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JACKSONIAN Hannah Lawrence Jack Hammett

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annah Lawrence says she had a normal childhood up until the age of 13. She made good grades and loved to play sports such as soccer. Then, a bout with viral encephalitis left her with scar tissue on her brain.

She developed epilepsy, a neurological disorder that disrupts nerve-cell activity and causes symptoms such as seizures and memory loss.

In 2008, doctors put a Vagus nerve stimulator in her brain, which is designed to prevent seizures by sending mild electrical pulses, and in 2010 and 2013, she had temporal lobectomies to help control seizures. In 2015, Lawrence became the first patient in a U.S. pediatric hospital to receive a NeuroPace responsive neurostimulation system. The device, which is on the left side of Lawrence’s brain, is about two inches long and has two connecting wires.

It monitors electrical activity to help stop seizures before she has them.

While Lawrence says it would be hard to completely rid her of epilepsy because her seizures come from both sides, the RNS and her other treatments have made it easier to deal with.

“I used to have at least two or three a day in the beginning,” she says. “Now, at the most, (I have) three a month. Now, it’s more like, ‘OK, I feel like I’m about to

have a seizure. Hold on,’ and you just sit still for about a minute, and it’s like, ‘OK, now what are we talking about?’”

She is now an ambassador for RNS, which means that she goes to hospitals such as Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., to talk to patients about epilepsy and the device.

Since her parents own Brandon Barber Shop, she decided to attend school at Mack’s Barber College in Florence.

She graduated in 2012 and began working with her dad, Kenny Lawrence, at the shop. Hannah Lawrence’s best friend, Kelcey Bailey, also works at the shop. That is fortunate, Lawrence says, because her friend knows what to do when she begins having a seizure.

Lawrence says the hardest part of having epilepsy is the need to depend on others at all times, but with the treatments, she is slowly getting her freedom back. Recently, she got engaged to her fiancé, Mason McGee, and the couple plans to get married in May 2018. She also is hoping to get her driver’s license in the next couple of years.

“It was really tough in the beginning, but now, over so many years, you look back and it’s like, ‘You really cried over that?’

Well, at the time, we probably needed the tears, but now it … ain’t even worth it.”

—Amber Helsel

contents 6 ............................ Talks 12 ................... editorial 13 ...................... opinion 18 .................... election 18 ........... food & Drink 20 ......................... 8 Days 21 ........................ Events 21 ....................... sports 22 ........ music listings 22 ...................... Comedy

8 Long Live the King

The community honors and mourns the loss of 6-year-old Kingston Frazier.

25 A Justice League of Their Own

“(It’s) getting people together who want to have a good time and have fun and tell some jokes, and then saying, ‘You know what? We’re really lucky to be here and to have this good time. I want you to meet some cool people who you can work to strengthen who they are with these fun people you’re with. Let’s take the party to a place with a purpose.’”

—Lizz Winstead, “A Justice League of Their Own”

23 .......................... music 24 ...................... Puzzles 25 ......................... astro 25 ............... Classifieds

26 All Along Duling Hall

On June 1, Jacksonians will be both with and without Bob Dylan.

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PUBLISHER’s note

by Todd Stauffer, Publisher

Let’s Elect Lumumba on June 6 and Get Organized

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’ve had a number of great conversations recently with local business people who are curious to see where our city is headed now that the primary is behind us, and it appears that Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who surprised many by winning the primary outright, will be our next mayor. Some of the people I’m talking to didn’t support Lumumba, but knowing the JFP endorsed him in the primary, they ask me how I feel now that he’s likely to become mayor.

While Lumumba now faces Republican and independent challenges in the June 6, 2017, general election, it seems likely he’ll be sworn in as mayor on July 1. And when that happens, the next chapter in Jackson’s history will begin to unfold.

I’m optimistic. I’ve probably had the opportunity to spend more time casually conversing with Lumumba than any prior candidate since the Jackson Free Press launched; he’s come to the JFP offices a few times for interviews and stayed to chat about his vision for the city. We’ve seen his wife, daughter and campaign-managing sister all over town during the campaign over many months, as they’ve attended events, or we’ve been involved in forums, or we just see one another in the same restaurant.

In my experience, Lumumba is a charismatic but down-to-earth man who expresses a lot of love for the Jackson and its people. He believes his style of governance—and the tradition of organizing that he was born into and steeped in—will benefit “all of the people,” as he puts it.

So I’m hopeful that if he takes the oath of office in July, he’ll quickly become the “Organizer in Chief”—getting not just the City and its departments in better shape, but organizing citizens as well, so that we can move as one people toward progress.

Over the years, we’ve come to expect the city’s politics to be a little more retail and transactional than the People’s Assemblies seem to suggest. For many people, the interaction with their government or municipality looks like this—pay your taxes and your water bill, get your car tag, complain about the long lines, set up your homestead exemption and vote every four years.

But we need to be honest—Jackson needs more focused energy from its citizens than this hands-off approach. The capital

Jackson needs more focused energy from its citizens. city has infrastructure, fiscal and education challenges. The only way to overcome those is to get ourselves organized and help the city as a citizenry invested in its success.

Some people bristle at the idea of “People’s Assemblies.” (I’ll admit that they sounded a little “communal” to me when I first heard about them). But I think they’re a good idea. The more Jacksonians attending community, neighborhood or schoolboard meetings—or, assuming they take hold under Lumumba, checking in on the People’s Assemblies—the more motivated problem-solvers we’ll have in the game.

Being an engaged citizen means calling the 3-1-1 line or getting through to your city council member to let them know about something important in your ward. It means the occasional afternoon or evening spent on public business outside of the voting booth—maybe some volunteerism or nonprofit work. You may already be involved in youth sports or church activities or similar pursuits—if there’s a way to take that knowledge or experience into other venues and help Jackson or its citizens do a better job of addressing needs or celebrating victories, that would be a big win.

For this moment, in this city (and, frankly, in this country right now), I think what’s most important is to open your arms to the opportunity to get involved in local organizations and make a difference.

If you’re a business owner or professional, join TeamJXN (teamjxn.com) and get involved in our peacemaking efforts— you can join a committee to help us organize events in the city aimed at young (and young-at-heart) professionals who want to make a difference in the city limits.

If you’d like to get involved in dialogues here in town that are expanding understanding among people of different races and ethnicities, check out Dialogue Jackson (formerly Jackson 2000) at jackson2000.org. Get involved at the committee level, and you can help us expand the dialogue to different venues around town (schools, churches, community groups) as well as broaden the topics we cover to include specifically addressing neighborhood, municipal and systemic issues.

If you’re a teacher or media professional, reach out to Donna Ladd and see if you can get involved in the Mississippi Youth Media Project (youthmediaproject.com),

which has its Summer Intensive happening now. Their team is also planning yearround programming for teenagers to learn to tell their own stories and shape their narratives, as well as gain needed career and workplace skills. Write her at donna@ youthmediaproject.com to get involved.

Don’t forget the JFP Chick Ball to help prevent domestic abuse and help victims.

Get involved at jfpchickball.com. (Hint: Now is a great time to donate an item or gift card for the silent auction.)

Into trails? JXNTrailBlazers (jxntrailblazers.com) has meetings, cleanup dates and information in particular about the Museum Trail that is underway with development, designed to run from downtown Jackson to the Museum of Natural History and Mississippi Children’s Museum in LeFleur’s Bluff State Park. Bike Walk Mississippi (bikewalkmississippi.org) offers an opportunity to get involved in the broader discussion about transportation options in the city and state.

Working Together Jackson creates a forum for building trust in the community among a variety of different institutions, particularly (but not exclusively) religious congregations and nonprofit groups. It gains pledges from officials and to run programs for job training and workforce development, as well as blight reduction, crime reduction and many other areas of focus.

Of course, there are many more, and I encourage you to post invites under this story at jacksonfreepress.com.

This week, though, you have a specific civic duty as a Jacksonian—go to the polls and vote in the general election from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on June 6. We again support Chokwe Antar Lumumba and his promise of a more organized future for Jackson.

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contributors

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William H. Kelly III

Arielle Dreher

Imani Khayyam

Amber Helsel

Brinda Fuller Willis

Micah Smith

Kristin Brenemen

Kimberly Griffin

City Reporting Intern William H. Kelly III is a student at Jackson State University and is originally from Houston, Texas.

Send him city news tips at william@jacksonfreepress.com.

He wrote about the mayor’s race and Kingston Frazier.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com. She wrote about the Mississippi Forestry Commission cutting jobs due to budget cuts.

Staff Photographer Imani Khayyam is an art lover and a native of Jackson. He loves to be behind the camera and capture the true essence of his subjects. He took photos for the issue.

Managing Editor Amber Helsel loves travelling, art, photography, music, anime, cats, snacks and more. She is in permanent chibi form. Email story ideas to amber@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote about Jacksonian Hannah Lawrence.

Freelance writer Brinda Fuller Willis often plays tricks on people with her identical twin.

She’ll go anywhere to hear the blues, and she is a real farmer’s daughter. She wrote about Operation Shoestring’s “An Evening Without Bob Dylan.”

Music Editor Micah Smith is married to a great lady, has two dog-children named Kirby and Zelda, and plays in the band Empty Atlas. Send gig info to music@jacksonfreepress.com.

He interviewed producer and comedian Lizz Winstead.

Art Director Kristin Brenemen is a meganekko with a penchant for dystopianism. She’s gearing up for next convention season by starting to learn leather crafting for two space heroines. She designed much of the issue.

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

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“I don’t apologize for the fact that we’ve had to trim some of those budgets, and I don’t apologize that we’ve had to reduce the size of government.”

—House Speaker Philip Gunn at the Stennis Capitol Press Forum in May, addressing the budget cuts most agencies will retain in July.

Thursday, May 25

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court ruling that blocks Donald Trump’s administration from temporarily suspending new visas for people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Friday, May 26

Carlos Moore, the Grenada, Miss.based attorney who sued Gov. Phil Bryant over the Confederate emblem in the canton of the Mississippi flag, files an amended complaint in his lawsuit against Rep. Karl Oliver, R-Winona for calling for lynching over removal of Confederate statues.

Saturday, May 27

A Mississippi man, Willie Corey Godbolt, kills eight people, including a sheriff’s deputy, in a shooting rampage allegedly over a custody dispute.

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Sunday, May 28

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly defended White House adviser Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s sonin-law, for trying to set up a secret back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump transition team.

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Monday, May 29

Hundreds of protesters opposing Texas’ tough new anti-“sanctuary cities” law hold a demonstration in the public gallery of the Texas House.

Tuesday, May 30

White House Communications Director Michael Dubke resigns amid growing allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties between Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow.

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Briarwood Pool in New, Uncharted Waters

by Rachel Fradette

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early 30 children sit in anticipation on the edge of a swimming pool, waiting for the signal.

The announcement comes at 3:10 p.m.: “The Briarwood pool is now open to swim.”

A few months ago, this image of young people swimming again in the popular pool seemed elusive, but the surrounding community was determined to make it happen, after the YMCA of Jackson sold it as well as the nearby workout northeast Jackson workout facility at Deville Plaza.

“This year they (YMCA) approached us and asked us if we’d be willing to just take care of the whole pool and just run it ourselves,” Jackson resident Wilson Carroll said. “We said, ‘we would be willing to do that.’”

Carroll helped form the Friends of the Briarwood Pool, the nonprofit now charged with the pool’s operations. The YMCA formerly operated the Briarwood Pool. Phil Eide, another founder of the nonprofit, said the jurisdictional transition has been successful.

Friends of the Briarwood Pool formed four years ago to raise money for expenses including plumbing repairs.

“Hopefully, we will continue to do this year after year. So far it looks good,” Eide told the Jackson Free Press.

Briarwood will no longer face re-

Where’s Yoshi?

by JFP Staff

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emember that time Robert Graham’s dog, Yoshi, appeared in a campaign video? We do, and now we’re wondering where Yoshi is now . We’ve made some educated guesses.

strictions or rules of the YMCA including pool hours and weather requirements. The new pool management team

an attorney, told the Jackson Free Press.

As the day fought off a prophesied storm, community members could atImani Khayyam

Wednesday, May 24

U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate sentences Christopher Epps, Mississippi’s former corrections commissioner, to nearly 20 years in prison for crimes connected to more than $1.4 million in bribes. … Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs legislation prohibiting the removal of Confederate monuments or renaming schools named after Confederate figures.

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Community members are working with a nonprofit organization, Friends of the Briarwood Pool, to help keep Briarwood Pool open this summer after the YMCA sold the pool, which has been in the community for more than 50 years.

is now writing its own rules, Eide said.

The group wanted to manage the pool, but that responsibility comes with a risk of what could come out of it.

“The great unknown right now is will enough people join that we can afford to do this moving forward,” Carroll,

tend informational sessions and sign up for memberships for adults and children and swimming-team spots.

Preserving Nostalgic Memories

Memberships and classes will keep the pool afloat, Carroll said. The

He fell in a pothole. TBD on his return.

Taking a refreshing dip in front of Thalia Mara Hall.

Planning Graham’s 2019 state-wide campaign.

(Pending Slogan: Paws Out, Votes Out) Sniffing around Lumumba’s campaign, seeing if they need a canine for any TV commercials.

He’s still out campaigning to be mayor.

Helping Mario rescue Princess Peach.

Pooping in John Horhn’s yard.

Getting lessons in coolness with Chane’s dog, Zero.

Protesting “No Dogs Allowed” rules at Winner’s Circle Park in Flowood.

“We’ve received calls from legislators from Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, all stating that they don’t plan to come, and they are standing with us in our efforts to change the state flag.”

“I’m just saying that I think the city needs two mayors. I think we need Chokwe (Lumumba) as the legal part, and they need me as the street guy.”

— Rep. Sonya Williams-Barnes, the chairwoman of the Mississippi Legislative Black Conference on their boycott of the Southern Legislative Conference.

—Independent candidate for mayor Kenneth Swarts in an interview about his candidacy (see page 16).

State Guts Firefighting Forestry Jobs

by Arielle Dreher

Wildfire season flared this spring; this blaze in Pearl River County in March burned 643 acres and took almost nine hours to contain.

‘No Apologies’

The Mississippi Forestry Commission controls the state’s wildfires on almost 19.8 million acres of both state-owned and private land. Foresters track the health of state forests, maintain 16th Section lands, which are public-school trust lands, and help prevent, contain and put out forest fires.

The budget cut meant a loss of $2.67 million cut for the state agency.

“The state money we get only goes toward salaries,” Bozeman said. “It’s been beat into our heads where we

can’t spend one-time funds on recurring expenses.”

The commission funds its equipment and gear for other volunteer fire departments around the state with pass-through federal funds and by applying for other grants, which is why the cut had to go directly to salaries, Bozeman said.

Using historical wildfire data and looking at the geography of the state, the commission mapped out the new districts. Previously, a single district covered maybe one to three counties at most. Now, some districts con-

future depends on whether the nonprofit can bring in enough fees.

The pool offers a nostalgic feel for many Jackson residents who learned how to swim at the pool in the more than 50 years it has been open.

“This neighborhood is full of people who grew up here,” Carroll said. “There is reservoir of good will out here.”

Briarwood Pool Manager Jordan Camp can walk to her parents’ house from the pool’s front door. They haven’t moved since she was a child.

“This is the reason I swam, I became a lifeguard,” Camp said. “This pool is not only just a great place, but it also was my childhood.”

Camp runs the day-to-day activities

at the pool. She handled hiring for the summer in addition to preparations for opening weekend.

“It took a lot of hard work, a lot of volunteers and a lot of dedication, but it has all been paid off,” Camp said.

Jackson resident John Sewell, who works for Millsaps College, remembers his own time growing up at the pool. He learned to swim and enjoyed summer days relaxing there, an experience his kids now enjoy.

“Forget all the logistics of who owns what,” Sewell said. “The great thing about it (pool) is it hasn’t changed in almost 50 years.”

Sewell’s children have gone through swimming classes, and one of his kids

tain two to five counties. For example, Hinds County is in a district with Warren County alone, while one of the districts contains DeSoto, Tunica, Tate, Marshall and Benton Counties.

Republican leaders in the Legislature repeatedly mentioned their campaign promise of cutting state government during the session to back up their budget cuts. House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, told the Stennis Capitol Press Forum last week that Republicans reducing the size of state government should not come as a shock to anyone.

“Revenues have come in less than projected, which has forced us to make cuts; it has also forced us to budget based upon what we think is going to come in, in the future,” Gunn said last week.

“We’ve been very frugal with that and been very conservative with that; I don’t apologize for the fact that we’ve had to trim some of those budgets, and I don’t apologize that we’ve had to reduce the size of government,” the speaker added.

Gunn said reducing government is what Republicans campaign on, so it shouldn’t be a “surprise or a shock or catch everyone off-guard.”

The Forestry Commission is not the only state agency that is making deep cuts to its agency. The Department of Mental Health has yet to announce a reorganization but has estimated that it will have to lay off at least 600 employees.

works at Briarwood as a lifeguard. The community is one that looks out for one another especially at the pool, he said.

“We all watch out for each other,” Sewell said.

A Labor of Love

Transitioning to community-based control has been a labor of love for the parties involved, which included cleaning up the pool and volunteering time to set it up.

“Being owned by the members, that’s going to give us a lot more freedom with what we want to do,” Sewell said.

Both adults and kids came out to volunteer on Saturdays to power wash and convert the pool into a summer get-

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away. “We’ve been very pleasantly surprised with the amount of support we’ve gotten so far,” Carroll said.

Briarwood Pool will be open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, but Eide says the group is planning to have it stay open later if possible.

An individual membership is $300, a couple’s membership is $350, and a family membership is $400 a year. The payment can be made all at once or in three installments with a $50 convenience fee.

“It is so worth it,” Sewell said. “My kids will be here every day.”

Rachel Fradette is a summer reporting intern in from Michigan State. Read more local news at jacksonfreepress.com/city.

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Courtesy Travis Rubio and MS Forestry Commission

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ifty foresters with “boots on the ground” to fight wildfires all over Mississippi on almost 19.8 million acres will lose their jobs come July 1. The layoffs come after the state Legislature cut the Mississippi Forestry Commission budget by almost 16 percent in the past session.

Assistant State Forester Russell Bozeman told the Jackson Free Press that the commission was forced to reorganize its operations after the cut, which will also mean the elimination of about 25 administrative jobs— bringing the total cut to 75 jobs.

Bozeman said the cut means the commission will have fewer people covering larger territories. Previously, the commission had almost 50 public offices—now they will have 25. Offices open to the public and work centers in each county will not close as a result of the cut, however, they will just have fewer or no workers going forward.

“Our hope is that we shouldn’t see a drastic change (in the delivery of services),” Bozeman said.

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Long Live the King: Kingston Frazier’s Short and Powerful Life

By William Kelly III Courtesy Frazier Family

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he 6-year-old boy was to be crowned in front of family and friends on May 18 as he graduated from kindergarten at Northwest Elementary School in Jackson. However, three teenagers are accused of kidnapping and murdering the boy early that morning, delaying his celebration. Then, a week later, hundreds of loved ones and unfamiliar faces had to wait to gaze upon the pearly-white throne that holds Kingston Frazier, the newly crowned little king, along with a Ninja Turtle and blue Power Ranger next to him.

People of various backgrounds, races and age stood under the warm Mississippi sun to view the face of a child they barely knew. Cars, trucks, and chopper motorcycles crowded the streets and yards surrounding the Morning Star Baptist Church, only to say goodbye to a life cut short.

Although it seemed to be a sorrowful day, hope penetrated the eyes and hearts of those who attended the celebration of little Kingston Frazier.

‘Love Hell Out of People’

“Everybody said this is a rallying cause, and Kingston’s death is bringing folks together, but folks still shooting each other,” Mayor Tony Yarber said at the service as Kingston’s mother, Ebony Archie, sat in the front row. He added that you have to “learn how to literally love hell out of people.”

“To the Archie and Frazier family, as mayor I’m sorry that I can’t make folk do what they’re supposed to do. As mayor, I’m sorry that I can’t make 19- and 20-year-old boys realize that even if you didn’t have the best upbringing you still got a responsibility to your people.”

Jackson Police Department Chief

Kingston Frazier died the day he was supposed to graduate from kindergarten.

But his death brought a community together last week for a memorial service, which organizers called his graduation.

Lee Vance, Hinds County Sheriff Victor Mason, Madison County Sheriff Randy Tucker and Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith followed Yarber.

Sheriff Tucker stood at the podium with a red face and watery eyes as he spoke to the audience saying that the residents of Mississippi has to do better, referring to the little boy as “an angel for all of us.”

“I want to tell you what Kingston did that we failed to achieve here on earth.

Kingston brought an entire profession to tears and together,” Tucker said followed by applause. “He brought an entire commu-

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FORESTRY from page 6

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Fighting Fire with Cuts

Bozeman said he thinks the Forestry Commission will be able to provide the same response times with the new districts, despite losing 75 employees—but only time will tell. The forest-fire seasons are in spring and fall in Mississippi.

This past March, he said, was pretty bad. Gov. Phil Bryant issued a burn-ban last fall, after one man died to an agriculture fire burning out of control, quickly

nity together. He brought our entire state together, and this nation is watching.”

The Democratic nominee for Jackson mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, shared that as a father he was deeply affected. He said his 3-year-old daughter and wife, Ebony, were at the same Kroger earlier the day Kingston was kidnapped.

‘Am I fresh?’

Kimberly Smith, principal at North Jackson Elementary School, presented a resolution in memory of Kingston, whom she described as a “thriving kindergartner

becoming a forest fire . Summertime is a relatively low fire danger time, but wildfire season largely depends on weather and drought conditions.

“The worst the drought is, the worst the wildfire season will be,” Bozeman said.

The commission coordinates with local, municipal and voluntary fire departments around the state to respond to wildfires, but Bozeman explained that putting out a wildfire is much different than extinguishing something like a house fire by dousing water on it.

State foresters fight wildfires by bulldozing a path around the blaze, and using a fire plow to light a pathway of brush to create a fire lane in the wildfire’s path.

who loved math, play time, and demanding attention.” The principal said that Kingston will always be remembered for his role in a Jackson 5 skit. Kingston’s teachers accompanied Smith.

One of the teachers shared her memories of teaching Frazier. “He would finish all of his work just so he can talk and play with his friends,” she said. She cried, describing how she comforted Kingston when he cried. “I would say, ‘Come here, Kingston,’ and I would rub his face, and I would tell him, ‘You know we don’t cry in this room; clean your face and stop that.’”

Many of Kingston’s cousins, of all ages, shared poems and memorable moments they had with him before he was killed. Applause and words of encouragement replaced silence as Kingston’s uncle, Martin Archie, struggled to talk about his nephew with whom he shared a special bond. Archie took many deep breaths, saying Kingston never had a sad moment; he was always happy.

“All I can remember is him calling me the day before his graduation saying, ‘Are you coming to my graduation? Bring me some balloons.’ His favorite words was, ya know, he get ready for school and say, ‘Hey, how I look today? Am I fresh?’” The audience broke into laughter.

“I used to say, “Yeah, Kingston, you look good. Be good in school.”

Kingston’s parents and grandparents did not get up to speak but instead left tributes in his obituary. His family wore the color green, which was one of the boy’s favorite colors, and buttons that had Kingston’s handprint from school.

It was a celebration fit for a king.

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That way when the fire gets to the fire lane, it goes out with no extra brush or fuel to eat up.

“We literally fight fire with fire,” Bozeman said.

The gear and equipment to fight wildfires will still be accessible at work centers in every county, even after the reorganization. It is just the manpower that will be lacking.

“We’re sad we have to do a reduction at all—we’re always concerned when we have to cut personnel,” Bozeman said.

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

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A Small, But Tangible, Impact on Teacher Shortages

by Arielle Dreher

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majority-black district, and in 2014 it had a teacher shortage.

As an outsider, Leake was shocked to see the segregated school he worked in.

“The community where I live, for example, is segregated in many ways.

There aren’t many white students in public schools …,” Leake told the Jackson Free Press. “That was one of the biggest shocks of moving down here and seeing the enduring division. At the same time talking to people around here and learning about

offer them renewal contracts like all other public-school teachers in the state.

Keeping Teachers Teaching

Dr. Joe Sweeney, the director of the MTC program, says his team does its best to keep teachers in education by building strong partnerships with schools as well as offering additional incentives for teachers who stay an extra year in a critical-needs school. Through the university’s foundation, the Corps can offer some teachers a Courtesy Timothy Leake by Ryan Eshleman

imothy Leake is a long way from home. He moved to Mississippi right after he graduated from Yale University in 2015. Leake studied math at Yale, but by the end of his time there, he decided he really wanted to learn how to teach. The Mississippi Teacher Corps provided the perfect opportunity.

The Corps is a small alternate-route teacher program based out of the University of Mississippi that enables a group of typically recent undergraduates to take master’s courses while teaching for two years, leaving with their master’s degree if they complete the program.

The Corps has 20 to 30 students in each class, with about half from Mississippi and half from out-of-state. Its cohorts are much smaller than other alternate-route programs like Teach for America, which also operates in the state.

Recently, MTC started focusing on teacher retention, which the program initially did not do well but has improved on in recent years.

“(We are) seeking out opportunities for them to advance their career if they have ambitions of moving up in education,” Dr. Hunter Taylor, the recruiting coordinator for MTC, said of recruits. “And maybe if they have interest in policy or want to get into civic organizations or city planning, we want to make sure that they’re aware of a lot of opportunities in these communities.”

Mississippi has a teacher shortage, particularly in majority-black school districts, a study published in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found. MTC places its teachers in critical-needs areas, primarily in the northern part of the state, so the students can take their graduate courses on campus in Oxford twice a month.

The Mississippi Department of Education lists 48 school districts as “critical shortage areas,” on a list from 2014.

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Leake, who is from Bloomington, Ind., originally taught Algebra I at North Panola High School during his first year with the Corps. His biggest challenge in his first year of teaching was implementing a new curriculum and teaching students how to justify their answers on mathematic problem-solving questions, he said.

North Panola is in a district with access to limited resources, and he spent time tutoring students and trying to show them 10 opportunities for growth. North Panola is a

Timothy Leake graduated this month from the Mississippi Teacher Corps and is moving to the private St. Andrew’s Episcopal School to continue teaching.

them, there’s a lot of kindness and care and (a) supportive environment.”

Leake said he was able to build relationships with individuals in the community—and in turn with his students—despite being an outsider.

“There are a lot of very bright and talented students in North Panola, but there isn’t always a history and tradition that would lead them to success,” he said.

“There is a little bit of a lack of knowledge about what opportunities there are and knowledge of how to get there.”

That’s where Leake, as a Yale alumnus, could help his students. In his second year teaching at North Panola High, he taught calculus. He said he wrote several recommendations this year.

“I think all of the calculus class is going to college. … It’s great to see the accomplishments,” Leake said.

The Mississippi Department of Education gives teachers in the Corps a threeyear provisional teaching license, but the schools technically employ them and must

$1,000 to $3,000 bonus for their third year teaching in the state’s public school system.

About 80 percent of students who start the Corps make it through the program, Sweeney estimates.

The Legislature, as well as the university, funds the Corps, and so far budget cuts have been minimal, not affecting the program’s impact on the state. Data from the Corps show it has graduated 569 people since the program started in 1989. In the last five graduating classes, about 26 percent of graduates stayed in education in Mississippi. And more than half of the graduates in the last five years have stayed in teaching

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The Corps administrators try to recruit candidates who plan to stay in education after they graduate with their master’s degree. Leake, for his part, plans to stay in education for a while—but is shifting to a private academy. He accepted a job teaching middle school math at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Jackson and will start there this fall.

“I think the Mississippi Teacher Corps did a good job helping its graduates stay in the teaching field,” Leake said.

If he had stayed in public education, Leake could have received an extra bonus and possibly get recommended for a fiveyear license at the end of the program.

When asked if he plans to leave Mississippi anytime soon, Leake said he is in no rush.

“I’m certainly in no hurry to leave … but yes, I’d like to stay in education,” Leake said. “Teaching is certainly a job that could remain for a while.”

While the Corps fills a small part of the teacher-shortage gap in the state, a recently published study in the Mississippi Economic Review shows that while programs like incentives and alternate-route programs (like the Corps or Teach for America) are important efforts, “they are only small bandages on a major wound.”

“Inputs to schools matter,” researcher David Berliner wrote in the study. “As wonderful as some teachers and school are, most cannot eliminate the inequalities that have roots outside their doors and that influence events within them.”

“This principle holds true when addressing the problem of teacher shortages in Mississippi,” the researchers conclude.

“The factors that most influence the shortage extend outside the world of education and education policy. They include people’s perceptions and ideas about race, the economics of place and what makes a place a valuable place to live, and the economic health of places.”

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letter to the editor Jess Brown’s Service in a Turbulent Time

We write in support of naming the Jackson courthouse building for the United States District for the Southern District of Mississippi in honor of the late R. Jess Brown. We all had the opportunity to work with and know Jess Brown. We can attest first hand to his courage, ingenuity, and leadership in the dark era of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s.

Even before he became a lawyer, Jess Brown got involved with civilrights issues when he stepped in as a plaintiff in the Gladys Noel Bates suit to equalize black teacher salaries. In 1949, the suit was brought to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The lone original plaintiff, Mrs. Bates, was promptly fired and forced to leave the state after she brought the suit. Jess, who was then a high-school teacher, took her place. He was also promptly fired.

He had already begun to study law through a La Salle extension course and later began took the Bar Exam without success. He decided to attend law school at Texas Southern University. In 1953, during his second year, he finally passed the bar examination, dropped out of law school and began his practice. In 1957, Jess brought the first civil-rights lawsuit in Mississippi in the 1950s when he filed a voting-rights suit on behalf of Jefferson Davis County residents who were attacking the literacy requirement that prospective voters interpret constitutional provisions to be eligible to vote.

This suit was also filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Although he was not successful, the U.S. Supreme Court later upheld his position in the 1960s.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Jess Brown courageously represented civilrights leaders across the state, as well as blacks accused of capital crimes in often hostile environments. These included Mack Charles Parker, who was accused of rape and lynched in Pearl River County just days after Jess appeared on his behalf. He also represented Clyde Kennard, who had applied to what was then the all-white Mississippi Southern College, now the University of Southern Mississippi, which today has an African American president. In response to his audacity, Kennard was framed and convicted of stealing “chicken feed.” Medgar Evers was convicted of contempt of court for criticizing Kennard’s conviction. Jess and Jack Young Sr. represented Medgar, and his conviction was reversed on appeal.

When the Freedom Riders came in 1961, Jess Brown, Carsie Hall and Jack Young represented them. These three lawyers defended most of the civil-rights workers who were charged with crimes for daring to challenge segregation in the early 1960s before there were any full-time legal civil-rights offices. They were counsel of record in the first school desegregation cases that were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in 1963. These cases resulted in the assassination of Medgar Evers and the bombings directed at Dr. Gilbert Mason in Biloxi and the Hudson family in Leake County. The Leake County case also resulted in Judge Cox holding Jess Brown in contempt when some of the named plaintiffs backed down. The Fifth Circuit promptly reversed Judge Cox’s ruling.

We write in support of bestowing this honor and recognition on a man who provided exemplary service to the cause of justice and equality during turbulent times at great economic and physical danger to himself and his family. He and his family deserve this recognition. We urge all readers to write the Mississippi Congressional delegation in support of naming the new federal court building the R. Jess Brown Federal Court Building.

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New City Administration Must Be Smart on Crime

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ackson suffered its 26th homicide in 2017.

Two men were shot on Saturday night outside a home. One suffered a bullet wound to the foot, but Jamie Washington, 26, was shot multiple times and did not survive, the Jackson Police Department said. Police can do little to stop such tragedies. Interpersonal violence, much like the shooting spree allegedly spurred from domestic violence that left eight people dead in Lincoln County last weekend, is responsible for a huge amount of violent crime that police cannot stop.

It is up to the community to hold the city’s new leader and administration accountable for making our city safer—through smart, violenceinterrupting strategies that involve multiple stakeholders well beyond the police department.

The Legislature and Mayor Yarber wisely started researching the root causes of violence with the BOTEC reports that examine the realities and precursors of crime in Jackson, as well as the mayor’s task force. Crime doesn’t just happen. BOTEC researchers found that specific factors contribute to later run-ins with the criminal-justice system and the likelihood of committing worse crime.

Most Jackson offenders “described upbringings that were full of losses, danger and instability,” BOTEC found. “Elements of dysfunction included poverty, disabilities, boredom, and lack of adult attention, death or absence of parents, often resulting from addiction or incarceration. Home and school lives were unstable, due to multiple and

abrupt changes in income, living situation, school attendance and the location of the home.”

Jackson-based FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze told a Jackson Rotary Club crowd recently that understanding the cycles so many young people live through is vital to reducing violence. “We cannot arrest our way out of this lawenforcement problem. ... (We) must be involved in programs that provide escape,” Freeze warned.

If not, Freeze added, “They will become the parents they presently don’t have.”

The mayor elected June 6 must get this, too.

You cannot police or arrest your way out of Jackson’s cyclical crime. Education, stable living conditions and community activities are just as important as violence-interrupting policing strategies. The city needs both at the same time. We need city, community and business leadership that understands that domestic-violence programs and mental-health courts will help heal and keep families together.

Of course, funding is the real sore thumb of the city’s crime problems. The city, county and state will have to join with business and nonprofit leaders to fund real crime prevention. The county needs diversion programs to keep kids out of HenleyYoung and in school. The courts need to operate mental-health courts. The city needs to embrace smart policing strategies and not just sweeps. The next mayor must join with state and county leaders, city residents and stakeholders to build a long-time crime-prevention strategy, and then fund it.

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I Refuse to Be a Victim

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fter working in nonprofit social services in Mississippi for almost 20 years, I’m pretty familiar with budgets and budget cuts and funding streams and how they actually shake out in the real world. It can be hard to look at the large numbers and allocations to agencies and understand how that will affect the daily life of the average Mississippian.

Right now, I’m scared. I see children getting shot and three other only slightly larger children arrested for the crime, and I know that for the last five years, the state Legislature has been crippling or cutting any program designed to help them from the budget. The Adolescent Offender Program, which was designed to intervene with youth who are involved with the juvenile-justice system, closed its doors last year—a victim of that year’s budget.

New reports show that six of our nine district health offices will be closing in the next fiscal year—more victims.

While the agency will reorganize administratively, it is still cutting direct services.

Right now I feel like we are all a victim to the budget, or we will be. In the upcoming year, if more funding is not made available for health and mentalhealth services, we will have more victims in various shapes and sizes.

As Americans the word “responsibility” holds a lot of weight for us—mostly as individuals. We are responsible for our choices, our actions—violent or loving.

When people commit crimes, we assign this responsibility to a person and close the door on our own. We peer at the problem through a 1-inch slat and hope to keep it contained and away from the rest of us. We try to understand them as a “they” instead of part of “us,” so we don’t have to think about what possibly could cause “them” to act so different from “us.” This is human nature.

But this is false. We are all in this together. We must live side-by-side and understand that we have a vested interested in our fellow Mississippians’ health and well-being. If we do not start to understand this, we will keep allowing the current administration in this state to victimize us.

And what does that victimization

look like? It looks like losing funding for a program that helps teenagers who are violent and are in the juvenile-justice system. It looks like more homeless people on the street because there are no beds in mental-health facilities or funding for shelters. It looks like more people in jail because there are no other viable alternatives for drug treatment. It looks like kids who go without health care. It looks like pregnant women who don’t get prenatal care and have smaller and sicker babies. It looks like 6-year-olds shot in the backseat of a car.

The programs that provide these services are not a “waste.” They were originally created because we were tired of the poor and sick and elderly dying in the streets and realized we had a vested interest in keeping citizens at least minimally healthy and fed. It was because we had faith and felt a responsibility to our brother, not just companies.

Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the nation. We receive more federal funding than any other state. But our own government continues to give tax breaks to companies for jobs that never pan out and then claim we have “no money” to make sure that Mississippi kids get their shots before school, or to make sure that Mississippi mothers have access to prenatal care and have healthy babies.

Are you, as a Mississippian, OK with that? Because to me that’s like letting someone beat me up and take my lunch money and then blame me for it.

I’m not OK with that. I refuse to be a victim or to participate in the demise of other Mississippians for business interests that do not benefit our state. I refuse to lament the death of another Mississippi kid and not have a real conversation about why and how that happens.

If a budget sets an intention, then it’s time we took a long, hard look in the mirror and reassess our values. Because this one says we do not care for one another at all. I don’t believe that to be true. At least not in the Mississippi in which I grew up.

Lori Gregory is a social worker from Greenville, Miss. She lives in Fondren with two ruined rescues and a 7-year-old daughter who terrorizes her.

It looks like 6-year-olds shot in the backseat of a car.

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Education: Manhattan Academy (High School) Employment: Pizza Hut driver/ delivery for nine years Political Experience: None Family: Wife Nancy Swarts; daughter Melina Swarts; son Matthew Swarts

it is for strangers or neighbors. Swarts raised just like a pat on the back or a handshake, his rough hands full of callouses and said: that’s all I really want,” he says.

“You notice this. This is Jackson. I am Jackson. … Jackson’s in me, it’s there.”

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Swarts has strong opinions about inPutting in 150 Percent frastructure, and how it is used and treated.

One day, Swarts says, he brought He compares the city to the human body to a homeless man to church, took him to explain its weaknesses. lunch and then paid for a Super 8 Hotel “Right now what’s happening is, room for him to sleep that night.

“What I do in north Jackson gives me training and thought for what can happen in south Jackson and west Jackson. I grew up where if you know something’s got to be done, (you) do it,” Swarts says.

“There have been sinkholes in the city, and all that I filled in.

(The) most said thing to me is ‘I see you all the time.” Technically, my response is, ‘That’s because nobody wants to work.’”

Swarts said he will maybe become interested in managing people if elected mayor. “I’m not into management. Maybe as a mayor, yeah, I’ll get into this thing, but right now there’s things I can’t do because I don’t have the title ‘mayor.’ If you have the title ,then people will do something for you.”

Kenneth Swarts, an independent mayoral candidate, loves showing off his “playbook” Starting at Home of ideas for the City of Jackson and his home “Education starts in the made campaign material. home. Don’t pawn it off on the teachers ’cause they can’t handle it. They got all these students to worry people leave their curbs all crappy … or about. They can’t try to teach every one they mow the yard or churches have people of the kids,” Swarts says. “If our kids in mow the yard and they put their clippings school are getting that better grade, we’re out in the street,” Swarts said.

“If your drain is full, it’s just like your gonna get better funding. The kid’s educa- tion gonna be better. It’s all gonna be better intestinal system. If you’re stopped up, you for everybody, then you’re gonna have the feel bad, right? OK, but if you get that thing flowing great, then you’re having a higher education kids that are innovative.”

“As for crime, crime begins at home. If good day. You got your crap inside ya,” he you neglect your kids they’re gonna go out says.

“Well, that’s what’s happening in the and do something just to get your attention.

It all boils down to the parents teaching the city. You got your crap in the pipes.”

Swarts promises that he will do what kids the right thing to do and spending the it takes to clean up the city’s crap and its time with them,” he says.

Swarts says Jackson’s biggest challenges pipes, and later maybe the pearly gates.

“When I finish with the City of Jackare not crime or education. He is concerned son as mayor, and maybe God calls me up with the youth of Jackson.

“The biggest challenge is to get the to polish the golden stones on the streets parents motivated to teach the kids. ... If you of Heaven or wherever he sends me, I’m get somebody to do something for you, you gonna take care of it. Whether it’s the up or should reward ’em somehow. Some people down or in between,” Swarts says.

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enneth Swarts pulls out his big, white binder that he calls his “playbook” and begins to show off his vibrant campaign signs. He crafted the small signs from leftover Pizza Hut brownie boxes and his laminating machine, similar to the button on his shirt. The 60year-old flips through the binder with pride and excitement in his voice, describing the work he has done in the community.

A red and blue convertible is in many of the photos. Swarts calls the car his mobile and official campaign office.

Allen Clark Swarts and Mary Jane Knight-Swarts adopted Swarts as a baby during a visit to Germany and brought him to Jackson. His father served 40 years in the military and is from “the other side” of Buffalo, N.Y. He was a public-relations specialist and photographer for a Jackson military base and a postal worker for 20 years.

The candidate’s mother is from the Delta and got a degree from Louisiana State University in library science. She worked as a librarian at Central High School in downtown Jackson until it closed in 1977 and then transferred to Wingfield Elementary School as head librarian.

Swarts identifies himself as an “illegitimate kid,” because his birth mom was German, and his dad was an Army man.

The candidate has lived in northeast Jackson since 1983. He met his wife of almost three years, Nancy Swarts, at Colonial Heights Church.

His children from an earlier marriage, Matthew and Melina Swarts, both live in Atlanta. Swarts says he purchased a wedding ring after he worked extra shifts during the winter from a lack of employees.

The Pizza Hut driver of nine years calls himself “The Good Samaritan,” from his selfless labor in the community, whether

Future Mayor?

The Independent candidate plans to appreciate Jackson residents with his budget. “All I want is $5 a week and an expense account, and the expense account is to appreciate others. I might not be there to actually put that (award) on you, but I want you to know that I’ll send you some flowers ’cause ya know you did a good job, or I’ll send you pizza, or I’ll send you to Sal & Mookies, or something.

“(Restaurateur) Jeff Good knows me real well,” he adds.

Swarts says that he wants to be mayor for the people. “Apparently there’s so many people out there that are upset that said, ‘So and so didn’t do something. This didn’t get done. That didn’t get done.’ Bring it to my attention, (and) I’ll see what I can do,” Swarts says. “I’m just saying that I think the city needs two mayors. I think we need Chokwe (Lumumba) as the legal part, and they need me as the street guy.” Lumumba is the Democratic nominee for mayor.

Swarts shared that he decided to be an independent politician when he realized Republican and Democratic politician candidates are more monitored, not because of their political views.

“I’m not looking for funds. If you’re a Republican or Democrat, you gotta fill out all these forms, you gotta do this. I just have to walk in and say, ‘Hey, I’d like to be mayor, or I’d like to be so and so.’”

He also does not have to report his campaign donations and expenses, he says.

“I don’t have to put in a financial statement ’cause I don’t accept funds. Not that I don’t accept funds; it’s just nobody’s giving me $2 or $300 to do anything like that, or $500,” Swarts says.

“I was asked, ‘What’re you gonna do your first day in office?’ First day in office, I’ll probably ask for a report of the salaries and job positions of those 2,500 city employees and make sure they’re all at least doing 99-percent.”

Swarts admits, though, that he may not win the mayor’s race on June 6.

“The people in south Jackson and west Jackson they don’t know me, and that’s where Chokwe might win because they don’t know me, (and) they don’t know the love I have for the city, and they don’t know the devotion I have.”

Email William H. Kelly III at william@ jacksonfreepress.com and follow him on Twitter at @william_reports. Read more coverage at jacksonfreepress.com/election2017.

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ackson doesn’t have a mayor, yet, despite Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s impressive Democratic primary victory in an overwhelmingly Democratic city. He still must defeat several other candidates on June 6. The following are issue positions taken from either interviews with the candidates or their websites. See jacksonfreepress. com/election2017 for interviews and additional coverage.

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Chokwe Antar Lumumba, 33, is the Democratic nominee for Jackson mayor after defeating nine other Democrats in the primary, avoiding a runoff. Lumumba is a defense lawyer like his father, former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba Sr., and older sister, Rukia Lumumba. He ran for mayor after his father died but lost to current Mayor Tony Yarber. Lumumba plans to carry on the work of his late father, who died while in office.

Crime

“So we have to meet people where they are, and have to engage our young people. We have to take advantage of the things that are of their interest and use that as the draw. One thing that I like is the idea of investing in music studios. We have young people who are interested in music, interested in the arts.”

Infrastructure

“We have probably a billion dollars’ worth of infrastructure issues, and people

Independent

Jaclyn Mask

Jaclyn Mask Mask attended Hinds Community College and became a licensed realtor. She is the leasing manager of both the Standard Life apartment building and the King Edward Hotel. She has not returned calls or emails for an interview, but promises in social media to run freeloaders out of town.

On her website, she promises: “Financial accountability for your tax dollars. Active partnership with State Government to improve the Capitol Complex District. Develop the city into a place we can be proud to call home. Fix the streets and water system. New, proactive methods to address crime and corruption.

complain the most about the roads, but the problem with the water and our pipes may be worse than the actual roads. 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.”

Education “Initiate a legislative agenda to have school-board members elected.

Address pedagogy to benefit our children’s specific learning needs.

Promote the incorporation of entrepreneurial relationships within the learning process.”

Economic Development

“I am going to be a building mayor. 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.”

More at lumumbaformayor.com.

Gwendolyn Chapman

Gwendolyn Chapman ran as a Democrat for Ward 3 city councilwoman in 2010 and mayor in 2014.

She served as a yoga & meditation instructor at Jackson State University in 2010 and from 2012-2015. She is retired.

Crime

“Try to develop as many jobs as I can through a short-term and also through a long-term. Basically, reaching out to a church (and) to these street gangs and also the elders … work together as a one to make this work,” Chapman said in a phone interview with the JFP. Infrastructure

“These abandoned houses do need to be like fixed or tore down.

The infrastructure really needs to be kind of like a tourist kind of a site.

Republican

Jason Wells, 34, is the Republican nominee for Jackson mayor. Wells has participated in previous elections: once running for city council against Tony Yarber, a few times for constable and now against the other five candidates. He is currently a Jackson Police Department security officer and has worked with the City for six years.

phalt, and we see how long it last us. When it comes to water and sewage, I’ve been looking at different cities that had the same problems and how they redid their pipes.”

Crime

“I’m going to build a jail. We got a lot of buildings down here that we can revamp into a city jail to house our own criminals.”

“I look at offering a mayoral pardon.

You might owe me traffic tickets, and I’m looking for somebody who just robbed a store. You know who they are. You come to me and you give me that person, and I give you a mayoral pardon. That mean I wipe your slate clean (Traffic offenses) from the City of Jackson.”

Education

“We need to look at hiring more experienced teachers. We need to get a better superintendent that’s able to do the job and that want to help the kids.”

Economic Development “Like I say, we just have to bring more jobs here to the city.

To bring it up economically. You know, even the downtown area. We really got to clean downtown up in order to bring it back.”

“(An aquarium will) bring back, that’ll bring a lot of attention to the city. A lot of tourists would come to this city of Jackson just to see that. A lot of jobs will come here just because of what goes on with downtown Jackson.”

Infrastructure

“By the streets, we look at different as-

Wells does not have a campaign office, website or staff.

The infrastructure is really based upon the lifestyle of the people that live in the city.”

Education

“I would like to see a public school, maybe one strong charter school that supports the public school that surrounds them and have some prenatal care on up to the twelfth grade where the child, when it graduates, is doing what it really loves to do and get paid for it.”

Economic Development

“I’m all for the legalization of industrial hemp and the economic boost that it would give. There’s flea markets, and just like in Canton, there’s recreational horse tracks and skateboarding competitions, (and) carnivals. Every time that fair comes in town it makes millions of dollars, which can contribute if the city does that at least three times (a year).

Libertarian

Corinthian Sanders, 24, is the Libertarian candidate for Jackson mayor. At the age of 20, Sanders vied for Ward 5 city councilman and District 72 Mississippi House of Representatives in 2016. On his campaign Facebook page, he promises:

“Initiate legislation for local control of the Jackson Public Schools District. Promote fiscal responsibility and efficiency in operations. Neighborhood schooling through defined partnerships with nonprofits. Eliminate wasteful spending, reduce excessive overhead expenses, fully evaluate contracts, end the city furlough and improve workforce development. Redesign the Public Works Department (Water, Waste, Drainage, Pedestrian, Road & Transportation, Fiber Internet Services). Lead community-based investments in each WARD, and identify diverse funding sources in public-private partnerships. Create a community policing model that can be replicated and modified for each precinct and that is proactive in regards to criminal justice.”

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Read more on the Jackson mayor’s race at jacksonfreepress/election2017.

Write William Kelly Jr. at william@jacksonfreepress.com.

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WEDNESDAY 5/31

THURSDAY 6/1

SATURDAY 6/3

History Is Lunch is at the William F. Winter Archives & History Building.

Storytime on the Porch is at Eudora Welty House.

Coffee Brewing Classes start at Cups Espresso Café in Fondren.

BEST BETS May 31 June 7, 2017 courtesy Clouds & Crayons

WEDNESDAY 5/31

Podcast Live: “Let’s Talk Jackson” is at 7 p.m. at Podastery Studios (121 N. State St.). The event features a live recording of the podcast with special guest Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Tickets include drink passes and “swag” bags. $15 admission; call 901-231-9620; podasterystudios.com.

THURSDAY 6/1

courtesy Bronwynne Brent

Fondren After 5 is at 5 p.m. in Fondren. The street festival takes place on the first Thursday of each month and includes live entertainment, food and drinks for sale, art and crafts vendors and more. Free; fondren.org. … “The Times They Are A-Changin’: An Evening Without Bob Dylan” is from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Musical acts including Cynical Twins, Lee Barber, Josh Little, James Martin, Bronwynne Brent and more perform covers of Bob Dylan’s greatest hits. Proceeds go to Operation Shoestring. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-353-6336; operationshoestring.org. … The

(Left to right) Tre Pepper and Astin Sullivan of Clouds & Crayons perform for Midfest on June 3 in Midtown.

FRIDAY 6/2

Lee Barber performs from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at James Patterson Photography Studio (3017 N. State St.). The singer-songwriter performs with drummer Bruce Golden and bassist John Hicks. BYOB. Free, $10 suggested donation; call 601-918-3232; leebarbermusic.com.

SATURDAY 6/3

Midfest is from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Midtown (Wesley Ave.). The festival features more than 20 vendors with crafts, food,

by TYLER EDWARDS drinks, a car show and live art.

Music includes DJ Young Venom, jacksonfreepress.com the Jason Daniels Band, Clouds & Crayons, 5th Child and Spirituals.

Fax: 601-510-9019 Free; find it on Facebook. … The Daily updates at Cathead Birthday Jam is at 3 p.m. jfpevents.com at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). Keller Williams, The Hip Abduction, Big Sam’s Funky Nation and The Vamps perform. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, free for ages 10 and under; ardenland.net.

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Bronwynne Brent is one of the performers for “The Times They Are A-Changin’: An Evening Without Bob Dylan” at Duling Hall on June 1.

Oxford Film Festival Tour is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The screening showcases five films from the Oxford Film Festival, including “Firemax,” “Otha Turner,” “All Are Welcome Here,” “Broken Paths” 20 and “Shake ’Em on Down.” Free; oxfordfilmfest.com.

SUNDAY 6/4

“Million Dollar Quartet” is at 2 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play brings together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun Records in Memphis to record hits such as “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “That’s All Right” and “Great Balls

of Fire.” Additional dates: May 31, 7:30 p.m., June 1-3, 7:30 p.m., June 6-10, 7:30 p.m., June 11, 2 p.m. $35, $28 seniors, students and military; newstagetheatre.com.

MONDAY 6/5

Sal & Mookie’s Crawfish Boil is from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Sal & Mookie’s New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.). The event includes unlimited crawfish and live music from Southern Komfort Brass Band, Passing Parade and Empty Atlas. $35 in advance, $40 at the door, $15 for ages 12 and under; salandmookies.com. … “Country Squire Radio: Episode 200 Live” is at 6 p.m. at The Country Squire Tobacconist (1855 Lakeland Drive). Features drinks, cake and door prizes. $15 admission, $10 patrons, free for members; call 601-362-2233; find it on Facebook.

TUESDAY 6/6

“Mind the Gap” is at 7:30 p.m. at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). The Mississippi Wind Symphony performs alternating pieces of English band music with music from America, Russia and Japan. Free; call 601-5735351; find it on Facebook.

WEDNESDAY 6/7

Lady Parts Justice League’s “Vagical Mystery Tour” is at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Stand-up comedians include “The Daily Show” co-creator Lizz Winstead, Ian Harvie, Greg Proops, Helen Hong and Joyelle Johnson. $15 in advance, $20 day of show; ardenland.net.

Cathead Birthday Jam June 3, 3 p.m., at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). Keller Williams, The Hip Abduction, Big Sam’s Funky Nation and The Vamps perform. $15 in advance, $20 at the door, free for ages 10 and under; call 877987-6487; ardenland.net.

JFP Chick Ball July 22, 6 p.m.-midnight, at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The fundraiser 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; call 601-362-6121, ext. 16; jfpchickball.com.

COMMUNITY Podcast Live: “Let’s Talk Jackson” May 31, 7 p.m., at Podastery Studios (121 N. State St.).

Features a live recording of the podcast with special guest Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Tickets include drink passes and “swag” bags. $15 admission; call 901-231-9620; podasterystudios.com.

Fondren After 5 June 1, 5 p.m., in Fondren. The street festival takes place on the first Thursday of each month and includes entertainment, food and drinks for sale, art and crafts vendors, popup art exhibits and more. Free; fondren.org.

Events at Christ United Methodist Church (6000 Old Canton Road) • Embrace Conference June 2, 6 p.m., June 3, 8 a.m.-9 p.m., June 4 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Features worship, outreach events and speakers including Albert Tate, John M. Perkins and Mark Deymaz. Free, $12 lunch with John Perkins; call 601-956-6974; embraceconference.info.

• Night of Unity June 4, 5-7 p.m. Features speakers Elbert McGowan of Redeemer Presbyterian and Chip Henderson of Pinelake Baptist Church. Musical guests include Dathan Thigpen, Mike Haight, Brandon Mitchell, John Mark Coon and Moses Victor. Free; call 601-956-6974; embraceconference.info.

MidFest Flea Market June 3, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at Good Samaritan Center (114 Millsaps Ave.).

Early-bird shopping from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. for $5. Free, $5 early bird; goodsamaritancenter.org.

MidFest 2017 June 3, 3-8 p.m., at Midtown Arts District (Wesley Ave.). Features more than 20 vendors with crafts, food, drinks, a car show and live art. Live music includes DJ Young Venom, the Jason Daniels Band, Clouds & Crayons, 5th Child and Spirituals. Free; find it on Facebook.

Country Squire Radio: Episode 200 Live June 5, 6-9 p.m., at The Country Squire Tobacconist (1855 Lakeland Drive). The podcast records its 200th episode live. Features drinks, cake and door prizes. $15 general admission, $10 patrons, free for club members; find it on Facebook.

Black Family Summit June 6, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at Mississippi e-Center (1230 Raymond Road).

Features discussions on the economic impact of mental health, mass incarceration, education and kinship care in communities of color. Erika J. Kendrick is the keynote speaker. $50; call 601957-7670; blackfamilysummit5.eventzilla.net.

Snake Day June 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). The lecture teaches participants how to distinguish venomous and non-venomous snake

species, and includes snake-related crafts and activities. $6 admission, free for members; call 601-576-6000; mmnsfoundation.com.

The Last Slave: Sylvester Magee in History and Memory June 6, noon-1 p.m., at The Oaks House Museum (823 N. Jefferson St.). Max Grivno discusses the history of the last enslaved people in Mississippi, their lives and what the public perception of their stories suggests about how white and black Mississippians deal with the legacy of slavery. Free; call 601-353-9339; theoakshousemuseum.org.

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Let’s Get Curious About STEM June 3, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). Children participate in Curious George-themed activities that promote STEAM and hands-on learning. Free with admission; mschildrensmuseum.org.

Sports & Wellness Heatwave Classic Triathlon June 3, 7 a.m.-noon, at Reservoir Pointe (140 Madison Landing Circle, Ridgeland). The race consists of a halfmile swim in the Reservoir, a 24-mile bike ride

the best in sports over the next seven days

by Bryan Flynn

The University of Mississippi softball team played two hardfought games in its first-ever Super Regional. Unfortunately, UCLA defeated the Rebels in two games to eliminate them.

Thursday, June 1

NBA (8-11 p.m., ABC): Game one of the 2017 NBA Finals has the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors meeting for a third consecutive time in the finals.

Friday, June 2

College baseball (11 a.m.-1:30 a.m., ESPN2/ESPNU): The first day of the baseball regionals gives fans a chance to catch the MSU Bulldogs and USM Golden Eagles in action.

Saturday, June 3

College baseball (11 a.m.-1:30 a.m., ESPN2/ESPNU): Day two of the college baseball regionals sees teams trying to avoid elimination.

Sunday, June 4

College baseball (9 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/ESPNU): Teams will begin their run at the Super Regionals on day three of the college baseball regionals. …

NBA (7-10:30 p.m., ABC): Tune in for game two of the 2017 NBA Finals, as one team will try to take a 2-0 lead.

KIDS Events at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive) • Story Time—“In the Nest” May 31, 1:152:30 p.m. Anna Milbourne reads a copy of her children’s book, “In the Nest.” For ages 3 to 5.

Free for members, $6; mmnsfoundation.com.

• Katfishin’ Kids June 3, 6:30-10 p.m. Ages 15 and under learn the basics of fishing, including how to tie a knot and cast a line. Equipment included. Free; mmnsfoundation.com.

Storytime on the Porch June 1, 3-4 p.m., at Eudora Welty House (300 North State St.).

Participating kids hear stories read from Lemuria staff, make related crafts and participate in a variety of games. For children 10 and younger. Free; call 601-354-5214; mdah.ms.gov.

Monday, June 5

College baseball (9 a.m.-11 p.m., ESPN2/ESPNU): Teams battle to reach the Super Regionals on the last day of college baseball regionals. …

NHL (7-11 p.m., NBC): Game four of the 2017 Stanley Cup Finals pits the Penguins against the Predators.

Tuesday, June 6

College softball (7-10 p.m., ESPN): If the winner of game one takes game two of the College World Series Finals, that team gets the championship.

Wednesday, June 7

College softball (7-10 p.m., ESPN): If a champion hasn’t already taken the crown, watch the third and final game of the College World Series Finals.

It’s a packed week of sports with college baseball regionals, NBA Finals and NHL Finals, and the Softball College World Series all getting underway.

Follow Bryan Flynn at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports

along the Natchez Trace, and a 10K run along the multi-use trail. $75; visitridgeland.com.

STAGE & SCREEN History Is Lunch May 31, noon-1 p.m., at William F. Winter Archives & History Building (200 North St.). Darrell White and Chris Windfield screen the documentary “The 30th of May.” Free; call 601-576-6998; mdah.ms.gov.

“Million Dollar Quartet” May 31, 7:30 p.m., June 1-3, 7:30 p.m., June 4, 2 p.m., June 6-10, 7:30 p.m., June 11, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play brings together Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins at Sun Studio. $35, $28 seniors, students and military; newstagetheatre.com.

Oxford Film Festival Tour June 1, 7-9 p.m., at

Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). Features five films from the Oxford Film Festival including “Firemax,” “Otha Turner,” “All Are Welcome Here,” “Broken Paths” and “Shake ’Em on Down.” Free; oxfordfilmfest.com.

Vagical Mystery Tour June 7, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Stand-up comedians include “The Daily Show” co-creator Lizz Winstead, Ian Harvie, Greg Proops, Helen Hong and Joyelle Johnson. $15 in advance, $20 day of show; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • The Times They Are A-Changin’: An Evening Without Bob Dylan June 1, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Musicians perform covers of Bob Dylan’s greatest hits. Proceeds go to Operation Shoestring. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-353-6336; operationshoestring.org.

• Elizabeth Cook June 6, 7:30 p.m. The Florida-native country artist’s latest album is titled “Exodus.” Cary Hudson also performs. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net.

Moneybagg Yo June 4, 10 p.m., at South Street Live (110 E. South St.). The Memphis-based rapper performs. $29.50 in advance, $35.50 at the door, $75 VIP; find it on Facebook.

CREATIVE CLASSES Write to Change Your World June 10, June 24, July 8, July 15, Aug. 5, noon-2:30 p.m., at Jackson Free Press (125 S. Congress St., #1324).

Learn to write sparkling non-fiction coumns, memoir and articles in Donna Ladd’s non-fiction writing classes, which meet five Saturdays noon to 2:30 p.m. through early August. Classes audio and video recorded if you need to miss classes. $262 (25% off) through 6/3; 601-351-9492; writingtochange.com.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS Boy: Portraits of a Fragile Construct June 3, 7 p.m., at Land Vs. Ocean (3011 N. State St.).

Alexa Espinal’s art exhibit examines the social construct of masculinity through a series of portraits. Includes music from El Obo, Taylor Hildebrand, Silent G and Flywalker. Admission TBA; call 662-694-9061; find it on Facebook.

BE THE CHANGE The Pearl Factor: An All White Affair June 2, 7 p.m., at The South Warehouse (627 E. Silas Brown St.). Features a draw down, a silent auction, live music and more. Proceeds go to the Ebony Pearls Foundation. $65, $800 reserved table for 10; call 939-4518; allwhiteaffair.com.

Woof, Wag & Wine June 6, 5:30-8:30 p.m., at The Rug Place (2315 Lakeland Cove, Flowood).

Features a raffle, a silent auction, music, food and cocktails. Proceeds go to Cheshire Abbey. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; cheshireabbey.com.

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

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May 31 - Wednesday Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 5:30-7:30 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 7:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Mike & Skip 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Road Hogs 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m. free

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Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Doug Allen Nash 8 p.m. free CS’s - H.A.R.D. w/ El Obo & Cody Cox 8 p.m.-midnight Cerami’s - Linda Blackwell & James Bailey 6:30-9:30 p.m. free Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m. free Drago’s - Doug Hurd 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones - Todd Thompson & the Lucky Hand Blues Band midnight $10 Fitzgerald’s - Hunter Gibson & Ronnie McGee (dueling pianos) 7:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Swing de Paris free

June 3 - Saturday Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Doug Allen Nash 8 p.m. free

June 4 - Sunday Char - Big Easy Three 11:45 a.m.1:45 p.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Christ UMC - Night of Unity feat.

Dathan Thigpen, Mike Haight, Brandon Mitchell, John Mark Coon & Moses Victor 5-7 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Faze 4 6-11 p.m. free Shucker’s - Sofa Kings 3:30 p.m. free South Street Live - Moneybagg Yo 10 p.m. $29.50 advance $35.50 at door $75 VIP Table 100 - Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m. free

June 5 - Monday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Stevie Cain 6:30 p.m.

Sal & Mookie’s - Crawfish Boil feat. Southern Komfort Brass Band, Passing Parade & Empty Atlas 5-9 p.m. $35 advance $40 at door $15 ages 12 and under Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

June 6 - Tuesday

Jason Daniels Band The Big Muddy, Vicksburg - King Edward Blues Band 7 p.m. free Brandon City Hall - Aaron Lewis 8 p.m. $27.50 Cathead Distillery - Cathead Birthday Jam feat. Keller Williams, The Hip Abduction, Big Sam’s Funky Nation & The Vamps 3 p.m. $15 advance $20 at door Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m. free Drago’s - Joseph LaSalla 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; Sorrento Ussery midnight $10 Iron Horse Grill - The JoJo Long Show 9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Shadz of Grey 7-11 p.m. free Martin’s - CBDB 10 p.m.

Midtown - Midfest feat. DJ Young Venom, the Jason Daniels Band, Clouds & Crayons, 5th Child & Spirituals 3-8 p.m. free Reed Pierce’s, Byram - Hired Guns 9 p.m. free Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m. free; Spunk Monkeys 8 p.m. $5; Brian Jones 10 p.m. free Underground 119 - Magnolia Bayou

6/1 - Lil Uzi Vert - The Lyric, Oxford 6/2 - The O’Jays - IP Casino, Resort & Spa, Biloxi 6/3 - Maxwell - River Center Theater, Baton Rouge

Belhaven Center for the Arts - MS Wind Symphony’s “Mind the Gap” 7:30 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m.

Duling Hall - Elizabeth Cook w/ Cary Hudson 7:30 p.m. $10 advance $15 at door Fenian’s - Open Mic free Fitzgerald’s - Doug Hurd & Chris Link 7:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Stace & Cassie 6:30-11:30 p.m. free Last Call - DJ Spoon 9 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

June 7 - Wednesday Alumni House - Acoustic Crossroads Duo 5:30 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m.

Duling Hall - Vagical Mystery Tour Comedy feat. Lizz Winstead, Greg Proops, Helen Hong, Ian Harvie & Joyelle Johnson 7:30 p.m. $15 advance $20 at the door Fitzgerald’s - Johnny Crocker 7:30 p.m.

Jackson Convention Complex - A Night of Worship feat. Shane & Shane 7-8:30 p.m. $5 donation suggested Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-11:30 p.m. free Shucker’s - Silverado Band 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m. free

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A Justice League of Their Own

by Micah Smith

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hen writer, producer and content, visiting clinics around the country comedian Lizz Winstead and organizing fundraising comedy tours. visited Jackson in 2015, she Winstead, who serves as the organizawasn’t in town for a stand-up tion’s chief creative officer, will perform in show or filming a segment for “The Daily Jackson with comics such as Helen Hong Show,” which she co-created, or working (“Blunt Talk”), Greg Proops (“Whose Line on any of the other media projects that Is It Anyway?”), Ian Harvie (“Transparshe’s been involved with over the years. ent”) and Joyelle Johnson on June 7 as part

Instead, she spent most of her time of LPJL’s “Vagical Mystery Tour.” visiting with people at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, escorting patients, having potlucks and meeting with local clinic workers, before heading to Alabama, North Carolina and many other states where reproductive rights are in jeopardy.

Winstead says that she has always been pro-choice but decided to put a greater focus on her stance around 2012, when now-Vice President Mike Pence proposed defunding Planned Parenthood, among other significant public programs.

“When all that failed, I watched as all these state legislatures started passing this model legislation,” she “The Daily Show” co-creator Lizz says. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this Winstead is one of several comedians is happening everywhere, and it just performing for the “Vagical Mystery Tour” on June 7 at Duling Hall. keeps happening.’”

During that time, Winstead had returned to Minnesota, where she grew up, While the performers will cover a to work on her book, “Lizz Free or Die” variety of topics outside of political obser(Riverhead, 2012, $16). She had the idea vations, they’ll also discuss issues such as to do a comedy tour on her drive home to reproductive rights, LGBT freedom, racBrooklyn, raising funds for abortion clinics ism and sexism. There’s a lot of fun to be along the way. Although some clinics had had in poking holes in hypocrisy, Winstead benefit events in their honor in the past, says, such as the fact that legislators want she learned that few people hosting those to reduce the number of abortions but also events actually went to the clinics. want to reduce access to birth control.

“Apparently, when people do fund- However, the point of LPJL isn’t to raisers, they go to the chicken dinner, and make people laugh and then go back to then they leave,” she says. “... Every clinic business as usual. The tour is designed to was like, ‘Thank you for coming here. No connect local clinics and reproductiveone ever comes here. People run away from rights organizations with supporters in us.’ I was like, ‘Well, that’s bullsh*t.’” their community and to facilitate a conver When she got back to New York, sation that leads to growth, Winstead says.

Winstead hosted a chili dinner for about “(It’s) getting people together who 20 friends who were comics and writers. want to have a good time and have fun

“I said, ‘We have to do something. and tell some jokes, and then saying, ‘You Statistically, 70 percent of us here have had know what? We’re really lucky to be here abortions, and we’re on our path and our and to have this good time. I want you to agency because we got to have that. So I meet some cool people who you can work want to remove some shame and stigma by to strengthen who they are with these fun showing people that no one’s going to de- people you’re with. Let’s take the party to a fine you by your abortion, … and I want to place with a purpose.’” celebrate the doctors.’”

The Vagical Mystery Tour” is at Duling

That idea became the basis of the Lady Hall (622 Duling Ave.) on Wednesday, June Parts Justice League, a nonprofit group that 7, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance or advocates for reproductive rights through $20 at the door. For more information, visit creating humorous and educational online vagicalmysterytour.com.

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DIVERSIONS | music

Dylan Goes Eclectic

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peration Shoestring, a Jacksonbased nonprofit organization that focuses on providing for the educational, cultural and social needs of children, is incorporating the music of Bob Dylan in its upcoming fundraiser for its summer programs.

As the event’s name suggests, the legendary singer-songwriter won’t be taking the stage on June 1 for “The Times They Are A-Changin’: An Evening Without Bob Dylan.” However, a stacked lineup of local and regional talent will be taking on some of his most famous tunes.

“Dylan’s music has touched so many different chapters of our lives (in genres) from folk to gospel, and connected and covered so many music waterfronts, including the social consciousness of so many people via the Civil Rights Era,” Robert Langford, the executive director of Operation Shoestring, says. “I felt his music is still relevant in society today, and his work has proven to be worthy of a Nobel Prize for literature, resulting in Dylan being hailed as the music Poet Laureate.”

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by Brinda Fuller Willis

Rhonda Richmond is one of many performers for Operation Shoestring’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’: An Evening Without Bob Dylan,” which takes place Thursday, June 1, at Duling Hall.

In order to bring the event together, Langford reached out to Jackson photographer and music enthusiast James Patter-

son, who has a history of creating events in celebration of different eras of music, such as the Civil Rights Movement, and specific artists, such as The Kinks and Lou Reed.

“Themed music events have been well received around Jackson,” Patterson says.

“Therefore, I was thrilled that Operation Shoestring’s staff felt it would be a great vehicle to raise money and to celebrate the music of Bob Dylan. … The musicians can put their own spin on Dylan’s lyrics, which allows them to stretch out and expand their horizons, because Dylan continues to influence the music of the modern era within the indie, jazz, folk, blues, gospel, and hiphop and rap genres.”

The artists performing for the event come from backgrounds as diverse as the genres that Dylan’s music has influenced.

The lineup includes jazz and blues artist Rhonda Richmond, singer-songwriter Josh Little, rock trio Cynical Twins, opera singer James Martin, singer-songwriter Lee Barber, David Minchew & the Pine Tar Rhythm Section, blues artist Bronwynne Brent, and garage-rock band

Furrows, who will perform with rapper James Crow.

Richmond says that she gravitates toward the relatable storytelling in Dylan’s music, which focuses on real-life issues and situations. “I love his poetic style, which lends itself to the blues themes I grew up hearing as a child on Farish Street,” she says of her interpretation.

Little says that his take on Dylan will come from “the darker side of folk music that exuded from the music of Hank Williams Sr., (as well as) a blues slant that comes from my being influenced by Howlin’ Wolf, as played by my Mississippi Howls Blues Band.” He plans to put his guitar licks on songs such as “It’s Alright, Ma” and “Boots of Spanish Leather,” which he says stand out among Dylan’s vast repertoire.

“The Times They Are A-Changin’: An Evening Without Bob Dylan” is at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, June 1, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave., 877-987-6487). Admission is $10 in advance or $15 at the door, and the event is open to all ages. For more information, visit ardenland.net.

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Last Week’s Answers 52 “Spring forward” letters 54 Teeming with testosterone 55 Grand Canyon pack animals 57 Burgles 59 “If something can go wrong, Gargamel will never get it right”?

62 Pinball foul 66 “Fashion Emergency” model 67 Slow mover 68 On-screen symbol 69 Employer of Serpico or Sipowicz 70 Road trip expenses 71 Penny value

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58 Nocturnal rat catchers 60 ___-cones 61 Kobe’s old team, on scoreboards 63 Word before pick or breaker 64 Chaney of “The Wolf Man” 65 C7H5N3O6, for short ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800 655-6548. Reference puzzle #826

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29 They directed “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

30 1990 Stanley Cup winners 32 Gets warmer 34 Rough purchase at the dairy?

38 One of LBJ’s beagles 39 Anaheim Stadium player, once 40 “___ little teapot ...”

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47 Passport endorsements 48 Doughnut shape 49 Goaded (on)

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

“The most intense moments the universe has ever known are the next 15 seconds,” said philosopher Terence McKenna. He was naming a central principle of reality: that every new NOW is a harvest of everything that has ever happened; every fresh moment is a blast of novelty that arises in response to the sum total of all of history’s adventures. This is always true, of course.

But I suspect the phenomenon will be especially pronounced for you in the near future. More than usual, you may find that every day is packed with interesting feelings and poignant fun and epic realizations. This could be pleasurable, but also overwhelming. Luckily, you have the personal power necessary to make good use of the intensity.

Nobody likes to be scrutinized or critiqued or judged.

But we Crabs (yes, I’m one of you) are probably touchier about that treatment than any other sign of the zodiac.

(Hypersensitivity is a trait that many astrologers ascribe to Cancerians.) However, many of us do allow one particular faultfinder to deride us: the nagging voice in the back of our heads. Sometimes we even give free rein to its barbs. But I would like to propose a transformation of this situation. Maybe we could scold ourselves less, and be a bit more open to constructive feedback coming from other people. Starting now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

The lion’s potency, boldness and majesty are qualities you have a mandate to cultivate in the next three weeks. To get in the righteous mood, I suggest you gaze upon images and videos of lions. Come up with your own version of a lion’s roar—I mean actually make that sound—and unleash it regularly. You might also want to try the yoga posture known as the lion pose. If you’re unfamiliar with it, go here for tips: tinyurl.com/lionpose. What else might help you invoke and express the unfettered leonine spirit?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan posed that question. I invite you to put it at the top of your list of hot topics to meditate on. In doing so, I trust you won’t use it as an excuse to disparage your companions for their inadequacies. Rather, I hope it will mobilize you to supercharge your intimate alliances; to deepen your awareness of the synergistic beauty you could create together; to heighten your ability to be given the universe by those whose fates are interwoven with yours.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

From my study of the lost prophecies of Nostradamus, the hidden chambers beneath the Great Pyramid of Cheops and the current astrological omens, I have determined that now is a favorable time for you to sing liberation songs with cheeky authority ... to kiss the sky and dance with the wind on a beach or hilltop ... to gather your most imaginative allies and brainstorm about what you really want to do in the next five years. Do you dare to slip away from businessas-usual so you can play in the enchanted land of what-if?

If you’re smart, you will escape the grind and grime of the daily rhythm so you can expand your mind to the next largest size.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

“On some hill of despair,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell, “the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky—though it’s true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in.” You may not exactly feel despair, Scorpio. But I suspect you are in the throes of an acute questioning that makes you feel close to the edge of forever. Please consider the possibility that it’s a favorable time to find out just how much light and heat are hidden inside you. Your ache for primal fun and your longing to accelerate your soul’s education are converging with your quest to summon a deeper, wilder brilliance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

You’re in a phase when you have the power to find answers to questions that have stumped you for a while. Why? Because you’re more open-minded and curious than usual.

You’re also ready to be brazenly honest with yourself.

Congrats! In light of the fact that you’ll be lucky at solving riddles, I’ve got three good ones for you to wrestle with.

1. Which of your anxieties may actually be cover-ups for a

lazy refusal to change a bad habit? 2. What resource will you use more efficiently when you stop trying to make it do things it’s not designed to do? 3. What blessing will you receive as soon as you give a clear signal that you are ready for it?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

A typical Capricorn cultivates fervent passions, even to the point of obsession. Almost no one knows their magnitude, though, because the members of your tribe often pursue their fulfillment with methodical, business-like focus. But I wonder if maybe it’s a good time to reveal more of the raw force of this driving energy than you usually do. It might humanize you in the eyes of potential helpers who see you as too strong to need help. And it could motivate your allies to provide the extra support and understanding you’ll need in the coming weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to carry out a flashy flirtation with the color red. I dare you to wear red clothes and red jewelry. Buy yourself red roses.

Sip red wine and savor strawberries under red lights. Sing Elvis Costello’s “The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes” and Prince’s “Little Red Corvette.” Tell everyone why 2017 is a red-letter year for you. For extra credit, murmur the following motto whenever a splash of red teases and pleases your imagination: “My red-hot passion is my version of high fashion.”

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

“If you want a puppy, start by asking for a pony,” read the bumper sticker on the Lexus SUV I saw. That confused me.

Would the owner of a Lexus SUV be the type of person who didn’t expect to get what she really wanted? In any case, Pisces, I’m conveying a version of this bumper-sticker wisdom to you. If you want your domestic scene to thrive even more than it already does, ask for a feng shui master to redesign your environment so it has a perfect flow of energy. If you want a community that activates the best in you, ask for a utopian village full of emotionally intelligent activists. If you want to be animated by a focused goal that motivates you to wake up excited each morning, ask for a glorious assignment that will help save the world.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Life is in the mood to communicate with you rather lyrically.

Here are just a few of the signs and portents you may encounter, along with theories about their meaning. If you overhear a lullaby, it’s time to seek the influence of a tender, nurturing source. If you see a type of fruit or flower you don’t recognize, it means you have a buried potential you don’t know much about, and you’re ready to explore it further. If you spy a playing card in an unexpected place, trust serendipity to bring you what you need. If a loud noise arrives near a moment of decision: Traditionally it signifies caution, but these days it suggests you should be bold.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Your body is holy and magic and precious. I advise you not to sell it or rent it or compromise it in any way— especially now, when you have an opening to upgrade your relationship with it. Yes, Taurus, it’s time to attend to your sweet flesh and blood with consummate care. Find out exactly what your amazing organism needs to feel its best.

Lavish it with pleasure and healing. Treat it as you would a beloved child or animal. I also hope you will have intimate conversations with the cells that compose your body. Let them know you love and appreciate them. Tell them you’re ready to collaborate on a higher level.

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2906 North State St. Suite 207, Jackson, (601) 292-7121 Jackson’s premiere music promoter with concerts around the Metro

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including at Duling Hall in Fondren. www.ardenland.net

Mississippi Museum of Art 380 South Lamar St. Jackson, (601) 960-1515 MMA strives to be a fountainhead attracting people from all walks to discuss the issues and glories of the past and present, while continuing to inspire progress in the future.

Natural Science Museum 2148 Riverside Dr, Jackson, (601) 576-6000 Stop by the museum and enjoy their 300-acre natural landscape, an open-air amphitheater, along with 2.5 miles of nature trails. Inside, meet over 200 living species in the 100,000 gallon aquarium network.

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THURSDAY

Ladies Night & Karaoke

Every Thursday 8 pm

WEDNESDAY 5/31

MARK & JAMIE Dining Room - Free

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601-944-0402

Tuesday - Saturday: Open at 5

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Free Admission Doors- 6:30pm Show- 7-9pm See our FB Page to view trailers

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SWING DE PARIS Dining Room - Free

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ON THE HALF SHELL 5-9 P.M.

FRIDAY

Thursday, June 1

6/2

THE STOLEN FACES (A TRIBUTE TO THE GRATEFUL DEAD) 10 P.M.

SATURDAY

CBDB

6/3

benefitting operation shoestring

The Times, They Are A-Changin’ • An Evening Without Bob Dylan performances by: cynical twins, bronwynne brent, sika, furrows ft. james crow, lee barber, and more!

Tuesday, June 6

W/ SPECIAL GUEST 10 P.M.

MONDAY

6/5

OPEN MIC NIGHT $5 APPETIZERS (Dine in Only)

TUESDAY

6/6

SHRIMP BOIL

KARAOKE

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601.354.9712

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“a world of her own, but if you must classify: americana, old-school country, bluegrass, folk”

Wednesday, June 7 LADY PARTS JUSTICE LEAGUE’S VAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR a coven of hilarious badass feminists who use humor and pop

culture to expose the haters fighting against reproductive rights

Friday, June 9 MS CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL samplings from over 100 of the best beers in Mississippi from over two dozen breweries

just announced!

Thursday, June 29

DIALOGUE: CHICAGO TRIBUTE BAND night of tribute to one of the best bands to do it

just announced!

Saturday, July 15

THE MOLLY RINGWALDS Undoubtedly, “The World’s Greatest 80’s Experience”

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