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JACKSONIAN CINDY TOWNSEND

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t 9 in the morning on school days, you can find Cindy Townsend with her class of seventh graders at Jackson Preparatory School. As director of the school’s Global Leadership Institute, she is responsible for providing historical perspectives of iconic leaders to her students.

In the institute, students study how these women and men used their leadership skills to bring their core values to fruition.

Townsend says she charges her students to begin by making a statement of “what they stand for and what they stand against.”

Since leadership is a broad area of study, Townsend knows she must engage her students on their level to help them learn how leadership skills can affect their lives.

Through Jackson Prep’s Global Leadership Institute, she hopes to encourage her students’ potential. “I love every day what I see in the eyes of students,” she says.

Townsend develops their leadership skills by having student work with their passions.

“I take them on a journey inside themselves to learn their personality, leadership style, their passions—how they are wired up,” she says. “ … I like the way they are wired up; (I) just want to refine it.”

The Jackson native went to school in Texas at Baylor University. She came back to Jackson and finished her undergraduate in music and education and her master’s in education at Mississippi College.

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She moved to Louisiana in 2002 where she worked as the director of women’s missions and ministry at Louisiana Baptist Statewide Convention for four years. In 2006, she moved back to Texas and worked as the acting executive director for Hope for the Hungry, a nonprofit focused on feeding orphans. In 2008, Townsend’s husband, Bill Townsend, was in talks with about joining Mississippi College as their vice president for advancement and legal counsel to the president, and Jackson Prep offered her a position to begin building its new leadership institute.

Since returning to Jackson in 2008, Townsend and her husband are interested in promoting community. “We want people to see the good things about Mississippi, our generosity, our hospitality—that we are not in every way back in time,” she says.

The skills Townsend teaches in the classroom contribute to her students developing a greater appreciation for their city. “(My students) will have a broader view … about what it is they can do to make it a better place—to find their niche,” she says.

It is in finding that niche that Townsend finds her purpose: “I believe … that every person is a leader,” she says. “I don’t think it’s just positional leadership that matters. I think we all lead in some way. … Even the quiet introvert might write the novel that rocks the world in some way.”

—Zachary Oren Smith

Cover photo design by Kristin Brenemen

10 Passed Over

Federal officials skipped Mississippi when doling out early-education grants due to the state’s lack of planning for its littlest learners.

25 Holiday Party Health

Dr. Timothy Quinn gives us advice on how to keep the weight down during the festivities this season.

35 Argiflex’s Aural Tapestry

“People don’t really know what to expect when they see the term ‘live electronic,’ and that seems like a bit of a conundrum or paradox to a lot of people. Some people still think I’m just playing pre-recorded tracks and try to get me to play their mixtape.

It’s just a lot of people trying to make an assessment.”

—Curtis Lehr, “The Aural Tapestry of Argiflex”

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4 ....................... PUBLISHER’S NOTE 6 ................................................ YOU 8 ............................................ TALKS 14 ................................ EDITORIAL 15 .................................... OPINION 17 ............................ COVER STORY 25 ......................................... FOOD 27 ............................... GIFT GUIDE 28 .................. HOLIDAY WELLNESS 30 .............................. DIVERSIONS 31 ...... BEST OF JACKSON BALLOT 33 ....................................... 8 DAYS 34 ...................................... EVENTS 35 ....................................... MUSIC 36 ....................... MUSIC LISTINGS 37 ..................................... SPORTS 39 .................................... PUZZLES 41 ....................................... ASTRO

COURTESY RJ FITZPATRICK; FLICKR/143D_ESC; JACKIE MADER

DECEMBER 17 - 23, 2014 | VOL. 13 NO. 15

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PUBLISHER’S note

by Todd Stauffer, Publisher

A Media Outlet with a Mission

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s we head into the holidays, I’m struck by two thoughts. First … didn’t we just do this? Time flies … it seems like we were just shopping for trees the other day. (Donna and I appear to have the distinction of being the last people to buy a tree from the Fairgrounds this year; they were packing up as we made our purchase. You’re welcome, CARA!) The other observation is this—it’s been a good year for the JFP. In fact, it’s been our best year ever. We’re proud and pleased to be poised above downtown in Capital Towers for our second Christmas with quick access to the Capitol, City Hall, government offices—and, as I like to joke, looking down on The Clarion-Ledger.

(I’m telling you I’ve got a solution for their woes that’ll work even better than the Groupon they’re running for subscriptions right now: Install a rooftop skating rink and host roller-hockey matches. Think of the young demographic!)

Seriously, there are two fundamental reasons for our success at the JFP. One of them is the staff that puts out the newspaper every week—plus JFP Daily every day, the website at all hours, BOOM Jackson every two months, etc.—and does so with gusto, determination and ownership of their jobs.

In particular, I’d like to call attention to our managers—Amber Helsel, R.L. Nave, Kimberly Griffin, Richard Laswell and Kristin Brenemen—who are doing a fabulous job pulling their departments together and keeping the trains running on time. With their leadership and the buy-in from our entire team—Gina Haug, Brandi Stodard, Trip Burns, Anna Wolfe, Dustin Cardon, Micah Smith, Zilpha Young, Melanie Collins, Natalie West, Ronni Mott, Latasha Willis, Montroe Headd and Tommy Burton—we’ve been able to produce a great year of reporting, feature writing, Web development, local business

marketing and so much more.

The second reason is, quite simply, Donna Ladd. Many of you know her as the Editor-in-Chief of the JFP and the keeper of the paper’s vision for news, feature content and analysis. If you’ve read us for a while, you know that she’s a co-founder and co-owner of this enterprise, as well as an authoritative

Being a locally owned, independent business also informs who we are as a news source. and supportive voice on issues that challenge Jackson and Mississippi—and those that set us apart and lift us up.

What you may not know is that Donna took on even more responsibility in the past 18 months that include an addition to her title—CEO. In this role, Donna has set out to do something that has proven to be a strength of hers—get the rest of us organized, engaged, and motivated to reach the high standards that she and the rest of us hold ourselves to daily. In the past year, we’ve had more retreats, meetings, con-fabs, idea sessions, “drink thinks” and follow-up than ever before.

The goal is to turn us into not just a media outlet with a mission, but into a better, sustainable local business. And it’s working.

This may sound like inside baseball, but I’m telling you this because I think it speaks fundamentally to the role of the “newspaper” company in 2015 and beyond.

The Jackson Free Press is succeeding—but we still have significant challenges, like any small business. We fight cash flow and market forces, and ebbs and flows like anyone else. And like other small businesses, we plow everything we make back into the business to try to keep it growing and improving.

But being a locally owned, independent business also informs who we are as a news source. I believe that perspective is something that’s sorely missing in today’s local media landscape, and that companies that do have those feet on the ground are more responsible and responsive to the needs of their community—by necessity.

I mentioned The Clarion-Ledger running a Groupon for its subscriptions because, well, I still can’t believe I saw that this morning. But there it is … one multinational corporation leaning on another multinational corporation to try and sell us something here in Mississippi—because they can’t seem to sell it any other way.

Why? I think the C-L falters because they don’t invest in their product—not the local product, anyway—and the corporate overseers don’t have their boots on the ground in this community to truly understand what it needs and why what they do—or don’t do—matters.

At this point, it’s almost passé to bash the C-L, considering how infrequently you hear something positively said—and I will say that they’ve got some good folks there, and I’m sure many of them are trying to do a good job.

It’s the company I’ve got a problem with. Gannett has gutted the “paper of record” in Mississippi in the name of the sacred profit margins required of the publicly traded corporation. And it’s sad.

Our ambition at the JFP is to help fill that gap, and we’re plugging away at it given our resources—resources we hope to continue to grow. So far, this year has been a big step in the right direction, and we have plans—and leadership—to take us even further in 2015.

One person left to thank is you, the reader. We’ve learned from Nielsen Local’s Scarborough Research this year that our cumulative readership in print has grown to nearly 130,000 people, making us the largest non-daily publication in the Jackson media market.

Along with print, our website has grown to an average of over 110,000 unique users per month and nearly 3.7 million page views in the past year. We thank everyone who picks up the JFP, accesses us online, uses our JACKTOWN app (jfp.ms/jacktown) and reads BOOM Jackson magazine.

And we appreciate the letters, comments, feedback, encouragement, content and tips that come in every day of the year at jfp.ms/contact.

Looking forward to 2015, I encourage you, as always, to find opportunities to shop and spend with local businesses in Jackson and the surrounding communities. Local businesses invest more of their profits back in the local community through jobs, banking, professional services, purchases, investment in human resources and more.

We can work together—even through our shopping and end-of-year purchases— to create a prosperous new year for Jackson.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Todd Stauffer is publisher, president and co-founder of the Jackson Free Press.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Anna Wolfe

R.L. Nave

Amber Helsel

Trip Burns

Mike McDonald

Micah Smith

Zilpha Young

Kimberly Griffin

Investigative Reporter Anna Wolfe, a Tacoma, Wash., native, studied at Mississippi State. In her spare time, she complains about not having enough spare time. Email tips to her at anna@ jacksonfreepress.com. She wrote the cover story.

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 wrote a news story.

Assistant Editor Amber Helsel saw “The Hobbit” 12 times. It’s not that she loves the movie.

It’s just really deep, man. It has inspired her to transform her home into a proper Hobbit hole with a green sod roof. She wrote an arts story.

Staff Photographer Trip Burns is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, where he studied English and sociology.

He enjoys the films of Stanley Kubrick. He photographed the gift guide and a lot of other sections. He’s a photo machine.

Freelance writer Mike McDonald attended the University of Montana. He enjoys listening to rap music, writing short stories and reading books about American history. He wrote an arts story.

Music Editor Micah Smith has poor eyesight. Not Mr. Magoo-level poor, but don’t let him shoot an apple off your head. He also plays with the band Empty Atlas. He wrote a music story.

Ad Designer Zilpha Young has dabbled in every medium she could get her hands on, from blacksmithing to crocheting. To see some of her extracurricular work (and lots of cephalopods) check out zilphatastic.tumblr. com. She designed many ads.

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. She leads our amazing sales team.

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YOUR TURN

Open Letter to the Donor

by Jed Oppenheim

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ow does one thank someone who does not want to be thanked, whose name you do not know? Whose geography does not exist, but whose gift has brought life and love? In this open letter, I hope he or she will read this and know it is about him or her.

For the last few years. my now-wife, Harriett, has been without any kidney function, but that all changed on Sept. 16 when she received a kidney from an anonymous donor at Vanderbilt University. Someone somewhere thought enough of Harriett’s “cause� to literally donate life. Maybe it was prayer, maybe it was divine intervention, or maybe it was just someone wanting to do a good deed.

This gift will allow Harriett continue her dream to fight for the rights of people and communities. As a civilrights lawyer, she is actively engaged in the struggle for a fair and just society. But she has not been able to focus on that since she has had to fight for her own life. And it was a struggle. The midnight emergency-room visits, the days at a time in the ER, the mid-day vomiting sessions.

A struggle too many people face and, often, face alone.

Over the last few years, many people have stood up and offered to donate, but it has not worked out. We are thankful to you, as well.

At least three times in the year before Harriett finally received the transplant, she was within 48 hours of receiving a kidney. Each time, it fell through, leading to heartache, anger and confusion.

Finally, an anonymous hero showed up. This hero has brought tears of joy into our family; this hero has brought laughter back when it used to be most difficult; this hero has given us a new member of the family to love and care for.

With the donation comes a great responsibility to hold up

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our end of the bargain: to cherish this new kidney as we would a newborn child, to treat the kidney with respect and adoration. Harriett has many scars from years of medical treatment, but beneath this particular scar lies great hope for a future less tainted by tears, frustration and immediate questions of mortality.

We know there will still be a lifetime of medical issues (which Harriett’s box of daily medicine can attest to). We also have many loved ones who have not been so lucky to receive the gift of life, and we will continue to fight for them. We know that Harriett’s peers who remain on dialysis are often victim-survivors of a health-care system driven by profits for the people who control it, but is broken and bigoted for the people most in need of it. We know that many of Harriett’s peers, who await their own transplants, are dealing with a systemically racist and classist structure that prioritizes those that have means and networks, such as Harriett and myself.

To the donor, whomever you are, you will always have a seat at our table (heck, your second kidney already does!) and a place deep in our hearts and souls. We wish you love, light, joy and many generations of good health. You bring hope and are a reminder that as much as we do not want to trust strangers in our society, sometimes there is a reason to believe in the goodness and kindness that may come from the absolute unknown.

Thank you, and we love you.

Jed Oppenheim is the director of community engagement at the United Way of the Capital Area and a school board member in the Jackson Public Schools District. He is also the recipient of life vis-à -vis his wife’s anonymous kidney donor.

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This year, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve changed a few elements. Unlike in previous years, we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer second place, third place, good showing, etc., but just one winner among the finalists. We believe this best reflects the true value of the reader poll, as being named a finalist is, in and of itself, a significant achievement. Secondly, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve formalized the eligibility of local businesses that participate in the dining, nightlife and retail categories with a more vigorous definition clarifying who is eligible to be a finalist. For more, see jfp.ms/bojlocal for more.

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Saturday, Dec.13 Thousands of protesters march across the country to call attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and urge lawmakers to take action. â&#x20AC;Ś The Senate and Congress clear a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill for President Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature.

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Sunday, Dec.14 U.N. members make a last-minute deal to prevent climate talks from collapsing over an attempted draft deal that would allow rich countries to shirk their responsibilities to fight global warming and pay for its impacts.

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Monday, Dec. 15 The families of nine of the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting file a lawsuit against the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the rifle used in the shooting. â&#x20AC;Ś The Supreme Court leaves in place a lower court ruling that blocked Arizona rules that would regulate where and how women can take drugs that induce abortion.

Tuesday, Dec. 16 Taliban gunmen storm a militaryrun school in Pakistan, killing at least 126 people, mostly young students, before Pakistani officials declared a military operation to clear the school over.

Breaking news at jfpdaily.com.

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illiam Skinner, who oversees 32 residents at a given time and would not policies to comply with the federal consent the Hinds County Youth hold residents for more than 21 days. decree between the county and attorneys for Court, is madâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;again.

Additionally, once a young person is the plaintiffs.

Skinner recently fired adjudicated, the detention center is not alâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Each policy adopted by the board was off a letter to a federal judge in Jackson say- lowed to hold youth more than seven days, recommended by the independent moniing that Hinds County officials are trying to usurp his authority over the detention and release of young people in the youth court system.

The most recent dust-up goes back to a federal class-action lawsuit that the Southern Poverty Law Center and Disability Rights Mississippi filed in 2011 alleging Henley-Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff members subjected the children to physical and verbal abuse.

A March 2012 agreement with the plaintiffs and the county requires children entering the facility are to receive mental-health evaluations, counseling, better rehabilitation options, input from family and advocates, and more time outside cells.

Changes are coming to the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center, and a local judge is Under the agreement, a court- not pleased about them. appointed monitor makes quarterly visits to the youth jail and updates U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan on whether progress is being made. So far, and all youth must receive a hearing within tor,â&#x20AC;? Teeuwissen told the Jackson Free Press, that progress has been elusive and, earlier 24 hours of being placed in Henley-Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s referring to Leonard B. Dixon, a juvenilethis year, Judge Jordan held Hinds County custody. Also, the new policy states that sta- justice expert from Woodhaven, Mich., that in contempt for the slow rate of progress. tus offendersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;repeat offenses that are not the county hired to perform the independent So at the regular board meeting of the crimes, such as truancy, curfew violations reviews of the detention center.

Hinds County Board of Supervisors, the and having or drinking alcoholâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;should not Adopting the policies, which should board adopted a new set of policies for the be housed at the facility for any reason. help reduce the number of detainees, will detention center. The new policies prohibit Pieter Teeuwissen, the Hinds County help with facility management, he said, the detention center from having more than board attorney, said the board adopted the which continues to suffer from staff

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Thursday, Dec. 11 Hong Kong authorities demolish the main protest camp at the heart of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-and-a-half-month pro-democracy movement and arrest 249 people. â&#x20AC;Ś Russian President Vladimir Putin moves to strengthen a once-close relationship with India with a plan to help New Delhi build at least 12 nuclear reactors.

County Wants Fewer Detained Youth

COURTESY PAUL ROBERTSON

Wednesday, Dec. 10 Top U.N. officials say that all senior U.S. officials and CIA agents who authorized or carried out torture like waterboarding as part of former President George W. Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national security policy must be prosecuted.

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Here are some of the things to see this season.

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pon pleading guilty Dec. 12, Sarah his truck.â&#x20AC;? included the beating of a black man near a Adelia Graves and Shelbie Brooke Deryl Paul Dedmon, who was behind Jackson golf course, the beating of another Richards, both of Brandon, be- the wheel of the truck that ran over and killed man who tried to sell the suburbanites drugs, came two of the first women con- Anderson, along with John Aaron Rice, attacks on pedestrians using beer bottles and victed under a federal hate-crime law passed Dylan Wade Butler, William Kirk Mont- a slingshot, and an attempt to run down anin 2009. Graves and Richards, who are gomery, Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp and Joseph other black man. white, pleaded guilty in federal court in Jack- Dominickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all from Brandonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;also previFederal prosecutors have said that son to charges associated with the during one violent trip, Dedmurder of James Craig Anderson, mon hit an African American a black man from Jackson, in the man in the back of the head summer of 2011. with a beer bottle. On a separate Information from the U.S. occasion, Dedmon, Rice and Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office shows that Butler kicked another African Richards and Graves each pleaded American man in a west Jackson guilty to one count of conspiracy parking lot until he begged for to violate the Matthew Shepard his life. and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Dominick and his friends Prevention Act for targeting Afrialso purchased bottled beer excan Americans for violent assaults pressly to drink and use as amover a period of months. munition in the assaults against least eight white men and women have been federally Six white men, all from At black pedestrians, whom the prosecuted for their roles in the 2011 murder of James Rankin County, had already Craig Anderson, a black man in Jackson. With recent group called n*ggers. During one pleaded guilty for their roles guilty pleas of two Brandon women, only two defendants incident, one of the members of in the same plan, which ended remain. Both pleaded not guilty. the gang threw a beer bottle at a with the killing of James Craig group of African Americans standAnderson outside a Jackson motel in June ously pleaded guilty. Dedmon also previously ing near the street, striking one of the people 2011. pleaded guilty to murder in a state court. and knocking the person to the ground. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Richards and Graves admitted that Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death captured widespread Dominick also carried a handgun for on June 26, 2011, they encouraged their co- attention after it was caught on a hotel sur- protection and, on one trip, the friends conspirators to leave Brandon with them to veillance camera. The video showed a white stopped at a sporting-goods store for the sole assault â&#x20AC;&#x153;n*ggersâ&#x20AC;? in Jackson. Richards further Jeep Cherokee leaving a hotel parking lot at purpose of buying a slingshot to shoot metal admitted that she encouraged her co-con- 5:05 a.m. Less than 20 seconds later, a Ford ball bearings at African Americans. spirator Deryl Paul Dedmon to hit Ander- truck backed up and then lunged forward.

With the pleas of Graves and Richards, son with his truck,â&#x20AC;? a news release from the Andersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shirt was illuminated in the only two defendants remain in the case. John USAO states. headlights before he disappeared under the Louis Blalack and Robert Henry Rice, both â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition, Richards admitted that vehicle. The group beat Anderson before of Brandon, have pleaded not guilty and reshe falsely told law enforcement officers that running him over to finish him off. main set for a Jan. 26 trial in U.S. District she did not remember a fight between DedPolice say that was the last in a series of Court. With the two Friday pleas, eight peomon and Anderson, and that she did not racially motivated attacks the group of white ple have been convicted, and all could take encourage Dedmon to strike Anderson with suburban residents undertook, which also the stand against Blalack and Rice.

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shortages and leadership changes.

The county hired Frank Bluntson, the facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former, and controversial, director and a former member of the Jackson City Council, as a consultant to oversee the day-to-day operations for about six months. This came after demoting Brenda Frelix, who became the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director in September 2013 and is the wife of county public-works director Carl Frelix. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my discussions with Mr. Bluntson, he explained that he will be working with the facility to assist with organizing and developing systems that would ensure compliance with the provisions of the consent decree,â&#x20AC;?

Dixon wrote in his most recent monitoring report in August. â&#x20AC;&#x153;However, in my professional opinion, the facility is again struggling for a sense of direction. In my interviews with staff, they are confused and apprehensive about the direction the facility is going and wonders if there will be stable leadership in place.â&#x20AC;?

For a time, the board of supervisors thought Skinner himself might be a solution to its leadership woes, transferring operations of Henley-Young to Skinnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s control, but the courts had previously determined that Skinner could not oversee both the youth court and the detention center.

Just before the Nov. 4 election, Skinner, who did not return phone messages for this story, made headlines when a video surfaced of him reportedly cursing about Frelix and Bluntson on the telephone and in the presence of a juvenile.

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TALK | education

State Loses Out on Preschool Funding—Again

by Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report

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by such traits as ensuring teachers hold bachelor’s degrees and enforcing small class sizes. Other states meet few of these high-quality guidelines.

Officials who reviewed Mississippi’s application noted many deficiencies, including vague statements and an overall lack of evidence and details. The reviewers frequently mentioned that the state did not provide plans to ensure that all students, including English-language learners and those with disabilities, would receive a high-quality preschool experience.

The state was also criticized for its lack of commitment to children in poverty. One reviewer noted that the state-funded preschool program served only 2 percent of children in poverty in 2014, and only 5 percent will be served in 2015. Unlike in states such as Tennessee, low-income children are not prioritized in Mississippi’s program, although some funding from the grant would have targeted low-income children.

On Thursday, Carey Wright, state superintendent of education, responded to the critiques in a statement. “We are very disappointed that Mississippi was not awarded the federal Preschool Development Grant but will use the feedback from our proposal to help strengthen our

‘I honestly don’t think this is the time for us to be out here trying to figure out money, until we get our ducks in a row.’ early childhood education system,” Wright said. “Mississippi is still in the early stages

of offering publicly funded, high-quality early childhood education programming.

We remain fully committed to expanding access to these programs for all children.”

taining “the educational and developmental gains of Eligible Children.”

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ississippi’s flawed application and underdeveloped plans to provide preschool for all children is partly to blame for why the state’s youngest learners were bypassed once again for federal funds that could have provided a boost to early education, a review found.

Last week, Mississippi was passed over for a preschool grant that would have tripled the number of children enrolled in early education classes in four years, increased the number of highly qualified preschool teachers and boosted salaries, according to the state’s application.

This year marks the third time that Mississippi’s application, which asked for $60 million in federal preschool funding over the course of four years, has been rejected. The state scored seventh out of nine applicants for a specific preschool development grant, and is one of the only states in the South to lose out.

Eighteen states received a federal preschool grant ranging from about $2 million to nearly $25 million to establish or expand existing programs as part of a nationwide push to expand access for early childhood education. Just 6 percent of 4-year-olds in Mississippi attend a statefunded program, which has received $3 million each year for two years.

A growing body of research has found that high-quality pre-K programs can teach children important classroom skills like how to raise their hands and pay attention, as well as boost reading and math skills. Data released earlier this year found that two-thirds of Mississippi’s students start kindergarten unprepared and are less likely to be proficient readers by third grade. For years, Mississippi’s students of all ages have scored at or near the bottom on national standardized reading and math tests.

Many educators say that, to improve later outcomes, Mississippi must first improve early education. Nationwide, about 28 percent of 4-year-olds attend state-funded preschool programs according to the National Institute for Early Education Research, although access and quality vary greatly.

As of 2013, 10 states did not offer preschool, while states like Oklahoma and Florida provided pre-K to more than 74 percent of their 4-year-olds. Some states have high-quality programs as evidenced

Jennifer Calvert, director of the ABC Pre-School & Nursery Inc. in Aberdeen, Miss., helps a student build a pattern during a morning activity earlier this year.

Educators say early education is critical to fix Mississippi’s education deficiencies.

Gov. Phil Bryant also issued a statement last week in which he called the loss of funds “unfortunate” and lauded the work of current preschool groups in Mississippi, which he said “are already showing positive student outcomes in the state.”

The reviewers noted that if Mississippi wants federal funds for preschool, it must first develop the “necessary infrastructure and capacity for scaling up a sustainable pre-K program.” Reviewers also detailed deficiencies in Mississippi’s training and preparation for preschool teachers.

Although the state proposed a plan to increase education requirements for preschool teachers, reviewers noted that the plan “appeared to emphasize the quickness of acquiring credentialed individuals” rather than “the quality of the individuals’ preparation for their jobs.”

The officials argued that while the state’s small preschool program, which launched in 2013, is promising, “there has been no additional legislation passed in Mississippi in recent years to better support access and /or improve the quality of preschool programs for young children.” One reviewer emphasized that Mississippi’s lack of mandatory kindergarten “could be a hindrance” to sus-

programs and attendance is voluntary, a Hechinger Report analysis of data found that kindergarteners have the lowest average daily attendance rate of any K-8 grade.

Danny Spreitler, a member of the state’s Board of Education and executive director of a foundation focused on early childhood, said that before the state applies for more grants, it needs to improve collaboration between state agencies and preschool programs. “I honestly don’t think this is the time for us to be out here trying to figure out money, until we get our ducks in a row,” he said.

Spreitler added that he was troubled by the harsh comments from reviewers, which didn’t seem to acknowledge that Mississippi is at a different stage in its program than other states. “We need to take this next year, 2015, and rather than look at massive expansion, we’ve got to get more reliable data on the programs that are working and sit down … look at what’s working,” and then “figure out how to take it statewide.”

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news website focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about Mississippi.

TALK | state

Future Cloudy for Two Welfare Recipients Testing Dirty

by R.L. Nave

ate individuals seeking treatment to determine the treatment that will work best, which could be individual or group therapy or outpatient care at a special-

Cassandra Welchlin, an analyst for the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative, is concerned about what will happen to families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families if a beneficiary tests positive in a drug test that state law now mandates.

grams for low-income families, explains that most TANF recipients are eligible for Medicaid, the joint state-federal healthcare program for poor people. Mentalhealth and drug-abuse treatment is reimbursable, according to federal Medicaid guidelines.

Even if Medicaid covers the treatment, the cost of the treatment can still vary widely. For example, at Hinds Behavioral Comprehensive Health Center, costs depend on the nature of the treatment and what type of insurance the patient has, said Marva Clark, the center’s director of substance abuse services.

Clark said a physician must evalu-

ized facility for the most severe cases.

Outpatient care is significantly more costly, and Clark said some rehab centers do not accept Medicaid.

Irvin of the ACLU, which has sued in some states that passed laws requiring everyone applying for TANF to be tested, is concerned about the apparent lack of communication between the state Division of Medicaid and DHS. Those agencies are the main two state offices involved in enforcing the drug-testing requirement.

When asked if Medicaid would cover the cost of substance-abuse treatment, Medicaid spokesman Matt Westerfield said, “As written, House Bill 49 does

not specify Medicaid involvement in the drug testing for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. .. If an individual is on the TANF program, it does not necessarily mean they are also eligible for, or receiving Medicaid benefits.”

Noble, of MDHS, said the agency will deal with any payment issues that arise on a one-on-one basis. Irvin said the ACLU is monitoring the implementation of the program in Mississippi. In Florida, which passed a similar law, the ACLU challenged the constitutionality of the law and has won two federal court victories. Most recently, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower federal court’s ruling that the Florida drug testing law, passed in 2011 under a cloud of controversy, violates the Constitution.

“The state has not demonstrated a more prevalent, unique or different drug problem among TANF applicants than in the general population,” a three-judge panel wrote in its unanimous decision in the Florida case, handed down Dec. 3.

Several Mississippi organizations are closely monitoring the law, including the ACLU and the Mississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative. Cassandra Welchlin, a policy analyst with the initiative, said her organization is also concerned about what will happen to TANF families, whose heads of household typically work lowwage jobs and could be affected by the drug-testing policy.

One of the main concerns is whether TANF recipients forced into drug treatment can then keep their jobs. And, like the ACLU, Welchlin said she is worried how the treatment will be paid for and what happens if Medicaid doesn’t pay as MDHS claims.

“What we’re clear on is that this cost can’t be passed along to families,” she said.

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ne in 40—that’s the likelihood that a person participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Programs, a monthly subsidy program for poor and working-class families, in Mississippi is a drug user.

In August, the state officially rolled out a law the Legislature passed earlier this year that required random drug screening of people applying for TANF benefits.

Since then, more than 3,600 people have applied to the program. Of that number, a screening test found about 80 people at risk for possible drug use, which led to two positive drug tests.

HB 49 legislation requires anyone caught with drugs in their system while receiving monthly cash benefits to submit to an approved drug-rehabilitation program.

During that time, the benefits going to that family are transferred to a conservator until treatment is complete. If the beneficiary refuses treatment, the family is stripped of assistance, which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides and the state administers.

A previous version of the law would have stripped families of the assistance immediately upon receiving a negative test.

It’s the lack of clarity about what is supposed to come next that has prompted concern among civil-liberties and family advocates. Charles Irvin, the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, which helped make some amendments to the legislation, points out that the law, House Bill 49, fails to specify who is responsible for paying for drug treatment. The ACLU’s research determined that the average cost of a rehab program in the Jackson area is approximately $16,000.

“The state is saying Medicaid is going to pay, and Medicaid has not backed that up,” Irvin said.

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TALK | budget

Education Funding Center of State Budget Fight

by Anna Wolfe

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provides $32 million to pay for the teacher pay raise, so the Democratic proposal requests an additional $8 million to fund the entire raise, which will cost $40 million.

Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, announced the Democratic budget proposal for the 2015 session, which addresses a lack of funding in education and for teacher pay raises, state employee pay and state highways.

A joint statement released by House Speaker Philip Gunn and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves stated that the state will pay for the teacher pay raise, and blamed the Legislative Budget Office for understating the cost. “We will fund that pay raise. The Legislative Budget Office reported the cost of the pay raise as $32 million to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and that is the number we used,” Gunn and Reeves said in the statement.

Bryan said he plans to find methods to return to full funding of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, which has only happened two out of the 17 years it has existed as part of Mississippi law.

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od of sending money from the state level to the public schools so the public schools can have that money as the basis for their budgets.” He compared MAEP to the TRIP BURNS

he Mississippi Legislature does not officially convene until January, but the two parties are already wrangling over how to spend the state’s money. With Republicans controlling both houses and the Governor’s Mansion, not a lot of compromise is necessary for the GOP to get its way in the new session.

But Democrats are fighting back, especially on public-education funding.

Democratic lawmakers last week called on the state to use the money not yet allocated in the Legislative Budget Office’s state budget recommendation toward education, state employee pay and state highways. Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, told media at the Capitol Thursday morning that making these budget priorities must be a bipartisan effort.

Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, expressed surprise that, while leaders from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee have said they recognize education as a priority, the budget proposal for 2015 includes cuts to all levels of education funding.

Though Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves bragged that the Legislature would fund education greater than ever before this year, Brown said the budget proposal still shortchanges public education by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Bryan said that Republican leaders claim the state has enjoyed a 3 percent revenue growth, which is why he is curious why the budget cuts funding for public K12 schools, community colleges and universities. “We were just plain shocked to see that,” Bryan said.

The first order of the Democratic budget proposal is paying for the teacher pay raise—which will cost $40 million—that garnered support from both parties and passed last year. The proposed budget only

reallocation of sales taxes collected at the state level to municipalities, pointing out that no lawmakers complain about that procedure.

“There’s been no discussion that we should somehow cut that (sales-tax) money that’s going back to the municipalities, nor is there any discussion that we should beat up on municipalities for what they’re doing with that money,” Bryan said.

“It is the basis for their budgets. And this is the same way the adequate education program works.”

The MAEP request for 2015 was $2.426 billion, which is an increase of $291 million over what public schools received last year; the Legislature un-

derfunded MAEP last year by allocating about $250 million less than the 2014 request for $2.347 billion.

The Joint Legislative Budget Committee recommendation calls for $2.167 billion for MAEP, a $32-million increase over last year’s funding, but still roughly $250 million short of full funding.

Gov. Phil Bryant’s MAEP recommendation calls for more than the Joint Legislative Budget Committee’s $2.187 billion—but still considerably less than the actual MAEP request.

The Democratic budget proposal funds one-third of the $291 million difference between the 2014 actual number and the 2015 MAEP request, $97 million, and plans to increase by that amount for the following two years.

The Joint Legislative Budget Committee proposal cuts community colleges by $3 million and universities $19 million.

The Democratic budget proposal takes away these cuts and provides one-third of the budget requests from community colleges and universities for general support, which would be an additional $27 million and $14 million, respectively.

Brown and Bryan also spoke to the need for funding for state employees and state highways. They propose a $1,000 increase for each employee position that did not receive a pay raise, totaling $17 million.

The Democrats also propose returning $30 million to the highway department for new construction. They identified $188 million available in the state budget, and their proposals total $185 million. Brown and Bryan say this proposal can garner support across party lines, and it leaves $393 million in the rainy-day fund.

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wanted to write a warmer, fuzzier column. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry, but my conscience wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let me. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the midst of a national moment, so warmer and fuzzier can wait; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s critical work to do.

I talk to liberal, white people in person and online all the time. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of my feminist activist wheelhouse. Interestingly, as black pain around police violence has made its way into the national consciousness, even those considered the most progressive among their peers usually miss the broader point.

The solution isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t body cameras, black voting power, more black police and better training. Those things are great and should be done. But they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fix the national disease at the heart of this.

Our problem is deep, pervasive, entrenched white supremacist culture. It is woven into every bit of our country, and people are unwilling to uproot it. It is everywhere and affects everyone, full stop, end of story. It is not something â&#x20AC;&#x153;good white peopleâ&#x20AC;? can exempt themselves by pretending you can.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not talking about white supremacists carrying Confederate flags and burning crosses. This is about cultural beliefs that promote whiteness as better and good but degrade all things considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;otherâ&#x20AC;? as bad, wrong, dirty, criminal and ugly. It is the subtle and pronounced belief that whiteness is supremely better.

People of color arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in a place of power to dismantle this. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking to you white people, yes, youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and specifically white liberals. The ones who keep saying things like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like that where I live,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;My black friends donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think these things are an issueâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m lucky Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen anyone be racist.â&#x20AC;?

You have seen it, your friends experience it, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an issue. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an issue you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to notice if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re white, and that is just plain truth.

Think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m too harsh? That canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be helped. If we choose to take this opportunity and whitewash racial issues again, it is at our own detriment. If we are to move forward, white people have to be willing to do the heavy lifting. The start is making space for black voices, listening, sharing power and, yes, talking with other white people, even across divisions.

People of color canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be expected to do all the work on anti-racism and addressing anti-blackness as if we created and uphold this problem. Now is not the time to hide behind platitudes about color blindness, how diverse your friendships are or how many civil-rights activities youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done. I know you can fight back your fear, sit in discomfort and move forward.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t breathe. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m mentally beaten, bruised and tired. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m fighting back against this deeply entrenched problem. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m asking for your help.

The question is: Will you do it?

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Why It Stinks: Thigpen is either so gung-ho about pushing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? agenda that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d look past the residual racism still alive in the state, or heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just naĂŻve. Look at the Jackson metro: Jackson Public Schools are 97 percent black, while surrounding private schools are virtually all white. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those parents who have children in schools nowâ&#x20AC;? are the same parents who move out of Jackson each year when their children reach middle-school age. Segregation isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as far back in Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history as Thigpen would like to make it seem.

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t can be hard to determine the motives of those who push for â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choice.â&#x20AC;?

After all, it can be difficult to distill what proponents of school choice, a movement that includes everything from expansion of charter schools to some version of vouchers, even want.

On the surface, successes in other states can make charter schools look like a sweet deal in Mississippi, where public education is suffering.

And the philosophy behind school vouchersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; that parents should be able to decide where to spend their moneyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is popular among fiscally conservative citizens.

But when you look at the history of public education in Mississippi, especially in the years after the collapse of Jim Crow, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but notice the parallels to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s push.

And when you see the racial demographics of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s private schools, whose roots reach back to the former â&#x20AC;&#x153;segregation academiesâ&#x20AC;? that sprouted up after the state was forced to desegregate its schools, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard not to feel like time is standing still.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to admit that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a problem. A problem that might not exist today if efforts to keep students segregated by race and socioeconomics hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t persisted as they did, and continue today. The incidences of â&#x20AC;&#x153;white flightâ&#x20AC;? continue today in tandem with flight of middleclass African American families.

None of this is the fault of parents who are motivated by the desire to provide the best

education for their kids. It is the fault of state policymakers, who consistently claim that public education is at the top of their priority list, but consistently fail to do anything to fix the systemic problems in public schools.

Consider Gov. Phil Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third-grade reading-gate bill that is so sparsely funded that it would be laughable if it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tragic. Consider the insistence on not fully funding the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own public-education formula, the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, even though state law requires it. Consider the recent effort to provide just enough of a teacher pay raise to quell any real political opposition from Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public-school teachers, and the question now of whether the pay raise will be fully funded.

Of course, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easier for wealthy school districts to cope with such half-solutions. But for historically poorer districtsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which tend to be chronically understaffed and have many more maintenance issues to deal withâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not only less money to move around but moving money around has a disproportionately harsher impact.

If we are going to entertain talk of giving parents more choice, we must also reckon with the fact that we have taken many choices from schools with the failure to provide adequate levels of taxpayer support.

Rather than rehashing old political tricks, such as reframing school-choice rhetoric, policymakers should take some of their own advice and give all school districts a choice.

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’ve always been a hypocrite when it comes to cutting corners. In one sense, I loathe the idea of taking shortcuts in order to acquire the same result as those who work their ass off to achieve. However, cutting corners is no stranger to me; I can argue that it has been a friend and ally.

Take my third and final year of law school. Throughout the second semester of my third year, criminal procedure was on the back burner of my study hierarchy. I convinced myself that the elements of due process, searches and seizures, plain-view doctrine and other legal jurisprudences that fall under the umbrella of criminal procedure shouldn’t be too hard to grasp.

However, as the final exam date loomed over my huge head like a dark, ominous cloud, I realized I didn’t know a damn thing about criminal procedure. So I did what any reasonable third-year law student would do. I busted out generic outlines, obtained old exams (because most law professors are lazy and recycle the same questions every year) and binge-watched “Law and Order SVU.” While obtaining a Ph.D in “Law and Order SVU,” I acquired a realworld understanding of how beneficial an individual’s civil liberties are when navigating the criminaljustice system. Civil liberties are the fundamental and unalienable rights we as American citizens receive at birth. Liberties such as the right to due process, the freedom of speech and the right to privacy are guaranteed like death and taxes, and stay attached to us until our dying day. Due process is even afforded after death to unfortunate individuals who perish not by natural causes, but by acts the law may or may not deem to be criminal.

The recent protest that has swept our nation as a result of racial injustice is labeled as a civil-rights issue, and that is, obviously, an accurate assessment. The protest, rallies and social media hashtags provide individuals with a platform to bring awareness to the civil-rights violations that plague our nation’s culture like a deadly virus.

However, as a constitutional lawyer, I admit that I am equally, if not more, troubled by the civil-liberty atrocities that are associated with the recent racial injustices.

Most often, we make the mistake of assuming civil rights and civil liberties are the same thing. Yet, they are different, even though they exist together in the realm of intersectionality. Civil rights have traditionally revolved around the basic right to be free from unequal treatment based on certain protected characteristics (race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc.), while civil lib-

erties are basic rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to all Americans, either explicitly in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, or that have been interpreted through the years by legal doctrine or policy decisions.

Civil-liberty violations consume the legal cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

Sure, people are upset and protest over how they were killed. The reason both of these unarmed black men were killed speaks and tugs at our civil-rights heartstrings. However, the blatant stripping away of due-process liberties in both cases is the scariest notion of all. some even arguing that the selling of individual cigarettes or petty theft of cigars somehow strips away one’s civil liberties.

These opinions are so asinine, stupid and fundamentally wrong, not to mention un-American, that I refuse to even entertain them beyond this sentence. Civil liberties must be blind of color, gender, sexual orientation and income status, only displaying absolute loyalty to the American citizen, a citizenship Garner and Brown obtained in birth—and that includes citizens who are accused of a crime or misdemeanor.

The lack of grand jury oversight, which denied the basic civil liberties of Garner and Brown, fully displays the conflict of interest between law enforcement and prosecutors. Hell, one can watch a full season of “Law and Order SVU” and see how such a conflict would arise.

The prosecution in both cases exhibited grand-jury practices that are alien to most, if not all, in the legal community. These practices included conflicting witness testimony and allowing both potential defendants to share their side of the story without threat of cross-examination.

Solutions to such conflicting interests cannot be fought and won in the protest arena. Focusing our attention solely on the civil-rights aspect of racial injustice and not showing equal attentiveness to civil liberties may prove to be a recipe for failure. Without civil liberties, it is impossible to fight for civil-rights equality in the most prudent arenas of litigation and policy. Civil liberties afford us the right to fight against actions a reasonable person would deem to be unequal, essentially providing legal standing.

I confidently claim that I am right about my assertions. I survived a “Law and Order SVU” binge-watching marathon.

Leslie B. 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 (LL.M.).

The blatant stripping away of due-process liberties in both cases is the scariest notion of all.

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Before the 1954 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court found segregation of schools unconstitutional, leaders in Mississippi didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an interest in â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choice.â&#x20AC;? It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until segregationists lost the battle to keep white public schools white that the attacks on public schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the demand for â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;began in earnest.

Avoiding Desegregation â&#x20AC;&#x153;School choiceâ&#x20AC;? is a hot-button political phrase, used in some form since the 1960s.

At its most generic, it means giving parents an option of where to send their kids to school beyond the traditional public school of the district in which they live, while still using public dollars, such as with charter schools.

In recent decades, â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? was a kinder, gentler way to refer to school vouchers, meaning that a family could get a â&#x20AC;&#x153;voucherâ&#x20AC;? for taxes they paid and use the funds at a private school instead, a failed idea that is regaining political traction.

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sippi began to implement after Brown specifically to avoid desegregating public schools.

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Act passed, Mississippi was at risk of losing its federal funding for public schools if it did not desegregate public schools. In 1965, the state agreed to follow the act, but tried to avoid desegregation in other waysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially with its â&#x20AC;&#x153;freedom of choiceâ&#x20AC;? strategy.

School districts allowed parents to cross district lines when determining where to send their kids to schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;black children could go to white schools, but most wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

The African American families who did send their children to white schools were met with the loss of jobs, cross burnings, harassment and eviction. Black families feared for their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safety in white schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freedom-of-choice plans left segregated patterns of schooling in Mississippi all but untouched; the reasons had little to do with either freedom or choice,â&#x20AC;? historian Joseph Crespino writes in his book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution.â&#x20AC;?

Private â&#x20AC;&#x153;segregation academiesâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which only allowed white studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;began to pop up across the state after Brown and especially after the 1970 order from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to desegregate. The greatest hike in private academies was from 1968-1971, in which they grew from educating just over 5,000 to 40,000 students in the state as the court grew closer to forcing southern schools to desegregate in early 1970.

The Citizens Council, a white supremacy group of mostly upstanding businessmen that launched after the Brown decision and was based in Jackson, opened a series of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Council schoolsâ&#x20AC;? for the specific purpose of keeping schools segregatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially in the Delta and in Jackson. The Citizens Council, called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;uptown Ku Klux Klanâ&#x20AC;?

by Delta Democrat Times Editor Hodding Carter Jr., spread racist vitriol to incite white people and scare them about integration, along with boycotts of and threats to whites who expressed support of integration.

After forced integration in early 1970, funding for public schools started falling out of favor with a large number of whites in the state, many of whom graduated from public schools right here in Jackson.

The effects of this resistance to funding integrated public schools remain today.

Dramatic Massive Flight Mississippi currently has school choiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for the economically advantaged, that is. Take the city of Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where 97.2 percent of public-school students are African American, and 1.5 percent are white. Generally, parents who have the means to afford a private school wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t send their children to JPSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a shift that began when white families pulled their children out of local public schools in the early 1970s here. Many local white students attend Jackson Academy and Jackson Prep, for example, were founded in 1959 and 1970, respectively, or St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal School, founded in 1947. â&#x20AC;&#x153;White flight has taken almost all the white children out of the Jackson Public Schools,â&#x20AC;? Winter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And you say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And we continue to have choice. â&#x20AC;Ś It was the result of the dramatic massive flight in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s ... I wish we had done a better job then of maintaining more of a biracial school system.â&#x20AC;?

The court order forced public schools to desegregate in 1969. It was delayed, as approved by President Richard Nixon in the 1969 school year, but eventually went into effect after the first semester of school that year, creating the most dramatic instance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;white flightâ&#x20AC;? during the Christmas break of 1969-1970.

But efforts to keep schools segregatedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;either by race or economic statusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; are not as far in Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past as one might imagine.

In the late 1990s, the Tunica County School District became embroiled in a legal battle when the all-white school board attempted to construct a new housing subdivisionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in which all of the houses would cost more than most African American families could affordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a new middle school that would effectively host all white students.

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He keeps it there as a reminder and points to it when asked about the full funding of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, which the state has underfunded almost every year since its creation in 1997.

A painting of a simple cabin surrounded by trees hangs on Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office wallâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where he received his education in the 1930s. One-room, one-teacher schools were not uncommon in rural areas like Grenada, Miss., where Winter is from. His mother was the teacher at this school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That educational background, limited as it was, I think established in me a special appreciation of the importance of making available to every child the opportunity to get the best education they couldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and in most of the cases that would be through a system of strong, public education,â&#x20AC;? Winter said of his upbringing.

Back then, public opinion did not support educating all people, in part because the economy depended on the labor of unskilled workers and due to racism. Winter himself

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send their children. A legal team comprised system.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not true at all. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pretend choice, even if their choice is to stay at the of advocacy groups, civil rights lawyers and to think that a private school or a charter public schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and because of a little healthy legislators fought the construction of the school is whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best for every child. I just competition. new middle school, eventually winning and think the parent ought to have the choice of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every industry in the world where getting the school built closer to the black a private school or a charter school or a tradi- you have competing service providers and community. tional public school,â&#x20AC;? Callen said. the consumers actually have a choice it Forest Thigpen, president of the MisCallen said that while public-school ad- makes the quality of the product better,â&#x20AC;? sissippi Center for Public PolCallen said. icy, which advocates school Leber, as well as most choice, believes those motives public-school advocates, arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t present in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s argudoesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept this concluments against public-school sion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand funding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those are not the their thinking,â&#x20AC;? Leber said. parents who have children â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think (students at strugin schools now. Those argugling public schools) would ments are old arguments that have a very difficult timeâ&#x20AC;? if hopefully would not apply students were to leave, taking today,â&#x20AC;? Thigpen said. with them the money for the Civil-rights veteran public-school system, to alRims Barber said simply that ternative schools.

Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history of â&#x20AC;&#x153;not The AERA study notes doing right by public schoolsâ&#x20AC;? that â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? policies Fran Leber sent her kids to Jackson Public Schools when she moved to the area in 1968. She then watched â&#x20AC;&#x153;white flightâ&#x20AC;? in makes it hard for him to becan differ: â&#x20AC;&#x153;[I]t is still unJackson during the 1969-1970 Christmas break. lieve advocates for â&#x20AC;&#x153;school known whether other choice choiceâ&#x20AC;? today. programs, for disabled or othâ&#x20AC;&#x153;They keep camouflaging it, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid, vocates complain that â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? would er students, would produce similar effects.â&#x20AC;? so you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really going on,â&#x20AC;? Bar- create a bigger divide between well-funded, Mike Sayer, an organizing and training ber said. high-performing schools and under-funded, coordinator with Southern Echo, says getWhen politicians, especially Republi- low-performing schools, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to do the ting educational savings accounts for special cans, cite â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choice,â&#x20AC;? what they prob- opposite. To give â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choice,â&#x20AC;? he said, is needs students passed is a way for people ably mean is some form of what David C. to give students who wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the op- with a privatization agenda to â&#x20AC;&#x153;break the Berliner questions in his 1996 book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The portunity to go to the school that best serves moldâ&#x20AC;? that exists currently against vouchers.

Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, And themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if that is a private schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the camelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nose under the The Attack On Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public Schools.â&#x20AC;? means to do so. tent,â&#x20AC;? Sayer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What would happen, for example, if, Fran Leber, vice president of adminas some Far Rights critics urge, the federal istration for the League of Women Voters and state governments gave up all support of the Jackson area, complains that these for education and control over the public â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? solutions are not really soluschools were â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;returnedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to parents and local tions, because they only cater to a very small communities?â&#x20AC;? Berliner wrote. percentage of students, leaving the rest with Berliner then answered his own ques- even fewer resources. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When they say everytion: The result would be chaos. In a purely body, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not true,â&#x20AC;? Leber said. community-run educational system, what, Callen says taking students out of he asked, would keep schools in a state like schools that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit their learning style not Mississippi from becoming entirely dictated only benefits the students who leave, but also by religion rather than education standards? the ones who stay. Empower Mississippi uses â&#x20AC;&#x153;American society and industry do not the Florida model of â&#x20AC;&#x153;special education savneed a population that is ignorant of scien- ings accountsâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a program it adopted this tific knowledge, including knowledge about yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to show this. evolution, DNA, genetics and the inheriOnly 6 percent of special-needs students tance of traits and diseases,â&#x20AC;? Berliner writes. left the public-school system in Florida when Not to mention, â&#x20AC;&#x153;giving up govern- the state adopted a savings account option, Rep. Chuck Espy, D-Clarksdale, credits his support of charter schools mental controlâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;many public-school op- the McKay Scholarship Program, for those to President Barack Obama, but ponents now derisively refer to â&#x20AC;&#x153;government students. However, all special-needs stu- he believes it is best to use charter schoolsâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;would also result in the loss of re- dentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; achievement, even in public schools, schools as a test and then apply their practices to public schools. cord-keeping and support of school research improved in the state. to make sure educational policies benefit the â&#x20AC;&#x153;[T]he positive, but small, improveoverall economic growth of the country. ments in public school student achievement related to McKay competition are consistent Giving Public Money to Parents A Choice for the Few? with earlier research that finds a weak but Empower Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s priority, CalTodayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? advocates like usually positive relationship between school len said, is helping students who need help Grant Callen, founder of Empower Mis- choice and public school performance,â&#x20AC;? most. The group supports legislation for sissippi, claim they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe in â&#x20AC;&#x153;doing American Educational Research Association â&#x20AC;&#x153;educational savings accountsâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ability awayâ&#x20AC;? with public schools throughout the reported. AERA is the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest profes- for parents to use the money the state spends state. For some kids, public school works just sional organization focused on the scientific on their child in public school for other edufine, Callen says. study of education. cational expenses like private schooling or â&#x20AC;&#x153;This education choice gets labeled: Callen says this must be because of the tutorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for special-education students. One â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, you just want to privatize the whole empowerment parents receive when given a version of this bill, which is a rehash of the

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voucher effort popular in the 1980s after President Ronald Reagan showed his support of vouchers, was struck down during the last legislative session.

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican who favors â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choice,â&#x20AC;? touted the bill, saying that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;coalition of the status quoâ&#x20AC;? killed the proposal in the House of Representatives last year. He said he will support it again in the 2015 session. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The needs in our special-needs community are great,â&#x20AC;? Callen said, referring to the especially low achievement of those studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with a 23 percent graduation rateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; in Mississippi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think you start somewhere.â&#x20AC;?

Education savings accounts for special-needs students, then, seem like just the â&#x20AC;&#x153;startâ&#x20AC;? for Callenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lobbying group.

While Empower Mississippi is only currently working on savings-account legislation for special-needs students, its overall philosophyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that all students should be able to go to the school that best suits them regardless of economic meansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sounds like it would be in favor of giving all students this option in the future.

Callen is careful to use the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;education savings accountâ&#x20AC;? instead of â&#x20AC;&#x153;voucher,â&#x20AC;? a word that has fallen out of favor in recent years due to failed voucher efforts.

Thigpen said the special-needs bill works differently than a traditional â&#x20AC;&#x153;voucherâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is like a certificate of tuitionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; because not all the money the parent receives has to be spent on the school. It can be spent in a number of different ways, like on tutoring, textbooks, or alternative educational programs and expenses.

But Thigpen also said that choice advocates avoid using the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;voucherâ&#x20AC;? because of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;negative political connotations that have been attached to that label.â&#x20AC;?

Still, â&#x20AC;&#x153;School Vouchersâ&#x20AC;? appears on the Secretary of Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website under current initiativesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Initiative 45. It reads: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Should the Constitution be amended to require the Legislature to develop a system of issuing vouchers for school choice?â&#x20AC;?

The proposal, sponsored by Lucedaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Josh Hardy, would allow the state to give public-school dollars, in the amount the state spends per child, to the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parent for them to use on homeschooling costs or private schooling, including in religious institutions.

Many question the constitutionality of such a program or of allowing any public dollars to be redirected to a program or school that pushes any particular religion, from Christianity to Islamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the kind of establishment of religion that the First Amendment expressly forbids the government to do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our Constitution doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even allow that because taxpayers deserve to have oversight of the entities that receive public dol-

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‘The correct question is, “Do you want to offer public education to children?” If the answer is no, then abolish the whole system’

Children enrolled in United Way’s Imagination Library program receive a free book each month, delivered directly to your home.

Go to ImaginationLibrary.com to enroll your child or dial 2-1-1 to reach a call specialist.

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lars,” Nancy Loome, executive director of the Parents’ Campaign, said. Put another way, if the “choice” programs are successful, what kind of government oversight, from school testing to bans on public prayer, would need to follow the tax dollars into private and religion-based institutions?

Even the state’s constitution forbids a co-mingling of public-education dollars and religion. Article VIII Section 208 of the Mississippi Constitution reads, “No religious or other sect or sects shall ever control any part of the school or other educational funds of this state.”

Callen said educational savings accounts don’t violate either constitution, even if the private school is religious, because the money is not going to the school itself; it’s going to the parent, who then chooses where to spend it. The compelling state interest, in this case, is providing students the education that best suits them, he argues.

Educators such as Enterprise Attendance Center principal Shannon Eubanks worry that this kind of educational policy will not help needy students.

“Most voucher plans will not benefit poor students to go to a private school,” Eubanks said. Instead, he says, the state would be supplementing parents who are already economically advantaged to send their student to a private school of their choosing.

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out: How would a private school remain exclusive if it allowed anyone, of any economic background, into it? He thinks those schools would raise tuition to ensure a certain student population.

Abolish Public Education?

Public-school advocates accuse “school choice” proponents of a slippery-slope strategy to slowly but steadily defund and dismantle public education altogether, a strategy that began when white public schools were forced to accept children of color.

But progressives aren’t the only ones who are calling foul on the approach. The late conservative columnist Charley Reese wrote in 1993 that “school choice” advo-

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cates are tiptoeing around their real intent to privatize education entirely. That, or they’ve asked the wrong question.

“The correct question is, ‘Do you want to offer public education to children?’ If the answer is no, then abolish the whole system,” Reese writes.

Mississippi has yet to have a state leader say something this direct about education, so Reese’s conclusion is this: “But if the answer is ‘yes, I want to keep a system of public education,’ then you must reject school choice.”

Reese blames neo-conservatives who essentially want to drown government in a bathtub, including public education.

“The neo-cons claim that it would inject the benefits of the free market into the public education system. That’s false. It would not because no government program can ever respond like a free-market institution,” Reese writes. “What school choicers really want is the privilege of converting part of the public school system into their own tax-paid private school system.”

Voucher advocates don’t acknowledge the connection between today’s “choice” and the “choice” enacted in the 1960s to avoid integrating schools, but the result of the policy they push is eerily similar: a system “in which private schools serve talented and wealthy students and the increasingly poorly financed schools are left to cope as best they can with the poor and disadvantaged,” Berliner wrote in “Manufactured Crisis.”

And so often, socioeconomics and race intertwine.

In Berliner’s analysis, “school choice” in America would lead to greater inequalities because public and private schools vary so greatly in resources and quality. Drawing on Reese’s reasoning, and paraphrasing American economist Alan Blinder, “market forces generate great inequalities—and one wonders how long America could survive as a society if its schools became even less equal than they are today in their funding, staffing, and offerings,” Berliner writes.

Recognizing the history of “freedomof-choice” in Mississippi is not to say that the current push is racially motivated, at least directly, even if the state’s inadequately funded public schools are overwhelmingly African American, many due to white families pulling their children out of them. Rather, those opposed to increased funding for public schools are fine with an education delivery that could result in segregation by class, as well as race as is the case now in resegregated Mississippi public schools.

A system that allowed for a small percentage of students to go to private or lowaccountability charter schools, Loome said, would result in a similar kind of divide. “It would be pretty clear pretty quickly that you would have one system that was completely unaccountable that served higher-income children—you would have a class segrega-

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tion. It wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily be a racial segre- areas cost moneyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;money that most white by how many students each school has. That gation like we saw in the past,â&#x20AC;? Loome said. state officials are just not willing to give pub- inevitable outcome thus bolsters the belief of Yet, considering that poverty in Missis- lic schools. many that the plan is to ultimately cripple sippi is more prevalent in black communiThen thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the basic math problem: the public-school system. ties, due to historic racism, even a class-based The transfer of students from public schools Rep. Chuck Espy, D-Clarksdale, a black segregation would likely supporter of â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? hit families of color harder, through charter schools, said even if some black families members of the Mississippi benefit from it.

Legislature are looking out for Still, Callen said this the motives of state leaders two-tiered system is one and will not allow legislation that we have now, with ecthat would take Mississippians onomically disadvantaged back to the educational disparparents having no choice ity in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. but to send their kid to â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have so many the public school in their powerful African American district, which may be lawmakers. In the state of Misstruggling, while wealthy sissippi, the Legislative Black parents can send their Caucus, we are a strong firechildren to private schools wall for any injustice â&#x20AC;Ś trust or move to an area with a the process that we will be able better school district. to decipher any of those hidLoome counters that den pieces of legislation that underfunding is largely to does anything to hinder our blame for struggling dis- Forest Thigpen, president of the Mississippi Center for Public children in the state of Missistrictsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not helped by the Policy, believes â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choice,â&#x20AC;? not greater funding, is the sippi. So if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Trojan horse Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refusal to fol- solution to improving education in the state. through school choice, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll low the law and fund the weed it out,â&#x20AC;? Espy said.

Mississippi Adequate Education Program. to alternative schools would only further deShe recognizes that resources and efforts that crease the funds that public schools receive, Charter Choice could improve achievement in low-income because the state determines school funding Charter schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;autonomous public

schools that are governed by independent boardsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;make up a more hotly contested element of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? argument. They have more bipartisan support. In fact, if done correctly, it would be difficult to find an opponent of high-standard, high-performing, free, nonprofit, public charter schools in struggling districts adopted alongside adequate funding of existing public schools.

The problem is, few public-school advocates have faith that charter schools will be used this way in Mississippi. Plus, state leaders like to use â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? as a way to circumvent full funding of MAEP. Instead, public-education advocacy groups like Southern Echo worry that these schools would divert much needed and already lacking funds away from the traditional public schools, since the funding follows the student.

Two new charter schools in Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reimagine Prep and Midtown Charterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; would pull a combined $24 million out of JPS funding in the first five years, Southern Echo found.

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to give parents a choice for their children,” we’re able to have their success … we will begin While the Legislature refuses to fully Espy said about the president. Roughly to craft legislation that will give the same au- fund MAEP, opponents of greater fund12 years ago, Obama inspired Espy with a tonomy to the public-school system and hope- ing use “school choice,” including charter speech about inner-city and rural students fully, and this is my hope, that we will never schools and vouchers, as a smokescreen, who don’t have the resources to send their have a need to open another charter school,” claiming “choice” is the solution to the state’s children to alternative schools.

Espy said. education woes—not money.

Espy began comparing the use of char“We have questions about the forter schools against mula itself, but our main each other to depoint would be that there’s no termine how they evidence that spending addican be best used. In tional money will improve the 2007, Espy visited educational outcomes of the the graduation cerstudents,” Thigpen said. emony of the KIPP Thigpen said he believes charter school in public schools can be successHelena, Ark., which ful in Mississippi, but refuses to had an enrollment advocate full funding of MAEP, of 99 percent Afriwhich is what the Legislature can Americans and determined is needed for an “look(s) like our adequate education. It’s curious Mississippi Delta,” to most public school advocates he said. why most proponents of school What he saw choice—especially those who say brought tears to the they don’t want to do away with eyes of the parents Grant Callen, founder of the education choice think-tank Empower public schools—don’t support in the audience— Mississippi, says “school choice” gives opportunities to economically adequate funding, as defined by many of whom had disadvantaged students who wouldn’t otherwise have them.

MAEP, for public schools. never been to colStudents need the resources lege. Every student outlined in MAEP, which is the who graduated received a scholarship to a four- Funding vs. Choice formula that determines how much money is year institution. KIPP was successful in an area With an already underfunded public- necessary for students, especially economically similar to the areas struggling in Mississippi, school system, implementing school-choice disadvantaged ones, to get an adequate educaand Espy wants to test its model in his state. measures could be detrimental to existing tion. The point is to bring underfunded disBut Espy wants more out of charter districts. tricts—many of them majority non-white—up schools than just giving the state’s children an “We’re not looking at making those deci- to at least an “adequate” funding level to reverse alternative option to public schools. sions on school choice … based on academic the inequities left in the districts after white “This has always been my hope for char- reasons solely, but we’re doing it based on families fled public schools by the 1960s. ter schools in Mississippi: that we only have to privatization,” Eubanks said. He added that he No amount of school choice, publicopen a few charter schools and if they are able worries alternative schools will open up the op- school advocates say, will make up for that loss to prove what they’ve proven over in Helena, portunity for organizations to profit from pro- in funding for the public schools that remain.

Arkansas, with the KIPP charter school … and viding a subpar education.

Winter, known as the education governor, said school choice is “not the silver bullet” for public education.

Rims Barber, the civil rights veteran, is even more direct. The fact that “school choice” proponents don’t support greater funding for adison-Ridgeland Academy opened its doors in 1969.

This trend continued for decades, and the effects have public schools—which are traditionally underJackson Preparatory School came a year later, in created the reality we have today: 97 percent of the students funded—proves that they are ultimately under1970—the same year that Magnolia Heights Academy at Jackson Public Schools are non-white, and 96.5 percent of mining the public school system, by “talking in Senatobia opened, and Pillow Academy in Greenwood gradu- students at Jackson Prep are white. this other game,” Barber said. ated its first senior class.

Today, Prep is loud with its desire for more diversity in “I just don’t believe it.”

That so many private schools opened their doors around the hiring and student population. A statement on diversity on It seems to Barber that these politicians are same period is not really a coincidence, although it’s not a history the school’s website states, “To achieve the broader educadriven by something more sinister: “If society is many of the academies, most of which now market to families of tional goal of preparing students to participate in the world only for those who can grab the most, then it’s color, love to talk about. community, Prep is committed to diversity in race, color and really not worth having,” he said.

In January 1970, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals or- national origin in the student body, faculty and programs.”

Mississippi has yet to see if “school choice” dered Mississippi to desegregate—the state had failed to do so in Jackson Prep is now located in Flowood, a significantly can coexist with flourishing public schools, but the 16 years since the U.S. Supreme Court case that outlawed whiter city than Jackson. Still, Jackson Prep’s 2 percent black stuwhat’s certain to the most esteemed education segregation, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education. Private acad- dents falls way behind Flowood’s black population, which makes advocates in the state is that public schools are emies, which were sometimes inexpensive, effectively kept white up almost 19 percent of its residents—making the diversity push essential to building ideal communities. schoolchildren away from black schoolchildren. for traditionally white academies still an uphill climb, although “This country is built on democratic The greatest hike in private academies, consequently, some appear to be trying. values, and I think those values can be best was from 1968-1971, during which these segregated schools Change is coming slowly. In 2013, the Hechinger Report taught and best learned when everybody goes grew from educating just over 5,000 to 40,000 students in reported that 35 academies in the state were still enrolling black to school together—across all classes and races the state. In Jackson, most white parents with the economic students at a rate below 2 percent. Many have survived in rural and religions and the other elements that make means overwhelmingly sent their children to private schools Delta communities, where the civil-rights tradition is strong, us such a diverse country,” Winter said. or moved out of the city to surrounding, whiter areas. and where slavery and segregation were strong.

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teachers that you need” at the public schools, Sayer said.

Reimagine is an affiliate of the Nashvillebased organization Republic Schools, and the Jackson community group Midtown Partners started Midtown Charter.

The Legislature finally adopted a workable charter bill in 2013 after years of consulting and revising. Before this bill, the state’s charter-school law, enacted in 1997, only allowed for some existing schools to turn into charter schools, but none of them had done so.

The 2013 bill stipulates that charter schools must be nonprofit organizations, must not charge tuition and must serve at least 80 percent of the under-served student population of the district. Public-school advocates are generally glad that they were able to help revise about the bill before its approval—making sure the schools cannot profit, have a high level of accountability, and that “A,” “B” and “C” districts have the power to refuse a proposed charter school.

Charter-school proponents, which include many progressives, recognize issues with the bill. One stipulation of the law, for example, mandates that the only students who can go to a charter school are those within the charter’s district. This makes getting a charter school in a small district, where there are not enough children to pull to the charter from the existing schools, difficult.

Mississippi, while late in the game, has a kind of upper hand because there are so many successes and failures in other states to draw lessons from.

Rep. Espy said his support of charter schools began after listening to and having conversations with President Barack Obama about them.

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Julep (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 105, 601-362-1411) The catering menu includes a 10- to 12-pound turkey, whole stuffed chicken, herb-crusted pork tenderloin and peppercrusted beef tenderloin. Sides include dressing, soups, Julep yeast rolls, angel biscuits, corn muffins and a variety of sides, dips and desserts, including cakes, pies and puddings.

Customers will also be able to purchase Julep’s honey butter. Pick up orders between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Christmas Eve.

Crazy Cat Bakers (4500 Interstate 55 N.,

Suite 173, 601-362-7448) Crazy Cat Bakers will have bread pudding with a brandy butter sauce, milky-way pound cake, rustic apple-walnut crostata, classic cream cheese pound cake, sausage and grits casserole, and two choices of quiche—ham and asparagus or spinach and artichoke. Holiday pick-up hours are 9 a.m. to noon Christmas Eve. For Heaven’s Cakes and Catering (4950 Old Canton Road, 601-991-2253) Cake and dessert offerings include gingerbread, pumpkin pie and carrot-cake cupcakes, and nut tarts. The store will be open until 3 p.m. Christmas Eve for pick up of orders only. Calling ahead is encouraged.

Grant’s Kitchen (2847 Lakeland Drive, Flowood, 601-665-4764) Grant’s Kitchen will be open for catering order pickup until 3 p.m. Christmas Eve. Grant’s Kitchen will serve its regular menu, including dishes such as turkey and dressing. Customers will be able to purchase vegetables and sides in pints, quarts, gallons and half gallons. For pricing, go to grantskitchen.com. Order by Dec. 23 to pick up Dec. 24.

Cookin’ Up a Storm (1491 Canton Mart

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Sugar Magnolia Takery (5417 Highway 25,

Flowood, 601-992-8110) Sugar Magnolia Takery will have a full holiday menu including spinach-artichoke bake, butter beans, turkey, spiral-cut ham, dressing and cranberry salsa. The restaurant will accept carry-out orders until 2 p.m.

Christmas Eve. Order by Dec. 19.

McDade’s Market (Multiple locations, mcdadesmarkets.com) Purchase or bring in turkeys or hams, and the store will smoke it for you. For details, call and ask for the meat department.

All locations also offer meat trays, dressing, various casseroles such as sweet-potato casserole, mashed potatoes, vegetables (collards, turnips, green beans, lima beans and peas), and various baked goods.

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Primos will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Christmas Eve. The menu is online at strawberrycafemadison.com. Orders must be placed by Dec. 22.

CHAR Restaurant (4500 Interstate 55 N.,

Suite 142, 601-956-9562) The catering menu includes cornbread dressing, cream spinach, butterbeans, smashed sweet potatoes, green beans and whole pecan pie. You can also purchase regular menu items in bulk; however, no modifications, please.

Orders need to be placed 24 hours in advance and picked up by 3 p.m.

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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.

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) The brainchild of award-winning Chef Tom Ramsey, this 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.

Cerami’s (5417 Lakeland Drive, Flowood, 601-919-28298) Southern-style Italian cuisine features their signature Shrimp Cerami.

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 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 Shea’s on Lake Harbour (810 Lake Harbour Drive, Ridgeland, MS 39157 (601) 427-5837) Seafood, Steaks and Southern Cuisine! Great Brunch, Full Bar Outdoor and Seating 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 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.

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

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 Capitol Grill (5050 I-55 North, Deville Plaza 601-899-8845) Best Happy Hour and Sports Bar in Town. Kitchen Open Late pub food and live 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.

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.

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 Crazy Ninja (2560 Lakeland Dr., Flowood 601-420-4058) Rock-n-roll sushi and cook-in-front-of-you hibachi. Lunch specials, bento boxes, fabulous cocktails.

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 Nagoya Japanese Sushi Bar & Hibachi Grill (6351 I-55 North, Ste. 131, Jackson 601-977-8881) Fresh sushi, delicious noodles & sizzling hibachi from one of jackson’s most well-known japanese restaurants.

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by Charles E. Cobb Basic Books Purchase on Amazon.com. $30 “Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest” by Curtis Wilkie University Press of Mississippi $24.95 “On the Lamb”

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$6 Frida Kahlo sticky notes, Mississippi Museum of Art

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Healthy Holiday Gatherings

by Timothy Quinn

If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to gain a bunch of weight this holiday season, try doing things such as drinking water and choosing healthier foods.

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reparing for a holiday party requires more than the perfect outfit.

A few weeks ago, I told a patient that we would reexamine her weight, blood pressure and glucose levels in three months to determine if she was making progress. She asked if I knew that it was Thanksgiving week, followed by the Christmas season. The patient explained that she had relatives and friends scheduled to come to her home from all over the country.

Holiday eating can result in an extra pound or two every year, the National Institutes of Health reports, and the holiday season can set the precedent for the upcoming year. Holiday parties and gatherings are notorious for providing unhealthy food in excess, and we consume more alcoholic beverages than we intend. With the festivities and changes to our daily routine, it is easy to lose track of our healthy habits. But planning and being prepared can keep us on target during this time of year.

I suggest that we all make a plan to maintain our healthy habits at a time of the year when it can be most difficult. Here are a few tips that I have incorporated into my personal holiday-season stay-healthy plan.

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Increase your exercise routine during the holiday season to compensate for the increased calorie consumption that is almost unavoidable. Take advantage of the fact that you most likely will get more time off work, and that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have in-house child care when relatives visit.

When consuming alcoholic beverages, always drink two glasses of water for every

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to tell Grandma that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want dessert. You can always say that the meal she prepared was so good that you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine eating anything else.

The website Eatingwell.com has good tips to help formulate a plan during the holiday season in addition to lots of healthy recipes. Search for other websites with similar good advice to help formulate your personal plan. Lastly, remember the reason for the season, and enjoy this time with family and friends.

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Start by gathering greenery from your yard. Use needled evergreens such as pines and firs, broadleaf evergreens such as boxwood, holly and evergreen magnolia as well as junipers and arborvitaes to create wreaths, swags, centerpieces and garland. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to include cones, holly berries, crab apples and the bluish-colored fruit of junipers.

Be selective as you prune your trees and shrubs when collecting these materials. Use sharp bypass pruners that have two sharp blades to make clean cuts that close more quickly. Make your cuts above a healthy bud, where the branches join another branch or connect to the main trunk. Take only a few branches from each tree or shrub to maintain the plantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; beauty.

Place freshly cut greens in a cool location away from heaters, fireplaces and open flames. Set them on colorful fabric or paper to catch the sap and avoid damaging your woodwork and furnishings.

Check your greenery for freshness every few days. The needles, leaves and stems should bend, but not break. Replace dried greens with fresh materials.

Brighten up the display with Fun LED lights can brighten up any holiday dĂŠcor. some cool-burning LED lights. Create a mantle display or centerpiece with the help of LED pillar lights, or add a string of LEDs to your garland.

If you have artificial greens that could use a facelift, add fresh berries, cones and seedpods for a more natural look. Increase the glitz with silver and gold metallic paint or glitter. Paint milkweed, lotus and other pods, and then tuck them into the greens. Painting allium seedheads white will add the appearance of flowery snowflakes in your indoor arrangements and outdoor container gardens.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget fresh flowers and flowering plants. Poinsettias are a perennial favorite, but you may want to change things up with amaryllis, spring flowering bulbs and lily of the valley. Look for unusual varieties or combinations to increase your enjoyment.

Combine large flowered amaryllis with small flowering bulbs such as star of Bethlehem.

Or go for a unique size, shape or flower color like that of the honeybee amaryllis with its beautiful yellow flowers that are sure to brighten your days.

Add a few flowers to your greenery and houseplants for some instant color. Stick your greenery and flowers in dampened floral foam to create a long-lasting holiday centerpiece, or place cut flowers in floral picks and set them in dish gardens and houseplants to brighten things up. Swap out the flowers as they fade. Consider making a few extra planters or centerpieces to give as holiday and hostess gifts this year.

Gardening expert, TV and radio host, author and columnist Melinda Myers has a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in horticulture and has written more than 20 gardening books, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Miss Small Space Gardeningâ&#x20AC;? and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Midwest Gardenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Handbook.â&#x20AC;? She hosts The Great Courses â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to Grow Anythingâ&#x20AC;? DVD series and nationally syndicated â&#x20AC;&#x153;Melindaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garden Momentâ&#x20AC;? segments. Myers is also a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine. Her web site, melindamyers.com, offers gardening videos, podcasts and monthly tips.

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rt is the most intense form of individualism the world has known,” said Oscar Wilde, a man who knew a thing or two about exercises in individual expression. That phrase rings true for the 2014 Mississippi Invitational showcase.

The Mississippi Invitational, which began in 1997, provides the state’s contemporary artists with a venue for their work. Artists selected for the invitational must be residents of Mississippi, in contrast to the Mississippi Museum of Art’s “Mississippi Story,” a permanent exhibit where artists must only have a connection to the state, whether grand or minute.

This year, the guest curator is North Carolina-based artist Carla Hanzal, who recently served as the curator of mod-

artists from the state and local area.”

Hanzal, along with MMA curator Roger Ward, narrowed the list of applicants from 100 to 24 and set out on the roads of Mississippi, traveling from studio to studio and meeting each artist and viewing his or her work firsthand.

“I felt like it was important to see the work up close, compared to a photograph,” Hanzal says. “(I got to meet) the artist; allowing them time to explain their work gave me an impression of the level of art in the state. I can also recommend them for other shows.”

Hanzal and Ward then chose artists based on their inventiveness, the quality of their work, and the use of narrative and colors.

Each artist was also eligible for the Jane Crater Hiatt COURTESY MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART

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ern and contemporary art at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, N.C., a position she held for 10 years.

“It is just astonishing,” Hanzal says about the breadth and talent of the artists around the state interviewed for a spot in the invitational.

“Mississippi provides a good place for artists to work,” she says. “I was impressed that the museum took on a laborintensive project like this one and did a great job. Other museums replicate the type of work shown in Los Angeles, New York or Chicago. Here, visitors will get the chance to support

Artist Fellowship, which totals $15,000 for travel and study expenses. The artist receives support for his or her creative development and further creation of adventurous and imaginative art. The chosen artist is required to donate at least one original work to the museum’s permanent collection and create five pieces for the collection during the fellowship’s twoyear period.

As the recipient of the 2014 Hiatt Fellowship, abstract painter Carolyn Busenlener is no stranger to adventurous ideas. Her work is intuitive in the painting “After the Rain.”

Lines and shapes of bright colors punctuate the soft palate of the backdrop, creating vivid contrasts.

“The natural environment surrounding my studio in rural Mississippi influences my choice of shapes and markmaking,” she says on MMA’s website.

“I see and sense marsh grasses, the movement of bayou waters and the dance of living creatures in their habitats.”

Most of her art is abstract, layered with shapes, vivid colors and fuzzy brushstrokes to create her scenes.

Busenlener will complete the Hiatt Fellowship in Ireland, Wales and Great Britain, which she says will allow her to work on mark-making and line work.

Jackson-based artists Anne O’Hara, David Jason Pressgrove and Gregory Walker are also part of the invitational. In her work, O’Hara creates photo-realistic nature scenes with overlapping elements that create hidden images, such as in her exhibition piece, “Sanctuary,” a tinted charcoal drawing of a leaf-filled puddle Pressgrove’s sculptures, often made of building materials that are not fit for use in construction, center around themes of architecture, place and community. His piece in the invitational, “ren4” looks similar to the blueprint of a house and is made of wood, metal and ink.

Walker’s art examines past media technology and how we must remember and appreciate it in times of fast-moving technological change. He often incorporates distortion into his pieces, whether it be a gradual distortion of one photo or sound distortion. His piece in the invitational, a still from his “Acoustic Negatives: A Memoir in 4 Parts,” uses sound and image distortion to explore information and how our brain translates it. The video begins with a few seconds of Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock,” then distorts it. It gradually gets lighter and lighter until it transitions to text and then turns darker and darker.

Other Mississippi artists in the invitational include Adrienne Callander and Neil Callander from Starkville; Shawn Lee Dickey from Columbus; Marcus Frazier from Natchez; Lou Haney, Andrew Smith and Milly West from Oxford; Chatham Kemp and Don Norris from Hattiesburg; Ruth Miller from Picayune; and J. Marcus Weekly from Gulfport.

“I thought about the influence of place and also about how artists seldom work in isolation. … I thought about language, loss and music; narrative and handicraft; investigating the past; and collecting meaningful fragments,” Hanzal says. “These meandering thoughts informed the shape of this show.”

The 2014 Mississippi Invitational shows through Jan. 25, 2015, in the Jim and Donna Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $6 for students. Museum members and children under 5 attend for free. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon-5 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, call 601-960 -1515 or visit msmuseumart.com.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to pick the winner in each category.

We must receive your paper finalist ballot by Dec. 19, 2014, or you can submit online by midnight on Dec. 21, 2014. If you opt for the paper ballot, it must be torn from your JFP (no photocopies allowed) and mailed in or dropped at our office during business hours. We will announce the winners in the Best of Jackson 2015 issue, which publishes Jan. 21, 2015.

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FRIDAY 12/19

SATURDAY 12/20

The After-Hours Pop-Up Exhibit is at the Mississippi Museum of Art.

Snowflake Science is at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

“The Story of Land & Sea” Signing is at Lemuria Books.

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WEDNESDAY 12/17

The Winter Holiday Exhibit is open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). The exhibit includes Possum Ridge model trains and displays of antique Christmas trees and toys.

Free; call 601-576-6800; email info@mdah.state.ms.us. …The Big Easy Three performs at 6:30 p.m. at Underground 119 (119 S. President St.). Free; call 601-3522322; email underground119music@gmail.com.

THURSDAY 12/18

New Orleans funk band Flow Tribe brings the raucous blend of sound from its newest album, “Alligator White,” to Martin’s Restaurant and Bar, Friday, Dec. 19.

FRIDAY 12/19

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The Mississippi Chorus Concert is at 7:30 p.m. at St. Richard Catholic Church (1242 Lynwood Drive). The ensemble presents Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Hodie.” Includes performances from the Mississippi Boychoir, Anacrusis and more. Free; call 601-278-3351; mschorus.org. … Flow Tribe performs at 10 p.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The funk and rock band performs to promote its latest album, “Alligator White.” For ages 21 and up. $5-$10; call 601-354-9712; flowtribe.com.

SATURDAY 12/20

The Second Annual Christmas Bash is 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. at Cups: An Espresso Café (2757 Old Canton Road).

Performers include Slowriter, The Empty Handed Painters,

BY MICAH SMITH The Tallahatchies, Argiflex and May Queen. $5 cover; call 3627422; find “2nd Annual ChristJACKSONFREEPRESS.COM mas Bash” on Facebook. …

FAX: 601-510-9019 “Most Incredible Christmas” is DAILY UPDATES AT at 2 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall JFPEVENTS.COM (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Ballet Magnificat! presents the story of a town’s contest to find the most extraordinary thing about Christmas. Free tickets; call 601-977-1001; balletmagnificat.com. … The Christmas Gala Celebration is at 7 p.m. at Fondren Hall (4330 N. State St.). The Magnolia Chapter of Blacks in Government (BIG) is the host. The event is a fundraiser for the organization’s 2015 scholarship foundation. $30; call 601-316-0648 or 769-572-2433.

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The Southern Komfort Brass band performs for the Christmas Eve Eve Party at Duling Hall, Tuesday, Dec. 23.

a silent auction, live music and specialty martinis. Purchase hand-painted martini glasses for $20 each. Also see the 2015 Mississippi Firefighters Calendar. $40 in advance, $50 at the door (includes two drink tickets), sponsorships available; call 601-540-2995; email afontaine@msburn.org; 2014msburnmerrymartinis.eventbrite.com.

SUNDAY 12/21

“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” is at 2 p.m. at Actor’s Playhouse (121 Paul Truitt Lane, Pearl). $10; call 601664-0930; actorsplayhouse.net. … The Mississippi Opera’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. at Madison Square Center for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madison). $20, $5 students; call 601-960-2300; msopera.org.

MONDAY 12/22

Blue Monday is at 7 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 W. Commerce St.). The Central Mississippi Blues Society hosts a night of music with light refreshments and a cash bar. $5 admission, $3 for CMBS members; email centralmsbluessociecty@gmail.com; centralmississippibluessociety.com.

TUESDAY 12/23

The Christmas Eve Eve Party is at 9 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Southern Komfort Brass Band performs for this holiday-themed event. All ages show. Persons under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. $5 in advance, $10 at the door;, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

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“Peter Pan” is at 7:30 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is based on J.M. Barrie’s classic tale about a boy who never grew up and his adventures in Neverland. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com. … Merry Martinis is from 6 p.m.-10 p.m. at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The Mississippi Burn Foundation’s annul fundraiser includes refreshments,

The Christmas Eve Dinner is at 5 p.m. at 1908 Provisions (Fairview Inn, 734 Fairview St.). Chefs provide a threecourse prix fixe menu with Tanglewood Farms poulet rouge as the main course. Reservations are required. $49 per person; call 601-948-3429; fairviewinn.com/1908provisions.htm. 33

#/--5.)49 Networking at Noon Dec. 17, noon, at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership hosts the monthly luncheon to promote and encourage networking among local businesses. Includes a $20 gift card giveaway. Free; call 601-948-7575; email nlowery@greaterjacksonpartnership.com.

Hinds County Human Resource Agency Meeting Dec. 17, 7 p.m., at Hinds County Human Resource Agency (258 Maddox Road). The Board of Directors meets on third Wednesdays. Open to the public; Hinds County residents encouraged to attend. Free; call 601-923-1838; hchra.org.

All 4 Children Consignment Christmas Event Dec. 18, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Dec. 19, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Dec. 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at 1929 Dunbarton Drive. Shop for gently used fall and winter children’s clothing, toys and baby equipment. Items for sale; all4childrenconsignment.com.

Pre-Capricorn Affair Dec. 20, 10 p.m., at Mediterranean Fish and Grill (The Med) (6550 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland). The celebration includes performances from Lou Writer, Jameka Franklin, MentalMasterpiece and SistaNature. Also includes music from DJ Spre.

Doors open at 9 p.m. $10; call 601-956-0082; email energizerent@gmail.com.

Mississippi Blues Marathon Call for Volunteers Monday-Friday through Jan. 8, statewide.

Responsibilities include assisting with runner check-ins at the Jackson Convention Complex to directing runners around the route. Registration required. Free; call 601-624-7882; email info@ msbluesmarathon.com; msbluesmarathon.com.

+)$3 Snowflake Science Dec. 19, 10 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Experiment with hot snow, make paper snowflakes and more. $4-$6; call 601-576-6000; msnaturalscience.org.

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Look and Learn with Hoot Dec. 19, 10:30 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.).

This educational opportunity ages 5 and under and their parents features a hands-on art activity and story time. Please dress for mess. Free; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

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(/,)$!9 Events at Beau Rivage Resort and Casino (875 Beach Blvd., Biloxi) • "Santa & Friends on Ice" Dec. 17, 7 p.m., Dec. 18, 7 p.m., Dec. 19, 7 p.m., Dec. 20, 3 p.m., Dec. 20, 7 p.m., Dec. 21, 3 p.m., Dec. 21, 7 p.m., Dec. 23, 7 p.m., Dec. 24, 7 p.m. World-class figure skaters, vocalists and actors present an endearing holiday storyline.

Tickets start at $12.95, packages available; call 888-567-6667; beaurivage.com.

Free Pictures with Santa Dec. 20, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Dec. 21, 1 p.m.-6 p.m., at Metrocenter Mall (1395 Metrocenter Drive). At Center Court. Each child can get one photo taken and printed with Santa Claus for free.

Free; call 601-969-7633.

“Most Incredible Christmas” Dec. 20, 2 p.m., Dec. 21, 2 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Ballet Magnificat! presents the story of a town’s contest to find the most extraordinary thing about the Christmas season. Free tickets; call 601-9771001; balletmagnificat.com.

Lazy Acres in Lights Dec. 18, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Dec. 19, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Dec. 20, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Dec. 22, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Dec. 23, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., at Lazy Acres Plantation (596 Teddy Bear Tea Dec. 20, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Dec. Lazy Acres Road, Chunky). Includes light dis- 21, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Dec. 22, 2 p.m.-4 p.m., at plays, hayrides, Christmas stories from Santa King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.). The and Rudolph, crafting in Santa’s Workshop, event includes a photo with Santa and his elves, and more. $7, $6 person in groups of 15 or storytelling, treats, a teddy bear and a ticket to more (pay in one transaction), children 2 and the Mississippi Children’s Museum. Reservaunder free; call 601-655-8264; email lazytions required. Adults must accompany chilacresfarm@hotmail.com; lazy-acres.com. dren. $25 per person, free for children under 12 months; call 601-969-8507.

“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m., Dec. Christmas Concert Dec. 20, 3 p.m.-4 p.m., 20, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 21, 2 p.m., at Actor’s at Christ United Methodist Church (6000 Playhouse (121 Paul Truitt Lane, Pearl). The Old Canton Road). The Mississippi Complay based on Barbara Robinson’s book is munity Symphonic Band performs. Free; about troublemaking siblings who particicall 769-218-0828; mcsb.us. pate in a Christmas pageant. $10; call 601Christmas Gala Celebration Dec. 20, 7 664-0930; actorsplayhouse.net. p.m., at Fondren Hall (4330 N. State St.).

Events at Mississippi Children’s MuseThe Magnolia Chapter of Blacks in Govum (2145 Highland Drive) ernment (BIG) is the host. The event is a • Garden Glow Nights Dec. 19, 6 p.m.-8:30 fundraiser for the organization’s 2015 scholp.m., Dec. 20, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Includes a arship foundation. $30; call 601-316-0648, simulated snowfall, a visit from Santa, cookie 769-572-2433 or 601-260-0391. decorating, entertainment and a light display.

“Amahl and the Night Visitors” Dec. 21, $10, free for children under 12 months and 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m., at Madison Square museum members; call 601-981-5469; misCenter for the Arts (2103 Main St., Madisissippichildrensmuseum.com. son). The Mississippi Opera presents Gian • Santa's Institute Dec. 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Carlo Menotti’s story about a disabled shepLearn the science behind Santa Claus and herd boy’s Christmas miracle. $20, $5 stuhis holiday helpers. $10, children under dents; call 601-960-2300; msopera.org.

1 and members free; call 601-981-5469; Christmas Eve Dinner Dec. 24, 5 p.m., mississippichildrensmuseum.com. at 1908 Provisions (Fairview Inn, 734 Pictures with Santa Dec. 20, 10 a.m.-noon, Fairview St.). Enjoy a three-course prix fixe at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N.). menu with Tanglewood Farms poulet rouge Children can take photos with Santa in Center as the main course. Reservations required.

Court. $40 for four five-by-seven-inch prints or $49 per person; call 601-948-3429.

10 four-by-six-inch prints; call 601-982-5861.

FIRST LEGO League State Championship Dec. 20, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at Vicksburg Convention Center (1600 Mulberry St., Vicksburg). FFL is a robotics tournament for youth to increase their enthusiasm about science and technology. Teams must register. Free for spectators, $50 tournament fee for teams; call 601630-2929; email eddie@456robotics.org.

Holiday Hustle 5K Dec. 18, 6:30 p.m., at downtown Canton. Includes a Reindeer Trot for ages 12 and under, a 5K run/walk and holiday activities.

Awards given, including for the Christmas costume contest. $25-$35; call 601-941-1840; email kelleysweat@hotmail.com; racesonline.com.

Second Annual Christmas Bash Dec. 20, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at Cups: An Espresso Café (2757 Old Canton Road). Performers include Slowriter, The Empty Handed Painters, The Tallahatchies, Argiflex and May Queen. $5 cover; call 362-7422; find “2ND ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BASH” on Facebook.

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Christmas Eve Eve Party Dec. 23, 9 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Southern Komfort Brass Band performs. All ages show.

Persons under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. $5 in advance, $10 at the door;, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; call 601-292-7999; email arden@ardenland.net; ardenland.net.

Bubbly Tasting Dec. 21, 4 p.m., at BRAVO! Italian Restaurant & Bar (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 N.). Sample five sparkling wines from Italy, Spain and France. RSVP. Limited seating. $50 per person; call 601-982-8111; email jeffg@bravobuzz.com; bravobuzz.com.

30/243 7%,,.%33 Healthcare Enrollment Event for Jacksonians Dec. 18, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Courtyard by Marriott (6280 Ridgewood Court Drive). My Brother’s Keeper is assisting individuals with enrolling for healthcare coverage in the Health Insurance Marketplace. Free; call 601-898-0000, ext. 101; email trucker@mbk-inc.org.

“Peter Pan” Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 21, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play is based on J.M. Barrie’s classic tale about a boy who never grew up and his adventures in Neverland. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com.

#/.#%243 &%34)6!,3 The Mississippi Chorus Concert Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m., at St. Richard Catholic Church (1242 Lynwood Drive). The ensemble presents Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Hodie.” Includes performances from the Mississippi Boychoir, Anacrusis and more. Free; call 601-278-3351; mschorus.org.

,)4%2!29 3)'.).'3 Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • "Paint Me!" Dec. 19, 1 p.m. Sarah Frances Hardy signs books. $14.95 book; call 601366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

• "Mr. Ferris and His Wheel" Dec. 20, 11 a.m.

Illustrator Gilbert Ford signs books. $17.99

book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

• "The Story of Land and Sea" Dec. 20, 11 a.m. Katy Simpson Smith signs books. $26.99 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Paintings of Italy” 2015 Calendar Signing Dec. 20, 1 p.m. Local artist Wyatt Waters signs calendars. $19.95 calendar; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks. com; lemuriabooks.com.

• "An Italian Palate" Dec. 20, 1 p.m. Robert St. John and artist Wyatt Waters sign books. $34.95 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

• "Delta Dogs” Dec. 22, 1 p.m. Maude Schuyler Clay signs books. $35 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks. com; lemuriabooks.com.

#2%!4)6% #,!33%3 Art Nights Thursdays, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. through Dec. 25, at Drip Drop Coffee Shop (1044 Highway 49 S., Suite D, Richland).

Roger Leonard Long is the instructor for the drawing class. Topics include proportion, contrast and perspective. Includes materials and coffee. $20 in advance, $25 walk-in fee, $15 per person in groups of four or more; call 601-939-0410; dripdropcs.com.

Shut Up and Write! Saturdays, 12:30-3 p.m., at the JFP in Capital Towers (125 S. Congress St., #1324). Register now for a new “Writing to Change Your World” creative non-fiction series taught by Donna Ladd and Ronni Mott. The six-week series will demystify the writing process for students of any level and teach you to write sparkling true stories, essays and book chapters with weekly feedback.

Class series is $350 including workbook and snacks; pay $299 if you register by Jan. 7.

Gift certificates are available and credit cards accepted. Hurry: seats limited. Classes meet these dates: Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 21, 28, March 21, 28 (recordings available later if you miss a class). Write class@writingtochange.com or call 601-362-6121 ext. 15 for information.

%8()")4 /0%.).'3 Museum After Hours Pop-Up Exhibition Dec. 18, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). See paintings from Tony Davenport, handcrafted cigar box guitars from Phillip Wooley of Habana Blues, and collaborative pieces between the two artists. Free with cash bar; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

"% 4(% #(!.'% Merry Martinis Dec. 18, 6 p.m.-10 p.m., at Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St.). The Mississippi Burn Foundation’s annul fundraiser includes refreshments, a silent auction, live music and specialty martinis. Purchase handpainted martini glasses for $20 each. Also see the 2015 Mississippi Firefighters Calendar. $40 in advance, $50 at the door (includes two drink tickets), sponsorships available; call 601-540-2995; email afontaine@msburn.org; 2014msburnmerrymartinis.eventbrite.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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he song starts with a wash of soft white noise. It’s like two-dimensional display. “Even though that’s totally valid, drem. Both attend Delta State University, where Lehr, a seslipping the cover from an old gramophone, blow- too, it’s just not what I want to do in front of people.” nior, is double majoring in computer information systems ing the dust off the record, and to your surprise, Argiflex has been a quick progression since its debut in and entertainment-industry studies. it plays. Instead of the tinny sound of big-band or 2008. First, Lehr used synthesizer samples from recording Swapping and adding gear increases the scope of his swing music, you hear layered sequences of music, but options are limited during live perelectronic “pings” warping on the gramophone. formances. He has to be resourceful.

Even with the melody’s occasional distortions “It’s constricting in a way that … generand deviations, it’s strangely beautiful. ates creativity,” he says. “You only have a cerDon’t get used to it, though. Argiflex isn’t tain amount of sounds that you can deal with, done with you, yet. but once you know how to work with them, Argiflex, the stage name of neo-rave electhey can be incredibly expressive.” tronic artist Curtis Lehr, 21, isn’t about meetWith only 16 channels, Lehr can deliver ing expectations or making music that appeals about 80 sequences, which he uses to create a to everyone. Quite the opposite, in fact. For variety of subgenres beneath the blanket term Lehr, Argiflex is a chance to introduce listen“electronic,” including acid-techno, break-beat ers to something new, from his confrontational and house music. Not everything in Argiflex’s tunes to the way he performs. music is easily categorized, though.

“People don’t really know what to exLehr views his music less as individual pect when they see the term ‘live electronic,’ songs and more as “time-based aural tapesand that seems like a bit of a conundrum or tries,” he says. Tracks can shift from entrancing paradox to a lot of people,” Lehr says. and smooth to chaotic and turbulent in an in“Some people still think I’m just playstant. It’s an acquired taste, he says, like scotch.

Argiflex’s live electronic music challenges listeners’ expectations of music ing pre-recorded tracks and try to get me to Not everyone will enjoy it, and that’s OK. with shifting dynamics and confrontational climaxes. play their mixtape. It’s just a lot of people “I feel like I’m already making sometrying to make an assessment.” thing that most people aren’t going to appreThe confusion isn’t hard to pinpoint. Most electronic software, such as Renoise, to create his first album, 2009’s ciate, so why not take it to a bit more of a conclusion?” music is the product of a few button-pushes and a mouse- “8367 Solarii.” After his second record, 2010’s “Regolith,” Lehr says. “I don’t feel like it’s the logical conclusion, but click here or there, but Lehr is committed to creating every Lehr began to perform with only hardware instruments. it’s getting there.”

He used this method to simultaneously release three EPs in sound live with digital hardware.

Argiflex performs at Christmas Bash, 6 p.m. Saturday, “It seemed like more fun to me than sitting behind 2013, and in March 2014, he created a split tape, featuring Dec. 20, at Cups Espresso Café in Fondren (2757 Old Canton a computer,” he says. With hardware, he can physically the untitled song mentioned above, with fellow electronic Road, 601-362-7422). For more information, visit argiflex. change the settings of his gear instead of sliding values on a artist Jonathon Hernandez, who releases music as Vexa- com or find the event on Facebook.

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’m a Christmas music junkie. I love when this time of year rolls around because I get to dust off the collection of holiday music I’ve amassed through the years. What makes this music so unique is that there is pretty much a onemonth window to enjoy it. Then, like the tree and lights, it goes back into storage until the next season. There is almost no other music with that limited of a shelf life. Try listening to “Jingle Bells” in July, and you’ll understand what I mean.

My love for holiday music knows no boundaries. I will happily listen to an artist I cannot stand on any other occasion sing Christmas songs. Holiday music has a magical quality that overrides any bias I have.

Jazz, rock, country or classical—I don’t care when it comes to yuletide tunes.

In my years of listening to these songs, I have come to a stunning conclusion: The best Christmas classics are simply statements of the obvious. Holiday music leaves no room for interpretation.

While most classic Christmas songs don’t have much to say, they’re great for connecting listeners and spreading holiday spirit.

way. Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.” Is it fun to ride in a sleigh? I’ll bet it is, but you wouldn’t hear songs about it any other time of the year.

One of my all-time favorites is simply called “The Christmas Song,” commonly known as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.” The melody is beautiful, but the lyrics aren’t exactly profound. “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Yuletide carols being sung by a choir. And folks dressed up like Eskimos.” The timeless lyrics, which jazz composer Mel Tormé co-wrote with six-time Emmy winner Bob Wells, tell us everything we need to know: There’s a fire, it’s cold, and people are singing.

Of course, the season’s religious songs are also rife with obvious remarks.

“Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.”

“Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.” Those are not complex thoughts; they are direct and clear.

Perhaps this explains the popularity of Christmas music. The simple and heartwarming nature can appeal to all types of audiences. It’s not difficult to wrap your

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mind around what these songs are saying, and yet the words convey much of what makes the holiday season unique.

To the credit of Christmas songwriters, it’s difficult to write material with such a direct universal connection to audiences. Many people steer clear of music they don’t understand, but nothing is easier to understand than Christmas music. Whether you’re at church or in a store, the indisputable sounds of the season permeate the air. For many listeners, these songs help inspire the cheerful spirit that surrounds the month of December. While it may be straightforward and minimal, Christmas music does what anyone’s favorite music should do: It connects people.

I challenge each of you to randomly pick a Christmas song and analyze the lyrics. You’ll probably discover that it’s mostly simple facts about Christmas time, but it will give you a head 35 start on holiday cheer.

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THURSDAY, DEC 18 College basketball (7-9 p.m., SECN): The Ole Miss Rebels face a tough Coastal Carolina team in a nonconference test as the conference slate approaches.

MONDAY, DEC 22 NFL (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN): The Cincinnati Bengals host the Denver Broncos in a game that could have big playoff implications for the AFC.

FRIDAY, DEC 19 NBA (7-9:30 p.m., ESPN): The defending champion San Antonio Spurs host the Portland Trail Blazers, who currently sit above the Spurs in the standings.

TUESDAY, DEC 23 College football (5-8:30 p.m., ESPN): Two of the best mid-major programs collide in a bowl game as Northern Illinois out of the MAC takes on Marshall out of C-USA.

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I don’t follow the Cowboys closely, but the school and head coach Mike Gundy put out a strong statement. I’m sure attitudes are changing in the wake of the NFL’s domestic-violence problems, but most colleges are tight-knit and don’t change as fast. Just look at the FSU fanbase over Winston. Maybe Oklahoma State and Gundy will lead a change in college football. It doesn’t mean they haven’t made mistakes in the past, but they are doing the right thing now.

Finally, as terrible as this season has been at times, the New Orleans Saints are still in the playoff hunt after beating Chicago Dec. 15. If the team beats Atlanta and Tampa Bay, it wins the NFC South and finish with an 8-8 record.

A loss to the Bears Monday night wouldn’t have killed the Saints, though.

If they lost, they would have had to win their final two games and the Carolina Panthers would have needed to lose one of their final two games. The way the NFC South has been this season, I expect all four teams to find away to muck things up. No division has been as big of a dumpster fire as this one. It is like a train wreck, and I can’t look away.

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Mariota put up some insane stats.

He completed nearly 70 percent of his passes as he threw for 38 touchdowns and just two interceptions. He also rushed for 669 yards and 14 more scores. Last year’s Heisman winner, Jameis Winston, didn’t even get invited back to the ceremony this season. For once, it looked like the voters put being a decent person into a count this season. All three finalists— Amari Cooper, wide receiver from the University of Alabama, Melvin Gordon, running back out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Mariota—are three of the good guys in college football.

Winston proved time and time again that he isn’t a good guy in the sport.

Kudos to Oregon State University.

The Ducks’ rival took out an ad to congratulate Mariota on his Heisman win.

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