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impromptu volunteering that she and her husband, D’Andra, do. Earlier this year, Orey organized an educational event at the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center in Jackson. Gov. Phil Bryant’s decision to declare April Confederate Heritage Month disheartened and disturbed her—especially because the announcement coincided with Black History Month. She couldn’t shake the feeling of disgust and negative thoughts. One day, while praying, Orey knew that she would not allow anger or hatred to fester in her heart. “I asked God to help me redirect this anger for something good,” she says, “We wanted to discuss what the Confederacy really meant for African Americans. (Bryant’s announcement) is what started it. I didn’t want there to be anything bad; I wanted it to be a point of education.” Orey contacted Pamela Junior of the Smith Robertson Museum, and held a forum dedicated to educating a larger audience on the history behind the Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flag (known more commonly as the “stars and bars” that is the canton of Mississippi’s state flag), how that history is most certainly one of hatred and oppression toward African American people, and how celebrating the Confederacy is a slap in the face to African American people and their ancestors. “It’s only a positive image for a select few,” Orey says about the state flag. —Adria Walker
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11 Green: I’m ‘Ready to Lead’ Synarus Green, candidate for District 72’s House of Representatives seat, chats with the JFP on the election, education and why he’s the best fit for the job.
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by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief
In ‘Trying Times,’ Demand Safer Policing
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’m tired physically and emotionally. Disappointed in some family, friends and officers ... but hey what’s in your heart is in your heart. I still love you all because hate takes too much energy but I definitely won’t be looking at you the same.” Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson, 32, posted that on Facebook on July 8, nine days before a Missouri man gunned him and other officers down in what may have been his personal retaliation for the drumbeat of tragic deaths of black men at the hands of cops. This is a long-time problem in the United States that the nation has finally started to grapple with in recent years due to cellphone video that makes it difficult to justify or deny the circumstances of many of those deaths. Like many black officers, Jackson’s words indicated that he felt caught in the middle, much as many black police officers I’ve talked to in the last year. Many love being on “the job,” working to protect people and are loyal to the force. Many of them are also against the tradition of over-policing and ingrained bias that has affected people of every ethnicity, but especially people of color. “Thank you to everyone that has reached out to me or my wife it was needed and much appreciated,” Jackson wrote after Alton Sterling’s alarming death in Baton Rouge, followed closely by the shooting of Philando Castile in Minnesota, and then the sniper attack on Dallas police officers, and then the rough arrests of hundreds of protesters in Baton Rouge. “I swear to God I love this city but I wonder if this city loves me. In uniform I get nasty hateful looks and out of uniform some consider me a threat. I’ve experienced so much in my short life and these last 3 days have tested me to the core. … These are trying times. Please don’t let hate infect your heart,” he continued.
But we are a divided nation, and hate does infect many hearts, as does anger at many years of ignored dangerous policing that leads to little recourse. It’s a powder keg, and one that many people are trying to ignite—from the “CIVIL WAR” headline on the New York Post after the Dallas shooting, to all the immediate tweets calling #BlackLivesMatter a “terrorist group” (and a petition to the president for the same), to the explosive people on either
“Please don’t let hate infect your heart.” side who stockpile weapons just waiting for a chance to supposedly avenge the wrongs of “the other.” Let’s dispense with this now: #Black LivesMatter is not a terrorist group. It’s a hashtag used by a huge variety of people fed up with police deaths like Eric Garner and Tamir Rice and so many others—that cops aren’t held responsible for. It’s a statement born out of desperation that makes it clear, finally, that black lives do matter, even when one of them does something slightly wrong or that police officers don’t expect. It’s a message that makes police officers too often, as former police officer and now Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams told me last May, choose the last and most violent tool in the toolbox when
the suspect is not white, too often leading to a senseless death over a minor crime. This understanding that black (and brown) lives do matter even when it’s someone doing something unpredictable in a poor neighborhood must break through all the noise. What we’re seeing now is many, many decades of frustration bottled up over the fact that bad cops too often get away with violent policing against people of color—and that even many good cops, not to mention many white Americans, defend the bad cops no matter what. It reminds me of people who slam those who criticize rapists or abusers as “hating all men.” No, we’re talking about the ones behaving badly. Don’t we get to? The #AllLivesMatter and #BlueLives Matter responses are offensive to many people of color, but not because the statements aren’t true: I don’t know a supporter of the movement to call out bad policing who does not believe that the lives of all humans are important (although there are certainly extremists and rogues in every group). The point is that non-black (and brown) lives are not the only ones that matter, even when they do something slightly wrong. Men like Montrell Jackson and white cops like Brad Garafola and Matthew Gerald matter. So do Garner, Sterling, Castile and a boy like Rice. It’s time that we face this fact squarely and not allow those who don’t value their lives to control our responses, especially if we’re white. Like Jackson, black police officers have told me repeatedly that they are torn between two worlds—and it’s a complicated world in which some of them end up over-policing people who look like them (see Garner and Freddie Gray cases). And those who don’t can still be blamed because they are part of an institution that is too slow to change, or a ship slow to right its course, as Eric Adams put it to me. Many, including Adams, will tell you
that over-policing probably got more brazen after the infamous Street Crimes Unit fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo, who was hanging out on his Bronx apartment’s stoop after a long work day back in 1999, and he tried to show them his wallet after they profiled him for maybe being a criminal. The officers got off with a defense that argued (correctly) that they were doing exactly what the NYPD taught them to do, and that Diallo wasn’t doing exactly what they expected him to do, although he reacted the way many of us might have if men in plain clothes jumped out of a Taurus and ran up to us at midnight with guns drawn. He fumbled and tried to back up and hide. In Diallo’s case, the cops’ attorneys also blamed people who protested his death, arguing that they were the ones drawing attention to the case. This is what we see now with #BlackLivesMatter—people who do not want to demand that the institution of policing become safer for everyone, including cops, want to blame the people who are organizing to make it safer for everyone. They ignore research showing that cop disrespect and over-policing make the streets more dangerous for everyone, including cops. Most disturbing to me as a white woman, frankly, is how many people who look like me seem to have no sympathy whatsoever if a victim of police brutality is a person of color—assuming they deserve it. It also disturbs me to see anyone justifying murder of a police officer, but I see that far less often than I do the defense of deadly policing. The good news is that many police departments are trying to improve training and even root out implicit bias in their ranks— better late than never. Now, the rest of society has to do our part and stop defending a bad cop no matter what he or she does, or it will never change. We must learn the difference if we want unarmed people and innocent police officers to stop dying senselessly.
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Amber Helsel
Danie Matthews
Dustin Cardon
Jacquelynn R. Pilcher
Arielle Dreher
Tim Summers Jr.
Imani Khayyam
Kristin Brenemen
Assistant Editor Amber Helsel is a foodie-in-training and an artist, and a Pokémon trainer (#teaminstinct). Her patronus charm is a cat. Email her story ideas at amber@jacksonfree press.com. She wrote about Chicks We Love.
Freelance writer Danie Matthews is a Mississippi College graduate. She’s a fan of conscious hip-hop, neo-soul and classic R&B, and hopes to one day become a full-time music writer. She wrote about Chicks We Love.
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 Chicks We Love.
Jacquelynn R. Pilcher is originally from Hattiesburg. She lived in NYC and Philadelphia for a while but rests her roots in Clinton. She is a proud mother who loves sushi, sunflowers and performing music She wrote about Chicks We Love.
State Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jackson freepress.com. She wrote about state budget reform and interviewed Synarus Green.
City Reporter Tim Summers Jr. enjoys loud live music, teaching his cat to fetch, long city council meetings and FOIA requests. Send him story ideas at tim@jacksonfreepress.com. He wrote about the Neighbor’s First program and JATRAN
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 photos for Chicks We Love and other stories in the issue.
Art Director Kristin Brenemen is an otaku with a penchant for dystopianism. She’s gearing up for next convention season with inspiration from the New Horizon Pluto flyby. She designed much of the issue.
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“Are we being efficient? Are those expenditures consistent with the priorities that we have as conservative leaders?” —House Speaker Philip Gunn on the reason behind studying the state’s tax structure and agency budgets
Wednesday, July 13 Attorney General Jim Hood says that he won’t join Gov. Phil Bryant in appealing a federal judge’s ruling that blocked a state law on religious objections to gay marriage. Thursday, July 14 Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and House Speaker Philip Gunn announce themselves as co-chairmen of a group that will study tax policies and examine state spending to make recommendations for the House and Senate to consider during the 2017 session. Friday, July 15 Mohamed Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in France, drives a large truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, killing at least 84 people before being killed by police. … Mourners attend a funeral service in Baton Rouge for Alton Sterling, the 37-year-old black man who was shot to death by two white police officers as he was pinned to the pavement outside a convenience store.
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Sunday, July 17 A black former Marine named Gavin Long ambushes police in Baton Rouge, shooting and killing three law enforcement officers and wounding three others before being killed by police. Monday, July 18 The Republican National Convention opens in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, causes a national outcry by apparently plagiarizing parts of Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech. Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.
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he Jackson City Council deliberated handing the mayor the authority to terminate the contract with the company that maintains the JATRAN fleet during its last regular meeting on July 12, while moving toward leasing more buses in August. Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes introduced the authorization legislation, which failed to pass in favor of allowing for more time for discussions between contractor National Express and the City administration. National Express responded to the council through a statement the day of the meeting, explaining the current state of the fleet. “Currently, there are 16 vehicles, of the 40 total, that are not in service due to bad engines, transmissions or turbos,” National Express stated. “From October 1, 2015, we have provided solutions and options to the City to bring the available resources to the levels necessary to provide service as published in the route schedules. We are waiting (for) the City to set direction for us.” The contractual relationship between the City of Jackson and National Express means that any large costs that are not related to maintenance, like purchasing new engines or buses, is passed on to the administration, and the council must approve the expenditures. “As soon as we receive approval from the City to move forward, we will address
Some Jackson City Council members are opposed to moving full control of JATRAN into the City as its relationship with contractor National Express sours.
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On July 11, the City of Jackson announced the date of Mayor Tony T. Yarber’s State of the City Address 2016 (Aug. 2), complete with a photo of the mayor overlooking the City of Jackson. This image inspired the Jackson Free Press staff, who felt that it looked better suited for a Grammy Award winning album. Here are some of the hot tracks coming to you from MC Tony T. this #Summer16: Running Through the 601 w/ My Furloughs
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Saturday, July 16 The Turkish government cracks down on alleged plotters of a failed military coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that killed 265 people on Friday, arresting 6,000 people, including three of the country’s top generals and hundreds of soldiers.
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Tuesday, July 12 The Cleveland School District files an appeal asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review an order that requires campus consolidations in a longrunning desegregation case. … Bernie Sanders offers his endorsement to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, calling for unity just two weeks shy of the Democratic National Convention.
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City Prodding State on ‘Bandos’ by Tim Summers Jr.
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Where the Complications Are State statutes outline the authority to transfer land ownership from the State to the municipalities. Mississippi Code 29-1-51 and 21-17-1 subsection 11, the two statutes that work together to make the transfer of land possible, give the authority first to the secretary of state or the governor to give or sell the land to the City, and then grants authority to the City to dispose of the property “because the prop-
Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. wrote a resolution that passed unanimously, urging more cooperation with the State of Mississippi to add additional blighted properties to the Neighbor’s First program. Pictured is an abandoned home at 2101 Florence Ave. in the Washington Addition.
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erty was abandoned or blighted.” The first statute even has a provision that the land does not have to be sold to the municipality. “As an alternative method to disposing of tax lands situated within a municipality, the Secretary of State, with the approval of the Governor, may transfer those lands to the municipality, which then may retain or dispose of the lands as provided by law,” the statute states.
the down buses as quickly as possible,” National Express stated, adding that one possibility is using school buses to supplement the current fleet to address missing routes. The day after the meeting, the administration delivered to the council a staggered plan, written by Director of Planning and Development Eric Jefferson, for the next two months and then for the next six months. For the six-month plan, the City intends to use Federal Transit Administration, or FTA, funds to lease up to 10 buses for a period of 18 to 24 months using grant funds that the city already has, pending approval from the federal agency. The July 13 memo from Jefferson states that before the council meeting, he and Chief Administrative Officer Gus McCoy met with the regional administrator of FTA, who confirmed to them that leasing buses with the federal dollars was permitted after proper paperwork outlining the justification. The City is currently working on the paperwork necessary for FTA approval. If the city council agrees with the plan after FTA approval, Jefferson estimated that they would have the leased buses in service by Aug. 8.
Another crucial aspect of the plan is moving the senior transportation program from JATRAN into a third-party provider. The City transferred the senior transportation program into JATRAN last year. With this plan, Human and Cultural Services would then assume the responsibility of the program, lessening the burden on JATRAN. While the council considered handing the mayor the authority to cut the contract, some members do not believe that it is the appropriate time to move the operations back into the City’s infrastructure. “I’m listening to the people that ride the bus, and I’m looking at the consequences of no bus service if we did anything quickly without the City having planned for it. We don’t have a plan right now to organize a new bus system,” newly elected council Vice President Margaret Barrett-Simon of Ward 7 said. “That’s going to take some work.” A June 19 memo from Jefferson explains that moving operations National Express currently manages would require an additional 70-plus positions within the City, a move that he wrote was “ironic at a time when the City is furloughing and considering significant layoffs.” “I would rather fix the problems with this company right now and then down the road, as quickly as we can look to an alternative,” Barrett-Simon said. “But right now no one has that alternative on the table.”
If the state agrees to the transfer, the City would place the properties into the Neighbor’s First program, which gives adjacent owners to blighted property the opportunity to purchase the lot for prices as low as $10. Von Anderson, the head of the City’s program, told the council that he would soon put the applications he has received from residents before the surplus committee for consideration. “We are in the process of doing that,” donna ladd
he City of Jackson took steps last week to prod Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s office to include some of the more than 3,000 properties under its control to the list of qualified lots under the Neighbor’s First program, the City-run effort to sell surplus property to qualified residents for as low as $10. The Jackson City Council unanimously passed a resolution during its regular meeting on July 14 to recognize “that the success of the Neighbor’s First Program depends on the Governor and the Office of the Mississippi Secretary of State agreeing to make available to this program some of the thousands of blighted and abandoned properties in the City of Jackson the State of Mississippi has title to …,” the councilapproved resolution states. Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr., who authored the resolution, said representatives from both the City and the secretary of state’s office met last week to discuss further cooperation, encouraged by past partnerships between the State and Jackson. “The secretary of state’s office has cooperated with us, and we appreciate very much their cooperation,” Priester said during the meeting, adding that he wished now that the resolution would “push” the state to add its properties to the pot. “If they participated in this program, it would be something huge for the City of Jackson,” Priester said.
Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. said he wasn’t sure that the council was receiving all the information about the costs associated with the transit system. “I think that we have been given inaccurate information about the real cost of operation, and so we make agreements thinking that the finances will flow one way, but then as the process continues we find that we have not been given accurate information about the real cost,” Priester said. “We have come to find out that the costs were not true. We would have budgeted differently.” But at least some of the council agrees on the need for a plan, both in the short term as well as for the future. “I think we need to at least look at the possibility of having a transit authority, at least strongly looking at the possibility,” Council President Tyrone Hendrix said. “Right now, the council and the administration are working together to address the problem.” But Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote said the proposed item would not have addressed the immediate needs of the citizens for reliable transportation. “But that doesn’t solve the problem,” Foote said. “What we need to be focused on is a plan of action to get the buses fully running for all the bus routes.” Email city reporter Tim Summers Jr. at tim@jacksonfree press.com. See more local news at jfp.ms/localnews.
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reports, “that in many instances, heirs do not bother to claim a property after the death of the homeowner, a phenomenon attributed to lack of economic opportunity in the area as well as the devaluation of real estate. Essentially, people told us, there is no reason for family members to obtain the title and attempt to sell a house is this part of town.” “Although there are statutory processes for the city or state to take title of these structures and destroy them or render them safe, the volume of dilapidated buildings is overwhelming,” the report continued. Hitting a Brick Wall Mayor Tony Yarber took a different tack with the money issue, highlighting the
Email city reporter Tim Summers Jr. at tim@jacksonfree press.com. See more local news at jfp.ms/localnews.
State Leaders Promise Budget, Tax Reform by Arielle Dreher
House Speaker Philip Gunn (center), Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (left) and Gov. Phil Bryant (right) announced last week that working groups of legislators will look at individual state agency budgets as well as the state’s tax code.
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tate leaders made good on their promise to form working groups to study not only the state’s tax structure but also investigate state-agency spending last week. On July 14, House Speaker Philip Gunn, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Gov. Phil Bryant, all Republicans, announced plans at the state capitol to reform government spending and tax structure. Gunn said working groups will examine the state’s tax code as well as stateagency expenditures to make sure they are staying within their means. “Are we being efficient?” he said Thursday. “Are those expenditures consistent with the priorities that we have as conservative leaders?” The speaker had announced his intention to look at the state’s tax structure at the end of the 2016 legislative session and said Thursday that part of the tax working group’s tasks will be to evaluate the host of suggested ideas lawmakers have to reform the state’s tax structure from franchise to grocery taxes. “What we favor is tax relief for citizens,” Gunn said. “We favor creating a solid plan for maintaining roads and bridges; we favor the elimination of wasteful spending—and the elimination of expenditures that we believe government should not do.” Lt. Gov. Reeves pointed to excessive agency expenditures on things like travel and office furniture as examples of mismanaged spending of state dollars. He told reporters when he ran for office in 2011 that there were about 30,000 state employees and a vehicle for almost one in four state agency workers. “We had one automobile for every four employees; that’s not the way it works in the private sector, so that’s not the way it ought to work in state government,” he told reporters after the press conference last week. Since 2011, Reeves said the number of vehicles in state agencies has gone down by 10 percent. In the 2016 legislative session, lawmakers passed the Taxpayer Pay Raise Act of 2016, which cut the state’s income, self-employment and franchise taxes over the next 12 years. It will divert approximately $415 million from the state’s general fund. Bryant applauded the Mississippi Legislature’s decision to cut the corporate franchise tax, by phasing it out over the next 12 years. The governor cited the Council of State Taxation and Forbes Magazine, which both praised cutting franchise taxes as a good idea. Forbes asked if it was the “best tax cut of the year” pointing out that “to the extent the franchise tax more REFORM, see page 11
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“In other cities, if you clean up the blight, get ownership of the lots, everything changes.”
burden the blighted property placed on the City of Jackson. “What I think Mr. Anderson is saying, at the end of the day it is just about control and the attempt to control money,” Yarber said. “We are cleaning all of their properties, so it doesn’t matter if they hold it for 48 years or for 50. They still, if they make $600 on it, that is $600 they haven’t spent anyway.” The mayor said he appreciated the council’s effort but that he was not sure how much assistance it would lend the effort in the end. “I appreciate the item on the agenda because it would assist us to try and get more property out there for our citizens to get their hands on. I don’t know what that does to help us to move forward, but we are ready,” he said. Priester reiterated his point then that if the City is going to make progress on addressing the blight, it would have to be in cooperation with the State, whether the secretary of state or the governor. “We are quickly going to hit a brick wall. We know our people want this land because they have started asking to purchase state-owned land even though it’s not in the program,” Priester said. “We have to keep pushing it.” Jim Johnston, director of the nonprofit Revitalize Jackson, told the council that if the City was able to secure some of the blighted property, his organization could take care of the clearing of the lots, saving the City much-needed capital. “We have the capacity to do 500 demolitions and clear an additional 1,000 lots with the funds and capacity we have,” Johnston said. “It could flip the pancake of Jackson. In other cities, if you can clean up the blight, get new ownership of the lots, everything changes.” The BOTEC reports outline how abandoned housing can pose a threat to safety in a community, even encouraging the drug trade. “These structures create serious public safety risks since they can be used as centers for illegal activity, as well as treacherous playhouses for children,” the study states. In a later part of the report, they outline how those in the drug trade take advantage of the combination of low housing prices and economic desperation of low-income areas of Jackson. “These houses, law enforcement officials said, were purchased and maintained for the drug trade,” the report states. “According to residents, abandoned homes may be purchased for as little as $2,500 to $5,000, making it affordable for gangs or groups to set up shop.”
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Anderson said during the council meeting. “We had 63 applications that were for Jackson properties.” Anderson said the 33 applications the City received were for state-owned properties. “But the state properties, that is a different story,” Anderson said. “That’s where the complications are.” He tried to give some insight into why the State might hesitate on the transfer of the property, focusing on the revenue that the involved parties, such as the secretary of state through sale of the property and the school board through property taxes, might lose if they “gave it away at a discounted rate.” “They think, and it may be my opinion as well at times, is that we shortchange our schools, we shortchange our county, we also shortchange the secretary of state because some of those revenues … go back to the schools, goes back to the county, and some goes back to the secretary of state.” “I think that may be where the trepidation is, honestly,” Anderson said. The secretary of state’s office did not respond to messages by press time. A study by Los Angeles-based company BOTEC Analysis and paid for by the State of Mississippi examining the sources of crime gives some explanation for the vast proliferation of blight in the city. “We were told,” the BOTEC team sent to tour Ward 3 in Jackson in 2015
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Synarus Green: I’m ‘Ready to Serve’ District 72 by Arielle Dreher
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gree in criminal justice and a master’s in early childhood education. He also has an MBA from Millsaps College. Green then went to work for U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson in Washington until Chokwe Lumumba won the mayoral election in 2013, then offering Green a job as the City’s chief administrative officer (CAO). After Lumumba’s death, Green continued to work for the City, and today he is the director of policy and intergovernmental affairs. The self-proclaimed “Yellow Dog Democrat” lives in north Jackson, three doors down from his mother, Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie Green. Why are you running to represent District 72 in the House?
This last year in representing Jackson, and even when I was CAO before, it’s been very difficult getting cities like Jackson the resources that they need, and we’ve worked hard with legislators and representatives and senators and local elected officials to try (to) collaborate. Campbell was elected last year, and the
REFORM from page 9 inhibits capital creation in the state, it’s a bad idea.” “This is not always the narrative that the people of the state of Mississippi have an opportunity to hear— they will do so,” Bryant said last week. “I am certain the three of us (the speaker, lieutenant governor and governor) in speaking opportunities around the state, we will have to go directly to the people to inform them of the facts regarding the tax cuts that will be implemented in the state of Mississippi.” Gunn said lawmakers in the tax working group will look at the Taxpayer Pay Raise Act to see how to implement and incorporate it into the state’s tax structure. “We’ve got two years to do that—hopefully, we can come up with a system that incorporates (the act),” he told reporters last week. Too Early to Have a Clue Speaker Gunn said State of Mississippi leaders have to do budget and tax reform together and work as a team in order to see how tax reform will affect revenues. He said that while working groups will start this year, the task could continue into 2017. The tax working group will hold its first meeting Aug. 1. Leaders will appoint more lawmakers to additional working groups before Aug. 1, a House spokeswoman said. Those groups will look at state agencies with large budgets like the Department of Transportation, the state’s
Synarus Green, who works as a legislative liaison for the City of Jackson, is running to take former Rep. Kimberly Campbell’s seat.
anticipation I had when I came in this year developing a legislative agenda was to work with the council and administration and develop a good, sound package that even with the lay of the political land at the Legislature, it would be something vi-
division of Medicaid and the Department of Health, among others. The Legislature budgeted for a $5.79-billion fiscalyear 2017 budget (which began July 1) to match revenue estimates. The fiscal-year 2017 revenue estimates a $130 million influx to the state’s general fund due to Senate Bill 2362, which made several state agencies general-fund agencies—not special-fund agencies. Sales tax and individual income taxes together make up more than 70 percent of the state’s general-fund revenues, the budget bulletin from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee states. So far in the fiscal-year 2017 budget, leaders admitted to a $56-million mistake in revenue estimates, but last week Lt. Gov. Reeves said it is still too early to predict what revenue will come in to meet the state’s estimates. “There’s a lot of estimates that are made in the revenue projection process, and it is way too early in the fiscal year for us to have even a clue as to whether or not we’ll meet sales taxes or income taxes (to make revenue goals),” Reeves told reporters last week. Reeves also pointed to the state’s rainy-day fund, which will still have around $300 million after Bryant dipped into it for somewhere between $50 million and $60 million to finish off fiscal-year 2016. “We have the third-largest balance in our rainy-day fund in our state’s history,” Reeves said. Bi-partisan Working Groups The working groups will have both senators and representatives in them, and Speaker Gunn said assignments were based on lawmakers’ expressed interest, chairman-
able, that they could get something out of the plan. We have a great Hinds County delegation that for the last two years I have been more GREEN , see page 13
ships or areas of expertise. State leaders announced the assignments for the taxreview panel, but not for other working groups that will look at individual agencies. Gunn said committee chairs will likely look at their respective agencies’ budgets, so for example, the transportation chairman will look at the Department of Transportation’s budget. Five Democrats serve on the 18-member tax-review panel, including Rep. Angela Cockerham, D-Magnolia, who is Energy Committee chairwoman and the chairwoman of the Legislative Black Caucus, Rep. Sonya Williams-Barnes, D-Gulfport. Most lawmakers on the tax committee serve on a finance, appropriation or revenue committee in their respective chamber. Bobby Moak, a former state representative and now chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party, applauded the leadership’s efforts to bring reform to the state’s tax structure and budgets, but said future tax-cut legislation could compound state budget problems. “The real issue here is that the ‘tax break legislation’ favoring big corporations, which leaders said would create jobs, needs to be rescinded. It would be difficult to point to one company that has located here or said they expanded due to these corporate giveaway pieces of legislation pushed by our leaders,” Moak said in a statement. “It is time to join the rest of logical and reasonable Mississippians who believe their tax dollars should be spent on services for which they were originally taxed and not given away as campaign donation prizes to elected officials’ political backers,” Moak added. For more state coverage visit jfp.ms/state. 11 July 20 - 26, 2016 • jfp.ms
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ynarus Green is no stranger to politics. He has worked government jobs in Jackson, Hattiesburg and Washington, D.C., and has decided to run for the now-vacant District 72 seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives. The seat belonged to his mother from 1992 to 1998, but her son, now 39, says his motivations for running are not necessarily familial in nature. “It’s a thankless job, and I tell people, that’s not new to me,” Green said. “In law enforcement, you learn the appreciation of knowing you can do your best 12 hours of service, and tomorrow you’ll still have to do 12 hours of service.” Green worked as a police officer, investigator and youth-court detective in Hattiesburg in the early 2000s, although his favorite role was being “Officer Friendly” as the outreach and community engagement officer for the department. Before he moved to Hattiesburg, Green also worked in the attorney general’s office and the division of Medicaid. Green graduated from Jackson State University in 1999 with an bachelor’s de-
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working to coalesce around some common ideas, and we all have those things that specifically speak to our constituencies. But I am a firm believer that there are some things that we all can agree on and even within that list, there are things that, on both sides of the aisle, we can see as a benefit to anybody. So I kind of plotted out in my mind the next four years of how we would work to build a better structure of common goals and common gains— then Campbell resigned. It was unexpected…, and it just seemed like an excellent opportunity. … (My slogan is) “prepared to lead, ready to serve.” First, it was, “He has prepared me to lead, now I’m ready to serve Him.” I genuinely believe that my unique experiences and opportunities, the level of connectivity that I have in the community, the work I’ve done in nonprofits and forprofits has prepared me for a very unique, difficult time both in Jackson’s socioeconomic history as well as the state’s. Once the position became available and the seat was vacant, it just seemed like my next guided step, so that’s kind of my “why.” What do you think District 72 needs the most?
District 72 has several public schools and we have thousands of students who are served in those public schools. Jackson, Hinds County and the state have a need for making sure that our students are provided the best educational apparatus that will yield for them the greatest opportunities. Teachers need current, relevant resources so that they can do their jobs, and MAEP (the Mississippi Adequate Education Program) needs sufficient funding. Economic development is the next big push. Are we maintaining our jobs, recruiting new jobs and helping people to keep the jobs that they have? Education to me flows into what we’re building as a civically engaged, viable workforce. Our workforce has got to be prepared to get hired for the jobs that are needed now. And the only way they can do that is if we’re providing vocational programs, giving alternative educational tracks in the public-schools system, working with STEM, and pushing kids towards engineering programs or finding kids alternatives. Building a better workforce is not just about getting hired for the jobs today, but we’ve got to also be creating job-creators. The next frontier for a lot of municipalities at least for the next 20 years is going to be infrastructure, but how we deal with
infrastructure today won’t be the same way we deal with it in 20 years. How are we giving our schools what they need so that they’re inspiring the next generation of leaders? When big industries come to town they want to make sure there’s some good churches and good places where (they) can live and buy a house and how safe is my family going to be. But where are my kids going to go to school (is) that last peg in that community. … And I think our schools have got to become better marketing tools for us. We can’t keep hitting the news as the bottom of the rung on everything, and definitely one of those things can’t be education. How would you make that happen if you were elected?
If you look at MAEP, I am a proponent of sufficient and full funding for MAEP. Making sure that schools—usually in Jackson roughly $20 (million) to $30 million is missing from the funding they would have gotten from MAEP—
to Orlando to Dallas, there is a need to have a more sound level of preparedness when it comes down to how law enforcement in the community have a level of trust so that there’s a respect on both sides. Then when it comes down to dealing with homegrown terrorism or domestic terrorism from foreign bodies (it’s important that) we have a relationship across our law-enforcement communities and that inner-operability is not an issue. The only way we do that is by providing consistent resources that public-safety officials can rely on to work on preparedness and to deal with recovery in worstcase situations. So I plan to introduce legislation that speaks to funding opportunities and collaborative opportunities for public-safety entities to work together and advance their skillsets. We need more infrastructure. The Mississippi Economic Council put out a report last year that outlined clearly what Jackson knows and what nearly $40 billion in EPA consent decrees of municipalities and counties across this country
‘How are we giving our schools what they need so that they’re inspiring the next generation of leaders?’ that type of funding has to be there. A lot of times, whatever dollars schools don’t have, whatever situation causes it whether it be underfunding, defunding or cuts to other funding programs that causes cuts on education program, whatever those schools need —if they’re going to get it, it will still be offset by the people living in those areas from ad valorem taxes. This is going back to when I was CAO for the City of Jackson. I know what the budget allocation looks like for what we had to provide for the school district. Every dollar that the schools don’t have makes it more difficult for us to provide those services to the school and to the community. By far, the funding for the schools is always going to be something that I’m going to fight for. What other policy issues are you passionate about, and if you could pick, what committees would you like to serve on?
If I could get on Finance and Insurance (committees)—the money committees—the Appropriations Committee and the newly formed Ways and Means Committee. Those are by far high-ranked for me. I like to create additional opportunities for public service. I think that if you look at in light of what’s going on in France
know. We have degrading, eroded infrastructure, and that’s from streets to water to sanitary sewer infrastructure problems that will have to be dealt with. The downside to the position we are in now is it’s taken about 100 years or 40 years for some systems to get to where it is now. We’re going to have to start finding ways for municipalities and counties to deal with these situations much more quickly than we have. Healthcare is something I’m big on: the affordability, accessibility and the quality, in any shape, form or fashion, will always be what I’m pushing for. From my time working at Medicaid, I know the benefit that Medicaid dollars and services offer to Mississippians. That has got to be sufficiently provided to people so they can take advantage of those services. Insurance has got to be more affordable, and the awareness of that affordability has got to be made available to the people who need it. I will be introducing legislation that speaks to the importance of mental-health services. When I look at the hundreds of thousands of kids across our state that have some type of mental disposition who because of some budget cuts from this year will not be receiving those services or will be receiving them in a reduced fashion, it saddens me, but it’s also a frightening
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thing for me. When the services are not available, and the funding is not set aside for them, they are out there now in a different position. With my background being in juvenile justice, I know that when kids who were (higher) at-risk, who have limited resources at home, start receiving limited or reduced services and funding from the community and from government then it puts them in a higher bracket of potential for falling between the gaps from the educational side or ending up getting caught in the justice system. That’s not my bag. And I’ll be fighting to make sure that funding for mentalhealth assistance is restored. What do you think separates you from the other candidates running for the District 72 seat?
I know that the residents of District 72 would be hard-pressed to find somebody who has the wealth of experience that I have, that has the capacity of work ethic that I have, that has the passion for people that I have and has the willingness to do the work that I have. We have a democratic society, and everybody has a right to run, so it’s not that I’m the only person who can represent District 72. I’m just saying I’m the best qualified at this turn in the road. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. The deadline for candidates to register with the secretary of state’s office in the District 72 House race is July 25. Check back for more interviews with District 72 candidates in the coming weeks and visit jfp. ms/state. The election for the District 72 seat will be held August 23. Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@ jacksonfreepress.com.
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was only 19 years old, headed to the mall with my girlfriend, and excited about attending a sorority party that night when police pulled me over for a traffic violation. Surrounded by two cops, I remember the moment he pulled out his gun and pointed it at me. As we stood stunned and confused, he yelled at us to put our hands up and get back in the car, and I could not decide what to do. Everything around me slowed down. I grew up listening to the words of my grandmother in Mississippi, who knows all too well the cost of racially motivated violence from her long days of voter’s registration organizing in the 1960s: “We had no choice. We knew we had to push for you. Now you have no choice. Now you have to push for what is to come.” All of these words, and yet, I feel like all too often, I have none. I have no words for the brutal, sensationalized deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. I have no words for the senseless murders of five police officers in Dallas following a peaceful protest for Black Lives Matter or the three officers killed in Baton Rouge. I have even fewer words for those who behave like scavengers and quickly offer the unburied bodies of these officers as evidence that a movement for the humanity of black people is a movement against others, offering us distractions in #bluelivesmatter or #alllivesmatter. It’s been 60 years since the gruesome death of Emmett Till and 60 years since the American justice system let his killers go free. Visit Sumner, Miss., and you can still see the scars of a town divided by railroad tracks and resources, a town where the Bryant and Milam family continue to hide behind their power. Now, Castile and Sterling join Emmett Till, along with countless others. Do we even know how many black bodies this country has buried? Will I join them? Will my brother? My nephew? As a child, I had read the words of Mississippi activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent beings, in America?” I was 19 years old when my life flashed before my eyes when that cop pulled his gun. Could my body be buried with the untold others and eulogized with words like, “Here lies Shannon Malone, gone, but not forgotten?” This is the America we live in. What words help us make sense of this? What words do you use to make yourself feel better about living in a country with such a high body count? What words do you post online to signal to others that you understand? What are the words you use to tell little brown girls and boys that there is a better tomorrow? My people have spent the last two weeks, or rather the last few centuries in mourning, and I demand to know: What are your words? There comes a time when words, while meant to show sympathy and support, are used as placeholders for action, placeholders for those comfortable enough to push the brink with their words but are not yet willing to sacrifice their bodies. Words that offer escape from the harsh reality of all the black bodies piling up around us. Words used before and after a Sean Bell or a Trayvon Martin, with yet another brown body in the ground who we lay words on like “rest in peace.” Rest in peace, but live in fear, humiliation or violence? What words do you use to justify another life gone too quickly? Malcolm X once said, “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” My grandmother, like her grandmother before her, hummed spirituals underneath her breath when she had no more words. In a country that has a proven history of kidnapping, beating, hanging, imprisoning, and shooting black people and using words to explain, describe, predict, and reflect on our buried, black bodies, what words do you offer up? I have none. Shannon Malone is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin and a W.K. Kellogg Community Leadership Fellow in Mississippi where she works to help 14 vulnerable children and their families. July 20 - 26, 2016 • jfp.ms
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ast week Attorney General Jim Hood declined to appeal House Bill 1523 to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in part because the state (and particularly his office) is facing the deluge of lawsuits brought on by the 2016 legislative session that ended in April. Hood released a statement saying that his office is already spending its “limited resources” on defending those cases. The state’s limited resources could and should be spent in other places, say, at the Department of Health for example, so we can bring down our ridiculously high rates of sexually transmitted infections (Mississippi has the second-highest rate of chlamydia and gonorrhea in the country, 2014 Centers for Disease Control data show.) The state’s leaders prioritize their conservative politicking above all else despite costs to the taxpayer that a federal lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood after the bill took effect July 1 will inevitably have. Back in March when the bill passed the Senate, anti-abortion language plagued the debate on a bill with nothing to do with abortion. Senate Bill 2238, now law, prevents the state’s Division of Medicaid from reimbursing Planned Parenthood (and the Jackson Women’s Health Organization) for providing family-planning services. Family planning does not equal abortion services; in fact, federal funding cannot pay for voluntary abortions (that aren’t caused by rape or incest); thus, Medicaid reimbursements rarely go toward abortions and much more often to services like birth control and sexually transmitted infection and cancer screenings. In Mississippi, there is one
Planned Parenthood clinic—that doesn’t even offer abortion as a service. “The taxpayers of the state of Mississippi do not want and should not be forced to spend money on Planned Parenthood,” Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said after the bill passed in March. “... I am committed to making Mississippi the safest place in America for an unborn child.” If taxpayer dollars were actually going to go toward funding women’s health and reducing the teen pregnancy rate, this bill should not be law. As the PP lawsuit states, “Only the neediest individuals in Mississippi are eligible to receive Medicaid coverage. In order to qualify for Mississippi Medicaid, among other requirements, an adult must be low-income and pregnant, disabled, or the parent/ caretaker of a child.” The family-planning waiver program is available to those with income at or below 194 percent of the poverty level. Mississippians on Medicaid accessing services at the state’s one Planned Parenthood clinic had been receiving services that support women’s health—unless pregnancy, disease and cancer testing don’t count. But if they do, you’ve been sold a pack of lies, Mississippi. Senate Bill 2238 will cost taxpayers dollars to defend—and more likely than not for a lost cause. Two similar laws have been ruled unconstitutional in Indiana and Arizona already. So yes, instead of spending resources offering more health services to Mississippians, conservative lawmakers have chosen to spend your money on anti-abortion politics that will likely end up in legal flames.
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Leslie McLemore II Fighting the System
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hen America continuously witnesses the murder and harassment of black folks by those who are assigned to “protect and serve,� one question pops up in my mind: Do they think we make this sh*t up? The black plight in America is welldocumented. So it is well known that systematic racism has attempted to reign supreme over African Americans, like a Mad King reigning supreme over the realm (a “Game of Thrones,� by the way), with law enforcement serving as a tool for white supremacy. It’s wielded on a daily basis for the continuation of SYSTEMIC racism. Why do I capitalize “systemic?� It’s because the SYSTEM killed Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. We can’t reduce law enforcement’s wicked impact in the African American community to just “a few bad apples.� That simplification is erroneous and harmful. Eliminating a “few bad apples� does nothing to change the system. The system is built from the foundation of slavery, and the teachings from that foundation are being passed down to the graduates of police academies every year.  In this country’s history, people in power always fight to maintain it. In order to accomplish these goals, they needed to halt the congregation of poor people. Slaves and indentured servants coming together? “I think not,� said the powerful land- and slave-owning white man. To combat these fears, they gave poor whites a semblance of power. Not true power, but an illusion of power that allowed them to police over those they were taught to believe were inferior. This mentality created sayings like, “We may be poor, but dammit, at least we’re not black.� And from this, governmentsanctioned policing quickly turned into a tool of systemic racism for white supremacy. We’ve all heard it before. “The vast majority of law enforcement in this country is good.� Well, define “good.� Are they good when you compare them to the ones who kill unarmed black people? Are they good when they ask me if I have a slew of illegal narcotics in my car during a routine traffic stop with no prior evidence that I would have said narcotics? Based on personal real-life observations, “good� is not a common characteristic many officers display, yet I am still alive. Is this a case of relativity, aka simply lowering our standards so low that as long as I am not killed, the officer can be classified as “good?� Let’s say the vast majorities are good, law-abiding officers. Why in the bloody
hell do we not hear their voices when those who are supposed to protect and serve, like them, do the exact opposite? That’s easy. The SYSTEM not only creates the bad apples, but also silences the good ones. When the good ones remain silent, it breeds the notion that individual police officers and African Americans are enemies pitted against one another. However, the true enemy of the African American is not the individual police officers but the SYSTEM. The recent shootings targeting police officers are an examples of fighting the system with violence. Innocent lives are gone because of growing hatred toward law enforcement. There are many different forms of revolution, and like Cersei (more “Game of Thrones� ), the gunmen in Dallas and Baton Rouge chose violence via vigilante vengeance. That choice is asinine. Now, let’s not get it twisted; the other extreme of nonviolent “you hit me, but I won’t hit back� tactics won’t work, either. So, the answer isn’t violence, but it’s also not letting one crack my head open while I sit there singing Negro spirituals. Well, how do we fight? Our fighting arenas reside in our pocketbooks and courtrooms. Through litigation and finances, solutions will emerge, if we are able to recognize our own power. Avenues like the courtroom and litigation will take time. To challenge the criminal-justice system is to challenge how the grand-jury process is conducted when an agent of the State is being prosecuted. Essentially, the State is prosecuting itself. Good for law enforcement, but not so good for justice and equity. Also, our spending power is vast, with African Americans accounting for $1.2 trillion in spending every year. If we threaten to cut our spending power, businesses would put so much pressure on states to pass anti-police brutality legislation that people would think Mississippi passed another anti-LGBT bill.  Complicated problems such as challenging SYSTEMS take complicated solutions. With law enforcement senselessly killing African Americans for generations, getting together at churches followed by marching and singing “We Shall Overcome� won’t work. Yes, those 1960s tactics may work in bringing awareness to one or two incidents, but until we break the SYSTEM, the names of African Americans will continue to become hashtags. Nothing more.  Leslie McLemore II is a Jackson native, now in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University School of Law and American University Washington College of Law.
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Katie Brown, who has worked at Jackson Health Care for Women as a lab assistant for 51 years, greets every patient with a hug and uses her lunch break as a chance to go across the street to Merit Health Woman’s Hospital, where she makes rounds to visit the patients there. “I just try to make them smile,” she says. “I take care of my patients the way I take care of my family.” Brown says she wanted to work for a doctor for as long as she can remember. When she was 13, her mother passed away while eight months pregnant, and losing both an unborn sibling and her mother led her to feel called “to work in a doctor’s office and help save lives,” she says. So, while still a student at Brinkley High School in Jackson in 1965, she told her school counselor, Obie Graves, that she wanted to work in a doctor’s office. When Graves went in for a scheduled surgery, he asked Dr. George Gillespie if Brown could work in his office. The doctor agreed. After interning with him for three months, Brown got a job with Dr. Walter Simmons, who was opening a women’s clinic (now, Jackson Healthcare for Women). When Brown started as a young African American woman in a clinic run by a white doctor, segregation was still intact; she remembers that African American patients came in the back door and white patients through the front. Though she’s clearly been through a lot, from losing her mother to dealing with segregation to helping raise three siblings, Brown lets her positive attitude and faith carry her through. “Everybody has problems,” she says, “but I’m in charge of my attitude. It’s all good.” She remembers that when she was “going through a hard time” as a young woman, her father’s advice was, “Do what’s in your heart; your heart never leads you wrong.” 16 —Julie Skipper
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Cherita Brent says she has been a creative person since childhood. Her mother, Angela Weathersby, who is a musician, has always pushed her to follow her heart and do what she loves. Brent, 29, graduated from Jackson State University in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications. She knew she wanted a career in radio, so she went for it. However, it took some time to get her foot through the door. “It was harder than I imagined, so I meddled in insurance for awhile; I didn’t like it,” Brent says. Dec. 19, 2011, marked the first day of her new career at Mississippi Public Broadcasting Radio. She started out as an announcer and producer and two years later was promoted to a morning-show host and producer on weekdays at 10 a.m. She works on shows such as “Now You’re Talking” with Marshall Ramsey, “In Legal Terms,” “Every Day Tech” and “Next Stop Mississippi.” Brent initially envisioned herself working in commercial radio, but she says: “I love public radio, specifically. It’s a wonderful re-
Cassandra Welchlin, co-founder and director of the Mississippi Women’s Economic Security Initiative, decided to pursue a life of service after watching her foster grandmother, social worker Eva Thompson, who took in Welchlin’s mother and her five siblings. Thompson once worked with Gwendolyn Loper, who was the first African American woman appointed to the Mississippi State Board of Mental Health. “Seeing everything my grandmother had done for my mother and aunts, I felt inspired to (serve) by that,” Welchlin says. “I also saw how a lot of systems in the state brought inequity for my family and felt like I didn’t have the tools I needed to fight for them. I decided I wanted to work to change those systems.” Welchlin graduated from Jackson State University with a bachelor’s degree in social work in 1997 before she went on to Brandeis University, where she received a graduate degree in sustainable international development in 2005. She launched the Mississippi Women’s Economic Security Initiative in 2014 with the intention of establishing
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Sandra Shelson’s zeal for health is evident. As executive director for the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, Shelson says that her main goal in her job is to advocate on behalf of children, a group often overlooked by lobbyists in the state, and everyone else. “You don’t see well-paid activists working to help children, so it became something I was passionate about,” she says. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in English from Millsaps College in 1982 and her law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1990, Shelson was a special assistant attorney general for the next 11 years, working in the Elections and Opinions Division. It was here that she realized the dire need for focus on and revision of children’s overall health. “(There) was a lot of violence surrounding children at the time, and I wanted to figure out what it was that made these young people turn to such violence,” Shelson says. This experience drove her transition to the partnership in 2004. She
quickly began finding new ways to educate policy makers, the general public and children on how to advocate for their own health. “People think individuals who are unhealthy are choosing to be, but if you don’t have access to the right outlets, where is your choice?” she says. Being a wife to her husband, Jim, and mother of two, daughter Carlisle and son Tucker, has not slowed Shelson down. She currently sits on several regional and national planning committees and has served on many boards, including the Boys and Girls Club of the Mississippi Delta and has previously served as the president of organizations such as Junior League of Jackson and the Rotary Club of Jackson. Helped by her work, she says, the high-school smoking rate has dropped from 35 percent to around 10 percent, and children’s recreational and mentorship organizations have doubled throughout the state. She says she is constantly working for the nonprofit to keep its doors open in order that she can continue her work to improve Mississippi’s condition. “I hope to encourage people to be passionate about health,” Shelson says. “It’s not just about the quantity of life … it’s also about the quality.” —Danie Matthews Imani Khayyam
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source. I find myself listening even when I’m not at work.” Outside of work, she is known for her music and stand-up comedy. When she is not playing drums in her spare time, she performs as a stand-up comedian in and out of the state. Though she’s always had a love for comedy, she has been doing it since 2013. Some of her influences include Dave Chappelle and Wanda Sykes. Those interested can catch Brent, known on stage and social media as Rita B., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.) on July 30 at 8 p.m. as part of the Capitol City Summer Comedy Jam. For more information, find Brent as The Rita B. Show on Facebook. —Jacquelynn Pilcher
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Arilma “Addy” Keith is the youngest of nine siblings who grew up in a poor environment in Brazil. That experience allowed her to nurture her heart for community work, the Latin community and the banking industry. She came to Mississippi in 2000 after obtaining her bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Federal University of Alagoas while in Brazil. She got her master’s degree in business administration and English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Not too long after obtaining her master’s degree, she worked for Bancorp South for the next 12 years and now serves as the vice president at Community Bank in Madison. “I learned the business,” Keith said. “It was a bit of a journey. It wasn’t just a click; it took time.” For her, the banking industry is, for the most part, a man’s business, but she understands that just like any other woman, she has to work and show that women can accomplish their goals. Aside from banking, Keith loves working with the Latin community. She serves as the treasurer of the Latin American Business Association, or LABALink, and helps coordinate Latinfest, which is an annual event that is held in Canton in October. Keith says she has learned that by giving 110 percent in effort, having a high standard of ethics, treating people right, showing them respect and giving them their time, loyal relationships are developed, no matter the community. “You cannot give up on trying,” Keith says. “Thrive every day. Keep God first, and the rest will follow.” —Morgan Carol Gallon
For the last three years, Silver Spring, Md., native and clinical psychologist Kelly Buckholdt has been using her skills to give therapy and care at the GV Sonny Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson to women who have previously served our country. Buckholdt has used her background in child and family therapy to use evidence-based treatment and research to help nurture the needs of female veterans with mental-health issues caused by sexual abuse, rape and other combat-induced trauma. “What I do really fits with the women of the VA because child and family therapy focuses on relationships, raising families, and balancing a home and work life,” she says. “We like to make the transition as easy as possible for them. At the VA, we have the opportunity to tackle mental-health issues, along with their other issues, instead of that person making several appointments.” Buckholdt is the only female mental-health provider devoted to female veterans at the VA and says that the growing female veteran population has a huge need for the programs she offers. The opportunity to work with women veterans fuses her interest in trauma recovery and her background in child and family therapy. “The VA is very aware of the issues facing women veterans, and the group therapy has been very helpful,” she says. “We will continue to offer new programs that have never been used before, and we plan on continuing to work with women of the armed forces who have suffered from military sexual abuse and trauma.” Along with her therapy, she has started a domestic-violence screening. Buckholdt would like both male and female veterans of the Jackson area to call or come by the Veterans Affairs office to find out what programs are available, because programs and treatment for all health needs are always being added to benefit the veterans of all ages in the Jackson area. —Greg Pigott
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Even though Velesha P. Williams is retired, she says her work isn’t over. Up until June 30, she served as the director for the Metro Jackson Community Prevention Coalition, which is a community-based substance-abuse prevention organization that Jackson State University funds. Williams is originally from St. Louis, Mo., although she moved to Mississippi with her family when she was 13. After graduating from Jackson State University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice in 1983, she was commissioned into the U.S. Army as an officer. She was a platoon leader in Germany, a project officer and company commander in Maryland, and an acting inspector general at Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, Texas. After receiving early release from the Army, she and her 20 husband, Bennett, returned to Missis-
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to do in the military was be a company commander, and I did that. I felt like I achieved the things I wanted to do.” Williams says she’s always had a servant heart, starting with her service in the army. Because she had a degree in criminal justice, she envisioned herself working in that field. When she returned to Mississippi, she pursued her master’s degree in criminology and justice service at JSU, graduating in 1996. She originally wanted to work for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, but she says God had another plan. She joined the coalition as a program coordinator in 1996. “I enjoyed the work I was doing, but more than that, I felt that it had a great need and was serving a great purpose,” she says. Around 1999, she became the director of the organization. In her time there, she says it has helped youth learned lessons such as refusal skills when it comes to drugs, and communication and anger management skills. She says the organization has impacted thousands of students who have gone through the evidence-
based programs such as summer camps and summer-enhancement programs and training in schools such as Galloway Elementary School and organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club. The organization has also been able to reach areas in Mississippi such as the Delta. “One of the things a lot of folks are challenged with is, ‘How do you know that prevention works?’ And that what you did specifically impacted,” she says. “Sometimes it’s hard to put a pulse on what you’ve done, but I can say undeniably that we have impacted tens of thousands of young people. … I think that metro Jackson has been a beacon of light for so many to show that there is an organization, there are people who care, who love them and who want to point them in the right direction.” For now, she says she’s going to relax and enjoy life, but eventually, she’ll get back into community service. She has two children—Felicia Roshell and Bennett J. Williams II—and one grandson, Kobe. —Amber Helsel
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LIFE&STYLE | food&drink
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ichael Mosley describes the menu at 1693 Red Zone Grill as multicultural. “It’s New Orleans-style, but I threw a little twist on it,” he says. “Italian, French, Jamaican—you can find a lot of everything in there.” After searching for a job in the sociology field fresh off graduating from Jackson State University, Mosely decided to try his hand in the restaurant business. He opened a New Orleans-style grill in Jackson and named it 1693 Red Zone Grill, located off Beasley Road next to Quest Fitness Club and Farm Bureau, five months ago. The 29-year-old is the head chef and owner.
just love cooking, and letting people taste my creations.” Even if an item is not on the menu, Courtesy Red Zone Grill
In the Red Zone
Mosely comes from a long line of cooks in his family and has been cooking since he was 13 years old. “It’s a family thing,” he says. “I used to sit, and anybody who was cooking in the kitchen, I use to pay attention to that, and I just pick up that stuff easily.” Most of the men in his family were cooks and chefs, so it was always a challenge for him to cook the best dish in the family. After graduating from JSU in August 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, he left the metro area to move to New Orleans. While there, he began cooking at various restaurants. Within two years, he began running the kitchen of a five-star restaurant. Mosely moved back to Mississippi two years later because his wife, Kenita Mosely, wanted to finish college at JSU. After cooking at a few restaurants in Jackson, he says he became even more talented with creating dishes with ease. “I got to a point when I was like, why not try to do my own thing? I’ve been working on that for a year, and it finally was able to come through,” he says. “... I
1693 Red Zone Grill serves a variety of New Orleans-style dishes, including gumbo.
Mosely says he will create a dish just to meet his customers’ needs. He says he is here for the love of cooking, not the material value that his gifts bring. “It’s not really about the money
for me,” he says. “I just love their reaction when they first taste it.” The restaurant has pastas, stir-fry dishes, po’boys, wings and pizza. At the moment, his top–selling dishes include grilled cabbage, jerk chicken po’boys, steak and mushroom Alfredo pasta, and Bourbon Street burger. He hopes to expand to other locations with his business partner, Willie Moore, who runs Quest Fitness next door, with each new location having a new menu. Through commercials, radio, social media and word-of-mouth advertisement, the restaurant has gained local and national popularity. “A guy ... came in from Brandon, said he’s been hearing about this place down there,” he says. “People come in from south Jackson. (A few weeks) weeks ago a lady came from Portland. She just Googled a good place to have lunch, and this popped up.” For more information, find 1693 Red Zone Grill (1693 Beasley Road, 769-5246803) on Facebook and Instagram or visit 1693redzonegrill.com.
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‘Avenue Q’: Puppets with Purpose
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Fondren Theatre Workshop’s production of “Rocky Horror Show” shortly after moving, and during the rehearsal process, Harris mentioned to actress Mandy Kate Myers that he had previously acted in “Avenue Q” in San Antonio and would love to direct it one day. A few months later, FTW co-founder Diana Howell asked him to do just that. Harris says he fell in love with the musical while living Imani Khayyam
puzzled puppet bounces down a New York City street—one that isn’t quite up to the “Sesame” code. His name is Princeton, and he’s looking for his purpose, though a job would be a good start. Then, out from behind some nearby buildings come two adorable harbingers of poor judgment, the Bad Idea Bears, who tell Princeton that he should use what little money he has to celebrate. After some debate, he gives into peer pressure, and the bears scurry off to cause mischief elsewhere. It’s a setup one might find on any of the puppet-led educational programs that have popped up over the years. However, unlike characters on children’s TV, when Princeton and the felt-covered cast in Tony Award-winning musical “Avenue Q” learn lessons, they tend to be on less kid-friendly topics, including sexuality, racism and unemployment. While the result is undoubtedly funny, it’s also raw and honest. Fondren Theatre Workshop brings the play to local audiences July 2224 and July 28-30 at Actor’s Playhouse in Pearl. “There are some people who consider ‘Avenue Q’ to be ‘Sesame Street’ meets ‘South Park,’ and that’s an easy way to identify it, but I think that’s a little oversimplified,” director Josh Harris says. “Yes, there is some satire to it and lessons that we don’t necessarily agree with about the purpose of the Internet and people’s natural attitudes toward each other, but it does teach some valuable lessons, as well. “No matter what your problems may be, they’re temporary; and I hate to quote a number from the show, but, ‘There is life outside your apartment.’” Harris, who is in active service with the United States Army, relocated to Jackson in summer 2015. While his work means that he and his wife, Jenn Harris, move every two to three years, the pair has always managed to take part 22 in the theater wherever they landed. They got involved with
by Micah Smith
Allen Dillon and Claire Mayronne play the Bad Idea Bears, who cause trouble for Tommy Pittman’s character, Princeton, in Fondren Theater Workshop’s “Avenue Q” at Actor’s Playhouse in Pearl from July 22-24 and July 28-30.
in Brooklyn when it came out in 2003, drawn to its comedy and heartfelt songs, such as “There’s a Fine, Fine Line” and “I Wish I Could Go Back to College.” For FTW’s production of “Avenue Q,” Harris wanted to find actors who could perform the songs with Broadway quality while also captur-
ing the character-voice elements of children’s puppet shows. The cast includes Myers as Kate Monster, Tommy Pittman as Princeton, Joseph Strode as Rod, JC Patterson as Nicky, Richard Lawrence as Trekkie Monster, Claire Mayronne and Allen Dillon as the Bad Idea Bears, Robbie Looney as Brian, Jenn Harris as Christmas Eve, Clif Hogan as Ricky, and Taylor White as “Diff’rent Strokes” star Gary Coleman, an apartment superintendent. Taylor Dunn is the understudy for Kate Monster, and Hogan is the understudy for Brian. One difficulty in the production is that the actors had to learn to use a puppet as an extension of self, he says. While his usual rehearsal schedule would tackle blocking and choreography in a week, “Avenue Q” took about three weeks, letting actors run the play without puppets before plugging them in. To help with that, Harris brought in puppeteers Peter Zapletal of the Emmy Award-winning children’s show “Ticktock Minutes” and Keri Horn of Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s “Ed Said.” Handling the puppets well allows the play to be fun and crass, Harris says, but it helps it feel real enough to forget that the characters are just felt and foam. “There are people who, no matter how hard you try, will walk away and go, ‘Wow, that was funny; I really enjoyed seeing all those puppets doing adult things,’ and that’s fine,” he says. “Far be it for me to tell an audience what to think. But if at least one person a night leaves thinking, ‘I had no idea puppets could be so human,’ or, ‘What a neat way to teach these lessons,’ I really think we’ll have done our jobs.” Fondren Theatre Workshop’s “Avenue Q” runs at 7:30 p.m. July 22-24 and July 28-30, with performances at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, and Saturday, July 30, at Actor’s Playhouse (121 Paul Truitt Lane, Pearl). General admission is $15, and VIP admission is $20. The play is for mature audiences. For more information, visit fondrentheatreworkshop.org.
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THURSDAY 7/21
FRIDAY 7/22
SATURDAY 7/23
Donald Ray Pollock signs copies of “The Heavenly Table” at Lemuria Books.
The Platinum Productions Barrel Racing Competion is at Kirk Fordice Equine Center.
Coffee and Vibes is at M7 Coffee in Ridgeland.
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WEDNESDAY 7/20
The stäge test kitchen is from 6:30 p.m. to 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. … The 2016 Highway 80 Songwriters Fest: Opening Night is from 7 to 11 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St.). The purpose of the event is to provide education in the craft of songwriting, and to support the creative economy. Includes workshops and performances. Also happening concurrently in Meridian and Demopolis, Ala. Free; call 948-0888; email jane@halandmals.com; find the event on Facebook.
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Museum After Hours: Find & Refine is from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The pop-up exhibit features works made with found ma-
Lauren Miltner of Lo Lady Fashion is one of several Jackson artists featured in Museum After Hours: Find & Refine, which takes place Thursday, July 21, at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
FRIDAY 7/22
“Avenue Q” is at 7:30 p.m. at Actor’s Playhouse (121 Paul Truitt Lane, Pearl). Fondren Theatre Workshop presents the Tony Award-winning, Sesame Street-style musical about puppets who search for their life’s purpose. Additional dates: July 23, 2 p.m., July 23-24, 7:30 p.m., July 28-29, 7:30 p.m., July 30, 2 p.m., July 30, 7:30 p.m. $15-$20; call 601-3012281; fondrentheatreworkshop.org.
SATURDAY 7/23
The Blender 7 is at 9 p.m. at Big Sleepy’s (208 W. Capitol St.). Elegant Trainwreck Productions and Homework by Micah Smith Town Records are the hosts. Enjoy music from 5th Cox, featuring Cody Cox and 5th Child, jacksonfreepress.com Lisbon Deaths, Daniel Francis Fax: 601-510-9019 Doyle and Clouds & Crayons. Daily updates at Doors open at 8 p.m. For all ages. jfpevents.com $5; bigsleepys.com. … Young Valley and Cory Taylor Cox perform at 10 p.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). Young Valley is an alternative-country quartet based in Jackson, and Cox is a singer-songwriter based in Nashville. Admission TBA; call 601-354-9712; martinslounge.net.
Abernathy’s “The Disappearing Act.” Additional dates: July 21-23, 7:30 p.m. $10; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org. … Candlebox Acoustic is at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Kevin Martin of Candlebox plays a special acoustic show. Hugh Mitchell also performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.
MONDAY 7/25
“Crazy for You” Auditions are from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). Production dates for the romantic comedy music are Sept. 15-18 and Sept. 22-25. Additional date: July 26, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org.
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events@ TUESDAY 7/26
Jackson-based rapper 5th Child performs a collaboration with singer-songwriter Cody Cox at The Blender 7, Saturday, July 23, at Big Sleepy’s.
terials from Lo Lady Fashion, Scott Sorensen, Anne Campbell, Robeka Steam, Lesley Collins, Rhonda Blasingame and D+P Design Build. Enjoy music from DJ Young Venom and DJ Brik-A-Brak and purchase food from Pop Culture Pops and a ‘sipp Sourced pop-up menu from chef Nick Wallace. 24 Free, cash bar; call 960-1515; msmuseumart.org.
SUNDAY 7/24
A Night of One Acts by Local Playwrights is at 2 p.m. at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). Shows include Brenda Black’s “The Makeover,” Chris Moore’s “Mother of the House,” Keith Hill’s “Vapors” and Cheryl
ADI Expo Jackson is from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). ADI is a leading global distributor of security and low-voltage products. Seminar topics include commercial audio-system design, IP video intercoms, carbon-monoxide detection, upgrading and up-selling surveillance systems, and more. Includes vendors, special sales and prize giveaways. Free (industry professionals only); call 601-957-2800; adiglobal.us.
WEDNESDAY 7/27
History Is Lunch: Sally Palmer Thomason is at noon at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). The author discusses her book, “Delta Rainbow: The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson,” about the Mississippi civil-rights activist. $26 book; call 601-576-6998.
Zoo Keeper’s Week July 20-22, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The zoo recognizes zoo and aquarium professionals during the annual observance. Included with admission ($10.25, discounts for seniors and children, members free); call 601-352-2580; jacksonzoo.org. Events at William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.) • History Is Lunch: Patricia Michelle Boyett July 20, noon. The author discusses her book, “Right to Revolt: The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi’s Central Piney Woods.” Free; call 601576-6998. • History Is Lunch: Sally Palmer Thomason July 27, noon. The author discusses her book, “Delta Rainbow: The Irrepressible Betty Bobo Pearson.” Free; call 601-576-6998. Legal Compliance for Nonprofits July 20, 1-3 p.m., at Mississippi Center for Nonprofits (201 W. Capitol St., Suite 700). Learn the regulatory requirements for nonprofit organizations. Registration required. $99, $69 members; call 601-9680061; msnonprofits.org. Bebe Moore Campbell Minority Mental Health Town Hall Meeting July 23, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). At Center Stage. The topic is children’s mental health issues. Free; call 982-8467; email williemannreed@gmail.com. Neon Nights July 23, 7-11 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). The event for adults includes food trucks, live music and lighted outdoor pathways. For ages 21 and up. Admission TBA; call 601-981-5469; mschildrensmuseum.org. Prayer for Peace and Healing July 24, 5 p.m., at Fondren Presbyterian Church (3220 Old Canton Road). The community meeting is to pray for peace and healing for the victims, survivors and families affected by recent tragedies. Free; call 601-982-3232. ADI Expo—Jackson July 26, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). ADI is a leading global distributor of security and low-voltage products. Seminar topics include commercial audio-system design, IP video intercoms, carbon-monoxide detection, upgrading and upselling surveillance systems, and more. Includes vendors, special sales and prizes. Free (industry professionals only); call 957-2800; adiglobal.us.
KIDS Art is Word July 22, 7-10 p.m., at Big Sleepy’s (208 W. Capitol St.). Inspire Jackson hosts the open mic for youth who are poets, musicians or performance artists. Includes music from DJ Spre. If you are performing with a music track, please provide a flash drive. $5 cover, $3 to perform; call 863-9516; facebook.com/inspirejacktown. Magic Mondays July 25, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). The museum is normally closed on Mondays but is open for extra hours of inspiration. Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months free); call 601-981-5469; mschildrensmuseum.org.
FOOD & DRINK Campbell’s Bakery Madison Grand Opening July 20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at Campbell’s Bakery, Madison (123 Jones St., Madison). The grandopening event includes free cake, $1 teacakes, free coffee, face-painting and more. Free; call 769-3002790; campbellsbakery.ms.
stäge test kitchen July 20, 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. ‘sipp Sourced with Chef Nick Wallace July 21, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., July 21, 5:30 p.m., July 22-23, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Order from a pop-up menu featuring products from Mississippi sources. Food prices vary; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. Tiki Tuesday July 21, 4-9 p.m., at Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Ave., Suite 201). Enjoy tikiinspired food and drinks on the patio on third Thursdays. Food for sale; call 601-982-2899; saltinerestaurant.com.
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STAGE & SCREEN Ritz on the River July 21, 5:30 p.m., at Vicksburg Convention Center (1600 Mulberry St., Vicksburg). The dinner show is at 6:30 p.m. (advance tickets only), and the main program is at 8 p.m. Rupert’s Orchestra performs. A portion of the proceeds benefit Vicksburg’s Leader In Me Initiative. $50 dinner show; concert only: $20 in advance, $25 day of show, $15 students; call 800-7453000; vicksburgccevents.com.
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“Delivered” Dinner Theater July 21, 7-9 p.m., at Lost Pizza Company, Ridgeland (Trace Station, 500 Highway 51, Ridgeland). The Detectives present the interactive comedy. Includes a threecourse meal. RSVP. For ages 18 and up. $34; call 601-291-7444 or 601-937-1752; thedetectives.biz.
The Blender 7 July 23, 9 p.m., at Big Sleepy’s (208 W. Capitol St.). Enjoy music from 5th Cox, featuring Cody Cox and 5th Child, Lisbon Deaths, Daniel Francis Doyle and Clouds & Crayons. For all ages. $5; bigsleepys.com.
the best in sports over the next seven days by Bryan Flynn
July tends to be a slow sports month, with Major League Baseball taking center stage. As the month comes to a close, NFL training camps begin, and the Rio Olympics appear around the corner. Thursday, July 21 NFL (6-7 p.m., ESPN): Soon-to-be Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre sits down with Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden for the SportsCenter special, “Gruden’s QB Camp— Brett Favre.” Friday, July 22 Soccer (8-10 p.m., ESPN): The U.S. Women’s National Team prepares for Rio with a friendly match against Costa Rica. Saturday, July 23 UFC (3-5 p.m., FOX):. Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm takes on Valentina Shevchenko at the United Center in Chicago. Sunday, July 24 AFL (8-10:30 p.m., ESPN2): Get more of your football fix with some Arena League Football, as the Cleveland Gladiators face the Arizona Rattlers.
SPORTS & WELLNESS Nourish Your Noggin Educational Series July 21, 10-10:45 a.m., at St. Catherine’s Village (200 Dominican Drive, Madison). Attendees learn strategies for maintaining a healthy brain, signs of dementia and caregiver tips. Free; call 601-9870020; email ms-info@alz.org. Platinum Productions Barrel Racing Competition July 22-24, at Kirk Fordice Equine Center (1207 Mississippi St.). Equestrians compete for cash prizes. Competitors must register. Free for spectators; platinumproductionsbarrelracing.com. Let’s Get Fit! Mondays-Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. through Oct. 28, at Vergy P. Middleton Community Center (3971 N. Flag Chapel Road). The City of Jackson’s Department of Parks and Recreation is the host. Holidays excluded. Free; call 601-960-1904 after 3 p.m.
CONCERTS & FESTIVALS
Monday, July 25 College football (3-4:30 p.m., ESPN3): Get a preview of the 2016 Southern Miss season with the 2016 C-USA West Division Show. Tuesday, July 26 MLB (6-9 p.m., ESPN): It is the battle to see who is the Windy City’s best MLB team, as the Chicago Cubs face off against the Chicago White Sox. Wednesday, July 27 College sports (midnight-midnight, SECN): Mississippi State University takes over the SEC Network all day, featuring a look back at various sports, updates and previews. We are 16 days away from the start of the Rio Olympics and 18 days from the NFL Hall of Fame Game. In the words of former WWE announcer Jim Ross, “Business is about to pick up.” Follow Bryan Flynn at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports and at facebook.com/jfpsports.
Events at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon) • A Night of One Acts by Local Playwrights July 21-23, 7:30 p.m., July 24, 2 p.m. Shows include Brenda Black’s “The Makeover,” Chris Moore’s “Mother of the House,” Keith Hill’s “Vapors” and Cheryl Abernathy’s “The Disappearing Act.” $10; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org. • “Crazy for You” Auditions July 25-26, 6-7:30 p.m. Production dates for the romantic comedy music are Sept. 15-18 and Sept. 22-25. Free; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org. “Avenue Q” July 22, 7:30 p.m., July 23, 2 p.m., July 23-24, 7:30 p.m., July 28-29, 7:30 p.m., July 30, 2 p.m., July 30, 7:30 p.m., at Actor’s Playhouse (121 Paul Truitt Lane, Pearl). Fondren Theatre Workshop presents the musical about puppets searching for their purpose. $15-$20; call 601-301-2281; fondrentheatreworkshop.org.
• Dialogue July 21, 7:30 p.m. The Chicago tribute band performs. $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $3 surcharge for under 21; ardenland.net. • Candlebox Acoustic July 24, 8 p.m. Kevin Martin of Candlebox plays a special acoustic show. Hugh Mitchell also performs. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; ardenland.net.
2016 Highway 80 Songwriters Fest: Royal Round July 23, 2-4 p.m., July 23, 4:30-6:30 p.m., July 23, 7-9:30 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Includes a songwriting workshop with Dr. Alphonso Sanders at 2 p.m., an all-ages open mic at 4:30 p.m. (original material only) and the Royal Round with Sanders, Robert Daniels, Sydney Beaumont and Michael Hughes. Free; find the event on Facebook. Coffee and Vibes July 23, 5 p.m., at M7 Coffee (111 N. Wheatley St., Ridgeland). Enjoy coffee and music from Calligraphy. Free, tips welcome; find the event on Facebook. Remember When Hip-Hop Was Cool? July 23, 9 p.m., at Soul Wired Cafe (111 Millsaps Ave.). Enjoy music from Dee Wile and local independent artists. For ages 18 and up. Six slots are available for performers to sign up. $5 until midnight; call 601-790-0864.
LITERARY & SIGNINGS “The Heavenly Table” July 21, 5 p.m., at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Donald Ray Pollock signs books. $27.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.
EXHIBIT OPENINGS Events at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.) • Museum After Hours: Find & Refine July 21, 5:30-9:30 p.m. The pop-up exhibit features artwork made with found objects and materials. Enjoy music from DJ Young Venom and DJ BrikA-Brak and purchase food from Pop Culture Pops and a ‘sipp Sourced pop-up menu. Free, cash bar; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org. • Daringly Different Interactive Tour July 21, 6-7:30 p.m. Join MMA’s daniel johnson, Julian Rankin and Caitlin Podas for an interactive tour of the exhibit “When Modern Was Contemporary.” RSVP. $20, $8 members; msmuseumart.org.
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K. Gautier: Passion Prevails
JULY 20 - Wednesday
Courtesy Kody Gautie
which he self-produced in his home before recording vocals, violin and drums at Blue Sky Studios. Parafonic Recording Studio in Orlando, Fla., mixed the album, and Los Angeles-based studio Elysian Masters handled the mastering. Although Gautier worked on the album for about six months, he says the process was really a completion of a dream that he’d had for several years. Many of the lyrics from the album are an amalgamation of poetry that he wrote during his sophomore year at Mississippi State University, a time when he was simultaneously dealing with depression, finding his identity and purpose, and growing in his Christian faith. “It was a huge blend of where my relationship with God was real for the first time, and I was also able to understand the universe in a huge way,” he says. “… With that, I really started trying to hone in on what my talents were, why I’m here on the Earth and why I’m alive. I love music, and I can perceive it and experience it in Singer-songwriter K. Gautier’s debut solo album, “The Prevailing,” is available Friday, July 22. a cool way, and it’s almost an escape for me, writing and just listening to music.” Prevailing,” which hits digital retailers Fri- That “cool way” of perceiving music day, July 22, sees him taking the creative is called synesthesia, a sensory phenomreigns. Gautier says listeners will find ele- enon that causes Gautier to sees sounds ments of the ambiance that he provided visually, often as moving shapes, colors on Seeker & Servant’s previous albums, and textures. While he’s had synesthesia 2014’s “Into Your Love, I Go” and 2015’s for as long as he can remember, he only “You Alone Forever,” but this latest offer- discovered that it wasn’t a common trait ing allowed him to place more of himself during a psychology course at MSU. He in the music. says it would often help during the writ “I had always been making stuff on ing for “The Prevailing,” which tends to my own, and when I started working veer toward the cinematic, with sweeping with Seeker & Servant, it was awesome, synth and string arrangements. but it was never music that was com- “A lot of it is, when I’m writing, I’ll pletely me,” Gautier says. “I always had feel something that’s missing and want to this stuff in the back of my head, and fill that gap,” he says. “I would say that at the time, I just didn’t have the time everything ends up being almost like a to devote to it. I was always putting in soundtrack to what’s in my head, what I’m time with Seeker & Servant, but I always actually seeing.” thought there was just so much more I The only downside to his style of songwanted to do.” writing is that many of the songs would take Between his commitment to his wife, a collection of about 15 musicians to perShannon, and his full-time job as an indus- form in a live concert setting, Gautier says. trial sales representative for American Sup- “I don’t think I’ll be playing any live ply Company in Pearl, Gautier wasn’t able shows unless they’re acoustic, so I’ve got to to make the shift to a steady tour sched- figure out creative ways to sell some CDs,” ule with the Wood brothers following the he says with a laugh. release of “You Alone Forever.” His time K. Gautier’s “The Prevailing” is availaway from Seeker & Servant ultimately able Friday, July 22, on most online music gave him the freedom to work on his retailers and at kgautier.bandcamp.com. For own music, resulting in “The Prevailing,” more information, visit kodygautier.com.
JULY 21 - Thursday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Duling Hall - Dialogue (Chicago Tribute) $20 advance $25 door ardenland.net Fenian’s - Spirits of the House Fitzgerald’s - Travelin’ Jane 7:30 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jason Turner Georgia Blue, Madison - Aaron Coker Hal & Mal’s - Brotherly Love 6-8 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - Andrew Pates 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Greenfish 6:30 p.m. free MS Museum of Art - Remix the Remix feat. DJ Young Venom & DJ Brik-A-Brak 8 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Steele Heart 6:30 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m. free Soulshine, Flowood - Steve Chester 7 p.m. Soulshine, Ridgeland - Andrew Dillon 7 p.m. Sylvia’s - Thursday Night Live feat. The Blues Man & Sunshine McGhee 9 p.m. free Table 100 - Charles Scott 5 p.m.; Andy Henderson 6-9 p.m.
JULY 22 - Friday Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Burnham Road 8 p.m. free Big Sleepy’s - Living Together, Nossiens & Alex Fraser 8-11 p.m. $5 all ages Burgers & Blues - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6 p.m. Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. F. Jones Corner - Amazing Lazy Boi midnight $10 Fenian’s - Cooper Miles Fitzgerald’s - Luckenbach (Willie Nelson Tribute) 7:30 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - Aaron Coker Georgia Blue, Madison - Shaun Patterson
JULY 23 - Saturday Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Jarekus Singleton 8 p.m. $10 Arts Center of MS - Highway 80 Songwriters Fest: Original-Music Open Mic 4:30 p.m.; Royal Round feat. Alphonso Sanders, Sydney Beaumont & Michael Hughes 7 p.m. Big Sleepy’s - Blender 7 feat. 5th
Shucker’s - Sofa Kings (deck) 3:30 p.m. free; Hairicane 8 p.m. $5; Brian Jones (deck) 10 p.m. free Soulshine, Ridgeland - Thomas Jackson 7:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6-9 p.m.
JULY 24 - Sunday Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Duling Hall - Candlebox & Hugh Mitchell $25 advance $30 door ardenland.net The Hideaway - Mike & Marty’s Jam Session Kathryn’s - Travelin’ Jane 6 p.m. free Pelican Cove - May Day noon; Waylon Halen 5 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads (deck) 3:30 p.m. free Sombra Mexican Kitchen - John Mora 11 a.m. Table 100 - Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m. Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.
JuLY 25 - Monday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Crocker 7:30 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society (rest) 7 p.m. Kathryn’s - Stevie Cain 6:30 p.m. free Martin’s - Open Mic Free Jam 10 p.m. Pelican Cove - Jason Turner 6:30 p.m. Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6-9 p.m.
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7/22 - The Devil Wears Prada - House of Blues, New Orleans 7/22 - Brian Wilson - Horseshoe Tunica Hotel & Casino 7/23 - Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa & more - Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Pelham, Ala. 7/23 - Nigel Hall Band - Tipitina’s, New Orleans 7/27 - Leon Russell - Vinyl Music Hall, Pensacola, Fla.
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hile singer-songwriter Kody Gautier is somewhat new to the metro-area music scene as a solo artist, he’ll undoubtedly be a familiar face for fans of Jacksonbased Christian act Seeker & Servant. For just over two years, Gautier has served as the percussionist and synth player for the worship band, alongside brothers Cameron and Chandler Wood. Gautier’s upcoming solo debut, “The
Big Sleepy’s - Infernal Coil, Suitcase Bomber & Surfwax 8 p.m. $5 all ages Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fitzgerald’s - Sonny Brooks, Rick Moreira & Chris Link 7:30 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Highway 80 Songwriters Fest Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m. free Kemistry - Open Mic Night 9 p.m. 601-665-2073 McB’s - Chasin’ Dixie 8 p.m. Pelican Cove - Shaun Patterson 6:30 p.m. Shucker’s - David Moore Band 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Charles Scott 5-9 p.m.
The Hideaway - Scarab (Journey Tribute) 9 p.m. $15 Iron Horse Grill - James Bell Trio 9 p.m. Kathryn’s - Amanda Jones & the Pieces 7 p.m. free M Bar - Flirt Fridays feat. DJ T. Lewis free Martin’s - The Dexateens 10 p.m. McB’s - May Day 8 p.m. Pelican Cove - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 7 p.m. Pop’s Saloon - Dylan Moss Band Shucker’s - Steele Heart 5:30 p.m. free; Hairicane 8 p.m. $5; Jason Turner (deck) 10 p.m. free Soulshine, Flowood - Andy Tanas 7 p.m. Soulshine, Ridgeland - Barry Leach 8 p.m. Table 100 - Charles Scott 5 p.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6-9 p.m. WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m.
Courtesy Clouds & Crayons
by Micah Smith
Music listings are due noon Monday to be included in print and online listings: music@jacksonfreepress.com.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
My friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 12-year-old daughter Brianna got a B on her summer school math test. She might have earned an A if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for a problem her teacher had with some of her work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You got the right answer by making two mistakes that happened to cancel each other out,â&#x20AC;? he wrote on her paper next to question seven. I suspect you will soon have a similar experience. Leo. But the difference between you and Brianna is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m giving you an A. All that matters in the end is that you succeed. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care if your strategy is a bit funky.
Have you ever fantasized about being a different gender or race or astrological sign? Do you suspect it might be fun and liberating to completely change your wardrobe or your hairstyle or your body language? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to experiment with these variables, and with any others that would enable you to play with your identity and mutate your self-image. You have a cosmic exemption from imitating what you have done in the past. In this spirit, feel free to read all the other signsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; horoscopes, and act on the one you like best. Your word of power is â&#x20AC;&#x153;shapeshifter.â&#x20AC;?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
The Golden Goose Award is given annually to â&#x20AC;&#x153;scientists whose work may have been considered silly, odd or obscure when first conducted,â&#x20AC;? but which ultimately produced dramatic advances. Entomologists Raymond Bushland and Edward Knipling were this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s winners. More than 60 years ago, they started tinkering with the sex life of the screwworm fly in an effort to stop the pest from killing livestock and wildlife throughout the American South. At first their ideas were laughed at, even ridiculed. In time they were lauded for their pioneering breakthroughs. I suspect youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be blessed with a vindication of your own in the coming weeks, Libra. It may not be as monumental as Bushlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Kniplingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, but I bet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be deeply meaningful for you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
I hope it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound too paradoxical when I urge you to intensify your commitment to relaxation. I will love it, and more importantly your guardian angel will love it, if you become a fierce devotee of slowing down and chilling out. Get looser and cozier and more spacious, damn it! Snuggle more. Cut back on overthinking and trying too hard. Vow to become a high master of the mystic art of I-donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-give-a-f*ck. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your sacred duty to steal more slack from the soul-anesthetizing grind.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
I regularly travel back through time from the year 2036 so as to be here with you. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to be away from the thrilling transformations that are underway there. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a good cause. The bedraggled era that you live in needs frequent doses of the vigorous optimism thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so widespread in 2036, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy to disseminate it. Why am I confessing this? Because I suspect you now have an extra talent for gazing into the unknown and exploring undiscovered possibilities. You also have an unprecedented power to set definite intentions about the life you want to be living in the future. Who will you be five years from today? Ten years? Twenty years? Be brave. Be visionary. Be precise.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one strategy you could pursue, I guess: You could spank the Devil with a feather duster as you try to coax him to promise that he will never again trick you with a bogus temptation. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that would work, frankly. It may have minor shock value, in which case the Devil might leave you in peace for a short time. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I suggest instead: Work at raising your discernment so high that, in the future, you can quickly identify which temptations will deliver you unto evil confusion, and which will feed and hone your most noble desires.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
After a cool, dry period, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon be slipping into a hot, wet phase. The reasonable explanations that generated so much apathy are about to get turned inside-out. The seemingly good excuses that provided cover for your timidity will be exposed as impractical lies. Are you ready for your passion to roar back into fashion? Will you know what to do when suppressed
yearnings erupt and the chemicals of love start rampaging through your soft, warm animal body? I hereby warn you about the oncoming surge of weird delightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and sing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hallelujah!â&#x20AC;? for the revelatory fun it will bring.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m composing your horoscope on my iPhone after midnight on a crowded bus thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crammed with sweaty revelers. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being transported back to civilization from a rural hideaway where we spent the last 12 hours at a raging party. I still feel ecstatic from the recent bacchanal, but the ride is uncomfortable. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pinned against a window by a sleepy, drunken dude whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not in full control of his body. But do I allow my predicament to interfere with my holy meditation on your destiny? I do notâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just as I trust you will keep stoking the fires of your own inspiration in the face of comparable irritations. You have been on a hot streak, my dear. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let anything tamp it down!
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
You now have more luxuriant access to divine luck than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had in a long time. For the foreseeable future, you could be able to induce semi-miraculous twists of fate that might normally be beyond your capacities. But hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a caveat: The good fortune swirling in your vicinity may be odd or irregular or hard-to-understand. To harvest it, you will have to expand your ideas about what constitutes good fortune. It may bestow powers you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even realize it was possible to have. For example, what if you temporarily have an acute talent for gravitating toward situations where smart love is in full play?
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
A directory published by the U.S. Department of Labor says that my gig as an astrologer shares a category with jugglers, rodeo clowns, acrobats, carnival barkers and stuntpersons. Am I, therefore, just a charming buffoon? An amusing goofball who provides diversion from lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serious matters? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fine with that. I may prefer to regard myself as a sly oracle inflamed with holy madness, but the service I provide is probably more effective if my ego doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the specific glory it yearns for. In this way, I have certain resemblances to the Taurus tribe during the next four weeks. Is it OK if you achieve success without receiving all of the credit you think you deserve?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Over the course of a 57-year career, Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa won 78 major awards for his work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oscars. Among the filmmakers whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve named him as an inspirational influence are heavyweights like Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. But Kurosawa wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too haughty to create lighter fare. At age 86, he departed from his epic dramas to create a 30-second commercial for a yogurt drink. Did that compromise his artistic integrity? I say no. Even a genius canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be expected to create non-stop masterpieces. Be inspired by Kurosawa, Gemini. In the coming weeks, give your best to even the most modest projects.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Capricorns may be the hardest workers of the zodiac, and Tauruses the most dogged. But in the coming weeks, I suspect you Cancerians will be the smartest workers. You will efficiently surmise the precise nature of the tasks at hand, and do whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary to accomplish them. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be no false starts or reliance on iffy data or slapdash trial-and-error experiments. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a light touch as you find innovative short cuts that produce better results than would be possible via the grind-it-out approach.
Homework: Which actor or actress would be the best choice to play you in a film about your life? Go to Realastrology.com and click â&#x20AC;&#x153;Email Rob.â&#x20AC;?
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