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or Monica Flippin Wynn, social media is not a distraction from her class; it provides useful tools for her students. As an assistant professor in the mass communications department at Jackson State University, Wynn uses the latest forms of communication to stay in touch with the younger generation.

Originally from Milwaukee, Wynn earned her master’s degree in communication from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

While in Milwaukee, she also worked as an assignment editor and weekend producer for television station WITI and then as a public relations assistant and assistant producer for radio station KS95 FM. She went on to work for Minneapolis TV station KARE as an assignment editor and assistant producer.

“I knew I wanted to be some place where people were always in the know,” she says. “I needed to be on top of things, and for me, that’s education, where things happen so quickly, or news, where you know everything.”

After spending years in media, Wynn reentered the world of academia to pursue her doctorate degree in communications at the University of Oklahoma. She took a break for about five years before returning to complete her degree, only to learn that many of her course credits were lost.

It was during the dissertation phase of her degree that she began teaching at Jackson State University in 2009. At the same time, she still had to complete her degree in Oklahoma.

Since Wynn began teaching at JSU, she has worked persistently to investigate and modify teaching techniques. In 2010, she attended the Global Inquiry Faculty Teaching Seminar, a month-long faculty-development institute where participants focus on improving teaching methods, materials and technologies in global platforms. Trainees who excelled were invited to participate in a four-year pilot study that encouraged teachers to find new teaching methods for incoming freshmen at their respective colleges. Fall 2015 will be the first semester to integrate the results of the study in regular courses.

“What we do is give them the tools that they’re going to need analytically,” she says.

“Technology in education is a new thing now. We don’t have to give up the traditional, but we’ve got to meet the students where they are, and they use (social media) tools.”

After a student told her, “Email is so archaic,” Wynn began using apps such as Twitter to communicate with her students.

She has used Instagram as an attendance tool and often tasks her students to make six-second Vine videos, challenging them to be concise.

This summer, Wynn will work with the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities, in a two-week summer institute and a two-year training program that begins in the fall.

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by R.L. Nave, News Editor

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few weeks ago, another American city erupted over another dead black body at the feet of men and women sworn to protect.

The Baltimore uprising was a near carbon copy of Ferguson last August: A black boy gone too soon; cops too brainwashed to see the humanity of the population they serve; outrage from black folks; outrage from white folks over black folks’ outrage; lies (and laziness) from the mainstream media about peaceful protests turning violent, like gentle pets turned mad dogs; arguments between strangers about right and wrong; arguments between friends about respectability; us versus them.

While Baltimore burned, Mississippi smoldered.

As people and mainstream-media pundits policed the respectability of protesters and wept for the loss of convenience stores in Baltimore, just as many did a year ago in Ferguson, the federal government brought to a close its largest ever prosecution under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The law passed and took effect in 2009 after being tied up in Congress for almost a decade and only after a black president briefly had Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate.

The crimes for which 10 young white men and women were charged and convicted of four years later are unnerving, like the plot of a movie a middle-school teacher might show her class about how bad racism used to be. Basically, over the course of several months, the defendants assaulted poor and homeless black people for kicks until they got bored enough with throwing beer bottles and found one to kill: James Craig Anderson, on June 26, 2011.

At the time, I was living in Boulder, Colo., and had just applied for a reporter position here at the Jackson Free Press. I had a difficult time wrapping my mind around

the fact that it happened in Jackson in 2011.

As a kid, my family often visited relatives in Raymond so I thought I had a good grasp on the nuances of race relations. Mississippi isn’t racist, and racism in Mississippi is complicated. It just seemed unlikely that a group of white kids from the suburbs had the gall to get in their trucks, drive all the way to Jackson and kill an African American.

I guess I don’t know as much as I thought. As the feds announced the indict-

“Equality and progress can’t just mean taking the same broken system and applying it to white people.� ments in the case, several members of the group—eight men and two women, most of them from Rankin County—stayed out of jail on bond. In the meantime, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, John Crawford, Ezell Ford, Walter Scott, Tanisha Anderson, Miriam Carey, Freddie Gray and others were all killed after meeting the wrong cop(s) on the wrong day.

In sentencing three of the co-defendants earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, the second African American appointed to the federal bench in Mississippi, read a speech that NPR published online.

In the speech, Reeves said the sentences wouldn’t bring back Anderson or restore the humanity of the defendants. “James Anderson’s mother, who is now 89 years old, lived through the horrors of the Old Mississippi, and the court hopes that she

and her family can find peace in knowing that with these sentences, in the New Mississippi, justice is truly blind,� Reeves said.

A lot of people also say justice was served in the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man whose severed spine was the apparent result of negligence on the part of the officers who arrested him. In that city, following days of unrest, six officers were charged with his death. The prosecutions are surprising and, for many, a welcome twist in these now all-too-familiar stories. Finally, we might see justice and some semblance of peace.

Many rejoiced. I did not.

A couple months ago, I was in Judge Reeves’ courtroom covering a federal class-action lawsuit over conditions at the infamous Walnut Grove Correctional Facility in Leake County. Two prisoners attended the hearing as representatives of the plaintiff class. One of them was a black man who had an associate’s degree in nursing. The other prisoner was white and a former law-enforcement officer.

Despite the differences in their backgrounds, the men and their fellow inmates, as army buddies might say, were all in the sh*t together. After covering these court cases, reading narratives of prisoners in lawsuits and talking to lawyers, experts and advocates about our mess of a criminal-justice system, I can’t rejoice in any human being’s subjugation to it. Of course, there is a role for police, courts, jails and prisons, but my discomfort has more to do with the fact that as a nation, we don’t give much thought on what to do next.

As a nation, we have perfected punishment. That’s one of the many reasons outrage trolling over black-on-black crime falls on deaf ears. If there’s one thing we do well, it’s locking up black people. In fact, we have the most incarcerated citizens on the planet, a disproportionate number of them poor whites and nonwhites. Now, even our school districts have police forces (see page 6), sup-

ported with funding the state is all too happy to provide, even as our lawmakers scrimp on funding everything else for schools.

But is punishment justice? The cop (or neighborhood-watch volunteer) shoots the kid who mouths off or runs away. We lock up the criminal. Maybe we charge the rogue cop. We spank the disobedient child. We kick the bad kids out of school. Then what?

What we get is a never-ending cycle of violence and sadness, long after the so-called threat is ostensibly neutralized. What we get is damaged people. And if we’re being honest with ourselves, we have to recognize that even white officers who kill unarmed black teenagers are every bit as damaged as the so-called thugs they think need discipline in their lives.

As angry as I am about the actions of those young whites from Rankin County that ended Anderson’s life, I’m just as uncomfortable branding those young adults as white thugs as I am with the silly idea that Mike Brown was a thug who “deserved� to be shot and killed by Darren Wilson. I was as ambivalent about the St. Louis County grand jury’s refusal to indict Wilson as I was about the destruction of the gas station blocks from where my grandmother sleeps.

An attorney friend put it best when she told me that equality and progress can’t just mean taking the same broken system that victimizes black and brown folks and applying it to white people.

Judge Reeves took an oath to follow the rule of law, which sometimes means punishing people for crimes they commit, an oath he upheld in sentencing defendants in the James Anderson case to prison terms. Reeves said, and I agree with him, that Mississippi has a present and a future. That present and future has promise. Now, we just need to figure out what we want that future to be.

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Wednesday, May 6 Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan rescinds the state of emergency he declared in response to riots in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray and says all 3,000 National Guardsmen and 1,000 state police deployed to the city have been pulled out.

Defining Effective School Discipline in JPS

Thursday, May 7 A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the NSA’s phone data collection program is not legally justified under Section 215 of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. ‌ The U.S. Senate votes 98-1 in favor of legislation that would let Congress review and possibly reject any final deal the United States makes with Iran in a historic accord under which the country would roll back its nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

n May 6, Jackson Public Schools Federation of Teachers, a labor organization, Todd Allen, who teaches history at seemed to be suffering from a unveiled their own report, titled “Reclaim- Wingfield and is a member of JFT, besplit personality. ing the Promise of Great Public Schools.� lieves JPS’ reaction to the school-to-prison That morning, at Wingfield The report grew out of a questionnaire pipeline phenomenon, where kids who get High School in south Jackson, pushed out of school end up in the education advocates and school ofcriminal-justice system, was a “penficials hailed the school for lowering dulum swing—from over-policing discipline problems by 94 percent to under-policing.� between 2013 and 2014 without “I just don’t think there was a kicking students out of school. major revival that caused 90 percent Meanwhile, JPS officials have also of students to improve their behavbeamed about a decrease of 1,000 ior,� Allen said during the city hall discipline incidents across the dispress conference. trict between last year and the current one.

Defining Effective “Suspensions and expulsions As Allen pointed out, school don’t work. They’re coming back, discipline has come into sharp foand they’re coming back behind,� cus in Mississippi and around the Willie Killins Jr., Wingfield’s princination in recent years. pal, told reporters seated at desks in In 2013, the Washington, a second-floor classroom, referring D.C.-based Advanced Project said to the students who get kicked out. the state was “mired in an extreme A report titled “Classmates Allysha Patrick, who teaches at Capital City school discipline crisis.� In 2012, Not Cellmates� from the Missis- Alternative School, says she and other teachers are the U.S. Justice Department said sippi-based group “Fight Crime: unclear about the role of Jackson Public Schools’ Meridian was running one of the private police force when it comes to enforcing Invest in Kids� concluded that be- student discipline. worst school-to-prison pipelines cause kids who are not in school are in the nation. Also, in 2012, JPS more likely to interact with law enforcement, JFT circulated among teachers and staff settled with students whom district officials schools should come up with other ways to members in JPS that included narratives of regularly handcuffed as punishment for disrespond to less serious situations. unnamed workers who say they were threat- cipline issues.

The afternoon painted a much differ- ened, insulted and harassed by students. A On April 28, attorneys from the Adent picture of discipline in JPS, however. survey revealed that two-thirds of the 1,021 vancement Project filed a lawsuit against Seated in the chairs that city council mem- people who responded said their work envi- the DeSoto County School District, bers usually occupy, members of the Jackson ronment is out of control daily or weekly. challenging discipline policies that

Saturday, May 9 Hattiesburg police officers Benjamin Deen and Liquori Tate are shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. Authorities arrest four suspects in connection with the shooting.

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Friday, May 8 U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announces that the Justice Department will conduct a broad investigation into the Baltimore police force in search of law enforcement practices that are unconstitutional and violate civil rights. ‌ Thousands attend the funeral of slain New York Police Department Officer Brian Moore, calling for respect and understanding at a time when law enforcement is being deeply scrutinized.

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Classes JPS Should Teach

by JFP Staff If you’ve been following the Mississippi Legislature closely, you know that education is a hot-button issue right now. While we should talk about how properly funding Mississippi education, let’s talk about some of the classes local schools should add to their curricula.

Monday, May 11 The United States faces the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva for a second review of its rights record following the first in 2010.

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The teachers say that another ineffective tool is the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Positive Behaviors Interventions and Supports, or PBIS pro-

candy treatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and half said they hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t received any training in PBIS at all. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If this something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to be using, we need to be trained,â&#x20AC;? Rachel Mathieu, a first-year teacher, said.

Funding is a challenge for cash-strapped districts such as JPS, but some cities have found creative Supporting Teachers ways around funding shortfalls. and Students In Cincinnati, for example, police From the view of JFT memdecided to use all the money it bers, JPS should have a zero-tolerseized in drug raids on youth proance policy, at least when it comes grams. School districts in Broward to assault on staff members, and County, Fla., Oakland, Calif., there should be strict adherence Denver, Baltimore and Chicago to district policies and state law for entered into collaborative schoolcertain behaviors. discipline agreements with groups â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bullying, harassment, and such as the NAACP that recognize violent behavior are prevalent,â&#x20AC;? the the racial-justice issues inherent in JFT reportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authors write. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This the school-to-prison pipeline and affects both students and school seeks to address them head on. personnel, whom are subject to Those districts have seen the numdisrespectful language, behaviors, ;MPPMI /MPPMRW XLI TVMRGMTEP SJ ;MRKĂ&#x; IPH ,MKL 7GLSSP ber of suspensions decrease since physical assault, sexual harassment, says the school is seeing success in lowering its adopting the agreements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because threats and intimidation. Inaction RYQFIVW SJ HMWGMTPMRI MWWYIW MRGPYHMRK WYWTIRWMSRW thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this real issue of teacher supERH I\TYPWMSRW when these issues are reported is deport and teachers feeling like there humanizing, and cruel. The health may not be other options, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and safety of school personnel should be of gram, mandated in 2007. The idea behind when we see a highly punitive discipline critical importance to JPS. There must be PBIS is that all district personnel, including environment,â&#x20AC;? Robinson-Mock said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So consequences for students who demonstrate bus drivers, front-office support staff and top because (teachers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have) the resources such behavior.â&#x20AC;? administrators, would receive training on or the proper training to deal with outAnd the interventions that are in place how to reward students for good behavior bursts in class, suspensions become the are ineffective, the teachers said. JPS campus with praise or prizes, but JPS has not imple- only route.â&#x20AC;? enforcement, an internal police force the mented whole-school training.

She suggested that schools should district created in 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of about zero While Killins and the Fight Crime: In- also examine their security budgets to deschool districts to do soâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a way to deal vest in Kids group said PBIS is a key cog in termine whether resources can be freed up with discipline flare-ups without necessarily reducing suspensions, they, along with the and redirected to things like professional involving law enforcement right away.

JFT teachers, agree that PBIS is far from development. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t improve academâ&#x20AC;&#x153;The role of campus enforcement is perfect. In its survey, the JFT said only ics if we have a negative school climate something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not quite sure about,â&#x20AC;? about half its respondents believe PBIS is where kids are getting kicked out, where Allysha Patrick, who teaches at Capital effectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it works better with younger kids itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly punitive,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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disproportionately affect African American students. While African Americans make up 32 percent of the population in DeSoto schools, they make up 55 percent of suspensions, proof, according to the lawsuit, that the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policies â&#x20AC;&#x153;subject Black students to a different and more harmful standard of disciplineâ&#x20AC;? that echoes Jim Crow.

Similar lawsuits have been filed across the nation. The negative press theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve brought, combined with the high cost of fighting the lawsuits and the rising cost of incarcerating people, ushered in new approaches to school discipline.

In January 2014, a letter from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice advised elementary and high schools on how to address discipline issues without discriminating on the bases of race, ethnicity or national origin. In JPS, 23 percent of all black students received at least one out-of-school suspension between 2011 and 2012, according to the Classmates Not Cellmates report. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Successful programs may incorporate a wide range of strategies to reduce misbehavior and maintain a safe learning environment, including conflict resolution, restorative practices, counseling, and structured systems of positive interventions,â&#x20AC;? the letter states.

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McComb Educators Savor Small Victories While Wondering: Where Have all the Black Boys Gone?

by Andre Perry, The Hechinger Report

high school drop-out rate of 24.5 percent is more than 10 points higher than the state, where it is 13.9 percent.

example: In 2014, black students in Mississippi averaged just 16.5 on the ACT, compared with 20.8 for white students. The national average ANDRE PERRY

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CCOMB, Miss.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Monique Gilmore, who directs school and community relations for the McComb Public School District, enthusiastically greeted students at a school celebration last month, placing green Mardi Gras beads around their necks while proclaiming: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here comes another scholar star!â&#x20AC;?

Gilmore clapped and smiled as principals called out the names of top performers in this southwest Mississippi city of 14,000.

Parents snapped cell phone photos as if attending a concert of their favorite singer.

Throughout the ceremony, as primaryand middle-school students walked to the stage to receive recognition, the dominant presence of black boys in the lines was accentuated by their smiles as they returned to their seats with beads. But by the time McComb Superintendent Cederick Ellis called high-school seniors to the stage, not one black youth walked up.

The glaring gap was all too apparent.

Where had all the black boys gone?

There wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a single black male senior among the students who had maintained an A average for three consecutive nine-week periods. This absence provided another reminder of the failure of schools in Mississippi to improve the academic performance of black boys, despite last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts from the Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color, a Boston-based group with a mission to improve the social, emotional and academic development of boys and young men of color.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that progress hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been made: McComb High School moved from a grade of F to a C within the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accountability system last year. But the graduation rate at McComb High is still eight points less than the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s average of 74.5 percent. And its

McComb Superintendent Cederick Ellis untangles a studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medal from his beaded necklace. Ellis honored students who maintained an A average for three consecutive grading periods.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not yet known how many of the black males who entered McComb High School four years ago will cross the stage at graduation and pick up diplomas this month, but the most recent statistics provide a frightening glimpse of failure. Of the black males who entered high school in the 2007-2008 school year, according to the state, only 55 percent graduated or received a high school diploma, certificate of completion or a GED within five years, compared to 83 percent of white males.

McComb provides a close-up example of the stark disparities that remain in the educational performance of blacks and whites in Mississippi schools, which havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t outgrown a legacy of segregation and racism. One glaring

for all test takers last year was 21.

Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s black boys are also overrepresented in special education and are less likely to take college-level Advanced Placement tests. The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s persistent disparities are symptomatic of a national problem recognized by President Barack Obama, who in 2014 launched his â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Keeperâ&#x20AC;? initiative, which aims to improve outcomes for boys and young men of color.

In McComb, history has strongly influenced how schools serve blacks. The Civil Rights Movement and the end of legally sanctioned segregation met bitter and violent resistance from white groups in the county.

During a two-month period in the early 1960s, there was so much incendiary violence

against civil rights groups that McComb became known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the bombing capital of the world.â&#x20AC;? More than 50 years later, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five public schools remain segregated. Of the 2,743 students, 89.25 percent are black; just 8.6 percent are white. Meanwhile, the city itself is 31 percent white and 66 percent black, according to U.S. census data.

Many white parents send their children to the predominantly white North Pike School District, even though they live in McComb, said Ellis, the McComb school superintendent. North Pike is 66 percent white and 32 percent black. Other white families choose Parklane Academy, a private, predominately white K-12 Christian School, he said. North Pikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2013 graduation rate of 76 percent is almost two points higher than the state average and 10 points higher than McCombâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has been an out-migration of the haves,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ellis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody who thinks that another school system, because of the population they serve, can provide a better education than the McComb School District, they do that.â&#x20AC;?

A City in Transition Named after New Orleans railroad baron Henry Simpson McComb, this cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fortunes followed the rise and fall of the railroad. Like many small municipalities, McComb hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t replaced the industry that gave it a name.

Today, McComb moves along two distinct tracks, one black and the other white.

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‘One Superintendent at a Time’ Mississippi educator Rhea WilliamsBishop believes last June’s gathering in Jackson “elevated the conversation and raised valid questions about the significance of black male achievement,’’ and says she promotes

Outside Support Aware of the disparities, school leaders in McComb sought ways to help improve student performance and black male outcomes, in particular. Eventually, they decided to get in touch with COSEBOC, a membership organization that has become a leader in the education of black boys. McComb paid $3,500 to join the group.

COSEBOC held its first-ever national conference at Mississippi’s wJackson State University last June, gathering hundreds of experts from across the U.S. to attend workshops and discuss COSEBOC’s standards, Lakeivion Isaac, 17, carries a 4.11 GPA and placed third in the state championships in the which include ways to meet the needs discus throw. of black boys in everything from test preparation to curriculum and college enrollment. COSEBOC relies on specific tools, training and standards developed COSEBOC’s standards via her work as exin partnership with New York University’s ecutive director of the non-profit Center for Metropolitan Center for Urban Education.

Education Innovation, based in Jackson.

In 2009, under the leadership of thenStill, Williams-Bishop can’t point to any Superintendent Therese Palmertree, Mc- policy changes at the state level that resulted Comb became the first district in the state to from the gathering. And without the state’s adopt COSEBOC standards. endorsement, the most a district can do is “At first, the standards were a set of lofty encourage better teacher training. goals,” said David Bickham, the consultant In one effort to boost black male achievewith whom the McComb School District ment, the board of Alignment Jackson—a and COSEBOC contracted for $7,500. “It nonprofit that works with public schools in

Jackson—brought together university faculty, lawyers and other leaders to develop and form ninth-grade academies within each public high school in Jackson. The group identified the need to focus on ninth-grade students and created a plan to reorganize schools to help make that happen.

2012, made a difference in his life.

“I want people who know me to say ‘I went to school with the person who made that car,’’ said Isaac, an honor student who is on the superintendent’s advisory board.

Robert Lamkin, Isaac’s current prin-

“We want to set the stage of what our kids view being African American is…It’s only a matter of time before they break the top.”— Robert Lamkin, McComb High School principal.

Williams-Bishop said COSEBOC standards are being introduced in schools throughout Jackson via the district’s Cultural Competence/Relevance Committee, which she chairs.

Walker of COSEBOC sees this as progress.

“Of course policy change is the goal,” Walker said. “We’re just not there yet, but we have several district leaders at the table. We’re getting buy-in, one superintendent at a time.’’

Is Change Going to Come?

That might not be soon enough for Mississippi, which, along with Louisiana, has the highest proportion of young adults aged 16 to 19 who are considered “disconnected’’—they are not in school or working—according to the Kids Count Data Center, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

The report found that with 12 percent, Mississippi has some 22,000 disconnected youth. If all these youth were in the same school district, it would rank as the third largest district in the state.

That number is far too large, says Donna Harris, an independent researcher in Rochester, N.Y., whose work focuses on how students progress from kindergarten through 12th grade. “We need to look at how schools’ policies and practices push students out of schools,’’ Harris, a former faculty member at the University of Rochester Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development said. “It’s too easy for us to say it’s the parents and the kids that are causing the disappearance.”

Most people refer to students who leave school prematurely as dropouts. Harris says too many students are actually pushed out because they are bored, miss too many classes or lack social and emotional support.

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earn less than the U.S. average of $53,000, a gap that has existed for more than a decade.

Manufacturing remains the largest industry in Pike County, where McComb is located; the retail and service industries round out the main outlets of employment.

McComb has fought hard to improve its public schools. Some of the district’s progress stems from a concerted effort beginning in 2009 to boost its then-wanting graduation rate of 63 percent. Although numbers indicate that black achievement, overall, is significantly lower than white, the district decided to focus reform efforts specifically on the performance of black males.

The need for a focus on African American males remains. Overall, Mississippi’s black males graduated at a rate of just 51 percent for the 2012-2013 academic year, compared to 63 percent of white males, according to the Schott Foundation for Public Education, which, in a report titled “Black Lives Matter,” drew on multiple data sources to estimate and publish more complete graduation rates than those the state presented. The report also revealed huge discrepancies in black and white suspension rates: Some 17 percent of black students were suspended in Mississippi in 2012-2013, compared to just 7 percent of whites.

wasn’t until the district went through real training at the Jackson State gathering did they make real operational sense.”

School officials were shown ways to make the school environment more supportive of black boys, in a program that examined everything from guidance counseling and school culture to the cultural relevance of the curriculum.

In McComb, the COSEBOC guidelines are being introduced as the state’s principals and teachers are struggling to keep up with new academic and professional standards that seemingly change every year. The organization’s director, Ron Walker, believes the extra effort is worth it.

“While superintendents are held accountable to state academic standards, there should be additional standards that support boys of color,” Walker said. “Our standards raise different questions that may not be asked in the day-to-day curriculum.”

‘Dreams and Hopes’ Lakeivion Isaac, a junior track and field star at McComb High School who hopes to be an engineer, believes the training he got when he attended a COSEBOC conference in Durham, N.C., as an eighth grader in

cipal, credits COSEBOC with giving students a larger worldview. At the 2012 Durham conference and again at the 2014 event in Jackson, they had a chance to meet university presidents and top professionals, while attending seminars on college admission, he said.

“For Lakeivion, and the others who went, there was a newfound awareness of who they were as African American men,” Lamkin said. “You could tell their eyes were exposed to something much larger than what McComb has traditionally been.”

The impact of COSEBOC and its standards on students who attended the conference inspired Lamkin to create Men on the Move, a college exposure and mentoring program that takes students of varying academic abilities on college tours and also introduces them to local leaders in McComb. Some 62 McComb students are in the program now, he said.

The research is mixed on whether mentoring programs effectively keep students on track for graduation. However, Isaac, who is a member of Men on the Move, believes the program will help boys like him.

“It’s not normal that you’ll see black men in such leadership positions,” Isaac said. “It’s not tradition in McComb. It gave me dreams and hopes to do what they’re doing.”

James Brown, who was Isaac’s principal at Denman Junior High when he attended the Durham conference, said he would love more of his students to have the extra support and guidance COSEBOC training provided. “Lakeivion is the exception,” Brown said. “But he shouldn’t be.’’

Lamkin said he will stay focused on black boys and the obstacles they face, and keenly feels their absence from senior pictures of the district’s highest academic achievers.

“We want to set the stage of what our kids view being African American is,” he added, noting proudly that Isaac will graduate fourth in his class. “It’s only a matter of time before they break the top.”

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Johnnie: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the need gets great, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to activate.â&#x20AC;?

Charlie: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johnnie is right. Now is the time for common folk to see the light and stand up for their rights.â&#x20AC;?

Dudley: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cousins are talking in lawyer code again. Please translate, Cootie.â&#x20AC;?

Cootie: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Johnnie and Charlie are responding to the arrest of Freddie Gray and the actions that led to his death in Baltimore.â&#x20AC;?

Dudley: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope their response will not be like those who chose to riot and loot.â&#x20AC;?

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Why it Stinks: Bryant neednâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look much further than his home county of Rankinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;also home to most of the 10 white defendants accused of participating in the events that led up to the death of James Craig Anderson, who was blackâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to get a flavor of how far race relations have come. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, what is this nonsense about Mississippians being â&#x20AC;&#x153;better behavedâ&#x20AC;? than people in Baltimore? The underlying sentiment of Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remark seems to be that the power structure here has sufficiently crushed its citizens into submission. What Bryant doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize is that such crushing is the very thing that set Baltimore afire.

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s predicted, a sizable chunk of Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third-grade students failed the so-called third-grade reading gate test and may have to repeat the whole school year.

Roughly 15 percent of kids in the third grade might be held back if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t score better in two make-up exams in the coming weeks.

In Jackson Public Schools, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest urban school district, the numbers are even higher, nearly double the statewide average. It could have been worse; JPS was actually bracing to flunk two-fifths of all third graders.

The thinking behind the legislation, officially called the Literacy-Based Promotion Act and based on a similar plan Jeb Bush pushed when he was governor of Florida, was to invest in reading instruction during kindergarten through second grade. That way, by the time kids tested in third grade, only the students who needed the most reading help would be retained.

But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what happened. For one, the Legislature never provided schools the funds to hire enough literacy coaches. As a result, as JPS Superintendent Dr. Cedrick Gray told this paper, the district had to get creative in reallocating scarce resources to focus on preparing students for the test even though schools were not told ahead of time what the pass-fail score would be.

In other words, schools had to focus all their resources on the third grade. Now, JPS will have to use more resources to re-prep kids one or two more times. No matter what happens, however, third-grade classrooms will be larger in JPS and around the state come next year, and there will be no additional funding for it.

We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but wonder how few students would have failed the test had the state actually followed the lead of Florida (instead of just pretending to), which earmarked around $1 billion for its literacy program and focused on teaching reading in the earlier grades. We are certain that the numbers would have been miniscule had the Legislature followed the law for the past 17 years and provided schools adequate funding under MAEP. The state could redirect money taxpayers are shelling out on attorneys for the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawsuits: one to block a ballot initiative that would require adequate education funding, and one to close down the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only abortion clinic.

Meanwhile, in Florida, a Republican-led effort seeks to do away with the testing. A state Senate committee is reviewing the proposal. So maybe get rid of the tests altogether? If Gov. Bryant thought it was a good idea to follow Florida in implementing the third-grade gate, maybe he should follow the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s example and seriously rethink it.

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Categories for othering include gender identity, body type and size, race and skin tone, age, physical and mental ability, or any other trait that our culture might choose to exalt or demean.

As humankind, we have used othering to justify horrific behaviorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;waging war, enslaving people, committing genocide, or exploiting life, land and culture. Everyday, we label and judge others as snobs, thugs, jocks, princesses, sissies, and the list goes on.

Belonging implies safety, comfort and our highest aspiration: connection. We often describe this as our community, our tribe. But by definition, belonging can imply that there are others who fall outside our circle of safety and concern. For me, whenever I enter a situation, I scan the environment. Where are my people? Who do I know? Who looks and acts like me? If my scan yields a feeling of belonging, my body relaxes. If not, I tense up and other myself before anyone else can.

A few days ago, I attended a May Day celebration in the mountains of Tennessee. I arrived and began to sort and label the 500 people gathered there. I saw hippies of all ages dressed in festive, androgynous outfits with lean body types that years of yoga and vegan diets conditioned. I counted fewer than 20 people of color. Other than my two friends who invited me, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know a soul.

I had no rational reason to feel unsafe, but I did. I went into protective mode and othered myself, feeling frustrated, angry, dismissive and unsafe.

These feelings kept me on the margins, looking for an escape. I wanted to be left alone, and people accommodated that.

When night fell, I found a quiet place near the bonfire. Burt, an elderly man wearing a fringed leather vest and a sequined rainbow beanie, sat next to me. He was born and reared on this mountain, as were his ancestors four generations back. I spoke with him about othering and belonging, and he shared this story.

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by Sharon Lerner, The Hechinger Report

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The recently revamped Coahoma Agricultural High School, nicknamed Aggie, has a long history stretching back to 1924.

in graduation requirements, improved his chances of getting a diploma.

The percentage of students who graduate from Mississippi within four yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; 74.5 percent for the 2013-2014 school

â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are so far out, if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor weather or bad weather, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to put their children on buses.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Debbie Harrell, superintendent in George County, a rural district in Mississippi.

land a job that pays $25 an hour.

Jones also made sure that Bryant had multiple opportunities to score well on his ACT test, which, due to recent changes

year according to statistics from the Mississippi Department of Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too far below the national rate of 81 percent.

(The national number is for the 2012-13

school year.) But in some poorer districts, those numbers are far lower. Before the curriculum was revamped, the graduation rate at Coahoma Agricultural High School, or Aggie as locals know it, had dropped as low as 46 percent. And about three miles down the road from Aggie, the Coahoma County School District has a four-year graduation rate of 52 percentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;up from just 45 percent the year before, according to state data.

The Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal to increase the statewide graduation rate to 85 percent by the 2018-2019 school year has, in part, fueled Mississippi to work hard to keep students in school. In 2006, the state created an office of dropout prevention. And two years ago, the Legislature required the 109 districts that had graduation rates below 80 percent to come up with a plan for restructuring their dropout prevention effort. Since then,

districts have responded with everything from training to help teachers engage with disaffected students to updated curricula designed for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job market.

Although the dropout rate is a statewide issue, the problem is particularly acute in Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest areas, including the Delta, where graduation rates sometimes dip below 50 percent and educators face huge barriersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;among them, an entrenched mindset that school simply doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter.

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oahoma County, Miss.â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A few months back, DeAngelo Bryant, a 19-year-old senior at Coahoma Agricultural High School, was in danger of not graduating. He had failed the state subject-area test in U.S. History, which is required for graduation. And he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t entirely clear on the point of getting a diploma. Most of the people he grew up with in Jonestown, a small outpost outside Clarksdale, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have high school degrees. Even the ones with diplomas usually canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find good jobs.

But a series of events recently changed Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outlook.

One afternoon during football practice this fall, he noticed some men working near the field. They were welding, a teammate told him. Bryant watched the men at work and was intrigued. A few weeks later he told Angela Jones, an administrator at the high school, that he wanted to become a welder.

Jones recognized Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest as an opportunity to explain what can be a foreign concept in this poor region with scant job opportunities: School can actually lead to well-paying work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told him itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very lucrative field,â&#x20AC;? said Jones, who showed Bryant a path that began with graduating from high school and ended with a stable career in welding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I told him to get his certificate so he could become a journeyman and move on and make the top dollar with the union.â&#x20AC;?

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Compounded Circumstances The scarcity of resources, including the lack of potential corporate sponsors, is just one reason itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harder to prevent stuSHARON LERNER

other era. The Legislature planned to close it last July, and even the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s superintendent, Valmadge Towner, understood why. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just knew that the kids were not interested in school,â&#x20AC;? said Towner, who is also the president of Coahoma Community College, which shares a campus with the high school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had low community engagement (and) low staff engagement.â&#x20AC;?

Towner helped design a program that would make school more relevant to students in this poor, rural area. Set amidst vast fields, Aggie would return to its roots and teach about agriculture, which had long since faded from its curriculum. But this time, with classes such as agribusiness and agri-mechanics, students would be prepared for work in 21st-century agriculture.

The idea was to make schoolwork more hands-on and more fun while preparing students for a range of jobs.

Thus, on a recent Thursday, students in a food-science class that local chef Lee Craven taught were painting a banner they would hang at a local health fair behind food they had prepared. Students in the agriscience class learned about the economics of farming and planted a garden this year. Cravenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students recently used those turnips and other veggies to prepare a restaurant-worthy meal. Through its partnership with the community college, Aggie students can take other career-oriented courses, such as auto mechanics, medical billing and welding.

Shanika Lewis, a student in Clarksdaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ombudsman program, dropped out of school in seventh grade.

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National research shows that risk factors for dropping out include living in areas in which unemployment is high and the percentage of adults who hold high school diplomas is low, and living in lowincome, single-parent households. All are common situations in Mississippiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and throughout the country. Students in rural areas struggle with additional burdens, including attendance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are so far out, if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor weather or bad weather, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to put their children on buses,â&#x20AC;? Debbie Harrell, superintendent in the Southeastern rural district of George County, said.

A combination of these issues led Shanika Lewis of Clarksdale to drop out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because my household is allâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? Lewis said, her voice trailing off when she tried to explain why she left school in the seventh grade. After a pause, the former dropout, now 19, settled on the phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;just not right.â&#x20AC;? Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; uneven school attendance ended altogether after her grandmother, who had been caring for Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; younger siblings, had a stroke. While Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mother worked, the 12-year-old stayed home to care for her partially paralyzed grandmother and six younger siblings for the better part of two years.

Though she never returned to traditional school, Lewis is now enrolled in Ombudsman, an alternative program offered through the Clarksdale district. Seated in a large room alongside other former dropouts, Lewis has her own laptop and individualized lesson plan, which allow her to work at her own pace and help ease any embarrassment she might feel about being an older student.

While she continues to shoulder much of

Clarksdale Municipal School District Superintendent Dennis Dupree in front of the building that houses Clarksdaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ombudsman program.

the responsibility for caring for her grandmother and still struggles with absenteeism, Lewis is on track to earn a degree through the program. If she graduates, Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; success will not impact her districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduation rate: The Mississippi Department of Education will count her as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;completer,â&#x20AC;? a special category for students who are neither traditional graduates nor dropouts.

As in other districts, a considerable number of Clarksdale seniors dropped out because they repeatedly failed state subjectarea tests that, until recently, were a hardand-fast graduation requirement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They try and try, and eventually, they give up,â&#x20AC;? Dennis Dupree, the district superintendent, said. Dupree estimates about 35 students this year may not get their diplomas because of the tests. Statewide, 3,856 of 28,797 seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about 13 percentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are at risk of not graduating because they failed at least one of four tests, according to Department of Education data.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have parents who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the capacity to help the kids.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Devona Jones, dropout

Daunting Budgets The reinvention of Aggie is just one of the efforts the Department of Education is undertaking to boost graduation rates. The task is a daunting one, in part because, elsewhere in Mississippi, budget woes constrain efforts. Last year the Legislature provided the Office of Dropout Prevention only $800,000 to pay for programs that keep kids in schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;programs that can be expensive.

Many districts have struck up arrangements with local businesses to pay for some programs. At the comparatively wealthy Gulfport High School, for instance, NASA helps pay for a state-of-the art robotics lab where, on a recent Monday afternoon, members of the robotics team were excitedly inspecting bi-directional wheels for their new robot. And local hospitals team up with the school for a program in medical careers. In several coastal communities, including Pascagoula and Ocean Springs, Chevron funds Project Lead the Way, a science, technology, engineering and mathematics program that helps boost math test scores and post-high school outcomes.

Unfortunately, poorer regions, which tend to have both higher drop-out rates and less local industry, often have difficulty finding private money to support programs that help engage and retain students. Jean Massey, associate state superintendent at the Mississippi Department of Education, said the private funding in wealthier areas thankfully allows the state to allocate more of its public dollars to poorer regions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We may never get the Chevron that the coast has in the Delta,â&#x20AC;? Massey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if Chevron can support the coast, then we have additional dollars to support the Delta.â&#x20AC;?

SHARON LERNER

estimate. Dropping out costs students an additional $260,000 in lost earnings, taxes and productivity over their lifetimes when compared to high-school graduates, according to 2008 estimates from the Alliance for Excellent Education. In Mississippi, dropping out further narrows already slim employment options. The consequences of not graduating are particularly harsh for black males. According to a 2014 study that the Brookings Institution conducted, black male dropouts born in 1970 had an almost 70 percent chance of winding up in prison by their mid-30sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a rate thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three times that of white dropouts. By the time they were 30, black dropouts were more likely to be in prison than to be employed.

Two years ago, Aggie was on the brink of failure. The school, one of only two agricultural high schools remaining in the state, had begun to seem like a holdover from an-

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Getting on Track While the new testing policy is designed to help seniors, some districts focus on reaching children at risk of dropping out much earlier.

Such students can be reliably identified, based on academic performance, as early as eighth grade. According to 2006 research on dropout trends in Philadelphia that Robert Balfanz, a researcher based at Johns Hopkins University, conducted, more than threequarters of eighth graders who either fail math or English or miss more than five weeks of school go on to drop out.

The Star Academy, a program offered in George County and Lynchburg, just

DeAngelo Bryant, 19, plans to begin welding classes at Coahoma County Community College this summer.

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would no longer require seniors to pass all four subject-area tests in order to graduate.

Starting next school year, a combined minimum test score will be sufficient, even if students fail one or more of the individual tests. And by the following school year— 2016-2017—scores on standardized tests in algebra, biology, English and U.S. history will constitute only one quarter of a student’s final grade.

This year, for the first time, students who don’t pass the subject-area tests may be allowed to graduate based on a combination of their overall course grades in these subjects with their test scores. In Coahoma County, this means 10 of about 60 seniors who were at risk of failure may graduate, according to Coahoma County School District Superintendent Pauline Rhodes. Last year, the decision to allow ACT scores to be factored into graduation requirements, which paved the way for Aggie’s DeAngelo Bryant to get his diploma, helped boost Coahoma County’s graduation rate from 45 to 51 percent.

Between the district’s own efforts, which include putting a school counselor in charge of dropout prevention, and the changes in graduation requirements, Rhodes is hopeful Coahoma County’s graduation rate for this school year may climb as high as 61 percent.

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Students participate in a medical careers class at Gulfport High School, which local hospitals partially fund.

south of Memphis, is designed to catch ing Kids’ Hearts, for instance, a training experienced the value of education. such lagging students. This school year, program that includes an intense three-day “It’s a vicious cycle,” Devona Jones, Star, which the for-profit company Pitsco workshop for school staff, is designed to the dropout-prevention coordinator for operates, enrolled 150 students entering strengthen the student/teacher bond, a con- the Coahoma County school district, eighth grade who had been held back at nection that has been shown to help keep said. “We have parents who don’t have least once and gave them the opportunity students in school. The program, which the the capacity to help the kids. They don’t to do the condensed coursework of eighth for-profit group Flippen Education offers, see the necessity of going.” and ninth grades in a single year. So far, encourages staff to engage students through A few miles away in Clarksdale, School most Star students in both districts are ex- such basic social niceties as eye contact, Resource Officer Earnest Moore sees such pected to enter their traditional families every day. Moore, high schools as 10th graders. one of five school officers that In the coming school year, two the district employs, visits the additional districts will likely homes of students who are create Star academies. absent for more than five days But, to make a substantial without an explanation. In his increase in the graduation rate, daily rounds, he has heard just change will have to start earlier about every excuse for not makthan eighth grade, Massey said. ing it to school, from parents “They need to start in elnot having a babysitter (and ementary school getting kids thus calling an older sibling thinking about what they want into service) to oversleeping. to do and why they should stay Moore reminds parents in school,” she said. “It’s not that the failure to send their just learning about careers. It’s children to school could—at learning why they’re necessary. least technically—result in “We have parents who don’t have the capacity to help It’s, ‘If my buddies are dropthe suspension of their public the kids,” Devona Jones (above), dropout prevention ping out of school, how do I benefits. A few years back, aucoordinator for the Coahoma County School District, said. stay on track?’” thorities here withheld checks If Massey’s prescribed from parents whose children solution amounts to cultural were truant, and Clarksdale’s change, that fits with experts’ school district office was soon understanding that in order to get at the handshakes, and pre-class fist bumps. “flooded” with parents who wanted to roots of the dropout problem, change “It (has) connected teachers to kids re-enroll children who had dropped out, must extend far beyond schools. About in a more civilized, caring, empathetic according to Dupree. two-thirds of the risk factors for drop- way,” Perry Swindall said of the program.

But that provision of the law is no ping out of high school are related to in- Swindall, who teaches physical education longer enforced. So Moore goes to great dividual students, their families and their and coaches at Oxford Middle School, lengths to help keep kids in school, supcommunities, according to Addis of the National Dropout Prevention Center and Network. “The school systems can’t “We don’t turn our backs because you’re 19 or 20 years old. do this alone,” he said. … I’ll go to their house and say, ‘If you’re not coming back Some Mississippi schools are attemptto school, enroll in GED.’” ing to address the more nebulous social issues that underlie school failure. Captur—Earnest Moore, Clarksdale, Mississippi, school resource officer. feels the more respectful relationships the program has fostered benefit students and teachers alike.

“That teacher has a harder time raising her voice or losing her temper with someone that there’s a connection to,” Swindall said. “And students have a harder time misbehaving when there’s a personal connection with that teacher.”

Oxford, a university town with a higher than average graduation rate of 88 percent, is one of the luckier districts when it comes to a critical resource for dropout prevention: role models—lots of parents who not only graduated high school, but went on to college and a career. In many parts of the state, adults who can demonstrate and speak firsthand to the benefits of a high-school diploma are in short supply.

In Coahoma County, for instance, where per capita income is less than $16,000 a year, many students who drop out have parents who didn’t graduate—and thus haven’t

plying rides to school, alarm clocks, clean clothes and plenty of encouragement— even to those who can no longer attend traditional high school.

“We don’t turn our backs because you’re 19 or 20 years old,” Moore said. “I’ll go to their house and say, ‘If you’re not coming back to school, enroll in GED.’” The important thing, he said, is not to give up.

Back at Aggie, DeAngelo Bryant is seeing his persistence pay off. Bryant recently scored a 30 on the ACT reading test, which, through the state’s recently amended requirements, secured his graduation. Now, he said, he’s excited not just “to walk,” but to start preparing for his career. He’ll begin welding classes at Coahoma Community College this summer.

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more at hechingerreport.org.

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bread in a muffin pan creates little cups, which makes the dish easier to serve.

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it into the muffin pan. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until the bread is a little crisp. Once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done, let the cups cool in the pan for two to three minutes before removing.

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chivalry seems to evade many who are out there in the wild. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking charge in a gentlemanly way, and then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking IMANI KHAYYAM

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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all for chivalry. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just put that out there. Sure, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m physically capable of opening a door for myself, carrying groceries to my car or even killing the occasional spider, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also really nice if a gentleman wants to do it for me.

Same goes for other traditional rules of manners, like when walking two-abreast on the sidewalk, a gentleman walks on the side closer to the street, orâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and for some reason, this one gets contentious sometimesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the gentleman orders for the table. Some women get all, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can order for myself,â&#x20AC;? but I like that rule. Note, I did not say that my date decides what I can, should, or will eat and drink. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun that we know each other so well that often, we can guess what the other would choose on a menu. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely a matter of me letting him know what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like, and then he orders for both of us. Emily Post and Gloria Vanderbilt would want it that way. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just nice.

I firmly believe manners are ultimately about being gracious and courteous and making others comfortable. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not about being bossy or controlling or making others feel inferior. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a distinct difference. Unfortunately, when I observe people out and about, the concept of manners and

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charge and being a jerk.

As it so happens, observing people is one of my favorite pastimes. I think you can learn a lot from just watching others and their social interactions. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one reason I like sitting at the bar in restaurants, as opposed to

a table. (Other reasons to bar-sit include the attention you get from the bartender and, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re with your significant other, the ability to cozy up without being the weird couple who sits on the same side of the table.) When you people-watch, you also see mannersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or lack thereofâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in action.

One recent night out, my man and I found ourselves bar-sitting at a hip neighborhood restaurant, enjoying a good meal.

While we wined, dined, and chatted, I kept noticing the couple on a date a few seats away. The fellow seemed more interested in his phone than his lady-friend, which was unfortunate, but, sadly, not unusual for the times we live in. Heck, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m as guilty as anyone else of that on occasion, so it was a good reminder to put the phone up and pay attention to the person I was with.

But then, my date, who was closer to the couple than I, did a double-take and nudged me with a, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Did you just hear that?â&#x20AC;?

I had not, so I perked up. When I did, I was horrified. I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If this is what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like out there in the dating game these days, then chivalry is, in fact, dead.â&#x20AC;?

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what happened: The fellow looked at the ticket for their meal, called the bartender over and told him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t autho-

rize these two drinks (of the ladyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s), so youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to need to separate those.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right. He made her pay for the drinks that he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;authorized.â&#x20AC;? Now, being a fan of reality television, I know that Patti Stanger, the Millionaire Matchmaker, has a two-drink maximum rule on dates, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so the daters keep their wits about them; I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it means if your date goes over two drinks, you refuse to pay for them.

I also understand being on a budget.

But perhaps if two drinks can throw you off, you should have suggested a different date altogether. This was not a case of, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, let me order your drink for you.â&#x20AC;? This was about control. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the opposite of manners, really.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what happened to this couple. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what the bartender thought when the man asked him to split off those beverages. And I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who else out there has encountered such behavior while navigating dating adventures. I can only hope such incidents are few and far between. In the meantime, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all at least try and learn from things like this. Put the phones down and pay attention to the folks youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re with, and by all means, buy the lady a drink.

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The Jackson 2000 May Luncheon is 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Rob Hill, state director of the Human Rights Campaign in Mississippi, talks about the LGBT equality in the state. Attire is casual or business casual.

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SUNDAY 5/17

American Craft Beer Week: Mark’s Lemonade & Shandy Stand and Seafood Boil is noon at Saltine Oyster Bar (622 Duling Ave., Suite 201). The event closes out a week-long celebration of craft beer with special events, limited-release drafts, pairings and more, which runs May 11-16 at 5 p.m. and May 17 at noon. Visit the website for a schedule. Free admission, food prices vary; call 601-982-2899; saltinerestaurant.com. … K.Marsh II’s Made for a Runway III Fashion Show is 6:15-10 p.m. at Union Station (300 W. Capitol St.).

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TUESDAY 5/19

Friends Fest is 9 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). The open house includes guided tours, programs and more. Free; call 601-8567546; craftsmensguildofms.org. … Meet the Candidates Forum: Hinds County Tax Collector is 5:30 p.m. at Koinonia Coffee House (136 S. Adams St., Suite C). Women for Progress of Mississippi hosts. Speakers include incumbent Eddie Fair and challenger Santore Bracey. Free; call 601-259-6770; email mail@womenforprogress.net; womenforprogress.net.

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History Is Lunch is noon at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building (200 North St.). Mississippi First Lady Elise Winter discusses her book, “Once in a Lifetime: Reflections of a Mississippi First Lady.” Sales and signing to follow. Free; call 601-576-6998.

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The annual mental health conference includes presentations, workshops and more. Registration required. $50, $45 NAMI members, $20 consumers and students, $100 professionals (includes CE credits); call 601-899-9058; email nami conference@namims.org; namims.org.

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1 Million Cups Jackson Wednesdays, 9-10 a.m. through June 24, at The Hatch (126 Keener Ave.).

The purpose of the weekly program to engage, educate and connect local entrepreneurs. Free; jackson.sites.1millioncups.com.

+)$3 Question It? Discover It! Saturday May 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum (2145 Highland Drive). Dr. Ann Yates and a team from Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of Mississippi, part of UMMC, give a presentation about protection from pollen and flowers during allergy season with fun activities for children.

Included with admission ($10, children under 12 months and members free); call 601-9819469; mississippichildrensmuseum.com.

Dragon Boat Regatta May 16, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Old Trace Park (Post Road, Ridgeland). The Madison County Chamber of Commerce hosts the annual race. Spectators enjoy food and a kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; zone. An awards ceremony and after-party follows. Teams must register. Teams: $1,500, $1,200 chamber members and community teams; free for spectators; call 601-605-2554; email jodi@madisoncountychamber.com; paddlesontherez.com. >}Â&#x2DC;Â&#x153;Â?Â&#x2C6;>Ă&#x160;,Â&#x153;Â?Â?iĂ&#x20AC;Ă&#x160;6Â&#x2C6;Ă?iÂ&#x2DC;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160;,Â&#x153;Â?Â?iĂ&#x20AC;Ă&#x160; iĂ&#x20AC;LĂ&#x17E;Ă&#x160;May 16, 7 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The team takes on the Mississippi Rollergirls. Doors open at 6 p.m. Discounts for active military members and vets for Armed Forces Day. After party at Kemistry Sports Bar. $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 with a military ID; call 960-2321; magnoliarollervixens.org.

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Cheers for a Cause May 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Greater Jackson Arts Council (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Includes art and craft vendors, a silent auction, wine and refreshments from Fan-tasy Food Catering. Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence. For ages 21 and up. $30 in advance, $35 at the door; call 601-9408853 or 601-502-3241; email eventsbyeei@ gmail.com; eventbrite.com.

Dine and Dash May 16, 1-5 p.m., at Capitol Street from The Elite to The Mayflower.

The Downtown Business Association is the host. Includes free food from downtown restaurants, face painting and live entertainment. Free; call 601-589-0941; email dbajxn@gmail.com.

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Write to Change the World June 6, 12:30-3 p.m., at Jackson Free Press (125 S. Congress St., Suite 1324). Learn to write sparkling stories that can change your life and the world around you in Donna Laddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s non-fiction writing classes. Meets six Saturdays through early August. Classes recorded if you need to miss any meeting. $350, includes snacks and materials; call 601.362.6121 ext. 15; email class@ writingtochange.com; writingtochange.com. ÂŁÂŁĂ&#x152;Â&#x2026;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2DC;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x2022;>Â?Ă&#x160; *Ă&#x160; Â&#x2026;Â&#x2C6;VÂ&#x17D;Ă&#x160; >Â?Â?Ă&#x160;July 18, at Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (200 S. Commerce St.). The annual event to combat domestic violence includes food, door prizes, a silent auction, poetry and live music. Seeking sponsors, auction items and volunteers. Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence. For ages 18 and up. $5; call 601-362-6121 ext. 16; email natalie@jacksonfreepress.com; jfpchickball.com.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Murder in Tightsâ&#x20AC;? Dinner Theater May 18, 7 p.m., at Georgia Blue (111 Colony Crossing, Madison). Mississippi Murder Mysteries presents the family-friendly show set in a senior daycare center for superheroes. Includes a three-course dinner. RSVP. $44; call 601-850-2318; email fringedinnertheatre@gmail.com; fringedinner theatre.com.

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RSVP. $90; call 601-982-8111; email tanyab@ bravobuzz.com; bravobuzz.com.

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488-0184; email krdougan@gmail.com; mcsb.us. Â&#x2C6;`viĂ&#x192;Ă&#x152;Ă&#x160;Ă&#x201C;ä£xĂ&#x160;May 16, 3-8 p.m., at Wesley Avenue (Wesley Avenue). The Business Association of Midtown hosts. Shop for art and crafts, buy concessions and enjoy live music from Cody Wynne Cox, Dream Cult, Savvy, 7even:Thirty, Empty Atlas and DJ Java. Includes business and studio tours and workshops. Free; call 404-536-1793; email astinjs@gmail.com; madeinmidtownjxn. com.

Livingston LIVE May 16, 5 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). Performers include the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Steve Earle & the Dukes, and Anders Osbourne. $30; call 601292-7121; ardenland.net.

Shipwreck Concert May 16, 8-11 p.m., at Hal & Malâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (200 Commerce St.). Maranda J hosts.

Performers include Akami Graham and the Key of G, and Larry Johnson and Beasty Tunes. $15, $50 table for two, $80 table of four; call 948-0888; email akamiandthekeyofg@gmail.com.

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Sarah Frances Hardy signs books. $14.99 book; call 601-366-7619; email info@lemuriabooks. com; lemuriabooks.com.

#2%!4)6% #,!33%3 Afro-Cuban Music and Dance Traditions Class May 20, 6:15-7:15 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). Learn the basics of dances such as the Mambo and the Cha Cha, and about Latin music itself. Classes held Wednesdays through June 17. Registration required. $90; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu/conted.

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"% 4(% #(!.'% Making Strides Mother-Daughter Tea Party May 16, 2 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Includes refreshments, music, door prizes, lookalike and best-dressed contests, and a fashion show. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

Attendees receive a free photograph. $25 individual tickets, $50 per mother-daughter couple plus $15 per additional guest; call 601-321-5500; makingstrideswalk.org/mdteajackson. Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;Ă&#x192;Ă&#x192;Â&#x2C6;ÂŤÂŤÂ&#x2C6;Ă&#x160; Â&#x2026;Â&#x2C6;Â?`Ă&#x20AC;iÂ&#x2DC;½Ă&#x192;Ă&#x160; Â&#x153;Â&#x201C;iĂ&#x160;-iĂ&#x20AC;Ă&#x203A;Â&#x2C6;ViĂ&#x192;½Ă&#x160; Â&#x2DC;Â&#x2DC;Ă&#x2022;>Â?Ă&#x160; Wine Tasting and Silent Auction May 16, 7-9:30 p.m., at Eastover (location given after ticket purchase). The fundraiser includes wine, food and live music. For ages 21 and up. $100; call 769777-1010; email kym.williams@mchscares.org; mchscares.org.

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

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der his arms are a downed bottle of whiskey and a loaded rifle—one he means to use to finally bag a Bigfoot. But before any of that story can be told, writer and director Michael Brouphy has lots of work to do.

Brouphy, who moved to Brandon from New Orleans about eight years ago, began working on the script for his upcoming film, “Tsaaloh Expedition,” in 2013. His wife, Roxy, is a fan of all things paranormal, from ghosts to mythical beasts. Her passion for these wondrous mysteries inspired him to write a screenplay.

“It was just going to be real small, just me shooting it, and the people I told about it, they were like, ‘No, go bigger, go bigger,’” he says. “It’s just kind of grown, and now we’re here.”

Now, Brouphy has fully scripted the movie and brought together a cast, which includes Baton Rouge-based actress Heaven Needham (“Salem” and “American Horror Story”) as Clover; Oxford, Miss., native Johnny McPhail (“True Detective”) as Jackson; and Clinton native Josh Clark as Jackson’s right-hand man.

If Clark, who has never been in a film

before, seems like an odd choice for the film, you underestimate the power of Internet fame. Clark has become a social-media celebrity as one of the first users to download the application Vine. He has 1.5 million followers and more than 250 million loops on the app. At the suggestion of the film’s producer Joshua Powell, who also plays the missing Earnest Clover, Brouphy reached out to Clark for a meeting in March.

“We took a picture outside of Cups at one of our first meetings, and he posted it to his Instagram. Within 20 minutes, one of my friends from Mobile, (Ala.) texted me and was like, ‘Dude, you’re hanging out with Josh Clark?’ That made me realize the power he has in his hands with an iPhone,” Brouphy says. “… That gets to people a lot quicker. Unless you’re an A-list actor, he’s almost more valuable than any local actor as far as getting the word out there.”

The project needs as much buzz as possible. During the natural progression of writing the story, Brouphy’s small, selfshot film grew into what he hopes will be a contender at major film festivals. In September, he brought on David Matthews of Ridgeland media company Mad Genius as his director of photography. And, to offset some of the cost, Brouphy turned to crowd-funding. It wasn’t a sudden choice.

“I’ve been working on the whole Kickstarter thing since December or late November,” Brouphy says. “It’s not really something you can kind of set up in a week and (then do it). … Kickstarter is an art. In the last couple of years, people have really figured out what works and what doesn’t, down to how you ask people for money.”

The campaign, which began April 29, has a $10,000 goal, which should cover most of the actual filming. After that, the movie still requires editing, coloring, sound design, score composition and recording, which all has to be completed by September so that “Tsaaloh Expedition” can be eligible for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. With some 13,000 other submissions, it’s a long shot, so why put in so much time, money and effort into “Tsaaloh Expedition”?

“I think it goes back to the whole reason I wrote it,” Brouphy says. “It just kind of embodies my wife and our love for these creatures and … anything that keeps you wondering. It’s like, do you ever really want Bigfoot to become absolutely real? I wonder how much you’d lose from the whole fun of Bigfoot if it was just like, ‘All right, here he is,’ and now they’re studying him. I think, to keep it in this just-out-of-reach state. I think that’s one of the big reasons I like this.”

For more information, find “Tsaaloh Expedition” on Kickstarter.com through May 28.

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akin to Chuck Berry. It prepares you for the rest of the album: fun, bluesy, edgy vocals from Howard and songs reminiscent of the early days of rock ‘n’ roll.

“Sound & Color” begins on a slower, soulful note. The trembling tone of an organ replaces the straightforward keys, and in the background, you can hear strings. In “Hold On,” Howard sings about future possibilities and her impatience to get to a destination.

“Sound and Color” seems to be a follow-up to that song. In it, she sings about exploring a new world in all of its beauty and darkness: “Sound and color. This life ain’t like a book.”

The title track rolls into “Don’t Wanna Fight,” which sounds like a hard-rock version of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.” Its bass line thunders while Howard repeats, “I don’t wanna fight no more.” The song is the lyrical opposite to “Sound and Color.” Here, Howard is trying to fix a relationship, and she laments about how hard life can be. I understand her in this song because sometimes I, too, have problems with being an adult and dealing with grownup stresses.

I think my favorite track on “Sound & Color” is “Future People.” I connect more with this song than others because it centers on self-discovAlabama Shakes’ new album, “Sound & Color,” ery. “Some want to see those which came out April 21, offers a fresh take on who’ve gone above, friends old-style rock ‘n’ roll. they’ve lost, people they love.

I’d rather meet freedom than a few more listens to the band’s first album, roam, to lead me through the fog,” How“Boys & Girls.” The music began to sound ard sings, though it’s ridiculously hard to like a soulful version of Kings of Leon, with understand the lyrics with her high-pitched bluesy guitar riffs and, many times, key- delivery. The bassy, throbbing synthesizer boards driving the sound. It reminded me throughout the chorus electrifies the song. of summertime—the kind of music I want For many, the last track is also the last to listen to on long road trips with my win- chance to wow the listener, whether it’s updows down. For the band’s newest album, beat or gets down to the heart of what the “Sound & Color,” which hit stores April 21, album is trying to convey. “Over My Head” the band departed from that familiar sunny does the latter. It is the most soulful song on sound in favor of a darker one. Alabama “Sound & Color,” with its echoing organs Shakes kept most of its rock ‘n’ roll roots and swinging vocals and drums. intact but layered on heavier sounds—and Like “Boys & Girls,” it took a few times more than a little weirdness, such as the hol- listening to “Sound & Color” for me to like low sound of Mason jars clinking. it, but it’s now one of my favorites. The reListen to the opening songs on the cord shows how much Howard and the rest two albums back to back—“Hold On” of the band have progressed since their debut from “Boys & Girls” and the title track album. “Sound & Color” is a fresh take on from “Sound & Color”—and you’ll hear old-style rock ‘n’ roll, and though I’m not a a vast difference between the band’s fresh- huge fan of soul, Alabama Shakes’ rock-soul man and sophomore albums. “Hold On” fusion definitely works for me. opens with a slow, simple drumbeat, and Find “Sound & Color” by Alabama then Howard’s guitar kicks in with a sound Shakes on iTunes.

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(From left to right) Dan Joyner, Way Barrier, Jeremy Luckett, Murph Caicedo and J.D. Burns of Jackson metal band Naught perform Friday, May 15, at Big Sleepy’s.

from classic metal to ambient noise rock, often in the same song.

“Most bands, you can start out and say you want to have a particular sound as much as anything else,” Burns says. “…

At the end of the day, once you’re all in a room together, that’s when you can actually start getting a real feel for the sound that’s going to come out.”

While Naught has played relatively few shows, Caicedo says the music has been well received in Jackson, thus far, despite a few confused spectators.

“We’ve had people that are always there. We have people that see us for the first time and are really into it, and then we also have people who think it’s just really loud,” he says. “… There’s not a lot of heavier bands around, so because we’re kind of in a little spot of our own, I think some people are really into it, and some people are still scratching their heads, wondering what the hell we’re doing.”

The band released its debut recording, “The Witch EP,” on Bandcamp last August, and is hard at work on a second five-song EP. Naught recently recorded drum tracks at The Recording Studio (157 McKay Circle, Pearl, 769-234-2053), where Way’s brother, Deen Barrier, is an engineer. Way also assists with engineering and production for Naught’s music. The musicians’ mindsets toward recording differ from some artists.

They believe full-length albums are on the way out, and that the best way to bring in new fans and keep old ones happy is to always be recording. “The whole reason that LPs really came to be in the first place was to have a product to move a single that somebody felt justified dropping money on,” Joyner says. “I think it’s natural if you’re a fan of music to have new product as soon as possible, as often as possible.”

“That sounded like something right out of ‘Intro to Music Industry,’” Barrier says with a grin.

Naught performs 8 p.m. Friday, May 15, at Big Sleepy’s (208 W. Capitol St.). Admission is $5. Visit naughtms.bandcamp.com.

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They also paid close attention to what fans liked about those now-defunct bands. That knowledge became the basis of Naught.

“I think it’s a culmination of all the experiences we’ve had over the years,” guitarist Way Barrier says. “We’ve grown, and it’s not just the teenage mindset of ‘Let’s play fast.

Let’s play loud. Let’s play something that’s obscene.’ We’re more into the craftsmanship of songs and writing heavy music that’s not just for people that like heavy music.”

Each musician brings plenty of experience to the table, as well. Barrier played in Nashville-based metal band Destroy Destroy Destroy, lead vocalist Jeremy Luckett sang for the group Colossus, bassist Dan Joyner played with A Bullet Well Spent, and guitarist and vocalist J.D. Burns played with Delta Gun, The Greater States, and Coffin Breath, and he currently plays bass in Hvy Yeti. Drummer Murph Caicedo is a brand unto himself. He played with just about every Jackson band from Redneck Trucker to Spacewolf. “We could just spend the whole interview talking about all the bands Murph has played with,” Joyner says.

Prior to forming Naught, the members already knew each other, either from playing together or attending each other’s shows, but it was Luckett that brought them all into the fold, hoping to create a sound akin to Norwegian black-metal group Satyricon.

“I’m good friends with all these guys,” Luckett says. “I’ve known them for years, except for Way, who I met around (when the band formed), but it feels like I’ve known him forever. … It was just a random shot to see if something would work. And it did.”

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Legendary Alcorn State University basketball coach Dave Whitney passed away Sunday, May 10, at the age of 85. Whitney led the Braves to their first ever NCAA Tournament game win by a historically black college. The team also won 12 Southwestern Athletic Conference Championships under his leadership.

The Clinton High School girls track team won a third straight 6A State Championship behind junior Monica Mosleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state-record run in the 300-meter hurdles. The Pearl High School girls team claimed the 5A title, and the St. Andrews Episcopal School girls won the 3A class.

Hinds Community College baseball won the Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges State Championship with a 14-3 win over Northwest Community College. The Eagles set a school record with 41 wins and advanced to the Region 23 tournament, which begins Thursday, May 14, in Eunice, La. Millsaps College baseball received an at-large invite to the NCAA Tournament. The Majors (28-12) will play in the West regional in Tyler, Texas, Wednesday, May 13 through Monday, May 18.

The Mississippi High School Activities Association fast-pitch softball championships are May 15-16 at Freedom Ridge Park in Ridgeland. Madison Central High School will face Harrison Central High School in 6A. The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum will award the C-Spire Ferriss Trophy on Monday, May 18. The finalists include Scott Weathersby (University of Mississippi), Wes Rea (Mississippi State University), James McMahon (University of Southern Mississippi), Melvin Rodriguez (Jackson State University) and Keith Shumaker (Millsaps).

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hen the schedule came out for the second round of the NBA playoffs, I saw that the Memphis Grizzlies would host the Golden State Warriors on Saturday, May 9, at the FedExForum, and I decided to get tickets and make the trip an adventure of sorts.

I had never been to a Grizzlies game and hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t experienced the Memphis scene and nightlife as an adult. I also set out to explore the best Mississippi had to offer along the way. Some things were carefully planned while others just naturally happened. Most were fairly practical. The following is a chronological guide to the landmarks of a Mississippito-Memphis adventure.

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Dogwoods Golf Course (2424 Hugh White State Park Road, Grenada, 662-226-4123) This is the golfing gem of Mississippi. I had heard good things, but the PGAstyle layout blew me away. The natural scenery of the course makes it a knockout.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect immaculate conditions, but at $40 for a greens fee, which includes a cart, prepare for a surprisingly delightful and affordable golf outing on the way.

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Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dairy Kream (279 Sunset Drive, Grenada, 662-226-9884) I saw the long waiting line on the way to Dogwoods and made a note to stop on the way out. The shop didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t disappoint.

Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is one of those small-town Mississippi soda fountains you recognize instantly and never forget. I ordered the cheeseburger and a butterscotch milkshake and sat at my checkered-tablecloth booth, watching people of all walks populate this charming old spot.

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South Panola football billboards (town line of Batesville, Miss.)

Nothing symbolizes passion for highschool football in the South quite like gigantic billboards on the highway that announce the hometown team. Batesville has erected one on both sides of Interstate 55 for the 10-time state champions, the South Panola Tigers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a slice of Mississippi Americana.

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Aldoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza Pies (100 S. Main St., Suite 101, Memphis, Tenn., 901-577-7743) This was apparently a good downtown spot for value food and beer before the game.

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before a New Orleans Saints game. Tens of thousands of people milled around, carousing and eating. Street bands played, and people cleared spaces to dance and watch. Street vendors sold every imaginable form of gear, from shirts to towels to horns. All the while, the arena loomed yards away as the backdrop, welcoming fans to the battleground. It was a high point of the revelry.

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its roster of tough-minded players and a playing style that emphasizes defense and hustle over star power and skill. The organization aggressively markets the mindset that Memphis and its people are overlooked underdogs.

In turn, the fans connect with the team like few other professional cities and respond with deafening support that makes the FedExForum, also known to fans as the Grindhouse, one of the NBAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most energetic venues.

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Beale Street, part two (downtown Memphis, Tenn.)

The late-night vibe on Beale Street was decidedly different from the pre-game scene.

The anticipatory buzz of the free-flowing tailgating succumbed to a tightly packed, stand-and-see club feel. Lines of security guards replaced the rows of vendors around the crowd. There was simply no room for the festive street bands of the afternoon. Both were unique atmospheres that couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have felt more different.

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Earnestine & Hazelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (531 S. Main St., Memphis, Tenn., 901-523-9754) This 1930s establishment offered the jukebox feel for which Memphis is famous.

The venue has been everything from a pharmacy to a pay-by-the-hour hotel, and it still retains a dingy, accommodating atmosphere.

We took advantage of the hospitality with late-night burgers cooked right behind the bar. You can still go upstairs and view the old offices.

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Jake & Ripâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (1525 Sunset Drive, Grenada, 662-227-9955) If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a golfer like me, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want to hit Dogwoods again on the way back. But this time, stop and dine at Jake & Ripâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another charming small-town Mississippi spot, and the charisma of the worn wood and friendly servers will knock you over.

Just save a little room for another milkshake at Spencerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dairy Kream.

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he Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum will honor the best baseball player in our state on Monday, May 18. One of five nominees will receive the C Spire Wireless Ferriss Trophy, which is named after legendary player, coach and Hall of Famer David â&#x20AC;&#x153;Booâ&#x20AC;? Ferriss.

Mississippi has a rich baseball history, with our fair share of players who go on to have an impact in MLB. Our state has enjoyed great baseball in the college game at all levels in recent years. Jackson State University has reached a regional in the NCAA Baseball Tournament the last two seasons.

The University of Southern Mississippi reached the College World Series in 2009, Mississippi State University made it all the way to the 2013 Championship Series, losing the title to the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Mississippi reached the semifinals in the 2014 World Series before the University of Virginia knocked them out.

While college baseball may overshadow softball for some fans, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just as competitive and filled with great players.

Southern Miss reached the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College World Series in 1999 and 2000, and this year, Mississippi State, Mississippi Valley State University, Jackson State and Alcorn State University have all reached softball regionals.

Currently, Belhaven University softball is playing in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athleticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; regional in Alexandria, La., as the No. 3 seed, and Mississippi State faces Baylor University May 15 in the Division I NCAA Softball

Tournament. Delta State University reached the Division II NCAA Softball Tournament last season.

As you can see, Mississippi fields strong softball teams each season, as well. While the best baseball player gets honored with the Ferriss Trophy, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it time we also honor the best softball player in our state?

The solution is easy: When the best baseball player is honored, why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we honor the best softball player, too?

It could follow the same format as basketball. The best menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball player in the state receives the Howell Trophy, which is named after Hall of Famer Bailey Howell, and the top womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s player receives the Gillom Trophy, named after Hall of Famer Peggy Gillom.

Mississippi college softball already has a worthy player to name the award after: Courtney Blades-Rogers, a former pitcher at Southern Miss. She was the greatest softball player to play in any of the programs in this state and the only one inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.

Adding the Blades-Rogers Trophy would be a great way to honor the best softball player in state history and give the recognition to the current softball players. One day, I hope Rick Cleveland and the rest of his staff and board of directors at the Hall of Fame will make this happen.

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