V13n29 GOOD Ideas: Women Speak Out

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r. Omar Abdul-Rahman, a pediatrics professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, recognizes that medicine is not one size fits all. That’s why he is studying the role that human genetics play in treatment and prevention, particularly for children.

Rahman’s life has hardly been cookie cutter, either. His parents grew up in Iraq. His mother, Feryal, graduated from medical school in a time when restrictions in her small town outside Baghdad tried to prevent women from attending school past 9th grade.

“My mom sort of had this very progressive streak in her from the time she was young,” Abdul-Rahman says. His mother and her husband, Abdul-Rahman’s father, Adil, moved to Jackson in the ’60s, where she took an obstetrics and gynecology residency at UMMC. When Abdul-Rahman was 5 years old, the family moved to a diverse community in Saudi Arabia where Abdul-Rahman spent his childhood and teenage years. They returned to Jackson in 1991 after he graduated from high school. He attended Millsaps College in 1996, and then went to UMMC for medical school in 2000.

He finished his pediatric residency in 2003 and spent two years at Stanford University in California for a genetics fellowship. There, he encountered a newborn with birth defects that affected her brain, kidneys and lower extremities. A medical student noticed something wrong with her knees. After searching,

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they stumbled across genitopatellar syndrome, a disease characterized by genital abnormalities, underdeveloped kneecaps, mental disability and other body abnormalities.

A radiology resident then did an ultrasound on the knee and discovered that the child did not have a kneecap. After other families came forward with patients that fit the same description, Abdul-Rahman began working with a group at Baylor University in Texas to find the gene that caused the condition. But each test failed to find anything. After going back to UMMC 10 years later, Abdul-Rahman treated a baby with the same disease.

As part of his work, Abdul-Rahman does pre-implementation genetic diagnosis, where he works with an in vitro fertilization specialist to test embryos for diseases and implant healthy ones in women’s uteri. But without knowing what the problematic gene is, AbdulRahman can’t ensure a healthy child.

Still, the parents of the baby pressed him for a solution. Abdul-Rahman reached out to other doctors and patients dealing with the disease. He submitted his patient’s samples to the California doctors, and they isolated the gene.

The family went on to have a second healthy child. “If I didn’t hear them ... then we would have missed out on that opportunity,” he says.

Abdul-Rahman met his husband, John Lyons, at Millsaps in 1996. The couple dated for 20 years before marrying in Boston in 2013.

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Cover illustration by Kristin Brenemen

6 Drumming for Education Bryan Eason, who calls himself a drum major for education, uses his talent to gather support for Mississippi schools to receive full funding.

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EDITOR’S note

by Amber Helsel, Assistant Editor

Women Who Rock

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hen I was younger, one of my guy friends would always complain that I have terrible taste in music. I listened to bands such as Goo Goo Dolls, Nirvana and a maybe few pop songs here and there—all vestiges from my childhood.

He even made me a CD mix titled “For Amber’s ‘Taste’” that had songs from bands he liked at the time, such as Coheed and Cambria and The Mars Volta.

Every time he made fun of my music taste, I vehemently defended it, because to me, everyone likes what they like. That’s not to say that you can’t introduce someone to other stuff, but it’s just not nice to tell someone that their music taste is terrible—even if it’s probably true.

But I will say that thanks to him—and a bet with myself to fill a 120 GB iPod with 30,000 songs—I have much more diverse music tastes now. If you look at my Spotify history on a daily basis, you’ll probably notice that some weeks I may listen to the same thing each day, and some days, I listen to a diverse array of artists from Doug E. Fresh to Echosmith.

My friend’s contagious love for music rubbed off on me, and I thank him every day for that. But more often than that, I tend to listen to a specific type of band (and this doesn’t necessarily apply to a specific genre)—ones either fronted by or that contain women.

It’s not a conscious mode of solidarity. I just happen to like the diversity, and I think when people do duets, something magical happens. Now, don’t sit here and think that means I listen to nothing but Lady Antebellum or The Civil Wars. I’m actually drawn more toward music such as English band The Duke Spirit (fronted

by Liela Moss, a style inspiration for me) and Paramore, fronted by Haley Williams, who is actually from Meridian. Moss and

Williams are both dynamic lead singers, but I always find that their bands lack a certain element.

You see, ever since I began listening to The Donnas as a 14-year-old, I grew fascinated with women in rock ‘n’ roll. And though bands like Paramore wouldn’t survive without women like Williams, I always wondered why it is that you rarely ever find women who play the role of lead guitarist.

I’m sure you can probably name a few,

rarely got to hear her perform solo.

But good news is on the horizon.

With the changing dynamic of the conversations on gender equality, I think the world is beginning to want more women like Browstein or Jett. And that’s where I think the success of bands like the Alabama Shakes comes in.

The lead singer and guitarist of the band, Brittany Howard, is a great example of a woman making strides in music. And the funny thing about her is that she has

Some of my favorite musicians are men, whether Kurt Cobain or Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys. But … from Joan Jett to Lita Ford to Nancy Wilson to, more recently, Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney. But compared to men who play lead guitar, women are few and far between.

Now, there are hard-rocking bands that consist of nothing but women, and that’s cool and all, but I think men and women together create this incredible dynamic. You get a pretty voice, good guitar riffs and occasionally some heavy, catchy bass lines (my personal favorite). But most of the time, that’s what I think the music industry sees women as—pretty faces only meant to sing while the men are over there getting all the guitar solos.

One of my other favorite bands, Damone, had a woman lead singer, Noelle LeBlanc, who sang but also played guitar.

Except that she only played in rhythm with the other guitarist, Mike Woods. You

a few different elements that set her apart from other women in rock ‘n’ roll. For one thing, she is a woman of color (mom is white, dad is black) who fronts a roots-rock band. And, on top of that, she’s a plus-sized woman. Just by being in the music genre she’s in and doing what she does, she’s making strides without even trying. She’s making a difference with her eyes closed.

If you’ve ever seen her perform live or watched YouTube videos, you can see that she’s not kidding around about her talent.

That’s not even to discredit her voice. I love it because it’s like a combination of Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin.

In an interview with bet.com, when the writer Clay Cane asked her if it ever feels odd being one of the only women of color who front a rock band, she said: “I don’t think it’s odd. I think it’s cool people like it. Because, shoot, people used to do it

all the time. This is where rock ‘n’ roll came from: Chuck Berry, Memphis Minnie—it used to happen all the time. It’s still happening. All along, there’s all these talented people, women, men, black, white—we just got lucky.”

I’ve heard many people say they just don’t enjoy Alabama Shakes, which is cool because that type of music isn’t everyone’s thing. But at the very least, they respect Howard’s accomplishments.

It’s even harder to find female drummers and bass players, I guess because those instruments seem to play such a background role (though both are the backbones of most songs). If I had the time to learn and money for a drum kit, I’d play drums in a band in a heartbeat. And since I like to hit things, I think I’d be quite good at it. I’m sure many other women share that same sentiment, but it’s a rare occasion when you find a female drummer, and even more rare to find ones of color.

The music industry is a hard one to crack for anybody, but you encounter more problems when you’re a woman who just wants to rock. That’s not to say it’s impossible, or to even discredit any woman in the industry (all of them are fantastic). Or even men in the industry.

Some of my favorite musicians are men, whether you’re talking about ones such as the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana or Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys. But women need to rock, too.

So anytime you’re looking for a new band to check out, remember the women in the industry who fight every day to be taken seriously. And don’t discredit women like Brittany Howard just because she’s playing in a genre where it’s hard to find women like her (even though rock ‘n’ roll was essentially built

by African Americans).

She knows how to rock.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Donna Ladd

R.L. Nave

Zachary Oren Smith

LaTonya Miller

Larry Morrisey

Genevieve Legacy

Tommy Burton

Kimberly Griffin

Editor-in-Chief and CEO Donna Ladd is a Neshoba County native and a Mississippi State and Columbia grad. After being in exile for 18 years, she came on back to where she damnwell belongs. She gathered advice for women this issue.

R.L. Nave, native Missourian and news editor, roots for St. Louis (and the Mizzou Tigers)—and for Jackson.

Send him news tips at rlnave@ jacksonfreepress.com or call him at 601-362-6121 ext. 12. He edited and wrote news.

News Intern Zachary Oren Smith comes from a long line of storytellers and decided he might as well make a dime off the family business. And no, he’s probably not related to the Smiths you’re thinking. He wrote news and arts pieces.

LaTonya Miller is a freelance writer who is passionate about music, photography and all things positive. You can visit her anytime at her second home, online at etudelife.com.

She wrote a wellness story for this issue.

Freelance writer Larry Morrisey is the deputy director of the Mississippi Arts Commission.

He is a host for “Mississippi Arts Hour,” the agency’s arts interview radio show on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.

He wrote a music story.

Freelance writer Genevieve Legacy is an artist, writer and community development consultant. She works at Hope Enterprise Corporation and lives in Brandon with her husband and youngest son. She wrote a music story.

Music Listings Editor Tommy Burton is keeping the dream alive, one record at a time. He can usually be seen with a pair of headphones on. He wrote an arts story and compiles the music listings. Send gig info to music@jacksonfreepress.com.

Advertising Director Kimberly Griffin is a fitness buff and foodie who loves chocolate and her mama. She’s also Michelle Obama’s super secret BFF, which explains the Secret Service detail. Make no mistake: She runs this joint.

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Wednesday, March 18 An analysis of federal data reveal that the Obama administration set a record for censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the United States Freedom of Information Act. ‌ Gunmen open fire with assault rifles at a major museum in Tunisia’s capital, killing 21 people, mostly foreigners, and wounding some 50 others. The Islamic State group claims responsibility for the attack.

Friday, March 20 Internal emails and documents reveal that the United Nations’ World Health Organization resisted declaring an international emergency regarding the Ebola outbreak for two months after it began. ‌ A group claiming to be a Yemeni branch of the Islamic State group claims responsibility for a string of suicide bombings in the Yemeni capital that kill 137 people and injure 345 others.

Saturday, March 21 Dozens of aging U.S. veterans, many in their early 90s, gather on the island of Iwo Jima to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most iconic battles of World War II. ‌ U.S. troops evacuate the al-Annad air base in southern Yemen, crucial to America’s drone strike program, after Al-Qaeda militants seize a nearby city.

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Monday, March 23 Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz becomes the first major candidate for president, formally launching his bid with a speech at a Christian college in Virginia.

Tuesday, March 24 Utah Gov. Gary Herbert approves a law that brings back the firing squad in the only state that has used it in the past 40 years. Under the law, firing squads will be a backup method if lethal injection drugs aren’t available.

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t the corner of High Street and then hired after a few short months to work principal aren’t helping you—when other North State, Bryan Eason, 31, has on promotions and recruiting musicians. teachers aren’t dispensing information, firstset up an ersatz outside classroom When Clear Channel fired him as year teachers are almost set up to fail. That for Jackson residents. His students, part of a series of layoffs, Eason was already was the moment when I realized the system stuck at the red light, receive earfuls of snare working as a substitute teacher in the St. had to change,� he says. drum and the visuals of three human-size Louis public-school system.

For eight years, Eason worked throughmannequins wearing bright orange prison The first time he stepped into a fifth- out St. Louis Public Schools before coming jumpsuits. Over their faces, a sign to Mississippi to work for the reads “third grade.�

Children’s Defense Fund. At Eason thinks of himself as CDF, he worked to help get the a drum major for education. He Better Schools Better Jobs initiaspends many of his days, rain tive on this November’s ballot. or shine, on the corner beating If it passes, the initiative would a drum to bring people’s attenforce lawmakers to follow the law tion to a statistic published in a and fully fund the Mississippi Children’s Defense Fund report.

Adequate Education Program. “The most dangerous place MAEP is a formula the State for a child to try to grow up in of Mississippi uses to calculate America is at the intersection of budgets for Mississippi public poverty and race. That a Black schools. Since it passed the Legisboy born in 2001 has a 1-in-3 lature in 1997, the state has only chance and a Latino boy a 1-in-6 funded it in full twice. chance of going to prison in their Eason toured around the lifetime is a national disaster and state gathering signatures of Bryan Eason, who often plays drums at the corner of High and North State streets, uses his instrument to says to millions of children and to support from Mississippians. draw people’s attention to education, poverty and race. the world that America’s dream is “Traveling Mississippi, (I’ve) seen not for all,� the report states. buildings crumbling apart,� EaEason grew up in St. Louson says. “Students needing air is, Mo., where he picked up the drums in grade classroom with 29 students, Eason was conditioning. At Wingfield (High School), school. “Playing music was the outlet that shocked. “I can say that at least eight had se- I worked in a classroom that leaked even on got me interested in school,� Eason says. rious behavior issues,� he says. days it didn’t rain. This isn’t something these Playing the drums also got him a New to education, Eason was trying to kids are making up; this isn’t something fine-arts scholarship to enroll in the Uni- create a learning environment, but some of teachers are making up. We have to fix these versity of Arkansas at Pine Bluff’s media the kids kept distracting from his efforts. He problems, or we can’t fix anything!� studies program. ended up writing many of them up.

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TED CRUZ TO A GREAT ABYSS OF IRONY (THROUGH MS) U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will no doubt attempt to woo Mississippi GOP primary voters in his bid for POTUS. But is Cruz, who was born in Canada to a Cuban father, sufficiently red-whiteand-blue blooded enough to win here? Consider:

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Sunday, March 22 Syrian insurgents from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front capture several government airmen after their helicopter crashes in a rebel-held area of northwestern Syria.

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Thursday, March 19 President Obama orders the federal government to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases by 40 percent.

At the Intersection of Poverty and Race

In 2012, Cruz won election to the U.S. Senate with the help of the Tea Party, which also backs Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Perry is good friends with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and ran for president briefly in 2012.

Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta.

This week, Cruz announced that he would run in 2016 and criticized President Barack Obama, saying “Imagine a president that finally, finally, finally secures the borders.�

Cruz’s dad emigrated to Canada from Cuba to escape political turmoil under Fulgencio Batista.

Fidel Castro overthrew Batista, leading to a decadeslong policy of sanctions against the island nation.

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Cruz’s family moved from Canada to Houston, Texas, when he was young.

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TALK | education

Ole Miss Students Riled Up After Jones Ouster

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streets with a vengeance on behalf of public education. With the Mississippi Legislature in session, MAEP funding is central to his lesson plan. The MAEP is a formula the State of Mississippi uses to calculate budgets for Mississippi public schools. Since it passed the Legislature in 1997, the state has only funded it in full twice.

Eason looks at Nissan tax breaks as evidence of the Legislature having priorities

pear to be reconsidering its decision Monday after meeting in executive session in Jackson.

Although the board cited concern over the financial management of the University of Mississippi Medical Center as a reason for

Jones’ ouster, it has released few details to students to help them understand what happened. Jones released a statement through the university in response, noting that he was “very saddened.” He said he believed his contract was not renewed because of his history of disagreement with the board over such areas as business decisions at the medical center and the process for the center’s selection of its vice chancellor.

Students said Jones had raised the school’s profile and was extremely popular on campus. On Monday, the student-run newspaper published an editorial entitled “We Believe in Dan,’’ and praised his efforts to make the campus more inclusive and improve a once-contentious racial climate.

Summer Wigley, a 20-year-old student

from Ridgeland, said Jones was popular with students because “he’s always made himself available. You can easily have a conversation with him if you need advice, 24/7. He wants to know your name and why you’re here.

He’s kind of like the dad of the family.”

Ole Miss faculty drafted a resolution supporting Jones and calling for his reinstatement. A series of high-profile alumni, including football star Archie Manning and author John Grisham, also voiced their support for Jones over the past three days. And one donor threatened Monday to rescind a $20 million grant if Jones isn’t reinstated.

Several are also rallying support for Jones and criticizing the trustees’ action.

The trustees did not provide any further details or respond to calls for comment.

Students, meanwhile, took to social media to voice their displeasure. Many turned to Twitter, urging support with the hashtag #IStandWithDan. Sophomore Alex Borst and senior Ryan Felder created the student group “Students for Dan Jones,” hoping to gather 7,500 signatures on a petition urging IHL to reinstate the chancellor. “I was so angry when it happened, and I reached out to my Facebook friends to see if they were interested in protesting on IHL’s decision, and it turned into something so much bigger than that,” Felder said. Felder and Borst also created a donation page to gather money for future protests against the decision.

“On Friday when the news broke, and we saw the statement of IHL and later Chancellor Jones’ letter, we were just very surprised in terms of what he’s done for this university and how he’s been repaid for that,” Borst said. “Since Friday, it’s kind of evolved, and we’ve learned a lot more about their decision, and it’s not very well substantiated.”

Supporters argue that Jones has done an exceptional job as chancellor. “If you look at the track record he has, the numbers don’t lie,” McKinley said. “We’ve had huge increases in our enrollment, fundraising has been through the roof, and that didn’t just

happen by luck.” High school GPA and ACT scores for incoming students are at an all-time high at the University of Mississippi, and enrollment has steadily grown since Jones arrived. Jones has also been a successful fundraiser himself. This year, the school received $118 million in private donations, the third year in a row of donations of at least $100 million.

He also took a stand against the school’s Confederate past by requiring the marching band to stop playing a transitional part of “From Dixie With Love,” during which students at Ole Miss football games traditionally chanted “the South will rise again.’’

“I stand by my chancellor. He’s done a fantastic job, and we’re only going up from here,” Wigley said. “I just think the firing is very premature.” Other students who are unhappy with the decision said they are angered by the board’s vague explanation. “We’re not attacking IHL, and we’re not attacking Gov. (Phil) Bryant; we’re just calling for accountability and transparency,” Borst said.

Freshman Sydney Shamblin was among the students who said the board ended the contract because Jones did not bend to its wishes. “I don’t think that we should have a chancellor that just goes along with whatever the council (board) says,” Shamblin said. “I think that’s why they’re getting rid of him; they want him to vote the way that they want. But his job is to vote for what he believes is right for the students.”

The group “Students for Dan Jones” will have a rally on campus Wednesday to protest the decision and put pressure on IHL to consider reinstatement.

“I believe they should re-sign that contract,” McKinley said. “If the wheel’s not broken, why try and fix it? He’s stuck by us in everything we’ve done as students, and now it’s time for us to return that favor.”

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Watch jfp.ms/news for updates on the Jones situation.

other than educating the state’s children. “We are talking about giving money to companies like Nissan that are bringing in billions. And then we are talking about schools with leaking roofs,” he says. He worries that if money is not invested into the schools then the impact on our educated workforce might cause companies like Nissan to outsource jobs.

He is not alone in his struggle to bring awareness to public education in this legislative session. Julia Weaver, a mother of two high schoolers in Ocean Springs, was at the Capitol last week raising awareness about the Legislature failing to fund the MAEP since

2008. The campaign, “Fed Up with 50th,” is a grassroots movement made composed of parents dissatisfied with the state’s national last-place ranking in education.

“Many people in our group had been dutifully—diligently—politely calling our legislators year after year, speaking up for education” Weaver says. “We felt like they weren’t hearing us. It wasn’t that (our schools) were moving forward, but we were slipping back. This year, we felt that the legislators were saying, ‘We could fund education, but we just don’t care to.’ (Fed Up with 50th) wanted to say as loudly as we could that ‘we

notice that this wrong. Let’s stop funding so we can be last. Let’s start funding so we can move up the ladder.”

As the state moves closer to statewide elections, the Mississippi Legislature is spending more time on re-election bait like phasing out the income tax.

“We have a majority that is almost hell-bent on demoralizing education,” Eason says. “The people have to speak up now.

We have no other choice but to take to the streets and take action to inform everyone on what’s going on.”

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XFORD, Miss.—Angry students held aloft red and white signs proclaiming their support for ousted Chancellor Dan Jones this week, urging their classmates at the University of Mississippi to sign petitions and attend a protest rally at the state’s flagship campus.

Many said they were upset by a trustee decision on Friday not to renew Jones’ contract. The sudden ouster has also resulted in an outpouring of alumni anger and faculty pushback. “This is a guy who was doing right in my eyes, and because he was doing right and standing up for what he believes in, he’s no longer allowed to be in that position,’’ said Chandler McKinley, a sophomore from Raleigh, N.C. The decision from the 12-member board that oversees Mississippi’s eight public universities came with little warning or explanation, just four days after 66-year-old Jones had returned to work at the state’s largest public institution following treatment for lymphoma. In a Saturday follow-up statement, the board revealed that while they credited Jones with strong leadership, they had financial concerns about the University of Mississippi Medical Center, which Jones also oversees.

Students at Ole Miss spoke with passion and pride about why they support Jones, whose ouster is the latest example of a high-profile standoff between presidents and boards, including recent power struggles at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas. In Virginia, the board that ousted President Teresa Sullivan in June 2014 against the wishes of faculty and student leaders ultimately reversed itself under pressure. At Texas, an attempt to oust President Bill Powers last July over allegations of irregularities in admissions while he was dean of the law school ended with an agreement that allowed the president to remain in office another year.

Despite student, faculty and alumni anger, the Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning did not ap-

Students at Ole Miss spoke with passion and pride about why they support Dan Jones, whose ouster is the latest example of a high-profile standoff between college presidents and boards in the United States.

DISH | election

Zack Wallace: Ready to Fly

by R.L. Nave

about the county. Not too many people understand the court system and how it works. They’ve seen a lot of TV—a court session that lasts 30 minutes or an hour.

It’s not like that. Every chance I get, I get people to come down the office and maybe pull a file and read it, maybe go upstairs

You’ll have to come to our office to our public terminals, and you’ll be able to do research—civil and criminal—but if you want to print out something, it’s going to be $1 per page right now.

I would say storage that’s accessible from day-to-day. At one point, there was talk of having a centralized location, library-like, and I think that would be great.

So the $1 isn’t going anywhere?

What are some things you could do to improve the office that wouldn’t need more money?

IMANI KHAYYAM

No, the $1 is not going anywhere.

How is the e-filing going? It seems like implementation went a little slower in Hinds County than originally planned.

People don’t realize how much paperwork we have. I don’t think the office and the people who were training us were prepared for it. I feel like Hinds County needs a customized system.

The knock on the Hinds County circuit clerk’s office has always been that it’s disorganized.

The Jackson Free Press did a story a while ago about records threatened with water In 18 years, Zack Wallace worked his way up in Hinds County circuit clerk’s office to become damage. What do deputy clerk and office manager. Now, with the departure of Barbara Dunn, Wallace wants the top job. He still expects to change $1 a page for photocopies, though. you think about that perception, and what Since graduating in 1998, Wallace and sit in a courtroom or introduce them would you do about it?

has remained in the clerk’s office and has worked his way up to office manager, supervising circuit clerk’s offices in both county seats—Jackson and Raymond—and serving as a top deputy to the long-tenured outgoing Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn.

The circuit clerk’s office maintains records for civil lawsuits involving more than $35,000, criminal cases, marriage licenses, and voter and candidate registration. So Wallace, whose first name is Zacchaeus, says he knows a thing or two about the importance of getting things right.

“Even though I write Zacchaeus, I tell people my name is Zacchaeus. They say Zachariah, Zachary, Zucchini —some of everything,” he jokes.

Wallace and his wife, Kedra, have two sons named Zacchaeus, 13, and Nathaniel, 6, and live in south Jackson. He recently spoke to the Jackson Free Press about why he’s running for Hinds County circuit clerk.

Why did you want this job?

I care about the court system. I care

to an attorney.

What are your plans for the clerk’s office if elected?

I want to redefine the office as being a public office. … When you come down to the clerk’s office, you’re either mad about a situation or you’re happy about a situation. I want to put the focus back on the public, make the office a little more effective and let people know we’re here to serve them. We also deal with marriage licenses and voter registrations, so I want them to know when they get ready to file something in court, it’s going in the proper place.

Speaking of making the office more accessible to the public, it’s a $1 a page to make copies. That’s expensive for regular people. Do you plan to continue that?

With our civil records, we are e-filing now so everything is paperless with civil (filings). I’m involved with implementing the criminal side ... so hopefully by the end of the year, we’ll be paperless. …

I would definitely say that’s inaccurate. I think a lot of people don’t realize the volume of paperwork that comes through that office, Hinds County being the biggest county in the state. I think right now, on a county level, we get maybe over 2,000 lawsuits every year. Now that we’re going paperless, maybe that’ll cut back on things. We definitely need extra storage, and we definitely need to work with other departments in the county. We have plenty rooms, but they are full of boxes.

By law, some boxes we can’t get rid of. So storage, I’m not going to say it’s a problem, but it’s a question.

So what are the options (for getting more storage) as you see them?

The board of supervisors has someone come around, looking at our storage and looking at our water damage. The question I ask myself is: How are we getting water damage in the basement, and that building has a fifth floor?

What would you be budgeting priority?

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(Continue) to go paperless, and as soon as we get things in the system, I would try to get rid of it either through recycling or work with the (Mississippi) Department of Archives and History.

Barbara Dunn has been there a long time and presumably has a lot of institutional knowledge in her head. Are you worried about maintaining continuity after she’s gone?

I’ve been there 18 years, and wherever I go people ask me about the office. ... So I’m not concerned at all. I depended on my parents a lot, but when it was time for me to move out, I was up to it. And me being with Mrs. Dunn for 18 years, I think I’m ready to fly by myself.

What have you learned about life in Hinds County in your 18 years in the clerk’s office?

There’s a lot of confusion about how the (county) offices work together. The circuit clerk deals with marriage licenses; chancery court deals with divorces. The sheriff ’s office deal with sentencing orders; we deal with filing the sentencing orders so if something’s not keyed in properly, that’s on us and could affect the sheriff ’s department.

Also, some people may come in with an attitude—this person sued me. I feel like it’s my job to give them everything they need and give them some kind of peace of mind.

Are you usually successful diffusing those situations?

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No, I’ve realized that you can’t please everyone.

The clerk’s office can be a flashpoint of controversy sometimes. How do you feel about managing that pressure?

I don’t feel pressure with that. With me asking for this position, things come with the job. I feel like, (after) being a public servant this long, shouldn’t nothin’ make mad.

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ack Wallace has never held elected political office, but he has the power of incumbency on his side.

At age 38, Wallace has been working as a deputy Hinds County circuit clerk since he was a 20-year-old student at Millsaps College studying computer science.

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Ex-Prisoners Get a Boost Amid MDOC Turmoil

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based Foundation for the Mid South re- state’s prison system, which always seemed a bill to create a nine-member reentry councently published the Mississippi Reentry saddled with rising costs and budget deficits, cil to reduce recidivism rates, improve public Guide, a booklet and website of federal, state and release more people convicted of non-vi- safety and lower MDOC costs. Fisher, the and county-by-county resources for ex-pris- olent crimes. Prison reform has remained in state prisons chief, also asked the Legislature oners and their loved ones, nonprofits, law the news and on the legislative agenda dur- for the power to realign his agency and take enforcement agencies, academics employees out from oversight of and others. “It’s important to our the Mississippi State Personnel community that we give these Board for one year, a move that people some skills so that when often draws criticism from emthey get back into society, they ployee-rights groups. “There’s a became taxpayers rather than rumor that that’s a tool I’m going tax burdens,” MDOC Commisto use to fire people, and that’s not sioner Marshall Fisher said at a true,” Fisher told the Jackson Free press conference last week.

Press. “If we’ve got someone who’s Re-entry has to come into not doing their job, we’ll deal focus recently as the number of with them, but I’m not going to people let out of prison in Mis- A new effort to connect former prisoners, such as ones from go in there to get rid of someone sissippi, which has one of the the Adams County Correctional Facility, with services may because of their race, sex, their nation’s highest imprisonment help them re-enter the workforce and become taxpayers. gender, their orientation or their rates, is on the rise. Since last year, political views..” the numbers of people on probaInstead, Fisher said the realigntion and parole have increased from 60.54 ing the current session, which is set to wrap ment, coupled with the personnel-board percent of all people in the custody of the up in early April. exemption, would help him streamline the Mississippi Department of Correction at the Gov. Phil Bryant brought together a department and boost salaries. Under the beginning of March 2014 to 67.5 percent as task force in the wake of the scandal involv- current structure, if a tenured MDOC emof March 4, 2015, MDOC records show. ing Chris Epps, who served as commissioner ployees leaves the agency and comes back, he Overall, the parole and probation pop- for 12 years before pleading guilty along with or she would receive the base salary, rather ulation rose from 38,523 in March 2014 to Rankin County businessman Cecil McCrory than the higher wage he or she earned at the 44,457 in the same time period this year. to federal corruption charges. The 49-count time of departure.

Some of the increase is the result of the indictment charged Epps with steering agen“We’ve got corrections officers working Mississippi Legislature’s passage of HB 585, cy contracts to McCrory-linked businesses in for $22,000 (per year),” Fisher said. “That’s a series of bills adopted after the 2014 legisla- exchange for kickbacks. just not enough for what they do.” tive session to help ease the burden on the The House and State have also approved Comment at www.jfp.ms.

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ew Way Mississippi doesn’t like to publicize the address for its transitional housing and advanced recovery programs for military veterans and formerly incarcerated men and women. “The biggest barrier to providing these services is it’s OK as long as the offenders are out in the community homeless, but when we try to deliberate place the guys, it’s all ‘Not at my backdoor,’” Larry Perry, New Way’s president and chief executive officer, told the Jackson Free Press.

Between Hinds and Pike counties, the nonprofit has 124 beds and offers services ranging from drug and alcohol counseling to life-skills training, computer literacy and criminal-thinking prevention. Participants have to be in the program at least four months and can remain up to one year.

Perry stresses that the program does not consist of “halfway houses,” a term that has fallen out of favor and doesn’t truly reflect what his organization does.

“We meet people where they are. He might be halfway, might be three-quarters—we don’t know where he is,” Perry said.

“Even though a man has been incarcerated, he still has value in our community.”

Perry and others who work with incarcerated people acknowledge that one of the system’s biggest failings is offer to support to people when they get out of prison.

In response to this need, the Jackson-

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Testy About Standardized Testing State lawmakers are seeking to revive efforts to force the Mississippi Board of Education to consider using standardized

tests written by the ACT organization.

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ast year’s corruption scandal involving longtime state Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps might have resulted in improvements to the state contracting process, but thanks to the Mississippi Senate, holes remain.

After Gov. Phil Bryant called for contract reform in the wake of the MDOC scandal, the Mississippi House of Representatives took action. But, Republican Rep. Jerry Turner of Baldwyn, chairman of the House Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Committee, said Monday that the Senate watered down House Bill 825 by removing provisions to prevent large contracts from being broken into smaller pieces to avoid scrutiny.

The Senate also removed requirements that public officials file annual ethics reports disclosing gifts from people who are not relatives or friends.

State Superintendent of Education Carey Wright has denied the Associated Press’ public-records request for the names of bidders on the contract for standardized testing.

tendent Carey Wright defends the process by which the state Department of Education sought proposals for a contract to administer tests in grades 3-8 and high school.

ACT sent a letter earlier month saying it

wouldn’t bid because it found Mississippi’s requirements too restrictive.

Rep. Mark Baker, R-Brandon, announced Wednesday that he wanted to introduce a late-session bill to ban Mississippi from using tests that were developed by Pearson PLC for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, a multistate group that Mississippi once belonged to. New Mexico hired Pearson to develop tests for the PARCC consortium, and Mississippi officials sought to adopt the PARCC tests for multiple years last fall. But a Mississippi contract review board said it would reject the contract because officials didn’t consider other vendors.

Mississippi then signed a one-year, nobid $8.4 million emergency contract with Pearson, adopting the tests for this spring only. That set up a competition to choose a new vendor for future years’ tests.

The Mississippi Association of School Superintendents and others pushed the selection of Iowa-based ACT, which makes other tests, in addition to the college test of the same name.

To introduce a new bill late in the current session, Baker will need a two-thirds vote of the House. But in January, the House voted 116-3 to mandate the use of ACT and ban Pearson’s PARCC test. Baker’s new bill would still ban Pearson’s test and would mandate that the state Board of Education consider ACT, even though ACT declined to bid. The superintendents’ association sent an email to members urging them to contact their local representative to support Baker’s bill.

Wright said Thursday that there are several bidders, but would give neither a number nor their names, saying the department would deny the Associated Press’ public-records request for the names. A spokesman for Pearson confirmed the company had bid. Both Pearson and ACT have hired lobbyists to advocate with lawmakers.

Wright said news stories naming the vendors could unduly influence the outside evaluation team that will recommend a choice to the state.

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vehemently contend that the election of President Barack Obama is one of the best and worst single events in African American history. The sheer importance and symbolism of having an African American placed in the highest office of the most powerful country on earth demonstrates how far African Americans have progressed in a society that purposely placed them in the realm of inferior and sub-human less than 50 years ago.

On the other end of the pendulum, President Obama’s political ascension has allowed a large portion of the population to assume that we, as a society, live in a post-racial utopia, filled with fairness and equality. This hubristic postracial notion resides in the United States Supreme Court chambers, where five out of the nine justices stripped away decades of progress in the form of a legal opinion. In Shelby County v. Holder, the majority concluded section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was outdated and, therefore, unconstitutional.

Section 4(b), the preclearance section, provided oversight to specific regions that, in the recent past, implemented draconian laws for the purVote against pose of minority voter disenfranchisement. the politicians When our country celebrated 50 years since the march from Selma, Ala., to the state capiwho put up such tol in Montgomery, we were reminded of how asinine voting tirelessly those before us fought for equality in barriers. the voting arena. That march birthed the VRA, which created voting access for all, free from literacy tests, intimidation and poll taxes.

However, just like the dichotomy attached to President Obama’s election, Selma reminds us of how far we have to go. Such reminders that plague African American progress include voting barriers, systematic police harassment and brutality, low graduation rates, high prison population/recidivism, and generational poverty, which all stem from the effects of slavery and Jim Crow.

A tsunami of state-led initiatives followed the Shelby decision, implementing voter ID laws, shortening or even wiping away early voting and same-day registration. Looking at the timing and reasoning behind voter ID legislation through an objective lens, the idea of a post-racial utopia seems fictitious. The voter ID debate falls under two narratives. Proponents of ID laws argue integrity stemming from voter fraud, while dissenters, who actually present factual data that show little to no voter fraud, argue access, or lack thereof.

The timing behind such laws, which became suspiciously “imperative” right after the election of President Obama, also suggest deceitful motives that lean toward denying access for the purpose of winning an election rather than fighting against the mythical illusion of voter fraud. When deciding which argument holds more weight, the legal community often refers to a “balancing test.” If a true balancing test were applied to voter ID legislation, it would show that voter disenfranchisement severely outweighs any potential voter fraud.

The preclearance section was deemed to be the most active provision of the VRA. However, now that we have an African American president, a handful of congressional representatives, one Supreme Court justice (that’s debatable) and an average of one U.S. senator every 25 years (give or take), racism is no more, at least according to the Supreme Court majority and “post racial” supporters. I find this feeble-minded notion frustrating yet comical.

When we disagree with how our laws are enforced, created or interpreted, we have a right to be heard through the voting process. Passionate tweets, op-eds, speeches and Facebook posts are of great benefit, but our society’s power resides in the voting booth.

The following steps, in my opinion, would be the most realistic agent for change: (1) Meet the standards of the state law where you reside. (2) Get your ass up. (3) Go to your local voting booth. (4) And vote against the politicians who put up such asinine voting barriers. Selma marchers and countless others fought, bled and died for the most important and powerful aspect of American life. If we follow the simple steps I listed above, we, like them, will overcome.

Leslie McLemore II is a Jackson native, now in Washington, D.C. He is a proud graduate of Jackson State University, North Carolina Central University School of Law (J.D.) and American University Washington College of Law.

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o, Gov. Phil Bryant and the Mississippi Legislature, as a body, don’t care if you’re sick and can’t afford to get medical help.

That’s the message they send plain and clear with the steadfast refusal to allow a Medicaid expansion that would help more uninsured Mississippians get affordable health care. They don’t want to be proved wrong about the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” if it would help the state’s residents get the care they need. And it clearly would.

In states that have expanded Medicaid, lowand middle-income people with incomes of 138 percent of the federal poverty level have made the most significant gains—a 13 percent increase in health-insurance rates compared to just 7 percent in non-expansion states like Mississippi.

Under the ACA, 2.3 million young adults have stayed on their parents’ plan longer. And the benefits have cut across ethnic lines: Among whites, the uninsured rate declined by 5.3 percentage points compared to 9.2 percent for African Americans and 12.3 percent for Latinos. Approximately 2.3 million more African Americans have health insurance today than before the ACA took effect; Latinos saw a 12.3 percent drop in uninsured rates.

Yet here in Mississippi, politicians campaign for votes from people who (a) believe uninsured people are lazy good-for-nothings, (b) they they’re pretty much all a different ethnicity or (c) hate anything to do with the federal government, a leftover mentality from a dark and segregated “state’s rights”

past. Playing to these ideas is a disgusting way to do politics in the 21st century. And in this case, it costs Mississippians their lives and livelihoods.

For Mississippi women, it’s worse, as most things are in our state. Women on the bottom, middle and top of the economic scale, are all hit hard. As of 2012, the Mississippi Commission on the Status of Women reported that nearly a quarter of the state’s women live below the poverty line, including those of all races. Women’s median income in the state, as of the 2010 Census, is almost a quarter less than that of men ($29,470 vs. $39,709, meaning we are 41st in earnings ratio in the U.S.), and only 21.8 percent of our women have completed four or more years of college.

Health-care coverage for Mississippi women is abysmal: As of last year, nearly a quarter of the state’s women had no coverage, as opposed to 81.1 percent of men. This means that women miss a lot of work, if they are able to work at all. That translates into other problems associated with poverty in the nation’s poorest state, including crime and the need for public assistance.

We doubt GOP leaders in the state will heed our call to stop playing politics with people’s lives.

We are encouraged, though, that more progressive women are running for office this year, and we are confident they will force real health issues to the forefront. It is time to stop pandering to voters who don’t care about the people in our state. Let’s change the narrative to one that makes a lick of sense.

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ELMA, Ala.—Macye Chatman was a wide-eyed, Tennessee-bred, 19-year-old Tuskegee student in 1965 who turned civil-rights activist after seeing the level of racism and segregation practiced in the Deep South. “If you rode the bus back then, you’d have to go to back of the bus. My roommates from Mississippi told me you couldn’t even go in some stores and buy clothes. Clothes!

You wouldn’t be riding with white people in the car. They would be following you, and you might be killed,� she said.

Forget about casting a ballot to change things. “I felt it was wrong that black people couldn’t vote,� she said.

So Chatman joined the movement in Montgomery, stood with Martin Luther Jr., and demonstrated at the state Capitol at the same time the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march was getting underway 50 years ago. She spent her 20th birthday in jail. “I got arrested in front of the state Capitol. They didn’t want me there.

We were staying, and we locked arms and sat down in an Indian-style protest. State troopers were all around us. The horses were circling. We stayed two-and-a-half days in jail, 12 to 20 in a cell. You slept on the floor.

I never was charged with anything.�

When she got out, she knew that thousands of marchers were making their way toward Montgomery from Selma, and she was going to be there to meet them.

Chatman, now 70 and living in Jackson, Tenn., was one of tens of thousands who came back to Selma this month to commemorate the Selma-to-Montgomery marches of 1965 that led to the historic Voting Rights Act of that year, including “Bloody Sunday� on March 7, 1965, when state troopers and local law enforcement authorities brutally beat and tear-gassed 600 peaceful protesters on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. Many who were there, including Chatman, pointed to backtracking on voting rights, economic inequality and continuing racist behavior of police officers. “Today we are right back to where we were in 1965,� she said. “We are making so many steps backward. They’re trying to repeal the Voting Rights Act. They’re trying to repeal women’s rights, the right to protect her body. What about racial profiling?�

Indeed, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County vs. Holder decision essentially lifted federal pre-approval requirements for voting changes in places where blacks

historically faced discrimination. Dozens of states, including Mississippi, implemented new restrictions on voting in response.

Modern-day Republicans, the spawn of erstwhile arch-segregationist Strom Thurmond’s 1964 campaign to change the oneparty Democratic South to a one-party Republican South, pushed tough laws on voter ID and when and where people can vote.

The target: Democrat-voting minorities.

The ruse Republicans use to defend voter restrictions is the claim of voter fraud. “Where there has been election fraud in American elections, it is usually committed by politicians,� says Lorraine C. Minnite, director of urban studies at Rutgers University. “The most important illustration of outright corruption of elections is the century-long success of white supremacists in the American South stripping African-Americans of their right to vote.�

I traveled to Selma, Ala., in 1992 to report on the role of the black voter in elections that year. Selma’s late civil rights activist and attorney J. L. Chestnut Jr., a much-revered veteran of “Bloody Sunday,� talked to me at length about race in America. “There is no way to escape white racism in America. America is racially insane.

It affects politics and everything else. I can’t spend a lot of time worrying about how far we’ve come. I got to worry about how far we got to go. We’ve come a long way and probably got twice (as far) to go.�

Chestnut talked about “Bloody Sunday� on Edmund Pettus Bridge, a bridge named after a Confederate general and alleged Klu Klux Klan leader. “I remember March 7, 1965, here in Selma when we came face to face on Edmund Pettus Bridge with the awesome might of the Alabama government,� he said. “I remember John Lewis bleeding like a stuck hog.�

Yet Chestnut came out of that experience with hope. “I remember whites coming to Selma and risking their lives. A nation that will do that is not all bad. ‌ I believe if you give Americans the truth, they will do their damndest to be fair.â€?

Still, giving Americans the truth is a tall order, Chestnut admitted, when the goal of so many politicians is just the opposite.

Joe Atkins is a veteran journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi. His blog is laborsouth.blogspot.com, and he can be reached at jbatkins@olemiss.edu.

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O Amelia Steadman McGowan Find a mentor and be a mentor!

Whitney Alex Barkley Tina Fey Amelia Steadman has a great new show on Netflix called the The Unbreakable Kimmy McGowan Schmidt.

At the end of the first episode, Kimmy says something that I’ve been repeating all day: “life breaks everyone down. You can either curl up in a ball and die, or you can stand Whitney Alex up and say, ‘Yeah, we’re different.

Barkley And you can’t break us.”

Carra Powell Ignore the naysayers and keep pushing forward!

Julie Propst It says it on the AA chip given for lengths of sobriety: “To thine on self be true.”

Not self centered or selfish but Carra Powell acknowledging the need to care for self (food, exercise, fun, spirituality) before caring for others.

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Emily Braden Knight Don’t allow anyone to change your narrative, even if it upsets them.

April Maey Never give up on your dream, no matter how far your path may deviate. Never let your dream(s) be derailed!

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Heather Fox IF and only IF you marry, learn how to be a partner—we don’t always need to be equals.

Susan Fontenot To thine own self be true. Be honest even when it feels hard. Represent yourself with confidence and dignity and never lose sight of what impact those two things, honesty and dignity, will have on your life.

Melissa Kelly Let go of competing outside of games and sports. You don’t win life, or parenthood, or marriage, or friendship—no one is going to hand you a medal for the really important things.

Renee Shakespeare

Debra West Don’t depend on someone else for your security or your happiness.

t’s an interesting time to be a woman. On the one hand, we have more opportunities than ever before to speak our minds, share our ideas, voice our opinions. There’s social media—and chicks do love some Facebook and Instagram— and then we have the ability to start a blog and fill it with our ramblings any time we feel like it.

On the other hand, all this access to publish our thoughts has a dark side: Many men don’t like it when we speak up and talk back. Some will go to great lengths to silence our voices, and too often that gets sexual or physical quickly online. A Pew Research Center study last fall found that both men and women get harassed online, but women are much more likely than men to be sexually harassed or cyberstalked.

Claudia Dreifus

Dawn Beasley Macke Believe in yourself. You are stronger, smarter, better than you think. Believe in each other. Always try to build other women up rather than tear them down.

Don’t make apologies for making waves. Making waves is how the status quo is changed.

Ginger Williams-Cook Discover yoga as early as possible. Work towards self acceptance daily, and try to have a kind inner voice. Self acceptance is the best way to feel beautiful.

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Cecilia Reese Bullock Take care of yourself financially. Don’t gamble your youth and your career and your life assuming that someone else will be your safety net. Men do leave, and they do try to take it all with them.

Giselle Claypool Stromgren If you see something that needs to be done, don’t wait for “someone” to do it. Do whatever you can, even if that’s only pointing out the situation to the people who have the resources for the doing.

Antoinette Pippins · Go out and enjoy life! Explore! Don’t be so quick to be in a “committed” relationship. There’s plenty of time for that. Commit to yourself first in all areas. Be mindful of the company you keep, and it’s OK to say “NO” without apology.

Locally, I’ve seen men say they wished a female attorney’s breast implants would burst (there was no indication that this accomplished woman had implants, of course) because they disagreed with who she was defending. I also know of a local neanderthal telling a woman on Facebook who didn’t know him what she was wearing earlier in the day, which is horrifying for any woman.

And how many times have I been called “angry,” “bitter” or “loud” (meant as an insult) or even a c*nt simply because I dared to disagree or share my opinion? It’s epidemic and sad.

But here’s the thing: Women suffer if we don’t speak up, and our communities are hurt even more. In general, women are more compassionate, collaborative and less competitive in

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energy to devote to breaking ceilings and running things!

And standing up to those who try to stop you.

Claudia Dreifus What I tell my students is that every generation has to fight this battle anew: never forget that. My mother’s generation did, and we had to do it over again for them.

Renee Shakespeare You are the foundation. If you fail, everything fails. Take care of yourself FIRST. Donna Ladd Amen, Julie. Start exercising and eating better now no matter your age. It will help stress now and keep away nasty problems as you get older. And give you more

n International Women’s Day, I asked women on Facebook: “What advice you would offer your fellow females, especially the younger ones?” This is what amazing women from Mississippi and beyond shared, which turned into a powerful inter-generational conversation.

conversations, wanting to integrate and synthesize information, rather than simply listening to refute, belittle or silence.

Donna Ladd Speaking of relationships, NEVER enter into one thinking you will improve or change your partner.

They must decide to do that; thinking you can turn them into who you want will only lead to disappointment. Want them for who they are, and then grow together. Meantime, remember that only you can make you happy. No one else can do that, although the wrong people can certainly make you unhappy.

Kathleen Chapman Protect yourself, continue to learn, always.

Giselle Claypool Stromgren Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Seek out people who are knowledgeable about the things you want or need to know, and ask for their advice and expertise. Most people like to teach and share what they’ve learned, and are happy to help if you’re sincere.

Melissa W. Shoemaker My two cents: Find yourself and be proud of who your are to your core—embrace your imperfections and defend yourself when you are right.

Speak up and look to those without a voice; empower and mentor them.

Donna Ladd I would add that more women need to practice speaking up in intimidating situations. I was surprised that I was often afraid to speak up in graduate school—just 13 years ago. I had to work to overcome that fear. All part of lifelong learning. Don’t be the last one to speak up. Raise your hand.

Participate.

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Melissa W. Shoemaker I even have that fear now.

Although I have had a lifetime of leadership roles. I have that nagging in the back of my head in these situations.

Women are also reluctant to be called experts in fields where men in similar roles or without even close credentials will proclaim it.

Donna Ladd OH, and don’t expect everyone to like you.

That sets up a life of disappointment. And if a jerk or

Not to mention, we need to get it out there and tell our stories. People are swayed by individual stories rather than statistics, and we need to tell ours. It is inevitable that someone won’t like that, but so be it, sisters.

In my writing classes, I teach people— many of them women who have wanted to write their entire lives—how to harness the power of narrative to write stories that literally change your world. It might be your personal world, or the larger community.

Or, most likely, both.

Here are some of my tips for finding, and using, your voice.

1. Practice speaking up in smaller, safer spaces first. It gets easier just like riding a bike.

negative goofball doesn’t like you, meh. Well done.

Donna Ladd I know, Melissa, just keep going back in. Practice builds confidence.

Kimberly Griffin Probably should ignore anyone that says you are too aggressive, too opinionated, Kimberly Griffin too loud, blah blah. Find some really good, really powerful women friends that you can be honest with. Trust other women.

Our society has created this idea that we can’t trust one another. Work hard and smart. Get plenty of rest and take real vacations. Leave the darn country, for goodness sake.

Read. Read. Read. You’ll be a better person for it. Eat good whole foods, drink plenty of water. You must take care of yourself before you take care of anyone else. Be positive.

Half the battle is attitude. Whiners never win. Be fearless.

Even it doesn’t do go well at first it will all work out in the end.

Melishia Brooks If you must imitate someone, imitate a woman that is accessible. By doing this, you always have access to her, and she Malisha Brookes can guide and help you become a better woman. Celebrities are great to look up to, however, they cannot give you any real advice about your current situation. However, that teacher/church member/neighbor/aunt/doctor/mentor can give you everything you need, when you need it. Always remember that there is a woman that has made your mistakes before, and she is out there waiting to help you overcome and persevere. You are not alone. Ever. Someone out there has the answer to every question. Be the woman you would want someone else to look up to.

Angie Ladd Carpenter Daddy always told me to get as much education as possible. His words were “A man could take a lot of things but he could never take your knowledge.

Knowledge is power.” He was a protective father of three girls who only wanted best for us.

Stephanie Burks Always go with your first mind. Don’t overthink it.

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Vicki Robinson Slater Go for the gusto!

2. Read, think, do your homework. If you care about an issue, take time to get acquainted with it enough to bring more than emotion to your argument.

3. On the other hand, be emotional about things that matter. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader, as Robert Frost put it.

4. Raise your hand first. Typically, women wait until after men talk to speak up in classes and meetings. Take a breath and jump in there.

5. Remember that you don’t have to qualify everything with “I believe”; you also never have to apologize for speaking or having an opinion. Stop saying “I’m sorry” unless you really did something wrong.

6. Try not to talk in a little-girl voice. Breathe

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Donna Ladd I like that, Stephanie. I’ve also been guilty of under thinking and being too impulsive as a result. I’ve become a fan of looking for the second best idea, to be sure, and to avoid closing doors too quickly. It’s a balancing act.

Jan Levy Mattiace Don’t be a follower. Act and respond only in a way that feels right to your true self. Build a network of women—many individuals or small groups from different walks of your life. They will carry you through many life events. Age is a number. Embrace every age, and don’t let age limit your friendships. Have friends younger and older than you. And never ridicule or disrespect people of other ages. You’ve either been there yourself in youth, or are making fun of your own inevitable future.

Donna Chesteen Don’t ever be afraid of others not liking you because you are smart. Wave that smart flag proudly!

Use your intelligence to the best of your ability and you WILL change the world—even if only in a small way. The world was built by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Kelly Shannon Graeber Always let your inner and outer beauty shine in any situation—the good, the bad , the ugly. Continue to learn and be open to adapting to change. We are in an ever-changing world, so if you don’t change with it or learn then you will fall behind.

Learn to be resourceful and be proud of the goals you accomplish yourself. No one else is going to do the work for you. When you get up in the morning, be ready to show up. Don’t forget where you come from—don’t toss your beliefs, moral and values to the side just to fit into a workplace or where you are presently.

Victoria Cross Focus, focus, focus! I remember in high school and college algebra, sometimes we’d be given some ridiculously long math equation with several variables and one assignment: simplify the equation. ... A lot Victoria Cross of times the tendency would be to focus on this mile long problem. The funny thing was, we weren’t asked to solve it, merely to simply the equation. My advice to young ladies is this: simplify. There will be things that seem impossible and confusing, with a million different variables. You don’t have to have the answer.

But simplify. Break it down. Big problems aren’t as big when you look at the small pieces. This has helped me over the years when I’ve become overwhelmed. As a woman, we can do anything.

from your diaphragm and own it! (Likewise, practice a firm handshake to tell people to take your seriously. Offer your hand first.

Then make eye contact and speak up.)

7. Take time to think before speaking and then know when to stop talking. When people talk non-stop, as we like to do in the South, they seem nervous and even silly.

8. Write stories the way storytellers tell them: This happened, then this happened, then this. Paint a picture and then tell your reader what it means. Better yet, show it.

9. When you’re expressing your opinion, refute different opinions in your piece.

Know the other arguments first and knock them down; don’t just express your

feelings about something. Prove it.

10. Do what “The Artist’s Way” author Julia Cameron calls “morning pages.” Every morning, write three long-hand pages of whatever comes to mind. At the least, it’ll help move garbage out of your head and center you. At best, you might write something great that you can further develop.

11. And my favorite: Never expect the first draft of anything to be worth a damn. Always leave time to rewrite and check your words. That’s where the magic happens.

For ideas on finding your voice, see www.theopedproject.org/. To get on my Writing to Change class mailing list, write 15 class@writingtochange.org.

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Schedule

Friday, March 27 Sweet Potato Queens Big Hat Brunch

The Bluz Boys Concert

The r&b and soul band The Bluz Boys will play in the middle of Duling Avenue on the Cirlot stage from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The event is free to the public.

First Commercial Bank, Ergon, Inc., and the University of Mississippi Medical Center are the sponsors.

Budweiser Clydesdales

The Budweiser Clydesdales will arrive in Fondren for a third time in five years from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Southern Beverage Company is the sponsor.

Saturday, March 28 Sal & Mookie’s Street Carnival

Sal & Mookie’s presents the annual Street Carnival on the stadium green at Veterans Memorial Stadium (2531 N. State St.) starting at 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The event includes games, a dunking booth, a photo booth for $5 and pizza- and ice cream-eating contests. Armbands for the festival are $2.

Fondren Jump Zone

The Fondren neighborhood will have bounce houses at the corner of Old Canton Road and Duling Avenue from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The event is free.

Patty Peck Doo Dah Day Blue Car Giveaway

At 6 p.m, the 10 finalists in the Patty Peck Honda Doo Dah Day Blue Car Giveaway will gather at BancorpSouth (2710 N. State St.). A winner will receive the keys to a 2015 Honda Civic LX. Braveheart Honorary Flyover

The Braveheart Honorary Flyover, honoring first responders, doctors and service members, begins at 6:40 p.m.

Where does the money from Zippity Doo Dah go?

Since the event began in 2011, the proceeds have gone to the Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital. The 2014 ZDD proceeds supported the purchase of a van for the hospital’s Palliative Care Unit to allow the five children who live there to go on field trips. Once ZDD was over, Randall Wallace wrote a check to pay remaining costs for the van. This year, the ZDD proceeds will go to the purchase of six “giraffe” beds for the Blair E. Batson’s cardiac units. Since some of the children are too fragile to move even from the bed to a gurney for surgery, the beds will allow physicians to do procedures while the child stays in place. To buy all the beds, ZDD needs to raise $100,000.

The BancorpSouth Zippity Doo Dah Parade

The theme of this year’s Zippity Doo Dah Parade is “Bravehearts for Batson.”

The grand marshal is Randall Wallace, who wrote the script for the film “Braveheart” (and wears a mean kilt). The parade will also include performances by the Murrah High School Band and the Jackson State University Sonic Boom, golf-cart floats, antique cars and none other than the Sweet Potato Queens, led by Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne. The parade begins around 6:45 p.m.

The Post Parade Show featuring Della Mae

After the parade ends, Della Mae will perform at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) beginning at 9 p.m. The doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the door. ardenland presents the event.

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Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.) will close for lunch Friday, March 27, for the Sweet Potato Queen Big Hat Brunch. Doors open at 10 a.m., and the event includes a buffet and the Big Hat contest. Spud Stud Scott Caples, who has won the contest numerous times, is the judge. Winners for Best Hat and Best Hat Group will receive prizes. Tickets for the brunch are $21 in advance, and $26 at the door. Doors open at 10:30 a.m., and the event begins at 11 a.m.

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The Museum School Summer art camps and classes at the Mississippi Museum of Art offer a variety of art opportunities for children and young adults ages 5-17. Campers find inspiration to create in our unique museum environment through classes that draw from our exhibitions, permanent collection, and beautiful public green space. Led by Museum staff and local teaching artists, The Museum School provides art training in a range of media that is both intensive and fun!

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Girl Scouts Summer Camp May 30-July 28, 7 a.m.-10 p.m., at Camp Iti Kana (11 Camp Iti Kana Road, Wiggins) and Camp Wahi (1593 Shiloh Road, Brandon). This 11-session camp offers a variety of fun and educational crafts and activities, including storytelling, exploring and more. Sessions 1-6 are at Camp Iti Kana and sessions 7-11 are at Camp Wahi. Ages and prices vary between sessions. Call 601-5821455; email lfrank@gsgms.org; gsgms.org.

Events at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.) · Sonic Boom of the South Band Camp June 2-27, 8 a.m.-10 p.m., at F. D. Hall Department of Music. Join the Sonic Boom of the South for master classes in areas such as field show content, instrumental pedagogy and more. For ages 14-19. $300, $250 for commuters; call 601-979-7063; email roderick. d.little@jsums.edu; jsums.edu/summercamps. · JSU Football High School Camp June 3, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., at Intramural Fields. Campers will complete a combine-style workout and receive position-specific instruction from JSU’s coaching staff. For ages 13-18. $25; call 601979-2295; email timothy.chang@jsums.edu; jsums.edu/summercamps. · Camp Stars Theater Summer Camp July 6-31, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Rose McCoy Auditorium.

Campers learn to positively express themselves and how to utilize theater skills in life. For ages

Events at Jackson Preparatory School (3100 Lakeland Drive) · Baseball Camp June 1-5, 8:30 a.m.-noon.

Campers in grades 1-8 learn baseball fundamentals, such as throwing, hitting and base-running, with Coach Chuck Box and staff. $85; call 601-364-5763; jacksonacademy.org/2015-summer-camp-brochure. · Cheerleading Camp July 6-9, 9-11:30 a.m.

Campers in grades 1-6 learn fundamentals of cheerleading, such as cheers, chants, dances and more, with instructor Tracie Mallard and the Jackson Prep senior high cheerleaders. $105; call 601-364-5763; jacksonacademy.org/2015-summer-camp-brochure. · Summer Masters Show Choir Camp July 6-9, 5-9 p.m. Junior high and high school students will learn vocal and choreography skills from award-winning show choir director Dianne Holbert and other instructors. $225; call 601939-8611; email pfryant@jacksonprep.net; jacksonprep.net/camps.

Events at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.) · Critter Clothes June 1-5, 9 a.m.-noon. At this half-day camp, campers learn about the different coverings that animals “wear,” such as a rabbit’s soft fur or a snake’s smooth scales. For ages 4-5.

Optional lunch $35. $95, $85 members; call 601-352-2580, ext. 240; jacksonzoo.org/camp. · Most Extreme Ages 9-12 June 8-12, June 2226, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. At this full-day camp, campers learn about the animals and plants that live in extreme environments. Optional lunch $35. $185, $170 members; call 601-352-2580, ext.

240; jacksonzoo.org/camp. · Eat or Be Eaten June 8-12, June 29-July 3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. At this full-day camp, campers learn about the ways that animals survive in the animal kingdom. For ages 6-8. Optional lunch $35. $185, $170 members; call 601-352-2580, ext. 240; jacksonzoo.org/camp. · Zoo Keeping 101 June 15-19, June 29-July 3, July 6-10, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. At this full-day camp, campers learn what it takes to run a zoo and take care of its animals. For ages 9-12. Optional lunch $35. $185, $170 members; call 601-3522580, ext. 240; jacksonzoo.org/camp.

Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) · Song & Stage June 1-5, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Director Chrissy Hrivnak teachers campers in grades 3-6 about stage movement, theatrical narratives, and musicals. $180; call 601-974-1000; millsaps. edu/summer_enrichment_camps_for_kids.php. · Summer Guitar Workshop June 1-5, 11 a.m.noon. Instructor Jimmy Turner leads this workshop that teaches campers ages 14-17 basic note reading, chord formation and other acoustic fundamentals. Students must bring their own guitars. $85; call 601-974-1000; Millsaps.edu/ summer_enrichment_camps_for_kids.php. · Birding Camp June 15-19, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Campers ages 10-14 learn to identify birds with experts from the Jackson Audubon Society. $110; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu/summer_enrichment_camps_for_kids.php.

Events at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland) · Sampler Camp June 1-5, July 13-17, 9 a.m.12:30 p.m. Campers learn about a variety of

June 8-11, soccer and musical theater June 1518, and basketball and dancing July 6-9. $20 per week; call 601-914-7130; christunitedjxn.org.

crafts, including pottery, mosaic, stained glass and more. For ages 5-8. $185; call 601-8567546; craftsmensguildofms.org. · Weaving Intensive Camp Ages 9-12 June 15-18, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Campers develop weaving skills and learn a variety of techniques. $185, $160 early registration; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org. · Stained Glass Intensive Camp Ages 9-12 June 15-18, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Campers develop weaving skills and learn a variety of techniques. $185, $160 early registration; call 601-8567546; craftsmensguildofms.org. · Blacksmithing Intensive Camp Ages 13-17 June 15-18, July 27-30, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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Events at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School (4120 Old Canton Road) · Craftsplosion! June 8-12, time TBA. Campers in grades pre-K-1 learn to make a variety of crafts, including sun catchers and paper flowers, from instructor Andrea Stallings. $140; call 601-987-9300; gosaints.org. · Video Game Creation June 22-26, 9 a.m.noon, 1-4 p.m. This half-day program teaches campers ages 8-15 the basics of building a platform game in the vein of Sonic and Mario. Campers will receive an

Crucial Camp Questions

he dog days of summer will be here before we know it. It’s the time of the year to figure out what your kids are going to do when school is out—besides, of course, going to the beach, splashing in the neighborhood pool and begging for more ice-cold lemonade and screen time.

Are you a working parent who needs summer camp as child care? Or are you IMANI KHAYYAM

Events at Walter Payton Center (34 Walter Payton Center Drive). · Camp Tiger Tails May 26-29, June 1-5, June 8-12, June 15-19, June 22-26, June 29-July 3, July 6-10, July 13-17, July 20-24, July 27-31, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. This 10-week camp will feature activities and entertainment for ages 5-16, with a different theme each week. $145 per week, $125 per week for JSU Recreation Complex members; call 601-9791368; email arron.richardson@jsums.edu; jsums.edu/paytoncenter/5-2. · I Heart Dance Company Dance Camp June 15-19, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Campers take classes in a variety of genres, including jazz, majorette and hip-hop, and participate in a summer dance recital. For ages 6-18. $100; call 601-383-3524; email iheartdancecompany@gmail.com; jsums. edu/summercamps.

8-18. $400; call 601-979-4309; email nadia. c.bodie@jsums.edu; jsums.edu/summercamps. · JSU Lady Tigers 14th Annual Volleyball Skills Camp July 7, 1:30-8 p.m., July 8-10, 9 a.m.5 p.m., July 11, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at T. B. Ellis Gymnasium. Campers strengthen basic volleyball skills. For ages 11-18. $100 commuter campers, $225 residential campers; call 601979-1097; email rosemarie.e.pryce_washington@jsums.edu; jsums.edu/summercamps.

Metro institutions such as the Jackson Zoo have summer camps for children.

a stay-at-home mom or dad looking for enrichment activities for your kids? Poll your friends to find their favorite summer camps in the area, and ask your children about their interests and summer dreams.

As you develop a short list of summer ideas, here are some of the specific details that you should consider before sending your deposit to a camp.

How much does the camp cost? What is included in the cost? Will you need to send bag lunches, snacks, sunscreen and bug spray with your child, or are these things included?

Campers develop blacksmithing skills and learn a variety of techniques. $185, $160 early registration; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

Kids with Character Camps June 8-11, June 1518, July 6-9, 8:30 a.m.-noon, at Christ United Methodist Church (6000 Old Canton Road).

Campers in grades K-5 choose a different skill to learn each week, with football and cheerleading

Does the camp have a refund policy so that you can get some or all of your investment back if your plans change at the last minute?

If your child has special needs of any kind, from food allergies to learning disabilities to physical challenges, is this camp adequately equipped to care for your child’s unique needs?

What is the adult to child ratio at the camp? Are the camp counselors screened and well trained? Will your child be properly supervised? Does the camp have a good safety record?

How outgoing is your child? If you have a shy child, are any of your child’s buddies able to go to camp that same week? Friendly faces will make the camp drop off smoother.

What activities will the camp have?

Are these all things that your child is willing and able to participate in? Are there alternative activities for children who don’t want to (or can’t) join in with the rest of the group?

Ultimately, if you send your children to a camp they don’t enjoy, they won’t have fun, and you won’t be happy. Luckily, Jackson has many summer camps to choose from, including some at colleges such as Jackson State University and at cool places such as the Jackson Zoo. Go to the special summer camp listing in the events section (p. 20-25) to see what’s available.

— Kelly Smith overview of arcade-style programming and learn skills to expand character movements. $330, $305 early registration; call 601-9879300; gosaints.org.

Due to limited space, this list includes only some of the summer activities available in the Jackson area. For more information, visit each organization’s website and jacksonfreepress.com/events.

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Events at Jackson Academy (4908 Ridgewood Road) · Raider Speed Camp May 26-29, 9 a.m.-noon, at Raider Park. Campers grades 1-6 learn track and field skills from Coach Mack Norwood and staff. $80; 601-364-5763; jacksonacademy. org/2015-summer-camp-brochure. · Draw, Paint, Imagine June 15-18, June 2225, 1-3 p.m., in JA Lower School Art Room.

Campers in grades 2-6 work with water color, oil pastel, acrylic paint and more, to develop skills. $150; 601-364-5763; jacksonacademy. org/2015-summer-camp-brochure. · Tennis Camp July 6-10, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., in Activities Building. Campers in grades pre-K-4 learn tennis fundamentals, such as etiquette, strategy and scoring, from instructor Mary Rebecca Jeffries. $100; call 601-364-5763; jacksonacademy. org/2015-summer-camp-brochure. · Soccer Camp July 13-16, 9 a.m.-noon, at Raider Field. Campers in grades 1-10 learn fundamental soccer skills from Coach Nic Henderson and staff. For boys and girls. $80; call 601-364-5763; jacksonacademy.org/2015summer-camp-brochure. · Beat the Heat July 27-29, 9-11:30 a.m., at Raider Park. Campers in grades 1-6 cool off with water slides, slip-and-slides and more. $80; call 601-364-5763; jacksonacademy. org/2015-summer-camp-brochure.

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our years ago and 40 pounds heavier, Denise Moulier came to Guruz Fitness Studio because she wanted to lose some remaining unwanted pounds and prepare for an upcoming triathlon. But beyond nutrition and fitness, Guruz helped Moulier understand a high-performance lifestyle, which is about balance and reaching your highest potential.

Moulier says she felt like a different person after Guruz helped her. “I decided to pay it forward,” she says. She joined the Guruz team four years ago, leaving behind a 28-year career in retail. Now, she is the fitness studio manager.

When Moulier came on board, fitness trainer and instructor Lacee Chagnon was still perfecting what Guruz now calls its specialty—merging technology with fitness and becoming masters at guiding clients through their energy zones for maximum efficiency.

“We have fitness down to a science, and everything we do is science based,” Chagnon says. “We use body composition testing combined with our physician-monitored weight-loss system and healthy nutrition to help members reach their weight goals.

Our weight-loss system combined with supervised exercise in the appropriate heart-rate zone also sets us apart from most.”

Guruz’s signature classes offer spinning, rowing, boxing, suspension training, weightlifting and body-weight exercises, all in the same space and class setting. Any given workout involves rotating on the selected components. It also offers Reformer PiGuruz Fitness Studio, owned

by Lacee Chagnon (left), helped lates, Purre Barre and mat Pilates classes in an adjoining stuDenise Moulier (right) grasp the dio separated by a partial glass wall. Guruz’s high-performance concept of high-peformance living. fitness programs involve high-intensity interval training, which creates excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, better known as afterburn. This means your body continues to burn calories for up to 36 hours after a workout session.

It also doesn’t matter if the client is in the studio or working out on his or her own space or even out of town because the studio offers virtual classes. After each workout, the client receives a report via email showing his or her level of effort, caloric burn and other data transmitted during that session. An app puts the workouts in perspective, making it effortless for clients to track their progress.

Virtual workouts can be convenient, but participants should experience Guruz Fitness Studio with all the senses. The “State of the Heart” facility is a motivator itself, from the sound system to the lighting, to the shock-absorbing plyometric flooring. The energy of the studio was busy spot-checking for accuracy, other clients jumped in to guide her before the gets you pumped and keeps you moving. The wall-mounted monitors, which display trainer had a chance to. in real time each individual’s caloric burn during a class, are also motivating. At the “This is an awesome class,” Rogers says. “I can breathe better, and I just end of the session, the system adds the students’ numbers together to show the total feel rejuvenated.” class’ accomplishment.

Class options at Guruz include private individual and small or large Togetherness and paying it forward are contagious at Guruz. First-timer Jamyla group lessons. For more information on Guruz Fitness Studio (6935 Old Canton Road, Rogers, owner and CEO of J-Stylez LLC, says she was impressed that when a trainer Ridgeland, 747-666-5326), visit guruzfitness.com.

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AMERICAN/SOUTHERN CUISINE Basil’s (2906 N State St #104, Jackson, 601-982-2100) Paninis pizza, pasta, soups and salads. They’ve got it all on the menu.

Broad Street Bakery (4465 Interstate 55 N. 601-362-2900) Hot breakfast, coffee drinks, fresh breads & pastries, gourmet deli sandwiches.

The Feathered Cow (4760 I-55 North 769-233-8366) Simple and homemade equal quality and freshness every time. You never leave The Cow hungry!

Primos Cafe (2323 Lakeland 601-936-3398/ 515 Lake Harbour 601-898-3400) A Jackson institution for breakfast, blue-plates, catfish, burgers, prime rib, oysters, po-boys & wraps. Famous bakery!

Rooster’s (2906 N State St, Jackson, 601-982-2001) You haven’t had a burger until you’ve had a Rooster’s burger. Pair it with their seasoned fries and you’re in heaven.

Two Sisters Kitchen (707 N. Congress St. 601-353-1180) Lunch. Mon-Fri, Sun. PIZZA Sal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St. 601-368-1919) Pizzas of all kinds plus pasta, eggplant Parmesan, fried ravioli & ice cream for the kids!

Mellow Mushroom (275 Dogwood Blvd, Flowood, 601-992-7499) More than just great pizza and beer. Open Monday - Friday 11-10 and Saturday 11-11.

ITALIAN La Finestra (120 N Congress St #3, Jackson, 601-345-8735) Chef Tom Ramsey’s downtown Jackson hot-spot offers authentic Italian cuisine in cozy, inviting environment.

BRAVO! (4500 Interstate 55 N., Jackson, 601-982-8111) Award-winning wine list, Jackson’s see-and-be-seen casual/upscale dining.

STEAK, SEAFOOD & FINE DINING The Islander Seafood and Oyster House (1220 E Northside Drive, Suite 100, 601-366-5441) Oyster bar, seafood, gumbo, po’boys, crawfish and plenty of Gulf Coast delights in a laid-back Buffet-style atmosphere.

The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen (1200 North State St. #100 601-398-4562) Transforms the essence of Mediterranean food and southern classics.

The Penguin (1100 John R Lynch Street, 769-251-5222) Fine dining at its best.

Rocky’s (1046 Warrington Road, Vicksburg 601-634-0100) Enjoy choice steaks, fresh seafood, great salads, hearty sandwiches.

Sal and Phil’s Seafood (6600 Old Canton Rd, Ridgeland 601-957-1188) Great Seafood, Poboys, Lunch Specials, Boiled Seafood, Full Bar, Happy Hour Specials Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Avenue 601-982-2899) Creative seafood classics. Named one of Jackson’s Best New Restaurants.

MEDITERRANEAN/GREEK Aladdin Mediterranean Grill (730 Lakeland Drive 601-366-6033) Delicious authentic dishes including lamb dishes, hummus, falafel, kababs, shwarma.

Vasilios Greek Cusine (828 Hwy 51, Madison 601-853-0028) Authentic greek cuisine since 1994, specializing in gyros, greek salads, baklava cheesecake & fresh daily seafood.

BARBEQUE Chimneyville (970 High St, Jackson 601-354-4665 www.chimneyville.com) Family style barbeque restaurant and catering service in the heart of downtown Jackson.

Hickory Pit Barbecue (1491 Canton Mart Rd. 601-956-7079) The “Best Butts in Town” features BBQ chicken, beef and pork along with burgers and po’boys.

Pig and Pint (3139 N State St, Jackson, 601-326-6070) Serving up competition style barbecue along with one of the of best beer selections in metro.

COFFEE HOUSES Cups Espresso Café (Multiple Locations, www.cupsespressocafe.com) Jackson’s local group of coffeehouses offer a wide variety of espresso drinks. Wi-fi.

BARS, PUBS & BURGERS Bonny Blair’s (1149 Old Fannin Rd 769-251-0692) Traditional Irish pub food and live entertainment. Open 11am daily.

Burgers and Blues (1060 E. County Line Rd. 601-899-0038) Best Burger of 2013, plus live music and entertainment!

Cherokee Inn (960 Briarfield Rd. 601-362-6388) Jackson’s “Best Hole in the Wall,” has a great jukebox, great bar and a great burger.

Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St. 601-948-0055) Classic Irish pub featuring a menu of traditional food, pub sandwiches & Irish beers on tap.

Hal and Mal’s (200 S. Commerce St. 601-948-0888) Pub favorites meet Gulf Coast and Cajun specialties like red beans and rice, the Oyster Platter or daily specials.

Legends Grill (5352 Lakeland Dr. 601-919-1165) Your neighborhood Sports Bar and Grill.

Martin’s Restaurant and Lounge (214 South State Street 601-354-9712) Lunch specials, pub appetizers or order from the full menu of po-boys and entrees. Full bar, beer selection.

Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St. 601-960-2700) Pub food with a southern flair: beer-battered onion rings, chicken & sausage gumbo, salads, sandwiches.

One Block East ( 642 Tombigbee St. 601-944-0203) Burger joint and dive bar located in downtown Jackson. Great music, tasty beverages and Bad Ass Burgers is what we do.

Time Out (6270 Old Canton Road, 601-978-1839) Your neighborhood fun spot! Terrific lunch special and amazing Happy Hour!

Underground 119 (119 South President St. 601-352-2322) Pan-seared crabcakes, shrimp and grits, filet mignon, vegetarian sliders. Live music. Opens 4 p.m., Wed-Sat Wing Stop (952 North State Street, 601-969-6400) Saucing and tossing in a choice of nine flavors, Wing Stop wings are made with care and served up piping hot.

ASIAN AND INDIAN Fusion Japanese and Thai Cuisine (1002 Treetop Blvd, Flowood 601-664-7588) Specializing in fresh Japanese and Thai cuisine, an extensive menu features everything from curries to fresh sushi VEGETARIAN High Noon Café (2807 Old Canton Road in Rainbow Plaza 601-366-1513)Jackson’s own strict vegetarian (and very-vegan-friendly) restaurant adjacent to Rainbow Whole Foods.

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n “The Walrus and The Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll, a walrus and a carpenter are walking along the beach when they spot a group of oysters and try to get them to take a walk with them. The older ones say no and stay on their sand bed.

However, the younger ones decide to go with them. After walking along the beach for a while, the group comes to rest on a low rock. The walrus says it’s time for a chat: “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.”

The oysters tell him to wait before they start because they’re out of breath and fat, which is beneficial for the carpenter and walrus. The carpenter tells them that there is no rush. In the end, the walrus and carpenter eat the oysters, though the walrus shows remorse as he picks out the larger ones.

After reading the poem, Jesse Houston, who was researching for his own oyster bar at the time and had decided on the name Saltine, decided to name his restaurant The Walrus and the Carpenter instead. However, after a quick Google search, Houston found out that Chef Renee Erickson had already opened a restaurant by that name in Seattle, Wash.

“As I started researching more oyster bars, I started finding out that The Walrus and the Carpenter is … one of the top oyster bars in the country,” he says. “I started looking at (Erickson’s) food and her cuisine and all the different beautiful shellfish. … When it was announced that she was coming out with a cookbook, ‘(A Boat), A Whale & A Walrus,’ I messaged her on Instagram and said: ‘Hey, if you’d like to come and do a guest chef dinner here and promote your cookbook, we would love to have you. It would be … a lot of fun.”

Erickson also co-owns Seattle restaurants The Whale Wins, Boat Street Café and oyster food truck The Narwhal with Jeremy Price and Chad Dale. Lucky for Jacksonians, her prolific food presence in the Pacific Northwest and knowledge of the area’s cuisine and ingredients will lend a fresh element to her guest chef dinner at Saltine on Monday, April 6.

“The real reason I want to do these guest chef dinners is just to learn more myself, get to meet really diverse, interesting chefs that are successful from different parts of the country, have them come in and show us a little bit of something that they’re

known for or to work with the ingredients they work with on a daily basis,” Houston says. “It’s sort of a continuing education for myself and my staff. … It’s a nice breath of fresh air to be able to see something new that they’ve never seen before and try out something new ... so they can see what’s going outside these four walls, outside of this city.”

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Jesse Houston will partner with Seattle chef Renee Erickson (pictured) for a guest chef dinner, where she will sign her cookbook, “A Boat, A Whale & A Walrus, at Saltine April 6.

Pacific Northwest seafood,” he says.

The dinner begins at 6 p.m. with an oyster-bar reception, where diners can eat Hama Hama and blue pool oysters. The visiting chef will present the second course at 6:30 p.m., with the meals coming out every 20 minutes. The dishes include smoked herring on toast with pickled spring onions and raw halibut with mustard-seed oil.

The dessert is a British take on strawberries and shortcake, but with lemon curd and rhubarb instead of strawberries.

Erickson will sign copies of her cookbook “A Boat, A Whale & a Walrus” (Sasquatch Books, 2014, $40), which features Pacific Northwest dishes, at the event.

Houston says this dinner will be the first in a series of guest-chef dinners, the second with Jason McLeod of Ironside Fish & Oyster Restaurant in San Diego, Calif.

Saltine’s guest-chef dinner with Renee Erickson is April 6 and is $75. For more information, visit saltinerestaurant.com or find Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Ave., Suite 202, 601982-2899) on Facebook.

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of sketching and a few cartooning classes in New York City, he created sikhtoons.com as a place to post his political cartoons.

In November 2009, Singh had his first art show, which commemorated the 1984 genocide. There, he met photographer Fiona Aboud who had been taking portraits of Sikh doctors, soldiers and families as part her project “Sikhs: an American Portrait.”

“Hey, I don’t know any Sikh cartoonists,” Aboud told Singh later in a phone conversation. “I would love to make you part of my project.”

Aboud came to Singh’s booth in the 2011 New York Comic Con to take his picture. “I don’t think she found a good photograph out of what she (snapped),” he says. Aboud mentioned in passing that Singh should consider dressing up as Captain America.

“No way,’” he told her. For much of Singh’s life, bullies picked on him because he was skinny. Being photographed in a costume seemed to ask for ridicule. Surely, he didn’t have the confidence, much less the build, to be a superhero.

In August 2012, Singh read a news report about a 40-year-old white supremacist who shot up a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., killing six people.

“Oh my God! This could be me!” he remembers thinking. “This guy basically walked into a Sikh temple and shot these people. Why? Maybe he thought they were Muslims. Maybe he knew they were Sikh. I think for him it was the countenance—the turban and the beard— that for him just made him think, ‘Oh, this is not American. I’m gonna kill them.’”

Singh’s determination to accurately portray Sikhs grew stronger, and he even wrote an oped piece for The Seattle Times. Singh made the case that America needed a new superhero who fights hate crimes. Singh wanted this hero to be black American or Jewish American or Hispanic American or Asian American—or Sikh American.

A few days after the op-ed ran, Singh received an email from Aboud. “Would you please reconsider your decision?” she asked. “I think you should really step out as Captain America. I would love to do that photo shoot.”

Singh agreed, even though the voice in his head was saying, “Dude, don’t do it. Don’t do it.”

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pair of bright red boots and matching red UC Berkeley in 1999. After graduating, Singh moved to gloves slide into a dashing blue jumpsuit, Connecticut and commuted to Columbia University in admittedly a little short for Vishavjit Singh’s New York City to earn a technology certificate. Then, on long frame. On his chest, red and white verti- Sept. 11, 2001, everything changed. cal bars underline a white star. A letter “A” adorns a blue “Everyone in the U.S. felt it, but living in and around turban that gives way to his dark curly beard.

New York City, you felt it so much more,” Singh says.

As part of a tour that included museum exhibits, “Normal, average people—black, white, Hispanfilm festivals and the 2011 New York Comic Con, soft- ic—they all had these red eyes and anger all projected at ware analyst and cartoonist Singh presented a lecture, me. They don’t know I’m a Sikh. They see this evil guy, “Cartoons, Turbans & Superheroes: An American Tale,” Osama Bin Laden, wearing a turban, so they think, ‘Oh at the Millsaps College Academic Complex on Sunday, March 1.

Singh was born in Washington, D.C., in 1971, but his family moved back to their native India in 1975. On June 3, 1984, Indira Gandhi, then the prime minister of India, ordered soldiers to storm the Golden Temple in Amritsar to apprehend armed political dissidents; 493 civilians and 136 soldiers died in the six-day conflict.

The conflict heavily damaged the temple, regarded as holy by many Sikhs. Six months later, on Oct. 31, two royal bodyguards, both Sikh, assassinated Gandhi. After the assassination, many Indian citizens participated in a state-orchestrated genocide that targeted Singh, his family and others in the Sikh community. Despite about 2,800 murders and 1,000 displaced people, the Indian government only recognized these mass killings as riots for almost 30 years.

In a retrospective Singh wrote for SikhChic.com, he recalled the days following the prime minister’s assassination. After seeing his father on the balcony, a lynch mob assemSikh cartoonist Vishavjit Singh visited Millsaps College March 1. bled outside the government housing where Singh’s family lived.

In front of their house that day, a few boys from another family were playing cricket in the yard. The mob began shouting, “Maadar chodh, Sar- you’ve got a turban. You must be one of them.’” dar!”—which loosely translates to “mother f*cker, Sikh.”

Soon, American Sikhs became targets in a growThe boys outside began shouting back. They screamed ing number of hate crimes. Some of Singh’s friends bethat the government owned the housing, and that break- gan telling him stories of people chasing them down ing into the house would damage government property. the highway. Some said that people pulled them off The shouts struck a nerve, and the mob dispersed. trains—all because they were wearing turbans in reverYears later, when he was 18, Singh moved back to ence to their faith.

America on his own to attend college.

When political cartoonists such as Mark Fiore began He earned a bachelor’s degree in biological science penning turban-wearing characters to protest the ignofrom the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995 rant and misdirected violence, Singh wanted to continue and a master’s degree in biostatistics and epidemiology from to see Sikhs represented in media. After a couple of years

DIVERSIONS | arts tume that she found online. She bought a size to fit a teenager because the adult-sized costumes didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come small enough. Singh put the costume on and looked

FIONA ABOUD

up the costume by shoving the Styrofoam pads to his says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would never have imagined putting on a Captain thighs and shoulders. Looking in the mirror again, he America uniform, and here I am doing it. I love it. It just saw his wife, Satpal Kaur, eyeing the pads sticking out breaks down barriers. I want people to be comfortable from his shoulders. enough to engage me. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have a conversation. â&#x20AC;Ś I just â&#x20AC;&#x153;You look like a clown with these,â&#x20AC;? Kaur told him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just be yourself and go without the accessories.â&#x20AC;?

A few months later, Singh and Aboud went to Central Park to take the photos. Not only did they find themselves in the middle of a Puerto Rican parade, but strangers asked Singh to take a picture with them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt like a celebrity,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For that eight or nine hours, it was like someone flipped a switch.

People saw me differently. That day, it was like a barrier was gone. Everyone was coming over: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I wanna take a photo with you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Will you get To combat hate crimes against Sikhs, Vishavjit Singh became the Sikh one with my kids?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;Ś We wanted version of Captain America. to change peoplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; perceptions, but something to this scale? We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect this to happen.â&#x20AC;?

Photos from the day went viral across the blogo- feel that one of the major problems is weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not sitting sphere. Singh still sees them pop up occasionally on Tum- down and talking. So letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have a conversation. You may blr. As a result, he began receiving invitations to speak at not like me after we have it, but at least you will know museums in Los Angeles, universities, public schools in who I am. Yes I am an American. I was born in WashingNew York City, and he even appeared on FXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Totally ton, D.C., and yeah, I might look different, but we have Biased with W. Kamau Bell.â&#x20AC;? a lot in common.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has been a dream I could not dream,â&#x20AC;? Singh Comment at jacksonfreepress.com.

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History Is Lunch is noon-1 p.m. at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Stephen Middleton presents “The Politics of Expedience: Reconstruction and the Enfranchisement of African American Males in the South.” Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

THURSDAY 3/26

Margaret Walker Centennial Lecture is 4 p.m. at Medgar Evers Library (4215 Medgar Evers Blvd.). Poet C. Liegh McInnis of Jackson State University presents “For My People: What the Internationally Famous Poem Has to Say to Young People Today.” Free; call 601-982-2867. …

The opening reception for the 2015 Premier Art Show is 5-8 p.m. at Gallery 119 (119 S. President St.). Exhibitors include Lucy Mazzaferro, Yvette Sturgis, Bob Tompkins, Diana Potesky and Teena Grantham. Show hangs through April 10. Free; call 601-506-6609.

Little Rock, Ark., alternativecountry band Swampbird performs Saturday, March 28, at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar.

Jackson Spring Jam is 8 p.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Slick Rick is the host.

Performers include Keith Sweat, SWV, H-Town and Dru Hill. $46.5-$66.5; call 800-745-3000; ticketmaster.com.

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SATURDAY 3/28

The Sal & Mookie’s Street Carnival is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza and Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.). Proceeds from game tickets and food sales benefit Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital. The annual event is part of Zippity Doo Dah Weekend. Free; call 368-1919; email lizl@bravobuzz.com (prize donations)

BY MICAH SMITH or maggieb@salandmookies. com (volunteer questions); salandmookies.com. … SwampJACKSONFREEPRESS.COM bird performs at 10 p.m. at FAX: 601-510-9019 Martin’s Restaurant & Bar DAILY UPDATES AT (214 S. State St.). The alternaJFPEVENTS.COM tive country band from Little Rock, Ark., performs. Admission TBA; call 601-354-9712; ryboltproductions@comcast.net; martinslounge.net.

Tex. native performs songs from his newest album, “Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions.” Doors open at 7 p.m.

Adults must accompany children. $35 in advance, $40 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-2927999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

MONDAY 3/30

Taste of Mississippi is 7-10 p.m. at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). Sample cuisine from more than 40 local restaurants. Includes a silent auction, live music and more. Proceeds benefit Stewpot Community Services. For ages 21 and up. $65 in advance, $80 at the door; call 601982-5861; tasteofms.org.

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Jackson State University professor and poet C. Liegh McInnis speaks for the Margaret Walker Centennial Lecture Thursday, March 26, at Medgar Evers Library.

FRIDAY 3/27

“Tosca” is 7:30 p.m. at the Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison). The Mississippi Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s tragedy about unrequited love. $45 (buy two tickets and get two free for a limited time); call 601-960-2300; msopera.org. …

SUNDAY 3/29

Eggstra Special is 2-4:30 p.m. at Traceway Park (200 Soccer Row, Clinton). The Junior Auxiliary of Clinton and Clinton Parks and Recration present this Easter-themed community event, featuring a children’s egg hunt and carnival games for the family. Free; call 601-924-6387; emailcfontenot@clintonparksandrec.com; clintonparksandrec. com. … Robert Earl Keen performs at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The country singer and Houston,

The Bettye Jolly Lecture Series is 4:30 p.m. at the Eudora Welty House and Museum (1119 Pinehurst Place). Award-winning author Lee Smith discusses and reads from her novel “Guests on Earth.” Free; call 601-353-7762. … Project H2O—Africans in America Monthly Film Fest is 6:30-8 p.m. at the Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.) in the Community Meeting Room. This month’s film is “Mississippi: Is This America?” Free; call 601-918-2698.

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Author Shannon Burke signs copies of his book, “Into the Savage Country,” 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Burke’s novel tells a story of friendship and love in the American West of the 1820s.

Reading follows at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601-3667619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

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Taste of Mississippi March 30, 7 p.m.-10 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). Sample cuisine from more than 40 local restaurants.

Includes a silent auction, live music and more.

Proceeds benefit Stewpot Community Services.

For ages 21 and up. $65 in advance, $80 at the door; call 982-5861; tasteofms.org.

Events at Madison Public Library (994 Madison Ave., Madison) •Make! March 26, 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Youth ages 10 and up learn to make a lighted wristband. Registration required. Free; call 601-856-2749.

•Readers’ Theater March 31, 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Children ages 5-8 gain literacy skills through developing characters and acting out stories. Free; call 601-856-2749.

•Baby Bookworms Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-10:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m. through April 29.

The interactive session includes rhymes, songs, puppets and more to stimulate the learning process of babies and toddlers. For ages 2 and under. Free; call 601-856-2749.

#/--5.)49 History Is Lunch March 25, noon-1 p.m., at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Stephen Middleton presents “The Politics of Expedience: Reconstruction and the Enfranchisement of African American Males in the South.” Free; call 601576-6998; mdah.state.ms.us.

National Association of Drama and Speech Arts (NASDA) Conference March 25-28, at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The theme of the 79th annual conference is “Where History Meets the Future.” Registration required. $105 individual or director, $75 students, $500 life member, $30 banquet only; call 601-9792872 or 443-983-7237; nadsainc.com.

JXN Tech on Tap March 26, 5:30 p.m., at Burgers & Blues (1060 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). Raborn Media hosts the monthly business seminar. This month’s topic is “Effective Email Marketing.” Includes a craft beer tasting.

RSVP. Free; call 601-336-1700; email info@ jxntech.com; jxntech.com.

Zippity Doo Dah Weekend March 27, 11 a.m., March 28, 10 a.m., at Fondren. The annual event is in conjunction with the Sweet Potato Queens Convention (March 26-29).

The Big Hat Brunch take place March 27, and the Sal & Mookie’s Street Carnival and the Zippity Doo Dah Parade take place March 28.

Admission varies, some events free including the parade; zddparade.com.

A Day at the Museum March 28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center (528 Bloom St.). The Jackson-Tougaloo Alumni Chapter (JTAC) hosts theatrical performances, live jazz music, local food and more. Proceeds benefit the Tougaloo College Student Scholarship Fund. $25, $12 students with ID; call 601-460-0523; email jtacmail@gmail.com; jtacweb.org.

“Escapades of Fashion” Spring Scholarship Fashion Show March 29, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., at Jackson State University e-Center (1230 Raymond Road). The show features members of the JSU Dance Ensemble, the Insatiable Modeling Squad and MADDRAMA as models. The event is a fundraiser for the Byram-Terry Chapter of the Jackson State University National Alumni Association’s scholarship program. $15 in advance from chapter members or models, $20 at the door; call 979-1246; email jsunaabtc@hotmail. com; facebook.com/jsubyramalumni.

Murder, Mayhem and Lynching Lecture Series March 31, 6 p.m., at Gallery1 (One University Place, 1100 John R. Lynch St., Suite 4). JSU English professor Dr. Deborah H. Barnes speaks on the topic, “Written in Blood: Discourses of Lynching.” Free; call 601-979-3935; jsums.edu/ margaretwalkercenter.

Forestry Days Thursdays, 9 a.m.-noon through March 31, at Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive).

Includes storytelling, tours of the Heritage Center with Paul Bunyan and the Nature Trail, sawmill demonstrations and hands-on activities with forestry props. Reservations recommended but not required. $2-$5; call 601-432-4500; email alya@mdac.ms.gov.

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Enjoy wines paired with a cheese plate. Reservations encouraged but not required. $18 plus tax and tip; call 601-707-0587; anjourestaurant.net.

German Wine Tasting March 31, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., at Amerigo Italian Restaurant (6592 Old Canton Road). Sample German wines paired with bruschetta and tiramisu. Reservations required. $20 plus tax and tip; call 601-977-0563; amerigo.net.

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Registration required. $10; call 601-605-0007; email tulanems@tulane.edu.

Freedom from Smoking Program Registration Deadline March 27, at Merit Health Central (1850 Chadwick Drive). Participants learn how to overcome tobacco addictions in the eightweek course. Register by March 27. The program begins April 7. Free; call 601-376-1403; mymerithealth.com.

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“Tosca” March 27, 7:30 p.m., at Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison).

The Mississippi Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s tragedy about unrequited love. $45 (buy two tickets and get two free for a limited time); call 601-960-2300; msopera.org.

Saturday Night Laughter March 28, 8 p.m., at Kingfish Grill (4107 Northview Drive). Mike Townsend Entertainment hosts the show featuring several comics including Shaq’s All-Star Comedy Jam finalist Shaddy Feel Good. Limited Tickets. $15 (advance tickets only); call 601-983-6046.

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“Pops II: A Tribute to Elvis” March 28, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.).

The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs with Elvis Presley impersonator Kraig Parker. $18 and up; call 601-960-1565; msorchestra.com.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) •Della Mae March 28, 9 p.m. The Americana band from Nashville performs. Adults must accompany children. $5 in advance, $10 door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

•Robert Earl Keen March 29, 8 p.m. The country singer performs. Adults must accompany children. $35 in advance, $40 door, $3 surcharge for under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

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•"Into the Savage Country" April 1, 5 p.m.

Shannon Burke signs books. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

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Margaret Walker Centennial Lecture March 26, 4 p.m., at Medgar Evers Library (4215 Medgar Evers Blvd.). Poet C. Liegh McInnis of Jackson State University presents “For My People: What the Internationally Famous Poem Has to Say to Young People Today.” Free; call 601-982-2867.

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•Intermediate Mosaics Class March 30-31, April 2, 6-8:30 p.m. Learn to create a mosaic flower pot. Registration required. $110 registration fee, $30 materials fee; call 601-856-7546; email education@mscrafts.org; craftsmensguildofms.org.

•Weaving or Spinning Class March 31, 7-9 p.m. Learn to weave a scarf or spin yarn in the 10-week class. Classes on Tuesdays. Registration required. $195; call 601-856-7546; email education@mscrafts.org; craftsmensguildofms.org.

%8()")4 /0%.).'3 Opening for 2015 Premier Art Show March 26, 5-8 p.m., at Gallery 119 (119 S. President St.). Exhibitors include Lucy Mazzaferro, Yvette Sturgis, Bob Tompkins, Diana Potesky and Teena Grantham. Show hangs through April 10.

Free; call 601-506-6609.

Night of Percussion and Classical Guitar March 26, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). The Belhaven University Percussion Ensemble performs works written for percussion instruments along with classical guitarists. Free; call 601-968-5940; belhaven.edu.

Artists Embedded in the Mexican-American War March 28, 2 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Jackson State University professor Mark Bernhardt speaks as part of Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection. $10, $8 seniors, $5 students, free for members and ages 5 and under; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Jackson Spring Jam March 27, 8 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.).

Slick Rick is the host. Performers include Keith Sweat, SWV, H-Town and Dru Hill. $46.5$66.5; call 800-745-3000; ticketmaster.com.

Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.

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Becoming Kid Twist

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from early ’60s folk artists, including Dave Van Ronk and Patrick Sky. He had the simple but direct sound of these albums in mind when he went into Oxford’s Tweed Recording Studio to create “Alias: Kid Twist” last September.

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xford, Miss., singer and guitarist Tyler Keith is best known to Jackson audiences for leading straightforward, rowdy rock-n-roll bands, including The Preacher’s Kids and his current group, Tyler Keith and the Apostles. Now he is revealing an additional side of his musical identity through “Alias: Kid Twist,” his first solo record, which hit digital retailers March 6.

His previous releases have contained roots elements, but for this all-acoustic solo record, Keith put his own stamp on traditional forms, including country, gospel and blues. While some veteran rockers experiment with folk music as a way to gain authenticity, Keith says these songs connect back to his earliest musical experiences while growing up in the Florida panhandle.

“I grew up on folk music,” he says. “My dad played bluegrass … and I learned guitar playing (in that style).

It was a good way to learn music because there’s simplicity to it. There are no drums, so you have to learn to keep steady rhythm.”

While it is his first time recording without a band, Keith has been playing solo acoustic shows in Oxford for more than a decade. He started booking unaccompanied shows as a way to make money between his bands’ tours, performing under the name “Kid Twist” to distinguish them from his band work. These performances reconnected him with the acoustic guitar, and he began writing songs with a more folk or country sound.

More recently, Keith has closely listened to records

Oxford, Miss., musician Tyler Keith is known for his wild and energetic performances with a number of bands. He’s showing his deep connection to traditional roots music through his first solo album, “Alias Kid Twist.”

“We basically recorded it in one day,” Keith says.

“I said, ‘Let’s set up the mics the way they did it back then, the way Bob Dylan recorded ‘Freewheelin’,’ and let’s just see what happens.’”

“Alias Kid Twist” includes only Keith’s original songs,

but their themes connect back to traditional music. Many tell stories of distinctive southern characters, such as smalltown misfits, doomed outlaws and a preacher who drinks strychnine. As with some ’60s folk and blues records, a few songs feature some rough-and-ready piano-playing, a skill Keith picked up as a child.

“When I was growing up, my dad could play one song (on piano), ‘What’d I Say” by Ray Charles. Eventually he taught me how to play it,” Keith says.

“Over the years, I’ve sort of used that song to inch my way into some bad Jerry Lee Lewis boogie-piano style. I’m not very versatile at the moment, but it gives me a different palette to write from, other than just the acoustic guitar.”

Keith says the record is also a calling card to use in booking road work as a solo act. After touring with bands for decades, he’s heading out on his own this spring, playing a run of solo shows across the South. “I love the troubadour idea of just having your guitar and taking off on your own,” he says.

The solo shows also have a practical appeal for the longtime music veteran.

“From the number of years I’ve spent traveling with a band, it’s become virtually unaffordable to travel with one. I wanted to have the freedom to take off on my own and play shows by myself,” he says. “Plus, a hundred bucks splits up a lot better one way than between four dudes.”

Tyler Keith’s “Alias: Kid Twist” is available now on CD Baby and iTunes. For more information, visit tylerdawsonkeith. wix.com/tyler-keith.

Power Bluegrass

by Genevieve Legacy

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ince Nashville-based folk band Della Mae started writing and performing original music in 2009, the quintet has become a woman-powered force to be reckoned with. Della Mae’s acoustic instruments, familiar riffs, themes and harmonization set out to honor bluegrass traditions while expanding and energizing the form. The band performs Saturday, March 28, at Duling Hall.

Two-time Grand National Fiddle Championship winner Kimber Ludiker started the group in 2009, drawing from the multi-genre melting pot of the band’s hometown, Boston. Ludiker’s experience as a back-up musician and her first-hand knowledge of the difficulties of being a woman in the industry inspired her to make a change.

“If a female musician wants to be hired by a band and go on the road, there’s just no getting around the fact that it’s a bit more difficult for a woman,” vocalist Celia Woodsmith says. “So, Kimber decided to start her own band.”

Before joining Della Mae in 2011, Woodsmith and Ludiker played together in a rock ‘n’ roll band. Shortly after, Ludiker connected with band members

Nashville, Tenn., bluegrass band Della Mae performs Saturday, March 28, at Duling Hall.

through friends and fellow musicians.

Zoe Guigueno (bass) joined the band in February of this year.

“It was kind of a joke at the beginning,” Woodsmith says.

“Kimber said she wanted to start a band of women who wear power suits and stiletto heels and play bluegrass faster than any man could possibly play.”

As the band evolved, the musicians switched from playing “incredibly fast bluegrass” to developing their edgy, hard-driving sound. With funds from a Kickstarter campaign, the group recorded and released its first album, “I Built This Heart,” in 2011. The band released the follow-up album, “This World Oft Can Be,” on Rounder Records in 2013, earning critical acclaim and a Grammy nomination for best bluegrass album in 2014.

Della Mae’s new, self-titled third album, which the band crowd-funded through PledgeMusic, hits stores May 12.

Playing festivals, clubs and concerts, Della Mae’s rigorous touring schedule has taken the band all over the country and the world. Joining the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad program in 2012, Della Mae began performing and teaching workshops in a number of countries. In 2014, the group visited 15 countries, including Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan,

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

“Traveling to different countries, going to a place like Turkmenistan, which most Americans, including myself, couldn’t pinpoint on a map, to teach bluegrass or roots music to young women has been an amazing experience,” Woodsmith says. “We met young women who are incredibly intelligent, powerful and beautiful. Talking with them about what it’s like to be a young Pakistani or Saudi woman was an incredible opportunity and education.”

Putting politics and differences aside to teach and inspire was an important part of their work as music ambassadors.

Woodsmith describes the experience as “defining” for each of Della Mae’s members as people and musicians.

“When you focus on the music, you realize how fluid your interactions become with one another,” she says.

“Being face to face with people, playing a tune, the whole world can shift. You realize how human we all are.”

Della Mae performs at 9 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave., 601-292-7121). Tickets are $5 in advance or $10 at the door. For more information, visit dellamae.com.

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Mississippi State University fired basketball coach Rick Ray Saturday, March 21, and hired former UCLA Final Four coach Ben Howland. Ray went 37-60 in three seasons in Starkville.

No. 12 Mississippi State womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball lost 64-56 to No. 16 Duke University in the second round of the NCAA Tournament Sunday, March 22. They set program records for wins (27) and attendance this season.

Holmes Community College basketball came within one point of the NJCAA Final Four but fell 7372 to Hill College Thursday, March 19. The Bulldogs set a program record with 25 victories and their first NJCAA Tournament appearance.

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Jon Wiener is the host and producer of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home Cookinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? on ESPN 105.9 FM The Zone. He has a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in English and masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in broadcast journalism.

he mark of a timeless text is how it speaks universally to all conflicts.

When I heard the news that Mississippi State University athletic director Scott Stricklin had fired basketball coach Rick Ray after just three seasons, ideas from two of the most acclaimed productions in film and TV history, Francis Ford Coppollaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Godfatherâ&#x20AC;? and HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s television series â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wire,â&#x20AC;? sprang to mind.

It makes more sense than you may think. The film and the series share the same narrative as the one played out in Starkville: Leaders of multi-million dollar organizations in crisis have to make difficult decisions in increasingly competitive environments, always for the good of the whole, but often at the heavy expense of personal connections.

Believe it or not, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same conflict that hung over Stricklinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision on Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. Here are four lines from each that might have informed the process.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are things being negotiated that are going to answer all of your questions and solve all of your problemsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michael Corleone, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Godfatherâ&#x20AC;?

The head of the family in a time of turmoil, Michael cryptically reassures his regime over the wolves at the door. (Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll soon have them all killed.) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear now that Stricklin had secured a commitment from Ben How-

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lambs to the slaughter here.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Patricia Donnelly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wireâ&#x20AC;?

Principal Donnellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s line about Prezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first day as a teacher in Baltimore schools could be an assessment of Ray taking over at the Mississippi State in 2012. Here was an inexperienced assistant taking over a major program that had flamed into a dumpster fire almost overnight, and then massive attrition gutted it. Nothing except a slaughter could have been expected, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what happened to many of Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teams.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the business weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve chosen!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hyman Roth, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Godfather IIâ&#x20AC;?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a personal element to it.

It canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be helped, Roth tells us in a soliloquy over not mourning an assassinated friend. The decision to can Ray pained Stricklin. It likely blindsided Ray, who barely had time to clean out his office, and it hurt State fans who valued Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s integrity over three difficult years. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a highstakes business where the rewards are enormous and the ends abrupt.

Emotional hurt is a necessary cost.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing personal, Sonny.

Strictly business.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michael Corleone, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Godfatherâ&#x20AC;?

Michael tells his brother Sonny â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can chew you up, but they that his surprising plan to murder gotta spit you out.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jimmy Mcfamily enemies is the only means Nulty, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wireâ&#x20AC;?

If you think about it, quotes from â&#x20AC;&#x153;The to an end. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same standard McNulty insists on the inGodfatherâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wireâ&#x20AC;? can apply to former State coach Rick Ray right now. that dictated Stricklinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to tegrity of the job, which puts him remove Ray, a coach renowned for in constant conflict with the corhis integrity and grace. If it were rupt inner-workings of the departpersonal, Ray would have gotten a lifetime land to replace Ray before he fired him. It ment. Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position aligns somewhat with extension. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that well-liked. But Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made a difficult decision an easy one for McNultyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and his solace is the same. He teams were so bad that the business end of Stricklin and quelled most objections from was paid handsomely with lavish benefits it forced Stricklin to axe him.

State fans over Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s firing. to coach basketball and will be again by the same system that swallowed him whole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A man must have a code.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bunk â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the first day, man. Everybody all Moreland to Omar Little, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wireâ&#x20AC;? friendly.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Namond Brice, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wireâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another pezzonovante.â&#x20AC;? Michael CorThe quote is Bunkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summation of Briceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ominous quip about the first leone, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Godfatherâ&#x20AC;? why Omar doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rob most citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; day of school should temper the unbridled Vito Corleone expresses regret that his only drug dealers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ironic, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excitement over the Howland hire. In the son Michael became the heir to his crime the point. Even for a stick-up man in series, Briceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s year gets decidedly unfriendly. empire and not a high-ranking politician, to the cutthroat, eat-or-be-eaten Baltimore Howlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resumĂŠ shows his quality, but which Michael replies, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In another lifetime.â&#x20AC;? crime world, he must still have standards thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a first-day-of-school element to the In the Corleoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, playing by the rules and values. For Ray, he simply would not fervor. He has a lot of work to do to revive and earning an honest living is still the ideal cross certain lines when it came to disci- a moribund program, and a stretch of bad but impossible reality. It would have been pline and recruiting, even if it ultimately losses or press can make fans forget about nice to see Rayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clean-cut image prevail, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a win-at-all-costs world. cost him players he needed to win. that spirited introduction.

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by Bryan Flynn Lady Bulldogs and head coach Vic Schaefer had just advanced to the second round of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NCAA Tournament.

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hen Rick Ray took over the head-coaching job at Mississippi State University in 2012, he had an uphill climb from the beginning. The Bulldogs had just finished a mediocre basketball season, with the team finishing 21-12 and the University of Massachusetts bouncing the team in its opening NIT game in 2012.

Ray was already in a hole after losing all five starters from the year before, with players like Dee Bost, Arnett Moultrie and Renardo Sidney graduating or leaving for the NBA. To make matters worse, Meridian High School star Rodney Hood decided to transfer to Duke University, and former Callaway High School star Deville Smith transferred to the University Nevada, Las Vegas. Basically, Ray was starting from scratch.

His teams struggled during his three seasons at MSU, finishing with a 37-60 overall record and 13-41 in SEC play.

It was surprising that Mississippi State made the move to dismiss Ray, but the university probably had its reasons. One could be that the day before Ray was fired, the

Mississippi State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new basketball coach, Ben Howland, steps in right as coach Rick Ray steps out.

Under Schaeferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidance, the Lady Bulldogs went from a doormat to berths in the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NIT and NCAA tournaments.

That kind of turnaround didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help Ray, who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have a winning record in his three years in Starkville.

In fact, Ray had one less win this season (13) than he did the year before but did win his most SEC games (six) this season, which almost equaled the combined seven over his previous two seasons.

Also not doing Ray favors was the fact that Ole Miss went to the NCAA Tournament in two of his three seasons. If there is one certain kiss-of-death in college sports, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not being able to keep pace with your rival.

It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long for MSU to move on from Ray to former UCLA coach Ben Howland. But one has to wonder how Howland stepped in so quickly after Ray left.

MSU fired Ray Saturday afternoon, and reports flooded in Monday morning that the university was finalizing terms with Howland for the position. It takes longer to make a match on a crummy reality show like â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bachelor.â&#x20AC;? One thingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for sure: Howland has been a winner wherever he has gone.

He was at Northern Arizona University from 1994 to 1999 and took that program to the postseason in two of his five seasons.

Howlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next stop was University of Pittsburgh, where he coached from 1999

to 2003. The Panthers cracked the postseason in three of his four seasons. He only had one losing seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;his firstâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the competitive Big East.

Howland was at UCLA from 2003 ro 2013. He took the Bruins to the Final Four in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and made the postseason seven of the 10 seasons he spent in Westwood, Calif.

UCLA fired Howland because he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win enough games, like the great John Wooden did. That shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a problem at Mississippi State. In the SEC, the goal is to keep pace with the schools not named University of Kentucky or Florida. Howland can certainly do that, but getting to the NCAA Tournament and going deeper than Ole Miss will matter most to Bulldogs fans.

Howland better be ready to jump-start the MSU program. If he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win quickly, he could end up in the unemployment line. as the school eyes the next sexy hire.

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