E Pelican Cove - Road Hogs 6:30 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Matthew York & the Badland Bandits 9 p.m. Reed Pierce’s, Byram - Lovin Ledbetter 9 p.m. free Shucker’s - Steele Heart 5:30 p.m.; Jason Stogner Band 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry (deck) 10 p.m. free Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.
JULY 9 - saTUrdaY Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Rusty Yates 8 p.m. Big Sleepy’s - The Tallahatchies Album Release Show w/ Empty Atlas & Cue Cards 8-11 p.m. $5 all ages F. Jones Corner - Jubu Smith midnight $10 Fenian’s - Becca Rose Georgia Blue, Flowood - Shaun Patterson
JULY 10 - sUndaY Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. The Hideaway - Mike & Marty’s Jam Session Kathryn’s - Rhythm Masters Trio 6 p.m. free Offbeat - Viva L’American Deathray Music w/ The Bobbsie Twins 6-9 p.m. $5 Pelican Cove - Third Degree noon; Chasin’ Dixie 5 p.m. Shucker’s - The Axe-identals (deck) 3:30 p.m. free Sombra Mexican Kitchen - John Mora 11 a.m. Table 100 - Raphael Semmes 11:30 a.m. Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.
JULY 11 - MondaY Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fitzgerald’s - Hunter Gibson 7:30 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society (rest) 7 p.m. Kathryn’s - Barry Leach 6:30 p.m. free Martin’s - Open Mic Free Jam 10 p.m. Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6:30 p.m.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22):
As I gaze into my crystal ball and invoke a vision of your near future, I find you communing with elemental energies that are almost beyond your power to control. But I’m not worried, because I also see that the spirit of fun is keeping you safe and protected. Your playful strength is fully unfurled, ensuring that love always trumps chaos. This is a dream come true: You have a joyous confidence as you explore and experiment with the Great Unknown, trusting in your fluidic intuition to guide you.
“You can only go halfway into the darkest forest,� a Chinese proverb says. “Then you are coming out the other side.� You will soon reach that midpoint, Leo. You may not recognize how far you have already come, so it’s a good thing I’m here to give you a heads-up. Keep the faith! Now here’s another clue: As you have wandered through the dark forest, you’ve been learning practical lessons that will come in handy during the phase of your journey that will begin after your birthday.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
ally reinvent my approach to finding the truth. The theories I had about your destiny last month may not be applicable this month. My devotion to following your ever-shifting story keeps me enjoyably off-balance, propelling me free of habit and predictability. I’m grateful for your influence on me! Now I suggest that you compose a few thank-you notes similar to the one I’ve written here. Address them to the people in your life who move you and feed you and transform you the best.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
My devoted contingent of private detectives, intelligence agents and psychic sleuths is constantly wandering the globe gathering data for me to use in creating your horoscopes. In recent days, they have reported that many of you Virgos are seeking expansive visions and mulling long-term decisions. Your tribe seems unusually relaxed about the future, and is eager to be emancipated from shrunken possibilities. Crucial in this wonderful development has been an inclination to stop obsessing on small details and avoid being distracted by transitory concerns. Hallelujah! Keep up the good work. Think BIG! BIGGER! BIGGEST!
After an Illinois man’s wife whacked him in the neck with a hatchet, he didn’t hold a grudge. Just the opposite. Speaking from a hospital room while recovering from his life-threatening wound, Thomas Deas testified that he still loved his attacker, and hoped they could reconcile. Is this admirable or pathetic? I’ll go with pathetic. Forgiving one’s allies and loved ones for their mistakes is wise, but allowing and enabling their maliciousness and abuse should be taboo. Keep that standard in mind during the coming weeks, Aquarius. People close to you may engage in behavior that lacks full integrity. Be compassionate but tough-minded in your response.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
After years of painstaking research, the psychic surgeons at the Beauty and Truth Lab have finally perfected the art and science of Zodiac Makeovers. Using a patented technique known as Mythic Gene Engineering, they are able to transplant the planets of your horoscope into different signs and astrological houses from the ones you were born with. Let’s say your natal Jupiter suffers from an uncongenial aspect with your Moon. The psychic surgeons cut and splice according to your specifications, enabling you to be re-coded with the destiny you desire. Unfortunately, the cost of this pioneering technology is still prohibitive for most people. But here’s the good news, Libra: In the coming months, you will have an unprecedented power to reconfigure your life’s path using other, less expensive, purely natural means.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
In high school I was a good athlete with a promising future as a baseball player. But my aspirations were aborted in sophomore year when the coach banished me from the team. My haircut and wardrobe were too weird, he said. I may have been a skillful shortstop, but my edgy politics made him nervous and mad. At the time I was devastated by his expulsion. Playing baseball was my passion. But in retrospect I was grateful. The coach effectively ended my career as a jock, steering me toward my true callings: poetry and music and astrology. I invite you to identify a comparable twist in your own destiny, Scorpio. What unexpected blessings came your way through a seeming adversary? The time is ripe to lift those blessings to the next level.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Do you remember that turning point when you came to a fork in the road of your destiny at a moment when your personal power wasn’t strong? And do you recall how you couldn’t muster the potency to make the most courageous choice, but instead headed in the direction that seemed easier? Well, here’s some intriguing news: Your journey has delivered you, via a convoluted route, to a place not too far from that original fork in the road. It’s possible you could return there and revisit the options -- which are now more mature and meaningful -- with greater authority. Trust your exuberance.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
I love writing horoscopes for you. Your interest in my insights spurs my creativity and makes me smarter. As I search for the inspiration you need next, I have to continu-
Can water run uphill? Not usually. But there’s an eccentric magic circulating in your vicinity, and it could generate phenomena that are comparable to water running uphill. I wouldn’t be surprised, either, to see the equivalent of stars coming out in the daytime. Or a mountain moving out of your way. Or the trees whispering an oracle exactly when you need it. Be alert for anomalous blessings, Pisces. They may be so different from what you think is possible that they could be hard to recognize.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Events in the coming week may trick your mind and tweak your heart. They might mess with your messiah complex and wreak havoc on your habits. But I bet they will also energize your muses and add melodic magic to your mysteries. They will slow you down in such a way as to speed up your evolution, and spin you in circles with such lyrical grace that you may become delightfully clear-headed. Will you howl and moan? Probably, but more likely out of poignant joy, not from angst and anguish. Might you be knocked off course? Perhaps, but by a good influence, not a bad one.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
In the book “A Survival Guide to the Stress of Organizational Change,� the authors tell you how to raise your stress levels. Assume that others are responsible for lowering your stress levels, they say. Resolve not to change anything about yourself. Hold on to everything in your life that’s expendable. Fear the future. Get embroiled in trivial battles. Try to win new games as you play by old rules. Luckily, the authors also offer suggestions on how to reduce your stress. Get good sleep, they advise. Exercise regularly. Don’t drink too much caffeine. Feel lots of gratitude. Clearly define a few strong personal goals, and let go of lesser wishes. Practice forgiveness and optimism. Talk to yourself with kindness. Got all that, Taurus? It’s an excellent place to start as you formulate your strategy for the second half of 2016.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Normally I’m skeptical about miraculous elixirs and sudden cures and stupendous breakthroughs. I avoid fantasizing about a “silver bullet� that can simply and rapidly repair an entrenched problem. But I’m setting aside my caution as I evaluate your prospects for the coming months. While I don’t believe that a sweeping transformation is guaranteed, I suspect it’s far more likely than usual. I suggest you open your mind to it.
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