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aytime kitchen manager LoDoner Hollis has been serving up southern favorites at Walker’s Drive-In in Fondren since the restaurant opened its doors in 1999. Hollis, also known as “L.D.,” says that co-workers call her “master of the plate lunch.”

“If you cook it, and it’s good, they’ll come,” Hollis says.

The Pelahatchie native worked as the kitchen manager at The Dock, as well as several other local restaurants.

She met chef Derek Emerson while he was working at Schimmel’s, and she followed him when he opened Walker’s.

Some of Hollis’ signature lunch specials include her chicken salad, bread pudding, and macaroni and cheese— and a dish she is personally does not like. “I can’t stand meatloaf,” she says.

“But I make it well.”

Hollis says she learned how to cook from her grandmother, Kate Hollis, and her mother, Alberta Hollis, and she has been passing down her knowledge to the next generation.

Emerson says chefs who learned under Hollis have gone on to work at his other restaurants, CAET, Parlor Market and Local 463.

Hollis has also received national

recognition for her craft. Her southernstyle biscuits won Best Cornbread and Biscuits at a food contest in Washington, D.C., during President Bill Clinton’s third year in office.

Hollis says she enjoys working at Walker’s Drive-In due to the staff and good environment. “It’s just like one big family,” she says. “We all pitch in and help each other, but I keep them on their toes.”

During her 20 years in Fondren, Hollis says she has watched the neighborhood around Walker’s expand and flourish. “It feels safer, a place where you can bring your family,” she says.

Hollis has four grown children— Aenissa, Willie James, Kenyata and Derrick Hicks—10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

“I always cook for them during the holidays,” she says.

Besides being the daytime kitchen manager at Walker’s, Hollis also helps out with the restaurant’s catering.

Though she has cut back her hours to semi-retire, Hollis says she sees herself always being a part of Walker’s.

“When you enjoy what you’re doing, everything else will work out,” she says. “And I’m lucky I love what I do.”

—Abigail Walker

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Media, Cops: Choose Crime Solutions Over Perp Shows

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t has never occurred to me to call up the police and ask them to stage a special “perp walk” so I can send someone to photograph someone accused of a crime.

And I would certainly never request the depraved privilege of capturing images of a juvenile accused of killing another child.

Why would I salivate for images of a troubled kid who has been caught already?

Why would other media finagle a staged event to broadcast an image of a child who, like adults, is innocent until proved guilty?

How does broadcasting the accused child’s mugshot, much less a set-up video, help anyone? He’s in custody, after all, not on the run. Not to mention the journalism ethic that we never actually set up news shots.

We know now that this exact scenario happened in recent weeks in Jackson, as Ko Bragg reports in this week’s cover story. I’m astounded. It’s not like I had high expectations for most local broadcast and print media when it comes to reporting on crime, especially involving kids. It’s the worst I’ve seen in any city, except maybe New Orleans. But it honestly never occurred to me that the media essentially set the perp walks up themselves in order to get juicy footage.

That reminds me of a Canadian documentary maker who tried to get my photographer to wear a hidden camera once to “doorstep” an old Klansman refusing an interview. Hell no, we said. Not ethical.

Neither is cherry-picking the most sensational (and still alleged) juvenile crimes to turn into ratings, clicks and page views.

Meantime, JPD has only provided us vague details of how the young man is believed to have murdered the teenage girl, and won’t give us a police report or summary.

Or, how about a trace report on where the weapon came from? That might actual-

ly prove useful to future crime prevention.

The fact that this perp-walk scam is apparently common in Jackson speaks to the larger problem we have with formulating a real plan to reduce violent crime in a city where the response is usually reactive, from the police to media to residents. The line is that the more these young hoodlums are locked up, the less crime there will be.

They can’t hurt us when they’re behind bars, after all. The truth, though, is that (if

widely disseminated evidence—that’s even in recent BOTEC reports about Jackson crime—that shows that harsh treatment by the criminal-justice system can turn a juvenile into a hardened criminal who later commits worse offenses and makes our society more dangerous. It’s chilling to think that the way the police and most media have handled—or mishandled—this boy to date could lead to more deaths down the road, but it is a real concern. Parading your

This perp-walk scam is apparently common in Jackson. convicted) many of them won’t be behind bars forever and, while they’re there, they are likely to join a tough gang because incarceration incubates gangs and violence.

And as Ko reports, this teenager may be proved innocent as many have been over the years here and elsewhere. Or, even after he has been paraded around like a captured animal, a judge may decide to send him back to youth court and out of the public eye again. But guess what? The damage may already be done on a child whose brain is not fully developed yet with each of those camera flashes pushing him further beyond hope and rehabilitation. Hell, that treatment would scar my 56-year-old self.

The loss of the 14-year-old girl was tragic and heartbreaking. But this treatment of this teen boy is not going to bring her back. It is reactive and vengeful, and it is not smart. At this point, it’s absurd to ignore

catch around for cheap camera shots has no positive value other than to make people leer at the accused, and it carries high risks for the future safety of the community.

What we need are proactive approaches, not reactive ones. On page 11, you’ll read a similar argument by the head of Mississippi’s FBI. Neither he nor I argue that arrests are never needed, and we likely don’t agree on all policing practices, but Christopher Freeze’s argument that the community must step up to do more to keep a young person from committing crime, long before the moment of pulling the trigger, is solid.

We must replace the kneejerk, nonsensical responses to crime that are not grounded in evidence—like that it’s up to cops to arrest all the bad guys so crime will stop—with proactive, smart approaches to redirecting and educating young people before they commit crime. Or, as Freeze

points out, feeding them if they’re hungry and, even better, teaching them the skills to (legally) avoid hunger themselves. That is, whatever it takes to keep that 14-year-old girl alive and a 16-year-old out of prison.

To that end, media should be asking (a) exactly what happened that tragic night, (b) is the evidence against the accused strong and, if so, (c) how did the young man get to that point? There are many, many, many causes of crime. Which ones applied in his instance, and what can we learn from this crime in order to take action to prevent it from happening again? What are the potential solutions further back up the line?

Yes, this causes-to-solutions reporting takes more effort than feeding the thirst for blame and revenge, but journalists are supposed to do the difficult work others don’t have time to do, not just race for easy clicks. Besides, I’ve learned that families involved on all sides of these tragedies, especially when children are involved, are not as bloodthirsty as the larger public. I think of the family of James Craig Anderson, who asked that his young white murderers not face the death penalty even though they came to Jackson looking for a black man to kill. I’ve witnessed that grace many times.

Even if you don’t care at all about young accused Jacksonians, replacing bad policing and media habits with smarter preventative approaches is better for the whole community. We need to interrupt the cycles of crime at every point possible, not lustfully continue bad practices that will ultimately fail and lead to more victims. It’s way past time to choose real solutions over ratings and page views. Let’s demand it.

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contributors

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Ko Bragg

Arielle Dreher

Stephen Wilson

Abigail Walker

Brinda Fuller Willis

Meghan Garner

Todd Stauffer

Kimberly Griffin

City Reporter Ko Bragg is a Philadelphia, Miss., transplant who recently completed her master’s in journalism. She loves traveling and has been to 25 countries to date. She wrote the cover story and a city round-up for this issue.

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

Staff Photographer Stephen Wilson is always on the scene, bringing you views from the six. He contributed some of the photographs in this issue.

Abigail Walker is a freelance writer from Clinton, Miss., who spends most of her time playing with her corgi puppy, Eudora Welty. You can find her at Lemuria Bookstore in Jackson. She wrote about Jacksonian LaDoner Hollis.

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

She’ll go anywhere to hear the blues, and she is a real farmer’s daughter. She wrote a music story for this issue.

Digital Marketing Strategist Meghan Garner avoids crowds and is most often spotted hiding behind a dry martini. She works to help local businesses thrive through JFP’s website building, content marketing, SEO and digital creative services.

Publisher Todd Stauffer authored more than 40 technology books on Macs, HTML, blogging and digital video. He is a Texas A&M graduate.

Email him at todd@jacksonfreepress.com for website and digital-marketing advice.

Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin is a Jackson native who loves Jesus, her mama, cooking, traveling, the Callaway Chargers, chocolate, her godson, working out, Mississippi University for Women and locally owned restaurants.

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“[B]ased on the situation we’re in, we’re forced to somewhat have to come to a decision rather quickly, which for me makes me somewhat uncomfortable.”

—Ward 6 Councilman Aaron Banks, complaining that the mayor’s office presented school-board nominees to the city council far too late.

Thursday, November 23

Mississippi State University hosts a dedication ceremony for its newly named Dowsing-Bell Plaza, which com‑ memorates the legacy of the school’s first African American student-athletes, Frank Dowsing Jr. and Robert Bell.

Friday, November 24

The Mississippi Highway Patrol reports that five people died on state highways over the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Saturday, November 25

Leandra English, interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, files a lawsuit to block Donald Trump from appointing White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to take over the bureau.

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Sunday, November 26

Michigan Rep. John Conyers an‑ nounces he will step aside as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee but will not resign from Congress over allegations he sexually ha‑ rassed female staff members. … Donald Trump tweets that electing Democrat Doug Jones as Alabama’s next senator “would be a disaster” and all but en‑ dorses Republican Roy Moore, who is accused of sexually assaulting and mo‑ lesting two teenage girls while he was in his 30s, and trying to date others.

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Monday, November 27

The U.S. Supreme Court rejects an appeal by African American attorney Carlos Moore to have the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag declared unconstitutional.

Tuesday, November 28

Gerald Mumford and Malcolm Harrison face off in a run-off election for the position of Hinds County attor‑ ney. See result at jacksonfreepress.com.

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The Pros and Cons of a State Lottery

by Arielle Dreher

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n a map of states that‑ have no lot‑ tery, the hold-outs stand strong in pairs: Alaska and Hawaii, Nevada and Utah, and Mississippi and Al‑ abama. Mississippi lawmakers, though, are thinking about installing a lottery due to a thinning revenue base and a need to fund the state’s infrastructure. That is, if they de‑ cide a lottery is feasible in the first place.

House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clin‑ ton, created a committee of representatives to study the lottery this summer, led by Rep. Richard Bennett, R-Long Beach, who chairs the House Gaming Committee. The study group met all summer and will issue a report on its findings before the legislative session begins in January 2018. Bennett said the report is not going to say whether or not the state should install a lottery.

“There’s not going to be a recommen‑ dation for or against the lottery in here.

That was not our intent; our intent was to find the facts,” Bennett said at the commit‑ tee’s Nov. 16 meeting.

State economist Darrin Webb used two approaches based on states with simi‑ lar populations to Mississippi to see how much revenue a lottery could generate an‑ nually. In calculating lottery revenue, states assign sales percentages to pay out revenue.

The typical state splits lottery revenue into these percentages: 50 percent to payouts, 30 percent to the government and 20 per‑ cent to costs, an analysis Webb presented to lawmakers shows.

State economist Darrin Webb warned lawmakers that a Mississippi lottery would disproportionately affect low-income groups.

Webb estimates that annual net rev‑ enue from the lottery, taking those per‑ centages as well as taking a loss in retail sales meaning a loss in retail sales tax rev‑ enue into account, would equal between $82.6 million and $93.8 million in net gain in state revenue. In the starting years, lottery revenue may not even meet these estimates, Webb said.

“We’ve giving a reasonable estimate,” Webb told the study group on Nov. 16.

Ideally, a lottery would bring Missis‑ sippians who play games in other states the opportunity to keep those dollars here in‑ stead. Mississippians spend nearly $70 mil‑ lion annually in out-of-state lotteries.

Sure Signs It’s December in JXN 15% - Gov. Bryant’s Mansion Gov’s mansion looks like Santa’s vacay plantation yet still looks nicer than the White House.

35% - Civic Engagement Overload People’s assemblies, public-school listening sessions and trees getting lit all before Christmas Eve.

Owners of the state’s convenience stores are supportive of the lottery, with a few stipulations. Philip Chamblee, the executive director of the Mississippi Petroleum Mar‑ keters and Convenience Stores Association, said that in states where the lottery is legal, convenience stores sell about half the tickets.

Commission on lottery tickets vary state to state, but the Mississippi association would support legislation that mandated a 6 percent or higher commission for the seller. The convenience store would make 10 cents on a $2 lottery ticket under this proposal. Chamblee told the committee that in many states, stores selling the win‑ ning ticket also draw a commission.

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Lawmakers release unapologetically skimpy budget recommendations that increase prosecutors’ funding while virtually chopping everything else.

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Regular confrontation with people in Santa hats with bells at most shopping establishments.

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The Mississippi Department of Transportation suspends all construc‑ tion and repair work on interstate and four-lane highways until 6 a.m. Mon‑ day to provide maximum travel capacity in the state for Thanksgiving weekend.

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Lobbyists racing to the Capitol, realizing the session is a mere month away.

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National news indicates a strong likelihood that the federal government is headed for a shutdown.

“Unfortunately, the way we view poverty in this country over the last 30 years has been shaped by the narrative—the worthy versus unworthiness—it really started with welfare reform with the Reagan administration and the ‘welfare queen.’”

—Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, on the roots of the negative stereotypes associated with poverty.

“A Mississippi lottery means the State will be investing in and encouraging individuals who have limited incomes to make poor financial decisions.”

—State Economist Darrin Webb, presenting his research to lawmakers about implementing a state lottery.

Shaky City Communication, A New Ice Rink, Spanking

by Ko Bragg

The association voted to support the sale of lottery tickets in their stores this month, but Chamblee encouraged lawmakers to only allow ticket sales with cash.

“Some states allow the use of debt or credit cards to purchase lottery tickets. …

We think this is a bad idea. Transaction fees to process the card will be higher than the commission spent on the ticket, potentially eliminating profit to the retailer of the letter ticket,” Chamblee said.

Lotteries are regressive for those who play, meaning that people who make less money spend a larger percentage of their total income on lottery games than higherincome individuals, research shows. Income inequality is heightened in the presence of a

Before Thanksgiving, the Jackson City Council approved a skating rink to go up for two weeks in Smith-Wills Stadium later in December.

tioning was the only thing that convinced him to vote to confirm her. Banks said he was “uncomfortable” because Jones-Davis lives in his ward, and he had not had time to properly get to know her because he says the City informed him too late.

Stamps pointed out that council members had to be briefer this time because they had an entire meeting agenda to attend to, while the last school board confirmation took place over nearly five hours. The City’s memo to the council is dated Nov. 15, although the confirmation just showed up on the council agenda the previous Friday.

In the mayor’s absence, Chief of Staff Safiya Omari defended the administration, citing “the time factor” as the reason for such short notice and stuffing the confirmation hearing into the council meeting.

“I do think that if you all had somebody in mind three

lottery—particularly for the African American population, Bryan Farrell with the Stennis Institute wrote in a brief for lawmakers.

Ultimately, a lottery would disproportionately affect lower-income people in the state, Webb said earlier this month.

“Mississippi is already plagued by people making poor choices, including decisions regarding their health, family planning and education/training. A Mississippi lottery means the State will be investing in and encouraging individuals who have limited incomes to make poor financial decisions,” Webb, the state economist, said.

Webb analyzed how a lottery would affect Mississippi’s economy and predicted a slight decrease in GDP, employment and

weeks ago,” Banks said to Omari, “I would have loved to have known, or seven days ago, I would have love to have known the day after the day that you found out so that we could have time. So I think that’s communication we have to work on.”

Jones-Davis was confirmed after more than an hour of discussion. Robert Luckett, who teaches at JSU and runs the Margaret Walker Alexander Center there, was also confirmed, but his hearing lasted only about 30 minutes.

Council members ended up discussing their own views on corporal punishment in schools while questioning the new board members—a matter that splits the council.

Ward 5 Councilman Charles Tillman, Ward 3 Councilman Stokes and Stamps support it, while Ward 7 Councilwoman Lindsay and Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. are against it. Banks did not comment, and Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote was absent.

Improvement Districts

The council voted Nov. 21 to move along the process of securing special local improvement districts in Jackson.

By state law, municipalities cannot do this on their own, but this vote gives legislators in the 2018 legislative session the green light to advocate for Jackson to create improvement districts.

Improvement districts manage and finance basic services for public improvements, which in Jackson would mean development opportunities and rehabilitating blighted areas, a memorandum in the Nov. 21 Council agenda packet reads. Jackson currently has more than 4,000 dilapidated, blighted properties that are proven links to crime and dumping that, in turn, cause the city to lose businesses its tax base, the memo details.

Email city reporter Ko Bragg at ko@jacksonfreepress. com and comment on this story at jfp.ms/city.

income in the state with a lottery.

“If we assumed it was entirely spent on the state’s roads and bridges, (which) probably gives you the highest impact of any immediate spending... (Y)ou still have a slight decrease in economic activity,” Webb said.

The Mississippi Gaming and Hospitality Association says its members are threatened by the potential for video lottery terminals, called VLTs, to be in convenience stores and truck stops across the state. Current state laws only allow slot machines and VLTs in casinos.

“It would not be an over-statement to say that from a gaming standpoint, the passage of legislation legalizing VLTs would be the equivalent to the industry of suffering

another natural disaster,” Larry Gregory, the gaming association executive director, said, alluding to how Hurricane Katrina hurt casinos on the coast. “... We are adamantly opposed to any legislation that would or could legalize VLTs.”

Gregory said the association anticipates proponents of VLTs to try to amend a bill if legislation is introduced or to use litigation if the bill is vague in its regulations.

“The gaming association strongly urges the committee … (to) limit the lottery to paper tickets, specifically excluding video lottery terminals, VLTs, and any electronic device that looks and plays like a slot machine,” he said Nov. 16.

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City Communication Lapse

On Nov. 8 the city council approved four members Lumumba had nominated for the new school board. Then, at last week’s council meeting, members had to allot time, grudgingly, to confirm two newly nominated members so the next school board meeting on Nov. 28 would have a quorum. Confirmation hearings normally happen separately. The mayor missed the Nov. 28 meeting.

Banks and Ward 4 Councilman De’Keither Stamps were particularly irritated by the last-minute nominations.

Stamps began his first round of questioning the nominees by mentioning that he did not even know they would be confirming school board members during the meeting.

Reading through Andrea Jones-Davis’ resume during ques-

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t was mostly business as usual at the last Jackson City Council meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 21, just before the Thanksgiving holiday. The council finalized plans for the synthetic ice-skating rink coming to Smith-Wills Stadium from Dec. 22 through Jan 4. The rink will offer skating sessions during the week and four daily sessions on the weekend. Ideally, people should reserve spots prior to and prices will range from $7 per kid and $10 for adults.

“There’s no need for anybody in Jackson to go to Flowood to go ice skating,” Ward 6 Councilman Aaron Banks said.

The Department of Public Works asked for a budget revision to re-allocate funds in the amount of $315,191 for “unanticipated needs” to make up for “vacated positions” and to continue preventative sewer cleaning in compliance with the federal consent decree until “maintenance staff can be filled and trained and equipment can be repaired.”

The late-night meeting also revealed what the council is thinking about communications with the mayor’s office, confirmation hearings and even corporal punishment.

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Exploding the Myth of the ‘Welfare Queen’

by Arielle Dreher

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interviews because she was curious about the disconnect between the programs offered for women and families in the communities she works in and how they access those services. The interviews were jarring.

“It was amazing. … But it was also very distressing because I realized that despite all the great work Springboard was doing, there was so much we couldn’t be doing—we’re not a think tank or a policy organization,” Nyandoro said.

and harsher sanctions, which may result in temporarily reduced or suspended benefits or even permanent termination,” the report says. In Mississippi that is certainly the case.

African Americans make up 37 percent of the state’s population.

Mississippi is also the poorest state in the nation, with more than 20 percent of the population living below the poverty threshold as a result. High poverty means that the state gets a lot of federal assisPhoto Courtesy Red Squared Production

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arla is a mother of two in Jackson.

She cares for not only her kids but also for her mother and disabled brother. Carla, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, has been trying to find a job for a year and a half—but with no luck. She lives in an affordable housing community with a strict curfew, so ducking out of her apartment for some fresh air after 8 p.m. is off limits.

Carla qualifies for Temporary Assistance for Need Families program, called TANF, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, called SNAP, but this means she is subject to the federal work requirement. Because she had struggled to find a job on her own, she applied for the TANF Work Program, a state program that connects TANF recipients to “work activities” that satisfy the requirement.

Some opportunities in the work program are paid—others are not. If work-program participants quit, reduce their hours or lose their jobs, they are cut off from TANF immediately for two months.

Once in the TANF work program, Carla worked as a teacher’s assistant in a private school—but was fired after declining to clean a bathroom at the end of her shift one day. Janitorial duties were not a part of Carla’s job description.

“I really think it was just to see how far she could push me, just how much you could take from me to degrade me,” Carla told interviewers in a recently published report that looks at the false narratives that drive policies affecting predominantly poor, black women.

Carla lost her SNAP and TANF benefits 10 days after she was fired. She decided to not apply for TANF assistance again.

She is one of more than 80 people Aisha Nyandoro, the CEO of Springboard to Opportunities, and one of her colleagues interviewed in the summer of 2016. Researchers at New America, a policy think tank, rolled Nyandoro’s interviews into their research published in the “Becoming Visible” report, which focuses on Jackson women.

Springboard to Opportunities is a residence service provider—they do not own the communities or housing developments they work in. They offer after-school programming, youth development and jobtraining programs, and connect directly with families in four affordable-housing complexes in Jackson.

Nyandoro said she decided to do the

States with higher black populations, like Mississippi, are more likely to have restrictive eligibility policies for public assistance programs, which predominantly impacts low-income black women and their families.

The Race Factor

Rachel Black, one of the “Becoming Visible” authors with New America, says the report explores the connection between race, poverty and false narratives (such as the “welfare queen” myth) used against those in poverty.

“Our understanding of poverty as a result of poor character is really deeply tied to perceptions of race,” Black said.

The report traces state and federal policies from Black Codes, used to criminalize black people after the Civil War in the South, to legislation like the Medicaid and Human Services Transparency and Fraud Prevention Act, which Mississippi lawmakers passed in early 2017. The legislation enables the Division of Medicaid and the Mississippi Department of Human Services to implement a new verification system to audit providers and recipients of Medicaid, food stamps and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, funding.

Both state agencies are using a thirdparty contractor to implement the system.

“Today, states with larger Black populations are more likely to have lower benefit levels, more restrictive eligibility policies,

tance—but the “Becoming Visible” report shows that those in poverty often do not use the programs intended to help them due to the melee of restrictions people encounter to even sign up for programs. In order to apply for SNAP, a person must have proof of identity, Social Security numbers for all household members, proof of income (if employed) and proof of residency. Negative stereotypes associated with poverty began in recent decades, Nyandoro said.

“Unfortunately, the way we view poverty in this country over the last 30 years has been shaped by the narrative—the worthy versus unworthiness—it really started with welfare reform with the Reagan administration and the ‘welfare queen,’” she said.

The “Becoming Visible” report shows, largely through the words of Jacksonians, how the system of accessing assistance is correlated to the negative stereotypes associated with poverty.

“Work requirements and the consequences for violating those terms in Mississippi and elsewhere reinforce the idea that poverty is the result of lack of effort, while simultaneously increasing material hardship and requiring benefits recipients

to accept work under any terms,” the “Becoming Visible” report says.

The TANF Conundrum

The TANF program is arguably the most flexible benefits program from the federal government. States can use their TANF funds on a broad range of services from just straight-up cash for people who need it to child care assistance and education activities. In Mississippi, only 165 of nearly 12,000 Mississippians applying for TANF funds received it in fiscal-year 2016, the MDHS annual report shows. A breakdown of those numbers from MDHS shows that the client withdrew 5,829 applications, and the State rejected 3,403 due “to the client choosing to not comply.”

One woman in the “Becoming Visible” report tells her story of applying for SNAP benefits, with all of the family birth certificates in tow, and asking the MDHS worker if she needed to do anything else.

She was told “no.” But then she did not receive her SNAP card. When she called to inquire about it, she was told, “You didn’t bring me what I told you to bring me.”

The disconnect between policy and programs and the people they serve is a large part of the problem in Mississippi, the “Becoming Visible” report shows.

“I think it’s also really important to interrogate the process itself,” Black said.

“Why do we have policies and programs that are so disconnected from families on the receiving end?”

Black said that some of the women interviewed for the report were able to meet with MDHS workers a few weeks ago and share their stories. Black said in her review that the State does not evaluate the impact of programs on the families they serve— that impact is not a part of the metrics for how good programs are working. The MDHS workers Black met with were confused about why people were not applying for TANF anymore. Carla discussed this sentiment in her interview in the report.

“(S)o a lot of them will go without and have nothing, absolutely nothing, before they go to this extreme….,” Carla said. “Is it worth losing yourself for the sake of trying to go along with this? You know what I’m saying? No. It’s not. I’d rather struggle and go through whatever I got to go through just so I could have a peace of mind.”

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The Trojan Horse of Education

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XFORD—My high school had one, and maybe yours did, too— the toughest teacher in the school. Feared but respected, she (it was usually a “she”) was polite but didn’t smile much, and when you entered her classroom, you knew you’d better sit up straight and pay attention. Back at my high school in Sanford, N.C., her name was Freda Kriminger. She taught English, and her students finished the year knowing a gerund from a regular verb as well as why Lady Macbeth couldn’t wash the blood off her hands.

I thought about Mrs. Kriminger recently as I proudly stood among several high-school teachers during our induction into the East Carolina University (my alma mater) Educators Hall of Fame. I’m sure they are doing their best to keep the Kriminger legacy alive.

Still, I know that’s getting harder and harder. In North Carolina, a state that once served as a southern model for good public education, the right-wing Republican General Assembly is doing its best to disassemble it. Between 2002 and 2013, the state’s teacher-pay ranking dropped from 19th to 47th in the nation. Although pay increases in 2016 lifted the state to 35th, millions of taxpayer dollars are being shifted from public schools to for-profit charter schools and private-school vouchers.

With a few exceptions such as the administration of Gov. Paul B. Johnson Sr. in the 1940s and Gov. William Winter in the early 1980s, public education has never had much respect or support in Mississippi.

This is a state that had fewer than 9,000 students in public schools by the beginning of World War I. First it was the farmers decrying the loss of child labor in the fields.

“Children were encouraged to work throughout the year without regard for the importance of completing the school year,” James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis wrote in “Mississippi Conflict & Change,” about early20th-century Mississippi.

By mid-century, it was the race-baiters screaming about mongrelization of their precious whiteness if their children were forced to go to school with blacks.

As Arielle Dreher reported recently in a compelling story on Jackson public schools, the segregationist white Citizens Councils told Mississippians in 1964 that “It is better to miss school altogether than to integrate.” Indeed at the time when Gov. Winter was pushing sweeping education reform in 1982, school attendance was not compulsory.

Teacher pay in Mississippi today ranks next to last in the nation. A teacher in Mississippi averages $42,744 a year. A teacher in New York state averages $79,637. Teacher pay in the South and border states is so low that some have qualified for Habitat for Humanity housing. School districts across the state are experiencing such faculty shortages that the Board of Education recently agreed to ease licensing requirements.

The ongoing saga of JPS and its failure to meet accreditation standards is a tale of racism, poverty, mismanagement, short-sightedness, and lack of support and will. Of course, what is happening here is reflective of the nation. Republican rule, aided and abetted by Obama-era charter-school promoters like former Education Secretary Arne Duncan, have steadily undermined public-school support everywhere. Charter schools and vouchers are Trojan horses, and their mission is to destroy, not to rescue.

“Will you teach me how to soar, to see things never seen before? But most importantly of all, will you teach me how to be, the only thing I can be … me?” the poet Victor C. Johnson once wrote in homage to teachers.

That’s the mission of teachers like Freda Kriminger. But mission control is not in their hands.

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Mission control is not in their hands.

We Need Policies for People, Not for Profit

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t is time to start talking about how policies affect people on a literal, physical, visceral level.

Tax cuts, budget cuts, fraud and waste are all buzzwords for lawmakers to hide behind while they approve laws that benefit the wealthy and further complicate access to services for the working class and the poor.

In Mississippi, wealth and income directly relate to the color of a person’s skin—and if that’s difficult to swallow, look at the poverty rates of the next generation of Mississippians. In a state with the highest poverty rate in the nation, almost half of black children are in families living below the poverty line, compared to 17 percent of white children.

“Yet, only 8 percent of families living in poverty participate in TANF and those who do receive a maximum benefit of $170 per month, a benefit level that has not increased since 2000 and diminishes in value each year due to inflation, amounting to around a $70 monthly loss in benefits,” a new report from New America, which examined some of the state’s public assistance policies, said.

The report found that Mississippi has some of the harshest, most punitive restrictions on its Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, program, which offers some financial assistance largely from the federal government coffers.

The report also shows that states with more white people needing assistance are less punitive than states with larger black populations, meaning states with higher black populations have more restrictive eligibility policies and harsher sanctions.

Beyond deciding where the state spends its federal dollars, Mississippi lawmakers also determine where to spend state taxpayer dollars. So far, the group elected in 2015 appears determined to continue to slash state government and enact massive tax cuts because of their fundamental belief that government should spend less.

But if a government exists to serve its citizens, why are health, mental health, education and workforce development not top priorities for the Legislature? The Joint Legislative Budget Committee released its budget recommendations last week and to no one’s surprise, included cuts to about every sector of state government. The budget represents a more than 1 percent decrease from the current year.

The state’s universities, community colleges and general-education budgets are each cut by more than $1 million in the legislative leadership’s proposal. The Department of Mental Health, which has been under fire for two years as the state faces a federal lawsuit, is up against a $3 million cut if lawmakers get their way.

Numbers aside, more cuts eventually will equate to a loss in jobs or services. Either way, continuing to chip away at the state’s meager budget in order to fund tax cuts for corporations does not prioritize solving the state’s 50th ranking on myriad lists. The majority of lawmakers have chosen to prioritize wealthy people (often themselves) over those they represent. It is time to write policy for people—not for profits—especially if Mississippi is ever going to rise out of 50th place.

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What It Will Take to Reduce Youth Crime

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hen it comes to tackling youth crime, Jackson is at the intersection of Concern and Encouragement.

The Concern, criminal behavior by and against minors, is readily visible and often the lead story across daily media outlets—kids shooting and being shot; having friends and family arrested; witnessing domestic violence. Violent or non-violent, these acts have life-altering consequences for all concerned. The Encouragement is less known and needs more visibility to prevent the Concern from paralyzing us from taking positive action.

The crime challenge has received much attention from public and privatesector leaders, especially crimes by young adults. Law enforcement cannot arrest our way out of this problem. But, finding alternative avenues that provide a life-enriching experience for young people is a greater challenge. Some solutions have consisted of a patchwork of initiatives, multiple programs and promising ideas. Occasionally, a program is recognized as exceptional, based on its measurable results and impact. Too often, programs have limited impact due to the lack of a comprehensive strategy.

I am concerned not only about crimes performed by minors, but the effect crime has upon minors. Violence is traumatic for everyone. We like to think children are resilient, but the truth is too many of them suffer from PTSD-like symptoms or bottle up their fears or stresses. Without intervention, their future may be irreparably harmed. We have seen the positive progress our veterans have made after the trauma of war. We need to bring that same motivation and strategy to the children who have been touched by the trauma of violence.

We have approached a fork in the road. To one side lies the Concern of continued disappointment of both the young and the community as they are affected by more arrests, more trauma and more social unrest. To the other is Encouragement underscored by vision, collaboration, strategy, efficacy and action. The path of Encouragement provides hope for positive change.

That path requires not just a coalition of the willing, but a coalition of the doing.

As a federal law enforcement officer, I do not want to see our community’s children arrested by a federal agency when they turn 18 and are no longer protected by their juvenile status. If so, they will go to a federal court, be prosecuted by a federal attorney, and if convicted, go to a federal prison.

Many strongly suggest that the more

time a minor spends in the back of a police car, the more likely he or she will end up incarcerated for long periods of time. The question is, “Why were they in the back of a squad car to begin with?”

From talking with adults and children in recent months, I’ve learned the answer to that question is not simple. The groundtruth answer is almost incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t lived in their neighborhoods, attended their schools or walked their streets. Learning to accept that truth is the first step toward making a difference.

Recently, I participated in a town-hall panel at a local high school on addressing crime as seen through the eyes of the stu-

Law enforcement cannot arrest our way out of this problem. dents. There was good dialogue between the students, the parents and the panelists.

As you might expect, the students provided some of the best ideas. However, I was shocked speechless by one student’s response to the question, “What do you need to be successful in school?”

His answer? “Food.”

Food! We are in the 21st century. We export literally tons of food to other countries and throw away or waste much more.

Why are our kids still asking for food?

Anyone who lives with teenage boys knows that a basic breakfast and lunch are rarely enough. What happens when those are the only meals the child receives each day?

If we are going to keep young people out of squad cars and, ultimately, out of prison, we must have a comprehensive and coordinated strategy. I once heard someone say Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader because he arrived in Washington articulating a vision and a dream, not a 10-point plan for success. While we need plans, we most need a solid vision from which a good strategy and plans can proceed.

If we are going to help those released from prison find housing and work, we must insist on involvement by elected leaders, worship leaders and community leaders. And yes, it will take leadership by our law-enforcement organizations, including the FBI. Our young people deserve no less.

We cannot afford a generation of people conditioned to accept a lack of leadership.

Ingrid Cloy and her organization, Mississippi Center of Excellence, are one positive example. I attended a quarterly meeting she sponsored with representatives of both public and nonprofit service organizations in greater Jackson. The top goal is leveraging each group’s resources and strengths to help people and have a collective impact. Their passion was inspiring.

Best of all, the disciplines represented included mental health, education, law enforcement and ministry. Everyone there was a leader, regardless of title or position, because they were willing to serve.

Good leaders embrace the concept of vulnerability. Being vulnerable is not weakness or timidity but recognizing that true strength comes through saying, “I don’t know all the answers,” “How can I help?” and “Will you teach me?” Vulnerability is demonstrated in the traits of humility, selflessness and service. “Rather than sitting on the sidelines and hurling judgment and advice, we must dare to show up and let ourselves be seen,” Dr. Brené Brown, a University of Houston professor, wrote in her book “Daring Greatly.”

Leaders who will show up and be seen must be willing to communicate their expectations and hold each other accountable for their actions or inactions. Many are willing to talk about the Concern. What communities need most are people who are doing something about the problem—the Encouragement. For our young people to succeed and our crime rates to fall, we need to communicate clearly to everyone our expectations of them and for them.

First, there must be a vision of what needs to happen. What should the future, successful schools, economic prosperity and housing and retail look like? What does serving others look like?

We each must make the sacrifices necessary to be part of the solution. Our challenge is in moving a large population from the coalition of the willing to the coalition of the doing—from being Concerned to being Encouragers.

In the end, our young people need adults they can trust to find viable answers to societal problems. I’m working on finding ways they can trust law enforcement.

I hope you will find ways they can trust those willing to serve. Retired Chief of Police Ron Glidden from Lee, Mass., said this about trust: “Trust is never owned. It is only rented. And the rent is due every day.”

Today’s rent is due.

Christopher Freeze is the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI for Mississippi.

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hortly before 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11, in the Presidential Hills subdivision in northwest Jackson, a 14-year-old girl named Alexandria Love was shot in the head. Just an hour later, doctors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center listed Love in very critical condition.

As doctors cared for Love and her teenage classmates sent Facebook prayers laden with emoji, the Jackson Police Department tweeted that it was looking for the alleged suspect: “a 15-year old unidentified BM,” using a shorthand abbreviation for black male. “If identified as a suspect, adult charges are possible, and identity will be released,” JPD added.

The Jackson Police Department then kept reporters informed via email during every step of their pursuit of the teenage boy, who remained nameless for a time.

On Nov. 13 at 4:10 p.m. JPD tweeted, alongside an earlier mugshot, that they wanted Sheroderick Elmore for aggravated assault in connection with Love’s shooting.

Less than two hours later at 5:42 p.m., they announced his capture via Twitter. Around dinnertime on Nov. 14, JPD tweeted that Love had died—Jackson’s 53rd homicide to that point. There are now 59 homicides on the books in 2017. That tweet also disclosed that Elmore’s charges had been upgraded from aggravated-assault to murder.

A few hours later, JPD sent reporters his updated booking photo via email.

Jackson Police Department spokesman Sgt. Roderick Holmes said JPD believes some sort of “argument or altercation” took place prior to the shooting between Love and Elmore, but there are no further details about it to date. What they do know is that Elmore and Love were not alone in the residence where the shooting 12 took place, although the two teens may

have been alone in a room together when the gun went off. Holmes added that the “detectives believe they have the individual that shot (Love), but what actually led to that shooting is what’s in question.”

With a heavy allegation and charge against him that strip him of youthful qualities, it becomes easy to forget that Elmore is still not old enough to vote, buy cigarillos or enlist in any military branch. He is also innocent until proven guilty, despite localturned-national media attention that can seem more like a frenzy.

But, this story is not uniquely Elmore’s.

initial court appearance facing adult charges on Nov. 14, the day before his 16th birthday. There, the judge revoked his bond.

Then, two police officers walked on either side of Elmore’s slender frame, the shackles around his ankles and wrists and the chain around his waistline jangling with each step. Television reporters and other journalists with cellphones were in place and ready to record this staged perp walk as he slinked toward a white police van.

“Do you have anything to say?” a reporter asked the teenager. No audible response followed. Instead, Elmore climbed

Young Perps: The Costs of Sensationalizing Youth Crime

by Ko Bragg

Many youth are caught up in a criminaljustice system with a long-running history of flip-flopping between punitive and rehabilitative models and inconsistency of who gets charged as an adult and who does not.

Minority youth can be victimized twofold: first by a system that tends to see them as adults more often than it does their white counterparts, and then again by media attention that preys on the same damaging racial stereotypes that got them there in the first place.

Of Chains and a Perp Walk Sheroderick Elmore walked into his

into the vehicle, his head lowered first to clear the car door, but then it remained that way as cameras encroached to continue filming the teenager before the doors shut a final time.

Holmes told the Jackson Free Press that the police department’s protocol for sending out mugshots to media depends on several factors, including public and media demands. But, it can also hinge on “what’s going on at the time,” he said.

JPD typically releases mugshots of juveniles charged with violent crimes to the media—but not always. It is the police department’s discretion to send out a mugshot

after an arrest. In Elmore’s case, the Jackson Free Press received six emails over the course of four days about developments.

Sometime after JPD released his booking photo, other media outlets called JPD to arrange for the perp walk to take place after the teenager’s initial bond hearing.

“Generally, they’ll contact either me or whoever is available that day and just ask if they can get what they call a ‘perp walk,’” Holmes said in an interview. “That’s the term that’s used, and if we can accommodate them, then we’ll do it, but not all the time we’re actually able to do it.”

Holmes added that JPD never initiates a perp walk; they are always in response to media requests. He said the department received more than one request for the opportunity to photograph Elmore, which was another factor that allowed the perp walk to take place. Police also have to schedule the photo op with the court and the jail.

Normally, JPD will not do perp walks for a single media outlet, Holmes said. If only one outlet requests a perp walk and they decide to do it, they may try to let other media outlets know it is taking place.

Reporters then prepare television broadcasts and publish video footage and mugshots online. These images often remain linked through Google searches even if the arrestee is later proven innocent or if a judge moves the case back to youth court, where juveniles have more protections.

Patrick Webb is an associate professor of criminal justice at St. Augustine’s University, a historically black college in Raleigh, N.C., who has done research on the relationship between media coverage and juvenile proceedings. He says research points to a “simple correlation” between the police and the media, meaning “when you see one, you see the other,” and these entities working in tandem can have a severe impact on how young people see themselves.

Webb says that in depicting a “young

By Geography and Race

Today, geography seems to be one of those subjective variables in the juvenile process in Mississippi.

Jody Owens II, managing attorney of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, offered an explanatory anecdote. Say a kid grabs someone’s cellphone out of a car and he happened to have a knife on him. Owens said some people could look at that as aggravated assault, or armed robbery, even if the knife was never exposed. Others would see it as petty theft.

“There’s a wide range of latitudinal control that (law enforcement) has when it comes to charging individuals,” Owens told the Jackson Free Press. “And largely the system of checks and balances would be from the county attorney and prosecutor.”

State law automatically launches certain juveniles into the adult court system due to the nature of their crimes. Because

This is a screenshot from WAPT’s perp-walk video of an accused 16-year-old.

Media asked JPD to stage the demonstration on Nov. 14 for photos and video.

is difficult to take seriously,” Marshall wrote in the dissent. “Surely there is a qualitative difference between imprisonment and the condition of being subject to the supervision and control of an adult who has one’s best interests at heart.”

Marshall added that because juveniles are impressionable, incarceration can be “more injurious to them than to adults,” and that those juveniles subjected to preventive detention come to see society as “hostile and oppressive.”

In turn, they would regard themselves as “irremediably delinquent,” he warned.

“Such serious injuries to presumptively innocent persons—encompassing the curtailment of their constitutional rights to liberty—can be justified only by a weighty public interest that is substantially advanced by the statute,” Marshall wrote.

Elmore allegedly committed an act using a deadly weapon, statutory authority treats him, and any youth as young as 13, as an adult in the jurisdiction of the circuit court.

However, he can be waived into the juvenile system later at the discretion of his lawyers or a public defender through a motion that may or may not be granted—even after his mugshot and perp-walk video have made the rounds, and he has faced cameras.

Owens said that, in his experience, when youth actually face sentencing, juveniles convicted of the same crime get time varying from two years to 10 years to 20 years depending on where they committed the crime.

“We like to highlight in Mississippi (that) it’s just by geography,” Owens said.

“And what that means is that where you are determines how much time you will spend

in prison and what you will be charged with. We see it time and time again. It’s particularly sad and painful for many of us who do this work.”

As of July 2017, the Mississippi Department of Corrections detained 694 youthful offenders under 22 years old in correctional facilities throughout the state.

Nationally, The Sentencing Project found that as of 2015, black youth were more than five times as likely to be detained or committed compared to white youth.

Sentencing Project Data from 2013 indicates that these disparities in arrest rates exist even when black and white youth commit the same type of crime and have residual effects at every point in the justice system thereafter.

“The arrest disparity is the entrance to a maze with fewer exits for African American youth than their white peers,” a Sentencing Project study reads.

In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that transferring youth from the juvenile court system to the adult criminal system “typically results in greater subsequent crime, including violent crime.” One of the CDC studies conducted in Florida found that youth transferred to the adult system had 34 percent more felony re-arrests than youth retained in the juvenile system.

A 2008 Campaign for Youth Justice study shows that African American youth are 62 percent of the youth prosecuted in the adult criminal system and are nine times more likely than white youth to receive an adult prison sentence for similar or even lesser crimes.

Other research points to biases in how the public perceives black youth as more deserving of harsh treatments than white youth. In 2012, a Stanford University study highlighted “the fragility of protections for juveniles when race is in place.”

Researchers asked a sample of 735 white Americans to read about a 14-yearold-male with 17 prior juvenile convictions who brutally raped an elderly woman. Half the respondents were told the offender was black, the other half that he was white.

The study found that participants who were told to envision a black offender more strongly endorsed a policy of sentencing juveniles convicted of violent crimes to life in prison without parole compared to respondents who had a white offender in mind. Those told to envision a black teen also considered juvenile offenders to be more similar to adults in terms of culpability versus respondents who were told the offender was white.

The Stanford researchers purposefully chose a sample group of white Americans because “whites are statistically overrep-

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‘Irremediably Delinquent’

Kids in the Jackson Public School system wear a uniform up until high school.

Entering ninth grade, ditching the school uniform becomes one of the defining transitional moments into adolescence. But, when juveniles are charged with a crime and held in jails or detention centers, they are stripped of many freedoms, including what they can wear. They trade in graphic T-shirts for a uniform mandated by a state ironically lacking homogeneity in its juvenile-justice system.

Earlier this summer, headlines ripped through the country about the tragic murder of Kingston Frazier, a 6-year-old boy who was asleep in the back of his mother’s car that was stolen from the Jackson Kroger parking lot when she ran inside to grab some items late at night. Frazier was later found dead, and three teenagers were charged with capital murder.

Dwan Wakefield Jr. of Ridgeland was granted a $275,000 bond in November.

Wakefield and another suspect, DeAllen Washington, were both 17 at the time of the shooting. Previous statements have painted Byron McBride, 19, as the shooter in this crime, although it is not yet proved.

Capital murder is a crime punishable by death and one for which juveniles can be charged as adults. However, while Elmore faces lesser charges for allegedly murdering Alexandria Love, he is being held without bond, although Wakefield went home.

As early as 1984, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall knew that preadjudicatory detainment was not going to

be applied fairly. Schall v. Martin, a landmark Supreme Court case upheld that juveniles who present a “serious risk” can be held in preventive detention so they do not commit another crime before trial.

The ruling left it to judges to decide, based on their own predictions, who presented a “serious risk” and who did not.

Marshall dissented, citing that the decision left too much room for subjectivity in how judges will decide which juveniles are detained before their cases go to trial and those who can go home.

On the other hand, the majority of justices believed that detention before trial is justified because “juveniles, unlike adults, are always in some form of custody.” Marshall and two other justices disagreed.

“The majority’s arguments do not survive scrutiny. Its characterization of preventive detention as merely a transfer of custody from a parent or guardian to the State

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person that’s not culpable” as a criminal in the media, juveniles can come to see themselves as criminals, and in turn will exhibit that type of behavior in a “self-fulfilling prophecy.”

In a 2008 study, Webb presented a theory that suggested public embarrassment from the media and other tactics could teach children to abstain from criminal behavior to avoid public embarrassment to themselves and their families and to keep from jeopardizing their futures. But, Webb says, these fear-backed, short-term measures like “Scared Straight” tough talks and media “dog-and-pony” shows only create temporary behavior changes. He says the best way to discourage anti-social behavior is not to intimidate or shame the person.

“Exposing children to ‘hey, look this is what can happen to you, look at this perp walk, look at this kid behind these bars,’ it may frighten him and it may expose him, but it’s not going to change his thinking,” Webb said. “It will only frighten him and shock him and entertain him and leave an impression, but that impression will not be permanent, and it will not lead to a change of behavior.”

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Young Perps: The Costs of Sensationalizing Youth Crime, from p 13 resented on juries, in the legal field and in the judiciary.” Notably, this study was conducted when the U.S. Supreme Court was considering if they will ban life without parole for juveniles in the system.

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld life without parole for juveniles as unconstitutional, and last year the court ruled that juvenile lifers would have that statute applied retroactively and be handed new sentences. As of July, Mississippi had 87 people who would need their sentences reviewed, as they had been sentenced as juveniles to life without parole, the Associated Press reported.

this neighborhood just a walkable distance from where Alexandria Love was shot.

Just weeks ago, Elmore and Love both attended Provine High School. Now, the Loves are forced to reckon with their first holiday season without their daughter, as they plan a funeral, and Elmore’s family as he is kept locked up.

Time and permanency are concepts you come to understand better as an adult.

Kids have a harder time dealing with the future and how present actions come into play—little girls don’t understand that cutting off a Barbie doll’s hair means she will never have those long fluid locks again.

For that reason, researchers debate juveniles’ brain development as an indicator of how they should be treated in the eyes of the law. The National Institute of Men-

mit crime happen quickly.” This perception of juveniles then affects how they’re punished in the juvenile-justice system; more perceived maturity means more adult-like punishments.

Even the U.S. Supreme Court accepted adolescent brain science in its 2005 ruling to do away with the death penalty for juveniles. The majority wrote that there are three major differences between juveniles and adults that indicate they “cannot with reliability be classified among the worst offenders.” First is the recognition of juveniles’ comparative immaturity and irresponsibility; second is their susceptibility to peer pressure; and “the third broad difference is that the character of a juvenile is not as well formed as that of an adult.”

However, racial bias influences who

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Still Children, Developmentally

The wall clock in Johnnie McDaniels’ office at Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center is out of sight, but it keeps track of time so loudly you could almost feel every vibrating stroke of the second hand. McDaniels’ office is just off the waiting room in the youth-detention center in Jackson where Elmore is likely being held, as a jailer at the Raymond facility told the Jackson Free Press.

McDaniels would neither confirm or deny if Elmore was there, hoping to preserve some of his confidentiality in light of the fact that every detail from his name, birthday, and even home address has been exposed on the Internet through both media and websites that host mugshots and even addresses Johnnie McDaniels is the executive director of the Henley-Young Juvenile Detention Center in Jackson. He has serious concerns about treatment of young suspects. of people who have been arrested. To get that mugshot down, even if charges are later dropped, the arrestee has the responsibility tal Health reports that the adolescent brain people believe are culpable and who should of contacting the mugshot database and does not begin to resemble adult brains un- take the blame for their actions. A 2013 potentially several others like it and paying til a youth person reaches the early 20s.

Cornell study by Kristin Henning titled a fee.

In a 2011 study on adolescent deci- “Criminalizing Normal Adolescent Behav It costs as high as $50 to remove a sion-making and legal culpability published ior in Communities of Color” points out single mugshot exposed to the public and in the Journal of Health Care Law and just how disparities take place along the revealed in simple Google searches.

Policy, researcher Samantha Schad points color line in juvenile court.

Just a few weeks ago, you could have out the inconsistency in the way researchers “When courts transfer youth to the found Elmore in the Presidential Hills view adolescents’ maturity. adult system, it is equally well documented neighborhood. On a Monday afternoon, Some experts believe juveniles have that black youth receive significantly more the sun low in the sky as the season would mature enough cognitive skills to make im- punitive sentences than white youth,” have it, young black boys seemingly the portant decisions under controlled circum- Henning wrote. “Thus, while courts may same age as Elmore played basketball in stances, while others believe that adoles- forgive or excuse white youth for engaging a nearby park—a rare maintained green cents are psychosocially immature, which in reckless adolescent behavior, courts often space in Jackson. Presidential Hills is a hinders their ability to “perceive future con- perceive youth of color as wild, uncontrolquaint neighborhood with houses all built sequences and increasing their susceptibility lable, and morally corrupt and hold them seemingly uniformly in size and structure, to risk-taking and impulsivity.” fully culpable for their conduct.” but varying in color and outer material.

When it comes to quick decisions, McDaniels says these same principles

Disinterested in talking to media, and Schad adds, adolescents’ immaturity can of youth brain science apply even when seemingly confused about what is happen- lead to bad decisions, especially in the crim- something really tragic happens 14 ing to their boy, the Elmores have a home in inal context “when most decisions to com- “Juveniles, no matter how serious the

offense they’re charged with, do not necessarily understand that this could be something that complicates your life for the rest of your life,” McDaniels said in his office in south Jackson. “They tend to rationalize things in a way that makes you understand that even though they committed an adult act, they don’t process it the same way.”

McDaniels, also an attorney, added that subsequent media scrutiny only hinders young people’s capacity to function even further.

“When they are sensationalized, when they are put in the media, they are stigmatized, you do some serious—,” he pauses and continues, “—that produces some serious mental health challenges for juveniles who are charged as adults.”

Webb, the St. Augustine’s professor, said that when examining treatment of juveniles in the media, he sees a difference in the precautions taken at every level of the system—including whether or not the child’s identity will be released to media.

“What’s funny is this,” Webb told the Jackson Free Press. “If it’s a white youth that’s being accused of a heinous crime, then all of a sudden the authorities will take every precautionary measure to secure and not disclose that child’s identity because again there’s a lack of culpability—he’s not an adult, you follow me?

“But when it’s a black person, all of a sudden culpability is not even discussed.

This person is just completely dangerous— it’s because of his environment, he has no morals, it’s because of poverty, a lack of father, and so on. So, you see this double standard.”

Carousel of Injustice

“Super-predator” rhetoric emerged in the 1980s based on faulty “science” that indicated that many young men, particularly young men of color, were genetically inclined to be criminals and, thus, could not be rehabilitated. Media and politicians of both major parties latched onto the concept, using it as an excuse to pass tougher sentencing and discipline policies that many experts say led to mass incarceration of people of color, even as the crack epidemic was subsiding and youth crime was dropping in the nation.

During the same span, in 1989, the world was outraged when five teenagers pled guilty for allegedly brutalizing a white female jogger in Manhattan’s Central Park.

Then-business mogul Donald Trump took out a full-page ad in The New York Times advocating for the death sentence for the young men. After the Central Park Five served several years in prison, however, they were exonerated and released when the real murderer came forward, and it was determore PERPS, see page 16

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1990s, violent juvenile crime, particularly homicide, had spiked during the crack era.

As research from 2013 on reforming juvenile justice by the National Academies of Sciences pointed out, this increase became the “catalyst for (juvenile justice) reform during this period”—making it tougher.

The fear of black youth came to a head when President Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, ushering in tougher sentences on crack versus cocaine, three-strikes laws and zero-tolerance discipline, as well as the development of more private prisons.

This pivotal era in history ultimately gave way to something Webb calls the “merry-go-round,” that media propelled and is kept spinning by money.

tough time trying to re-adjust trying to go back to school. He’s been on the news for, you know, this sensational horrific act.

“There are a bunch of juveniles who come through this facility charged with all types of things, and in the end they were not guilty of them,” he added.

This is why McDaniels thinks these adult charges should be evaluated on the back end, out of the public eye and through a youth court-driven system. He added that he is not viscerally against juveniles being charged as adults for violent crimes, but he does believe the system is unnecessarily complicated and that youth-court involvement upfront could help.

“I think there should be hearings and court proceedings by the youth-court judge, Trip Burns / File Photo

mined that police had coerced the youth into taking the blame. This case serves as a harsh reminder that accused teenagers can actually be innocent long after their mugshots flash through Twitter.

As early as the President Richard Nixon administration of the 1970s, it became clear that racial biases and policies would continue to plague the criminal-justice system. Nixon began the “War on Drugs” that contributed to nationalized fear and prejudice through his rhetoric bashing drug users and toughening sentences.

Harper’s Magazine in April 2016 resurfaced a quote from a 1994 interview with former Nixon aide John Ehrlichman that revealed the administration had a targeted goal to lock up African Americans.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people.

You understand what I’m saying?” Ehrlichman told reporter Dan Baum. “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

In the 1980s, politicians continued to associate blacks with crime as a way to secure voters—pandering to their heightened fear of black men. During the 1988 U.S. presidential election, a notorious ad juxtaposed former President George H.W. Bush’s stance on crime with that of challenger Michael Dukakis.

The ad touted Bush as being tough on crime and supporting the death penalty, and shamed Dukakis for giving an African American man, Willie Horton, a weekend visitation pass from prison during which time he escaped and raped a woman. The ad displayed Horton’s mugshot and details his criminal history in efforts to make Dukakis look soft on crime, but also to equate danger with black men.

Bush’s drug czar and other conservatives quickly branded young men of color as “super-predators” who would multiply and who “posed a grave threat to society—a threat that advocates predicted would worsen unless drastic measures were taken,” the National Academies of Sciences’ reported.

Policies in the juvenile system went from rehabilitative to punitive in many states as a response to fear that was racially charged— even as early believers in the super-predator myth later renounced it.

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Jody Owens II, the managing attorney for the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, says juvenile suspects too often are treated poorly.

“So now you have this merry-goround here,” Webb said. “You keep shaping the image through the media,” Webb said, “which justifies severe policies and programs in law, which in term feeds into the prison-industrial-complex. And when the stockholders get paid, and they will, then of course they’re going to go back to those policy makers through their lobbyists and support their campaigns.”

Solutions in ‘The Sip’

Back at the Henley-Young detention center, McDaniels knows that the only thing he can control is the type of care and services juveniles receive in his center. But he is still concerned about what happens to juveniles charged as adults and sensationalized in the media sphere.

“The facts may not turn out to be what they are,” McDaniels said. “But what you have is a kid that would have a pretty

and there should be more court involvement in the process,” he said. This would also keep juveniles, no matter how they’re charged, out of the public eye—anonymity is a privilege only afforded to the juveniles that do not get charged as adults.

“You should not have a juvenile charged as an adult, put into the adult system, take two to three years for that child to be indicted and charged, and they lost those two years in the system,” he said.

McDaniels has run Henley-Young for the last two-and-a-half years. He brings a decade-long experience of prosecutorial work to his role as the chief caretaker of some of the most vulnerable and at-risk youth in the region. Those years showed him just how fast the revolving door spins kids in and out of the juvenile system and later into the adult system was in something he calls the “school-to-Henley-Young-toRaymond-to-Parchman pipeline.”

In the detention center, McDaniels has seen reading levels increase. He works to ensure that kids receive the mental care they may not have ever gotten otherwise.

He estimates that in the last 10 years, the recidivism rate was probably about 50 percent, and within the last two since changing to a rehabilitative model, only about three of every 10 kids come back, usually for drug or alcohol issues, he said.

Henley-Young and the juvenile-justice system in Hinds County and the surrounding areas have gone through several changes in recent years mandated through a consent decree reached in 2012 after the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU and Jackson-based civil-rights attorney Robert McDuff sued the Mississippi Department of Corrections in November 2010, alleging a culture of violence and corruption that endangered youths.

The lawsuit came about to fix Walnut Grove Correctional Facility in Leake County, a private prison that housed juvenile offenders charged with an adult crime until they were old enough to go to adult prison.

The facility closed in the fall of 2016, with the former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Marshall Fisher citing “budget constraints and the prison population.” There was also significant controversy that preceded the closure.

The consent decree required MDOC to establish a “Youthful Offender Unit” that exists as a separate facility at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County. In June 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice settled with the Hinds County jail system, requiring a systemic turnaround of bad practices. Part of the DOJ’s requirements were for better treatment of youthful offenders held in their facilities.

Owens of Southern Poverty Law Center said that the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, who are responsible for the jail and its budget, determined they do not have enough resources to put juveniles charged as adults in their own proper facility. So they decided to put those juveniles in Henley-Young instead of holding them in the county jail. McDaniels said as of September, juveniles charged as adults could be phased into Henley-Young in conjunction with the sheriff’s department—providing a less-harmful environment than they previously would have faced.

It’s a start, the experts say. “That’s really exciting and groundbreaking for Mississippi to be doing this in Henley-Young of all places,” Owens said. “Because of the myth of the ‘super-predator’ and the myth that these kids are different.”

Read and comment on the JFP’s ongoing coverage of youth-crime causes and solutions at jfp.ms/preventingviolence. Email city reporter Ko Bragg at ko@jacksonfreepress.com.

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The Christmas by Candlelight Tour is in downtown Jackson.

The Metro Jackson Heart Walk is at the Mississippi State Capitol.

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WEDNESDAY 11/29

The Mississippi State University Women’s Basketball Game is at 7 p.m. at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The MSU Bulldogs face off against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Ragin’ Cajuns. $5 for adults, $3 for ages 17 and under, $10 reserved seating; call 800-7453000; ticketmaster.com.

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“Dine Against Darkness—Illuminating Child Trafficking” is at 6:30 p.m. at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The limited-light dinner is a benefit for The Hard Places Community, which fights sex trafficking around the world. Includes music, a silent auction, and guest speakers Alli Mellon and Panha Yin. $75; thehardplaces.org. …

Curren$y’s Pilot Talk Trilogy Tour is at 9 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The New Orleans, La., hip-hop artist is touring to promote his three-album “Pilot Talk” series. Doors open at 8 p.m. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; call 877-987-6487; ardenland.net.

New Orleans hiphop artist Curren$y performs at Duling Hall on Thursday, Nov. 30.

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SATURDAY 12/2

The Central Mississippi Record Convention is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The annual event features dozens of vinyl record, tape and CD vendors from

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FRIDAY 12/1

Chimneyville Crafts Festival is from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The 20 holiday shopping event features 150 craft vendors from

SUNDAY 12/3

The Mississippi Girlchoir’s Fall Holiday Concert is at 3 p.m. at Galloway United Methodist Church (305 N. Congress St.). The program includes holiday favorites with selections from variety of genres, historical periods and geographic locations. $15 admission; call 769-218-9398; email msgirlchoir@msgirlchoir.org; msgirlchoir.org.

MONDAY 12/4

“Ghost Stories of Mississippi” is at 9 p.m. at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.) in Barber Auditorium.

The Belhaven chapter of Alpha Psi Omega presents the fundraiser production of the Joseph Frost-penned thriller.

Includes hot chocolate. Additional date: Dec. 5, 9 p.m. $2 suggested donation; find it on Facebook.

TUESDAY 12/5

Sara Camp Milam signs copies of “The Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails” at 5 p.m. at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202). $29.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com. …

Best Dressed Jackson is from 6 p.m. 11 p.m. at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The event honors 20 individuals whom the community nominated for their contributions to society. Includes auctions, a wine pull, a jewelry pull, food from local restaurants, drinks and more. Proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. $75 per person; call 601-667-3038; find it on Facebook.

WEDNESDAY 12/6

The Street Corner Symphony Christmas Show is at 7:30 p.m. at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). The Nashville, Tenn.-based a cappella quintet was the runner-up on season two of the NBC singing competition show “The Sing-Off.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Fully seated event. $20 in advance, $25 at the door; call 877-9876487; ardenland.net.

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Events at Beth Israel Synagogue (5315 Old Canton Road) • “Civil Rights & Jews: Continuing the Special Relationship” Nov. 30, 7 p.m. Panelists include Corey Wiggins, Frank Figgers, Stuart Rockoff and Beth Orlansky. The panel discusses Jewish heritage in Mississippi, and how the NAACP and other civil rights groups worked together to promote integration and equality in Mississippi. Free; call 601-487-2743.

Mississippi State University Women’s Basketball Game Nov. 29, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). MSU faces off against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. $5 for adults, $3 for ages 17 and under, $10 reserved seating; ticketmaster.com.

K-LOVE Christmas 2017 Nov. 30, 7 p.m., at Pinelake Church Reservoir Campus (6071 Lakeland Drive, Brandon). Steven Curtis Chapman, Hillary Scott and the Scott Family, and We Are Messengers perform. $18-$190; k-love.com.

22nd Annual Christmas by Candlelight Tour Dec. 1, 4:30-8:30 p.m., in downtown Jackson.

The holiday tour includes stops at the State Capitol, Governor’s Mansion, Old Capitol Museum, Manship House Museum, Welty House and Garden, and Winter Archives & History Building. Free admission, includes transportation between sites; mdah.ms.gov.

Central Mississippi Record Convention Dec. 2, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.).

The annual event features dozens of vinyl record, tape and CD vendors from around the region and beyond. $5 admission; find it on Facebook.

2017 Holiday Parade Dec. 2, noon, in downtown Jackson. This parade is themed “A Jackson Hometown Holiday … Past, Present & Future.”

Free admission; jacksonms.gov.

Church Kneel-Ins: What Happened & What It Meant Dec. 2, 2-4 p.m., at Tougaloo College (500 W. County Line Road). At Woodworth Chapel. Carter Dalton Lyon moderates the panel that includes Rims Barber, Camille McKay, Ida Hannah Sanders, Joe Reiff and Rev. Ed King.

Free; call 601-354-1535; find it on Facebook.

Midtown Holiday Studio Tours Dec. 2, 3-8 p.m., in Midtown. The annual event features arts exhibitions, music, arts and craft vendors, food vendors and more, at studios and businesses throughout midtown. Free; find it on Facebook.

Santa Rampage Dec. 2, 3-9 p.m., at Lucky Town Brewing Company (1710 N. Mill St.). The fifth annual holiday party features beers, food, studio tours and music from the Jason Daniels Band.

Prices vary; find it on Facebook.

How Do We “Kneel-in” and Witness in Jackson Today? Dec. 3, 2-4 p.m., at Old Capitol Museum (100 S. State St.). Augustus Argrett leads the panel discussion featuring Von Gordon, Ralph Eubanks, Rev. David McCoy, John Perkins and Perry Perkins. Free; find it on Facebook.

KIDS Santa Saturdays Dec. 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). Children can take photos with Santa and explore the “Journey to the North Pole” holiday exhibit. $10; mschildrensmuseum.org.

The Sugarplum Fairy’s Tea Party Dec. 2-3, noon, at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The pre-performance party for “The Nutcracker” includes a sit-down lunch, and visits with the characters. $35; balletms.com.

FOOD & DRINK Sour Beer Tasting Dec. 6, 5-7 p.m., at Hops & Habanas (2771 Old Canton Road). Southern Beverage hosts the tasting featuring sours from a variety of breweries. Free; hopsandhabanas.com.

Metro Jackson Heart Walk Dec. 2, 8 a.m., at Mississippi State Capitol (400 High St.). The 5K walk benefits American Heart Association. Registration at 8 a.m., and walk at 9:15 a.m. $250 suggested goal; metrojacksonheartwalk.org.

SLATE

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Curren$y Pilot Talk Trilogy Tour Nov. 30, 9 p.m. The New Orleans, La., hip-hop artist is touring to promote his three-album “Pilot Talk” series. Doors open at 8 p.m. $25 in advance, $30 at the door; ardenland.net.

the best in sports over the next seven days

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

It was a tough week for Mississippi State University football.

The Bulldogs lost quarterback Nick Fitzgerald at the start of the Egg Bowl on Thanksgiving, lost the game, and on Sunday, lost head coach Dan Mullen to Florida.

THURSDAY, NOV. 30

College basketball (6-8 p.m., SECN): The Mississippi State University men’s team looks to stay undefeated in the early nonconference slate against North Dakota State.

FRIDAY, DEC. 1

College football (7-10:30 p.m., ESPN): USC looks to keep its slim playoff hopes alive in the Pac-12 title game against Stanford.

SATURDAY, DEC. 2

College football (3:30-7 p.m., ESPNU): Championship Saturday features the final SWAC Championship Game as Alcorn State looks to upset Grambling State.

SUNDAY, DEC. 3

NFL (3:25-7 p.m., FOX): The New Orleans Saints will be looking for the season sweep of Carolina Panthers in a battle for the NFC South lead.

STAGE & SCREEN “Our Forgotten Roots: The Unkept Promise” Nov. 30, 6-9 p.m., at Smith Robertson Museum & Cultural Center (303 N. Farish St.). The film explores the roots of the Civil Rights Movement.

Free admission; blackhistoryplus.com.

“Black Nativity” Nov. 30, 7-9 p.m., Dec. 1, 10 a.m.-noon, Dec. 2, 7-9 p.m., Dec. 3, 4:30-6:30 p.m., at Jackson State University (1400 J.R. Lynch St.). In Rose E. McCoy Auditorium.

MADDRAMA presents the holiday musical. $10, $5 for seniors and students; jsums.edu.

“The Nutcracker” Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 2-3, 2 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). Ballet Mississippi presents the classic holiday story. $15-$40; balletms.com.

“Ghost Stories of Mississippi” Dec. 4-5, 9 p.m., at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). In Barber Auditorium. Joseph Frost penned the thriller. $2 donation; find it on Facebook.

MONDAY, DEC. 4

NFL (7:30-11 p.m., ESPN): The best this slow sports Monday has to offer is the Bengals hosting the Steelers in an AFC North showdown.

TUESDAY, DEC. 5

College basketball (8-10 p.m., ESPN2): The Texas A&M men’s team looks to pull off an upset against Arizona in a battle of currently ranked teams.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 6

College basketball (8-10 p.m., ESPN2): The slow sports week continues with Kansas hosting Washington in what is the best of a poor slate.

While Mississippi State is looking for a football coach, the University of Mississippi found its man. The Rebels decided to name interim coach Matt Luke as their official new head coach and now have to worry about the NCAA hammer.

• 14th Annual Night of Musical Artistry Dec. 1, 7 p.m. Rita B. is the host. The Mississippi Jazz Foundation concert features Avery*Sunshine and Mike Burton. Doors open at 6 p.m. $40; missjazzfoundation.com.

• Riley Green Dec. 2, 9 p.m., The Jacksonville, Ala.-native country artist performs. Doors open at 8 p.m. $10; ardenland.net.

• Street Corner Symphony Christmas Show Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. The a cappella quintet was the runner-up on NBC’s “The Sing Off.” $20 in advance, $25 at the door; ardenland.net.

85th Annual Singing Christmas Tree Dec. 1-2, 7:30 p.m., at Belhaven University (1500 Peachtree St.). The annual holiday concert features Christmas carols with conductor Christopher Phillips and a choir of Belhaven students, faculty and staff. Free; find it on Facebook.

Saliva Dec. 2, 8 p.m., at The Hideaway (5100 Interstate 55 N. Frontage Road). The Memphis,

Tenn.-native modern-rock band is known for hit songs such as “Always” and “Rest in Pieces.” $20 general admission, $55 VIP; find it on Facebook.

Fall Holiday Concert—Mississippi Girlchoir Dec. 3, 3-4 p.m., at Galloway United Methodist Church (305 N. Congress St.). The program includes holiday favorites with selections from variety of genres, historical periods and geographic locations. $15 admission; msgirlchoir.org.

LITERARY SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (Banner Hall, 4465 Interstate 55 N., Suite 202) • “Growing Weeders into Leaders” Nov. 29, 5 p.m. Jeff McManus signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $16.95 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Sanctuaries of Segregation: The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign” Nov. 30, 5 p.m. Carter Dalton Lyon signs copies. $28 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist” Dec. 3, 11:30 a.m. Marion Barnwell and Libby Hartfield discuss the book. $20 book; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails” Dec. 5, 5 p.m. Sara Camp Milam signs copies and discusses the book. $29.95 book; call 601-366-7619; lemuriabooks.com.

“Writing the World Whole: The Nature Writer’s Task” Dec. 1, 1 p.m., at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex. Susan Cerulean discusses her book, “Coming to Pass: Florida’s Coastal Islands in a Gulf of Change.” Free; millsaps.edu.

EXHIBIT OPENINGS Chimneyville Crafts Festival Nov. 30, 6-9 p.m., Dec. 1-2, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The holiday shopping event features 150 craft vendors. The preview party is Nov. 30. $10 per day, $50 preview party; craftsmenguildofms.org.

“Keep Building Jackson” Opening Reception Dec. 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The reception is for the Lego exhibit, which recreates some of the notable locales of Jackson. Exhibit on display through Jan. 13. Free admission; art.ms.gov.

BE THE CHANGE 2017 Torchbearers Celebration Nov. 30, 5:30-8 p.m., at Arts Center of Mississippi (201 E. Pascagoula St.). The event honors advocates for citizens with disabilities, and includes a silent auction, food, drinks, music, and a sneak preview of “Keep Building Jackson.” $40; msccd.org.

Dine Against Darkness—Illuminating Child Trafficking Nov. 30, 6:30 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The limited-light dinner is a benefit for The Hard Places Community, which fights sex trafficking around the world.

Includes music, a silent auction, and speakers Alli Mellon and Panha Yin. $75; thehardplaces.org.

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.

Nov. 29 - Wednesday Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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

Hal & Mal’s - Sherman Lee Dillon 6-9 p.m.

Johnny T’s - Akami Graham 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Shaun Patterson 6-10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sofa Kings 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

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Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Smackwater 8 p.m.

Belhaven University - Singing Christmas Tree 7:30 p.m. free Cerami’s - Doug Bishop & James Bailey 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Joseph LaSalla 6-9 p.m.

Duling Hall - Night of Musical Artistry feat. Avery*Sunshine w/ Mike Burton & the Good Time Brass Band 7 p.m. $40 F. Jones Corner - Sherman Lee Dillon midnight $10

Dec. 2 - Saturday Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - The Prophecy 8 p.m. $10 Belhaven University - Singing Christmas Tree 7:30 p.m. free Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Larry Brewer 6-9 p.m.

Duling Hall - Riley Green 9 p.m. $10

Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m.; Hairicane 8 p.m. $5; Josh Journeay 10 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Dexter Allen 9 p.m.

WonderLust - Drag Performance & Dance Party feat. DJ Taboo 8 p.m.-3 a.m. free before 10 p.m.

Dec. 3 - Sunday 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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

Galloway UMC - MS Girlchoir Fall Holiday Concert 3-4 p.m. $15 The Hideaway - Sunday Jam 4-8 p.m. free Kathryn’s - Owens Brothers 6-9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Ronnie Brown noon-4 p.m.; Keys vs. Strings 5-9 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Raphael Semmes Trio 11 a.m.; Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

DIVERSIONS | music

A Jazzy Night in Jackson

by Brinda Fuller Willis

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he South meets the North for the latest installment of the Mississippi Jazz Foundation’s annual “Night of Musical Artistry,” an evening of jazz beats and sultry vocals at Duling Hall on Dec. 1. Radio personality and comedian Rita Brent will host the event, which features music from Avery*Sunshine along with Mike Burton and the Good Times Brass Band.

Ann Burton, who is the president of the Mississippi Jazz Foundation and mother of Mike, says that the 14th annual event

third album, “Twenty Sixty Four,” which peaked at No. 17 on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart.

Mike Burton grew up in Jackson and attended the Power Academic & Performing Arts Complex, also known as Power APAC. Today, he lives in Atlanta and is an accomplished jazz, R&B and soul saxophonist who has worked with internationally known artists such as Mary J. Blige, PJ Morton, Jill Scott, Anita Baker, Lecrae and Patti LaBelle. He released his latest album, “Say What?”, Courtesy Mike Burton / Courtesy Young Sir Photography

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 - Curren$y w/ Mike Floss 9 p.m. $25 advance $30 door F. Jones Corner - Raul Valinti & the F. Jones Challenge Band 10 p.m. $5 Fenian’s - Spirits of the House 9 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Jim Tomlinson Georgia Blue, Madison - Brandon Greer Iron Horse Grill - Jimmy “Duck” Holmes 6 p.m.

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

Lost Pizza, Brandon - Ron Sennett 6 p.m.

Martin’s - Patrick Sweany 10 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Stace & Cassie 6-10 p.m.

Pinelake Church, Brandon - Steven Curtis Chapman, Hillary Scott & We Are Messengers 7 p.m. $18-$190 Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m. free Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

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

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Thomas Jackson Georgia Blue, Madison - Shaun Patterson Iron Horse Grill - Chris Gill 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Faze 4 7-10:30 p.m.

M Bar - Flirt Fridays feat. DJ 901 free Martin’s - CBDB 10 p.m. $10 Pelican Cove - Lovin Ledbetter 7-11 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 5:30 p.m.; Hairicane 8 p.m. $5; Todd Smith 10 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Underground 119 - Lonn’e George & the Mo’ Blues Band 8:30 p.m.

Wasabi - “The Crush: All R&B Party” feat. Kujho & the Nasty Sho 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

WonderLust - DJ Taboo 8 p.m.2 a.m.

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Dec. 4 - Monday Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Dec. 5 - Tuesday

Jason Daniels F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $1; Sherman Lee Dillon midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Kevin “Ace” Robinson Georgia Blue, Madison - Skip & Mike The Hideaway - Saliva 8 p.m. $20 admission $55 VIP Highland Village - The Market feat.

Sound Wagon 1-3 p.m. free Iron Horse Grill - Joe Carroll & Cooper Miles 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Travelin’ Jane 7-10:30 p.m.

Lucky Town - Santa Rampage feat.

Jason Daniels Band 3-9 p.m.

Martin’s - Universal Sigh 10 p.m. $10 Offbeat - Pink Palaces, NF//GS, The Empty House & Mastadon 8 p.m. free Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads 6-10 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 - Stace & Cassie 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Last Call - DJ Spoon 9 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

Dec. 6 - Wednesday Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Clinton High - Attaché Show Choir Fall Revue 7:30 p.m. $10 Drago’s - Johnny Barranco 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Duling Hall - Street Corner Symphony Christmas Show 7:30 p.m. $20 advance $25 door Hops & Habanas - RJ Starr 6-9 p.m.

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

Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads 6-10 p.m.

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

11/29 - Alter Bridge - Iron City, Birmingham 11/30 - Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox - Varsity Theatre, Baton Rouge 12/1 - Colter Wall - Hi-Tone Cafe, Memphis 12/5 - The Drums - One Eyed Jack’s, New Orleans

“Night of Musical Artistry” takes place Saturday, Dec. 1, this year and features musicians Avery*Sunshine and Mike Burton & the Good Times Brass Band.

is both a celebration for jazz lovers in Jackson and beyond, and a way to support the music form in Mississippi.

“I’m aware that jazz is not the music that the world associates with our state, but the Mississippi Jazz Foundation puts the spotlight on jazz with two of the hottest young giants in the field of jazz,” she says.

“Avery*Sunshine has worldwide acclaim, having worked with the likes of Tyler Perry, Anthony Hamilton and renowned jazzman Roy Ayers, and Michael Burton has made a name for himself, also working with Tyler Perry early on and now has his solo career that has proven to be stellar for a kid from Mississippi.”

Sunshine is a Chester, Penn.-native soul and R&B singer-songwriter whose given name is Denise Nicole White. She began playing piano at age 8 and gave her first recital at 13. She later attended Spelman College in Atlanta, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1998, although she also studied piano during college, as well. White adopted the stage name Avery*Sunshine in the early 2000s and released her debut self-titled album in 2010. In April of this year, she released her

via Monarch Records in July.

Ann Burton says: “The Night of Musical Artistry is a diverse, family-friendly event, and I expect to see many of our repeat, seasoned fans in the audience. Our goal is to highlight young local jazz-music practitioners who are preserving the genre, paired with historical figures who are the forerunners of the music in the field (who) have state, national and international prominence.”

This year, honorees include vocalist Lisa Palmer; Jessie Primer III, a musician and educator at Tougaloo College; musician and retired educator Louis “Jivin’” Jones; music producer and songwriter Stan Jones, who is the co-owner and president of GRAND Recording Studios and Clout Music Group; musician Tevin McGuire, who competed on “America’s Got Talent;” and Andrea Montgomery, the dean of humanities at Tougaloo College.

“Night of Musical Artistry” is at 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $40 at ticketmaster.com or call 800-7453000. For more information, find the Mississippi Jazz Foundation on Facebook.

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Governor’s Mansion • Manship House • Old Capitol Museum State Capitol • Eudora Welty House and Garden • State Archives

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Thomas Cantwell Healy (1820-1889), Charlotte Davis Wiley, 1853. oil on canvas. Estate of Mary Swords Boehmer, Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

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48 Jocularity 49 “___ big deal” 51 Greek islanders 54 “Between My Head and the Sky” singer 55 Cocktail named for a Scottish hero 56 Container for cash and carry 61 Natural skin cream ingredient 62 Formal dance full of angora fleece wearers?

64 “___ put our heads together ...”

65 Story element 66 Inventor of the first electric battery 67 Some deodorants 68 Pianist Dame Myra 69 Fundamental principle

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37 On one’s own 39 Some big shade sources 44 Professor McGonagall, in the Potterverse 47 Southeast Asian language that becomes a country if you add an S 50 Playroom container 51 Bond portrayer, still 52 John who married Pocahontas 53 Nature spirit of Greek myth

54 Suffix for pepper 56 Electrical units now called siemens 57 Some muffin ingredients 58 Indonesian island 59 Choir range 60 Bowie’s rock genre 63 Soccer stadium shout ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com)

Last Week’s Answers

For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800 655-6548. Reference puzzle #852.

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“Mighty Mo” —gaining momentum.

Across

1 Feudal underlings 6 “Master of None” star Ansari 10 Give off 14 Ancient Greek public square 15 Meet head-on 16 Pre-stereo sound, for short 17 Little googly attachments stuck to a spiky hairdo?

19 McGregor of “Miles Ahead” 20 Resign 21 Laborious 23 Little doggo 24 Names in the news?

25 Gets there 28 A in French class?

30 Appt. on a business calendar 31 “Now I’m onto you!”

32 Like universal blood recipients 35 Beehive State college team 38 Marshy ground 40 “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie” author 41 Forage holder 42 Feature of some gyms 43 Game show contestant’s stand 45 Running pro?

46 T-shirt size range, initially

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12 Seriously silly 13 Barbecue utensils 18 “Keystone” character 22 Lucasfilm’s special effects co.

24 Grin and ___ 25 Free ticket, for short 26 Canton’s state 27 Emo place to roll some strikes?

28 Violin strokes marked with a “v” 29 “___ say more?”

33 “Reckon so” 34 A/C measurement 36 Tesla founder Musk

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“Sum Sudoku”

Put one digit from 1-9 in each square of this Sudoku so that the following three conditions are met: 1) each row, column and 3x3 box (as marked off by heavy lines in the grid) contains the digits 1-9 exactly one time; 2) no digit is repeated within any of the areas marked off by dotted lines; and 3) the sums of the numbers in each area marked off by dotted lines total the little number given in each of those areas. Now do what I tell you— solve!! psychosudoku@gmail.com

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“What is love?” asks philosopher Richard Smoley. “It’s come to have a greeting-card quality,” he mourns. “Half the time ‘loving’ someone is taken to mean nurturing a warmish feeling in the heart for them, which mysteriously evaporates the moment the person has some concrete need or irritates us.” One of your key assignments in the next 10 months will be to purge any aspects of this shrunken and shriveled kind of love that may still be lurking in your beautiful soul. You are primed to cultivate an unprecedented new embodiment of mature, robust love.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

You know that unfinished task you have half-avoided, allowing it to stagnate? Soon you’ll be able to summon the gritty determination required to complete it. I suspect you’ll also be able to carry out the glorious rebirth you’ve been shy about climaxing. To gather the energy you need, reframe your perspective so that you can feel gratitude for the failure or demise that has made your glorious rebirth necessary and inevitable.

1. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” —George Bernard Shaw. 2. “Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.”

—W. Somerset Maugham. 3. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” —Friedrich Nietzsche.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

In an ideal world, your work and your character would speak for themselves. You’d receive exactly the amount of recognition and appreciation you deserve. You wouldn’t have to devote as much intelligence to selling yourself as you did to developing your skills in the first place. But now forget everything I just said. During the next 10 months, I predict that packaging and promoting yourself won’t be so #$@&%*! important. Your work and character WILL speak for themselves with more vigor and clarity than they have before.

I suggest that you take a piece of paper and write down a list of your biggest fears. Then call on the magical force within you that is bigger and smarter than your fears. Ask your deep sources of wisdom for the poised courage you need to keep those scary fantasies in their proper place.

And what is their proper place? Not as the masters of your destiny, not as controlling agents that prevent you from living lustily, but rather as helpful guides that keep you from taking foolish risks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

In his book “Life: The Odds,” Gregory Baer says that the odds you will marry a millionaire are not good: 215-to-1.

They’re 60,000-to-1 that you’ll wed royalty and 88,000-to-1 that you’ll date a model. After analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I suspect your chances of achieving these feats will be even lower than usual. That’s because you’re far more likely to cultivate synergetic and symbiotic relationships with people who enrich your soul and stimulate your imagination, but don’t necessarily pump up your ego. Instead of models and millionaires, you’re likely to connect with practical idealists, energetic creators and emotionally intelligent people who’ve done work to transmute their own darkness.

There used to be a booth at a Santa Cruz flea market called “Joseph Campbell’s Love Child.” It was named after the mythological scholar who wrote the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The booth’s proprietor sold items that spurred one’s “heroic journey,” like talismans made to order and herbs that stimulated courage and mini-books with personalized advice based on one’s horoscope.

“Chaos-Tamers” were also for sale. They were magic spells designed to help people manage the messes that crop up in one’s everyday routine while pursuing a heroic quest.

Given the current astrological omens, Pisces, you would benefit from a place that sold items like these. Since none exists, do the next best thing: Aggressively drum up all the help and inspiration you need. You can and should be well-supported as you follow your dreams on your hero’s journey.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

I hope that everything doesn’t come too easily for you in the coming weeks. I’m worried you will meet with no obstructions and face no challenges. And that wouldn’t be good. It might weaken your willpower and cause your puzzle-solving skills to atrophy. Let me add a small caveat, however. It’s also true that right about now you deserve a whoosh of slack. I’d love for you to be able to relax and enjoy your well-deserved rewards. But on the other hand, I know you will soon receive an opportunity to boost yourself up to an even higher level of excellence and accomplishment. I want to be sure that when it comes, you are at peak strength and alertness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

You were born with the potential to give the world specific gifts—benefits and blessings that are unique to you. One of those gifts has been slow in developing. You’ve never been ready to confidently offer it in its fullness. In fact, if you have tried to bestow it in the past, it may have caused problems. But the good news is that in the coming months, this gift will finally be ripe. You’ll know how to deal crisply with the interesting responsibilities it asks you to take on.

Here’s your homework: Get clear about what this gift is and what you will have to do to offer it in its fullness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Happy Unbirthday, Gemini! You’re halfway between your last birthday and your next. That means you’re free to experiment with being different from who you have imagined yourself to be and who other people expect you to be. Here are inspirational quotes to help you celebrate.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

What might you do to take better care of yourself in 2018, Virgo? According to my reading of the astrological omens, this will be a fertile meditation for you to keep revisiting.

Here’s a good place to start: Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn about what makes your body operate at peak efficiency and what keeps your soul humming along with the sense that your life is interesting. Here’s another crucial task: Intensify your love for yourself. With that as a driving force, you’ll be led to discover the actions necessary to supercharge your health. P.S.: Now is an ideal time to get this project underway.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Here are themes I suggest you specialize in during the coming weeks. 1. How to gossip in ways that don’t diminish and damage your social network, but rather foster and enhance it. 2. How to be in three places at once without committing the mistake of being nowhere at all. 3. How to express precisely what you mean without losing your attractive mysteriousness. 4. How to be nosy and brash for fun and profit. 5. How to unite and harmonize the parts of yourself and your life that have been at odds with each other.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

I predict that in the coming months you won’t feel compulsions to set your adversaries’ hair on fire. You won’t fantasize about robbing banks to raise the funds you need, nor will you be tempted to worship the devil. And the news just gets better. I expect that the amount of self-sabotage you commit will be close to zero. The monsters under your bed will go on a long sabbatical. Any lame excuses you have used in the past to justify bad behavior will melt away.

And you’ll mostly avoid indulging in bouts of irrational and unwarranted anger. In conclusion, Scorpio, your life should be pretty evil-free for quite some time. What will you do with this prolonged outburst of grace? Use it wisely!

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