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“I’m inspired by a myriad of my favorite artists from different mediums including tattoos, illustrators, muralist and pretty much anyone that created their own style,” she says. “My goal is to create my own signature aesthetic while telling my story cohesively. It can get dark and a little weird at times.”

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“I was initially on the path to being an animator,” she says. “When I was younger, I loved cartoons and loved the potential for countless ideas and stories.

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“I wasn’t learning much more than I already knew, so I started doing my own thing,” she says. “That’s when I saw the most growth.”

Williams has sold her products at conventions and also sells her products in businesses such as Offbeat. She has plans of expanding her brand in the near future and hopes to build a larger fan base, particularly here in the capital city and surrounding areas.

Her artwork and designs also appear on several types of mediums beside just prints, including skateboard decks and T-shirts.

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10 Mumford for Mentoring

Gerald Mumford is one of three candidates running for county prosecutor on Nov. 7. He says he wants to bring his mentoring habit with him to the position.

13 The Problem With Objectivity

“Perhaps it’s time, then, to say that (Walter) Lippmann was full of it for suggesting we apply the ‘scientific spirit’ to journalism.

Instead, journalists should put value judgment back into their craft —Pete Smith, “Reinsert Value Back Into Journalism”

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by Amber Helsel, Managing Editor

One Small, Honest Voice

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hile multiple people in elementary school bullied me, one girl in particular stands out. She teased me relentlessly about my hair, my clothes, my mannerisms—everything. I remember feeling so miserable, and I tried to stop her from bullying me, but it only made the problem worse. To this day, I can still hear her laughing at me.

In an effort to keep myself from being bullied in middle and high school, I tried my hardest to fit in. When a certain type of handwriting became trendy, I tried to write like the other girls, but no matter how hard I tried, no matter how many times I wrote my Ks with a straight bottom line, my letters and words just didn’t look the same.

When the girls began wearing Limited, Too, I got a catalog and begged my mom to buy the clothes for me. We couldn’t afford it, but my pre-teen brain only heard, “You can’t have this, so you can’t be trendy.” (Sorry, Momma).

I wanted to be thin and have straight hair and the coolest clothes, but even at my lightest weight, I was still heavier than all the girls; my hair is curly and too thin to chemically straighten; and the coolest clothes we could afford were from places like Target.

This was also around the time when I began to become more introverted. When I was a kid, my mom says I didn’t know a stranger, but as I got older, and felt more pressure to blend in, I got quieter and quieter. I essentially made myself smaller and more invisible so people would stop making fun of me because I was different.

My story isn’t uncommon. Maybe you weren’t bullied, but as a woman, you’ve probably been told to make yourself smaller and to fit the mold society created for you.

We have to be the caretakers of the family, we have to always look perfect and put together and wear makeup and make sure we have exactly zero ounces of body hair (the strands on our head don’t count).

We have to be someone’s wife (God forbid if you decide that marriage isn’t for you) and stay-at-home moms; actually, no, we have to be career women, but then we should leave our jobs and focus on raising our families. We get emotional too easily,

#MeToo has done a beautiful thing. so we can’t be trusted with our own decisions—especially when it comes to deciding what’s best for our bodies. And we definitely can’t be trusted to tell the truth about the discrimination and violation that’s happened for centuries.

Society puts us under so much pressure that at some point, some women, like myself, give up even trying. For example, I stopped dreaming of chemically straightening my hair, and now I love it—frizz and all. I stopped believing that I should have to wear makeup, and now I quite like my face as-is. I have a wardrobe of about 10 outfits that I cycle through over a week and a half.

I got Nexplanon because I was tired of taking a pill and also because Congress keeps threatening women’s bodily autonomy.

As a single millennial female, I bought

a house. I’m getting my first cat this week, and when I feel comfortable enough with taking care of another life form, I’ll solidify my future status as a crazy cat lady.

I recently began reading “Wild and Free” by Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan.

While the book is geared toward Christian women, it talks some about how women have had to make themselves smaller or lesser or quieter to make room for men.

In one of Morgan’s chapters, she talks about how one day, her family was at a park hitting baseballs. Her dad threw one to her, and she hit it. She got excited, but when she got ready to take another turn, her dad shushed her and told her that they were there to let her little brother hit baseballs.

“My dad wanted my brother to be athletic and not overshadowed by his big sister,” she writes. That tiny act seemed so innocent, but Morgan said the sentiment stuck with her: “Hush; make yourself small; make room for others.” She goes on to write that while making room for others isn’t a bad thing (it’s actually a really good thing), it becomes bad when you feel like you can’t voice your own needs.

The alternative can be worse, though.

Imagine how it feels when you’ve been voicing your own needs for decades only to have the pleas largely ignored until thousands of women begin using the hashtag #metoo.

Think about that. Women have been asking for an even—and safe—playing field for decades, but it took a few brave women, a hashtag and then thousands of women saying the same thing for men to finally realize how pervasive sexual assault, harassment and sexism in general are.

It took the Harvey Weinstein scandal for people to finally start paying attention— no, for men to start paying attention. And

why is that? Why did it take a hashtag to start all of this?

I have more questions. Why is that some men think it’s OK to catcall us on the streets, even assuming that we might enjoy the attention? Why is it that when a woman is violated or raped, people make excuses like “She shouldn’t have been drinking,” or “With what she was wearing, she was asking for it”? Why do we ask what she could have done better instead of asking why the man did what he did?

#MeToo is just a hashtag, but it’s done a beautiful thing: It brought us together.

It showed women the power of what can happen when we all raise our voices. Not that we weren’t speaking before, but somehow thousands of women using a hashtag (and a lot of us didn’t even share our stories) made our voices grow just a tiny bit louder.

And it made us women realize that we’re not alone in this—that at some point in our lives, almost every single one of us will experience sexual harassment or assault, or just rampant sexism. Even men who have been victims of sexual harassment and assault are coming forward. It’s both frustrating and amazing that it took a hashtag to finally cause the dam to break, even a little.

I don’t know what happens from here.

I hope #MeToo becomes a movement with tangible outcomes. I hope that it finally helps us all begin discussing rape culture, the culture of inequality between women and men, and even racial inequality and inequity, because that plays a role, too. It really is true that one small, honest voice can be louder than a crowd.

Managing Editor Amber Helsel is a Gemini, feminist, writer, artist and otaku.

Email Boom Jackson and JFP feature ideas to amber@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Web Editor Dustin Cardon is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. He enjoys reading fantasy novels and wants to write them himself one day. He wrote about Halloween events and edited JFPDaily.com. Go subscribe.

News Reporter Arielle Dreher is working on finding some new hobbies and adopting an otter from the Jackson Zoo. Email tips to arielle@jacksonfreepress. com. She wrote on the JPS takeover and domestic abuse.

City Reporter Ko Bragg is a Philadelphia, Miss., transplant who recently got her master’s in journalism. She loves traveling and has been to 25 countries to date. She interviewed a Hinds attorney candidate and is covering DA Smith’s trial.

Freelancer Malcolm Morrow has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Southern Mississippi.

He is the founder of Jacksonbased entertainment blog The Hood Hippie. He wrote about Jacksonian Reva Lewis.

Freelancer Alex Thiel is a writer, filmmaker and musician active in Jackson and Oxford. A graduate of the University of Mississippi, he asserts that his Ole Miss fandom was biologically determined, and in fact, not a choice. He wrote about Hub New Music.

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Digital Marketing Strategist Meghan Garner works to help local businesses thrive through JFP’s website building, content marketing, SEO and digital creative services. Write meghan@jacksonfreepress. com for digital assistance.

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“We’ve got to remember that domestic abuse is all about power and control. ... Fear plays a big role into why individuals don’t report.”

— Heather Wagner, special assistant attorney general in the Bureau of Victim Assistance, on why domestic-violence survivors do not always speak out about their attackers.

Wednesday, October 18

Gov. Phil Bryant voices skepticism about allowing the state to take over the Jackson Public Schools district and announces that he’s seeking a “third way,” mentioning the Kellogg Foundation.

Friday, October 20

Attorneys for Gov. Phil Bryant argue to the U.S. Supreme Court that offending black citizens is not enough to block the Mississippi flag and that attorneys must instead show that the flag caused discrimination in order for a court to declare it unconstitutional.

Saturday, October 21

The NAACP names Jackson native Derrick Johnson as its 19th national president and CEO. Sunday, October 22

About two dozen NFL players take a knee, sit on the bench, stay in the tunnel or raise a fist during the national anthem days after the league declined to change its rule on protests.

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Monday, October 23

State Superintendent Carey Wright announces that the state education department is tightening accounting and purchasing procedures weeks after Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering accused it of illegally issuing some contracts without taking bids.

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Tuesday, October 24

Donald Trump’s four-month worldwide ban on refugees ends Tuesday as his administration prepares to unveil tougher new screening procedures. ...

Two Republican U.S. senators who are not running for election, as well as Sen. John McCain, issue stinging public rebukes of Trump and his presidency.

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Hinds DA Facing Different Kind of Trial

by Ko Bragg and Donna Ladd

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he timing could not be worse for Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith’s new trial in Rankin County. His trial for charges of aggravated stalking, robbery, and two counts of domestic violence, all involving an ex-girlfriend, is slated to start next week during a time in the country where powerful men abusing women is a hot topic and during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

In the last year, Smith has avoided a conviction in two trials for hindering prosecution in Hinds County that would have forced him from office as the area’s top prosecutor, and probably gotten him disbarred.

In the first trial, the jury could not reach a verdict, and then he was acquitted in a Hinds County courtroom—downstairs from his own office.

Smith beat those charges, which the Mississippi attorney general’s office brought, by arguing that he was trying to ensure justice for a man indicted for stockpiling a large amount of marijuana in his home. The man was also accused of wire fraud in a separate case. That man, Christopher Butler, is now in prison for 30 years. Smith was acquitted for trying to help him.

The State also originally accused the Hinds DA of trying to keep Donald “Darnell” Turner, who also goes by Dixon, out of jail on charges that he beat, threatened,

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Thursday, October 19

Mississippi Heritage Trust places Fondren on the list of the “10 Most Endangered Historic Places in Mississippi” following the demolition of the house the neighborhood is named after. …

The Mississippi Supreme Court rules that the state Legislature does not have an obligation to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program.

State Superintendent Carey Wright stands by the decision to take over JPS. pp 7-8

If no further delays occur, Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith is facing domestic-violence charges in Rankin County next week during a tough time in the country for powerful men accused of abuse.

pulled a gun on and dangled his exgirlfriend off a bridge in the Washington Addition. The State later dropped the Turner case from Smith’s indictment, but successfully prosecuted Turner in September in Hinds County. He is now serving 45 years in prison.

The Turner case is more akin to the charges the State brought against Smith in Rankin County, where the DA’s immediate family owns homes and property, and where the attorney general is accus-

ing the Hinds district attorney of stalking and physically abusing his long-time girlfriend, Christie Edwards, and brandishing a gun at her.

Both sides filed court documents showing that Smith’s attorneys are fighting to keep potentially damaging testimony by a domestic-abuse shelter director, a witness and another former girlfriend out of that trial, which is set to start as early as Oct. 30. The documents indicate that the State will likely claim that the alleged do-

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Stonecrest, Ga., has said that it would rename itself Amazon if the company selects the city. So what could Jackson promise to wrangle the company that is the heartache of local businesses.

• Amazon Prime members get potholes on their block filled in two days.

• Mayor will change his name to Chokwe “Alexa” Lumumba.

• Virtual Eudora Welty and Charles Tisdale Libraries now available exclusively for Kindle.

• Tate Reeves “totally available” to constituents who want to meet him in Amazon HQ’s low-cost cafeteria.

• J-TRAN will actually paint its buses ... maybe not in Amazon colors, but hey let’s not go nuts.

• Bonus: Amazon doesn’t have to deliver to gay folks or co-habitators if it feels uncomfortable • New programming allows your Echo to tell you each hour, on the hour, how much you’re being overcharged for water service.

• MDEQ “pinky promises with sugar on top” to actually study new Amazon HQ location for asbestos.

“We need kids to run to law enforcement and not run from them.”

— Gerald Mumford, a candidate for Hinds County attorney, on why trust of police is important

“It’s a much easier task telling a young person what to do than telling them what not to do. So, it is incumbent upon us to engage them.”

— Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba previewing his 100-day address

Two Ways to Take Over a School District

by Arielle Dreher

trict’s governing body. In turn, it appoints a new interim superintendent to take control.

Since lawmakers approved a change in state law in the spring, districts in “transformation status” now must stay under state control until they have achieved a “C” grade or higher for five consecutive years in a row.

State Superintendent Carey Wright says this focus on academics is a shift from the previous conservator model, which was more administrative in nature, to clear accreditation standards.

“The old conservator model was not working. Since I’ve been here, it’s been not working, Wright told reporters last week. “…We asked (the Legislature) to change the model of a district of transformation, so we could put an interim superintendent in that district with a focus on instruction.”

In order for a district to enter “transformation status,” it must violate several accreditation standards and be considered an “emergency” by MDE. After a year, if the department still finds accreditation violations, MDE then recommends to the Commission on School Accreditation that an “extreme emergency” exists in the district. The commission, the Mississippi Board of Education and then the governor must all agree and sign off on the findings. JPS is at Gov. Bryant’s mercy because he could send the district to trans-

“You’ve got a lot more moving parts that are going to require outside help.”

mestic violence was a pattern. The state will also allege drug abuse by the county’s top elected prosecutor.

Smith’s attorneys argue that the evidence should not go before a jury, however, citing that the evidence is “highly prejudicial” and “irrelevant.”

Domestic, Drug Abuse Claims

The trial was due to begin the week of Oct. 16, but Judge John Emfinger gave Smith at least a temporary reprieve until the week of Oct. 30 to allow him time to argue that the Mississippi Supreme Court should block the trial with an interlocutory appeal—which means that the high court would appeal Smith’s charges before he has to go through a trial. His attorney, John Reeves, argued in his petition that Smith

would suffer damage to his reputation if the trial went forward.

Smith asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to block the attorney general from prosecuting this case against him. Smith maintains that attorney generals need explicit permission from district attorneys when prosecuting cases in their jurisdiction based on the 2014 Mississippi Supreme Court case, Williams v. State, which involved Smith. In the Williams case, handled

by Smith in his capacity as Hinds County district attorney, Smith was asked to recuse himself so that the attorney generals who had originally handled the Williams case could prosecute it after Smith issued an order of “nolle prosequi” (not prosecuting) not to re-try Williams.

However, Rankin County District At-

formation status any day now, even as rumors fly that he and Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba may announce a deal.

The state board named Margie Pulley, the interim superintendent in Tunica, as the interim superintendent for JPS if Bryant declares an emergency. Pulley has experience in other school districts under conservatorship, but all those districts have 5,000 students or fewer. JPS has nearly 27,000 students. Wright said if JPS goes into transformation status, MDE will be more involved in the district than in previous conservatorships.

“You’ve got a lot more moving parts that are going to require outside help, outside resources,” Wright said. “I’ve already had colleagues of mine from around the nation, quite frankly, calling me and saying, ‘How can I help?’ ‘Is it extra bodies that you need, extra resources that you need?’”

Achievement School District

Schools and districts that receive an “F” grade two years in a row or twice in the past three years, and districts where 50 percent of the schools are rated “F” or where half the students attend “F”-rated schools are all eligible for the state’s second takeover option: the Achievement School District. The district will be statewide, potentially including multiple failing school districts, all governed by one superintendent that the Mississippi Board of Education will hire.

The Mississippi Board of Education will govern the statewide district, and the committee will decide which

torney Michael Guest told Judge Emfinger that he did not object to the AG prosecuting Smith in his jurisdiction and that the State often tries cases there. The AG’s office believes that Smith’s case is “clearly distinguishable” from the Williams case.

The Mississippi Supreme Court rejected Smith’s appeal without explanation on Oct. 18. Emfinger is still considering whether to block damaging evidence involving prior alleged domestic violence and Smith’s potential drug use from the jury.

Attorney General Jim Hood’s office entered a motion on Oct. 4 for the following items to be entered into evidence: testimony from the alleged victim regarding at least four other violent assaults since 2006 Smith allegedly perpetrated; testimony from a second woman who has allegedly

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been physically assaulted by Smith and held at gunpoint with the claimant in this suit; testimony from the executive director of a domestic-abuse shelter, Sandy Middleton, who had been aware of the claimant’s abuse allegations in the past; testimony from another ex-girlfriend about physical abuse by Smith she allegedly suffered; and testimony regarding Smith’s alleged drug use.

‘Danger of Unfair Prejudice’

The domestic-violence incident for which Smith is being charged took place on Aug. 13, 2015, in Rankin County. Court documents show that Smith and his counsel want to keep any abuse allegations predating this alleged incident out of the trial

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f Gov. Phil Bryant does not agree to a rumored-butstill-quiet deal with the Jackson mayor and a large philanthropic foundation to provide a third option, Jackson Public Schools will face one of two options for the Mississippi Board of Education—and the state—to take over the district.

Mississippi law allows the State to take over school districts in two distinct ways: by declaring a state of emergency and converting districts into “transformation” status or absorbing them into the new statewide Achievement School District.

So far, the state has two “districts of transformation”—Leflore and Tunica County School Districts. This model was previous called conservatorships, but in 2017 the Legislature changed a lot of the verbage in the law to focus takeovers on academic strength. The Commission on School Accreditation, the state board and the governor must sign off on the “emergency” declaration takeover, and then the Mississippi Board of Education assumes control of the district of transformation.

Last month, the Mississippi Board of Education asked Gov. Phil Bryant to sign an emergency declaration to add Jackson Public Schools to the “transformation” list. When districts go into transformation status, they lose local control of their districts, with the Mississippi Board of Education becoming the dis-

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proceedings because of “danger of unfair prejudice” and “hearsay.”

Guest previously testified at a hearing on Oct. 2 in Judge Emfinger’s courtroom that the alleged victim told him that the “event” occurred on Smith family property in Rankin County. Smith routinely uses his parents’ home in west Jackson in legal documents as his home address.

Smith’s counsel wants to bar any mention of a telephone call the alleged victim made to Smith on Aug. 20, 2015, because “this information is irrelevant.” He also asked for conversations between the alleged

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school districts are absorbed into the ASD.

Wright said the ASD will only absorb full school districts, not individual schools.

“We felt it would be rather impractical if you’re looking at all the many schools that we’ve got (900 plus) that you could have two to three (schools) there and two to three (schools) there and to think about running that as a district did not make sense,” Wright said. “So the planning committee made the decision that we should really be looking at districts as a whole.”

Similar to districts of transformation, once a district is placed in the ASD, it must maintain a “C” grade for five consecutive years before it can be released back to local control—although the state board can dictate how that local control looks. Technically, JPS qualifies for the ASD because it earned an “F” grade two years in a row and more than half of the 58 schools in the district earned an “F.”

If Gov. Bryant does not authorize a district of transformation takeover, Wright said the decision to put JPS into the ASD would fall to the committee.

“(The ASD committee) will be looking at, based on the criteria the board approved today, which districts would qualify, and what they’ll do is make a recommendation to the board based now what they’re analyses are, and ultimately it would be up to the board as to how they want to handle that,” Wright said, reiterating that the ASD and districts of transformation are two different processes.

State law says the ASD will absorb schools and districts it has the “capacity” to handle. The state superintendent told the Stennis Capitol Press Forum on Monday that she does not buy into the idea that any district is “too large to help,” noting that the state board felt confident recommending a takeover of JPS, despite its size.

Based on the 2017 accountability results, six school districts qualify for the ASD because they

received two “F” grades in a row: Greenville Public School District, Holmes County School District, Wilkinson County Schools District, Noxubee County School District, Jackson Public Schools and Humphreys County School District.

In the future, the ASD could absorb more districts based on the 2017 accountability rankings released last week. Technically, under the new baseline for cut scores, more school districts received an “F” grade this year than last year. In 2016, 19 districts received “F” grades.

State Education Superintendent Carey Wright said the creation of Achievement School District means the State can now take over districts in two different ways. But there may be a third option that Gov. Phil Bryant has not involved her in.

In 2017, eight districts and one charter school received “F” grades—but that is only because 12 districts got to keep the best of the two baseline scores, opting for a “D” under the old baseline instead of an “F” score with the new baseline.

Without that option to keep the best of two scores, 20 districts would have “F” grades this year.

victim and the FBI about prior abuse to be omitted from trial, citing hearsay and prejudice because they find such statements to be unnecessary when “the alleged victim is available to testify at trial.”

Assistant Attorney General Stanley Alexander noted in a supplemental response to the court that FBI agents will be called to testify about the reports they filed when the victim came to them and said she “feared for her life.”

“Because of this fear, the victim was given $2,000.00 by the Bureau so that she could leave town for her safety,” Alexander wrote to the court.

Smith also wants to bar any mention or reference to any photographs that staff at the domestic-violence shelter took of the alleged victim because “these photographs

A Third Option for JPS?

Gov. Bryant initially said he would decide to declare an “emergency” or not in JPS once the 2017 accountability rankings showed whether the district received its second “F” in a row or not.

Last week, right before MDE released the district grades, Bryant told the Associated Press about the possibility involving the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and perhaps other organizations helping the school district, instead of allowing the state board to assume control.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, based in Battle Creek, Mich., is dedicated to helping vulnerable families and children. It has four focus areas in the United States: Michigan, New Mexico, New Orleans and Mississippi, where it has an office in downtown Jackson. Jackson Public Schools board member Jed Oppenheim works for the foundation in Mississippi.

Wright said she does not know what that third possibility or option looks like and is not in that loop.

“I have no idea. The governor and I have not had any conversations where that’s concerned, but I’m more than willing to have those conversations if he wants to involve us in that,” Wright told reporters last week.

MDE has drawn criticism lately, after the State Auditor Stacey Pickering conducted several audits of the department’s contracting procedures and found that MDE may have broken state law with contracts it authorized in fiscal-years 2014 and 2015, and some of those deals with people and companies in the state superintendent’s network.

Wright has openly addressed these concerns, inviting the auditor’s team into MDE. The department brought in a new chief operations officer at the start of 2017, and she addressed the state board last week about new internal audit and contracting procedures. MDE’s internal audit team continues to audit the department alongside Pickering’s staff.

Read more at jfp.ms/jpstakeover. Email state reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com and follow her on Twitter @arielle_amara for breaking news.

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would be highly prejudicial.” In addition, the DA wants to block testimony by the alleged victim’s father regarding Smith removing a pistol from the her residence.

Attorney John Reeves did not respond to the JFP’s attempts to make contact before press time. Emfinger will hear final

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motions on Oct. 30, and the trial’s earliest start date should be Oct. 31.

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Gerald Mumford: ‘I’m Running on Integrity’

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Why do you want this job?

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I have a passion for service. … I want to be the Hinds County attorney in particular because I have a passion for domestic violence. This is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As a city court judge, I’ve taken particular interest in those kinds of cases because those kind of cases affect the families. I’m running on real experience, I’m running on integrity, and I’m running on smart justice. My smart-justice piece is protecting families, it’s being tough on crime, and it’s administering smart justice, (which) is simply focusing on the violent crimes. It focuses on the crimes that matter. It focuses 10 on, as far as our youth court is concerned,

making sure we give these young people the direction and discipline they need to make better decisions.

My goal as a prosecutor is not to make all the police officers happy with writing tickets and what not; it’s to administer justice. Because as a judge, I don’t have that discretion. I have to decide on the cases that the prosecutors present to me. All too often, we have prosecutors who are not looking to seek justice; they’re simply there to protect one side. I think it’s a balancing system, and I want to be there because I think I’m fair. I think I’m honest.

You mentor at Jackson Public Schools. What would change if the state takes over JPS?

I think if the state takes over the district, there still will be a need for what I’m offering, which is mentorship.

The Hinds County Justice Court is

into the system because we know from experience that if they get in the system they get gobbled up.

How do you change that?

So my goal is to run prosecutors out of business—I think that’s kind of funny, but if we mentor enough of these kids and give them examples and partner them with people that will assist and try to mentor them, I think we can get them on the right course. And dealing with the youth-court piece, we’re trying to mentor these kids and find out what’s wrong with them.

A lot of kids have different issues: some kids are over-medicated, some are on drugs.

We need to figure out what their issues are so we can try to solve them so they won’t get to circuit court.

(Kids) need to see that the criminaljustice system can be fair, if we have people in the system that are fair. We need kids to Stephen Wilson

he campaign for a new Hinds County attorney is underway for the special election on Nov. 7 to fill the seat of Sherri Flowers-Billups, who passed away from cancer last October.

Martin Perkins has been the interim Hinds County attorney since then.

Candidate Gerald Mumford, 39, is currently a Jackson Municipal Court judge and runs his own law firm offering services in personal injury, premises liability, criminal law, family law and civil rights cases. He previously worked as a chancery court-appointed special master to oversee lunacy hearings and as a law clerk to Hinds County Circuit Judge Winston L. Kidd, and he clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate.

The county attorney is responsible for prosecuting misdemeanors that occur in the unincorporated areas of Hinds County outside Jackson and Clinton, for example, such as Mississippi Highway Patrol speeding tickets. The Hinds County attorney is also the chief prosecutor in youth court with a staff of assistant prosecutors that help him or her carry on those duties.

The county attorney makes around $55,000 annually for the part-time position. Three candidates are running for the post, including Mumford.

Mumford has always considered Hinds County his home, and he convinced his wife, Kamesha Mumford, to begin their family here because it was important for him to be in a place where they could have an impact, he said last week.

The candidate spoke to the Jackson Free Press ahead of the Nov. 7 election about the value of mentoring youth, “smart justice,” and his desire to keep kids out of the court system.

Gerald Mumford

Age: 39 Wife: Kamesha Mumford, 35 Children: Garrison, 4, and Gianna, 12 weeks Job: Managing Attorney, The Mumford Law Firm Education: Callaway High School, University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi College School of Law Past Public Positions: Jackson Municipal Court Judge you, help keep you safe.”

It’s something we want to implement, and it doesn’t cost a dollar. It just takes the prosecutor who has the vision; it takes his assistants willing to do the work. It’s work going to these schools and mentoring; that’s something I do with 100 Black Men as well as with my fraternity.

How would you juggle your law firm and this elected role?

The county attorney position is a parttime position, so I’d still maintain my law firm. I’ve been able to do that. I’ve had adequate help. My mother helps with my secretarial duties. She’s retired, of course, so she helps me. Everything is good. I don’t have a lot of bad habits, so that helps me to be able to get my job done and satisfy my clients.

What should voters know about you?

Gerald Mumford, candidate for Hinds County attorney, wants to “run prosecutors out of business” and to mentor youth before they get into the criminal-justice system.

the front door to the criminal-justice system in Hinds County. We all know the issues that happen in circuit court with delaying cases. A lot of folks have interactions with the municipal courts and the justice courts and never get to circuit court.

My goal in youth court is to mentor these kids. I’ve talked all over the county from day one about what we’re going to do: I’m going to assign my prosecutors to different high schools in the county because I believe these young people need to see prosecutors in the classroom before the courtroom. I want to prevent them from coming

run to law enforcement and not run from them. But if the system is rigged, if the system is not one that is fair, they’re going to always grow up, they’re going to see the things on TV, and they’ll say “look, that criminal justice system is against me.”

Well, I think it can be for you if you have the right folks at the controls. We need to have young people saying look, law enforcement, they’re there to keep us safe, not to harm us. And I think we need somebody in the system to explain that to them and to say, “look, I’m in the system, and I’m not trying to oppress anyone. I’m trying to help

I would borrow a quote from the current mayor by saying we have to decide what the next 20 years are going to look like in Hinds County. We can’t be focused on who was elected 20 years ago, who was the first black or white person elected to this office. We have to focus on who has the vision to move this office forward because we can’t wait, and we can’t risk losing any of these children to the streets.

It’s an important election. It’s the front door to our criminal-justice system. And we can actually get things done. We don’t just have to have someone in office who is just sitting in a seat and just doing the regular mundane job. We have to reach higher for what we want from our public officials.

I promise not to embarrass you if you elect me.

This interview was edited for length and clarity. Email city reporter Ko Bragg at ko@ jacksonfreepress.com.

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n 2004, the now-deceased Mississippi journalist Bill Minor gave an assessment of his profession. Among its problems, he said, was that too many of his colleagues would rather play “go along, get along” than risk the consequences of the truth. “To be a journalist is to be prepared to take a risk,” he said. “Newspapers are closest to my heart. I see us engaged in an endless war. This is not just a cozy political sideshow.”

This anecdote from an April 2017 Jackson Free Press story reminds me of what journalism professor Michael Schudson calls the “peculiar standard” of news objectivity. That standard dictates that journalists present “both sides of the story”—a form of “go along, get along” journalism that has provided the industry, or the public, few benefits.

In “Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers,” Schudson defines objectivity as “a faith in ‘facts,’ a distrust in ‘values,’ and a commitment to their segregation.” He calls the concept “peculiar” for a couple of reasons: First, objectivity did not exist as the hallmark of American news reporting before the early- to mid-20th century, when the industry began recognizing it as a way to neutralize sensationalism and partisan journalism that defined news reporting. In 1919, Walter Lippmann called for journalists to adopt “the scientific spirit … a common intellectual method and a common area of valid fact” in their journalism.

Schudson also defines objectivity as “peculiar” because we still trust it as a reliable means of validating facts—in much the same we trust medical examinations—even though the belief in objectivity is, Schudson notes, more of “a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in …” than the scientific accreditation of information that journalists insist it is.

By the mid-20th century, the industry concluded that objectivity, while impossible to achieve, was worth chasing nonetheless. In more modern times, that pursuit created a climate in which many journalists no longer trust their professional instincts, or if they do, they fail to act upon them. The consequences of its faith in objectivity has made the fourth estate—a label describing the newspaper’s part in monitoring the political process—play the role of inconsequential observer to some of the most important, and reckless, political events in recent memory.

The industry’s allegiance to objectivity means, in recent years, “playing it safe” in times of political urgency— giving credibility to news that is not subjected to strict and dogged evaluation, giving otherwise suspect sources (or political candidates) the benefit of the doubt against one’s better judgement, or giving unreasonable, even unhinged, “surrogates” the airtime or space to print. It is enough for most reasonable people to ask: Since objectivity is impossible, should journalists continue to chase that particular unicorn? If not, what’s the alternative?

Here’s one suggestion: Perhaps journalists should no longer try to separate facts from values. After all, aren’t value judgments needed when assessing the truthfulness of facts? Perhaps it’s time, then, to say that Lippmann was full of it for suggesting we apply the “scientific spirit” to journalism. Instead, journalists should put value judgment back into their craft; let’s start with honesty, courage and integrity, and work from there.

The absence of, or lip service to, any of the above explains in part why we ended up as spectators to the 2016 political circus, and why the “cozy political sideshow” that Minor spoke of is now a packed house.

Pete Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Mississippi State University and the JFP’s new media columnist.

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Let’s start with honesty, courage and integrity.

State Lawmakers Must Support Abuse Victims

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omestic and interpersonal abuse, especially violence against women, are systemic and national in scope, but some clear policy and program solutions would make Mississippi safer and better for women.

Law enforcement officers in fiscal-year 2015 responded to more than 10,000calls related to domestic violence, 170 more than in 2014. Courts issued almost 4,000 domestic-abuse protection orders, Mississippi Department of Health reports show—a huge increase from the previous year.

Firearms are used in 55 percent of intimatepartner homicides, a 2017 Violence Policy Center report, “When Men Murder Women,” shows. Mississippi is one of the breeziest concealed-carry states, including allowing concealed and open-carry for men and women without licenses to carry pistols or revolvers in purses, briefcases and holsters as long as they are not engaged in criminal activity. (Yet.)

The report shows that Mississippi is ranked 17th in the nation in rate of females murdered by males in single-victim homicides.

While the Legislature finally made domestic violence a cause for divorce in the state, the annual report from the Mississippi Department of Health’s Office Against Interpersonal Violence suggests that the state should recognize standards for battererintervention programs as well as provide funding for victim service and prevention programs.

The appetite for changing the state’s gun laws is obviously not on the Republican to-do list, but targeting funding to survivors and attackers alike could be an option. The state provides no funding support for any victim service providers, or shelters and programs for victims. Similar to funding for corrections and mental health in the state, helping victims of domestic violence is an important pay-off for the future of half the state’s women. Domestic violence and abuse is often cyclical, and if a child learns violence in the home or is abused, he or she is more likely to replicate that behavior later in life.

Similarly, attackers and abusers need support to be able to modify their behaviors or beliefs that drive them to violence. The MDH annual report points out that funding services for both survivors and attackers will benefit the state in the long run with “more individuals in the work force, fewer missed days of work and unproductiveness, fewer medical costs related to interpersonal violence, fewer instances of recidivism,” among other benefits.

We need lawmakers to prioritize women in their policymaking for this reason, if nothing else, because if lawmakers do not care about women, they do not care about their children and the state’s future. Prosecution of domestic violence, while helpful, is not the only solution. Once a person is abused, he or she needs support. The state should care about providing that support when needed.

CORRECTION: In the interview for “A Tipping Point for ‘Threatened’ Jackson Zoo” (Vol. 16, Issue 7, Oct. 18-24), Mayor Lumumba said the City of Jackson had received a blight elimination grant from Mississippi Home Corporation. The City corrected this statement after publication to say it is still preparing for the first round of the application process. Also in that issue, we did not credit the correct photographers in Artists to Watch. Walter Lyle took the photo of Cody Rogers, and the photos of Kicking and Vitamin Cea came courtesy of the artists. The Jackson Free Press apologizes for these errors.

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verything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself.

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.� These words from Iyanla Vanzant travel through my body daily, taking the path from my brain to my heart and then seeping into the depths of my soul. There was a time when my worth was lost on me. I didn’t find much joy in being alive. I certainly saw no real connection to the people in my life because I didn’t know my own worth, so I didn’t trust that I had any worth at all.

My life had shown me so much disappointment, but I was lifted from that attitude of defeat.

It didn’t come easy, and it required consistent, intentional effort. It took many tears and confessions. It took lots of journal entries and facing myself. It took forgiveness and acknowledgment. I had to go back and recall where I lost myself and why it was so easy to give away my pride. When I decided to seek wholeness, I welcomed an ongoing life work.

Recently, I spoke to a young lady who asked me if she’d ever forget. She wondered if she’d always be taken back to every single moment she was beaten.

It was her concern that she wouldn’t ever feel like herself again. Every blow stole from her very being, and she wanted it back. She wanted to somehow regain her strength, but she often found herself in tears and pain from the abuse.

I understood. I empathized.

I answered her: “Based on my journey, time will help you grow stronger.

But, you will always remember each time you were attacked. You may always want to cry and retreat. But, you will own strength again. You will get back to who you are as long as you work to get there and stay there. It won’t be easy, and it won’t be quick. It will take determination, but you can do it. Take each hit as a slap of power. Take each punch as a demand to be whole.�

Relieved, she declared, “I will because I’ve already let this keep me from peace long enough. I don’t want to keep going through this. I wouldn’t wish this

on even my enemy.� It was then that I knew others would hear her voice and that hopefully she would help another woman reach beyond the abuse to find self-love.

Wholeness requires a commitment to remembering that healing has occurred. Most people don’t want to admit this. They’d have you believe that once you’ve accepted the brokenness and put in work that you’re good. You can now save all the other broken women in the world. Lies!

If you’re blessed enough, you can contribute to those who are going through situations that you’ve been through. Even then there are no guarantees that you won’t fall off at times, that you won’t have insecure moments. There’s no certainty that you will never again feel vulnerable, hurt, broken, less than confident. Here’s a sad truth: There’s no guarantee that you won’t create hurt and pain for others. Often, once one has been abused, they tend to unknowingly adapt abusive behavior. This is why overcoming abuse takes a lifetime of work.

When the road gets rough, sometimes you may have to stop completely and start over. Go back to what inspired you to love you. Remember what sparked your desire to be whole. Go there. Live there. For as long as it takes, remember that you’ve crossed this bridge already.

Remember that you are exactly what you believe you are. Always love yourself first and love yourself enough to see who you are at all times. Be familiar with remnants of hurt, pain and abuse, and correct yourself. Surround yourself with people who understand your challenges and support your improvement.

Then, be a beacon for change and hope for others. Never allow yourself to believe that the work is done. It’s never done. Be a student of life, love and self. Feed your self-esteem and believe that you are the best you can be, and you’ll be just that.

Funmi “Queen� Franklin is a word lover, poet, a truth yeller and community activist. She is the founder of an organization that promotes self-love, awareness and sisterhood. This column does not necessarily reflect the views of the Jackson Free Press.

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down from Minnesota, where she is from originally, to take care of her grandson as Cathy recovered.

For the first few weeks, Cathy’s entire right side was paralyzed. Eventually, she gained mobility and was able to use a wheelchair, then a walker, and even today, she says, she walks with a limp. She suffered

stories because they died from their abusers,” Cathy says.

Knowing the Signs

Now that she has studied domestic violence and abuse, Cathy can see the pattern of abuse in her relationship. Cathy and Richard were together for a little more than Courtesy Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence

athy and Richard Green were on the verge of separating—this time for good. Cathy thinks he could likely see the finality in her eyes on that October night three years ago. That time, she was not talking about a temporary stint away from the house in Pearl.

“That was the spark of no return,” Cathy Green told the Jackson Free Press.

Cathy got ready for bed, while Richard went out to the backyard, where Cathy guesses he drank for a couple hours. When he came back into the house, Richard asked to see Cathy’s phone to look through it. She had put a lock on her phone and told Richard she was not giving him the code.

Richard left the room again and returned with a machete. He started hitting her over the head with it, and at one point, she raised her hand to defend herself.

“I lost my pinky (finger) in the process of defending myself,” Cathy said.

She blacked in and out of consciousness, bleeding and paralyzed. When she came to again, she heard Richard yelling.

“Don’t look down, don’t look down, don’t look at mama!” Cathy realized he was taking the couple’s son, Lincoln, and leaving.

She tried to talk some sense into Richard.

“I was like, ‘What have you done? I’m your wife. What have you done?’” Cathy recalled.

Richard fumbled around with his phone, Cathy remembers, and then locked her inside the house. Richard did call 9-1-1 when he got outside, and police arrived when Green felt that she was inches from death. Police officers broke the glass in the front door to get inside and found her in bad shape.

“I don’t have much time,” Green managed to say, before giving police a description of her husband and her son.

Medics rushed Green to the hospital, and state agency officials issued an amber alert for her son, Lincoln, who was 4 years old at the time.

Law-enforcement officials found Lincoln in the car in the morning in Pike County, right before Richard crossed state 16 lines into Louisiana. Green’s mother came

Cathy Green (left) was honored during Victims’ Rights Week in 2015 with the Image of Resilience Award, with Attorney General Jim Hood (middle) and Wendy Mahoney of the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence (right).

a traumatic brain injury from the attack and is still missing one of her fingers. But she’s alive.

“I live every day with gratitude because I almost died. … I just felt like when I got to the hospital, I had to be saved for a reason,” Cathy told the Jackson Free Press.

That reason, the survivor believes, is to help other people in abusive relationships see the warning signs and red flags way ahead of time.

“There’s women that can’t tell their

six years, and during that time, Cathy recalls that Richard was jealous and controlling, demanding to go through her phone and know where she was at all times. He would shame Cathy into staying, and she would stay in her feelings, convincing herself she could change his obsessive behavior.

The National Network to End Domestic Violence lists several red flags or early warning signs that could be signs of abusers.

Someone who does not honor boundaries, is excessively jealous, wants to know their

partner’s whereabouts all the time and takes no responsibility for their behavior could be an abuser in a relationship.

Once they had a child together, Cathy did not want to break up her family, she says. She was fearful of looking like a failure, especially because she had been married before. She said their relationship would go through cycles: the honeymoon phase, tension and then an explosion. She would keep the honeymoon times in mind during the abusive patterns that followed.

Cathy had left for nine months once before. The couple was planning on getting a divorce, and she had talked to him about paying him back for the down payment so the two could go their separate ways.

Even after Richard attacked Cathy, she could not use domestic violence as grounds for divorce in Mississippi, and court records show her attorney used Richard’s “habitual cruel and inhuman treatment” as the grounds for which the couple finally were divorced. She had to see Richard in court to finalize their divorce.

Since October 2014, the Legislature modified the state’s divorce grounds to include spousal domestic abuse in 2017. Now the victim can get a divorce as long as there is one witness (which includes the injured party) to an attempt to cause bodily injury or physical menace to put the injured party in fear or serious bodily harm.

After many years of refusing to change the law, the 2017 Legislature also approved any pattern of abuse involving “threats or intimidation, emotional or verbal abuse, forced isolation, sexual extortion or sexual abuse, or stalking or aggravated stalking” to be grounds for divorce.

The Mississippi Department of Health tracks interpersonal violence in the state, and in fiscal-year 2015, law-enforcement officers responded to 10,411 calls related to domestic violence, the annual report from the Office Against Personal Violence shows. That number was higher than in 2014. Similarly, courts issued almost 4,000 domestic abuse protection orders in 2015, an increase of more than 500 from the year before. Programs and shelters for survivors of domestic violence do not receive state support, and the MDH report says this choice is “short-sighted.”

“Simply having criminal laws which penalize the offenders is not enough, as can be seen from the statistics which indicate these forms of violence continue to be prevalent in our state and nation,” the fiscal-year 2015 annual report concludes.

Limits to Prosecution

In Cathy’s case, and in the most violent or aggravated situations, domestic abuse can rise to felony-level offenses. Richard Lamar Green was sentenced to life in prison for attempted kidnapping their son and

tic abuse is all about power and control,” Wagner said. “… Fear plays a big role into why individuals don’t report. The survivor might fear the consequences. … (Maybe) they don’t have anywhere to go if they were to report—what’s next?”

Previously, Mississippi had very high rates of domestic violence and men killing women, but when Attorney General Jim Hood created the Domestic Violence Unit, the state dropped to 34th in the nation for its rate of men killing women in 2015, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence state report shows.

The rate of women killed by men here has increased in the past two years, however, reports from the Violence Policy Center show. Mississippi is currently ranked 17th nationally in the rate of women murdered by men in single-victim homicides.

‘I Was Just Sad’

Cathy Green believes that she is alive today to help spread awareness about domestic violence to other women in potentially abusive relationships. Green was able to forgive her husband, she says, which ultimately gave her the peace of mind to move forward in healing.

When Richard was sentenced to prison for life, Cathy cried in the courtroom.

“I was just sad; it’s sad. I’ve lost my husband. I still want to talk to him ... and

have a conversation with him. That’s not an opportunity that victims and assailants have, but my reaction was deeply saddened,” Cathy said. michael burke/attorney general’s office

attempting to kill Cathy in May.

Not all domestic-violence cases rise to felony-level, however, which means men and women attempting to prosecute domestic-violence charges must to do so within two years of the incident under the statute of limitations. Rape, murder and kidnapping have no limitations in state law, and those felonies are eligible for prosecution at any future time.

Other types of sex crimes that do not involve children usually come with the default amount of time to prosecute including simple domestic violence, stalking and incest. If simple assaults or simple domestic violence do not felony-levels, they must be prosecuted within two years.

“Most of our domestic-violence offenses fall into that misdemeanor category,” Heather Wagner, special assistant attorney general in the Bureau of Victim Assistance division, told the Jackson Free Press.

Women and men in domestic-violence situations can file an affidavit or a police report at any time, Wagner said, but the statute of limitation in Mississippi is two years for lower-level domestic violence misdemeanors. It is common for people in abused relationships to not come forward.

Wagner said people in abusive relationships will not come forward for many reasons, but said fear is one of the main reasons.

“We’ve got to remember that domes-

Special Assistant Attorney General Heather Wagner says most domestic violence offenses in the state fall into the misdemeanor category.

Cathy moved back to Minnesota with Lincoln, and both of them have gone through intense therapy, she says. Cathy is

in community college full-time as well as working at a domestic-violence shelter.

“I say things very bluntly, and that’s somewhat what women need. … Every time I do an intake, I tell them things I wish somebody would have told me,” Cathy told the Jackson Free Press.

“ I feel like they are connecting with me because I am one of the only employees that has been through it. So when I share that with them, they feel like I’m not bullshitting them, and when I get up and walk away they can see the physical damage,” Cathy added.

She received the Image of Resilience Award from the Mississippi attorney general’s office in 2015, and her story is featured in a new book called “Endure” by Daniel Maurer. Cathy says her faith and forgiveness have helped her work through her physical and mental recovery in the past few years. She lives in her own place outside Minneapolis, and she is engaged.

Cathy hopes her story can help other women get out of abusive relationships before she did—that “someone somewhere is going to be saved by hearing my story.”

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. For more resources on domestic violence in Mississippi visit mcadv.org/ get-help. Read the JFP’s past domestic-violence coverage at jfp.ms/abuse. Email reporter Arielle Dreher at arielle@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Park After Dark

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is partnering with the Mississippi Children’s Museum and LeFleur’s Bluff State Park to host the annual Park After Dark on Friday, Oct. 27, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

This year’s theme is “Monsters Real and Imagined.” The event will feature trick-

Oktoberfest

Good Shepherd Lutheran School (6035 Highway 25, Brandon) is hosting Oktoberfest Saturday, Oct. 28, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature authentic German food such as bratwurst, sauerkraut and German potato salad; live music from local musician Chad Perry; a Halloween costume contest and kids parade; raffles for prizes such as an Apple iPad Pro, a handmade cypress wood swing or two-day Hopper passes to Disney World in Florida; dancing, games, a silent auction and more. Raffle tickets are $10 for individuals, three for $25 or six for $50. The event itself is free.

For more information, find the event on Facebook.

Inclusive Creations Halloween Party

Local event business Inclusive Creations is hosting a Halloween party at Salsa Mississippi (605 Duling Ave.) on Friday, Oct. 27, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The event will have a raffle for a 43-inch smart TV and $100 cash prize. The party will also have a cash bar. The cover for charge for the event is $5 for visitors in costume and $10 without a costume. For more information, call 601-896-7206 or find the event on Facebook.

Mall-O-Ween

Northpark Mall (1200 E. County Line Road) will host Mall-o-Ween on Saturday, Oct. 28, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event will include an activity trail, games, crafts, coloring, a costume contest, trick-or-treating starting at 5 p.m. and more.

For more information, call 601-8632300 or visit northparkmall.com or find the event on Facebook.

Good Shepherd Lutheran School will host Oktoberfest on Oct. 28.

Second Annual Lucky Town Haunted Brewery Tour

Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.) will host its second annual Haunted Brewery Tour on Friday, Oct. 27, from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. The event will include a haunted brewery tour, lessons on brewing, Halloween candy and beer pairings, and a costume contest at 9:30 p.m.

For more information, call 601-790-0142 or find the event on Facebook.

Kings of the Street ’17 Halloween Horsepower and Monster Bash

The Outlets of Mississippi is hosting the Kings of the Street 2017 Halloween Horsepower and Monster Bash on Oct. 28 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the Interstate 20 side of the mall.

Before the main event, the mall will host two free movie nights in its food court plaza on Thursday, Oct. 26, and Friday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. on both nights. Thursday’s movie is “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” followed by “Beetlejuice” on Friday.

The Kings of the Street event will feature a car show and trunk-or-treat event, along with games, face painting and bounce houses in the Outlets plaza next to the show.

The event will also have festivities such as a Mississippi Animal Rescue League costume contest for kids and pets, music from Sound Design, and members of the Transformers Car Club of Mississippi, the Mississippi

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Treat Street Trot

The Rankin County Chamber will host Treat Street Trot on Thursday, Oct. 26, from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Rankin County Chamber building (101 Service Dr., Brandon). The event will feature indoor trick-or-treating, a haunted trail, food vendors, games, an obstacle course, a 5K Run, 1-mile walk and fun run, and more. All fun run participants will receive an armband to trick-or-treat.

BOO at the ZOO

On Friday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 28, the Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.) will host BOO at the ZOO from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will feature trickor-treating, a deejay, a haunted hayride, the Monster Mash Dance Party, carousel rides, games, bounce houses and more. Boo at the Zoo is $10.25 for adults, $7.25 for children and $3 for members. For more information, visit jacksonzoo.org.

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This year, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is partnering with the Mississippi Children’s Museum for Park After Dark on Oct. 27.

or-treating, crafts projects, spooky science events and more at both museums. A shuttle bus will go between the two.

Event-goers can purchase tickets ahead of the event on the Mississippi Children’s Museum’s website for $8. Visitors who purchase tickets in advance can enter the event at 5:30 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. Tickets are $9 at the door. For more information, call 601576-6000, 601-981-5469 or visit mschildrensmuseum.org.

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Fall FEASTival

The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi is hosting the third annual Fall FEASTival on Thursday, Oct. 26, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Township at Colony Park (1107 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland).

The event will feature fall-inspired dishes from local restaurants such as Sombra Mexican Kitchen, Soulshine Pizza and Pita Pit, open houses, a fall fashion show, raffles, live music from Fondren Guitar’s School of Rock, children’s activities and more.

The Hinds Community College culinary program will also host a cook-off in which teams of students prepare dishes featuring fall-inspired ingredients.

Tickets are $15, and children under 10 get in free. Ticket sales will benefit The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi’s healthy eating and exercise programs in local schools. For more information, call 601842-9198 or visit healthy-miss.org.

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Local popular Halloween costumes are characters from the children’s show “PAW Patrol” and witches, among others.

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Astrophobia Halloween Extravaganza On Saturday, Oct. 28, Spacecamp (3002 N. Mill St.) will host the Astrophobia Halloween Extravaganza from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

The event includes a costume contest, tarot-card readings and performances from Bad Magic, Low Variety, DBL Take and Lisbon Deaths. Admission is $5. For more information, find the event on Facebook

and the event is for people ages 21 and up.

Admission is $10. Concert-goers can purchase tickets at ticketfly.com. For more information, visit martinslounge.net.

Mask Off Costume Halloween Social On Friday, Oct. 27, the Jackson Professional Group will host the Mask Off Costume Halloween Social from 8 p.m. to midnight at The State Room (925 N. State St.). The event includes music, hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar and costume contest. Tickets are $15 for non-JPG members and $10 for members. Members will receive a complimentary drink ticket. For more information, find the event on Facebook.

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Freak Fest Halloween Bash On Friday, Oct. 27, The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N.) will host the Freak Fest Halloween Bash from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. The event will feature a costume contest with more than $1,000 in cash prizes, music from DJ Rozz, Rob Roy and DJ Bambino. Party-goers must be ages 18 and up and 21 to drink. For more information, find the event on Facebook.

Eighth Annual Pumpkin Trail On Saturday, Oct. 28, the Clinton Community Nature Center (617 Dunton Road, Clinton) will host its eighth-annual Pumpkin Trail from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The trails will have decorated pumpkins that local families and volunteers carved. The event will also have costume contests, carnival games, live animals, prizes and candy, face-painting, Halloween crafts and more. The cost is $3 per person, and children under the age of 3 get it in for free For more information, find the event on Facebook..

For great ideas for this Halloween, turn to local businesses and organizations.

Martin’s Halloween Showcase On Saturday, Oct. 28, Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.) will host its Halloween showcase from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The event features a performance from Nashville, Tenn., rock quarter Backup Planet, a costume contest and more. The doors open at 9 p.m.,

Shucker’s Halloween Costume Contest On Saturday, Oct. 28, Shucker’s Oyster Bar (116 Conestoga Road, Ridgeland) will host a Halloween costume contest. The event includes cash prizes first through third-place winners, with a grand prize of $1,000, and a $250 prize for sexiest costume. Participants must register by 10 p.m., and the judging will begin at midnight. Admission into the contest is $15. For more information, visit shuckersontherez.com.

Bad Magic will perform at Spacecamp’s Astrophobia Halloween Extravaganza on Oct. 28.

Cosplay Cafe On Tuesday, Oct. 23, Thai Time Thai and Sushi Restaurant (1405 Old Square Road) will host a Cosplay Cafe from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. For the event, servers will dress as characters such as Sailor Moon and Ash Ketchum and serve guests. Lunch is buffetstyle for $11, and diners can also order off the dinner menu.

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Halloween Bash & Costume Contest On Saturday, Oct. 28, Ole Tavern on George Street (416 George St.) will host a Halloween party and costume contest starting at 10 p.m. The event will feature drink specials, live music from Mississippi Moonlight and a deejay, a costume contest and more. Admission is $10.

For more information, find the event on Facebook or call 601-960-2700.

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Costumes and Cocktails On Friday, Oct. 27, the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601-9601515) will host Costumes and Cocktails from 8 p.m. to midnight. The event will have cocktails and food from chef Nick Wallace, and live music from DJ Scrap Dirty, DJ Spir-

The Haunting of Olde Towne The city of Clinton’s Haunting of Olde Towne will be on Thursday, Oct. 26, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the streets of Clinton’s Olde Towne. The event will feature a costume contest, candy, cake walk, pumpkincarving contest, carnival games and more.

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THURSDAY 10/26

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SATURDAY 10/28

Fall FEASTival is at The Township at Colony Park in Ridgeland.

“Alzheimer’s Stories: Sing Anything” is at Woodland Hills Baptist Church.

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Portland, Ore., marching band LoveBomb Go-Go performs on Friday, Oct. 27, at Duling Hall.

The Wine Maker’s Dinner is from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Rickhouse by The Manship (717 Poplar Blvd.). The dinner features a five-course meal paired with wines from Fairest Cape Beverage Company. Owner and wine master Peter Koff is the special guest. Limited space. $132.87 per person; find it on Facebook.

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The ninth annual Present Meets Past is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.).

Participants interact and learn from living historical figures such as Fannie Lou Hamer, William Lattimore, Gov. Andrew Longino, John Roy Lynch, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Isaiah T. Montgomery, Ida B. Wells and Stark Young. Free admission; call 601-576-6920; mdah.ms.gov.

and the humanities. Free; email pickawm@millsaps.edu; millsaps.edu. … LoveBomb Go-Go performs at 8 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Hall). The Portland, Ore.-based marching band is known for its theatrical live shows. Stonewalls also performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

SATURDAY 10/28

BOO at the ZOO is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Includes trick-or-treating, a costume parade, a haunted hayride, the Monster Mash Dance Party, carousel rides and more. Additional date: Oct. 27,

by Rebecca Hester 5-8 p.m. $10.25 for adults, $7.25 for children, $3 for members; jacksonfreepress.com jacksonzoo.org. … Astrophobia Halloween Extravaganza is from Fax: 601-510-9019 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at SpaceDaily updates at camp (3002 N. Mill St.). Includes jfpevents.com a costume contest, tarot-card readings, and music from Bad Magic, Low Variety, DBL Take and Lisbon Deaths. Doors open at 8 p.m. $5; find it on Facebook.

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Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine discusses her book, “Citizen: Reflections on the Humanities and Civic Life,” for the Millsaps Forum at Millsaps College on Friday, Oct. 27.

FRIDAY 10/27

Millsaps Forum: “Citizen: Reflections on the Humanities and Civic Life” is at 1 p.m. at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) in the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex recital hall. Claudia Rankine, the 2016 MacArthur Fellow and Frederick Iseman, professor of poetry at Yale Univer22 sity, reads an excerpt from her book and discusses her work

SUNDAY 10/29

“Baby Doll” is at 2 p.m. at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The play, which is based on a Tennessee Williams-penned film, is about a Delta man married to a seductive young woman who catches the eye of a plantation manager. Recommended for ages 16 and up. Additional

dates: Oct. 25-28, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 5, 2 p.m. $30 admission, $25 for seniors, students and military; call 601-948-3533; newstagetheatre.com.

MONDAY 10/30

Author Philip Stead signs copies of “The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). The book is adapted from an unfinished work by Mark Twain.

Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.99 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

TUESDAY 10/31

The Detectives Comedy Dinner Theater is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Kismet’s Restaurant (315 Crossgates Blvd., Brandon). The Detectives present an interactive comedy whodunit along with a three-course dinner. $39 per person; call 601-291-7444; email thedetectives@ ymail.com; thedetectives.biz.

WEDNESDAY 11/1

The “Tis the Season to Sparkle” Preview Gala & Auction is from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The Mistletoe Marketplace kick-off event includes shopping, a red carpet, food from Fresh Cut Catering and Floral, silent, premier and live auctions, a present-pick and music from Almost Famous.

Black tie optional. $100 per person, $45 present-pick; call 601-948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com.

FOOD & DRINK

Events at William F. Winter Archives & History Building (200 North St.) • History Is Lunch: “Picturing Mississippi” Oct. 25, noon-1 p.m. Mississippi Museum of Art staffers discuss the state bicentennial exhibit, “Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017,” which opens Dec. 9. Free; mdah.ms.gov.

• History Is Lunch: Panny Mayfield Nov. 1, noon-1 p.m. Author Panny Mayfield discusses her new photography book, “Live from the Mississippi Delta.” Free; mdah.ms.gov.

Wine Maker’s Dinner Oct. 25, 6:30-10 p.m., at Rickhouse by The Manship (717 Poplar Blvd.).

The dinner features a five-course meal paired with wines from Fairest Cape Beverage Company. Wine master Peter Koff is the special guest. $132.87 per person; find it on Facebook.

“First Moves” Oct. 25, 7 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Ballet Mississippi presents a mini-concert and social to highlight new ballets and provide a sneak peek at selections from the upcoming season. Includes food and drinks.

Doors at 6 p.m. $15; balletms.com.

Fall FEASTival Oct. 26, 5-8 p.m., at The Township at Colony Park (Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). Features food tastings from local restaurants, shopping, raffles, a silent auction, music, children’s activities and more. Proceeds go to The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi.

Costumes encouraged. $15, free for ages 10 and under; healthy-miss.org.

“Baby Doll” Oct. 25-28, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 29, 2 p.m., Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 5, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.).

The Tennessee Williams play is about a Delta man married to a seductive young woman, who catches the eye of a plantation manager. Recommended for ages 16 and up. $30, $25 for seniors, students and military; newstagetheatre.com.

Presidential Lecture Series Oct. 26, 6 p.m., at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road).

In Woodworth Chapel. The speaker is Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a social-justice advocate and Princeton University professor. Free; tougaloo.edu.

Jackson Area Web & App Developers October Meetup Oct. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Mantle.

City Club + Inc.ubator (622 Duling Ave.). Guest speakers include Joe Buza, Nader Dabit and Christopher Lomax. Includes food and drinks, networking and more. Free; meetup.com.

Mask Off Costume Halloween Social Oct. 27, 8 p.m., at The State Room (952 N. State St.).

Jackson Professional Group’s networking event includes music, hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar and costume contest. Halloween costumes encouraged. $15, $10 for members; eventbrite.com.

School Choice Forum Oct. 28, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at New Summit School (1417 Lelia Drive). The event features a discussion of school choice, how it works and how individuals can get involved in school-choice advocacy. Free admission; email brett@empowerms.org; newsummitschool.com.

“Tis the Season to Sparkle” Preview Gala & Auction Nov. 1, 7-11 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). Includes shopping, a red carpet, food, silent, premier and live auctions, a present-pick and music from Almost Famous.

Black tie optional. $100, $45 present-pick; call 601-948-2357; mistletoemarketplace.com.

KIDS Pumpkin Adventure Oct. 25-27, 9 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). Includes hayrides, milk and cookies, tours of Small Town, Mississippi, and other exhibits, and an opportunity for guests to pick their own pie pumpkin to take home. $7 for ages 2 and up; msagmuseum.org.

Fall Fest 2017 Oct. 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Pkwy., Ridgeland). Includes music from Bill & Temperance with Jeff Perkins, food trucks, a costume contest, a cupcake walk, pony rides and more. Free; renaissanceatcolonypark.com.

BOO at the ZOO Oct. 27-28, 5-8 p.m., at Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Includes trickor-treating, a costume parade, a haunted hayride, the Monster Mash Dance Party, carousel rides, train rides and more. Family-friendly costumes encouraged. $10.25 for adults, $7.25 for children, $3 for members; jacksonzoo.org.

Park After Dark Oct. 27, 6-8:30 p.m., at LeFleur Museum District. Participants make crafts, trickor-treat and wear costumes at the Mississippi Children’s Museum and the Museum of Natural Science. $9 per person (includes both museums); mschildrensmuseum.org.

SLATE

STAGE & SCREEN

the best in sports over the next seven days

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

With just one more NFL Sunday left in October, there is a surprising team in the lead for the NFC South. Neither the Atlanta Falcons nor Carolina Panthers, which were the last two winners in the division, have come out ahead as the frontrunner.

Thursday, Oct. 26

NFL (7:25-11 p.m., CBS): The Miami Dolphins look to keep pace with the rest of the AFC East as they travel to face the Baltimore Ravens.

Friday, Oct. 27

MLB (7-11 p.m., FOX): Game three of the 2017 World Series shifts the action from Los Angeles to Houston, as the Dodgers face the Astros.

Saturday, Oct. 28

College football (11 a.m.-2 p.m., SECN): The University of Mississippi begins life without quarterback Shea Patterson, as the Rebels host Arkansas. … College football (6:15-9:15 p.m., ESPN): The MSU Bulldogs look to become bowl eligible as they host the Texas A&M Aggies.

Sunday, Oct. 29

NFL (noon-3:30 p.m., FOX): The New Orleans Saints play their last NFC North foe, the Chicago Bears.

Haunted Brewery Tours Oct. 27, 4-11 p.m., at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.). Includes craft beer and candy pairings, a costume contest and “evil” brewery tours. Tours start at 4 p.m., and the contest starts at 9:30 p.m.

Costumes encouraged. Free admission; call 601790-0142; find it on Facebook.

Costumes & Cocktails Oct. 27, 8-11:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the Art Garden. Includes a red carpet, a menu of cocktails and food from chef Nick Wallace, and live music from DJ Scrap Dirty, DJ Spirituals and DJ Premier League. Proceeds benefit the Human Rights Campaign and Grace House of Jackson. Costumes are encouraged.

For ages 18 and up. $35; call 601-960-1515; eventbrite.com.

Monday, Oct. 30

NFL (7:30-10:30 p.m., ESPN): Longtime AFC West rivals clash, as the Kansas City Chiefs host the Denver Broncos in what could be a playoffgame preview.

Tuesday, Oct. 31

MLB (7-11 p.m., FOX): The 2017 World Series moves back to L.A. on Halloween night, as the Dodgers host the Astros for game six.

Wednesday, Nov. 1

MLB (7-11 p.m., FOX): Game seven of the 2017 World Series will see a champion emerge between the L.A. Dodgers and the Houston Astros.

The Falcons and Panthers were the last two NFC representatives to play in Super Bowls, but the New Orleans Saints are currently leading the NFC South. New Orleans is currently on a four-game winning streak after starting the season with a 0-2 record.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Andy Thomas’ Dust Heart & Anna’s Anchor Oct. 25, 6-8 p.m., at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.). Andy Thomas’s Dust Heart is an alternative band from Denver, and Anna’s Anchor is an alternative band from Ireland. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave) • ZOSO Oct. 26, 8 p.m. The Led Zeppelin tribute band performs. Doors open at 7 p.m. $15 in advance, $20 at the door; ardenland.net.

• LoveBomb Go-Go Oct. 27, 8 p.m. The Portland, Ore.-based marching band is known for its theatrical shows. Stonewalls also performs.

Doors open at 7 p.m. $10 in advance, $15 at the door; ardenland.net.

Events at Martin’s Restaurant & Bar (214 S. State St.) • Modern Measure Oct. 26, 9 p.m. The hybrid electronic project hails from Atlanta. Doors open at 8 p.m. $10; martinslounge.net.

• Andrew Duhon Trio Oct. 27, 10 p.m.

Andrew Duhon is a Grammy Award-nominated songwriter from New Orleans. Doors open at 9 p.m. $10; martinslounge.net.

• Martin’s Halloween Showcase Oct. 28, 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Includes music from Nashville, Tenn., rock quartet Backup Planet, and includes a costume contest with prizes. Doors open at 9 p.m. $10; martinslounge.net.

• Fossil Youth Nov. 1, 10 p.m. The alternative band’s latest album is titled “A Glimpse of Self Joy.” Empty Atlas also performs. Doors open at 9 p.m. $10; martinslounge.net.

“Alzheimer’s Stories: Sing Anything” Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., at Woodland Hills Baptist Church (3327 Old Canton Road). The benefit concert raises awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s research in Mississippi. Includes pre-concert lecture and post-concert reception. $10 for adults, free for ages 12 and under; singanything.org.

LITERARY SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “The Floating World” Oct. 25, 5 p.m. C. Morgan Babst signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26.95 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Magnolia Storms” Oct. 28, 1-3 p.m. Janet W. Ferguson signs copies of her latest novel. $15 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine” Oct. 30, 5 p.m. Philip Stead signs copies of the book, which is adapted from an unfinished work

by Mark Twain. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.99 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

Millsaps Forum: “Citizen: Reflections on the Humanities and Civic Life” Oct. 27, 1-2 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex recital hall. Claudia Rankine reads an excerpt from her book and discusses her work and the humanities.

Free admission; millsaps.edu.

CREATIVE CLASSES Modern Calligraphy Class Oct. 28, 9-11:30 a.m., at Fresh Ink (4465 Interstate 55 N.). Participants learn techniques for calligraphy and get to keep their supplies. $110 per person; call 601982-0235; find it on Facebook.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS 9th Annual Present Meets Past Oct. 26, 5-8 p.m., at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.).

Participants learn from living historical figures such as Fannie Lou Hamer, William Lattimore, Ida B. Wells and more. Free; mdah.ms.gov.

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.

OCT. 25 - Wednesday

Oct. 26 - Thursday Capitol Grill - Jesse Robinson & Friends 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Duling Hall - ZOSO 8 p.m. $15 advance $20 door F. Jones Corner - Raul Valinti & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Kevin Ace Robinson Georgia Blue, Madison Larry Brewer Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio 6-9 p.m.

Iron Horse - Jimmy “Duck” Holmes 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Scott Turner Trio 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Kundi Compound - “Verses & Voices” Open Mic 8 p.m. $5 advance $7 door Martin’s - Modern Measure w/ Space Kadet 9 p.m. $10 McB’s - Halloween Bash feat.

Keys vs. Strings 7-11 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Matt Nolan & Shaun Miller 6 p.m. free Papito’s, Flowood - Shaun Patterson 7-9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jason Turner 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Road Hogs 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Lady L & the River City Band 7-10:30 p.m.

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Bacchus - Sid Thompson 6-9 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

County Seat - Larry Brewer 6-10 p.m.

Drago’s - Barry Leach 7-10 p.m.

Duling Hall - LoveBomb Go-Go w/ Stonewalls 8 p.m. $10 advance $15 door

Iron Horse - Brian Jones 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Kern Pratt & the Accused 7-10:30 p.m.

Martin’s - Halloween Showcase feat. Backup Planet 10 p.m.

Ole Tavern - Halloween Bash feat.

MS Moonlight 10 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Barry Leach 6 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Halloween Bash feat. Hairicane 9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Steele Heart 3:30 p.m.; Halloween Costume Contest feat. Spunk Monkees 7 p.m. $15; Acoustic Crossroads 8 p.m.

Spacecamp - Astrophobia feat.

Bad Magic, Low Variety, DBL Take & Lisbon Deaths 8:30 p.m. $5 Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Subway Review 9 p.m.

Oct. 29 - Sunday

DIVERSIONS | music

A Hub for Innovation

by Alex Thiel

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hamber music, in the minds of many, belongs in a stuffy and insular world, where players just rehearse and rehash the same classical pieces within university recital halls. On Friday, Oct. 27, Hub New Music aims to change a few minds.

Hub is what executive director and flautist Michael Avitabile describes as a “multifaceted chamber-music organization that’s devoted to playing 21st-century works.” The mixed quartet, which also features cellist Jesse Christeson, violinist Zenas Hsu and clarinetist David Dziardziel, per-

schools nationwide in order to share its vision for the contemporary arts. In addition to its performance at Mississippi College on the evening of Oct. 27, the quartet will lead a master class at 1 p.m., which will be free and open to the public.

“We’ll be running a class for the students on what it’s like to run an artist-led chamber music organization,” Avitabile says, “going over how we plan our concerts, our programs, the music we play, how we fundraise, how we market ourselves, and all the efforts that go behind the scenes of running a chamber-music organization.”

1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Char - Big Easy Three 11 a.m.; Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 6-9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Robin Blakeney noon; Shaun Patterson 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Dan Michael Colbert 6-9 p.m.

Wellington’s - Andy Hardwick 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

courtesy Hub New Music

Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Cerami’s - Shaun Patterson 6-9 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6-9 p.m. free Johnny T’s - Akami Graham 5-8 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Lucky Town - Andy Thomas’ Dust Heart & Anna’s Anchor 6-8 p.m.

Old Capitol Inn - Stace & Cassie 6 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Josh Journeay 6 p.m.

Renaissance, Ridgeland - Fall Fest feat. Bill & Temperance w/ Jeff Perkins 5:30-7:30 p.m. free Shucker’s - Shayne Weems 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - jj Thames midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood Shaun Patterson Georgia Blue, Madison Skip & Mike Hal & Mal’s - Leo Moreira 6-9 p.m. free The Hideaway - Freak Fest feat. DJ Rozz, Rob Roy & more 8 p.m.

Iron Horse - Sonny Ridell 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Road Hogs 7-10:30 p.m.

M7 - The Hero & a Monster 7 p.m.

Martin’s - Andrew Duhon Trio 10 p.m.

MS College, Aven Building - Hub New Music 7:30 p.m. $20 Old Capitol Inn - Scott Stricklin 6 p.m. free Pelican Cove - A’keela & the Beat 6 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon - Dylan Moss Band 9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 5:30 p.m.; Spunk Monkees 8 p.m. $5; Jonathan Alexander 10 p.m.

Soulshine, Ridgeland - Thomas Jackson 7-10 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Mick Kolassa & the Clarksdale Regulators 8:30 p.m.

Courtesy jj Thames

MUSIC | live

Oct. 30 - Monday jj Thames Woodland Hills Baptist - MS Chorus’ “Alzheimer’s Stories: Sing Anything” 7:30 p.m. $10

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Fenian’s - Stonewalls 9 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Central MS Blues Society (rest) 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Oct. 28 - Saturday

Oct. 31 - Tuesday

Bonny Blair’s - Larry Brewer 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Dockery Grill - Halloween Bash feat. DJ FiftyOneFifty 9 p.m. $10 Drago’s - Joseph LaSalla 6-9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; Sherman Lee Dillon & the MS Sound midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood Jim Tomlinson Georgia Blue, Madison Brandon Greer Hal & Mal’s - Vernon Brothers 6-9 p.m. free The Hideaway - Big 3 Halloween feat. Jason Miller Band, Miles Flatt & Burnham Road 8 p.m.-2 a.m. $20 Hops & Habanas - Astro Motel, Stonewalls & Jig the Alien 6 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Xtremez 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

10/27 - Patti LaBelle - Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, Biloxi 10/31 - Red & 10 Years - Varsity Theatre, Baton Rouge

NOV. 1 - Wednesday Alumni House - Brian Jones 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Cerami’s - Doug Bishop & James Bailey 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Martin’s - Fossil Youth w/ Empty Atlas 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Larry Brewer & Doug Hurd 6-10 p.m.

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

(Left to right) Jesse Christeson, Michael Avitabile, David Dziardziel and Zenas Hsu perform as Hub New Music at Mississippi College in Clinton on Friday, Oct. 27.

forms commissioned work from composers who are reimagining what is possible with classical instrumentation.

“Ninety percent of the time, what we play is by living composers, and we get to work with them on their pieces,” Avitabile says. “So we get a direct line to them and their whole creative process, and we get to share that with the audience.”

He says that “New Music,” as a genre, is independent from classical music in many ways, though it shares similarities.

“It’s a matter of instrumentation, and the kind of construct it involves artistically,” he says. “It involves instruments that you typically associate with classical music, and then also, the construct of a composer (writing) a notated piece, and then we play it. But what’s really exciting about ‘New Music,’ especially the music that Hub plays, is that we’re seeing a lot of those traditions kind of get expanded and diversified a bit more than they ever have been.”

Hub began as a student project at the New England Conservatory in 2013, and its mission reflects its genesis in the classroom. Hub is not only a performing group but also an educational entity, traveling to

There is a Jackson connection for Hub, as well, as Christeson was the previous principal cellist for the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. When he learned that Mississippi College’s James S. Sclater Chamber Music Series had an opening, he hopped on the opportunity.

Avitabile says that the Jackson-metro audience can anticipate an adventurous and forward-thinking performance that breaks free from some of chamber music’s established traditions.

“A lot of New Music—and you’ll hear this in the program that we’re bringing to Mississippi College—has infusions of popular music, of groove-based rhythms, so it’s not quite as square as we’d associate with classical music,” he says. “We’re kind of seeing this blurring of genres with very new repertoire, which I think makes it especially exciting to be playing this type of music now. I think it has a larger reach.”

Hub New Music performs at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 27, at Mississippi College (200 S. Capitol St., Clinton). The concert will be in the Aven Fine Arts Building. Tickets are $20 for general admission or $5 for students.

Visit hubnewmusic.org.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

“You never sing the same song twice,” said chanteuse Billie Holiday. “If you sing it with all the same phrasing and melody, you’re failing your art.” That’s an extreme statement, but I understand what she was driving at. Repeating yourself too much can be debilitating. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked in the past. I suggest you avoid this behavior in the coming days. Raise Holiday’s approach to a universal principle. Fresh sources of inspiration are available! Halloween costume suggestion: a persona or character unlike any you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.

How can you enjoy the lavish thrills of rebirth later unless you die a little inside now? It’s the trickiest phase of your cycle, when your energies are best used to resolve and graduate from the unfinished business of the last 10 months. I suggest that you put the past to rest as best as you can. Don your funniest sad face and pay your last respects to the old ways and old days you’ll soon be leaving behind. Keep in mind that beauty will ultimately emerge from decay. Halloween costume suggestion: the mythical phoenix, which burns itself down, then resurrects itself from its own ashes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

There are no such things as magic healings and miraculous redemptions and impossible breakthroughs. Right? Hard evidence provided by science precludes the existence of exotic help coming from spiritual realms. Right? Well, no.

Not right. There is in fact another real world that overlaps the material world, and it operates according to different laws that are mostly imperceptible to our senses. But events in the other real world can have tangible effects in the material world. This is especially true for you right now. Take advantage! Seek practical answers and solutions in your dreams, meditations, visions and numinous encounters. Halloween costume suggestion: white-magic sorcerer or good witch.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Many years from now, in your last hours on earth, you will have visions that show you how all the events in your life were crucial to your life story. You will understand the lesson that was provided by each twist and turn of your destiny. Every piece of the gigantic puzzle will slip into place, revealing the truth of what your mission has been.

And during that future climax, you may remember right now as a time when you got a long glimpse of the totality.

Halloween costume suggestion: the happiest person on Earth; the sovereign of all you survey; the wise fool who understands yourself completely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

You might be able to pass for normal, but it will be better for your relationship with yourself if you don’t. You could try to tamp down your unusual urges and smooth your rough edges, but it will be smarter to regard those urges and edges as fertile raw material for your future happiness.

Catch my drift? In the coming weeks, your main loyalty should be to your idiosyncratic intelligence. Halloween costume suggestion: the beautiful, interesting monster who lives in you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

I share Vincent Van Gogh’s belief that “the best way to know life is to love many things.” But I also think that the next 12 months will be an inspiring time for you to be focused and single-minded in your involvement with love.

That’s why I encourage you to take an approach articulated by the Russian mystic Anne Sophie Swetchine: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”

Halloween costume suggestion: a lover celebrating a sacred union to the love of your life, to God or Goddess, or to a symbol of your most sublime ideal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

“Yes, We Have No Bananas” is a silly novelty song that became a big hit in 1923. Its absurdity led to its wide use for humorous effect. For example, on the kids’ TV series “The Muppet Show,” puppets made out of fruits and vegetables sang parodies of the tune. That’s why I find it droll that the “No Bananas” songwriters stole part of the melody from the “Hallelujah Chorus,” the climax of classical composer

George Handel’s religious oratorio, “Messiah.” I’d love to see you engage in comparable transmutations, Taurus: making serious things amusing and vice versa. It’s a time when you can generate meaningful fun and playful progress through the art of reversal. Halloween costume suggestion: a tourist from Opposite Land or Bizarro World.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

In the next two weeks, you may have to navigate your way through careless gossip, distorted “facts,” superficial theories, hidden agendas, fake news and official disinformation. To prevent problems in communication with people who matter, take advantage of the Halloween spirit in this way: Obtain a bicycle helmet and cover it with aluminum foil. Decorate it with an Ace of Clubs, a red rose, images of wrathful but benevolent superheroes and a sign that says “No Bullshit Allowed.” By wearing this crown, you should remain protected. If that’s too weird for you, do the next best thing: Vow to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ask to receive the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Watch out for a fake pizza-delivery driver who’s actually trying to issue you a legal summons. Be careful you don’t glimpse a blood red sky at dusk, in case it’s a prophetic sign that your cell phone will fall into a toilet some time soon. Beware of the possibility that a large bird carrying a turtle to its nest accidentally drops its prey into a rain puddle near you, splashing mud on your fancy clothes.

JUST KIDDING! All the scenarios I just described are stupid lies. The truth is, this should be one of the most worry-free times ever. You’re welcome, of course, to dream up a host of scary fantasies if you find that entertaining, but I guarantee that they’ll be illusory. Halloween costume suggestion: an indomitable warrior.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

What is the material object you want most but don’t have?

This is an object that would serve your soul’s highest purposes, although not necessarily your ego’s. Here’s another question: What evocative symbol might help keep you inspired to fulfill your dreams over the course of the next five years? I suggest that you choose one or both of those things to be the inspiration for your Halloween costume.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Did you get a chance to go to circus school when you were a kid? How about magic school? Or maybe detective school or time-travel school or superhero school? Probably none of the above, right? Much of your education revolved around what you HAD to learn rather than what would be fun to learn. I’m not saying it was bad you were compelled to study subjects you felt ambivalent about. In the long run, it did you good. But now here’s some sweet news, Virgo: The next 10 months will be a favorable time to get trainings and teachings in what you YEARN to learn. Halloween costume suggestion: a student.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Now is an excellent phase in your cycle to scour bathrooms, scrub floors, shampoo carpets and wash windows. But the imminent future will be an even more favorable period to purify your motivations, tonify your emotions, purge your less-than-noble agendas, calm down your monkey mind and monkey heart, disinfect the moldy parts of your past and fact-check the stories you tell about yourself. So which set of tasks should you focus on? It may be possible to make great strides on the second set as you carry out the first set. But if there’s not enough time and energy to do both, favor the second set. Halloween costume suggestion: a superhero who has wondrous cleaning powers; King Janitor or Queen Maid.

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