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or the last six years, Jackson native Emily Jones Caraway, 34, has been a single mom to her son, Holden Caraway, who is currently 10.

Caraway and her son are both active at their home in Madison and in Jackson, where Holden is finishing up his fourth grade year at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School.

“Saint Andrew’s has been extremely supportive of us a family and also my child as an individual,” Caraway says.

While she says she appreciates how St. Andrew’s supports diversity, she also finds support in her parents, Hansel and Janet Jones, and her brothers, Ben and Chris, whom she says help with things such as picking up Holden from school and more.

“Being a single parent, I feel like it pushes me to be a better mother,” Caraway says. “It’s difficult at times. It’s a roller coaster, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I feel like Holden was made for me, and I was made for him, so it works.”

Caraway is a bureau director at the Mississippi Department of Revenue, where she manages 10 people. She is also an independent fashion retailer for LulaRoe and an independent consultant with health company Arbonne.

“I had never been one to just take a chance on myself, but I decided that if you’re going to bet on anything why not

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bet on yourself?” Caraway says. “Last year, I felt an overwhelming need to just do that, so I harnessed it with LulaRoe, and I’ve continued that with Arbonne, and you know, there’s just no stopping me.”

Through selling retail with LulaRoe and encouraging healthy lifestyles with Arbonne, she says she likes being a positive light for women and helping people become healthier.

“There’s something really good about helping women feel beautiful, and I feel like that empowers them to go out believing that they can excel,” Caraway says.

Outside of her work life, Caraway participates in the Central Mississippi Paddling Mafia kayaking club. She also enjoys gardening, reaching out to other single parents, advocating for the LGBT community and reading.

Caraway says she and her son play soccer, basketball in their driveway and video games together. She also supports how he expresses himself through art.

“Holden is an extremely gifted little human being,” Caraway says. “He has a great sense of who is and has a great spirit.

I love him, and I feel honored and blessed that I get to watch him grow up, and that I get to play a part in his life. That’s what I was put on this earth to do.”

—Morgan Gallon

cover photo of Chokwe Lumumba

by Imani Khayyam

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10 JPS on Deadline

The Jackson Public Schools District and board contracted with a consultant to help them meet their end of June deadline to avoid a state takeover.

20 For the Local Moms

This city loves our mamas. Read about what’s happening in Jackson this Mother’s Day.

24 ........................ Events 26 .......................... music 26 ........ music listings 27 ............................ Arts 28 ...................... Puzzles 29 ......................... astro 29 ............... Classifieds

26 Grace Askew’s Warpath

“I’ve been in this Americana, throwback, old-school kind of sound for a while, and I just found myself feeling stagnant and feeling kind of stunted creatively. So I just chose to throw myself into this current sound because it’s kind of scary, and it’s unfamiliar, but it’s so reviving.”

—Grace Askew, “A New Warpath”

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PUBLISHER’s note

by Todd Stauffer, Publisher

Doers, Builders, Creators: Let’s Get Organized

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’m not going to lie—the JFP staff was gearing up for a runoff in this year’s Democratic mayoral primary. We’d seen polls that put Chokwe Antar Lumumba in first place, but with a plurality of votes— in the 30-percent realm—even if we believed that was probably a low prediction.

It looked like the real race would be to see whether Sen. John Horhn and Hinds Supervisor Robert Graham would make the runoff. (That was before Graham’s commercials with his wife’s dog.)

In the end, Lumumba won outright with 55 percent of the vote, something that hasn’t happened in a Democratic mayoral primary in quite a while.

I won’t say it was a complete shock— Lumumba’s father’s poll numbers were a lot softer than his final tally, and the younger Lumumba had a strong showing three years ago in the special election to replace his father. That tells me that Team Lumumba has a heck of an organized ground game— something that certainly seemed to play out on Primary Day.

It’s also something that gives me a great deal of hope for Jackson under a Lumumba administration. If their campaign is that well organized, then maybe, just prayerfullymaybe, Lumumba’s administration can be well organized, too.

I’ve been saying it for a hot minute about Jackson, and particularly about creatives, professionals and local business interests in Jackson—we need to get organized.

Jackson needs a good ground game.

On his Facebook page, Clarion-Ledger editorial cartoonist (and otherwise fabulous person) Marshall Ramsey said “we’re all in this together” as he summed up the mayoral race. While this mayoral election was relatively tame compared to some we’ve

seen, there has still been harsh rhetoric and fear mongering during campaign season.

We have to continue to say loudly— and mean it—that we’re all in this together.

It is time to create jobs in Jackson and not just plump contracts for donors (as well as questionable ones with multinational corporations). It’s time for the City to do some serious planning when it comes to infrastructure and economic development— and it’s time for the citizenry to get organized and get involved.

Jackson needs a good ground game.

Jackson has a $364-million annual budget and well over a billion dollars’ worth of problems. We need to find some sort of will, determination and game plan to make good things happen in this city—and to build the tax base. Those things will only happen when we’re working together.

In recent weeks, I’ve had more than a few conversations with people who are moving to the Jackson area, or who are from here but now live in the suburbs. And I get it. There’s an assumption—probably a reasonable one—that when you live in a city, it should provide certain services and amenities simply because you’re a taxpayer, a ratepayer or a resident.

As many of us know, in Jackson, it

doesn’t quite work like that.

This city has problems—and while some folks like to sit in the country and catcall Jackson, saying the problem is “Democrat (sic) politicians,” we know that the city has suffered ridiculous levels of Jim Crow and racial upheaval, urban renewal, redlining, white flight and economic flight. Oh, and there was that era in the 1960s and ’70s when the white folks picked up all the stuff they could in the public schools and moved it to Council schools along with their kids—and have pretty much refused to fully fund public schools ever since.

Let’s acknowledge that. Let’s also acknowledge that over the past few decades a variety of city administrations have let us down in terms of the level of service and commitment they offer to residents from water to roads to business permitting to squandered economic-development efforts.

But that doesn’t mean that the best plan is to sit back and complain about it.

Let’s leave that to the “leavers.”

Local businesses are economic drivers.

They create jobs, make investments, and rally the public and one another to respond to the community’s needs by training others in business and entrepreneurship, donating to charity, organizing events, building parks or working with the schools, and mentoring kids.

What’s most promising about Lumumba to me is that he’s been steeped in a tradition of organizing regular people toward common goals. I think that’s one place where he can make a real difference.

Deeply understanding how to motivate people to work together can be a powerful tool in the right hand.

I plan to watch Lumumba carefully

(to make sure he’s doing the right thing) and participate all I can in getting organized to get Jackson on the right track.

My approach will be to help organize businesses, makers and creatives so our needs are heard and our talents tapped. (One way is through TeamJXN and THIRDspace, a new after-hours gathering that TeamJXN inaugurates this Thursday at Deep South Pops in Fondren, and that will move all around town throughout the year.)

Assuming Lumumba wins the general election, he’ll also put Jackson back on a national stage. Folks will be watching this town (and the metro) to see how we deal with issues involving equity, economic development, education and opportunity.

(Some of them can help us, too; they give grants, focus resources, and offer support and best practices.)

Lumumba’s slogan is “when I become mayor, you become mayor.” While that could just be a nice political phrase, I say we take him up on it. At 34, Lumumba is a relatively young man—but he’s well educated, had fantastic parents, and has a supportive and productive family. I’ve spent some time with him, and I like a lot of what he says.

Leadership is motivating people, not doing it all yourself. If the presumptive mayor can help get us organized, we can take it the rest of the way. Let’s build a strong Jackson that works with its government, encourages its workers, and steps in when necessary to make sure our interests are heard and responded to.

When Lumumba says “People’s Assembly,” he tells me he means all the people (As in, “We the People,” remember?)

Let’s make it happen.

Todd Stauffer is the publisher and coowner of the Jackson Free Press.

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contributors

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Donna Ladd

Arielle Dreher

Morgan Gallon

Imani Khayyam

Dustin Cardon

Katie Gill

Tyler Edwards

Kimberly Griffin

JFP Editor-in-chief, CEO and co-founder Donna Ladd is a graduate of Mississippi State and Columbia j-school. She has undying belief that Jackson and Mississippi can build a unified, equitable future. She wrote the cover essay.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her ideas at arielle@ jacksonfreepress.com. She wrote about the ACA repeal, police profiling and JPS.

Freelance writer Morgan Gallon finds pure joy in listening to Johnnyswim and reading novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. They help her to communicate the floating colors in her mind. She wrote the Jacksonian.

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 the cover photo and many, many inside the issue.

Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He contributed to the Mother’s Day food round-up.

Katie Gill is a Jackson native, University of Mississippi graduate, and freelance arts and music reporter. When she isn’t writing, she can be found knitting and re-tweeting pictures of dogs.

She wrote about the “Murder Is Golden” dinner-theater show.

Events Editor Tyler Edwards loves film, TV and all things pop culture. The Jackson native will gladly debate the social politics of comic books.

Send events to events@ jacksonfreepress.com. He compiled the event listings.

Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin is a fitness buff and foodie who loves chocolate and her mama. She’s also Michelle Obama’s super secret BFF, which explains the lifetime Secret Service detail.

She runs this place.

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The JPS School Board hired a contractor to help meet its corrective-action deadline p 10

“There are some people who will not be at the table: teachers, administrators, executive level (positions). We’re having to make some decisions, and we’re not afraid to do that.”

–Jackson Public Schools Interim Superintendent Dr. Freddrick Murray about coming changes in the district.

Wednesday, May 3

Unofficial results show that Chokwe Antar Lumumba won the Jackson Democratic primary by a landslide against other candidates, drawing more than twice the votes as John Horhn.

Friday, May 5

The U.S. Interior Department releases a list of 27 national monuments, mainly in western states, that it will consider changing protections over.

Saturday, May 6

The campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron announces that it suffered a major hacking attack and document leak that it calls a bid to destabilize Sunday’s runoff.

Sunday, May 7

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signs a so-called “sanctuary cities” ban that lets police ask during routine stops whether someone is in the U.S. legally and threatens sheriffs with jail if they don’t cooperate with federal immigration agents.

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Monday, May 8

Ten black Madison County residents join the ACLU of Mississippi in a new federal class-action lawsuit against Madison County and Sheriff Randall Tucker, alleging that the sheriff’s department exposed these and other African Americans to “unconstitutional racially discriminatory policing tactics.”

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Tuesday, May 9

Former U.S. President Barack Obama says during his first foreign visit since leaving office that he’s “confident that the United States will continue to move in the right direction” on climate change despite his successor’s pledges to undo many of his policies.

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by Arielle Dreher

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arly on a Sunday morning last June, Khadafy and Quinnetta Manning were at home with their three sons and their niece at their apartment complex in Canton, when Quinnetta heard loud bangs on her front door. When she asked who was there, the answer came: “The police.”

Quinnetta opened the door slightly and saw six white, male Madison County Sheriff’s Department deputies. Quinnetta asked what they needed.

“Oh, y’all smoking weed in there?” one deputy asked Quinnetta, court documents show. Quinnetta told them she did not smoke marijuana or use illegal drugs, but one deputy pushed past her anyway without mentioning a search warrant, and the rest followed.

Deputies never mentioned illegal drugs again, but instead asked if Quinnetta had “seen what went on downstairs,” referring to a dispute and alleged property crime between her neighbor and her neighbor’s boyfriend that had happened earlier that morning.

Quinnetta had not witnessed the crime, she told them.

Nevertheless, the deputies demanded that Quinnetta write a witness statement, repeatedly telling her that she could either write the witness statement, or be treated as a suspect herself, court documents show.

Khadafy got up around this time, documents allege, and told his wife she did not have to provide a false witness statement. “I know my rights,” he told

The recording, which the ACLU of Mississippi edited and released in part, shows the deputy with his hand on Khadafy’s neck. Khadafy can be heard Imani Khayyam

Thursday, May 4

Mississippi officials take part in a ceremony celebrating the designation of the state Capitol as a National Historic Landmark. ... House Speaker Philip Gunn’s staff reveals proposals to get more funding to roads and bridges—which they hope to be included in the June special session.

A ‘State of Siege’ in Madison County?

Quinnetta Manning and her husband Khadafy are two of 10 plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit the ACLU of Mississippi brought against Madison County and Sheriff Randall Tucker for “racially discriminatory policing tactics.”

the deputies. Deputies then “flew in to a rage,” the couple alleged in court files.

One deputy handcuffed Khadafy and started to choke him, and Quinnetta started recording on her cellphone.

saying, “Officer, please why are you handling me like this? I ain’t do nothing.”

“Because you ain’t acting right,” the deputy responds.

The federal lawsuit, which

New Jackson Problems to Grouse About

by JFP Staff

Since we’ll have a new mayor soon, the Jackson Free Press decided to come up with a list of problems that need to be solved.

The werewolves who dumpster-dive and howl at the moon all night.

The way the eyes on the Louis XVII statue follow you around.

There’s no inflatable slide anywhere. Still.

The fact that there’s no fish in potholes. We really want to try pothole fishing.

People need to learn how to navigate a damn roundabout.

The city needs an areawide pub quiz-off.

Downtown Jackson could use an apple orchard.

The city needs to star in a remake of “Cheers.”

Jackson needs its own flippin’ political party.

“To me, all we’ve done is rearrange the chairs on the Titanic.

It’s still a sinking ship until we fix Medicaid.”

“I should not be treated differently just because I’m black or a black woman—I deserve to be treated with respect.”

–Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney on the House passing the American Health Care Act last week.

–Quinnetta Manning, one of the plaintiffs suing the Madison County Sheriff’s Department for its “discriminatory” policing policies after a raid on her home.

‘Change Is Coming’

The Mannings are two of the 10 black Madison County residents suing the county and Sheriff Randall Tucker in a federal class-action lawsuit the ACLU of Mississippi filed this week.

The sheriff’s department exposed the Mannings and other African Americans to “unconstitutional racially discriminatory policing tactics,” the 80plus-page lawsuit alleges.

Quinnetta Manning summarized the events of that June morning to reporters on May 8, saying she is still afraid that the sheriff’s department will come into her home and threaten to arrest her or her husband.

“I should not be treated differently just because I’m black or a black woman—I deserve to be treated with respect,” Quinnetta said.

Paloma Wu, the legal director of the ACLU of Mississippi, said the lawsuit is a result of a year-long investigation based

on hundreds of pages of public records from the sheriff’s department. Dozens of Madison County residents came forward to share their stories, as well.

Madison County are almost five times more likely to be arrested than their white counterparts in the county, despite African Americans making up only 38

Source: Courtesy ACLU of Mississippi Lawsuit

Data from hundreds of public-records requests from the Madison County Sheriff’s Department show that African Americans in the county make up the majority of arrests despite making up 38 percent of the county’s population.

The lawsuit says the sheriff ’s department targets vehicular roadblocks, pedestrian checkpoints, warrantless searches of homes and “jump-out” patrols in predominantly black communities in the county.

“In effect, the Policing Program has placed the Black community of Madison County under a permanent state of siege,” the complaint says.

Wu dismissed any notion that the problem only involves a few “bad apples,” on May 8, saying the policies have been in place for decades.

“When you read the complaint, and you look at all of the stories ... you’ll get a feeling ... that the bad-apple theory is not a theory—it’s a fantasy dreamed up by people who are afraid of the facts and afraid of change more than they love justice,” Wu said. “We do challenge everyone in this community to open their minds to the stories and statistics and to be ready because change is coming.”

From Data to Discrimination

Data show that black people in

percent of the total county population, Jonathan Youngwood, an attorney with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, which is serving as co-counsel on the case, explained at a press conference on Monday at the ACLU office.

“Almost 81 percent of roadblock arrests in Madison County between May and September of 2016 were of black individuals,” the complaint says.

Youngwood said the plaintiffs are seeking an injunction from the federal court to stop the sheriff ’s department from using roadblocks, pedestrian checkpoints and warrantless searches, as

well as establish an independent civilian complaint review board and increase training and monitoring of officers. The suit is based on 4th and 14th Amendment claims, Youngwood said.

Plaintiff Steven Smith was arrested at a pedestrian checkpoint outside his apartment complex, the complaint says.

He was then incarcerated for 29 days, the complaint says, after officers ran his ID and found that he owed the county overdue fines and court fees.

“It was very difficult for my family to have me away and not being able to work,” he said at the offices of the ACLU of Mississippi in downtown Jackson.

Gov. Phil Bryant vetoed legislation last month that would have prevented Mississippians from being thrown in jail just because they cannot pay fines and fees, among other criminal-justice reforms.

Beyond the injunction, plaintiffs are asking the Madison County Sheriff’s Department to update its policies, make data publicly available and award the Mannings compensatory damages as well as pay the plaintiffs’ attorney and court fees.

Several calls to Heath Hall, whom the secretary at the Madison County Sheriff’s Department referred the Jackson Free Press to for comment, went unanswered. Secretary of State records show that Hall is the president of a marketing company based in Madison, Strategic Marketing Group. Defendants had not filed court documents or responses by press time.

Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com and follow her on Twitter at @arielle_amara. Read related coverage jfp.ms/preventingviolence.

Most viral stories at jfp.ms:

1. “Mississippi GOP Shoots Out ‘Shameful’ Email about Chokwe Lumumba, Candidate Responds”

by Donna Ladd 2. “ ‘Victory Is Mine’: Lumumba Landslide Win Defies Conventional Wisdom,” by Arielle Dreher, Donna Ladd, Imani Khayyam and William Kelly III 3. “Madison County Sheriff Targeting Black People with ‘Top-Down Program” by Arielle Dreher 4. “The Poverty-Crime Connection” by Lacey McLaughlin 5. “Officer Allen ‘Junior’ Harper” by C. Liegh McInnis

Most viral events at jfpevents.com:

1. THIRDspace, May 11 2. Food Truck Friday – Visit Jackson, May 12 3. Superhero 5K & Fun Run, May 13 4. Mother’s Day High Tea, May 13 5. Mother’s Day Brunch, May 14 Find more events at jfpevents.com.

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the state’s ACLU filed this week against Madison County, says that one of the deputies threatened Quinnetta, telling her that if she did not write the witness statement, he would throw her husband in jail and set his bond at $50,000.

Quinnetta agreed to sign the statement, but the deputy then told her he was going to take her husband to jail anyway. Khadafy, who suffers from a nerve condition that makes it difficult for him to walk without a cane, was forced out of his home and put into the back of one of the sheriff’s squad cars.

Still in the apartment, police allegedly told Quinnetta that she could sign the statement or “go to County.”

Knowing she could not leave the kids with no parents, Quinnetta agreed and signed the statement. Her husband was still inside the vehicle, and the complaint states that the deputy repeatedly hit him on the head until he was in so much pain that he agreed to write a witness statement as well.

“Only when the statement was complete did Deputy #1 release Mr. Manning, who then stumbled barefoot in his underwear back into his home as his neighbors watched,” the lawsuit filed this week alleges.

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TALK | state

How ‘Trumpcare’ Could Hurt Mississippians

by Arielle Dreher

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he U.S. House of Representatives made good on (Medicaid) at this point, but 760,000 people ultimately all states and insurance companies operating in them President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of will be impacted in some way because if you take that were required to cover all Americans, regardless of prerepealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act much money out of the program, you’re either going existing conditions like cancer, surgeries in pregnancy last week, but the legislation could have dire im- to cut eligibility or services,” Mitchell told the Jackson or mental-health conditions—to name a few. pacts for Mississippi, a Republican leader says.

Free Press. “And we have such a fragile health care access The MacArthur Amendment, which the U.S.

The American Health Care Act of 2017 passed system now that you can bet hospitals are going to close House approved last week, would give states the power the House by four votes with many members admit- if you start tinkering with it to that degree.” to specify “the essential health benefits” that each inting later to not reading the full bill or the Congressio- Chaney told the Jackson Free Press that the House’s surer must cover in their state. Essentially, states could nal Budget Office analyzing its impact. The bill, which repeal bill does not address a plan for those people who have free rein to return to pre-ACA low-level requireMississippi’s three Republican congressmen voted to could lose health-insurance coverage from the impend- ments, although the amendment attempts to curb this pass, would repeal several parts of the ACA and changes ing changes to states’ Medicaid programs. He said it was by prohibiting “gender rating” and “limiting access to other parts of federal health- care coverage for individuals with preexlaw, including capping Medicaid isting conditions.” spending.

In Mississippi, that may not

These changes to “Obamacbe the case, at least on this insurare” could have adverse impacts on ance commissioner’s watch. Chaney seniors, who already pay more for said he changed the state’s essential insurance at a 3-to-1 ratio, those health benefits back in 2014 to inwho have not reached age 65 in orclude everything from maternity der to qualify for Medicare as well and newborn care to chronic disease as millennials too old to be on their management to mental-health and parents’ insurance plan—not to substance-abuse disorder services. mention people on Medicaid. Mis Chaney said he wrote the list sissippi Insurance Commissioner by looking at the benefits the largMike Chaney said the new plan est small group carriers in the state, will likely not work until lawmakBlueCross BlueShield and United ers address the cost of health care Healthcare, offered. and fix the Medicaid program.

“We took their essential health

“It’s pretty simple. If we don’t benefits because that included private control the cost of health care, plans and policies and that’s what I you’re not going to do anything,” used: they cover pregnancy, C-secMississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney has doubts that the American Chaney said May 5. “… To me, all tions, postpartum depression under Health Care Act addresses the costs of health-care or problems the state has with we’ve done is rearrange the chairs ‘mental health parities’ and domestic Medicaid. It’s like moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic, he says. on the Titanic. It’s still a sinking violence. … I caught a lot of hell over ship until we fix Medicaid.” doing that,” he said.

About 88,483 Mississippians would lose their cov- hard to guess how many people would come off the Chaney has no plan to change that list of 10 eserage from the Affordable Care Act Marketplace plans, Medicaid rolls but did say the state needs the ability to sential health benefits, even if given the option to do but Chaney and advocates agree that Mississippians on change some of the Medicaid waivers and laws, which so. This is good news for Mississippians who already Medicaid are likely to be most affected—in terms of would fall under the governor’s purview, not the insur- have health insurance coverage or will be looking to be coverage at least—by the repeal of Obamacare and its ance commissioner’s. insured once Trump signs some form of the Obamacare

The commissioner’s department could take the repeal, but insurers could still bump prices—especially regulations. risk-pool portal and add in additional companies that for seniors. Not to mention, Chaney may not hold the

could offer plans with defined benefits, something not insurance-commissioner position forever.

Medicaid Meltdown

Mississippi has the highest Medicaid matching rate allowed under the ACA. These defined benefit plans in the country, Kaiser Family Foundation data show. could offer some coverage for Mississippians, and Charging Seniors More Chaney said that equals out to around 4 federal dol- Chaney said he has companies “chomping at the bit” to Insurance companies are already allowed to charge lars to each state dollar. About a quarter of the state’s offer this kind of coverage in the state. seniors more for health coverage at a ratio of three-topopulation receives Medicaid benefits: 760,400 Missis- one, so a senior might be paying $600 a month for A ‘Pre-Existing’ Silver Lining? sippians, with about half of them children. an insurance plan that a young adult is paying $200 Back in 2009, insurers could deny a woman who a month for. Under the AHCA, that ratio would rise

Both factors add up to bad news for Mississippians on Medicaid if Trump’s plan to block-grant Medicaid was domestically abused health coverage in Mississippi. to five-to-one, so that senior previously paying $600 a funds takes root, Roy Mitchell, executive director at In the health-care world before the ACA, state policy month might have to pay $1,000 for their same policy. the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, says. The or insurers themselves could determine what insurance Chaney said he is only OK with that new ratio as long as House’s health-care proposal would likely be based on companies were required to cover. he has the flexibility to make it go up or down dependChaney told the Free Press in 2009 that the state ing on what market rates are. If insurance companies 2016 spending levels for Medicaid funds, and Missis- sippi’s spending level is low, despite our high match rate had only six mandated conditions companies had to do not adjust their lower rates, in our hypothetical the compared to other states expanding Medicaid while cover—and domestic abuse was not one of them. The $200 a month rate available to younger people, older Legislature did not have to address the problem, howMississippi did not, Mitchell says.

“It’s hard to say how many could be kicked off ever, because the implementation of the ACA meant more AHCA, see page 10

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TALK | education

JPS Hires Consultant, Facing Corrective Deadlines

By Arielle Dreher

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on corrective action plans, the contract shows.

Assessing the Climate

The district has made progress on certain parts of the CAP. The Mississippi Department of Education found that under former Superintendent Cedrick Gray’s tenure, his administration “fail(ed) to ensure that a positive, safe and secure school climate exists for students where

From left: JPS board members Jed Oppenheim, Rickey Jones and President Beneta Burt make up half of the JPS school board, which needs to fix several district policies before June 30 to keep the state from taking over the district.

teachers and staff feel supported by the administration and are able to maintain order and control,” one finding in the CAP says.

Part of the way JPS officials worked to fix this is they took a school climate survey in January to see how teachers and administrators felt about their working environment from safety to student behaviors. The challenges primarily fall

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in the realm of behavior problems on the part of both educators and children, from “students fight a lot at this school” to “students at my school have felt bullied, discriminated against or sexually harassed by other teachers.”

Only 47 percent of teachers and staff who took the survey submitted positive responses when asked about safety and respect in the district.

The survey also found that some Arielle Dreher file photo

he Jackson Public School District has a lot of work to do ahead of the June 30 deadline set for some improvements outlined in its Corrective Action Plan, which the district needs to complete to keep its accreditation and avoid a state takeover.

The CAP details JPS violations of 22 of the 32 state accreditation standards, as well as how they can fix the problem with each standard and who is responsible. And while district staff can fix most of these standards, the JPS Board of Trustees is responsible for ensuring that policies—from graduation requirements to disciplinary procedures—are consistently applied throughout the district.

JPS is a large district, with almost 27,000 students, but the governance of the school district is supposed to be in line with state law that says the board has the authority to “determine(s) policy, delegate executive, supervisory and instructional authority to its employees.”

The board recently hired an education consulting firm, The Bailey Education Group, to help it work through the CAP. Pat Ross with Bailey told board members at a work session last week that Standard 1, which addresses how discipline policies work district-wide, can be subjective because it deals with behavior issues in the classroom.

“Standard 1 is a lot about behavior, and sometimes behavior is subjective.

That’s why it’s so difficult to do that type of audit,” Ross told the Board on Thursday, May 4.

JPS will pay the Bailey Education Group more than $95,000 to work with the district through June 30 and help it hit the compliance deadline, the contract shows. Ross, the lead consultant on the project, has experience with working

people will have to pay much higher prices.

“My concern is for the person who’s 55 years old, and they’ve retired early in life, and they’re on a fixed income, will they be able to afford the new rates?” Chaney said last week.

The ACA used money from the Medicare trust fund to give tax subsidies for low-income individuals 10 with Marketplace plans, but under the AHCA those

JPS teachers are held to different standards than others, an issue that ironing out the district’s policies could help.

Interim Superintendent Freddrick Murray, who inherited the CAP when he was appointed after Gray’s departure, reminded the board that the changes are a work-in-progress—and that some of the systems have been the same way for decades.

go away, a BBC side-by-side comparison of the plans shows, and turn into tax credits for middle class Americans. Chaney’s concern is that the money leaving the Medicare trust fund does not seem to be taking care of people over the age of 65.

“The real issue is the money that leaves the Medicare trust fund that doesn’t take care of the people over 65,” Chaney said. “They are the ones that are the most vulnerable, they are the longer lifetime expectancy than we used to have, and they’re the ones that get hurt the most.”

The Senate will likely make several changes to the House’s bill, if not scrap it and introduce their own bill

“We’re building a good product. … We are holding people accountable.

There are some people who will not be at the table: teachers, administrators, executive level (positions). We’re having to make some decisions, and we’re not afraid to do that,” Murray said Thursday at a CAP work session meeting, implying that some district staff would likely not return in the 2017-2018 school year.

A Shifting Board

JPS board members are all mayoral appointees, who the Jackson City Council approves. Their terms are supposed to be staggered so that a spot on the board opens up each year. Board President Beneta Burt’s term ends June 30, meaning the incoming mayor of Jackson could appoint a new member to the board or re-appoint Burt in the midst of the district’s looming audit and takeover.

Board members serve for fiveyear terms. The next board member to complete his term is Jed Oppenheim, the only member appointed by the late Chokwe Lumumba. His term ends June 1, 2018. Other board members will serve terms ending from 2019 to 2021.

On Democratic mayoral candidate Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s campaign website, he lists pushing legislative reform for school boards as his priorities, particularly having school-board members elected.

Lumumba won the Democratic primary election for mayor last week and will face Republican Jason Wells as well as several independent candidates in the general election on June 6.

Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com and follow her on Twitter at @arielle_amara.

altogether. Either way the legislation will likely look different by the time it reaches Trump’s desk. But Chaney said he thinks the five-to-one ratio change, giving states the authority to dictate essential health benefits and chopping down and capping Medicaid funds will most likely stay in any proposal.

“It’s got a long way to go,” Chaney said of the bill.

Any changes Congress makes to the ACA will likely affect Mississippians with private and public health insurance or Medicaid coverage. How far those changes go and how many Mississippians they will affect remain to be seen.

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y experience with running for mayor of Jackson was tremendous. I met so many great people that I probably would have never come across had I not jumped in with both feet. Everything was interesting but nothing like people told me it would be. Most of the people that I dealt with along the way were quite nice.

I’ve made it my mission to always operate by the golden rule: “Treat people the way I want to be treated.” I 100-percent believe that when you operate in that manner, good things reciprocate.

When I announced my candidacy Dec. 14, 2016, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. The media that showed up that morning asked a few questions that I was not ready for, but I handled it the best I could. Surrounded by family and friends, we were a motley crew who didn’t know much about politics. What was certain was my passion for Jackson and the work I do, my call to enter the race, and my team’s willingness to trust and help me. My biggest fear was never the job requirement but the debate. ?

Our first forum was at a church in south Jackson. Every candidate had 15 minutes to give a speech on why we should be mayor, with no questions asked. I said my speech, not even using the full 15 minutes, but I was able to rouse the crowd by telling stories of what Jackson, especially south Jackson, used to be and my strong desire to get us back there. I used my gift of passionately telling stories to my advantage.

I struggled in the next forum, but by God, I got through it. I was able to regroup with my team and make improvements. Around the fourth one, I’d finally found my rhythm and identity within this arena. I enjoy life, love humor, and I was able to use my wit to make the audience laugh a little. I became one of the top three candidates whom people wanted to hear because they had no clue what I was going to say while on the stage. I had a hiccup here and there, but I did fairly well by the last debate.

Money was an issue from the start. My mother gifted me my first few thousand dollars to help get me started. However, raising money continued to be tough because people were unsure if I was fit to be mayor or should even be running. Over my career, I’ve never had a problem asking donors for money for various projects. But asking for money for a personal endeavor became one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Trying to do this on my own, I did all I could to not ask my father for help.

One day, I had a meeting with Pastor Jerry Young, hoping to get his endorsement. He greeted me, and we had a really nice conversation. He graciously listened as I shared my thoughts and plans. After about 15 minutes, he admitted that he’d already pledged his support to another candidate, and he believed in keeping his word. I totally understood. Even though I hated to hear “no,” I needed it. While leaving his office, my truck cut off on me and stalled the entire way home. My normal 15-minute drive turned into a 45-minute one. I cried the entire way because I had no clue of what to do or what direction to go in. Interestingly enough, the only thing I could do was “My God is Awesome.” I wasn’t mad at God—I just needed direction.

I believe he was waiting on me to cry out and ask for it. Well, from that moment forward, I did, knowing he was turning things around for me.

This was an amazing journey for me and my wife. I would do it all over again knowing the things that I know now. I grew close to the other candidates and their teams, seeing each other so often. Jackson is made up of many unique and wonderful people, and I love them all.

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Address Racial Bias in Policing Now, Not Later

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his week, the ACLU of Mississippi announced that it was representing 10 African Americans who live in Madison County who have been subject to “a coordinated top-down program of methodically targeting Black individuals” by the county’s sheriff’s department, the lawsuit alleges.

The horrors outlined in the more than 80page lawsuit are not hard to imagine living in Mississippi, where communities are usually segregated if not by county lines, then by gates or neighborhood distinctions.

Discriminatory policing has always been a reality in Mississippi, where too many cops have long enforced deeply held racial stereotypes. The excuse from many people is that, well, more black people commit crime.

That is simply not a valid excuse for profiling a race of people with a wide net to catch a small number of criminals, regardless of race.

The meme that black crime is more widespread than white crime only works when you’re manipulating your own statistics—or in Madison county’s case, as the lawsuit alleges, setting up roadblocks in primarily black neighborhoods. Of course, fewer white people will be arrested if the policing strategy and programs are only focused on communities of color. That bias, implicit or not, is at the heart of not just Madison County’s case, as the lawsuit alleges, but all counties and communities in the state.

“The MCSD’s Policing Program impacts virtually every aspect of Black residents’ lives.

Simple daily activities—such as commuting to work, grocery shopping, visiting friends and family, attending church, or even sitting on the steps outside one’s own home—present the very real possibility of unlawful and humiliating searches and seizures, as well as the attendant prospect of arrest and jail time for unpaid fines and fees,” the lawsuit says.

In order for community policing to work, community members must trust law enforcement to have their best interests at heart, and in Madison County, black residents feel not only distrust but fear of those who are supposed to be protecting them. Policing policies should be transparent and ensure protection of all people, not just of some and the targeting of others.

In Hinds, Rankin and Madison counties alike, departments need to understand the importance of transparency—and should heed a valuable warning from the ACLU’s lawsuit: Community members will no longer tolerate systemic bias in policing w. Instead of spending thousands of dollars on litigation, as we predict that Madison County will have to do, police and sheriff departments statewide need to start having conversations in their own communities as well as internally, and adopt training to address implicit and explicit bias on the job. Officers who violate the clear policies must be fired.

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Onward and Upward

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love Jackson, Miss., with everything that is in me. I wear my connection to Mississippi’s capital city as my privileged badge of honor. Tweet and I have been servants here all of our adult lives. Our time as mayor and first lady of Jackson only gave us a larger platform to serve the place we will always call home.Â

But as that chapter in life closes, another chapter opens. This chapter includes ensuring that presumed Mayorelect Lumumba and his wife, Ebony, have our absolute support in their task to move this city forward. So, Jackson, there are a few things that they will need in order to be successful.Â

They will need your patience: This job is full of obstacles and can be polluted with outdated bureaucracy and ill motives. Those of us who love Jackson must love the city enough to long suffer with her during her rise.

We must allow our new mayor the opportunity to learn the job while holding him accountable. This patience must be long with the understanding that our city’s rise will take our ability to envision her better than she is long before she actually gets there.

Not only will our patience be necessary, but our fortitude will be called upon.

Mayor-elect Lumumba will need citizens to have one resolve. That resolve is Jackson’s long-term prosperity. We must brave the rough days ahead even when it seems insurmountable. If I’ve learned anything from this job, I’ve learned that there will be days like that.

We must be a city with a resolve that rallies around “One Aim and One Destiny.� From great empires like Rome to the riches of Timbuktu, all of these were able to rise above all obstacles because of their great fortitude and drive.

Our new mayor deserves the infusion of the collective genius of all who are part of our city. This genius cannot be parked along the sidelines of stagnation.

This genius cannot afford to wait on an invitation to the table of progress. Neither can it wait on political expedience.

Every gift, every talent must be on full display in Jackson.

I remember a local community leader once called to inform me that he was implementing quality-of-life programming for mayors around the country. He

was upset that he was not invited to the table to implement the same program here. Those of us who want to be part of the renaissance that is underway cannot allow an attitude of entitlement and privilege to keep us from engaging.

I have for all of my adult life believed in the power of words. Words set the course of one’s life. In psychology, it’s called a self-fulfilling prophesy. Mayorelect Lumumba will need each of us speaking well of the city and the work that he is attempting to do.

Most of you reading this have a platform that is primed for your use as a vocal supporter of all things Jackson. Instead of using social media to spew hate of our city, use that medium to celebrate what is working well as a balance to random rants about what is not working right.

Our new mayor will need the encouragement that the people he is fighting for recognize those efforts. Ebony will need those words as she supports a husband who never sleeps and is rarely home to enjoy the magical moments of a toddler making her place in the world.

Finally, our mayor deserves the support of every elected official in Hinds County. This job is too big to go at it alone. His police chief and officers will lock offenders up. But there must be a collaborative between local officials to reduce recidivism while locking up violent offenders. There must be a serious effort to share resources without caring about who gets the credit.

I will assume that every mayoral and council candidate ran because they believed they offered cutting-edge solutions to the City’s ills. Jackson will be watching to see if you’re an electioncycle servant or if you were born to serve with or without a title.

As for me and my house, we will lead in granting patience, showing our resolve of the vision that is Jackson, lending our genius for the good of the collective, and speaking in love without apology for the city of Jackson.

Let’s keep the momentum going.

Let’s push our mayor as he leads us into greatness. It is Jackson’s time. God bless each of you. See you at the TOP!Â

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tweets; lost legislative coups over the airport and 1-percent sales-tax control; maybe got snookered by Siemens over water billing; and watched the state help elect a president determined to pull our federal funding if we don’t help round up immigrants.

Water, meet the bridge. Change is in the air, and the people ended up knowing exactly who they wanted as mayor, or didn’t want, sending Lumumba into the perfunctory general election on June 5 with 55.11 percent of the Democratic primary vote. He leapt ahead early on primary night and barely swerved to under 50 percent.

Put simply, he slayed.

The political class was right, though, that voters had soured on Mayor Tony Yarber and would turn him out with singledigit support (5.39 percent).

“Unless Yarber has a lot of money that we haven’t seen, yet,” one political watcher had emailed me in late April. “I don’t think he breaks double digits. He was the NE Jxn candidate three years ago, and the buyer’s remorse is almost as bad as with (former Mayor Frank) Melton.”

Still, not even all of northeast Jackson, or white voters, broke exactly as many thought, with a lot of them helping the socalled “scary radical” pull off a landslide.

The reasons for that are varied.

Fear of a Lumumba

“Victory is mine. Victory is mine.”

Like any Mississippi freedom fighter worth his salt, Lumumba sang a hymn first when he walked into a packed room at the King Edward Hotel just after 10 p.m. on primary night to greet his ecstatic believers.

“Victory today is mine,” he sang into the microphone, repeating lyrics gospel singer Dorothy Norwood made famous.

“I say that because it is not about me.

I say that because you defied conventional wisdom today,” Lumumba then told his people. He chided those who believed he could not win that day, even as he had been telling his well-cultivated social-media base that he would win it all that night.

“Conventional wisdom said that Jackson could not come together, but we saw today in this election, we saw northeast

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rimary night wasn’t supposed to end that way.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba could not possibly beat nine Democratic opponents outright and avoid a run-off. A 34-year-oldcouldn’tpossibly cause a string of depressed watch parties around the city, save for his jubilant gathering at the King Edward Hotel and a party at a south Jackson church that felt like a family reunion for a political newcomer who could not have expected to win.

A Millsaps College-Chism Strategies poll right before the election had Lumumba at 29 percent, John Horhn at 20, Robert Graham at 19, Mayor Tony Yarber way back at 7 percent and the newcomer, Ronnie Crudup Jr., with even less. But the poll “did not accurately project the magnitude of the Lumumba victory and anticipated a run-off,” Millsaps said in an understatement released May 4, in which the winner nearly doubled that prediction with major inroads into traditionally white precincts.

Conventional wisdom dictated that more mature, reasonable voters would jump from Horhn to Graham or vice versa to help put an older candidate in City Hall, and keep out the graduate of Tuskegee University and Thurgood Marshall School of Law and his “scary radicalism,” as one Horhn supporter and long-time political caviler called it in a vicious Facebook post.

That comment hinted at the nastiness ahead if Lumumba were to duke it out with an older No. 2. Four years earlier, when Chokwe Lumumba Sr. also defeated the polling and incumbent Harvey Johnson Jr., his run-off opponent ran ads depicting him as a black Muslim, an inaccurate rumor that surfaced about the son this season.

But Jackson has been through hell since Lumumba’s father rattled fearful whites when he became mayor, immediately drawing multiracial admiration. The city then lost him way too soon; elected Yarber with multiracial support; endured nakedly greedy contract wars, budget battles and lascivious lawsuits; navigated metastasizing potholes as the mayor told us to pray 16 them away; rolled our eyes at napkin sub-

Jackson agree with south Jackson, (and) southwest Jackson agree with northwest Jackson,” Lumumba said.

Neither Lumumba father nor son has ever shied away from the view that an economic system that so clearly prefers whiter parts of the city over the majority-black wards is broken and needs an overhaul.

That call for equity is still radical, though, in a nation that recently elected a president bent on installing policies to benefit the wealthy and a state where the Legislature is giving salary supplements to teachers in wealthier districts and cutting funding to poorer, blacker districts.

Lumumba drew support from national progressives like Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean’s Democracy for America for a reason. “We have two options,” Lumumba said to a rousing call-and-response.

“We have the option of economics by the people and for the people, or economics by a few people for themselves. And so we’re making the decision that we’re going to have a solidarity economy that works for all of Jackson,” he promised.

Part of that economic vision is providing more work, pay and motivation to city workers rather than contracting the tasks, and profits, out to others. “We have to look at innovative ways of bringing in more revenue,” he told the Jackson Free Press in January. “I have been talking about (the need to upgrade parking meters since) before the council started talking about them. ... I disagree with the theory that we outsource to another company to do this.

“I think that we can handle this ourselves, and the money that a company would take as revenue or as profit, we put back into our budget. Why aren’t we doing

A younger Antar Lumumba was his father’s confidante and co-conspirator on how to solve Jackson’s problems.

‘Build and Fight’

The win tickled national leftists no end. That night, Twitter stuttered with disbelief, much as it had the night Mississippians defeated the anti-abortion Personhood Amendment in 2011. How could such a progressive win in the heart of Dixie?

Lumumba, though, seems to smoothly navigate between national liberal dogma and local southern governing that seeks to bring more prosperity to everyday people.

And between those who call for his father’s long-time “Kush plan” that scares the dickens out of many white voters and the son’s modern Jackson plan that he lays out on his campaign website starting with crime and economic development.

His “solidarity economy,” should it come to pass, clearly will not pander to the typical power players, regardless of race, and it could mean less privatization and outsourcing, and a growth in city jobs. Lumumba wants 60 percent of city contracts, including subs, to go to people of color, and not just to help enable white applicants to haul in lucrative city contracts.

Like his father, Lumumba wants to put Jacksonians to work, support workforce development, and incubate and empower local businesses. He plans to use what he calls “leverage” to both get more businesses to set up shop in Jackson and to keep forces from outside from exerting too much control over the capital city that many of them, or their parents and grandparents, fled years ago after the U.S. Supreme Court forced local schools to finally integrate.

Lumumba is not pleased with deals that give up Jackson’s farm to state power brokers, including many who do not live in the city. “We are going to make certain that we see the 1-percent-sales-tax plan that (my father) adopted go into fruition, go fully through, and that is not happening now,” Lumumba said in January. “... What we designed to do with the 1-percent (sales tax) was to take the money that was coming in from that and leverage those dollars to take advantage that Jackson at that time had a really good bond rating.”

The presumptive mayor regularly talks about the need for a more positive city climate for entrepreneurs, promising to do what many candidates have pledged

The city’s presumptive first couple brings a great deal of hope with them.

and then forgotten: simplify and automate licensing and permitting processes.

He wants to see more successful startups throughout the city, not just in downtown and northeast Jackson. On his website, he pledges to “generate an incubator fund to aid in the creation of new businesses in areas ripe for growth and renewal (i.e.

Farish Street, Medgar Evers Blvd., Hwy. 18, Hwy. 18, Lake Hico, etc.).

“[W]e can’t let ourselves just be focused on downtown,” he told the Free Press in January. “We have to be focused around town. Because what you achieve if you don’t focus around town is you see an island of wealth surrounded by a sea of poverty.”

Still, Lumumba wants to see retail growth jump-started downtown, which has seen an increase in residential living and large projects such as the King Edward, the Standard Life and the Westin Hotel, but smaller businesses struggle to open and then survive. “We are (walking) on Capitol Street right now,” he said during a January interview. “There should be opportunities

to take people’s money right here, in terms of businesses. There should be some opportunity where we have some retail spaces.”

Lumumba wants it known that wide investment in Jackson is expected. “I am going to be a building mayor,” he promised.

“I am not going to stop development. At the same time, the tone that I want to strike is that we want businesses to come. We will do whatever we need to do to incentivize businesses coming. Come to Jackson and make a lot of money, but also invest the money back in the city.”

One way to do that is through support of cooperative businesses, such as the Rainbow Natural Grocery Co-op in Jackson, which has long been member-owned. Father Lumumba had planned to help create a network of cooperatives here to help build a more bottom-up economy, and after his death, his son helped launch Cooperation Jackson to continue that vision.

The idea may scare old-school capitalists, but cooperatives are common in the United States, from tiny ones in gra-

nola towns to big names like Ocean Spray (juice), REI (sporting goods) and Land o’ Lakes (butter), to rural telephone and electricity cooperatives. In some ways, they are free enterprise at its free-est.

This concept has strong support in the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which his father co-founded, who use stronger language when talking about such goals, whether at a Harlem fundraiser for his campaign—an opponent mailed flyers for it around town in unmarked envelopes— or to progressive national publications.

“Cooperation Jackson is in the midst of a pivot that we’re calling ‘Build and Fight,’” Cooperation Jackson co-director Kali Akuno told the leftist In These Times in January. “… This has to be a primary focus, and we want to build something that leans in an anti-capitalist orientation, like community-production based, cooperatively-owned digital fabrication.”

Akuno served as director of special projects and external funding in the first Lumumba administration, focusing on cooperative development, sustainable practices and the promotion of human rights.

Campaign rumors had it that Lumumba would pack the city administration with “Michigan” or “Detroit” people—the kind of entourage that can easily scare white voters. Outspoken activists such as Akuno are among those “outsiders” detractors fear the new mayor will push radical agendas more than he will fix potholes and automate business licenses.

The presumptive mayor, though, told the JFP just before the election that he is not going to do that—and that movement supporters are not always the best city employees. This Lumumba said he plans to hire a diversity of qualified people and manage them well in order to improve city services and efficiency, even if that doesn’t make everyone he knows happy.

Still, a central focus is his father’s “People’s Assembly” approach: “[W]e will adopt the same ideology that the people have to be incorporated into this process to a greater extent,” he said in January.

That ideology has modernized, softened and morphed over the years as the city became more integrated and less violent toward black people, but it is still rooted in the same ideals—black people must be fully at the table, making decisions, reaping benefits and growing prosperity, not pushed to the side and controlled by white interests.

That is, the Lumumbas are still fighting for black people without apology.

‘Free the Land’

The first time I laid eyes on Chokwe Lumumba Sr.—born Edwin Finley Taliaferro in Detroit in 1947—I was kicked out

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this. Why are we looking to outsource every single thing?”

Then, Lumumba answered his own question. “Oftentimes when we outsource all of this work, that’s paying back political debts. That’s paying somebody a contract or giving somebody a contract that is going to put money back in your pocket. ... We don’t have that luxury. Jackson is hurting, and the people need to see more for their dollar. And so we need to recover more money for the city.”

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of the event because I was a white reporter.

In late 2002, my newspaper was brand new when we got a press alert about a rally for Lumumba, whom a white judge was trying to get disbarred. My Czech photographer and I went to report on the man who had renamed himself after the Chokwes in Central Africa, who had defied slavery.

After explosive talk from the podium, Lumumba’s handlers said the media had to leave so they could strategize, but only asked the two white journalists to go, not those from black publications.

Then, I knew nothing about the Republic of New Afrika, the group of radical intellectuals he had accompanied to Jackson from Michigan in early 1971, determined to stop the carnage and keep more black people alive and safe, preferably living on their own land where radical racists couldn’t control or hurt them. “Free the land!” was a rallying cry that also meant free the people.

I was annoyed at being asked to leave, but I was fully aware that the mainstream media in the city had never covered black freedom movements fairly—that the reports had to pass through a white lens to please readers and advertisers. Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. hadn’t yet told me that media like The Clarion-Ledger were still “institutionally racist” in their coverage choices and tone, but it was obvious enough.

Besides, I had recently finished studying black freedom movements under Dr. Manning Marable—who would later win a Pulitzer for his Malcolm X biography—and I wasn’t in a headspace to be easily offended by distrust of typical corporate media.

So I researched Lumumba’s disbarment case, finding that he probably was being targeted for standing up against injustice, even if he was a bit disrespectful to the judge in the process. I reported on him fairly and respectfully, revealing both that they kicked us out, as well as the reasons he shouldn’t (and wouldn’t be) disbarred.

What happened next has defined this paper’s interactions with the Lumumba family from that day forward—after my piece, his people called and invited us back to the next meeting. That time, Lumumba still boomed his disdain for the “white media,” but made a point of turning to us and telling us that there are exceptions.

That is, the Lumumbas do not hate white people, even though they are sick and tired of injustice toward black people. Even after we declined to endorse Lumumba for mayor in 2013, he was respectful and accessible for repeated interviews until his untimely death. He never required complete agreement for civil discourse.

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tragedy that still defines the Lumumbas for some people. One day in 2005, I heard that Imari Obadele was speaking at City Hall.

He had killed a cop, a white leader told me with outrage while delivering a pile of police files on the shooting to me. That crazy attorney Chokwe Lumumba was part of the RNA terrorist group, too, he told me.

But the police files revealed a complicated tale of black activists renting two houses near Jackson State University months after the May 1970 JSU protest when dozens of police officers fired on unarmed students, killing Philip Gibbs, 21, and James Earl Green, 17. The RNA wanted to create a separate “state” for black Mississippians

time for conspiracy. But for years, many local whites have considered both of them murderers, as a flyer left during the 2013 campaign on car windshields reminded.

The father mellowed, at least in his degree of heat, over the years, running successfully to serve as Ward 2 councilman in 2009. He had his children in Jackson with his now-deceased and strong-willed wife, Nubia, whom his son now calls the strongest woman he has ever known.

The Lumumba offspring believe in a hardcore, truth-based unity, which is at the heart of the “One City, One Aim” vision— and probably why the younger Lumumba won so handily on primary night in a cam-

The new mayor is more apt to be compared to Drake than Bobby Seale. and bought land in Hinds County where it would start their safe space.

It was radical, but it was 1971, Jackson cops were killing unarmed black kids, and many whites still yelled at black people to go “back to Africa.” Instead, this group opted to create a “New Afrika” inside a state where white people were fleeing Jackson and public schools in order to keep their children (and tax dollars) separate from black kids.

RNA members had set up their own Ruby Ridge-ish compound—two houses on Lewis Street—armed against attack, much as many white Americans still do today. News reports show that Obadele and JPD Lt. William Louis Skinner, the father of today’s Hinds County Youth Court Judge Bill Skinner, had been at each other’s throats across a divide both had inherited.

At 6 a.m. on that August 1971 day, cops, FBI agents and the “Thompson Tank”—famous for intimidating civil-rights protesters—rolled down Lewis Street with the goal of serving four warrants, one for a murder suspect they believed had arrived from Detroit and others for misdemeanors.

An FBI agent bullhorned for the sleeping radicals, one of them pregnant, to come out in one minute or they would fire. Seventyfive seconds later, they fired teargas into the compound and then their weapons, JPD records show. The roused inhabitants fired back. Skinner died in the crossfire, and two other officers were injured.

Chokwe Lumumba, who was then 24 and an RNA vice president, wasn’t in either house; neither was Obadele, who later served

paign his sister Rukia Lumumba moved back from New York City to help run.

The majority of the city’s electorate, it seems, are now ready to redefine what unity means, electing a young man who scares many people precisely because his very election will mean change, for better or worse.

‘The Trump Factor’

The senior Lumumba would have been shocked to see The Clarion-Ledger join this newspaper and the Jackson Advocate in endorsing his son, if not the Ledger’s feature the week before painting Lumumba as a cackling radical who travels between Jackson and Harlem with an entourage (probably from Michigan) scheming to get his daddy’s Kush plan up and running, in order to steal land and power from white folks and divide it up among themselves.

The Mississippi GOP nearly wigged out on the eve of the primary, sending out a typo-riddled email with a Reagan picture to its mailing list: “Mr. Lumumba—age 34 and the son of the late-Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba—proudly boasts of being supported by the Malcom X (sic) Grassroots Movement, an organization that has stated that it views Lumumba’s campaign as being a major part of ‘The Big Payback.’” The email added that Lumumba “is someone who associates himself with radical and racially divisive organizations.”

Still, this caricature of a scary black radical doesn’t seem to faze the presumptive mayor, who grew up hearing the worst about his family and his friends in a state

where self-defense and unbridled growth has long been reserved for white people.

The Lumumbas aren’t exactly living in a compound waiting to fire on a tank hurling down the street at dawn. Lumumba and his wife, Ebony, and ridiculously cute toddler, Alaké, live in a home near their church in northeast Jackson. The presumptive first lady was a Eudora Welty research scholar who is working on her Ph.D at Ole Miss. The Spelman College and Georgia State graduate also teaches and chairs the English department at Tougaloo College.

The new mayor is more apt to be compared to Drake than Bobby Seale. He equates himself to Maynard Jackson, who became mayor of Atlanta when he was 35, as he did when the older Robert Graham went after him at a April 20 forum.

“You’re looking at my wife and my daughter,” Lumumba replied. “There are people I employ each and every day whose livelihood depends on me. So to talk about someone’s maturity and whether they are capable of leading is just disparaging.”

Still, the most notable part is that Jackson voters bought so dramatically into Lumumba’s vision. Chism Strategies and Millsaps College analyzed the outcome in the days after the primary, finding several reasons for the surprising landslide.

Undecided voters likely broke for him in the final campaign days. Lumumba had a strong strategy for young voters, including social media (@youth4 antar), and he ended with a swell of young, white support his father never got a chance to realize.

“Lumumba’s digital ad buy targeted young voters. The results from precincts with sizable portions of younger white voters confirm they had a positive impact,” the May 4 Millsaps statement explained.

Millsaps also cited “The Trump Factor:: “Lumumba was the most striking contrast to Trump among all candidates, and to the extent undecided voters wanted to express a protest vote against the status quo, Lumumba was that vessel.”

In a campaign where challengers were often surly at forums, presenting themselves as the saviors of a city going to hell in the proverbial handbasket, Lumumba offered hope for a unified, high-energy roadmap for those willing to believe. “[T]he consensus is that the Lumumba team was more energetic. Again, history (and a sizable body of research) confirm that other things being equal, voters opt for the more optimistic choice,” Millsaps said in its analysis.

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La Brioche Patisserie (2906 N. State St., 601-988-2299, labriochems.com)

For this Mother’s Day, La Brioche has a special entremets, which are composed of vanilla cake, strawberry and blueberry

Seafood R’evolution (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Suite 9015, 601-853-3474, seafood revolution.com)

Seafood R’evolution will have a Mother’s Day brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The brunch is a la carte, and the menu includes dishes such as seafood gumbo, corn and lump crab bisque, oysters, chicken biscuits, R’evolution Benedict, Gulf crab omelets, steak and eggs, sweet-potato waffles, blackened redfish, shrimp and grits, and more. The restaurant will also have Mother’s Day specials, which hadn’t been released by press time. ou rt es y

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Anjou Restaurant (361 Township Ave., 601-707-0587, anjourestaurant.net)

Anjou will offer a special brunch menu from 10:30 am to 4 p.m. It will have dishes such as oven-roasted Cornish hen served with oven-roasted red potatoes, haricots vert and natural jus; sauteed orange roughy served with oven-roasted red potatoes and haricots vert and finished with a crawfish-and-crab-meat butter sauce; and New Orleansstyle shrimp and grits. Local musician David Keary will perform from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.)

The King Edward Hotel will have a brunch buffet for Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event is $29 for adults and $19 for children ages 12 and under. The buffet includes dishes such as bacon-maple French toast with a local-pecan crumble; a spinach-, onion-, and chicken-sausage frittata; King Edward’s garden hoppin’ John peas and rice; and more. To make reservations, call 601-969-8537.

High Biscuits (7048 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland, 769-300-4948, highbiscuitstea.com)

On Saturday, May 13, High Biscuits will have a Mother’s Day High Tea from noon to 4 p.m. The menu will have tea and items such as cherry scones, raspberry preserves, Baltimore petit fours, lemon cream puffs, and more treats, and tea. The menu for children has treats such as chocolatechip scones, Devon custard, Nutella strawberry sandwiches, tea cakes and more. On Mother’s Day, May 14, High Biscuits will host a Mother’s Day Tea from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will have choices such as a luncheon plate with roasted leg of lamb or pork tenderloin, a wedge salad with Thousand Island dressing or Champagne vinaigrette, roasted root vegetables, a savory scone, and tea or coffee; a tea plate with treats such as cherry scones, Devon cream, raspberry preserves, chicken-salad canapés, cucumber sandwiches, prosciutto-aspagarus sandwiches, Waldorf salad, chocolatecovered strawberry, petit fours, and tea or coffee; and a brunch tour, which has small portions of brunch items such as gratin, ba20 con and eggs Benedict, apple gouda pork

Dijon vinaigrette; baked Mahi Mahi with a corn-and-crawfish cream sauce; madeto-order omelet and waffle stations; an ice cream-sundae bar; and more. Reservations are required.

For Mother’s Day, restaurants and shops such as La Brioche Patisserie will have specials for moms.

mousses, a white-chocolate glaze and edible flowers.

The Strawberry Café (107 Depot Drive, Madison, 601-856-3822, strawberrycafemadison.com)

The Strawberry Café will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Mother’s Day and will serve from its brunch menu and dinner menu.

1908 Provisions (734 Fairview St., 601-948-3429 ext. 305, fairviewinn.com)

1908 Provisions will host a special brunch buffet from 10:30 am to 2 p.m. with seatings every half hour. The buffet will have dishes such as baked salmon with a cream dill vinaigrette, chilled asparagus, sliced tomatoes and mixed baby greens with bleu cheese, cucumber and a cider-

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The Iron Horse Grill (320 W. Pearl St., 601-398-0151)

For Mother’s Day, the Iron Horse will have a brunch with a waffle and omelet bar from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

sausage, sweet-potato hash, French toast, fruit salad, and tea or coffee. Reservations are recommended. Email highbiscuits@ comcast.net or call 769-300-4948.

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our mom may sometimes tell you, “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it.” But this Mother’s Day, why not take your mom out for a day on the town? Let the Jackson Free Press be your guide.

Old Capitol Inn (226 N. State St., 601359-9000)

For Mother’s Day, Old Capitol Inn will have a lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with seatings at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The menu includes dishes such as an ovenroasted beef top round; a broccoli, walnut and apple salad; soft-shell crabs and crab fritters; desserts such as chocolate cupcakes; and more. Call 601-359-9000 for reservations.

Nandy’s Candy (1220 E. Northside Drive, Suite 380, 601-362-9553, nandyscandy.com)

For Mother’s Day, Nandy’s Candy has treats such as chocolate letters that spell “mom,” iced cookies, chocolate-covered strawberries, assorted chocolates, truffles and more.

Grant’s Kitchen (2847 Lakeland Drive, Flowood, 601-665-4764, grantskitchen.com)

On Mother’s Day, May 14, Grant’s Kitchen will be open from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will serve a special shrimp étouffée dish.

Two Sisters’ Kitchen (707 N. Congress St., 601-353-1180)

On Mother’s Day, Two Sisters will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Campbell’s Bakery (3013 N. State St., 601-362-4628; 123 Jones St., Madison, 769-300-2790; campbellsbakery.ms)

For Mother’s Day, Campbell’s will have treats such as cookies, petit fours and cupcakes with flowers on them.

Amerigo (6592 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland, 601-977-0563; 155 Market St., Flowood, 601-992-1550; amerigo.net)

On Mother’s Day, Amerigo in Ridgleand will serve brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a brunch menu plus chef specials such as lemon-peppered redfish with whitebean salsa and green bean, crab meat and a lemon-Worcestershire-butter sauce; or a black-peppered ribeye steak with Asiago cheese-leek mashed potatoes, and asparagus, topped with a rosemary compoundbutter sauce. The restaurant’s regular menu will also be available. Amerigo in Flowood will serve its brunch menu from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. During that time, the restaurant will also have $4 bloody Marys and mimosas. The regular menu is also available.

Jaco’s Tacos (318 S. State St., 601-9617001, jacostacos.net)

Jaco’s will serve brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The menu will feature breakfast fajitas, omelets, double-stuffed French toast, breakfast casserole, and mimosas and bloody Marys.

River Hills Club of Jackson (3600 Ridgewood Road, 601-987-4450, riverhillsclub.net)

River Hills will have a Mother’s Day brunch from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The adult buffet is $25, and the child buffet is $15. Reservations are required. Call 601-987-4431.

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SATURDAY 5/13

The Westin Jackson Job Fair is at the Jackson Convention Complex.

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WEDNESDAY 5/10

“42nd Street” is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The play tells the story of starryeyed young dancer who leaves her home of Allentown and moves to New York to audition for a Broadway musical. $35-$100; call 601-960-1537; jacksonbroadway.com. …

Jeremy Kittel and Nathaniel Smith perform at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The acoustic fiddleand-cello duo performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $12 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net.

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The Blast Midtown is from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. at AND Gallery (121 Millsaps Ave.). The house-music concert features performances from DJ Scrap Dirty, Dwele, Que-D, Sketch the DJ, Spirituals and The Nasty Sho. $5 in advance, $10 at the door; find it on Facebook.

Michican-native violinist Jeremy Kittel performs with Nathaniel Smith on May 10 at Duling Hall.

… “Sordid Lives” is at 7:30 p.m. at Scrooge’s Restaurant & Pub (5829 Ridgewood Road). The play tells the humorous story of a family as they come to terms with their grief and with each other. For mature audiences only. Additional dates: May 11-12, 7:30 p.m., May 13, 2 p.m., May 13, 7 p.m. $22-$25; fondrensordid.brownpapertickets.com.

SATURDAY 5/13

Stray At Home Art & Music Festival is from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Smith Park (Yazoo St.). The event showcases contemporary art and crafts, including furniture, home decor, lighting, ceramics, paintings, jewelry and more. Also features

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Daily updates at com. … Charline R. McCord and jfpevents.com Judy H. Tucker sign copies of “A Year in Mississippi” at 1 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). $28 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

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FRIDAY 5/12

“Food Truck Friday—Visit Jackson!” is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Smith Park (302 Amite St.). As part of Jackson Tourism Week, the event highlights local hotels, attractions, taxicab services and more. Features local food trucks and live music. Free; call 601-960-1557; email da22 vid@greaterjacksonartscouncil.com; find it on Facebook.

SUNDAY 5/14

Mother’s Day Brunch is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the King Edward Hotel (235 W. Capitol St.). The menu features baked maple French toast, spinach, onion, chicken sausage frittata, cauliflower breakfast skillet and more. Reservations required. Prices vary; find it on Facebook.

MONDAY 5/15

Madison County Young Professional Social Night is from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Elsie E. Jurgens Library (397 Highway 51, Ridgeland). Young professionals participate in tabletop and card games on first Mondays and trivia on third Mondays. Free; call 601-856-4536; mcls.ms.

TUESDAY 5/16

Steve Yates sign copies of “The Legend of the Albino Farm” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). Reading at 5:30 p.m. $16 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. … “Uncork & Fork: Summer Sippin’” is from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). Includes summer party hors d’oeuvres paired with sparkling wines, white wines, red wines and rosés. $65; eathere.com. … “Menopause the Musical” is at 7:30 p.m. at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The musical parody set to music from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s follows four women at a lingerie sale with nothing in common. $35-$100; call 601-9601537; jacksonbroadway.com.

WEDNESDAY 5/17

The Black Iron Skillet Pizza Workshop is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Farmer’s Table Cooking School in Livingston (1030 Market St., Flora). Participants learn to make olive crostini, Caesar salad with roasted tomatoes and parmesan crisp, Italian iron skillet pizza and citrus Italian trifle. $69; call 601-506-6821; farmerstableinlivingston.com.

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JFP-SPONSORED Dialogue Jackson May Luncheon May 10, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). Democratic mayoral candidate Chokwe Antar Lumumba discusses how his message resonated and how he will foster energy across racial divides to move the city forward. $12 per person, $10 for members; email todd@jacksonfreepress.com; jackson2000.org Stray At Home Art & Music Festival May 13, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., at Smith Park (Yazoo St.). The event showcases contemporary art and crafts, including furniture, home decor, lighting, ceramics, paintings, jewelry and more. Also features live music from Marc Scibilia, Zack Williams, Joe Pug, Grace Askew and the Delta Mountain Boys. Free entry; strayathome.com.

JFP Chick Ball July 22, 6 p.m.-midnight, at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The fundraising event features local food vendors, drinks, live music and a silent auction. Proceeds benefit the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Contact to donate money or items for the silent auction, or to volunteer. $5 admission; call 601362-6121, ext. 16; jfpchickball.com.

COMMUNITY The Westin Jackson Job Fair May 10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The hotel conducts on-site interviews for positions in departments including front office, housekeeping, food and beverage, culinary, spa services, security and engineering.

Free; call 601-960-2321; find it on Facebook.

Children’s Mental Health Summit May 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 County Line Road). The summit provides insight to professionals working with children on how to support them through challenges. Free; call 601352-7784; mycanopy.org.

Food Truck Friday May 12, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Smith Park (302 Amite St.). As part of Jackson Tourism Week, the event highlights local hotels, attractions, taxicab services and more.

Features local food trucks and music. Free; call 601-960-1557; find it on Facebook.

KIDS Diggin’ Dinos May 13, 10 a.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Participants walk the dinosaur trail, join in on a fossil dig, have their photo taken with a Pachyrhinosaurus, make dino-themed crafts, and see a presentation from Dr. Dino. Free with admission; jacksonzoo.org.

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FOOD & DRINK

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THIRDspace May 11, 5:30 p.m., at Deeps South Pops (1800 N. State St.). Tin Roof Brewery takes over the taps, The event is for participants to create, imagine and network with other business minded Jacksonians. Free; call 601-3982174; find it on Facebook.

Spring Rosé Tasting May 13, 3-4:30 p.m., at CAET Wine Bar (3100 N. State St., Suite 102).

The tasting features a selection of 2016 rosé from France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, California and Oregon. Light hors d’oeuvres are served. $40; call 601-321-9169; find it on Facebook.

Uncork & Fork: Summer Sippin’ May 16, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). Includes party hors d’oeuvres paired with sparkling wines, white wines, red wines and rosés. $65; call 601-420-4202; eathere.com.

“Sordid Lives” May 11-12, 7:30 p.m., May 13, 2 p.m., May 13, 7 p.m., at Scrooge’s Restaurant & Pub (5829 Ridgewood Road). The humorous play is about family members as they come to terms with grief and each other. For mature audiences only. $22-$25; brownpapertickets.com.

SPORTS & WELLNESS

Shakespeare in the Park May 14, 6 p.m., at Belhaven Park (1000 Poplar Blvd.). The New Stage Theatre Youth Acting Troupe presents an abridged version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Includes food from The Manship Wood Fired Kitchen for sale. Free; call 601-9483533; newstagetheatre.com.

Superhero 5K & Fun Run May 13, 8 a.m.noon, at Metrocenter Mall (3645 Highway 80 W.). A portion of proceeds will go to Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital. $25 5K, $10 funrun; call 601-922-8690; find it on Facebook.

SLATE

the best in sports over the next seven days

by Bryan Flynn

Always Dreaming’s easy win in the Kentucky Derby will bring a ton of hype over the next two weeks. The derby winner will surely be the favorite to win the Preakness Stakes run on May 20.

Thursday, May 11

College softball (11 a.m.-9 p.m., SECN): Tune in for day two of the 2017 SEC Softball Tournament, with the top four seeds beginning play.

Friday, May 12

College baseball (6-10 p.m., SECN+): MSU takes on Georgia in a three-game series to keep charging toward an SEC West title and the overall SEC title.

Saturday, May 13

College baseball (6-9 p.m., SECN): The UM Rebels continue their series against Texas A&M, working to stay in the SEC West title race as the regular season comes to an end. … College softball (7-10 p.m., ESPN): The 2017 SEC Softball Tournament closes with the championship game.

Sunday, May 14

College softball (9-10 p.m., ESPN2): Find out who’s in and who’s out as the 2017 NCAA Women’s Softball Championship Selection Special breaks down the whole field of teams.

Madison County Chamber Ninth Annual Dragon Boat Regatta May 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Old Trace Park (Ridgeland, Ridgeland). Teams of 20 work together in dragon boats to reach the finish line. Free for spectators, $25 for Paddler’s Party; visitridgeland.com.

STAGE & SCREEN Events at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.) • 42nd Street May 10, 7:30 p.m. The play tells the story of starry-eyed young dancer who moves to New York to audition for a Broadway musical. $35-$100; jacksonbroadway.com.

• Menopause The Musical May 16, 7:30 p.m.

The musical parody follows four women at a lingerie sale. $35-$100; jacksonbroadway.com.

Monday, May 15

MLB (6-10 p.m., ESPN): The Houston Astros lead the American League West as they travel to face the Miami Marlins, who are third in the National League East.

Tuesday, May 16

College baseball (6:30-10 p.m., SECN+): Mississippi State hosts Troy University in the final non-conference game of the regular season.

Wednesday, May 17

MLB (7-11 p.m., ESPN): The AL East third-place Boston Red Sox head west to face the NL Central second-place St. Louis Cardinals.

The two toughest factors in winning the Triple Crown are the fresh horses competing in each leg and the grueling schedule. Always Dreaming will try to repeat the performance of American Pharoah in 2015.

music concert features performances from DJ Scrap Dirty, Dwele, Que-D, Sketch the DJ, Spirituals and The Nasty Sho. $5 in advance, $10 at the door; find it on Facebook.

“Chalk at the Trace”: Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival May 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (950 Rice Road). Individuals and teams of all artistic skill levels are welcome to participate. Free; mscrafts.org.

Flowood Family Festival May 13, 8:30 p.m., at Flowood Liberty Park (694 Liberty Road, Flowood). Features space jumps, slides, obstacle courses, a petting zoo, train rides and midwaystyle games. Free; cityofflowood.com.

LITERARY & SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “Somebody with a Little Hammer” May 11, 5 p.m. Mary Gaitskill signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $25.95 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Road to Camelot” May 12, 5 p.m.

Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie sign copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $28 book; call 601366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “A Year in Mississippi” May 13, 1 p.m.

Charline R. McCord and Judy H. Tucker signs copies. $28 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Legend of the Albino Farm” May 16, 5 p.m. Steve Yates sign copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $16 book; lemuriabooks.com.

Al Ainsworth May 13, 1-3 p.m., at Bay Window Books (151 W. Government St., Brandon). The author and speaker signs copies of his books.

Free; call 601-706-4545; find it on Facebook.

CREATIVE CLASSES Intro to Hand Lettering Workshop May 16, 6-8:30 p.m., at Thimblepress (4500 Interstate 55 N.). Participants experiment with paint brushes, ink, water brushes, colored inks and more. No prior knowledge is needed. Admission TBA; call 601-351-9492; thimblepress.com.

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Art Show Opening May 11, 6-9 p.m., at Sneaky Beans (2914 N. State St.). Features artists Jonathan Faulkner, Paul Farrar and Justin Ransburg, music and snacks. Free; find it Facebook.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS

BE THE CHANGE

“Village Social” Outdoor Concert May 10, 7-9:30 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). Americana band Oh Jeremiah performs. Includes food, beer, coffee and popsicles for sale. Free; highlandvillagems.com.

JFC 10th Annual Drawdown May 13, 7:3010:30 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). Features a silent auction and raffle to win a $10,000 grand prize. Proceeds benefit the Jackson Futbol Club. $100; find it on Facebook.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.).

• Jeremy Kittel and Nathaniel Smith May 10, 7:30 p.m. The acoustic fiddle-and-cello duo performs. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $12 in advance, $15 at the door.; ardenland.net.

• Bonnie Bishop May 11, 7:30 p.m. The singer-songwriter’s latest album is titled “Ain’t Who I Was.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net.

Central Mississippi Down Syndrome Society New Parent Dinner May 16, 6:30 p.m., at Sal & Mookie’s (565 Taylor St.). Participants connect with other parents, learn about local resources and events, and hear from guest speakers from the CMDSS. Free; CMDSS.org.

The Blast Midtown May 11, 10 p.m.-3 a.m., at AND Gallery (121 Millsaps Ave.). The house-

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Music listings are due noon Monday to be included in print and online listings: music@jacksonfreepress.com.

May 10 - Wednesday

May 11 - Thursday AND Gallery - The Blast Midtown feat. DJ Scrap Dirty, Dwele, Que-D & more 10 p.m.-3 a.m. $5 advance $10 door The Big Muddy, Vicksburg - James Bailey 6-9 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m. free Duling Hall - Bonnie Bishop 7:30 p.m. $10 advance $15 door F. Jones Corner - Raul Valinti & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fenian’s - Dead Irish Blues 8-11 p.m. free Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Crocker 7:30 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio free Iron Horse Grill - Brian Jones 6:30 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Steele Heart 6:30 p.m. free Martin’s - Naughty Professor 9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Hunter Gibson & Chris Link 6 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Lee Harrington Soulshine, Flowood - Chris Gill 7-10 p.m. free Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Tougaloo College - Well Tempered Clavier feat. John Paul & Shawn Leopard 7:30 p.m. $20 Underground 119 - Jesse Robinson & Friends 5-11 p.m. free

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May 12 - Friday

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Ameristar, Vicksburg - Nu Corp 8 p.m. free The Big Muddy, Vicksburg Stanley Dixon Jazz feat.

Bernard Jenkins 7-10 p.m. free Bonny Blair’s - Faze 4 7-11 p.m.

DJ Scrap Dirty Soulshine, Flowood - Jonathan Alexander 7-10 p.m. free Soulshine, Ridgeland - Steve Chester 7-10 p.m. free Underground 119 - Dexter Allen 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

WonderLust - Cocktail Party feat.

DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-2 a.m. $5 cover

May 13 - Saturday Ameristar, Vicksburg - Nu Corp 8 p.m. free The Big Muddy, Vicksburg - Lucky Hand Blues Band 7-10 p.m. free Bonny Blair’s - Sid Thompson 7-11 p.m.

Capitol Grill - Homegrown 9 p.m. $10 Cerami’s - Ron Sennett 6 p.m. free Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. free F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; Sherman Lee Dillon & the MS Sound midnight $10 Hal & Mal’s - String Theory free Iron Horse Grill - Ben Peyton w/ London Branch 9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Faze 4 7 p.m. free Martin’s - Stephen Neeper & the Wild Hearts 9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Andy Tanas 6 p.m.; Luckenbach 7 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Burnham Road 9 p.m.

5/13 - Sondre Lerche - One Eyed Jack’s, New Orleans 5/13 - Victor Wooten Trio - Joy Theater, New Orleans 5/17 - Golden Dawn Arkestra - The Hi-Tone, Memphis

Reed Pierce’s, Byram - Lovin Ledbetter 9 p.m. free Soulshine, Flowood - Southern Grass 7-10 p.m. free Soulshine, Ridgeland - Twisted Grass 7-10 p.m. free Underground 119 - Mark Massey Band 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

DIVERSIONS | music

Grace Askew: A New Warpath

by Micah Smith MWA FILMS

Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 5:30-7:30 p.m. free Bonny Blair’s - Mike Patton 7-11 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m. free Duling Hall - Jeremy Kittel & Nathaniel Smith 7:30 p.m. $12 advance $15 door Fitzgerald’s - Chris Houchin 7:30 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band free Highland Village - “Village Social” Outdoor Concert feat. Oh Jeremiah 7-9:30 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30 p.m. free Old Capitol Inn - Brian Jones Pelican Cove - Ryann Phillips 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m. free

CS’s - Kicking, Stoned Cobra & Year of the Vulture 8 p.m. $7 Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. free F. Jones Corner - Sherman Lee Dillon & the MS Sound midnight $10 Fitzgerald’s - Ron Etheridge 7:30 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - The ZZQs free Iron Horse Grill - King Edward Blues 9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m. free Martin’s - South Jones 10 p.m.

MS Museum of Art - Andrew Pates 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. free Old Capitol Inn - Scott Stricklin Old Trace Park - 36th Annual Pepsi Pops feat. MS Symphony Orchestra, MS Symphony Youth Orchestra & more 5 p.m. $12 advance $15 gate $5 ages 4-18 Pelican Cove - Shadz of Grey 7 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Trouble Trio 9 p.m.

Reed Pierce’s, Byram - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 9 p.m. free Courtesy DJ Scrap Dirty

MUSIC | live

May 14 - Sunday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Johnny T’s - Lip Sync Sundays feat. Moneycure da DJ & MC Kid Black free until midnight Kathryn’s - The Owens Brothers 6 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Steele Heart noon; Chris Gill & the Sole Shakers 5 p.m.

Table 100 - Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m. free

May 15 - Monday Bonny Blair’s - Lumpy Lumbley 7-11 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Sonny Brooks & Kevin Lewis 7:30 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 cover $3 members Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 7 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Grosshart & Gaines 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

May 16 - Tuesday Bonny Blair’s - Don & Sonny 7-11 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 7:30-8 p.m. free Fenian’s - Open Mic free Fitzgerald’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 7:30 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - Raphael Semmes & Friends 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Rockin’ the Keys 6:30 p.m. free Last Call - DJ Spoon 9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

May 17 - Wednesday Alumni House - Brian Jones 5:30-7:30 p.m. free Bonny Blair’s - Mike Patton 7-11 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 7:30-8 p.m. free Fitzgerald’s - Barry Leach & Adib Sabir 7:30 p.m. free Hal & Mal’s - Jerry Brooks Duo free Kathryn’s - Jeff Maddox 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Owens & Pratt 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m. free

Singer-songwriter Grace Askew of Memphis performs for the Stray At Home Art & Music Festival on Saturday, May 13, at Smith Park.

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he Americana realm will be well represented in this year’s Stray At Home Art & Music Festival on May 13. The music lineup features nationally known singer-songwriters Marc Scibilia, Joe Pug and Zach Williams of the Lone Bellow, as well as local bluegrass band the Delta Mountain Boys.

One performer, however, is heading in a new direction with her latest release.

Many fans first discovered singersongwriter Grace Askew of Memphis, Tenn., on NBC’s “The Voice” in 2013, but viewers got a watered-down version of her as an artist, she says. Her upcoming EP, “Warrior,” which is scheduled for release in early 2018, sees her entering a more experimental phase. She released the title track as a single on April 28.

“I’ve been in this Americana, throwback, old-school kind of sound for a while, and I just found myself feeling stagnant and feeling kind of stunted creatively,” Askew says. “So I just chose to throw myself into this current sound because it’s kind of scary, and it’s unfamiliar, but it’s so reviving.”

“Warrior” is the follow-up to her 2014 full-length “Scaredy Cat,” which she recorded at Memphis’ legendary Sun Studio. She spent the last three years developing the songs that will appear on “Warrior,” but by the time she was ready to record, finding the right studio and producer to complete her vision was its own challenge.

“It really was kind of a disheartening process in the beginning because I was going from (a) studio to a producer to a producer at another studio, just trying all these different ways,” she says. “I felt lost really lost for about a year, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to have to make

music a hobby; I’m going to have to get a real job and give up,’ because it was such a struggle to find out what the right next step would be.”

Then, she met producers Elliot Ives and Scott Hardin, and the trio decided to make the EP together at Young Avenue Sound in Memphis. With Ives’ background as a guitarist for Justin Timberlake and Hardin’s work engineering artists such as Saliva and Saving Abel, they may not seem like an obvious choice for Askew. But a curiosity to find out what sound they would create together made them more interested in teaming up, she says.

Ives and Hardin brought more electronic elements and energy, which Askew says lined up perfectly with the style that she was aiming for. That direction may not be a hit with all of her fans, she says, but it is the right choice for her creatively.

“I want to have an album that just makes you feel empowered and dance and just have fun with yourself,” she says. “Really, that’s what I’ve always wanted to create: freaking pump-up-your-system-in-themorning kind of music. But I’d never really dealt with that. It was always, ‘Mic up an amp and then get going.’

“So to have these beats on it, I’m probably going to shock some people, and I may lose some fans. But I don’t care because I was so happy with the process.

Every artist should be a little selfish in that sense, you know?”

Grace Askew performs at the Stray At Home Art & Music Festival, on Saturday, May 13, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Smith Park (302 E. Amite St.).

Admission is free. For more information, visit strayathome.com.

DIVERSIONS | arts

Murder and ‘The Golden Girls’

by Katie Gill

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The actors in Mississippi Murder Mysteries, which was founded 15 years ago, also perform at Black Rose Theatre, New Stage Theatre and Center Players Commucourtesy Fringe Dinner Theatre

ith the Mississippi Murder Mysteries’ production of “Murder is Golden,” the acting company brings together two concepts that one would not expect to hear in the same sentence: murder mystery dinner theater and “The Golden Girls.”

“Murder is Golden” is a parody of “The Golden Girls” while still being a tribute to the well-loved television show.

In the play, Becky Martin, who plays Blanche; Jessica Wright, who plays Rose; Tommy Kobeck, who plays Dorothy; and Sam Gregory, who plays Sophia, have to investigate an actual murder that happens during a murder-mystery party that Blanche throws.

For Becky Martin, who also wrote the script, it was the show’s ubiquitous nature that helped inspire the production.

“‘Golden Girls’ is just about on every channel, late at night, early in the morning, and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun if these ladies solved a murder mystery together?’” she says.

Mississippi Murder Mysteries’ production, “Murder is Golden,” is a parody of “The Golden Girls,” but with a plot twist.

nity Theatre.

“We’ve had other theater groups spin off of ours,” Martin says. “I guess when

you’ve been along as we have, people are like, ‘Well, we can do this, too.’ But we’re the original, and we are so proud to still be around and still be working together.”

At a murder-mystery dinner theater, people are assigned a table and are usually paired up with people they do not know. It’s up to the table to solve the murder mystery.

Martin says the dinner-theater experience is friendly to first-timers, though sometimes there are unexpected results.

“It’s really funny because we’ve been mistaken for the waitstaff before,” Martin says. “We’ll be in the middle of a line, and somebody will say, ‘Uh honey, can you get me a glass of water?’”

Aside from the food, dinner theater provides a different spin on traditional theater as the performers act within the audience. Occasionally, audience members are pre-selected before the show to deliver a line or act as part of the show.

“I think people are more immersed when they actually attend a dinner theater because of the fact that we’re actually out in

the audience, and they have an opportunity to play along whether it’s a small line or role that they perform or just working as a team at the end of the play to solve the murder mystery,” she says.

For fans of the show, Martin says “Murder is Golden” is a murder mystery about the Golden Girls, not a murder mystery where the Golden Girls end up murdered.

“We are not going to kill off a Golden Girl,” she says. “That would be sacrilegious; that wouldn’t happen.”

Mississippi Murder Mysteries will perform “Murder is Golden” at Georgia Blue in Flowood (223 Ridge Way, Flowood, 601-9191900; georgiablue.net) on June 20 and Biaggi’s Ristrorante Italiano in Ridgeland (970 Highland Colony Pkwy., 601-354-6600, biaggis. com) on June 22. To see more dates and times, visit fringedinnertheatre.com or find Mississippi Murder Mysteries on Facebook at MS Murder Mysteries. Reservations are required.

To make them, email fringedinnertheatre@ gmail.com.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

“Kiss the flame and it is yours,” teased the poet Thomas Lux. What do you think he was hinting at? It’s a metaphorical statement, of course. You wouldn’t want to literally thrust your lips and tongue into a fire. But according to my reading of the astrological omens, you might benefit from exploring its meanings. Where to begin? May I suggest you visualize making out with the steady burn at the top of a candle? My sources tell me that doing so at this particular moment in your evolution will help kindle a new source of heat and light in your deep self—a fresh fount of glowing power that will burn sweet and strong like a miniature sun.

Your symbol of power during the next three weeks is a key.

Visualize it. What picture pops into your imagination? Is it a bejeweled golden key like what might be used to access an old treasure chest? Is it a rustic key for a garden gate or an oversized key for an ornate door? Is it a more modern thing that locks and unlocks car doors with radio waves?

Whatever you choose, Gemini, I suggest you enshrine it in as an inspirational image in the back of your mind. Just assume that it will subtly inspire and empower you to find the metaphorical “door” that leads to the next chapter of your life story.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

You are free to reveal yourself in your full glory. For once in your life, you have cosmic clearance to ask for everything you want without apology. This is the LATER you have been saving yourself for. Here comes the reward for the hard work you’ve been doing that no one has completely appreciated. If the universe has any prohibitions or inhibitions to impose, I don’t know what they are. If old karma has been preventing the influx of special dispensations and helpful X-factors, I suspect that old karma has at least temporarily been neutralized.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions,” said Irish writer Oscar Wilde. “I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” In my opinion, that may be one of the most radical vows ever formulated. Is it even possible for us human beings to gracefully manage our unruly flow of feelings? What you do in the coming weeks could provide evidence that the answer to that question might be yes.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now in a position to learn more about this high art than ever before.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Africa’s highest mountain is Mount Kilimanjaro. Though it’s near the equator, its peak is covered year-round with glaciers. In 2001, scientists predicted that global warming would melt them all by 2015. But that hasn’t happened.

The ice cap is still receding slowly. It could endure for a while, even though it will eventually disappear. Let’s borrow this scenario as a metaphor for your use, Virgo. First, consider the possibility that a certain thaw in your personal sphere isn’t unfolding as quickly as you anticipated.

Second, ruminate on the likelihood that it will, however, ultimately come to pass. Third, adjust your plans accordingly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Will sex be humdrum and predictable in the coming weeks?

No! On the contrary. Your interest in wandering out to the frontiers of erotic play could rise quite high. You may be animated and experimental in your approach to intimate communion, whether it’s with another person or with yourself. Need any suggestions? Check out the “butterflies-inflight” position or the “spinning wheel of roses” maneuver.

Try the “hum-and-chuckle kissing dare” or the “churning radiance while riding the rain cloud” move. Or just invent your own variations and give them funny names that add to the adventure.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Right now the word “simplicity” is irrelevant. You’ve got silky profundities to play with, slippery complications to relish, and lyrical labyrinths to wander around in. I hope you use these opportunities to tap into more of your subterranean powers. From what I can discern, your deep dark intelligence is ready to provide you with a host of fresh clues about who you really are and where you need

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

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Know what I’m saying, Sagittarius? Just because a chicken has wings doesn’t mean it can fly over the rainbow. Catch my drift? You’ll never create a silk purse out of dental floss and dead leaves. That’s why I offer you the following advice: In the next two weeks, do your best to avoid paper tigers, red herrings, fool’s gold, fake news, Trojan horses, straw men, pink elephants, convincing pretenders and invisible bridges. There’ll be a reward if you do: close encounters with shockingly beautiful honesty and authenticity that will be among your most useful blessings of 2017.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Of all the signs of the zodiac, you Capricorns are the least likely to believe in mythical utopias like Camelot or El Dorado or Shambhala. You tend to be uber-skeptical about the existence of legendary vanished riches like the last Russian czar’s Fabergé eggs or King John’s crown jewels. And yet if wonderlands and treasures like those really do exist, I’m betting that some may soon be discovered by Capricorn explorers. Are there unaccounted-for masterpieces by Georgia O’Keeffe buried in a basement somewhere? Is the score of a lost Mozart symphony tucked away in a seedy antique store? I predict that your tribe will specialize in unearthing forgotten valuables, homing in on secret miracles and locating missing mother lodes.

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According to my lyrical analysis of the astrological omens, here are examples of the kinds of experiences you might encounter in the next 21 days: 1. interludes that reawaken memories of the first time you fell in love; 2. people who act like helpful, moon-drunk angels just in the nick of time; 3. healing music or provocative art that stirs a secret part of you—a sweet spot you had barely been aware of; 4. an urge arising in your curious heart to speak the words, “I invite lost and exiled beauty back into my life.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

Ex-baseball player Eric DuBose was pulled over by Florida cops who spotted him driving his car erratically. They required him to submit to a few tests, hoping to determine whether he had consumed too much alcohol. “Can you recite the alphabet?” they asked. “I’m from the great state of Alabama,” DuBose replied, “and they have a different alphabet there.” I suggest, Pisces, that you try similar gambits whenever you find yourself in odd interludes or tricky transitions during the coming days—which I suspect will happen more than usual. Answer the questions you want to answer rather than the ones you’re asked, for example. Make jokes that change the subject. Use the powers of distraction and postponement. You’ll need extra slack, so seize it!

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

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