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JACKSONIAN Devin Guillory Imani Khayyam

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s a child, Devin Guillory was not interested in science, which says that she now blames on societal attitudes toward science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields. At the time, she was reluctant to pursue a career in any of those areas.

“I feel like, just as a society, we are kind of trained to think that high, in-depth things like chemistry and biology are things you are supposed to not really like growing up,” Guillory, a master’s student in chemistry at Jackson State University, says.

Guillory wants to use scientific research to better the state and help other Mississippians learn to love science. At JSU, she spurs children’s interests in science through activities such as making slime from glue. “Just little things to get them interested, where they think that science is something fun instead of something we are automatically supposed to hate,” she says.

The Jackson native attended Holmes Community College from summer 2010 to December 2010 and Hinds Community College from January 2012 until that summer when she transferred to Jackson State University.

Guillory says that when she entered college, her dream career was to become a video-game developer. However, a pre-requisite chemistry class led to the realization

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that she really loved that subject, as well.

Guillory says that even before taking the class, she always enjoyed balancing chemistry equations, which she calls “a puzzle.”

Guillory received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from JSU in 2015. Her career trajectory, which she calls “somewhat medical,” now involves the research behind what the clinicians are doing. Her research focuses on increasing efficiency in cancer treatment by targeting cancer cells with heat therapy. Unlike cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, which can kill both cancerous and non-cancerous cells, nanoparticles in heat therapy only target the cancerous cells.

After she graduates from JSU with a master’s degree this July, Guillory will begin studying neuroscience at the University of Arkansas Medical Science Center in Little Rock for her doctorate degree. She says her ultimate goal once she completes her Ph.D. is to help Mississippians by researching both the positive and negative effects that early childhood trauma have on people later in life.

Through her research, Guillory says that she hopes to create more understanding of mental illness in society, and how things such as drug addiction, alcoholism, abuse and neglect create problems.

—Kristina Norman

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by Imani Khayyam

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editor’s note

by Donna Ladd, Editor-in-Chief

Trump, DeVos Allowing Bigotry in Public Schools

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n a presidential administration filled with shocking moments, it was a New York Times headline that crystallized the Trump crowd’s disdain for children of color for me. “Education Dept. Says It Will Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations,” The New York Times warned.

Turns out Betsy DeVos plans to direct the U.S. Department of Education to back off on investigations of disparate treatment of children who belong to certain groups, such as how far too many schools have historically applied discipline differently to white children versus children of color.

I happen to know a great deal about this problem. Just out of graduate school, I had a Packard Future of Children fellowship to study how school discipline— from paddlings to expulsions—have long been applied more harshly toward kids of color. What I discovered then was disturbing: The nation’s bi-partisan obsession with “zero tolerance” discipline in public schools was starting to mean that more white kids were getting kicked out of school for smaller offenses (such as bringing a butter knife to school that a parent left in a lunchbox).

Public schools then were even making discipline of “good” white kids more harsh to bring it to the level of the long-time habits of suspending and expelling black and brown children for lesser offenses than white kids got away with. That way, the administrators were less likely to get in trouble for it or accused of discrimination.

Think of it this way: Twenty years ago, instead of improving disparate discipline against all children, white kids were often hit with more harsh discipline to disguise the historic problem. Let that sink in.

Harsh discipline of children of color has long been called the school-to-prison

pipeline or even the cradle-to-prison pipeline due to the application to elementaryschool babies. Why a pipeline? Because all credible research shows that punitive discipline—and especially that involving police officers or detention centers—makes it more likely that a young person will commit worse crime. They are treated like criminals, so too often they become them.

When I had that Packard fellowship, it was still the George W. Bush administra-

Data about who is, and is not, disciplined in schools are vital. tion, and “No Child Left Behind” was still in place. Even worse, there was a massive movement to not only expand “zero tolerance” policies in public schools (not private, of course), but to give immunity to teachers and administrators who engaged in disparate punishment, leading to civil-rights violations of certain young people.

That is, even if you decided that a black kid was “scarier” than a white child doing the same thing or worse and, thus, decided to punish that child worse, you couldn’t be sued for it. This, friends, was one of the times I’ve disagreed with teachers’ unions; Americans should be able to sue if their civil rights are violated, and that includes the families of young people of

color. We would still have Jim Crow laws and schools required to be segregated if it weren’t for the ability to sue.

But a certain Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama was leading the charge at the time of pushing for harsher discipline and limiting the ability of Americans to bring lawsuits to stop civil-right violations and unequal discipline against special-ed students. He didn’t like that they had extra protections under law. That was my first exposure to nowAttorney General Sessions, who let’s just say was decidedly not a friend of families and children of color in America’s schools.

Since then, we’ve seen progress on discriminatory discipline. The early research— such as pivotal “Color of Discipline” research by Professor Russ Skiba—proved that the excuse wasn’t the myth that black children misbehave more than whites, even if you believed it. Children of color were suspended, expelled and even beaten for “smarting off,” whereas white kids’ parents would be called for even violent offenses.

Data started catching up with this problem, and even many conservative politicians—if not Sessions—got educated on it. Texas, for instance, saw a sea change toward discipline among conservatives because the data collected in schools and afterward showed that “zero tolerance” policies actually hurt the children, made them worse criminals and resulted in less safe communities. (We’re seeing something similar among some Republicans in Mississippi who are getting smarter about mass incarceration and re-entry, even if there are some ignorant hold-outs demanding the harmful loosening of “gang” labels.)

But a certain brand of politician isn’t driven by actual data and, seemingly, prefers bigotry and distrust of those who don’t look

like them. Jeff Sessions, as Coretta Scott King accurately warned some years ago, is one of those. Donald Trump, who literally retweeted fake and reversed numbers about black-on-white crime, is another.

With her decision about loosening data collection on discrimination, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos joins them.

No wonder the alt-right—that is, white supremacists—loves this crowd so much.

There is nothing smart about this.

Even if you don’t care that children with darker skin tones are treated worse than white kids who do worse things, then you should care about safety in our communities. “Zero tolerance” makes us less safe over time; data prove it. Sending a child to a punitive alternative school because they “smarted” a teacher is bad policy that creates more criminals. So is suspending a child living in chaos because they got stressed out and yelled and cussed one day.

Collecting data about progress or regression on school discipline are vital.

At this point, girls of color are the fastestgrowing population in the juvenile-justice system and are six times more likely to be suspended or expelled than white girls. This trend is true in Mississippi and nationwide.

And black boys in our state comprise 25 percent of student populations, but 48 percent of those suspended.

The only justification for what the Trump administration is trying to do here is to hide these disparities and, thus, shortcircuit the potential to change it. Stopping the collection of this data in order to take away the evidence of problems or progress is nothing more than plain old bigotry.

It is reprehensible and shortsighted.

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contributors

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Arielle Dreher

William H. Kelly III

Imani Khayyam

Kimberly Griffin

Tyler Edwards

Jack Hammett

Zilpha Young

Mary Osborne

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email her story ideas at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

She wrote the cover story.

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 neglected property in Jackson.

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, including the cover photo.

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 ongoing Secret Service detail.

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

Send events to events@jacksonfreepress.com. He wrote about a comic artist.

Editorial intern Jack Hammett is an award-losing writer and picture taker. He wasn’t able to afford a haircut until recently. He wrote about the Summer Camp music festival.

Zilpha Young is an ad designer by day, painter, illustrator, seamstress and freelance designer by night. Check out her design portfolio at zilphacreates.com. She designed ads for the issue.

Sales and Marketing Assistant Mary Osborne is seeking out new ways to share all things good, all the time, because what the world needs now is love. Send your thoughts to mary@jacksonfreepress.com.

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“Not only is this exhibit meant to educate the viewer, but also take them back in time.”

— Kenyatta Stewart, JSU professor and curator at the Smith Robertson Museum & Cultural Center, on the new “Sit in for Change” exhibit on the Jackson Woolworth protest.

Thursday, June 15

Attorney General Jim Hood says he will ask the Mississippi Supreme Court to approve execution dates for two inmates, even though court challenges are still pending to the state’s lethal injection methods.

McComb, a Mississippi city with a history of racial strife and bombings, becomes the latest local government to stop flying the state flag, which features a Confederate emblem that celebrates the Civil War, fought to maintain and extend slavery in the United States.

Friday, June 16

The Mississippi Department of Education revokes a contract with the NCS Pearson testing company, saying scoring errors raise questions about the graduation status of nearly 1,000 students statewide.

Saturday, June 17

The jury in Bill Cosby’s trial on charges he drugged and molested a woman in 2004 deadlocks, resulting in a mistrial.

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Sunday, June 18

Jay Sekulow, Donald Trump’s attorney, claims he is not under federal investigation despite Trump earlier tweeting that he is being investigated and calling the investigation a “witch hunt.”

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Monday, June 19

The Supreme Court rules that the government can’t refuse to register trademarks that are considered offensive.

Tuesday, June 20

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announces that Senate Republicans are preparing to vote on legislation scuttling former President Barack Obama’s health-care law.

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Farish Street Affordable Housing Hits Snags

by Arielle Dreher

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ot everyone is supportive of expanding the pastel-painted affordable housing units in the Farish Street Historic District.

Helm Place, named for the oldest African American church in Jackson, which is also located in the district, is an 88-townhome affordable-housing development with a 300-person waiting list.

Chartre Companies Ltd., the Oxford, Miss.-based developer, plans to expand the community with 70 additional homes, but first it needs the blessing of the Jackson Historic Preservation Commission, which approves all projects in the city’s five historic districts.

At the commission’s May meeting, developers presented their informal proposal to the commission, during the discussion part of the meeting and promptly walked out, minutes from that meeting show. Chartre Companies Ltd. owner Clarence Chapman said his group also withdrew their formal Certificate of Appropriateness application.

Chapman thinks the commission does not want to give his group a COA to build more homes because it is “‘destroying the fabric of that community,’ which is absurd,” Chapman told the Jackson Free Press.

But the commission’s chairman, Jeff Seabold, who was not a member

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e at the Jackson Free Press tell tales about the city, but we don’t really get to do fairytales. We came up with a list of possible ones about Jackson that we’d like to read, though.

courtesy Scott Crawford

Wednesday, June 14

A man named James. T. Hodgkinson opens fire with a rifle on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others. Security officers shoot Hodgkinson, and he later dies at a hospital.

The attorney general’s office released a previously sealed mentalhealth report p 10

Scott Crawford, who serves on the Jackson ADA Advisory Council, says none of the 88 townhomes in the Helm Place development are ADA-accessible, and he hopes the next addition to the development will be.

when it approved Helm Place I and II, emphasized that no one is above the law.

Seabold said that in large development projects like Helm Place, the massing (the shape, form and size of the buildings) and scale are important because they can start to change the fabric and feel of a neighborhood, something important under federal Department of Interior standards the commission must use as their guiding principles.

The department’s second standard for rehabilitation of historic buildings, as well as the site and environment attached, adjacent or related to new construction, says that “the historic character of a property shall be retained and preserved.”

“While it’s a great thing for the City more FARISH see page 8

“People don’t really believe you can be on Team Rainbow and have combat experience—God forbid those two be together.”

— Kara Stanford, an Iraq war veteran, who spoke to the JFP in this week’s cover story (See Page 16)

“The whole point (is) that this is such an ideal location for people who want to work in Jackson, and they’ve excluded a whole section of the population.”

— Scott Crawford, disability-rights advocate, on the Helm Place development in Farish Street Historic District

Blight, Fines and Violations

by William H. Kelly III

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Imani Khayyam

reshly chopped tree stumps and beds of pumpkincolored pine straw lay scattered on top of patches of dirt and grass throughout the yard of a north Jackson home. At first glance, the home appears to be in good shape but deserted. The yard looks recently cut. The driveway stretches from the street and trails to the far back of the house, where big, brown boxes overflow with broken tree branches. The boxes are leaning against boarded doors attached to what looks like an old car port and storage space.

An off-white sheet of paper, ripped and stapled to one of the many trees towering in the yard, has become home to animal droppings and spiders. The sheet, which is a notice from the Jackson Police Department, endured recent thunderstorms, and as a result, the staples are rusted and have tattooed the paper with brown stains.

The top of the sheet reads “Notice of Hearing,” warning the owner of the parcel of a fine and court date.

More Than a Number

The home belongs to Martin and Marie Schiefer, and this is not their first encounter with JPD. The married couple owns two adjacent properties, 5116 and 5110 Post Oak Road, both of which are in similar conditions, and the couple is familiar to the JPD Community Improvement Unit. The two homes have a history of 36 violations combined from the CIU. The violations for those properties instruct the owners to remove excess pine straw, cut the grass, remove trash and debris, and more.

Martin owns the 5116 address with only 17 reports, and Marie owns the home on the right with 19 reports.

The couple now live in Clinton, leaving the properties uninhabited for more than 10 years.

The person responsible for maintaining the property Imani Khayyam

The JPD Community Improvement Unit demolished and cleaned land located at 3605 Hollywood Ave (above) and 2720 Miller Avenue on June 8.

wanted to remain anonymous and only identified himself as the neighbor. The neighbor said he cleans the properties whenever a new notice is posted. He cuts the grass, trims shrubbery, boards up holes in the ceiling of the home, and tends to other issues listed on the violation report.

The neighbor shared that his labor is not at the request of Martin Schiefer, however. Martin is about 80 years old and is limited due to his age. The neighbor has done maintenance on the properties for a while now and hopes to purchase the properties from the Schiefers and give them to his children.

He said that Martin does not want to sell the property with Marie’s name listed as the owner but has offered to sell the other home. The man said he would not stop fixing the problems if it is not sold to him.

If the Jackson City Council deems the houses to be a menace to public health, it would cost the City of Jackson about $1,100 for yard work on both homes.

Menace to Public Health

The Schiefers are only two of the 40 residents who received similar notices and are required to attend court on June 20.

The notice from the CIU states that owners of the parcels must attend the listed court date to determine whether properties are in a state of uncleanliness and pose a threat to public health, safety and welfare of the community. If owners do not attend court, the judge will apply a fine, referred to as a civil debt. The fine covers costs to the City of Jackson, including the actual cleaning costs, the cost of

using municipal employees, any contracts executed to have the work done, and administrative and legal costs.

In order to evade the court date, the parcel owner must complete all violations within two weeks or so. The Schiefers have until June 19 to have their property cleaned.

If that does not happen, the code-enforcement officer will identify it as a menace.

The City placed Community Improvement under police jurisdiction in October 2014. When residents report properties to the CIU, JPD inspects the parcel and posts a notice. That parcel owner must then attend administrative court and/or environmental court, located in JPD.

In administrative court, owners can ask the judge to close the case if the land is properly cleaned. Environmental court orders fines for failure to maintain the property, after the administrative court hearing. If the owner does not attend court, the city council then adds it to a resolution, deeming it as a menace to public health. The CIU typically prioritizes properties classified as a menace and posing a threat to the surrounding community. These threats include burned structures and those near schools.

The CIU uses citizens working off misdemeanor fines through community service or private contractors to demolish or clean the property. It may take three weeks or three months to work off those fines, depending on the amount of the fine the judge orders. To perform these tasks over time, the CIU uses a demolition budget up to $300,000 and a grass and weeds budget up to $50,000. In 2015, the more BLIGHT, see page8

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Martin and Marie Schiefer own two properties that was reported to the City more than 30 times. This property, located at 5110 Post Oak Road, is cleaned and maintained by a neighbor who is interested in purchasing the old home.

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TALK | city

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Using City Property

The City of Jackson owns several properties in the Farish Street Historic District that it planned to hand over to River Place LLC before last week’s city council meeting. The council agenda shows eight parcels of property that it could have voted to give to the corporation, which Chartre also owns. During the public-comment section of the meeting, some Jacksonians expressed their concerns, however, and asked the council to delay the transfer.

Dr. Alferdteen Brown Harrison addressed the council, asking it to postpone the transfer of the City-owned properties for six months.

“We appeal to you to appoint a special commission or committee to look at what we have allowed to happen to the Farish Street Historic District,” she said.

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Disrespecting a ‘Black Mecca’?

Farish Street itself was considered

Clarence Chapman owns Chartre, an Oxford, Miss., developer responsible for the affordable housing built in the Farish Street Historic District. He plans to wait for the new city administration and council to renew discussions about expanding Helm Place housing

impact does that have on our heritage?”

Jan Hillegas, a Civil Rights Movement veteran, also spoke against the transfer of the properties to Chartre, mainly those on Cohea Street.

“I had a civil rights-related office there 50 years ago on the corner of Cohea and Farish streets,” Hillegas told the council. She mentioned other projects in the neighborhood that aim to restore the old structures to the way they used to be—not building uncharacteristic twoand three-story houses.

Council members voted to send the eight-parcel-transfer items to the Planning Committee, allowing the new may-

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oral administration and council members to address how to proceed with the process.

CIU used State inmates, but Public Safety Commissioner Marshall Fisher cancelled the program due to obvious dangers. If the budget is exhausted, the CIU then uses Community Development Block Grant funds.

The State of Mississippi has taken over 3,500 abandoned and blighted properties that previous owners failed to pay taxes on for three years. The State refers to the land transfers as a “sale” because the owners give up the property rather than paying taxes they owe on it. While in the hands of the State, the land remains off the tax rolls, drawing or producing no income, however.

That means that the City ends up responsible for cleaning up land that the State technically owns.

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to be building housing and helping it out, the overall scale of that project is large. It’s a very big challenge so we have to be very, very specific about some details and other things to be sensitive to the placement of it,” Seabold said.

“When you’ve got two- and threestory townhouses next to … the Scott Ford houses …, it worries people in the neighborhood. We have to consider what that does to those historic sites as well. It’s a district; it’s not single houses that we’re speaking of.”

The Scott Ford houses are restored homes on Cohea Street that tell the history of midwifery and home birthing in the early 20th century.

“How do we want to enhance what we still have left? Nothing down there represents anything the way African Americans built it,” she said. “… We need to look at the impact of Chartre and the new development there. What

a “Black Mecca” back when Jim Crow ruled in Jackson. A project from the Southern Foodways Alliance and the Southern Documentary Project, called “The Farish Street Project,” shows that the district served a “separate black population in as equal a manner as the constricting social mandates made possible,” right off Capitol Street, the white, segregated epicenter of downtown Jackson in the early 1900s.

Fast forward a few decades, and Farish Street is home to a handful of establishments, brimming with potential and partial economic-development opportunities with little to show for past efforts.

“The City doesn’t maintain those properties in allotted time because we don’t have the jurisdiction, nor do we have the funding for those type of endeavors,” said Von Anderson, senior planner with the City of Jackson’s Department of Planning. “The properties that the City owns usually are for right-of-way or for future land development.”

The City owns approximately 500 properties, with some being municipal properties. As of June 15, the CIU has demolished and cleaned approximately 276 properties since the program began in 2014.

“As long as we have derelict and blighted properties reported to us by the citizens of Jackson, we will make every effort to demolish that reported property and attempt to provide a better quality of life for that citizen,” Jaye Coleman, JPD commander of support services, said.

Email city reporting intern William Kelly III at william@ jacksonfreepress.com.

The Farish Street Historic District was incorporated as a national historic place in 1980, and the City of Jackson designated it as a historic district in 1994.

The Greenwood Cemetery, which some of the pastel-colored Helm Place townhomes face, is also a City-designated landmark.

Chapman said his company went through three or four months of “grinding plan-changing efforts” with the commission the first time around in 2014 to get approved for Helm Place I and II.

He said there was a dispute over the nine rows of brick used on the front of some of the townhomes, which the City ultimately approved, but not the commission.

Both the Belhaven and Farish Street historic districts have specific design guides that developers and architects are asked to consult when proposing plans to build or renovate structures in those areas. Seabold said the City has added checks and balances to its system since the time of Chartre’s initial application for Helm Place I and II.

Seabold said he has seen a letter sent to Chartre, which explained the discrepancies between what was permitted to be built and what was submitted in their initial application.

Chapman says the current pushback against the plans is a “bureaucratic turf war.”

Seabold said Chartre’s informal proposal discussed in the May meeting did not contain enough information to be considered.

“There was not enough information there for me to vote or make any more FARISH see page 10

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TALK | state

Previously Secret Mental Health Report:

State Institutionalizes Too Many Kids

by Arielle Dreher

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fter nearly two years of litigation, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate ordered the State of Mississippi to finally release a 2015 report on its system of mental-health care for children, referred to as the TAC report. Its contents were secret until last week.

The report was a part of the State of Mississippi’s commitment to work on its system of mental-health care for children here after the U.S. Department of Justice began Imani Khayyam File Photo

A 2015 report, finally released to the public late last week, shows that the state over-relies on institutions to provide mental-health care to children in Mississippi. Attorney General Jim Hood’s office previously denied public-records requests for the report.

investigating the state of the system in 2011.

Parallel to that investigation, the Southern Poverty Law Center had sued Mississippi for its over-reliance on institutionalization in providing mental-health care for kids in 2010. That lawsuit is no longer a class-action suit, however, and the State released the report to The Clarion-Ledger’s

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more comment on, other than I need the specific information,” he told the Jackson Free Press.

Chapman said his group will continue through the process and plans to work with the new mayoral administration and council members. He said the vacant units in the district that have “no character to maintain” should be removed so the families on the wait list can move into new affordable housing he plans to build.

Beyond historical preservation, however, other Jacksonians have raised 10 concerns of accessibility in the current

lawyers on June 17. The attorney general’s office released the report to the Jackson Free Press.

The TAC report outlines several of Mississippi’s challenges in providing community-based mental-health care for children, from access to funding.

As lawyers alleged in their 2010 lawsuit, the report confirms that Mississippi over-relies on institutional care for kids with behavioral or mental-health needs.

In fiscal-year 2014, the Division of Medicaid spent more than $184 million on children’s and youth behavioral-health services, but 49 percent of that spending went toward institutional care. Nationally, the report says, in 2008, about 28 percent of a state’s Medicaid division funds were spent on similar services. In other words, Mississippi continued to over-rely on institutions instead of following national trends and evidence-based research to use and invest in community-based services for kids’ mental health.

“The lack of a fully developed and adequately funded community-based system has contributed to an over-reliance on institutional care for children and youth in Mississippi,” researchers write.

Despite the Department of Justice beginning its investigation into the state’s mental-health system of care in 2011, the TAC report shows that “spending for residential psychiatric treatment facilities and inpatient psychiatric hospitals increased by 11 percent and 6 percent, respectively from FY2010 to FY2014.” As a result, more Mississippi children were sent to hospitals for care in those four years, an increase of 22 percent by 2014.

Mississippi faces several challenges with its mentalhealth system, some fixable and others that will likely take more time to repair. The report recommends that the State implement a system-wide review of data to evaluate the quality of services, and, in some cases, show how it is not collecting certain data at all.

“Data should not sit on a shelf,” the report says. “In-

Helm Place development as well as the proposed extension.

Accessibility Issues?

Scott Crawford, who serves on Jackson’s Americans With Disabilities Act Advisory Council, could not live or visit a friend in Helm Place if he wanted to, he says. The only ADA-accessible building he found is the clubhouse on Monument Street. All the townhomes have between three to eight stairs that lead into their entrances. Crawford points out that the construction not only affects the permanently disabled.

“We live in an aging society. Very few of us grow old and stay completely able-bodied as we age,” he said.

Report Recommendations on redirecting institutional care • Redirect care toward increased use of homeand community-based services and decreased use of institutions • Include the institutional benefit into Medicaid managed care strategies • Conduct an immediate review of all institutionalized youth • Conduct ongoing reviews of youth at risk for institutional placement • Redirect expertise of institutional staff towards needed community-based care • Promote mental-health collaboration in youth and chancery courts • Revist inclusion of treatment foster care as a Medicaid benefit To read the full report visit jacksonfreepress. com/documents. formation should be made public and should be connected to quality improvement strategies and initiatives.”

Family members as well as service providers told researchers that they were concerned with the quality of care provided to Mississippi’s children.

“Family members and other stakeholders described barriers accessing needed services and supports, delays in obtaining necessary treatment leading to exacerbation in symptoms, lack of coordination among services, and ineffective care resulting in repeated hospitalizations or juvenile justice involvement,” the TAC report says.

“Families expressed that their opinions, beliefs, and values were not solicited or considered in the design and development of treatment interventions nor did they feel valued as partners in their child’s care.”

The State needs to develop and expand its community-based services, the report says, like the Wraparound Initiative, but Mississippi’s rural nature as well as a lack of qualified health-care providers present unique challenges for leaders to address.

The report outlines several examples from states across the country that Mississippi can follow in order to improve its system of mental-health care for kids.

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Chartre built the first phases of Helm Place affordable housing with Section 42 federal tax credits, allocated through the Mississippi Home Corporation. But two-, three- and four-story townhouses without elevators are exempt from the Fair Housing Act requirement, which would have required Chartre to build their homes with seven accessibility requirements that Crawford calls modest—at best.

Crawford said he hopes that the next phase of Helm Place will include accessible and ADA-compliant homes.

Chapman said he plans to have 5 percent, or about four of the next 70 townhomes in Phase III, be single-story and ADA-compliant homes.

Still, Crawford said that even the Fair Housing Act requirements are a “far cry from best practice.”

For example, structures subject to the act must have reinforced walls for grab bars in bathrooms—but are not required to have the actual grab bars or a fully accessible bathroom at all.

Ultimately, Crawford said not having accessible housing is a short-sighted housing strategy. “These people are going to age, and when they age, they’re not going to want to move,” Crawford said.

“The whole point (is) that this is such an ideal location for people who want to work in Jackson, and they’ve excluded a whole section of the population.”

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Safe in Our Own ‘Castles’

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ne of the last places I want to find myself when traveling with my family is on the side of dark stretch of freeway with flashing lights behind me. Yet there we were in the middle of I-don’teven-know-where, Missouri, after a state trooper pulled us over because our rental company had given us a vehicle with a “tags applied for” paper on the back, and it flew off.

Thankfully, the trooper understood, and everything went well, but as I sat there with my phone recording, I didn’t know that would be our truth.

The shadow that the killings of Philando Castile and Charleena Lyles, among numerous others, cast weighs heavily on my mind and heart as I move through the world. They should be home with their families right now.

I’m fully aware that my family operates under the privilege of my white partner and my light skin, yet at the end of the day, I’m still black, and so are my kids. It gets so exhausting having to explain our human right to an equitable and just existence to people.

I was in tears explaining to the rental-car company how they are putting people in danger by giving them vehicles without real license plates, and the response was a generic “sorry for your inconvenience.”

Being afraid that an interaction with the police may end in death isn’t an inconvenience—it’s a safety concern.

I shouldn’t have to carry this fear, nor should my children or any other person of color in this country.

Philando Castile should have been safe to be a legal gun owner in a car with his family without a police officer gunning him down.

Charleena Lyles should have been able to call for help and not have two police officers kill her in front of her children, whether she had a knife or not. Now we can all sit back and watch as the shaming of black single motherhood begins again.

It’s not enough that Charleena is dead now. Many in the media, with the help of the police, will find every piece of dirt about her life as if she should be on trial. It’s already happening. Then, if we’re lucky, the officers who shot her will get a trial, and I have no faith that anything will happen to them.

I am done begging those invested in white-supremacy culture and whitesupremacist institutions to recognize our humanity.

I’m here to work with those who want to move forward to create better institutions and change institutions, but I won’t beg and plead for what is ours by birth. I won’t beg for my kids’ right to peace of mind and to feel as safe as their white cousins. We have a human right to be safe in our own “castles.”

The fact that whole segments of our country are not safe from our government and its employees must be addressed.

Until it is, I’ll be right here reminding you that black lives matter— not “all lives matter” because if all lives actually mattered, then my white family members wouldn’t move through the world and interact with police completely differently than every black person ever.

Laurie Bertram Roberts is a grassroots reproductive-justice activist, fullspectrum doula and writer based in Jackson. She is the co-founder and execu12 tive director of the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund.

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Democracy Only Works in Public View

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he Mississippi attorney general’s office releasing the TAC report, which details how the state should work to fix its children’s mental- and behavioral-health care system, this week is just one in a line of recent examples where transparency could have enabled the democratic process to work in a more efficient way.

The report details what advocates, news reports and other state officials have repeatedly said when asked about Mississippi’s system of mental-health care—we over-rely on institutions to serve those who need care instead of offering community or home-based services instead.

If this information was out in the open two years ago when researchers completed the report, the State could have spent two years working to fix the system instead of allowing its agencies to continue to make the same mistakes. The State could have made and shown progress out in the open, even if the attorney general wanted to continue legal discussions and possible settlement agreements in private.

Keeping the report secret didn’t help anyone—not the taxpayer, lawmaker or especially the child with mental- or behavioral-health needs. The obvious fixes necessary to help the state’s children are the same today as they were in 2015, and the report shows that they might be even more important now, since spending on institutional care for children increased

from fiscal-year 2010 to fiscal-year 2014.

On a national level, senators are on the verge of introducing a health-care reform bill that few lawmakers outside the inner circle have seen or will see before they are expected to vote on it. Again, taxpayers and Americans that the legislation directly affects will be in the dark until the last possible second.

Keeping legislation or reports in secret out of fear is not going to change the outcome or the predicted public reaction Since when did our democracy value a few like-minded officials cowering in a corner deciding what should go into legislation? We vote as a primary function of democracy, but the involvement and engagement doesn’t end there. If Republicans are fearful of public outcry against the legislation, passing it in secret won’t help. There will be outcry once it’s passed anyway, but why not engage the public at the front end in order to bring in as many opinions and voices as possible?

Democracy in all its forms does best out in the open, in public for all citizens to engage in the process. In the current polarized political era, it’s tempting to be petty, partisan and stubborn, but now is not the time.

The political process should be done in as public a forum as possible, and Americans must demand this from both state and nationally elected leaders. We are their employers.

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Creating a Culture of Wellness in Jackson

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he other day, I bumped into Mayor-elect Chokwe Lumumba in the grocery store. I am happy to report that he was in the produce section.

Lumumba, whom I have spoken to on the issue of health several times, is a healthconscious politician who understands the link between economic development and community health.

When a company considers relocating or expanding to a city, it considers more than the conditions of its streets.

The health of the population is also a factor because it affects medical costs and productivity, which can adversely affect the company’s bottom line.

A report from WalletHub ranks Jackson as the fattest city in the U.S. Blacks account for approximately 75 percent of the population.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website says that black people tend to experience some of the highest rates of conditions that obesity can cause such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Chronic conditions are driving up the high costs of medical care, which employers usually sponsor through insurance policies. The National League of Cities reports that the annual healthcare costs of obesity-related illnesses are $190.2 billion. Data from the Mississippi Department of Health shows that the total costs of treating diabetes is $245 billion, including $69 billion in reduced productivity. Employers interested in operating in Jackson could possibly be apprehensive toward hiring from such an unhealthy population.

In order for Jackson to become the city that Lumumba envisions, we will need to create a culture of wellness and quality of life. Although the city has passed a smoke-free ordinance, there are other steps it needs to take. The road map to a healthy population should provide opportunities for residents to engage in routine daily physical activity in a safe environment, safely walk or ride a bicycle on city streets, socialize in neighborhood parks, ensure easy access to healthy foods and make healthy living a more appealing option.

This agenda will need buy-in from the city council. But more importantly, it will take the commitment and engagement of local stakeholders to conduct a community-health impact assessment. That will involve critical input, shared data, collaboration, promotion of important community-health issues and the creation of an official agenda. The results should be policies that create and shape environments in which Jackson residents can safely enjoy healthy lifestyles that lead to reduced rates of obesity and the conditions it causes.

Community stakeholders should include local business leaders, representatives of community, medical, academic and faith-based institutions, public-health professionals, civilians and others.

The capital city can learn from other municipalities such as the cities of Amory, Starkville and Hernando, all of which received the 2017 Playful City Award from Playful City USA for increasing physical-activity opportunities for children living in their cities and neighborhoods.

Next month, the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation will announce its annual Healthy Hometown Award winner. Three municipalities will receive a $25,000 grant award, and the municipality designated as the “Healthiest Hometown in Mississippi� will receive a $50,000 award.

Previous winners include Walnut, Oxford and Morton. The town of Walnut developed a farmers market downtown, which included green space for physical activities. Oxford uses its city website to promote health-related events and businesses. The City of Morton developed Morton in Motion, a health-education program and a weight-loss competition.

There are other private and public grants the City of Jackson could compete for to support its community-health agenda. Our city faces many issues, but community health is equally important in attracting businesses to Jackson. Thankfully, we now have a mayor who can get Jackson moving in the right direction.

Getty Israel, who has a master’s degree in public health, is a health consultant and author.

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Kara Stanford is a transgender Iraq War veteran who is majoring in social work at Mississippi State University. It is easier to go without health care most of the time because accessing it is so difficult, Stanford says.

Transgender Veterans Caught in the Flux

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t was nap time at Oak Forest Elementary School in Jackson. Kara Stanford, then 7, saw her chance when the teacher looked away, preoccupied with something else. The child sneaked to the other side of the classroom and pulled on a little sequined ballet dress from a pile of dress-up clothes in the classroom.

Stanford managed to get the dress on, but a classmate soon noticed and alerted the rest of the class. The teacher grabbed her camcorder, Stanford recalls, as the little boy in the sequined dress sought refuge from embarrassment in a classroom closet.

Stanford was male at birth and had a different name when that incident happened. Still, that was the day that she “came out of the closet,” both literally and unintentionally.

The child tried to hold the door shut, but the teacher pried the door open. Stanford remembers the light on the camcorder, as her teacher pulled her out of the closet “kicking and screaming.” The teacher forced Stanford to dance for the other kids, with them pointing and laughing.

Forced into hiding, Stanford buried what she would later learn to be her gen16

der identity as a transgender female. After the kindergarten outing, Stanford says she turned into a shy, violent little kid.

“When you force someone into hiding for more than a decade, they’re not going to be a well-adjusted person,” she told the Jackson Free Press recently.

Stanford’s family is Mormon, and eventually her parents home-schooled her from third grade until she turned 17 years old. Stanford only found out a few years ago that her mother had talked to some Christian counselors about her during her childhood. They told her mother it was just a phase, and Stanford’s mother never took her to see a counselor. Both of her parents were in the military—she was actually born in Wiesbaden, Germany—so it wasn’t unusual when Stanford enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry at the age of 17 with her parents’ permission in 2002.

In Iraq, Still Hiding

When Stanford joined the military, she still had the same thoughts she did when she was 7 but had no terminology to explain it. Stanford said even her social interactions were separated by sex growing

up, so she could not play with other girls besides her sister. Raised in a conservative religious home in Mississippi, Stanford had no exposure to other transgender men or women. She thought she was the only one.

“As far as figuring out what’s up, we collect the wigs, the makeup, the prosthetics, all that and go through this cycle of dressing and hating ourselves and throwing it all away, and I went through a few of those,” Stanford said. “Even deployed in Iraq, I would sneak into a Port-o-John in 103-degree weather and shave my legs. … I knew something was up, but I didn’t have a word for it—I just thought I was crazy.”

Stanford did basic training in Georgia and eventually was deployed to Iraq in 2004 for over a year.

“By that point, I had been wearing my mask since I didn’t come out for a long time, and that kind of eats at you,” Stanford said. “I wanted to go some place where I could kick in doors, blow shit up … so I went infantry.”

Combat waited for Stanford and her I-155 Infantry Battalion at the Forward Operating Base in Iskandariyah, which was called FOB Chosin for short. It was only

a year after the U.S. had invaded Iraq that Stanford touched down on Iraqi soil. As infantry, she was on the front lines, hunting down terrorist insurgents in raids.

Stanford recalls one raid that seemed like a laser-tag game, when she and her comrades used infrared lasers to look for two reportedly guilty targets on the run in a forest, near the river.

While an Apache helicopter whirred overhead ready to shoot, Stanford and her comrades worked to find the two men.

When their laser-like pointers located the men, they signaled the helicopter above, which had a nose gun ready to fire.

“We found them,” Stanford said, implying that both targets were killed.

Stanford said it was common for people to get shot during raids, and she got lucky, leaving her first tour with no gun wounds.

Stanford came home with a combat infantry badge in 2005 and enrolled in the Mississippi National Guard. She worked odd jobs around Jackson, where her family still lived, but struggled to stay in the state.

She still didn’t know the word “transgender” and had not come out to her friends and family. She moved to Michigan, taking a first stab at college at Kettering University.

She was there a year and a half and then deployed to Iraq again in 2010.

This time, Stanford said, she didn’t see combat. Instead, she dealt with more political conflicts, like officers exaggerating about what they did to get more honors at home.

She was medically discharged for “behav-

No Support in Jackson

Rhiannon A. La Passioneria, who lives in Petal, Miss., told the Jackson Free Press that she was referred to a transgender support group in New Orleans when she asked

some support because I have zero support right now,” La Passioneria said in 2016.

“I’m not comfortable around men at all,” she said more recently.

La Passioneria says she cannot afford to drive to New Orleans to attend a transgender support group.

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Services for LGBT Veterans?

When Stanford got back from Iraq in 2011, she returned to Michigan, and it was during this time that she came across the word “transgender” on the Internet.

She had never heard it before. She says that while something in her clicked, it still took a few years to process what that meant.

Stanford moved to Hawaii to work at a brewery there, doing computer IT work as well as working as an assistant brew-master when she was first encountered other transgender people.

“That was my first exposure to ‘Oh my God, other transgender people exist,’ because in Hawaii nobody gives a shit— nobody bothers each other like that,” Stanford said. “I saw two 400-pound Samoan men making out at a Jamba Juice, and nobody cared. That was like my first (realization that), ‘Hey, there are places I could be where people would just let me be me.”

When the brewery tanked and Stanford was forced to come back to Mississippi, she felt confident enough to start taking hormones and begin transitioning.

She wanted support, however, and found very little at the Veterans Administration.

She didn’t know that the VA would cover the cost for hormones, so she paid out of pocket for them. She had taken hormones for half a year before officially coming out to her friends and family.

The VA does cover hormone treatment for transgender veterans but does not cover the cost of gender-affirming surgery.

Stanford had to pay out of pocket for her gender-affirming top surgery, and she drove to Birmingham, Ala., to get it done in midMay. The Montgomery Medical Center also doesn’t offer LGBT support groups, so when Stanford asked to be in one, she was set up through telemedicine with a group in Branson, Mo., that fizzled quickly.

“They tried to set up a remote program with an LGBT group there, and that whole concept took months and months and never panned out, so I quit trying, you just do without around here,” she said.

Stanford is not the only veteran who has struggled to get LGBT-specific services in Jackson.

about one. La Passioneria, a transgender woman and Air Force and Navy veteran, served on the USS Ranger in the 1970s, which turned out to be a life-threatening mission. A Pulitzer Prize-winning series by the Detroit News exposed the deaths of some of La Passioneria’s shipmates who were murdered on-board.

La Passioneria has burn marks on her legs she got from saving a few of her shipmates from a fire—she also suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder due to several horrific events she experienced on-board.

La Passioneria says that after the fire, she was raped on the USS Ranger after she turned in some of the sailors who were engaged in illegal activity, documented in the Detroit News series as well as several handwritten testimonies La Passioneria has kept.

“I’m this way because I was raped on active duty for turning in drug dealers and loan sharks,” she told the Free Press. “I couldn’t say that years ago, but I can now.”

Kristy Watters is one of two co-coordinators of the LGBT Veteran Care programming plan at the Sonny E. Montgomery Medical Center in Jackson.

La Passioneria fought with the VA for years to finally receive her full pension for her injuries sustained from her service and the traumatic events she endured. While she now has her full pension, it doesn’t retroactively cover the time since her discharge in 1980 to help cover the cost of the two houses she lost due to fluctuating VA benefits or to help support her cousin Wayne and daughter Lydia. In order to receive that, she would have to re-file her whole case.

For now, La Passioneria drives up to Jackson several times a month for the trauma recovery program to treat her PTSD and has been for years, but she needs more intensive support, she says, to help with flashbacks of the rape and the fire.

“I need to be around other transsexuals and women who understand to have

health-care coverage, as well as those who fought in certain conflicts like World War II. While not all veterans are eligible for care through the VA, the process for determining who receives health care coverage largely depends on income.

Dr. David Walker is the director of the Montgomery Medical Center, and he said his hospital and the clinics associated with it serve about 43,000 veterans. Thousands of additional veterans are eligible for care but are not receiving it because they haven’t signed up or don’t know they’re eligible.

“We want to grow—they’ve earned the right for the care,” Walker says.

The Human Rights Campaign releases a Health Equality Index every year, and the most recent report shows that the Montgomery Medical Center has some se-

rious work to do. In the 2017 Index, the hospital scored a 65 out of 100 points, losing ground due to reported discrimination, no LGBT staff training, and not providing a full range of patient services and support for LGBT veterans.

Rob Hill, the Mississippi director of the Human Rights Campaign, said his organization works closely with the University of Mississippi Medical Center on how to bring up their score (they got a an 85), and he is willing to work with other hospitals that have work to do.

“One of our goals is to work with hospitals and clinics around the state to be more competent around issues that LGBTQ folks face, specifically LGBTQ veterans,” Hill told the Jackson Free Press.

“Those are the ones who go and fight for our country who come home to Mississippi and aren’t afforded the same rights as other Mississippians.”

Hill said a low rating on patient services means the hospital needs to develop a strategy to eliminate health disparities among LGBT patients, as well as reviewing the clinical services a hospital provides.

Walker acknowledges that his hospital has gaps in services for caring for LGBT veterans. He has appointed two staffers as LGBT services co-coordinators to start the process of addressing the gaps in services.

Coordinating a Plan

While the Jackson VA Medical Center has seemed to lag behind in supports for LGBT veterans, things are starting to change. Sharetta Young and Kristy Watters are tasked with coordinating the Sonny Montgomery VA Hospital LGBT services.

Their work started when they formed an LGBT Council made up of employees in the hospital who interact with and treat LGBT veterans. It meets quarterly and enhances services around the hospital as well as educates the rest of the hospital’s staff.

A large part of what Young and Watters are tasked with doing is training VA hospital staff, from the person who checks in a veteran to every doctor, nurse and counselor throughout the hospital.

“If you’re a veteran and you’ve served, we want you here at the hospital,” Young said. “What we do to welcome the LGBT population is make sure that we try to train our staff about what’s going on with that particular population: how to address their needs, what are some of the terminologies about what’s proper or not proper when talking with this particular population.”

Young and Watters implemented their LGBT-inclusive training with a new set of hires this week and will continue that every month thereafter. In their strategic plan, the deadline to educate staff members is

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ioral health” after a nervous breakdown, but her discharge was fully honorable, meaning she got to keep her benefits.

The second fight for medical care and equal treatment waited for Stanford at home, however—one that continues to be a fight for many LGBT veterans around the country and in Mississippi, specifically.

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‘Religious Objections’

The stigma of being LGBT in the South, however, is not as easy to fix. Stanford said besides access to services, the treatment from certain doctors—or lack thereof—due to religious objections over treating LGBT patients needs to end.

Psychologists and psychiatrists at the Montgomery Medical Center, which has relatively speedy and same-day mentalhealth care for veterans, have told Stanford that some of their colleagues would not treat her due to religious objections, she told the Jackson Free Press.

House Bill 1523, which the 2016 Legislature attempted to make law before a court declared it unconstitutional, could have made this potentially legal in the state.

The religious-exemptions bill would have allowed circuit clerks and doctors to recuse themselves if performing their official duties violated their “sincerely held religious belief” that “marriage is a union between one man and one woman; sexual relations are properly reserved to that marriage; and 18 male/female refer to an individual’s immu-

table biological sex determined at birth.”

The U.S. District Court struck down the law, but Gov. Phil Bryant and Mississippi Department of Human Services Executive Director John Davis appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Fifth Circuit has yet to make a decision on the initial appeal, and the case has not officially gone to discovery. Instead, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves granted a preliminary injunction in July 2016, which is still in place today. At press time, the Fifth Circuit had not issued an opinion.

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March 31, 2018. The two women will also conduct a veteran-specific needs assessment by next March to find gaps in serving the LGBT community.

The most recent federal VA directives on LGBT and specific inclusivity for transgender veterans came down in 2013. The Veteran’s Health Administration Directive required VA medical centers to provide medically necessary care to transgender and intersex veterans including “hormonal therapy, mental health care, preoperative evaluation, and medically necessary postoperative and long-term care following sex reassignment surgery,” the directive says.

The rules, which expire in February 2018, say the VA cannot perform or fund sex reassignment surgeries.

Walker says his staff is aware of this directive, and doctors who are unfamiliar with hormonal therapy or care for LGBT veterans have access to a consultation system that allows them to send their questions to a team of experts who can advise them.

“(If) we have a provider who has a question about, for instance, hormones with medical issues going on, and they’re not quite sure about dosing or what not, they can send an electronic consult to a team of experts that’s been tasked by the VA to discuss those types of concerns that the provider may have,” Young said.

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VA psychologist Kristy Watters shows off a rainbow flag pin; she’s one of two co-coordinators of the center’s LGBT inclusivity plan.

for using religious objections as an excuse to treat a patient.

“You should lose your license for doing that; if your religion requires you to violate the Hippocratic Oath, you should never been allowed to take it in the first place,” she said.

The VA already has inclusive nondiscrimination policies in place under the Equal Employment Opportunity policies all federal agencies adhere to. The VA’s official policy statement says: “The VA does not tolerate unlawful discrimination, including workplace harassment, based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity, transgender status, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), age (40 or older), disability, genetic information, marital status, parental status, political affiliation, or retaliation for opposing discriminatory practices or participating in the discrimination-complaint process.”

Openly transgender men and women could not join the military until the sum-

mer of 2016, when former Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the end of the ban on transgender service members.

In 2011, the longstanding “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy ended, allowing openly gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans to serve in the military freely for the first time, but transgender people were still barred from this rule, a study from the Williams Institute says, because of military medical policies in place until 2016.

“Because an estimated 7,000 active and reserve transgender service members on the upper end now wear a military uniform, ‘I have a responsibility to them and their commanders to provide them both with clearer and more consistent guidance than is provided by current policies,’” Secretary Carter said in a press statement almost a year ago.

A May 2014 Williams Institute study estimates there are a total of 149,800 veteran and active-duty service men and women who are transgender. A 2012 study from the same institute found that 97 percent of the transgender veterans they surveyed were not able to transition until they had left the military.

One-third of those surveyed “reported some form of discrimination outside the workplace, mainly in obtaining corrected identification documents.” Additionally, “transgender service members and veterans have reported wide-ranging experiences of discrimination, harassment, and physical and sexual assault while serving in the military,” the “Still Serving in Silence” study found.

La Passioneria recalls several instances, dating back to 1990 when her military service injuries caught up with her and doctors refused to treat her or told her to put on different clothes in order to be treated.

She said she is used to getting stares or odd looks, and she emphasized that she and all veterans deserve so much more. She recalls doctors calling her by the wrong pronouns.

“(I would say) please stop calling me ‘sir or ‘mister,’ it hurts,” La Passioneria told the Jackson Free Press.

Obama-Era Changes Ahead

Some top-down changes coming soon to the VA could help alleviate inadvertent or purposeful discrimination against LGBT veterans. Due to a recent change, all VA medical centers now have the ability for the first time to change a part of a veteran’s medical record digitally.

Previously whatever birth sex was on one’s discharge papers was the one the VA had for you—meaning transgender veterans are likely left to be called by pronouns they do not identify with, constantly correcting their medical providers. That will

change this month, and veterans will be able to indicate their gender identity in Veterans Administration records.

“That will be a significant change I believe for the institution as a whole to be what we call patient-centered,” Walker told the Jackson Free Press.

“How they want to be addressed is a big part of it and not having to correct people every time they check into a new clinic or new setting.”

The new system will apply to all VA facilities, so if a veteran goes to a local clinic for mental-health care or a primary-care appointment instead of coming all the way to Jackson, his or her information should be correct in that system, too.

“Veterans now can confirm their birth sex as well as their preferred gender identity,” Watters told the Jackson Free Press.

“They can do that online.”

By next year, the medical center will also have completed its facility-wide LGBT training program and begin reaching out to LGBT veterans with a needs assessment to help administrators determine exactly what services are missing.

Veterans still have to go through a long process with lots of paperwork to change their names, as both Stanford and Passioneria can attest to.

Looking Ahead

Stanford, now 32, walks around the Mississippi State University campus with ease, and with the knowledge of a tour guide.

She is technically a sophomore by credits, pursuing a degree in social work.

She spends her time when she is not studying, running and organizing the Project Lightbringer group, a Satanist campus organization. She started the group with her girlfriend, Jamie, last December.

The group’s main goal is activism, Stanford says.

“We work to make sure that true religious liberty exists,” she said. The group works to hold MSU, which is public, accountable for not endorsing a specific religion, mainly Christianity, Stanford said.

Sanford is not in Mississippi by choice, because she knows how much better it can be elsewhere, but in-state tuition is cheap.

She said being in Mississippi enables her to save some more of her money to complete her gender-affirming surgery eventually.

She has all but given up on MSU’s oncampus group for veterans, though. She has been called “bro” or “sir” enough to make her stop trying to participate.

“People don’t really believe you can be on Team Rainbow and have combat experience—God forbid those two be together,” Sanford said.

Email state reporter at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com. Read more about being LGBT in the South at jacksonfreepress.com/lgbt.

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History Is Lunch is from noon to 2 p.m. at the Mississippi Department of Archives & History (200 North St.). Jeffrey B. Howell discusses his book, “Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag.” Sales and signing follow. Free; call 601-576-6850; mdah.ms.gov.

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Drag Bingo is at 7 p.m. at Green Ghost Tacos (2801 N. State St.). The Human Rights Campaign of Mississippi and local drag queens host. Open to everyone. $10; call 601-203-2144; hrc.org. … Robert Earl Keen performs at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The singersongwriter performs. Doors open at 6 p.m. $35 in advance, $40 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

SATURDAY 6/24

Mississippi Comic Con is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The comic and pop-culture convention features arts and craft vendors, panels, cosplay contests, and special guests such as David Yost, Shannon Purser, Malcolm Goodwin, Jeremy Bulloch and Walter Jones. Additional date: June 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $20 per day, $30 two-day pass, $5 ages 2-8, free under age 2; 601-354-7051; mississippicomiccon. com. … Summer Camp 2017 is from noon to 11:30 p.m. at Spacecamp (3002 N. Mill St.).

Includes music from Him Horby TYLER EDWARDS rison, Dream Cult, Hartle Road, Bob Chiz, Dumspell, Bad Magic, Reed Smith, Cody Rogers, May jacksonfreepress.com Queen, Ben Ricketts, The TalFax: 601-510-9019 lahatchies, Holy Vision, Dream/ Daily updates at Window, Alex Fraser and The Eljfpevents.com lie Badge. $7 in advance, $10 at the door; find it on Facebook.

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FRIDAY 6/23

The Mississippi Film Double Feature is from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at The Capri Theatre (3023 N. State St.). Features screenings of “Porches and Private Eyes” and “Don’t Come Around Here,” a cash bar and food for purchase. $10; eventbrite.com. … SILAS performs at 10 p.m. at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.). The Jackson hip-hop artist performs. Slimm Pusha, DevMaccc and Black Crown 22 also perform. For ages 21 and up. $10; martinslounge.net.

SUNDAY 6/25

“Million Dollar Quartet” is at 2 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The production 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,” “That’s All Right,” and “Great Balls of Fire.” Additional dates: June 21-24, 7:30 p.m. $35, $28 seniors, students and military; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com. … “Boeing-Boeing” is at 2 p.m. at Black Rose Theatre Company (103 Black St., Brandon). The

comedic play tells the story of a bachelor in Paris and three stewardesses who are all engaged to him without knowing about each other. Additional dates: June 22-24, 7:30 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-825-1293; email brtreservations@gmail.com; blackrosetheatre.org.

MONDAY 6/26

“The Shrink” is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Char (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The Detectives Comedy Dinner Theatre presents the four-act whodunit. Includes food and drinks. $49 per person; email thedetectivestheatre@gmail.com; thedetectives.biz.

TUESDAY 6/27

Dinner, Drinks & Jazz feat. Raphael Semmes & Friends is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The 2017 Best of Jackson-winning jazz artist helms the music event with guest musicians. Free; call 601-948-0888; halandmals.com. … “An American Experience” is at 7:30 p.m. at the Belhaven University Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). The Mississippi Wind Symphony performs music from different moments in American history. Free; call 601-573-5351; belhaven.edu.

WEDNESDAY 6/28

Lorie Watkins signs copies of “A Literary History of Mississippi” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). $40 book; call 601-3667619; info@lemuriabooks.com; lemuriabooks.com.

Outcomes Measurement June 22, 9 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Center for Nonprofits (201 W. Capitol St., Suite 700). Participants learn evidence-based strategies and best practices to conduct community-needs assessments, develop programmatic goals and objectives, plan and implement activities and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and services. $69 for members, $99 non-member; call 601-968-0061; email jeffery@msnonprofits.org; thedatabank.com.

Mississippi Comic Con June 24, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., June 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The comic and popculture convention features arts and craft vendors, panels, cosplay contests, and special guests. $20 per day, $30 two-day pass, $5 ages 2-8, free under age 2; mississippicomiccon.com.

Green Market and Craft Fair June 24, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Dogwood Festival Markets (150 Dogwood Blvd, Flowood). Features local produce, baked goods and crafts for sale. Free admission; call 775-354-7437; email brandi.sonicboomnv@ yahoo.com; shopdogwoodfestival.com.

Jackson Area Web & App Developers Meet-up June 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Coalesce (109 N. State St.). Features complimentary drinks, food, beer and discussions with Harper Maddox on “The Building Blocks of Artificial Intelligence” and Joe Buza. Free; call 601-812-8166; email dabit3@gmail.com; Developers.ms.

KIDS HOPE in Literacy Summer Academy June 21-23, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at Hanging Moss Road Church of Christ (5225 Hanging Moss Road). The academy features classes with certified teachers and presenters focusing on reading, writing, critical thinking and comprehension skills. The camp culminates with a parent’s night and closing ceremony. $75; call 601-557-2210; hopeinliteracy.com.

Storytime on the Porch June 22, 3-4 p.m., at Eudora Welty House (300 N. 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.

Mini Matisse June 26-30, 10-11:30 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.).

Children ages 3 to 4 participate in gallery activities, hands-on art projects, art games and art discussions. $75; msmuseumart.org.

Stained Glass Summer Camp June 26-29, 1-4 p.m., at Mississippi Craft Center (950 Rice Road, Ridgeland). Glass artist Jenny Thomas leads the four-day camp teaching children ages 13 and up to cut and grind glass to shape and solder pieces together to make artwork. $200; call 601-856-7546; craftsmensguildofms.org.

FOOD & DRINK Farm to Ferment Series: Part 1 June 21, 5-7 p.m., at The Hatch (126 Keener Ave.). Participants learn to make their own fermented foods at home, such as kimchi and sauerkraut. $30; call 601-354-5373; find it on Facebook.

“Just Desserts” Cooking Class June 28, 10 a.m., at The Everyday Gourmet (1270 E. County Line

Road, Ridgeland). Participants learn to make crème brulee, plantation pie, turtle brownies and more. $45; theeverydaygourmet.com.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Ella Strong Triathlon June 24, 7-11 a.m., at Madison Healthplex Performance Center (501 Baptist Drive, Madison). Includes adult and children triathlons. All proceeds benefit The Palmer Home for Children. $40 adult, $25 kid; call 601-856-7757; ellastrong.racesonline.com.

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$28 seniors, students and military; call 601-9483533; newstagetheatre.com.

“Boeing-Boeing” June 22-24 7:30 p.m., June 25, 2 p.m., at Black Rose Theatre Company (103 Black St., Brandon). The comedic play is about a bachelor and three stewardesses who are all engaged to him. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 601-825-1293; blackrosetheatre.org.

Mississippi Film Double Feature June 23, 7-11 p.m., at The Capri Theatre (3023 N. State St.).

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by Bryan Flynn, follow at jfpsports.com, @jfpsports

Last week, Discovery Channel announced that U.S. Olympian swimming great Michael Phelps would race a great white shark during this year’s “Shark Week.” The race will help kick off the event on Sunday, July 23.

Thursday, June 22

NBA (6-11 p.m., ESPN): Professional basketball welcomes a new group of potential stars, as the top college and foreign players wait to hear their names in the 2017 NBA Draft.

Friday, June 23

CFL (6:30-9:30 p.m., ESPNews): The Calgary Stampeders and the Ottawa Redblacks hit the field with a former Southern Miss player on the Stampeders’ roster and a UM Rebel on the Redblacks’ roster.

Saturday, June 24

CFL (9 p.m.-midnight, ESPN2): The Edmonton Eskimos have an MSU player and a JSU player on the roster, and they face the BC Lions with an ASU player on the roster.

Sunday, June 25

CFL (3-6 p.m., ESPN2): The Hamilton Tiger-Cats battle the Toronto Argonauts, with both teams’ rosters featuring former UM Rebels.

Cornhole Tournament June 24, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at lululemon (4500 Interstate 55 N., Suite 120).

Teams of two compete in the second annual beanbag-tossing tournament, which also features live music, and food and drinks for sale. Must register to reserve a place in the tournament. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Fight Night 3 June 24, 7-9 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N.). Wrestlers from Pro Wrestling Ego fight in the ring. $10 for adults, $8 for ages 5-11; find it on Facebook.

STAGE & SCREEN “Million Dollar Quartet” June 21-24, 7:30 p.m., June 25, 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. $35,

Monday, June 26

College baseball (6-9 p.m., ESPN): The championship round of the College World Series kicks off with game one in the best-of-three series.

Tuesday, June 27

College baseball (7-10 p.m., ESPN): Game two of the College World Series championship round could decide the title or tie the record.

Wednesday, June 28

College baseball (7-10 p.m., ESPN): Tune in for the final game of the College World Series, which will determine which team will be the champion if necessary. Oregon State, LSU and Louisville are currently thought to be the frontrunners.

The fastest recorded swimming speed of a great white shark is about 35 miles.

Meanwhile, in peak performance, Phelps has maxed out at about 6 miles per hour. We’ll see if Discovery decides to throw a wrench in the works for the shark to level the playing field. food for purchase. $10; email travismills@runningwildfilms.com; eventbrite.com.

“Never Lost My Faith” June 24, 7:30 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E Pascagoula St.). The play starring Gary Jenkins is about a family torn apart by secrets and reunited by faith. $26.50$34.50; call 601-960-1537; ticketmaster.com.

“The Shrink” June 26, 6-9 p.m., at Char (4500 Interstate 55 N.). The four act comedy whodone-it features food and drinks. $49; email thedetectivestheatre@gmail.com; thedetectives.biz.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Robert Earl Keen June 22, 7:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The singer-songwriter performs. Doors open at 6 p.m. $35 in advance, $40 at the door; ardenland.net.

Summer Camp 2017 June 24, noon-11:30 p.m., at Spacecamp (3002 N. Mill St.). Music from Him Horrison, Dream Cult, Hartle Road, Bob Chiz, Dumspell, Bad Magic, Reed Smith, Cody Rogers, May Queen, Ben Ricketts, The Tallahatchies, Holy Vision, Dream/Window, Alex Fraser, The Ellie Badge. $7 advance, $10 door.

Seventh Annual Independence Showdown June 24, 4:30-9 p.m., at Newell Field (1900 N. State St.). Bands from all over the country, including the Jackson State University Band and the Mississippi All-Star Band, perform. $5; call 601-8794627; eventbrite.com.

Audience Control June 24, 7 p.m., at Hops & Habanas (2771 Old Canton Road). The concert features comedy from Rita B., and music from Calligraphy, Vitamin Cea, T-lo da Champ, Antwone Perkins, Yung Jewelz and DJ Spre. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

LITERARY & SIGNINGS History Is Lunch: Jeffrey B. Howell June 21, noon-2 p.m., at Mississippi Department of Archives & History (200 North St.). The author discusses his book, “Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag.” Sales and signing follow. Free; call 601-576-6850; mdah.ms.gov.

Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “The Actress” June 24, 4 p.m. Michael Hicks Thompson signs copies. $18 book; call 601366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “A Literary History of Mississippi” June 28, 5 p.m. Lorie Watkins signs copies. $40 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

CREATIVE CLASSES Extreme Couponing Workshop June 21, 3:304:30 p.m., 7-8 p.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). Kelly Gibbs of TLC’s “Extreme Couponing” shares tips, tricks and secrets used to save on groceries with coupons.

Free; call 601-957-2800; find it on Facebook.

Write to Change Your World Starts June 24 + July 8, July 15, Aug. 5 and date class will decide.

Noon-2:30 p.m., at 125 S. Congress St., #1324.

Learn to write non-fiction columns, memoir and articles in Donna Ladd’s non-fiction classes.

Classes recorded. $262 (25% off); 601-3519492; writingtochange.com.

Coffee Brewing Classes June 24, 9-10 a.m., at Cups Espresso Cafe (2757 Old Canton Road).

Each Saturday in June, Cody Cox leads participants in learning how to brew different coffee beverages. $25 per class; cupsespressocafe.com.

BE THE CHANGE Strike Out Alzheimer’s June 21, 6-8:30 p.m., at Metro 24 Bowling Center (3003 John R. Lynch St.). Proceeds from the bowling fundraiser go to Alzheimer’s awareness and treatment efforts. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; call 601-354-5738; eventbrite.com.

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

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

June 21 - Wednesday

June 22 - Thursday The Big Muddy, Vicksburg - The Blues Experience 6-9 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Raul Valinti & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fitzgerald’s - Ronnie McGee, Roberto Moreira & TJ Hall 7:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jessie Howell Georgia Blue, Madison - S0nny Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio free Iron Horse Grill - Jimmy “Duck” Holmes 6 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 6:30-11:30 p.m.

Kemistry - T Money 9 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Brian Smith Pelican Cove - Chris Gill 6 p.m. free Shucker’s - Sofa Kings 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Feeling the Blues 7-10 p.m. free

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Ameristar, Vicksburg - Jack Rabbit Slim 8 p.m. free The Big Muddy, Vicksburg - Bill Perry Trio 7-10 p.m. free Bonny Blair’s - American Band 7:30-11:30 p.m. free Center Stage of MS - Henry Rhodes 9 p.m. $10 $15 reserved Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Robin Blakeney 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Fred T midnight $10 Fitzgerald’s - Hunter Gibson & Ronnie McGee 7:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Shaun Patterson Hal & Mal’s - Thomas Jackson free ISH Grill & Bar - Southern Komfort Brass Band & 601 Live Band 9:30 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door, $125 VIP section Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7-11:30 p.m. free

June 24 - Saturday Anjou - Stevie Cain 6-9 p.m.

The Big Muddy, Vicksburg - Deeb Blues 7-10 p.m. free Bonny Blair’s - Luckenbach 7:30-11:30 p.m. free Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; The Bailey Brothers midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Chad Wesley

Underground 119 - Christone “Kingfish” Ingram 8 p.m.

Wasabi - High Frequency Band 8 p.m.-midnight

Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner Hal & Mal’s - Crooked Creek free The Hideaway - Miles Flatt & South of 20 9 p.m.

Hops & Habanas - Audience Control feat. Calligraphy, Vitamin Cea, T-lo da Champ, Antwone Perkins, Yung Jewelz, DJ Spre & comedian Rita B 7 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - DieDra & the Ruff Pro Band 9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Fade2Blue 7-11 p.m. free Kemistry - Mouth of the South 9 p.m.

Martin’s - The Quickening 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Andy Tanas 2 p.m.; Sofa Kings 7 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Hairicane 9 p.m.

Reed Pierce’s - Snazz 9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Steele Heart 3:30 p.m. free; Elusive Behavior 8 p.m. $5; Todd Smith 10 p.m. free Soulshine, Flowood - Matt Cayson 7-10 p.m.

Soulshine, Ridgeland - Skip McDonald 7-10 p.m.

Spacecamp - Summer Camp feat. Him Horrison, Dream Cult, Hartle Road, Bob Chiz, Dumspell, Bad Magic, May Queen, Ben Ricketts, The Tallahatchies & more noon11:30 p.m. $7 advance $10 door

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Summer at Spacecamp

by Jack Hammett

June 25 - Sunday Char - Big Easy Three 11:45 a.m.1:45 p.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Rhythm Masters 6-11 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Stace & Cassie noon; Andrew Pates 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m.

June 26 - Monday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Doug Hurd & Chris Link 7:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 cover $3 members Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 7-11:30 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Hunter Gibson & Rick Moreira 6 p.m.

Table 100, Flowood - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

June 27 - Tuesday High Frequency Band

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Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8 p.m.

Fitzgerald’s - Chris Houchin 7:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-11:30 p.m. free Kemistry - The KujoNastySho 9 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Chris Gill Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m. free Shucker’s - Dylan Moss 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m. free

Kemistry - DJ Wheezy 9 p.m.

M-Bar - Flirt Friday feat. DJ 901 Martin’s - SILAS w/ Slimm Pusha, DevMaccc & Black Crown 10 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Andrew Pates Pelican Cove - Sid Thompson & DoubleShotz 7 p.m. free Pop’s Saloon - Southbound 9 p.m.

Reed Pierce’s - Snazz 9 p.m.

Underground 119 - Ben Payton Trio

Courtesy High Frequency Band

MUSIC | live

Belhaven Center for the Arts MS Wind Symphony’s “An American Experience” 7:30 p.m. free Bonny Blair’s - Don & Sonny 7:30-11:30 p.m. free Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Larry Brewer 5:30-8 p.m.

Fenian’s Pub - Open Mic free Fitzgerald’s - Sonny Brooks & Kevin Lewis 7:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Raphael Semmes & Friends 6-9 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Andrew Pates 6:3011:30 p.m. free Last Call Sports Grill - Top-Shelf Tuesdays feat. DJ Spoon 9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Ryann Phillips 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

June 28 - Wednesday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Barry Leach 5:30-8 p.m.

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

Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band free Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:3011:30 p.m. free Kemistry - The KujoNastySho 9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

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

(Left to right) Brett Therlin, Joey Gray and Josh Taylor of Jackson garage-rock band Bad Magic perform for Summer Camp at Spacecamp on Saturday, June 24.

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ollowing an acoustic set, singer-songwriter Alex Fraser hits a distortion pedal and strums bar chords louder than any of his preceding songs. As fog smothers the room at Jackson music venue Spacecamp on May 20, members of garage-rock trio Bad Magic join him for a big, fuzzed-out intermission number.

Bad Magic singer and guitarist Joey Gray says that he, drummer Josh Taylor, and Dream Cult vocalist-guitarist Hayden Boyd established Spacecamp as a home for this level of noise. The owners take advantage of the venue’s surroundings—mainly other warehouses and defunct businesses— by playing as loudly as they want.

“We’re not trying to make money off people or anything like that,” Gray says.

“It’s about having fun.”

Spacecamp hosted its first show Feb. 4, 2017, two months after downtown venue Big Sleepy’s closed its doors. Taylor says Big Sleepy’s had a strong foothold in the Jackson scene before its closure, but Spacecamp is not necessarily predicated on continuing what the former had established.

“(Big Sleepy’s) hosted a little bit of different music than we’re all into,” he says.

“They booked a lot of hardcore and metal shows, and we’re not super interested in that, mostly because we’re all in these (other) kinds of bands, so we like to have bands on the schedule that like to practice here (in the warehouse space).”

“We’re kind of pushing the same idea that Big Sleepy’s had—we’re just keeping it local with Mississippi bands, but if touring bands hit us up, we book them,” Bad Magic guitarist Brett Therlin says.

However, the venue is not exclusively reserved for hard rock. Since opening, Spacecamp has hosted a variety of acts,

such as Delta-based electronic artist Argiflex, hip-hop artists 5th Child and Flywalker, and soul-R&B duo Clouds & Crayons.

One of the venue’s largest upcoming events is a single-day music festival, Summer Camp, on June 24. The lineup brings together many of the Mississippi-connected acts that have performed at Spacecamp over the past few months, including Bad Magic, Dream Cult, Alex Fraser, May Queen, Bob Chiz, Dumspell, The Tallahatchies, Hartle Road, Ben Ricketts, The Ellie Badge, Him Horrison, Holy Vision, Dream/Window, Reed Smith and Cody Rogers.

Gray says that while Jackson doesn’t have the house-show scene of some other towns, Spacecamp hopes to achieve the intimate and receptive feel of that format.

“There’s not really anybody who only goes to (rock) shows,” he says. “I think a part of that is that there’s not a huge scene in Jackson, and some people are just craving anything they can get. You can see bands, have a beer, hang out with your friends, and people usually know someone in the bands and come out to support them.”

Taylor says the owners first had the idea of hosting shows in order to help pay rent on the practice space, but despite the initial reasoning, they hold Spacecamp to a high standard in regards to the quality of music and the venue’s operation.

“As far as Jackson goes, there’s not really many venues for the local scene,” he says.

“We don’t have a business (at Spacecamp), but we want to have a sense of professionalism to it and show that it runs well.”

Summer Camp is from noon to midnight on Saturday, June 24, at Spacecamp (3002 N. Mill St.). Admission is $7 in advance and $10 at the door. For more information, find Spacecamp on Facebook.

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DIVERSIONS | arts LYNDSAY SIMPSON

From ‘Archie’ to Space Circus

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yndsay Simpson traces her love of drawing and art back to one of the more vivid memories from her childhood: When she was younger, her grandmother would take her grocery shopping once a month and let her pick out an “Archie” comic to take home.

“That was my favorite thing ever,” Simpson says. “There were pages in the comic that taught you how to draw them line-for-line, and that’s what I’d do. I would just copy that style.”

The 25-year-old Jackson native graduated from Jackson Preparatory School in 2010 and went to Mississippi State University to study art, but after her junior year, she decided to take time off to focus on personal projects and pad out her portfolio.

“I’ve been spending the last year or so going to conventions, mostly in the area, some in Florida and Atlanta,” Simpson says.

During her year off, she is focusing primarily on comics and is working on two different projects. One is a web comic in a

collaboration with her friend, Neil Lalonde, where Simpson is contributing the art, and Lalonde is writing the script.

The second is a personal project called “Circus Nova,” which is a web comic that she is hoping to pitch to independent comic developers in the future.

“It’s essentially going to be about a circus in space, and people have superpowers,” Simpson says. “It’s crazy and fun and essentially like a circus Olympics—all these troupes come together and compete.”

When she is at conventions such as the upcoming Mississippi Comic Con, Simpson primarily mans her own booth and sells her artwork.

“In the past I have done on-site commissions,” Simpson says, “which are usually black-and-white sketches. I’ll ink them and fill them in a little bit, usually full body or busts of their favorite characters, but those tend to take a lot more time than I’m comfortable with, so the last couple of conventions I haven’t been doing it.”

A majority of what Simpson sells at

Artist Lyndsay Simpson will be one of the vendors at this year’s Mississippi Comic Con at the Mississippi Trade Mart.

conventions is fan art because that is what people are interested in, she says.

“But I really want to be focusing on my own work now and focusing on selling my own idea, because that’s really where my passions lie,” she says.

Simpson says her end goal right now

is to be a successful comic artist, to sell her own work, and to publish her own stories and her own characters. “A lot of people say to keep your day job,” Simpson explains.

“But I like to move forward doing commissions on the side, doing conventions, and that’s helping me while I’m trying to get on my feet with the web comics.”

When it comes to the Mississippi art scene, especially within the realm of comics and comic-related art, Simpson says she would like to see the number of conventions in the state continue to increase.

“I feel like those have been a really, really positive thing the past couple of years, especially with Mississippi Anime (Festival), and the comic con coming up,” she says.

“That is such a good chance for people to meet artists and for artists to meet each other, and just for fans to come together to celebrate anime, comics and things that they love.”

Mississippi Comic Con is June 24 and 25 at the Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Admission is $20 per day, or $30 for both days. For more information on the event, visit mississippicomiccon.com. For more information on Lyndsay Simpson, visit pahnts.com.

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55 “That was ___-death experience” 56 Having sides of different lengths, as triangles go 59 Rip on one type of lettuce?

61 Samurai without a master 64 Chaney of “The Wolf Man” 65 “That ain’t gonna work” 66 “Einstein on the Beach,” for one 67 ___-Caps (theater candy) 68 Representative Devin in 2017 news 69 Fix a friend’s listing in a Facebook photo, e.g.

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38 Sensory system for some primitive invertebrates 39 Have down pat 40 Dirt bikes’ relatives, briefly 42 First American college to go co-ed 43 Farmer Yasgur of Woodstock 44 Country singer Vince 45 Akihito, e.g.

46 Makes use (of) 47 Thomas of “Reno 911!”

48 Largest inland city in California 52 Either T in “Aristotle”

53 Sail poles 56 Read a QR code, e.g.

57 Road work marker 58 “That ain’t gonna work” 60 Ft. Worth campus 62 Glass on NPR 63 Badger repeatedly ©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 #829

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35 Singles, in Spain 36 Shirt that’s seen better days 37 “My Way” lyricist Paul 41 Business course that draws heavily on Julius Caesar?

46 “Ha! I kill me!” alien 49 Batman foe 50 Comedy style based on “yes, and” 51 Highest point

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Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is represented in this grid by a number between 1 and 26. Using letter frequency, word-pattern recognition, and the numbers as your guides, fill in the grid with well-known English words (HINT: since a Q is always followed by a U, try hunting down the Q first). Only lowercase, unhyphenated words are allowed in kaidoku, so you won’t see anything like STOCKHOLM or LONG-LOST in here (but you might see AFGHAN, since it has an uncapitalized meaning, too). Now stop wasting my precious time and SOLVE! psychosudoku@gmail.com

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Now that you’ve mostly paid off one of your debts to the past, you can go window-shopping for the future’s best offers. You’re finally ready to leave behind a power spot you’ve outgrown and launch your quest to discover fresh power spots. So bid farewell to lost causes and ghostly temptations, Cancerian. Slip away from attachments to traditions that no longer move you and the deadweight of your original family’s expectations. Soon you’ll be empty and light and free—and ready to make a vigorous first impression when you encounter potential allies in the frontier.

I suspect you will soon have an up-close and personal encounter with some form of lightning. To ensure it’s not a literal bolt shooting down out of a thundercloud, please refrain from taking long romantic strolls with yourself during a storm. Also, forgo any temptation you may have to stick your finger in electrical sockets. What I’m envisioning is a type of lightning that will give you a healthy metaphorical jolt. If any of your creative circuits are sluggish, it will jumpstart them. If you need to wake up from a dreamy delusion, the lovable lightning will give you just the right salutary shock.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Signing up to read at the open-mic segment of a poetry slam? Buying an outfit that’s a departure from the style you’ve cultivated for years? Getting dance lessons or a past-life reading or instructions on how to hang-glide?

Hopping on a jet for a spontaneous getaway to an exotic hotspot? I approve of actions like those, Virgo. In fact, I won’t mind if you at least temporarily abandon at least 30 percent of your inhibitions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

I don’t know what marketing specialists are predicting about color trends for the general population, but my astrological analysis has discerned the most evocative colors for you Libras. Electric mud is one. It’s a scintillating mocha hue. Visualize silver-blue sparkles emerging from moist dirt tones. Earthy and dynamic! Cybernatural is another special color for you. Picture sheaves of ripe wheat blended with the hue you see when you close your eyes after staring into a computer monitor for hours. Organic and glimmering! Your third pigment of power is pastel adrenaline: a mix of dried apricot and the shadowy brightness that flows across your nerve synapses when you’re taking aggressive practical measures to convert your dreams into realities.

Delicious and dazzling!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Do you ever hide behind a wall of detached cynicism? Do you protect yourself with the armor of jaded coolness? If so, here’s my proposal: In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to escape those perverse forms of comfort and safety. Be brave enough to risk feeling the vulnerability of hopeful enthusiasm. Be sufficiently curious to handle the fluttery uncertainty that comes from exploring places you’re not familiar with and trying adventures you’re not totally skilled at.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars,” writes Jack Gilbert in his poem, “Tear It Down.” He adds that “We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows.” I invite you to meditate on these ideas. By my calculations, it’s time to peel away the obvious secrets so you can penetrate to the richer secrets buried beneath.

It’s time to dare a world-changing risk that is currently obscured by easy risks. It’s time to find your real life hidden inside the pretend one, to expedite the evolution of the authentic self that’s germinating in the darkness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

When I was 4 years old, I loved to use crayons to draw diagrams of the solar system. It seems I was already laying a foundation for my interest in astrology. How about you, Capricorn? I invite you to explore your early formative memories. To aid the process, look at old photos and ask relatives what they remember. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your past can show you new clues about what you might ultimately become. Potentials that were revealed when you were a wee tyke may be

primed to develop more fully.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

I often ride my bike into the hills. The transition from the residential district to open spaces is a narrow dirt path surrounded by thick woods on one side and a steep descent on the other. Today as I approached this place there was a new sign on a post. It read “Do not enter: Active beehive forming in the middle of the path.” Indeed, I could see a swarm hovering around a tree branch that juts down low over the path. How to proceed? I might get stung if I did what I usually do. Instead, I dismounted from my bike and dragged it through the woods so I could join the path on the other side of the bees. Judging from the astrological omens, Aquarius, I suspect you may encounter a comparable interruption along a route that you regularly take.

Find a detour, even if it’s inconvenient.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

I bet you’ll be extra creative in the coming weeks. Cosmic rhythms are nudging you toward fresh thinking and imaginative innovation, whether they’re applied to your job, your relationships, your daily rhythm or your chosen art form. To take maximum advantage of this provocative luck, seek out stimuli that will activate high-quality brainstorms. I understand that the composer André Grétry got inspired when he put his feet in ice water. Author Ben Johnson felt energized in the presence of a purring cat and by the aroma of orange peels. I like to hang out with people who are smarter than me. What works for you?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

There are places in the oceans where the sea floor cracks open and spreads apart from volcanic activity. This allows geothermally heated water to vent out from deep inside the earth. Scientists explored such a place in the otherwise frigid waters around Antarctica. They were elated to find a “riot of life” living there, including previously unknown species of crabs, starfish, sea anemones and barnacles.

Judging from the astrological omens, Aries, I suspect that you will soon enjoy a metaphorically comparable eruption of warm vitality from the unfathomable depths. Will you welcome and make use of these raw blessings even if they are unfamiliar and odd?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

I’m reporting from the first annual Psychic Olympics in Los Angeles. For the past five days, I’ve competed against the world’s top mind-readers, dice-controllers, spirit whisperers, spoon-benders, angel-wrestlers and stock-market prognosticators. Thus far I have earned a silver medal in the category of channeling the spirits of dead celebrities.

(Thanks, Frida Kahlo and Gertrude Stein!) I psychically foresee that I will also win a gold medal for most accurate fortune-telling. Here’s the prophecy that I predict will cinch my victory: “People born in the sign of Taurus will soon be at the pinnacle of their ability to get telepathically aligned with people who have things they want and need.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

While reading Virginia Woolf, I found the perfect maxim for you to write on a slip of paper and carry around in your pocket or wallet or underwear: “Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”

In the coming weeks, dear Gemini, I hope you keep this counsel simmering constantly in the back of your mind. It will protect you from the dreaminess and superstition of people around you. It will guarantee that you’ll never overlook potent little breakthroughs as you scan the horizon for phantom miracles. And it will help you change what needs to be changed slowly and surely, with minimum disruption.

Homework: What were the circumstances in which you were most amazingly, outrageously alive? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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Nandy’s Candy Maywood Mart, 1220 E Northside Dr #380, Jackson, (601)362-9553 Small batch confections do more than satisfy a sweet tooth, they foster fond traditions and strong relationships. Plus, enjoy sno-balls, gifts for any occasion and more!

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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.

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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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DIALOGUE: CHICAGO TRIBUTE BAND fantastic cover band paying respect to some of the greats

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