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nik Kurkjian, who is the director of outreach and special projects for the Mississippi Museum of Art, clearly remembers the first time she met her husband, Drew Young. “We were at a dinner party in England, and I was making fun of him for being an American because I was a snobby Brit,” she says. She soon followed him to Mississippi, and the couple married in September 2014. Kurkjian claims to have been too much in love with him to notice the difference between England and Mississippi at first. But eventually, she says, “what constantly hit me, other than the heat— and it is so cliché—(was the) southern hospitality. Not to mention the light and colors here. “I went crazy with a camera at first,” she says. Kurkjian, 42, was born in England and moved around a lot, but calls Brighton home. She comes from an artistic family that enjoys music, and her parents were amateur photographers. Kurkjian is also a photographer and also paints and draws and does other art. She attended an English boarding school, King Edward’s School in Surrey, and after graduation, she traveled extensively and studied in China and other places. She has worked in areas such as films and theater, project management, event
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production, and marketing and public relations. In 2014, she received a bachelor’s degree in textile design from the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom. In November 2015 she started work at MMA as the designer and producer for the “Mapping a Modern Mississippi” initiative. This initiative highlights stories of Mississippians who “dared to differ” in their own small or large way to move Mississippi forward. “Mississippi can improve by recognizing the great things about the place,” she says. “… The people make up for any negative aspects of living here.” On Friday, Nov. 4, Kurkjian will leave the MMA to work on her own entrepreneurial project called MSLightCollaborations. The project uses the medium of light to inspire creativity and collaboration between the arts and technology through an annual light festival, which is scheduled for Feb. 24, 2017. She is looking for sponsors, and the event is still open to creatives and other people who want to celebrate light. “In Europe they have light festivals that are fantastic, but the equipment (can cost) millions of dollars,” Kurkjian says. “I don’t have millions of dollars, but I do have Mississippians. The light show will happen, because it is in Mississippi.” —Richard Coupe
cover design by Kristin Brenemen; Photos by MSU Athletics, JSU Athletics, USM Athletics and Ole Miss Athletics
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30 Lettieri, Martin: Risk and Reward Read about Shaun Martin and Mark Lettieri, better known as Snarky Puppy, before they make a stop in Jackson on their joint tour for their solo records.
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f you’re like me, you’re probably happy this presidential election is coming to an end. And, for a variety of reasons (not all of them the same) you might also share with me grave concerns for the future of this country based on the election cycle we’ve just been through. In the end, though, this campaign presents a clear choice on the presidential level. On the one hand, you have one of the most experienced candidates to run for the office in the modern era. Secretary Hillary Clinton has been in the White House as first lady, in the U.S. Senate and has served as secretary of state. Having been in the public eye for 30 years, she’s been responsible for significant achievements—and she’s made some mistakes. For the most part, I believe she has built a career on doing her job well, working within our democracy to further progressive principles, and fighting for the hopes and needs of her constituents and the American people at large, including women and children. Over those 30 years, many people have made up their minds about Clinton, in part because a lot of money and time and energy has been spent over years and years to turn Hillary—even more than Bill Clinton—into a great liberal demon. Given that history—including the trauma she’s been through as Bill’s wife—I respect her as a woman of great perseverance, resolve and inner strength. In fact, those qualities don’t seem to be in dispute— even her opponent noted her tenaciousness in the second debate. On the other hand, you have Donald Trump. Maybe he’s a billionaire, although he won’t release his tax returns and doesn’t deny ducking federal taxes for years.
He’s a reality-TV “star” (I’ve never seen his show), and he has licensed his name to a lot of stuff that a lot of people don’t buy. Trump University is awash in legal battles. He has zero experience in the political world, he’s dangerously cavalier about American foreign-policy relationships, and his one international trip during his cam-
Trump traffics in misogyny, bigotry and bluster. paign ended with the Mexican president essentially calling him a liar. This isn’t really surprising, given that Trump lies freely and loquaciously, according to Politifact (jfp. ms/trumpfacts) and many others. It’s not clear that Trump actually believes much of anything he says or the few policies he has presented because he has never been in a position to vote on or implement any government policy. In the few cases where he is on the record—the war in Iraq, for instance—it generally contradicts what he now says. To me, it isn’t clear how his ardent supporters—such as Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant—can get excited about a man who will simply lie or grossly exaggerate easily checked facts and statistics, substituting bombast for any sort of clear principle.
Trump’s business acumen is a real question because it seems to be a foundation of his candidacy. A detailed exploration of his history (jfp.ms/trumpbiz) as a developer show that he stiffs his contractors, has been sued thousands of times, and has used bankruptcy frequently to shortchange his investors and creditors when his business management has failed. Newsweek reported this week that Trump has a track record of destroying emails and other documents and communications when they might implicate him or his companies in legal cases—actual situations where courts have required him to make documentation available for discovery including in cases where he’s the plaintiff—and that evidence comes up missing or impossible to retrieve. Of course, it’s frequently a “mistake” or “confusion” or some other excuse, to hear him tell it. Finally, he has run a campaign (and, in some cases, a personal life) that traffics in misogyny, bigotry and bluster. By nominating Donald Trump as its nominee, what remains of a coherent Republican Party on the national level has made one thing clear—it doesn’t take governance very seriously. Trump is a problem GOP leaders have brought upon themselves by persistently appealing to the idea that government can’t do anything effectively when the truth is that government, at its best, represents our citizenry working together to build things and solve problems. The GOP, whose president was once credited with the interstatehighway system (Eisenhower) and who nominated a governor who presided over health-insurance reform in his state (Romney), now spends most of its time simply blocking its opponents at any cost to win
partisan political points. Stoking that “do nothing” attitude within the GOP ranks has meant shortterm political gains—Tea Party wins, for instance, and a right-wing supermajority in the Mississippi Legislature—but the result has been an earthquake of turmoil within the party that has all but pushed out and silenced reasonable conservatives. Given all that, my choice on Nov. 8 is Hillary Clinton, and I encourage you to vote for her, as well, regardless of the party you normally identify with. If Mississippi shows significant support for Clinton (or even tips and goes “blue” for her), then that success would be part of a mandate for getting Washington to actually govern—instead of just grandstanding and road blocking—and finally work together as a governing team toward solutions to our nation’s challenges. Then, once this election is behind us, Mississippians must demand action from our governor and Legislature on commonsense economic issues, including expanding Medicaid and fully funding public schools. The era of trying to “drown government in a bathtub” needs to end—particularly when it’s both ridiculous (in the case of Mississippi, ours is a “taker state” with more federal dollars coming in than federal taxes going out) and destructive—health and education issues seriously affect Mississippi’s ability to complete on the national (much less international) level. Mississippi’s persistent challenges and meager economic growth since the Great Recession under “conservative” leadership proves it is time for a new and shared mindset focused on progress, not obstruction, at every level of government. Vote for progress on Nov. 8.
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Arielle Dreher
Bryan Flynn
Sierra Mannie
Tim Summers Jr.
Imani Khayyam
Zilpha Young
Tyler Edwards
Myron Cathey
News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote about money and religion in politics.
Sports writer Bryan Flynn is a husband and stay-at-home father to a baby girl. He constantly wonders, “If it didn’t happen on ESPN or Disney Jr., did it really happen?” He wrote the college basketball preview.
Education Reporting Fellow Sierra Mannie’s opinion of the Ancient Greeks can’t be trusted nearly as much as her opinions of Beyoncé. She wrote about police-brutality discussions in the classroom.
City Reporter Tim Summers Jr. enjoys loud live music, teaching his cat to fetch, long city council meetings and FOIA requests. Send him story ideas at tim@jacksonfreepress.com. He wrote about changes at Jackson State University.
Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took photos for the issue.
Zilpha Young is an ad designer by day, painter, illustrator, seamstress and freelance designer by night. Check out her design portfolio at www. zilphacreates.com. She designed many ads for the issue.
Events Editor Tyler Edwards loves film, TV and pop culture. He’s a Jackson native and will gladly debate the social politics of comic books. Send event information to events@ jacksonfreepress.com.
Sales and Marketing Consultant Myron Cathey is from Senatobia. He is a graduate of Jackson State University and enjoys traveling, music, and spending time with family and friends.
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“Millions of Republicans, Democrats and independents, wanted to shoot Washington the bird, and they thought Donald Trump was the greatest, most magnificent middle finger they could imagine.”
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— Former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour at the Mississippi Economic Council’s Hob Nob last week
Wednesday, Oct. 26 Jackson State University President Carolyn Meyers resigns shortly after the state’s college board puts plans for new dorms on hold in the wake of financial turmoil there.
Friday, Oct. 28 Jackson Public Schools Superintendent Cedrick Gray gives the school board his verbal intent to resign during a special school-board meeting. Saturday, Oct. 29 FBI Director James Comey sends Republicans in Congress a letter saying that the FBI is looking into whether there is classified information in new emails uncovered during the sexting investigation of former congressman Anthony Weiner.
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Sunday, Oct. 30 Donald Trump claims that mailedin ballots in Colorado might not be properly counted and tells supporters at a rally to vote in person instead of relying on the state’s mail-in system, even if they’ve already submitted their ballots.
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Monday, Oct. 31 Gov. Phil Bryant asks U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves to uphold House Bill 1523, which Reeves previously blocked. … The NAACP files a federal lawsuit against elections boards in North Carolina for illegally removing thousands of voters from the rolls, a disproportionate number black. Tuesday, November 1 The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reopens a lawsuit challenging a North Carolina county commission’s practice of starting meetings with Christian prayer. Get breaking news at jfpdaily.com.
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ormer Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says no one has seen a presidential election like this one in his lifetime, at least. Speaking at the Mississippi Economic Council’s Hob Nob event last week, Barbour said Americans are “mad and scared” because America has experienced a weak post-recession recovery and see little economic growth in their dayto-day lives. Donald J. Trump, Barbour said, is a manifestation of many people’s fear and anger. “Millions of Republicans, Democrats and independents, wanted to shoot Washington the bird, and they thought Donald Trump was the greatest, most magnificent middle finger they could imagine,” the former chairman of the Republican National Committee said at the Hob Nob. Amid all this fear and rage of the American people, “the issues” and where candidates actually stand on them have faded to the background of the election coverage, Barbour said, but insisted that Clinton is not the choice if change is what voters want. “Hillary Clinton being the candidate of change would be like me being the spokesman for Weight Watchers—no credibility whatsoever,” Barbour said ref-
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Thursday, Oct. 27 House Speaker Philip Gunn says in a speech to the Mississippi Economic Council that the state’s school funding formula has failed to give public schools a predictable source of revenue. … A jury acquits Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five other defendants involved in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in rural Oregon.
‘Mad and Scared’: The Religious Shift in U.S., Mississippi Politics
Gov. Phil Bryant opposes abortion even if when it would save a mother’s life of the mother. He supports Donald Trump, who pledges to criminalize it.
erencing comments Clinton made back in the primaries that indicated she would continue much of what President Barack Obama started. Burns Strider, a Grenada, Miss., native and the faith and values director in the 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign for president, said that as a political insider, Clinton could find the way out. “She would say as an insider, which
she doesn’t deny, that being president would allow (her) the opportunity to achieve the goals of the working people, and because ‘I’m an insider, I know the way out,’” Strider said on the panel alongside Barbour at Hob Nob. Both Mississippi political-party chairmen expressed disappointment in what the climate of the election has done to minimize discussions of actual policy
season may have missed some stories. We thought we’d blow the whistle on a few big developments to catch you up.
fact, we’re still waiting for a new Supreme Court justice, so another violation may be in his future.
• Goaltending on House Speaker Philip Gunn. His party regularly swats down MAEP funding goals, and yet, at the annual Hob Nob, he claimed it’s the education formula that is broken.
• Traveling on Robert Shuler Smith. The Hinds County district attorney might have have traveled outside legal bounds when he subpoenaed two assistant attorney generals and tried to help two men beat criminal charges.
• Hanging on the rim on Jackson State University. New dorm development was on the way, but now JSU’s financial woes have left the project hanging on the board—the College Board, that is. • Shot-clock violation on U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. In
• Out of bounds on Donald Trump. The Republican presidential nominee definitely stepped out of line by claiming repeatedly that the election is rigged. Maybe he just needs more work on his American democracy fundamentals.
“As far as Mississippians who elected the supermajority in the Legislature, they are going to be for everything that (Hillary Clinton is) against.”
“On Nov. 8 we have to have our own Brexit, it’s time to do it... I believe Nov. 8, 2016, is going to be America’s new Independence Day.”
—Mississippi GOP Chairman Joe Nosef at the Hob Nob “Red and Blue” panel last week
—Rep. Becky Currie, R-Brookhaven, at a Mississippi Women for Trump rally at the Capitol last week
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Return to the ‘City on a Hill’ In a state like Mississippi, where the governor hosts the Heritage Foundation—a national right-wing conservative organization—at his mansion, this election means more than just a new president. Researchers and some religious leaders have pointed to this election cycle as the potential end of the religious right, signaled by apocalyptic-type terms used this campaign season. At a Women for Trump rally hosted by the Mississippi Federation of Republican Women held at the Capitol last week, Rep. Becky Currie, R-Brookhaven, said she prays every day for her country because America is at a crossroads. Pointing to Clinton’s potential U.S. Supreme Court appointments and her stances on immigration, Currie encouraged women to vote for
Puritan John Winthrop in the 1600s is said that 36 percent of children will be “singleTrump, who is strongly anti-immigrant. “On Nov. 8 we have to have our own to have claimed that his new colony would race non-Hispanic white.” Plus, it turns out that Americans who identify as Christian Brexit, it’s time to do it,” she said. “I believe be a “city upon a hill.” More recently in American politics, are also decreasing in number. Nov. 8, 2016, is going to be America’s new former President Ronald Reagan used the “It’s always hard to read the future, Independence Day.” Sen. Angela Burks Hill, R-Picayune, phrase in speeches he gave before he was but I think what we’re seeing is a for-real spoke after Currie, citing Clinton’s stances elected to the presidency in 1980 and as last gasp as people are realizing the demoon Obamacare and abortion rights as rea- he was leaving office. For Bryant, Trump graphic realities around them,” Jones told represents the preservation of the religious the Jackson Free Press. sons to vote for Trump. In the 1980s and ’90s, the “moral ma “I will never support a woman, I don’t right, but research has shown the cultural jority” was a reality, Jones said, in addition care who she is, that stands at a presidential phenomenon may be on its way out. to a political movement led by Jerry Falwell. debate and in front of God and the country Politicians who believed in or played to the and defends partial-birth abortion,” Hill End of ‘White Christian’ U.S.? Robert Jones, the director of Public religious-right tropes had data and power in said, to perhaps the biggest cheers of the Religion Research Institute, has studied numbers behind them, he said. whole rally. The majority of Americans back then In the third presidential debate, Clin- the nation’s data on religion and politics ton said that Roe v. Wade allows disapproved of same-sex marriage, for instance. Today, data from regulations on abortion as long as PRII show that over 60 percent the life and health of the mother are of Americans approve of the right. taken into account. The swing has led to outcries or, as “I have met with women Jones puts it in his book, and even who have, toward the end of their caused Christian communities pregnancy, get the worst news one (evangelical and otherwise) to be could get: that their health is in introspective—and go into a grievjeopardy if they continue to carry ing process. The first stages of grief to term,” Clinton said on Oct. 20. are denial and anger, according to “I do not think the United States Elisabeth Kübler Ross’ model. government should be stepping in Back in April, almost a year and making those most personal after the U.S. Supreme Court legalof decisions. So you can regulate if ized same-sex marriage nationally you are doing so with the life and and a few days after Gov. Bryant the health of the mother taken into signed House Bill 1523 into law, account.” Franklin Graham held a rally that Gov. Phil Bryant appealed to drew upwards of 6,000 people at the crowd’s religious beliefs, claimMississippi GOP Chairman Joe Nosef (left) and the Capitol. Crowds spilled all over ing that Democrats do not care former Gov. Haley Barbour (right) spoke on the “Red and Blue” panel at the Hob Nob last week. the south lawn as the renowned about their religious freedom. evangelist and son of Billy Graham “They just don’t understand— took the stage. they can’t comprehend your faith Graham told reporters afterward that and your beliefs, but we’re gonna show for decades. In his new book “The End of ’em,” Bryant told the crowd. Bryant was the White Christian America,” the Jackson na- Christians have the right to live out their co-chairman of the Personhood Mississippi tive paints the narrative of how the religious faith in public. When asked about his vote against abortion rights that voters re- right rose and now is declining based on the stance against the rights of LGBT citizens, jected in 2011, and a primary backer of this number of Americans who strongly iden- he said: “It’s God’s stance, OK? I have nothing against the gays and lesbians. They’re year’s House Bill 1523, which attempted to tify with a race-based approach to religion. Jones said that in 2008, 54 percent involved politically; why can’t we Christians give businesses and others the right to dis- criminate against LGBT citizens, although of the country identified as white and have our candidates?” Franklin continued: “I want the world a federal judge has blocked the law. Bryant Christian. His most recent data show that follows a hard-right agenda on nearly every number dropped to 43 percent. The rapid to know that God loves them and cares for issue, including immigration, and is an out- shift, Jones said, is part demographic, part them, but God is going to judge all sin, and religious. A growing number of (largely the gay lifestyle is a sin. Now don’t get mad spoken Trump backer. To end his riled-up speech, the millennial) Americans do not affiliate with at me; I didn’t make the rules, God makes governor said, “We will return to be a particular religion, and young people are the rules. … [There are consequences, and there is a heaven and there’s a hell.” the shining city on the hill and make leaving the church in droves. Demographically, the Census Bureau Jones, the author, attributes such comAmerica great again.” That “city on a hill” remark was origi- has predicted that America will no longer ments as Graham’s to those in the religious nally coined in the Bible by Jesus in his Ser- be a majority-white country in the coming mon on the Mount. In American history, years. 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and issues. Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Joe Nosef said the presidential election has not been about policy, although he wished it was. “Here’s the bottom line: We feel confident that we can easily point out that if Hillary Clinton gets elected, she’s going to be against what the majority of Mississippians are for in almost every case,” Nosef said last week. “It doesn’t matter what you’re talking about: taxes, regulation, religious freedom, it doesn’t matter. I’m not saying that I think we’re right, but the bottom line is this: As far as Mississippians who elected the supermajority in the Legislature, they are going to be for everything that she’s against.” Trump leads polls in Mississippi, although not as much as he leads in neighboring states Louisiana and Alabama. Data from both Google and SurveyMonkey polls show that if just women voted in this election, even states like Mississippi could be toss-up states. And while Mississippi may not go blue itself, state Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Moak said his party is watching the turnout because elections are not just about the current one but the next one as well. Moak and the other panelists called for political unity at the end of a very divisive election. “Through the years we’ve worked together politically, and we’ve been apart on issues, but at the end of the day we all came together and worked together for something for the good of our communities and our state, and that’s what needs to happen at the end of this election,” Moak said.
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right who understand that they have lost the public-opinion war but are not going down without a fight. Graham did not endorse a particular candidate at his rally, but invoked Christians to put Christians in power, encouraging members of the crowd to run for office. Other religious leaders acknowledge that the 2016 election signals the end of an era for the religious right. Russell Moore, a Mississippi native and president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, admitted this in an op-ed piece in The Washington Post. “Some of the very people who warned us about moral relativism and situational ethics now ask us to become moral relativists for the sake of an election,” Moore writes. “And when some dissent, they are labeled as liberals or accused of moral preening or sitting comfortably on the sidelines.” Moore, who told The New York Times Magazine that he will not vote for Trump or Clinton, called the religious right “old-school” and called for “younger, multi-ethnic, gospel-centered Christians” to head up a new evangelical movement, following the election. Moore is also on record for wanting to change the Mississippi flag and acknowledging how the white church, Baptist and others, both supported slavery and Jim Crow segregation. That is a sea change of a position in a nation and state where Barbour and other Republicans have led a party that appealed explicitly to white conservative Christians through use of the “southern strategy,” which long included support of Confederate symbols such as the flag, as well as anti-“welfare queen” rhetoric and other coded race language. Jones sees the shift for voters in the 2016 election in more narrow terms. “What’s happened to evangelicals in this election cycle is that they’ve been converted from values voters to being nostalgia voters,” he said. “If you feel like you’re on the losing end of a bunch of cultural trends, somebody who can shake things up at the end stage of this game becomes a pretty important trade and a candidate.” Read more election coverage at jfp. ms/2016elections. Email reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.
JPS Students Confront Police Brutality With Art by Sierra Mannie
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hen Forest Hill High School teacher Paige Watson taught 9th-grade English last year, her students read law professor Michelle Alexander’s book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” as part of a unit focusing on police brutality in light of the police-shooting deaths of unarmed black people. But in her grammar and drills-intensive English II class this year, Watson said, it is hard to be as flexible with the curriculum. Still, Watson wanted to open the space to reflection and to dialogue for her class, mostly made up of black students, if they
For many youth of color, even witnessing police brutality against other people of color can result in racial trauma. Kenneth V. Harvey wrote in a 2013 article for Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems that racism, which attacks children’s self-value and how free they feel to speak up for themselves, “is seldom seen as contributing to these difficulties” when kids have a difficult time. “To work effectively with youth of color, we must understand, address and ultimately heal the hidden wounds of racial oppression,” Harvey wrote. Harvey found that kids who experience racial trauma in whatever form may act out, but that methods to help them “seldom” focus on racial trauma. He suggests an eight-step approach to help professionals help young people who are experiencing racial trauma, first including “affirmation and acknowledgement” of “the premise that race is a critical organizing principle in society” and, secondly, by purposefully creating a space to discuss it. Watson says she was candid with her students about race to help put them more at ease and allow them to speak. “I’m white, I’m privileged, I don’t understand the things you or your family have to face,” Watson says she told her students. “If my car breaks down on the side of the road, I don’t have to fear for my life.” She wants them to know it is OK to speak Students listen to a “Students Against Gun Violence Program” at their truth even if she cannot fully understand Whitten Prepatory School on Oct. 19. what they experience. “I think they’re afraid to say were willing. They were. So with a magic marker and copy paper, that cops are racist or white cops are racist because I’m white. Being the students manifested a photo project using the #DontShoot a human being in front of them helps them open up and build this hashtag made popular on Twitter, where black users took pictures layer of trust.” of themselves and wrote captions affirming their humanity. Many students used their pictures and affixed them to copy ‘I Am Not Done Living’ For some students, the project did more than just alleviate paper, where they wrote down their feelings. Others skipped the stress. It made Aaliyah Holliday, 16, feel like an activist. photo, but wrote anyway. “The project that we did made me feel like I was making a dif Watson said it was the expression that mattered. “You are important, and your voice matters, and let’s tell the ference by just writing #DontShoot underneath the paper. It made world why you should be here,” said the teacher, a Missouri native. me feel good about being an activist. Small words can make a dif“What I liked about it is, yes, we did have really poignant answers, ference. Mine says ‘#DontShoot, I am not done living,’” she told but some of the most were so simple.” An example? “#DontShoot. the Jackson Free Press “What was good was I had heard from voices I hadn’t heard I have football practice later.” from, quiet voices who haven’t had much to say about what we’re reading, and giving them an opportunity to talk to each other,” Unheard Voices Watson’s efforts echo a trend of classroom-led attempts around Watson said. Rapheal Shinnie, 15, one of Watson’s students, says that the the country to deal with racial trauma, or trauma caused by direct or indirect experiences of racism and discrimination. Jackson Pub- exercise helped him open up to his classmates. “It really did help me lic Schools, which serves a population of mostly black and Latino because I’m not one to really express my feelings. Now I’ll talk, I’ll students, already hosts events and programs that allow students a say something about my feelings,” he told the Jackson Free Press. creative outlet for their feelings on race and justice, such as the Art, “I think that it’s important for other people to stand as one or Poetry and Justice project. Watson wanted to facilitate these types see something like this because no matter your color, we should all see it. It might open up someone’s eyes,” De’Lonte Lewis, 15, said. of discussions inside her English II class, a state-tested subject. “Police brutality is so prominent right now,” Watson said. “I Rakiah Simmons, 15, says her class feels like a safe space; you kind of saw a shift in my students after that. I think that they realize never know what students are going through at home. “It might that my class can be so much more than this test-prep, skill-based help other people to do what we do,” she said. “We class. We care so much about each other. Let’s be activists. Let’s talk might reach out to other people who are silenced.” Sierra Mannie is an education reporting fellow about how a photo or a piece of writing can show how you’re a with the Jackson Free Press and The Hechinger Report. leader and how you can show your community.”
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Turmoil at JSU: State Applies Heavy Hand by Tim Summers Jr.
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ackson State University must brace itself for changes, from financial policies to a new president, in the wake of news that it has nearly exhausted its cash reserves. JSU President Dr. Carolyn Meyers announced her resignation on Oct. 25, and by the following Tuesday, the Mississippi Institutions for Higher Learning had announced an interim president: George W. Bush’s former secretary of education, Rod Paige, who presided over “No Child Left Behind” education policy during his tenure. Paige is a JSU graduate and former head football coach for the university. He has served on the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Board of Trustees since 2005 and earlier this year was indicted into the National Alliance for Public Charter School’s Hall of Fame. “We are so pleased that Dr. Paige is going to serve as Interim president,” Dr. Doug Rouse, president of the IHL’s board of trustees. “An alumnus of the university, we know he will lead with a servant’s heart and guide the university well through this transitional phase. He has a wealth of experience on all levels of education and we are very fortunate that he is going to share his time and considerable talents with us.” The primary motivator for IHL’s intervention is the current budget crisis at the university, IHL says. Before the Paige announcement, IHL announced that it was bringing in a consulting firm to shore up the JSU’s finances. The reserve funds are designed to protect the university from unforeseen drops in revenue or state funding, both of which have occurred in the last year. “[W]ith just over a week’s worth of cash on hand,” Associate Commissioner for Finance and Administration John Pearce told the state’s college board last week, “this puts JSU in a relatively risky position with a relatively small margin of error in managing their budget.” (IHL is also known as the state’s college board.) As a result of the poor financial outlook for the university, the IHL also tabled JSU’s proposed agreement with a developer to build new dormitories on campus, perhaps temporarily.
The Meyers Era Ends Meyers did not give reasons for her resignation in her letter to the college 10
board. “Out of genuine love and pride in the university,” Meyers wrote, “effective Nov. 1, 2016, I am offering my resignation from the position of President of Jackson State University. “As such I am prepared to vacate the residence within thirty days as prescribed in my contract.” Meyers served as JSU president from 2011 to the present, moving to
employees, which includes university employees, all receive this compensation.” IHL said she would get it. IHL to the Rescue? The IHL Board of Trustees, after reviewing financial data Pearce provided about the low cash reserves, decided to hire the financial consulting firm, Matthews, Cutrer and Lindsay, to oversee
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Jackson State University’s reserve of cash on hand began dwindling in 2014, and now the state’s Institutions of Higher Learning is bringing in a consulting firm to guide the university through the next few months.
Jackson from Norfolk State University in Virginia where she also served as head of the historically black college. Dr. Glenn Boyce, the head of IHL, said in a statement that the board had accepted Meyers’ resignation. “We appreciate Dr. Meyers’ service to Jackson State University and wish her well in future endeavors,” Boyce said. In her letter, Meyers also made it clear that she expects a paycheck beyond her last day in the job. “As the university has done for anyone leaving for any reason—voluntary or otherwise—and in accordance with the JSU handbooks (which precede my tenure), I expect that I would also receive an extra thirty days of compensation as well as compensation for all accrued benefits contained therein,” Meyers wrote. Blanton said on Nov. 1 that state
day-to-day financial decisions at the historically black public university. Boyce said in a statement that the IHL monitored the finances of all the state’s public institutions, and has been warning JSU about its budget problems. “Since May 2014, the Board of Trustees, the Commissioner of Higher Education and IHL Staff have communicated concerns over the university’s financial position to Jackson State University personnel, including the Chief Financial Officer and President,” Boyce said in the statement. “The annual financial statement for FY 2016 received by IHL Staff in August 2016 indicated that the situation has escalated from a concern to a level serious enough to require immediate intervention,” he added. “Escalated” might be too gentle a
word. Over the last four years, JSU has continued to pull from its cash-on-hand funds to cover operational expenses, and each year spent whatever cushion it had until its reserves were only enough to cover a little over a week in expenses. Combine that with an increased debt burden due to expansion and renovation, and the school had slowly started to sink below a water line it could not expect to meet without increasing revenue. The IHL met with JSU last year to discuss poor financial reports but took no action then. For every $1 that the school brings in, it owes another $8.74 in debt due to bonds. Ever since fiscal-year 2012, the school has continued to dip into its reserves, rather than operating revenue, to square up its annual debts. In 2012, the university had $37 million in cash reserves. That amount dipped by a million in 2013 and then dropped by $13 million in 2014. The next fiscal year, 2015, saw another large drop of $13 million down to $10 million on hand. For 2016, IHL estimates that the unaudited cash reserves for JSU total around $4.2 million—almost $33 million down over four fiscal periods. Pearce stated that the other universities in the IHL system did not participate in a similar spending pattern. He used a graphic to show that the problem with JSU’s cash reserves is unique to that university compared to the reserves of other state universities. JSU saw a sharp drop during 2014 that has continued to the present day. “At the same time, Jackson State started at a position that was higher than the rest of the schools combined, and then started a rapid decline in 2014,” Pearce said. IHL expects the consulting firm to guide JSU back from the brink. “Matthews, Cutrer and Lindsay is a respected firm with the experience necessary to conduct the review and identify ways to correct the structural budget imbalance,” Boyce said. “An issue of this magnitude may take several years to correct. Throughout the process, our absolute goal is to ensure that students are a top priority.” Email city reporter Tim Summers Jr. at tim@ jacksonfreepress.com with information on this story.
COURT OF APPEALS A resident of Goodman, Mississippi, Latrice Westbrooks set a historical precedent by becoming the �irst African-American woman Assistant District Attorney in the Second Judicial District for the Circuit Court of Mississippi. Afterwards she joined the law �irm of Byrd and Associates in Jackson, Mississippi where she litigated Plaintiff cases. In December 2001, Ms. Westbrooks opened her own practice where she has serviced a number of clients in both criminal and civil matters. She has represented the interest of children in the public school system and for years she worked as a public defender in Holmes County. In 2013, Ms. Westbrooks joined the City of Jackson under the administration of the late Chokwe Lumumba as the interim-Communications Director and later as the legal counsel for the Jackson Police Department. After the passing of Mayor Lumumba in early 2014, Attorney Westbrooks rejoined the private sector and became the Municipal Judge for Lexington, Mississippi.
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Electing Justice: Money, Partisanship and Dirty Ads
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by Arielle Dreher
udicial races are meant to be nonpartisan. After all, the judicial branch is a separate arm of the state government from the Legislature and the governor’s office. In most cases, however, and particularly in Mississippi with a Republican supermajority in the Legislature and a fundamentalist-right governor who made several necessary appointments to the Griffis 2016 Campaign
state’s high court in the past year, partisan political lines are easily detected, even in judicial races. This upcoming election, four Mississippi Supreme Court seats are up for reelection. Only one contested race features a true incumbent: the District 1, Position 3 race between Justice Jim Kitchens and Judge Kenny Griffis. Justice Dawn Beam has to win an election against former McComb municipal judge Michael Shareef. Justice Jimmy Maxwell, whom Bryant ap-
Let the Money Flow Candidates only have to report their campaign finances five times before Election Day, and four times by press time. (The next round of reports will be posted on Nov. 1, after this issue went to press). As of press time, both candidates are nearing the $1-million mark in collected funds if their campaign finances are combined, but where that money is coming from is drastically different, depending on the candidate. The majority of donations to either candidate are from individuals, but who those individuals are sheds light on the source of those funds. Justice Jim Kitchens’ committee has raised $466,000 by press time, and an
analysis reveals that 87 percent of his donors are lawyers and law firms primarily in Mississippi. About 19 percent of Kitchens’ donations through his October campaign finance report are from out-of-state donors, and notable state Democrats have donated to his campaign. House Minority Leader Rep. David Baria, D-Bay St. Louis, and former Secretary of State Dick Molpus, a Democrat, have donated to his committee. Judge Kenny Griffis’ committee has raised around $399,000 by press time, and his largest campaign donors are mainly Mississippi businessmen and PACs. The Court of Appeals judge has harnessed the support of the state’s most influential and powerful PACs, like the Mississippi Physicians PAC, the Mississippi Courtesy Administrative Office of the Courts
The state’s most influential business PACs support Judge Kenny Griffis’ bid for the state Supreme Court.
pointed in January, is running unopposed. The District 3, Position 1 seat is a four-person race with no incumbents. Judicial races are supposed to remain nonpartisan; Mississippi law requires the elections to be listed as “nonpartisan” on the ballot, but so far, the Kitchens-Griffis race appears to be nonpartisan in name only. Back in August, the Mississippi Republican Party officially endorsed both Judge Griffis and Dawn Beam. Bryant released a statement backing the endorsements: “These races are extremely important. We have a strong slate of judicial candidates this year who represent conservative values that will resonate with voters in all corners of our state. Their experience and dedication will serve Mississippi well. I am confident that each of these candidates will promote a fair and effective justice system in Mississippi.” Bryant attended a fundraiser for Griffis back in April.
Most of Justice Jim Kitchens’ donations come from lawyers and law firms inside and outside the state.
Bankers Association PAC and the Mississippi Association of Realtors PAC. Campaigns of notable state leaders donated to Griffis, including Gov. Bryant,
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Who’s on the Ballot?
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U.S. President and Vice President
U.S. House of Representatives
3rd Congressional District:
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, Democrat Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence, Republican Darrell Castle and Scott Bradley, Constitution “Rocky” Roque De La Fuente and Michael Steinberg, American Delta Jim Hedges and Bill Bayes, Prohibition Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, Libertarian Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, Green
Depending on where you live in the Jackson metro area, you’ll vote for either the 2nd or 3rd Congressional District candidates:
Gregg Harper, Republican Dennis C. Quinn, Democrat Roger Gerrard, Veterans Lajena Sheets, Reform
2nd Congressional District: John Bouie II, Republican Bennie G. Thompson, Democrat Johnny McLeod, Reform Troy Ray, Independent
Mississippi Supreme Court District 1 If you live in the county of Hinds, Rankin or Madison or anywhere in District 1 for Supreme Court seats, you will cast a vote in this race: Kenny Griffis Jim Kitchens
House Speaker Philip Gunn and House Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Snowden. Corporation and PAC donations make up 23 percent of Griffis’ campaign finances through his October report. PACs Got Money In judicial races, campaign contributions are capped at $5,000, but a group of state PACs and corporations have donated to a separate PAC, Improve Mississippi, for the purpose of supporting Griffis. So far, the Improve Mississippi PAC has raised more than $250,000 to help Griffis win, and it has used at least some of that money on attack ads. The ads reference a 2008 Mississippi Supreme Court case, Jordan v. State, in which both the state’s high court and the Appeals Court’s upheld the conviction of three men for sexual battery and abuse of a 4-year-old. Then-Justice David Chandler objected to the court’s ruling and wrote a separate statement that Justice Kitchens joined. Chandler argued that the courts misapplied federal law in the case. “Because the videotaped forensic interview of A.B. (the 4-year-old) constituted testimonial hearsay, A.B. did not testify, and the defendants did not have a prior opportunity to cross-examine A.B., the admission of the videotaped forensic interview violated the defendants’ right of confrontation guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. And considering all the evidence, the Confrontation-Clause violation was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. … This case should be reversed and remanded for a new trial,” Chandler’s written statement said. The Kitchens campaign said in
Mississippi Court of Appeals Districts 2 and 3
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Nonpartisan Judicial Election Court of Appeals district lines are drawn in such a way that half of Hinds County resides in District 2, half in District 4. Rankin County is in District 3, and Madison County is split between Districts 2 and 3.
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District 2, Position 2 Ceola James Latrice Westbrooks
District 3, Position 1 Ed Hannan Jack Wilson Dow Yoder
This race will be on the ballot for voters in Rankin County. John McLaurin Jr. Jim Nix
Madison County Court This race will be on the ballot for voters in Madison County. Will Longwitz Staci O’Neal
a statement that the ads have “dirtied up the race.” The Griffis campaign released a statement saying they are not responsible for the TV commercials in question. “The ad appears to examine Justice Kitchens’ record, not his character. If the ad is true, Justice Kitchens must decide how he wants to respond to the criticism of his record. If the ad is false, he should address those concerns to the organization running them,” Liz Carroll, a spokeswoman with the Committee to Elect Kenny Griffis, said in a statement. The Kitchens campaign responded to the ads by running television commercials telling voters to ignore the negative ads, saying their claims are not true. Carroll said judicial campaigns cannot coordinate with independent campaign groups. “The Committee to Elect Kenny Griffis has not and will not coordinate with or even communicate with anyone engaged in an independent expenditure. We have not reviewed, approved, requested or had an influence on these ads,” Carroll said. Most of the Improve Mississippi PAC donors include local Mississippi business PACs, with a few notable exceptions. The Improve Mississippi Political Initiative Committee, which helped defeat the Initiative 42 (a 2015 ballot initiative that would have added legal consequences to
not fully-funding the state’s education formula), donated $5,777 to the PAC with its same name in July. Derek Easley, the treasurer of the Improve Mississippi PAC and president of BIPEC, emailed a statement about his PAC’s involvement in the Kitchens-Griffis race: “In order for Mississippi to be a place where businesses locate and jobs are created, it must first be a safe place to work and live. The voters need to know the truth about Jim Kitchens’ record of consistently supporting criminals over victims,” the statement said. Improve Mississippi PAC has paid to run TV ads from Oct. 17 through Nov. 13, FEC filings from WAPT show. Outside political groups are also getting involved with the Kitchens-Griffis race, with ads against Kitchens. The Center for Individual Freedom, which claims to be a nonpartisan nonprofit organization based outside of D.C., has paid for TV ads, FEC records show, targeting Kitchens for using “legal loopholes,” calling on him to “stand up for victims” citing the same Jordan v. State case. The ad, which is public on their website does not mention Griffis or the election, but the center paid for a flight of ads that ran from Oct. 24-30. For more election coverage visit jfp. ms/2016elections.
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Know Your Rights:
-Your ID (This includes one of the following: driver’s license, a Mississippi or U.S. government-issued ID, U.S. passport, firearms license, student photo ID from accredited Mississippi university or college, U.S. military ID, tribal photo ID or Mississippi voter ID card) Call 1-844-MSVOTER for voter ID assistance or visit sos.ms.gov/vote.
-No one can threaten, intimidate or pay you to vote. -To vote, you needed to register 30 days before the election. If you’re registered to vote and you’ve moved recently, you can change your address up until Nov. 8 and vote at your new polling place. -If you changed your address, but your name is not in the poll book or you do not have an acceptable form of ID with you at the time, you can vote by affidavit ballot within five business days after Election Day if you present your ID at the circuit or municipal clerk’s office. -No manager or person assisting a voter shall request, suggest or seek to persuade or induce any voter to vote on any particular ticket, issue or candidate. Call the Mississippi secretary of state’s election division at 1-800-8296786. Call the Protection and Advocacy Office with problems and questions at 1-800-772-4057. Additional voter helplines: If you feel that you are targeted for deceptive election practices you can call Election Protection at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. If you want to report a voter fraud complaint, call True the Vote at 1-800-829-6786.
What to Leave at Home: -Your “Make America Great Again” hat or Clinton tee or any campaign paraphernalia
Where do I vote? Your polling place should be on your voter-registration card. If you don’t have that, go to sos.ms.gov/vote and use the polling place locater to find your polling place. If you don’t have Internet access, you can call your local county or circuit clerk’s office. For Hinds County, call 601-9686628. For Rankin County, call 601-8251466. For Madison County, call, 601-8594365.
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Deplorable Me
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s we approach Election Day, furious rhetoric has turned our country into what NPR called “The Divided States of America.” Donald Trump has sown offensive messages throughout his campaign, disparaging just about everyone. A report on “The Trump Effect” by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that the levels of anxiety, fear, and bullying in schools have increased, due in part to the tone of the Trump campaign. But he isn’t the only candidate who is guilty of “us vs. them” tactics. Hillary Clinton also said that “you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables ... racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.” She later apologized for the offensive remark, but affirmations from my left-coast friends supported Clinton’s comment, as they brought forth images about “those deplorable, backwoods, uneducated, rednecks and yahoos.” The only image that came up for me was my friend, Donna Burgraff. When I met Donna in 1994, we couldn’t have been more different. She was born and raised in West Virginia. I was born and raised in California. Donna’s ancestors, which include the legendary McCoys, emigrated to Appalachia in the 1700’s. My ancestors immigrated to the U.S. less than a century ago. Donna was raised on biscuits and gravy. I was raised on rice and stinky tofu. Donna has three graduate degrees, and I have a bachelor’s degree. She would be a conservative in my world, and I would be flamboyant in hers. She is a Republican, and I am a Democrat. Despite our differences, Donna and I hit it off from the beginning. I credit the curiosity we had about each other that compelled us to figure out what we had in common. A lot, as it turned out. We are proud of our respective Appalachian and Asian|Pacific Islander cultures. We love to laugh and learn. We both come from blue-collar families who value hard work, loyalty, hospitality, and pride that is mixed with humility. We extend those values to one another because we see each other as family. The thought that people might refer to Donna and her people as “deplorable,” saddens and offends me, because she is part of my family. If Donna is deplorable, then so am I. For the record, I am voting for Hillary Clinton. I believe she is the most qualified candidate this country has ever had, and she will make a great president. That said, she has a lot of work to do to make things right for my family in Appalachia. I asked Donna, who plans to vote for neither Clinton nor Trump, what Hillary needs to do. She shared that one of the first things President Bush did in 2001 was reach across the aisle to Senator Ted Kennedy and begin to collaborate on joint efforts. “There may be an opening with Paul Ryan,” Donna continued. “She needs to have him and his family over for a meal, build a relationship and some common ground to move forward together.” Donna made me think about how it’s everyone’s responsibility to look beyond our differences and work to reunite the country. She continues to be my teacher, guide, and shining example of how we can establish common ground that makes way for deep and abiding relationships. We have our eyes set on Nov. 8. But what will happen on Nov. 9 and beyond? As Donna said, “whoever gets elected, half of the country is going to be pissed.” We cannot write off the half opposite our own as deplorable, because we are all in the same basket. I ask you to find people in your life who hold different beliefs, cherish them and work like hell to find common ground. If you can do that, you will enrich your life, expand your family, and move our country forward as the United States of America. 14 Visit Kevin Fong’s website at elementalpartners.net. November 2 - 8, 2016 • jfp.ms
We are all in the same basket.
Kitchens for Mississippi Supreme Court
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et again, a race for a vitally important position in Mississippi has devolved into misleading rhetoric about a candidate for, supposedly, being soft on violent crime. It is a common trick among Republican candidates in Mississippi. In past years, we exposed how Hinds County district attorney candidate Wilson Carroll and later Gov. Haley Barbour twisted the same meaningless crime rankings—ones that the FBI warned against using—to create scary mailers to white neighborhoods about local crime. The irony with Barbour, of course, is that at by the end of his second term, he had pardoned and released dozens of violent criminals in Mississippi, including child molesters and men who brutally murdered wives and girlfriends with shotguns and hatchets, proving that the rhetoric was just political theater. In the race against Mississippi Supreme Court incumbent Jim Kitchens, supporters of Kenny Griffis are playing the same old partisan tricks in a race that isn’t supposed to be partisan. They have cherry-picked an odd case of child rapists to use against Kitchens, long a smart legal mind on criminal issues, to try to prove that he is soft on violent crime (see pages 12-13). They are running scary TV ads about the case in which he joined another justice’s opinion that the proper legal process was not followed in the convicted men’s prosecution. Thus, we’re told, Justice Kitchens will let violent criminals roam free at will, endangering women and children.
This is simply a lie, paid for by the same political interests and PACs that want public education woefully underfunded and ultimately privatized in the state and who want businesses to get away with anything they want and limit the kinds of regulation that protects consumers and the public. This is typical: Big-business interests and their PACs often fund these kinds of candidates and campaigns, using fear to mask their true goals, which usually has much more to do with money than public safety. In Kitchens’ case, the PAC cabal is clearly trying to use the old trick of attacking an opponent’s strengths. His record and interviews show that he knows the criminal-justice system in Mississippi, having worked on both the prosecution and defense side. He understands that criminal law requires a delicate balance of ensuring that the accused get a fair prosecution and trial and that victims’ rights be honored and the public kept as safe as possible. This is not an easy balance, and will never be. But it cannot intelligently be packaged in simplistic political rhetoric fit for the political trash bin. Kitchens is an intelligent, compassionate but tough judge, and the conservative Mississippi Supreme Court, and the citizens of the state, need him to balance the partisan interests already on that court, and to protect the interests of each citizen, even if those who don’t own or lobby on behalf of major corporations. Or start firms that do. Vote Jim Kitchens for the Mississippi Supreme Court on Nov. 8. He’s the smart choice.
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Raging Machine vs. Indigent Man
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he Law is a mighty machine. Woe to the unfortunate man who, wholly or in part innocent, becomes entangled in its mighty wheels, unless his innocence is patent or his rescue planned and executed by able counsel. The machine will grind on relentlessly and ruthlessly, and blindfolded justice does not see that the grist is sometimes stained with blood.� Mr. Edward Johnes penned these words in an essay from 1893, appalled at the grinding machine that “the law� had become. The accused, far from having the inherent upper hand that the judicial system supposedly grants them, found themselves facing a machine ever increasing in power, scope and ruthless authority. Oh, if Mr. Johnes could see the machine nowadays. Rather than simply facing an overly idealistic prosecutor or a sternly tempered judge, the accused face a multiplicity of interests and forces all allied in opposition to the defendant. Today, the bloody machine is comprised of over-zealous, rarely curtailed prosecutors, judges who cannot be bothered by civil liberties, every branch of law enforcement imaginable, the bloated prison system, private criminal-forensics laboratories, lobbyists for the drug war, and the private prison corporations, cities and counties that profit off the slave labor of inmates. The list goes on and on. The bloody machine is horrifically effective, as the U.S., with only 5 percent of the world’s population, houses 25 percent of the world’s prison population. Against all these foes, the defendant has one friend: his attorney. If our hypothetical defendant is like more than 80 percent of those indicted in America today, his attorney is a public defender, the counsel for the indigent. Even with his public defender by his side, the indigent man has a problem: Although the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Gideon v. Wainwright that “any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him,� just having an attorney isn’t enough. The attorney must be effective, ready to give the defendant his or her very best as ethics require. The reality is that this country—and especially Mississippi—does her best to ensure that the right to counsel barely receives lip service. Society does its best to ensure
ALL STADIUM SEATING that the men and women who take up the mantle of public defender are utterly overworked, under-paid and under-equipped for the level of care they are required by law and ethics to provide. They cannot do their best because there is literally not enough time, manpower or supplies to mount a full and vigorous defense for their clients against the ever-growing machine. In Mississippi, all 82 counties are given the individual responsibility of providing counsel for indigent defendants. This has resulted in a massive patchwork of differing solutions to defense, resulting in indigent defendants receiving the short end of the stick everywhere. Even in counties like Hinds, which boasts a dedicated full-time public defender’s office, the county fails. The Hinds County office is filled with a handful of proud and dedicated public defenders to represent hundreds of clients per each attorney. They must share very limited investigative and support-staff resources, and a pay scale that is utterly dwarfed by their prosecutorial counterparts. The fact that the Hinds County office performs as well as it does is a testament to the public defenders fighting as hard as they can in the courtrooms, not to any support from the county or state. It’s worse outside Hinds County. Judges will simply go through a panel of private attorneys, appointing cases to those who don’t rock the boat too much, and taking cases away from those who run up the county budget by daring to fight for their clients. Other counties “contract� with private attorneys, but the pay is so bad that the attorney must balance a private practice to make ends meet, a balance in which the indigent defendant gets short shrift. In some counties, the accused may not get a lawyer at all, even though the law requires it. The need for indigent defense reform is dire in this country. I do not have room here to even begin to touch on the problems impoverished defendants face in getting a bond set and sentencing should they be found guilty, etc. The bloody ever-growing machine will continue to grow unless the Legislature, and society as a whole, stands with and supports the lone indigent man and his public defender. Criminal defense attorney and armchair philosopher, Andrew J. Williams, Esq., lives and practices in his adopted home of Mississippi.
Just having an attorney isn’t enough.
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Last Season Recap Mississippi State didn’t experience a quick turnaround after replacing Rick Ray with Ben Howland. The Bulldogs had plenty of returning players last season, but they weren’t used to winning. One thing Howland did do in his first season is upgrade the talent on the team. He managed to get Callaway High School star Malik Newman and Velma Jackson High School star Quinndary Weatherspoon. While Newman struggled most of his freshman season, Weatherspoon received SEC All-Freshman honors. Almost from the outset, MSU was struck with injuries all up and down the roster. That and a tough nonconference schedule made the early season hard. MSU lost to the University of Miami in Florida, Florida State University, Texas Tech University and had a surprise loss to Southern University. The season ended with a 79-69 loss to the University of Georgia in the SEC Tournament.
2016-2017 Outlook In the offseason, Newman transferred to the University of Kansas, and the team lost several key players from last 16 year’s squad. Weatherspoon, guard I.J. Ready and forward
Prediction JSU was picked to finish second in the SWAC in the preseason poll behind Texas Southern. The Tigers play their normal strong slate of out-of-conference games, which includes Ohio State University, Baylor University, University of Memphis, Marshall University and USM. Since the SWAC is a one-bid league for the NCAA
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Tournament, JSU has to win the conference tournament to go dancing. This season is about taking the next step as a program and another trip to the postseason is important. JSU has the talent to win the conference tournament and go to the Big Dance. But if they don’t win the tournament, getting into the NIT isn’t a bad backup.
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Aric Holman all return. overall, 14-17 at MSU entering Ready averaged 9.2 points second season) and 4.5 assists, and Holman 2015-2016 record: 14-17 overall, 7-11 SEC played sparingly. Radio: 105.9 FM If this is the season Arena: Humphrey Coliseum when things turnaround for MSU, youth will lead the way. Howland will rely on highly touted freshmen Lamar Peters, Eli Wright, Abdul Ado (if the NCAA clears him) and Tyson Carter. Xavian Stapleton joins the team this season after sitting out last season due to his transfer from Louisiana Tech University. On paper, this team is talented enough to win games, but will all the youth come together to get this team into the postseason? Prediction Speaking of the non-conference schedule, it looks on paper as if it shouldn’t be too hard to navigate. This team should have a good chance to be in every out-of-conference game with a chance to win most of them. Since that schedule is so light, it will be up to the Bull-
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2016-2017 Season Outlook Coach Wayne Brent spent two seasons laying the foundation for last year. The highlight might have been the team’s 89-66 takedown of Southeastern Louisiana University during non-conference play.
The Tigers return Head coach: Wayne Brent (42-57 fourth season at JSU) guard Paris Collins and for- overall, 2015-2016 season: 20-16 overall, 12-6 ward Chace Franklin from SWAC last year’s squad. Collins Radio: 95.5 FM averaged 13 points and 6.2 Arena: Lee E. Williams Athletics and Assembly Center rebounds per game, with Franklin adding 12.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game. Both Collins and Franklin were named preseason first-team All-SWAC in a poll of SWAC head coaches and information directors. While Collins and Franklin will carry the main scoring load, JSU also returns Yettra Specks, who averaged 6.6 points and 2.1 rebounds last season, and Janarius Middleton, who also averaged 6.6 points and averaged 5.1 rebounds.
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Last Season Recap The Tigers fell 54-53 in the championship game to Southern University in the SWAC Men’s Basketball Tournament. But JSU didn’t sit at home for the postseason like the rest of the Division I teams. Instead, the Tigers earned a bid into the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. The Tigers won their first-round game 81-77 in overtime against Sam Houston State University. JSU saw its season end in a 64-54 loss to Grand Canyon University. The Tigers went on a four-game winning streak three different times last season, and all three were done during, in large part, SWAC play. And the team never lost more than two in a row during conference play. The winning season is the first since 2010-2011 and the first time the Tigers have won 20 games since the 20062007 season.
turns to November. A team’s March hopes are just a dream on cold winter nights as the nonconference slate is played. While basketball success has been limited the last few years in our state, hope springs eternal with each new season. This could be the year the stars align, and it becomes a special hoops season.
dogs to make noise in SEC play. MSU can’t afford to lose its first five games of the conference slate and still hope to have a chance at the postseason. It wouldn’t be out of the question for MSU to return to the postseason. This team should shoot for an at-large NCAA bid, but getting a NIT bid should be the main goal.
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Last Season Recap It has been tough for USM on the hardwood the last few seasons. The school was 17-41 over the past two seasons, as an NCAA investigation and later sanctions hit the program. Head coach Doc Sadler has done a good job with what he was left to work with, but injuries have made his job harder. Last season the Golden Eagles suffered a six-game losing streak at the beginning of the season. The best USM could do was string together a two-game winning streak twice. Late in the season was brutal for USM, as the team lost seven straight games. Southern Miss played tough teams all season long. The lack of depth made closing out games tough. Looking at the glass half full, USM might have hit rock bottom last season. Now, Sadler can focus on rebuilding the program after the NCAA sanctions.
2016-2017 Outlook USM returns five of its eight top scorers from last season: Guard Khari Price, with 9.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 4.5 assists; forward Eddie Davis III, with 9.4 points and 5.7 rebounds; forward Raheem Watts, with 7.5 points and 3.1 rebounds; guard Quinton Campbell, with 6.7 points and 18 3.3 rebounds; guard Michael Ramey, with 5.5 points and
Prediction Once again the out-of-conference schedule doesn’t have many highlights. The lack of sizzle could hold this team back if it’s on the tournament bubble. The weak non-conference schedule means the Rebels will have to win games both in and out of conference. There will be a very small margin for error for this team to reach postseason. This is the first season in the last three to four years
Head coach: Doc Sadler (166-148 1.3 rebounds. Southern Miss re- overall, 17-41 at USM entering third season) turns guards Cortez Ed- 2015-2016 season record: 8-21 overall, wards and Robert Thomas 5-13 C-USA III and forward Tim Rowe Radio: 105.1 FM from last year’s team. All Arena: Reed Green Coliseum three played a limited role last season but should contribute more to this year. This season, USM added eight people who didn’t play on last year’s team. Now that the team has depth, those close games might start going in favor of the Golden Eagles. It is still going to be a struggle for Sadler and the Golden Eagles until all the effects of the NCAA sanctions are gone, but this is the first season where fans feel hope for the program’s future.
Prediction The out-of-conference schedule features a mix of winnable games and some tough contests. USM plays Louisiana State University, MSU, Florida State University, San Diego State University, JSU and Tulane University for on the nonconference slate. Conference USA has changed a ton with all the conference shifting over the last decade. While it isn’t the strong basketball conference it once was, it does boast some strong teams.
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that a true star doesn’t return for the Rebels. This team will win with more of a team effort than watching a star carry the load when it matters most. Kennedy gets the most out of each and everyone of his players, and he will have to reach deep to get a little more this season. It seems unlikely that the Rebels will make the postseason, but if they do, it will be the NIT.
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2016-2017 Outlook Head coach Andy Kennedy is going to earn his money this season. The Rebels don’t return a player of the caliber of Marshall Henderson, Jarvis Summers or Stefan Moody. The team’s leading returning scorer is center Sebastian
Saiz, who averaged 11.7 Head coach: Andy Kennedy (233-139 points and 8.7 rebounds overall, 212-126 at UM entering 12th season) per game last season. Also 2016-2017 record: 20-12 overall, returning is guard Rasheed 10-8 SEC Brooks, who averaged 8.3 Radio: 93.7 FM points and 3.3 rebounds, Arena: The Pavilion and forward Marcanvis Hymon, who averaged 6.1 points and 5.2 rebounds. The rebels will count on two transfer players to produce this season: Guard Deandre Burnett from the University of Miami in Florida and guard Cullen Neal from the University of New Mexico. Few coaches do more with less than Kennedy does at UM. This season might be his greatest coaching job if he can get this team to the postseason.
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Last Season Recap The University of Mississippi cruised through its out-of-conference schedule with a 10-4 record. Losses to George Mason University and Seton Hall University were the only early-season setbacks. UM played a weak non-conference schedule, and that never helps comes tournament time. The team had no wins on the schedule that would stand out at the end at of the season. Once conference play began, the Rebels started 2-1 with the lone loss coming from the University of Kentucky. Then came a losing streak that included a loss to MSU. The Rebels didn’t lose two games in a row for the rest of the season, but they didn’t collect many quality wins. UM finished the season with 20 wins and a winning record in SEC play but lacked quality wins that impress tournament committees. The lack of quality wins meant the Rebels didn’t get a bid to the NCAA tournament or the NIT.
Sadler and the Golden Eagles should shoot for a .500 record this season. It is highly unlikely the team achieves much more than that right now. Any postseason berth would be a surprise. This season is about laying the foundation for the future of the program. Now that the NCAA investigation is over, the rebuilding process can truly begin.
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So, college football hasn’t been everything fans might have hoped for this season. The good news is that college basketball starts in just one week. Thursday, Nov. 3
NFL (7:25-11 p.m., NFLN): Tune in for a big NFC South matchup, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who are tied for second, host the first-place Atlanta Falcons. Friday, Nov. 4
High-school football (7-10 p.m., WLOO): Fans are in for a major Rankin County clash when the Pearl Pirates host the Brandon Bulldogs for the regional title. Saturday, Nov. 5
College football (11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., ESPNU): College football (11 a.m.2:30 p.m., SECN): MSU needs to upset Texas A&M to help its bowl hopes. … College football (1-4 p.m., ESPN3): Prairie View hosts Alcorn State in a major SWAC clash. Sunday, Nov. 6
NFL (3p.m.-6:30 p.m., FOX): The New Orleans Saints look to make it to two consecutive wins as they take on the San Francisco 49ers. Monday, Nov. 7
NFL (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN): The Buffalo Bills take the cross-country road trip to face off against the Seattle Seahawks. Tuesday, Nov. 8
College football (6:30-10 p.m., ESPN2): The last undefeated non“power five” team, Western Michigan, travels to Kent State to make it to the New Year’s Six Bowls.
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THE SMALLS by Bryan Flynn
Alcorn State University kicked off last season with seven consecutive losses and finished the non-conference slate with a 2-9 record—a rough start for first-year head coach Montez Robinson. The Braves rebounded from the tough non-conference slate to finish second in the SWAC, ending the season with a close loss to Mississippi Valley State University in the SWAC Tournament. Alcorn had a 15-15 overall record, finishing with at least a .500 record for the first time since 2002. This year could be more of a struggle with another difficult non-conference slate and a lack of experience on the roster. However, ASU does have returning preseason second-team All-SWAC forward Marquis Vance, DeAndré Davis and Reginal Johnson, who were all major contributors last season. The Braves were picked to finish fifth in the conference in the preseason poll. In just his second year, Robinson will have to do his best coaching job yet if he wants to win the SWAC Tournament and go to the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship. Courtesy David NIchols / Mississippi College
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Mississippi Valley State University head coach Andre Payne’s second season got off to a poor start. MVSU began with a 14-game losing streak and didn’t win a game until the new year started. The Delta Devils didn’t find much success in the conference slate, either, finishing seventh in the SWAC. They had brief surge during the conference tournament, winning two games before Jackson State University ended their season. Payne has a 14-52 record at the helm following a tough nonconference stretch last season. This year’s slate is equally loaded. Thankfully, MVSU has returning preseason first-team All-SWAC guard Marcus Romain, who averaged 18.6 points per game, and guard Isaac Williams, who averaged 11.6 points per game. MVSU must take the SWAC Tournament to get into the NCAA Championship, so winning conference games is key. Delta State University finished last season with a 19-11 overall record and a 13-9 record in the Gulf South Conference. That earned the Statesmen a tie for third place in the conference and the fifth seed in the GSC Tournament. DSU reached the semifinals before losing to the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Devin Schmidt, last season’s GSC Player of the Year, South Region Player of the Year, and NABC and D2CCA All-American, led the team. He averaged 25.4 points per game and became the leading scorer in DSU history, with 1,873 points. He will need 696 points to become the GSC all-time leading scorer.
This year, Schmidt was named the preseason GSC Player of the Year and Division II Bulletin Player of the Year, also earning a spot on the preseason All-GSC team. The Statesmen will go as far as he can take them this season. Mississippi College finished last season with a 10-18 overall record and a 7-15 record in the GSC. After transitioning to Division II, MC is now eligible for the conference tournament, but a run at the GSC title likely won’t happen this year, as MC must replace its four top scorers from last season. The Choctaws do have returning forward Stacey Mack and guards Otis Harvey, Antonio Johnson and DeOndre Haynes, as well as four other players with limited roles last season. This season rests on how quickly the new starters take to their expanded roles. Expect the Choctaws to take steps forward but not to be much of a challenge for the conference title. Millsaps College struggled last season, finishing 5-21 overall and 4-10 in the Southern Athletic Association. Between player transfers and graduations, the Majors won’t have much returning talent to improve this year. Millsaps hasn’t had a winning record in men’s basketball since winning 25 games in 2007-08 season. Since then, the team has only had double-digit seasons twice, in the 2009-2010 and 20102011 seasons. Millsaps will likely keep struggling with their play on the court and with keeping players on campus. Don’t expect things to change this season with so much turnover since last year. Unfortunately, the Majors look like a bottomof-the-conference team. Belhaven University didn’t have many victories on the court last season. The Blazers won just two games as they made the move from NAIA to Division III. They won’t be eligible for the American Southwest Conference title or the Division III Tournament, yet. Belhaven fans had to watch the season slide by last year as the bottom fell out, ending in a 2-23 record—the Blazers’ worst record since winning just five games in1962. It was only the team’s fifth time to fall short of double-digit wins since 1990. The team will rely on forward DaJuan Young, who was named to the ASC preseason watch list, but he will have to do more than his four points per game from last season if the Blazers are to score more wins this time around. Tougaloo College started last year with a 7-4 record before losing five of their next seven games. The Bulldogs won four of their last six games to reach 13-11 overall and 5-7 in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference. In the GCAC Tournament, Tougaloo fell 9492 in overtime against Xavier University of Louisiana. This season, Tougaloo will have to face Dillard University and Talladega College, who will be the teams to beat in the GCAC. The Bulldogs have returning forward Andravious Smith, who averaged 15.7 points, and guard Jarmell Anderson, who averaged 12.3 points, but Tougaloo will need more production from other players to fight for the GCAC title this season.
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Goodbye, Pop Culture Pops of you and your selfless support.” Pop Culture Pops, a gourmet ice- At press time, Craig could not give any pop shop that Craig Kinsley and his wife, details about the new business venture. Lori Kinsley, opened in April 2015, is now closed. The couple posted about the clos- Thai House Says Farewell, ing on their Facebook page. Thai Time Moving In “Hey Jackson! First, we love you. We Owners Watt and Tim Bunniran are love that each of you has not only been a closing their restaurant, Thai House (1405 patron of Pop Culture, but has supported Old Square Road), on Nov. 30 to go into us in so many ways over the past one-and- retirement. The couple said their farewells a-half years,” the post reads. “We began Pop to all their customers in a press release: Culture in our kitchen on E. Ridgeway St. “This November, we are celebratin Fondren. We bought a couple of plastic ing 24 years in business. We opened Thai molds from Amazon and some fresh fruit House (with) our dream of owning a busifrom Kroger, and spent hours and hours ness to share our family recipes and to supdeveloping a product that we were proud port our three young children: Su, Charles of. With the help of our wonderful neigh- and Toon. We were overjoyed to introduce bors, we were able to sell our first pop in a matter of weeks at Fondren’s First Thursday. Chane gave us a spot, and we rolled out our first wooden pop stand. Within 24 hours, we could barely keep up with demand. David Pharr allowed us to set up in front of the Capri Theater, and Craig spent many hours producing pops. It was from that humble beginning that we were able to serve you. Thai House had Thai dishes such as paneang “While thinking about with chicken. those times, it is with heavy hearts that we announce the closing of Pop many Jacksonians to their first taste of Culture. Whether it was at our store in Thailand: to new flavors, our culture, and Fondren or at the many events we attended of course, our family. Many of you have around the metro area, you all made all of seen our family progress from elementary the hard work worth it. Business ebbs and school to college and beyond, as we have, in flows, and at times, it becomes apparent turn, participated in the accomplishments that it is time to end one journey and look of your own families. Today, our dream has towards beginning another. We do have a been realized. Our children are now young very exciting new venture in the works. We adults with children and careers of their know that you will all love it just as much if own, and we could not be more proud. not more than you did our yummy pops. “It is with bittersweet feelings that “I would especially like to thank the this will be the last month for Thai House. Fondren neighborhood. You welcomed us We will be closing our doors on November with open arms in every possible way. We 30, 2016. As saddened as we are to close sincerely could not have done it without the doors to Jackson’s first Thai restaurant, you. To our E. Ridgeway neighbors, you we are excited to start our new journey in are honestly the most loving, helpful, sin- retirement. We look forward to spending cere and honest group of folks that we have more time with our family as it continues ever had the privilege to share life with. You to grow. We would like to invite you to make every day that much easier and every visit us this month to say goodbye to the night that much more peaceful. Pop Cul- restaurant and celebrate the good times we ture would have never happened without have shared.” you. A few people we need to mention by After Thai House closes on Nov. 30, name: Anna Hall, Chane, David Pharr, a new restaurant called Thai Time will be Steve Kinsley and Phil Walker. You guys move into the space. made Pop Culture. The closing has been Send business news tips to dustin@ difficult, but it warms our hearts to think jacksonfreepress.com.
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FRIDAY 11/4
SATURDAY 11/5
WEDNESDAY 11/9
Bass Jam is at Big Sleepy’s.
Art & Coffee is at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
Jim Dees signs copies of “The Statue and the Fury” at Lemuria Books.
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New Stage Theatre’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prizewinning play, “Our Town” continues through Nov. 6.
Shaun Martin and Mark Lettieri perform at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Martin’s debut album is called “Seven Summers,” and Lettieri’s latest album is “Spark and Echo.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m. There is a $3 surcharge for persons under 21. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.
TUESDAY 11/8
THURSDAY 11/3
Mistletoe Marketplace is at 11 a.m. at Mississippi Trade by TYLER EDWARDS Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Vendors from across the state sell jewjacksonfreepress.com elry, gifts, food and more. Additional dates: Nov. 4, 11 a.m., Nov. Fax: 601-510-9019 5, 9 a.m. $5-$15 admission; misDaily updates at tletoemarketplace.com. … The jfpevents.com Jackson 2000 Fall Dialogue Circle is at 6 p.m. at the JFP Youth Media Project (125 S. Congress St.). Local individuals discuss race, prejudice and racial reconciliation using a curriculum and study guides. Free, but register: jackson2000.org.
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The Medical Mall Foundation 20th Anniversary Celebration is at 7 p.m. at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Comedian Rickey Smiley is the
SATURDAY 11/5
Learn to Home Brew Day is at 10 a.m. at LD’s BeerRun (5006 Parkway Drive) with workshops and more. Free; email byobms@gmail.com; homebrewersassociation.org. … The “Blessed Are the Children” Screening is at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. at The Alamo Theater (333 N. Farish St.). The story follows Traci Patterson, who begins seeing and hearing strange things after she terminates an unwanted pregnancy. $8, $15 VIP; call 601-352-3365; eventbrite.com.
SUNDAY 11/6
“Our Town” is at 2 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). Thornton Wilder’s classic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about relatable struggles among residents of the village of Grover’s Corners. Additional dates: Nov. 2-5, 7:30 p.m. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com. … “The Wiz” is at 3 p.m. at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The musical infuses author L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” with a mix of rock, gospel and soul music. Additional dates: Nov. 3, 10 a.m., 7 p.m., Nov. 4, 11 a.m., Nov. 4-7, 7 p.m. $10-$15; call 601-979-2121; jsums.edu.
Alternative country singer-songwriter Shooter Jennings performs Friday, Nov. 4, at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar.
WEDNESDAY 11/9
“The 30th of May” Screening is at 6 p.m. at the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute (1017 John R. Lynch St.). The documentary presents the story of the African Americanled patriotic tradition in the Deep South using animation, archival and aerial footage, and interviews with veterans, organizers and participants. Free; jsums.edu. … The Glenmorangie Scotch Dinner is at 6 p.m. at BRAVO! Italian Restaurant (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 Frontage Road, Suite 244). Features traditional Scottish dishes from chef Matt Mabry along with a variety of aged Scotches. $127; call 601-982-8111; bravobuzz.com.
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Positioned for Progress Conference begins at 7 a.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Professionals from the nonprofit, government and business sectors focus on building capacity, improving collective impact and exploring collaborative opportunities in Jackson and throughout the Southeast. Additional dates: Nov. 3-4, 7 a.m. $139 single-day admission, $249 threeday admission; call 371-8003; positionedforprogress.org.
host. Includes performances from Joe and comedian Rita B. $35-$65; call 601-982-8467; ticketfly.com. … Shooter Jennings performs with Waymore’s Outlaws at 10 p.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The outlawcountry artist is the only son of legend Waylon Jennings. $25; call 601-354-9712; martinslounge.net.
courtesy Shooter Jennings
Beer && Code is at 6:30 p.m. at Mantle Co.Working (622 Duling Ave.). Web and app developers from around the Jackson metro area meet up for food, drinks and discussions. Open to the public. Free; call 601-812-8166; email dabit3@gmail.com; meetup.com.
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FRIDAY 11/4
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COMMUNITY Positioned for Progress Conference Nov. 2-4, 7 a.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Professionals from the nonprofit, government and business sectors focus on building capacity, improving collective impact and exploring collaborative opportunities in Jackson and throughout the Southeast. $139 single-day admission, $249 three-day admission; call 601371-8003; email jthompson@fcgworks.com; positionedforprogress.org. “Do You Have a Seat at the Table?” Community Forum Nov. 3, 6 p.m., at Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center (528 Bloom St.). The workshop discusses topics such as training community members, education, economic development and mentorship efforts for youth. Free; call 601-960-1457; eventbrite.com. All Decked Out—Girls Night Out Nov. 3, 6:30 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Features a chance for a holiday makeover from Belk, signature cocktails from The Manship and a night of dancing. In conjunction with Mistletoe Marketplace. $45; call 601-948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com. 2016 IHL Human Resources Annual Conference Nov. 7-8, 11 a.m., at Mississippi e-Center at Jackson State University (1230 Raymond Road). Brings together human resource professionals to create system-wide relationships though networking, discussions, sharing of best practices and the clarification of newly released policy changes and their implementation. Free; call 601-979-1246; eventbrite.com.
FOOD & DRINK Events at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.) • 2016 Marketplace Brunch Nov. 4, 8 a.m. Includes brunch, festive beverages, a strolling jazz ensemble and shopping opportunities. $60; call 948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com. • Mistletoe On Tap Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. Features beer tastings, farm-to-table food, special guest chef Nick Wallace and music from Acoustic Crossroads. $40; mistletoemarketplace.com. Art & Coffee Nov. 5, 10 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the Yates Community Room. Discuss current and upcoming exhibitions. Includes coffee and pastries. Free admission; call 960-1515; msmuseumart.org.
JFP-SPONSORED Events at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.) • Mistletoe Marketplace Preview Gala and Auction Nov. 2, 7 p.m. Features an early look at the 2016 merchants, food from Mangia Bene, the red carpet and music by the D-Play Band. Includes exclusive silent and live auctions. $100; call 948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com. • Mistletoe Morning: A Morning of merriMINT Nov. 3, 8 a.m., at Features early shopping at the vendors of Mistletoe Marketplace. $65; call 601-948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com. • Mistletoe Marketplace Nov. 3-4, 11 a.m., Nov. 5, 9 a.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Vendors from across the state sell jewelry, gifts, food and more. $5-$15 admission; call 948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com. Jackson 2000 Fall Dialogue Circle Nov. 3, 6 p.m., at JFP Youth Media Project (125 S. Congress St.). Local individuals discuss race, prejudice and racial reconciliation using a curriculum and study guides from Everyday Democracy. Free; call 504-931-5486; email dialoguecircles@jackson2000.org; jackson2000.org.
STAGE & SCREEN Our Town Nov. 2-5, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 6, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). Thornton Wilder’s classic Pulitzer Prize-winning play about relatable struggles among residents of the village of Grover’s Corners. $28, $22 seniors and students; call 948-3533; newstagetheatre.com. The Wiz Nov. 3, 10 a.m., 7 p.m., Nov. 4, 11 a.m., Nov. 4-5, 7 p.m., Nov. 6, 3 p.m., Nov. 7, 7 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.). The musical infuses author L. Frank Baum’s classic tale with a mix of rock, gospel and soul music. $10-$15; call 979-2121; jsums.edu. “Blessed Are the Children” Screening Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m., at The Alamo Theater (333 N. Farish St.). The story follows Traci Patterson, who begins seeing and hearing strange things after she terminates an unwanted pregnancy. $8, $15 VIP; call 601-352-3365; eventbrite.com. “The 30th of May” Screening Nov. 9, 6 p.m., at Fannie Lou Hamer Institute (1017 John R. Lynch St.). The documentary presents the story of the African American-led patriotic tradition in the Deep South using animation, archival and aerial footage, and interviews with veterans, organizers and participants. Free; jsums.edu. “6 Angry Women” Screening Nov. 9, 7 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). The film features the jury deliberation of six women in the aftermath of a white neighborhood watchman shooting an unarmed African American teenager. Free; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.
CONCERTS & FESTIVALS
The Glenmorangie Scotch Dinner Nov. 9, 6 p.m., at Bravo! Italian Restaurant & Bar (Highland Village, 4500 Interstate 55 Frontage Road, Suite 244). Features traditional Scottish dishes from chef Matt Mabry along with a variety of aged Scotches. $127; call 601-9828111; bravobuzz.com.
Medical Mall Foundation 20th Anniversary Celebration Nov. 4, 7 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). Comedian Rickey Smiley is the host. Includes performances from Joe and comedian Rita B. $35-$65; call 601-982-8467; ticketfly.com.
SPORTS & WELLNESS
Bass Jam Nov. 4, 9 p.m., at Big Sleepy’s (208 W. Capitol St.). Includes performances from Red Barrington, Taboo, DJ Uri, DJ C3, EzB and DJ Tricky Jr. Admission $5 before 10 p.m., $10 after; call 863-9516; bigsleepys.com.
Brawn & Bubbles 5K Nov. 3, 5:30 p.m., at Reservoir Pointe (140 Madison Landing Circle, Ridgeland). Proceeds from the 5K race benefit The MIND Center at UMMC. Includes an after-party at Reservoir Pointe with drinks, food and live music. Virtual run $26, 5K $36; call 601-506-1957; umc.edu/MINDRun.
Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Flow Tribe Nov. 4, 9 p.m. The New Orlean funk-rock band performs. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21.; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.
• Galactic Nov. 6, 8:30 p.m. The jazz and funk jam band’s latest album is called “Into the Deep.” Fruition also performs. $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; ardenland.net. • Shaun Martin & Mark Lettieri Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m. Martin’s album is “Seven Summers,” and Lettieri’s album is “Spark and Echo.” $15 advance, $20 at the door, $3 surcharge for patrons under 21; ardenland.net. Shooter Jennings with Waymore’s Outlaws Nov. 4, 10 p.m., at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The outlaw-country artist is the only son of legend Waylon Jennings. $25; call 601-354-9712; martinslounge.net. Native American Heritage Festival Nov. 5, 10 a.m., at Clinton Visitor Center (1300 Pinehaven Drive, Clinton). Features the Mystic Wind Choctaw Social Dancers, the Mystic Wind InterTribal Dancers and the Southern Pine Drum group. Free; call 601-924-2221; clintonms.org. Events at Jackson Medical Mall (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.) • 11th Annual Tommy Johnson Gospel Festival Nov. 5, 11 a.m. Pastor Douglas Noel, The Crowns of Joy, Pastor Dwight B. Robinson, Ontario Showers & Delivered, Anointed to Praise, Da Minista and the Crystal Springs Youth Choir perform. $10; call 601-951-4679. • 11th Annual Tommy Johnson Blues Festival Nov. 5, 6 p.m. Omar Cunningham, Terry Wright, Eddie Cotton, Larry Milton, Blues Man, Miss Ora and the SOS Band and Equanya perform. $25; call 601-685-4751; tommyjohnsonblues.com.
LITERATURE & SIGNINGS First Thursday Book Talks Nov. 3, 11:30 a.m., at St. James’ Episcopal Church (3921 Oakridge Drive). Teresa Nicholas speaks on her book, “Willie: The Life of Willie Morris.” $8 for lunch; call 601-982-4880. “The Statue and the Fury” Nov. 9, 5 p.m., at Lemuria Books (4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Jim Dees signs copies. $24.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.. Check jfpevents.com for updates and more listings, or to add your own events online. You can also email event details to events@jacksonfreepress.com to be added to the calendar. The deadline is noon the Wednesday prior to the week of publication.
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haun Martin and Mark Lettieri certainly have a lot of options for their fans to choose from. Together, they’re perhaps best known as members of Grammy Awardwinning instrumental ensemble Snarky Puppy. Separately, both are sought-after commodities onstage and in studios, with Lettieri having played guitar for artists such as Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg, and Martin having played keys for artists such as Kirk Franklin and Chaka Khan. Most recently, the pair decided to hit the road for a co-headlining tour in support of their solo releases—Martin’s debut jazz, funk, gospel and R&B album, “Seven Summers,” released in July 2015, and Lettieri’s latest fusion-rock record, “Spark and Echo,” released in May 2016. Martin wrote and recorded “Seven Summers” over seven years, basing the compositions on the events he experienced during that time. This is even true for the many tracks without lyrics, such as “Madiba,” which he wrote in South Africa on the day Nelson Mandela died. Instrumental music uses the same passion that a vocalist uses, he says. It’s just about working with a different set of tools to convey it. “I guess it’s a matter of mentally marking that spot, marking that moment in time to kind of reinterpret it,” Martin says. “It’s almost like if you take a photo of this particular thing and share that photo with everybody. The photo never changes, but who you share it with and when you share it always does. That’s kind of why I tried to create this snapshot of, ‘This is what happened with this. This is how I felt here.’” “Spark and Echo” is Lettieri’s third solo release, following 2011’s “Knows” and 2013’s “Futurefun” EP. While he says he still enjoys the songs on those previous records, he felt that he was at a point as a
guitarist, composer and producer where he could make a bigger statement. He put more time and a larger budget into ensuring the best sonic quality of any of his releases, while also focusing on the songs as compositions rather than just as opportunities to further prove his guitar skills. The pair’s styles might seem at odds on the surface, but Lettieri says he and Martin have more similarities than one might think. These go beyond their shared status as instrumental artists and the fact that they play on each other’s records, into the roots of the music they write, he says. “Shaun is kind of one of the originators of this, but we have a bit of that Dallas soul, R&B, groove sound, so it’s almost like two different interpretations of it,” he says. “Shaun comes definitely from a heavy jazz place, and then mine is sort of a more rock interpretation of it, but it still has kind of that Texas gospel-soul thing buried in there somewhere. It’s almost like the audience is going to get two sides of the same coin.” Both composers say they’re excited to be promoting their passion projects, but of course, taking two weeks from touring with big-name acts often means passing on other opportunities. Thankfully, Martin says, the musicians offering those opportunities tend to understand because they had to make that choice themselves. “If you are really passionate about having something to your own name like we are, you just have to make yourself set aside the time to do it and kind of take that risk,” Lettieri says. “If you don’t take that risk and don’t assume whatever loss would come with it, then you’ll never do it.” Shaun Martin and Mark Lettieri perform at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 7, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. For more information, visit ardenland.net.
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Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Crocker 7:30 p.m. Hal & Mal’s - Mark Roemer & Jamie Weems free Kathryn’s - Kern Pratt 6:30 p.m. free Kemistry - Open Mic Night 9 p.m. 601-665-2073 Old Capitol Inn - Jason Turner Pelican Cove - Stevie Cain 7:30 p.m. Shucker’s - Silverado 7:30 p.m. free
NOV. 3 - Thursday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Cups - New Blood JXN feat. Finding Peace in Gunshots, Empty Atlas & Swamp Babies 6-9 p.m. free Fenian’s - Emerald Accent 8 p.m. Fitzgerald’s - Hunter Gibson & Chris Link 7:30 p.m. Georgia Blue, Flowood - Kevin Ace Robinson Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner Hal & Mal’s - Jerry Brooks Duo free Iron Horse Grill - Bluesman Kenny Williams 6 p.m. Kathryn’s - Travelin’ Jane 6:30 p.m. free Martin’s - David Allan Coe 8 p.m. Mississippi Trade Mart - All Decked Out: Girls’ Night Out feat. Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-8:30 p.m. Old Capitol Inn, Rooftop - Chris Gill Pelican Cove - Todd Smith 7 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m. free Soulshine Pizza, Flowood Jonathan Alexander 7 p.m. Sylvia’s - The Blues Man & Sunshine McGhee 9 p.m. free
NOV. 4 - Friday Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Kharisma Jazzmatic Funk 8 p.m. free Big Sleepy’s - Bass Jam feat. Red Barrington, Taboo, DJ Uri, DJ C3, EzB & DJ Tricky Jr. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. $5 before 10 p.m. $10 after CaddyShanks, Flowood - Brian Jones 7 p.m. Cerami’s - Linda Blackwell & James Bailey 6:30 p.m. free Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. Duling Hall - Flow Tribe 9 p.m. $15 advance $20 door ardenland.net F. Jones Corner - The Blues Man 10 p.m. $1; Stevie J Blues midnight $10 Fenian’s - Becca Rose 9:30 p.m. Fitzgerald’s - Doug Hurd 7:30 p.m.
Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jason Turner Georgia Blue, Madison - Shaun Patterson Hal & Mal’s - Swing de Paris 7-10 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - Wes Lee 9 p.m. Jackson Convention Complex Jackson Medical Mall 20th Anniversary feat. Joe w/ comedians Rickey Smiley & Rita B. 7-10 p.m. $35-$65 Kathryn’s - Faze 4 7 p.m. free M Bar - Flirt Fridays feat. DJ T. Lewis free Martin’s - Shooter Jennings w/ Waymore’s Outlaws 10 p.m. Offbeat - They Laugh: A Comedy Show feat. William Loden Jr., Kyle Kordsmeier, James Cody, Holly Perkins, Patrick Jerome & J. Evan Curry 9-11 p.m. Old Capitol Inn, Rooftop - Ron Etheridge Pelican Cove - 3 Hour Tour 7 p.m. Shucker’s - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 5:30 p.m. free; Spunk Monkees 8 p.m. $5; Brian Jones 10 p.m. free
Kathryn’s - Steel Country 7 p.m. free Martin’s - The Stolen Faces 10 p.m. Pelican Cove - Shaun Patterson & Jonathan Alexander 7 p.m. Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m. free; Spunk Monkees 8 p.m. $5; Josh Journeay 10 p.m. free Soul Wired Cafe - Love Jones Best Hate/Love Poetry feat. Mac Music 10 p.m. WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m. free before 10 p.m.
NOV. 6 - Sunday Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Duling Hall - Galactic w/ Fruition 7:30 p.m. $25 advance $30 door ardenland.net The Hideaway - Mike & Marty’s Jam Session Kathryn’s - Reunion Band 6 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Ronnie Brown 11 a.m.; Rocking the Keys (Dueling Pianos) 4 p.m. Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m. free Sombra - John Mora 11 a.m. Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.
NOV. 7 - Monday Soulshine Pizza, Flowood - Andy Tanas 7 p.m. Soulshine Pizza, Ridgeland - Barry Leach 8 p.m. WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.2 a.m.
Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Duling Hall - Shaun Martin & Mark Lettieri 7:30 p.m. $15 advance $20 door ardenland.net Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society (rest) 7 p.m. Kathryn’s - Barry Leach 6:30 p.m. free
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Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m. Fenian’s - Open Mic Kathryn’s - Robin Blakeney 6:30 p.m. free Last Call Sports Grill - Top-Shelf Tuesdays feat. DJ Spoon 9 p.m. Margarita’s - John Mora 6 p.m.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Until 2007, Scotland’s official slogan was “Scotland, the Best Small Country in the World.” Deciding that wasn’t sufficiently upbeat, the government spent $187,000 on a campaign to come up with something better. “Home of Golf” and “Home of Europe’s Fastest Growing Life Sciences Community” were among the proposed phrases that were rejected. The ultimate choice: “Welcome to Scotland.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because you’re in a favorable phase to rebrand yourself. But I hope you will be more daring and imaginative than Scotland. How about “Smolderingly Alarmingly Brilliant”? Or maybe “Safely Risky and Unpredictably Wise” or “Home of the Best Secrets Ever”?
I cheer you on as you attend to your difficult but holy duties. I send you my love as you summon the wisdom and resourcefulness you need to weather the gorgeous storm. Here are clues that might be useful: Whether you are partially or totally victorious will depend as much on the attitude you hold in your heart as on your outward behavior. Be grateful, never resentful, for the interesting challenges. Love your struggles for the new capacities they are building in you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
The coming weeks constitute the harvest phase of your personal cycle. That means you have the pleasure of gathering in the ripe rewards that you have been cultivating since your last birthday. But you also have the responsibility to answer and correct for any carelessness you have allowed to affect your efforts during the previous 11 months. Don’t worry, dear. My sense is that the goodies and successes far outnumber and overshadow the questionable decisions and failures. You have ample reasons to celebrate. But I hope you won’t get so caught up in your rightful exaltation that you’ll neglect the therapeutic atonements.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Like England and Spain, the Netherlands has a royal family, including a king, queen, prince and princesses. They’re an egalitarian bunch. The young ones attend public schools, and the previous queen’s birthday is celebrated with a nation-wide flea market. The king’s crown is attractive but quite economical. Its pearls are fake, and other “jewels” are made of glass, colored foil and fish scales. In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that you create a regal but earthy headpiece for yourself. It’s high time for you to elevate your self-worth in an amusing and artful way. What fun and funky materials will you use in your homemade crown?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
In her book, “A Natural History of the Senses,” Diane Ackerman reports on the eccentric methods that professional writers have used to galvanize their creative process. Poet Amy Lowell relaxed into her work day by puffing on Manila cigars. Novelist Colette plucked fleas from her cat. T. S. Eliot’s poetry thrived when he had a head cold. Novelist George Sand liked to jump out of bed after making love and immediately begin writing. Novelist William Gass, who is still among the living, wanders around outside taking photos of “rusty, derelict, overlooked, downtrodden” places. As for D. H. Lawrence: climbing mulberry trees naked energized his genius. What about you, Pisces? Now is an excellent time to draw intensely on your reliable sources of inspiration—as well as to seek new ones.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
I am in awe of your headfirst, charge-forward, nodistractions approach. In fact, I aspire to incorporate more of the Aries-style directness into my own repertoire. But I also love it when, on rare occasions, you flirt with a more strategic perspective. It amuses me to see you experimenting with the power of secrets. Your wisdom often grows at an expedited rate when you get caught up in a web of intrigue that exposes you to dark joys and melodramatic lessons. During times like these, you feel fine about not having everything figured out, about not knowing the most straightforward route to your destination. You allow the riddles and enigmas to ferment as you bask in the voluptuous ambiance of the Great Mystery. Now is such a time.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Probably too narrow and constrained, as well. But here’s the good news: As soon as you agree to relinquish the dull certainty of that 30+ percent, you will open yourself to a surge of fresh teachings. And soon, I expect, dewy throbs and hot flows will awaken in all the erotic parts of your body, including your heart, brain and soul. If you’re brave enough to respond, generous lessons in intimacy will keep you entertained for weeks.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Over the last two decades, well-meaning Westerners have donated a profusion of clothes to low-income folks in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Kind and magnanimous, right? Yes, but their largesse has had an unintended consequence: the demise of the textile industry in those African countries. With this as a cautionary tale, I’m asking you to take inventory of your own acts of benevolence and charity. Are they having effects that you approve of? If not completely, how could you adjust the way you give your gifts and bestow your blessings?
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Is it possible that you might flourish as a topdog after all the work you’ve put in as an underdog? Can you wean yourself from the worried fantasy that you’ve got endless dues to pay, and then harness your imagination to expand your confidence and build your clout? I believe you can. And in the coming weeks I will unleash a flood of prayers to the Goddess of Holy Reversals, asking her to assist you. Now, please repeat after me: “I am a creative force of nature. I am a strong song of liberation. I am a wise animal with direct access to my primal intelligence.”
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The next two weeks could be smooth, peaceful and bland. Is that the experience you want? Mild satisfactions, sweet boredom and slow progress? There’s nothing wrong with any of that. Please feel free to loll and loaf as you explore the healing charms of laziness. Grant yourself permission to avoid conflict and cultivate sunny self-protectiveness. This is one of those times when silence and stasis are among the best gifts you can give yourself. Welcome the rejuvenating power of emptiness!
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It’s time to replace banged-up, dried-out old obsessions with ripe, juicy fascinations. It’s your duty to phase out numbing traditions and deadening habits so as to make room for exciting new rituals, customs, and sacraments. Can you summon the electric willpower to shed influences that are technically “correct” but lacking in soulfulness? I think you can. Do you love yourself enough to forswear pretty but meaningless titillations? I think you do. Now get out there and do the hard work necessary to bring more serious fun into your life. Homework: Write an essay titled “What I Can Do to Be More Playful.”
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