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ON THE COVER Joe Biden and Eastland photos by Ashton Pittman; AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi

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6 Asking for Change A lawmaker is calling for the state to add sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to its existing hate-crimes statute.

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larksdale native D.J. Hawkins became fascinated with gastroenterology, or the study of the digestive system, at age 15 when he began researching the field after developing chronic gastrointestinal reflux disease, also known as acid reflux.

“I always wanted to be a doctor because I love how flexible the medical field is, but when I developed stomach issues and started reading about digestive health, I ended up falling in love with the field,” Hawkins says. “I wanted to learn more and find out all about how digestive health affects people.”

As part of his efforts to learn more, Hawkins spent a week shadowing a gastroenterologist in Columbus, Miss. While there, he learned about procedures such as colonoscopies and endoscopies, which involve using a tube with a light and camera to examine different parts of the digestive tract. The doctors also helped him learn about his acid reflux and treat it through medication, and developing a better daily eating plan, he says.

Hawkins, 21, is a lifelong resident of Clarksdale and went to high school at the Mississippi School of Mathematics and Science in Columbus. He graduated from MSMSC in 2015 and enrolled at Millsaps College in August that year. He is currently in his senior year and set to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in biochem-

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D.J. Hawkins istry on May 11, 2019.

During his freshman year at Millsaps, Hawkins joined a medical mentorship program and spent a year shadowing Dr. Vonda Reeves at G.I. Associates & Endoscopy Center in Flowood.

Hawkins also served on Millsaps’ Honor Council and studied as a summer researcher in chemistry as part of the MS IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program, which funds undergraduate students to do research in their field. In it, Hawkins worked to synthesize a chemotherapeutic drug called doxorubicin, which is used to treat patients with colon and stomach cancers.

Recently, Hawkins also received a Fulbright grant to teach and study in Russia as an English teaching assistant for Russian medical students. His term is September 2019-June 2020.

While Hawkins says he is not yet sure which medical school he would like to enter after he finishes the Fulbright program, he is confident that he will find success anywhere he decides to go.

“Whether I decide to be a doctor or teach at a medical institution, there are many opportunities available for someone with the skills I’ve learned,” Hawkins says. “I don’t know where life will take me at the moment, but I am hoping that many doors will open up for me, and that I’ll be able to go where they take me.”

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17 A Family Tradition That’s what baking is for Heavenly Sweetz in midtown.

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22 Soul of a Singer Read about Tonya Boyd-Cannon ahead of her show at ISH.

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t’s up to men to solve sexism.”

We were at breakfast when Donna said that to me. I was immediately struck by the profundity of the statement—in part because it resonates with another one that I’ve internalized from my years of volunteerism as a racialhealing dialogue participant and facilitator: “It’s up to white people to solve racism.”

I’d been thinking of that second phrase after attending the recent Millsaps College visit by Tim Wise, the white anti-racism activist and writer. Wise is outspoken, hilarious and poignant, and he also focuses on the idea that it’s the responsibility of white people to understand and “undo” the system of white supremacy that pervades America, even though so few of us are even willing to talk about it.

During the time that I’ve been active in Dialogue Jackson, I’ve had an

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Don’t take it personally.

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opportunity to grow by meeting new people and listening to their stories. But I’ve also been disappointed by how challenging it can be to get white people to join these conversations.

Yes, the white folks who “self-select” for a race dialogue can be helpful to the process (and usually we have more to learn than we realize going in), but the ones we most need at the table rarely come. Some of them don’t think things should change.

Some “don’t want to be yelled at.” Some don’t want to “feel guilty.” Some just don’t want to engage, because they personally don’t think they’ve done anything wrong, and therefore don’t feel like they need to take responsibility for making anything change on a grander scale.

But regardless of how white people think or justify the state of the world in their heads, the external reality is more straightforward—we benefit from privilege without any additional work on our part, and we have the option to “opt out.” People of color don’t.

How do we white people work on it?

By talking about it—with one another.

Calling it out. Learning how pervasive white supremacy still is in this country and how we benefit. Studying how systemic racism has affected neighborhoods; how history, public policy, banking, development, political boundaries and education have conspired as a system to maintain white supremacy; how many of us don’t know what we don’t know.

Which brings me back to sexism.

Like racism, sexism occurs on a number of different levels.

At the interpersonal level—what I would call “bigotry” when we’re talking about race—you’ve got guys who have a problem with women. There’s been another rising tide of discussion about “incels” (involuntary celibates) and, in particular, men who project their problems onto women and gin themselves up to get violent about it. Interpersonal misogyny doesn’t have to be that overt, of course, but it’s pervasive nonetheless and something men should talk about.

Here’s my take—and I’m focused here on heterosexual men whose birth gender matches their identity, only because that’s my experience. My mantra is this: Don’t take it personally.

Women haven’t been put on this planet to meet your needs or coddle your ego or make you a better man. Only you do that. Go make yourself a better man. Go to the gym, focus on your hobby, take a public speaking course, take up a sport, read.

Have guy friends that you respect.

Pick men who model behaviors you want to exhibit and spend time around them, learning from them. Go talk to your dad or an uncle you respect. He may not know everything, but what he

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Men, It’s Time to Solve Sexism.

“Women haven’t been put on this planet to meet your needs or coddle your ego or make you a better man. Only you do that. Go make yourself a better man. Go to the gym, focus on your hobby, take up a sport, read.”

does say may be interesting.

If you try to meet a woman and it doesn’t work, don’t worry about being “rejected”—don’t take it personally. You do you. She does her. What she does or doesn’t do is about her, not about you. Go ask somebody else. Be confident, casual, interested and free. Don’t be a jerk.

At a higher level—let’s call it “structural sexism”—we need to talk. Cisgender, heterosexual men need to enter the conversation, even if we don’t think we’re the problem. First, let’s not take #metoo personally.

There’s no reason to “listen to refute” what women are saying here. We’ve no doubt lived in a male-dominated culture that needs to fully develop the modern response to support women’s needs and desires as

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State reporter Ashton Pittman is from Hattiesburg, Miss. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied journalism and political science. He wrote the cover story.

Brinda Fuller Willis often plays tricks on people with her identi­ cal twin. She’ll go anywhere to hear the blues, and she is a real farmer’s daughter. She wrote about Tonya Boyd-Cannon.

Managing Editor Amber Helsel is a storyteller and an artist.

Email ideas to amber@jackson­ freepress.com. She wrote about the “Before I Die” wall at the Arts Center of Mississippi.

fully as it has supported men’s. (When in doubt, Google Idris Elba on #metoo.)

Second, stop worrying about whether you get to “be a man” in the modern world.

Being a man is the antithesis of “boys will be boys.” Most women love a confident man, and that confidence is the opposite of taking advantage of women through your strength and privilege. There’s a powerful, potent opportunity for us all to be better men, which includes being great listeners, strong partners, engaged fathers and mentors—and still be someone who gets things done and gets our own needs met.

Third, say something. In groups of guys, if it’s sexist, point it out. You can be civil, but firm. On social media, call out jerks and lift up women’s voices.

Finally, push back on the media.

When you see an NBC piece worry-trolling over whether any woman can beat Trump, let them know they’re idiots. (If you actually run NBC News, Andy Lack, please try to get better at this, or retire, or hire more women leaders and run these ideas by them. Go count how many votes the last woman candidate got, too.)

Most of all, I believe that the more of us who work to be part of the solution— which is creating a culture where we project an authentic, loving, and nurturing form of masculinity that leaves room for women to feel both safe and powerful while men can continue being men—the quicker we’ll get there, and the more fulfilling that culture will be for everyone involved.

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on Gray, that she believes anti-gay prejudice may have motivated. Gray attended the University of Southern Mississippi, which is part of McGee’s district.

On Saturday, April 27, McGee shared a Facebook post from a different attack believed to be for the same reason.

“This happened in Hattiesburg last night. This happened in my district,”

McGee wrote. “For me, it is incomprehensible how someone could be attacked simply on the basis of sexual orientation.

Mississippi needs its existing hate-crimes statute to include sexual orientation, gender identity and disability (as the federal law already does).”

The Jackson Free Press is neither identifying the attacker nor the alleged victim

because he has not filed charges. In her Facebook post, McGee wished him a “speedy recovery.”

“Do not give up because this kind of behavior does not represent Hattiesburg,” she wrote. “We will not stand for it.”

In this year’s legislative session, which recently ended, McGee co-sponsored a bill to update state hate-crimes laws to include

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Mississippi State Rep. Missy McGee, R-Hattiesburg, wants her fellow lawmakers to pass an update to Mississippi’s hate-crimes law to include sexual orientation, gender identity and disability.

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Now, a Mississippi Republican is calling on her colleagues to support an update to the state’s hate-crime laws in the wake of two recent attacks, including the attack

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aynesboro native Trevor Gray, 28, is known as a nice guy whose family taught him to see and expect the best in others.

But on April 17, after moving back home to his smaller hometown from Jackson, he struck up a conversation at a local Wayne County bar that would challenge many people’s faith in strangers.

He had started talking to two men at the bar—Landon McCaa, 32, and Toman Sion Brown, 28. When the bar closed, police say, McCaa invited all the patrons to his home for an after-party.

What happened next—which many believe was a hate crime because the men believe Gray was gay—was caught on viral Facebook video. One man reached out to apparently shake Gray’s hand, but suddenly punched him instead. That man then pushed Gray to the ground, yelling while he kept punching him, as a second another man watched. Word is that the two men were heard screaming slurs at him because they believed him to be gay, even though he is not. Police later charged both McCaa and Brown with aggravated assault, the felony charge for attempted murder in Mississippi.

“Thinking about it, seeing the images of it, I don’t and will likely never understand it,” Gray told the Jackson Free Press earlier this month. “All I know for sure is that it won’t change who I am. There is always a bright side, always a positive in any situation. I have always believed this, maybe to a fault, but that’s just who I am.”

Meantime, the two alleged attackers could face hate-crimes charges after the filmed beating of Gray. Federal investigators in south Mississippi are probing whether or not the alleged assailants indeed beat him based on the false belief that he is gay. His injuries required surgery to fix a broken jaw.

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NOW IT’ NOT CONFEDERATE HERITAGE? Gov. Phil Bryant makes April a “Month of Unity” instead of “Confederate Heritage Month” as in years past.

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DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS Jacksonians filled the blanks in for “Before I die I want to ...” for the new art installation at the arts center.

sexual orientation, gender identity and disability. Rep. Abe Hudson Jr., a Democrat from Shelby, introduced the bill. Only one other House member co-sponsored it, Rep. Steve Holland, D-Tupelo. In February, the bill died in the Judiciary B Committee without ever getting a vote. Rep. Angela Cockerham of Magnolia, who recently switched from the Democratic Party to become an independent, chairs that committee.

A similar Senate bill, which also had a bipartisan group of sponsors, did make it out of the Senate Judiciary A Committee this year, and on a unanimous vote. It also died in the Senate Corrections Committee, which Rep. Sampson Jackson II, D-Preston, chairs. Similar efforts to update Mississippi’s hate-crimes laws failed last year, too.

Rob Hill, who heads the pro-LGBT organization Human Rights Campaign in Mississippi, rebuked the leadership in the Legislature in a press statement on Feb. 6.

“We’re very disappointed that our lawmakers—

including Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and other leaders in both chambers of the legislature—have refused to vote on these crucial bills,” Hill said.

Playing Politics with LGBTQ Lives In the Mississippi Legislature, the lieutenant governor appoints committee chairs. Reeves, a conservative Republican who is running for governor and is known for courting evangelical voters, has repeatedly taken anti-LGBT positions in the past.

“For the second year in a row, lawmakers have decided to play politics with LGBTQ people’s lives and deny Mississippians the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation about these proposed updates to our hatecrimes laws,” Hill said. “Support for these bills is widespread, bipartisan and non-controversial. As LGBTQ people face a disproportionately high risk of hate crimes throughout the South and in Mississippi, we have to ask

legislators: what are you waiting for?”

In January, a Mason-Dixon poll found bipartisan support for legislation to add LGBT and disabled Mississippians to the state’s hate-crime laws. Support for the legislation was strongest on the Gulf Coast with 66% support, and lowest in north Mississippi with 49% support. In Jackson, 66% supported the legislation. Republican voters backed the legislation with 46% in favor and 40% opposed, while Democratic voters supported it 72-16.

Federal hate-crime laws do include sexual orientation, gender identity and disability, whether real or perceived, as a result of additions Congress made with the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act that President Barack Obama signed in 2009; however, that still left state law enforcement in places like Mississippi without the ability to bring state-level hate-crimes charges, leaving them to depend on federal law enforcement to bring them.

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Jacksonians Contemplate Dreams and Aspirations With ‘Before I Die’ Wall

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he scene at the Arts Center of Mississippi was one of chaos. A throng of people gathered in the lobby just before the stairs, some getting coffee and muffins, some talking among themselves. Students from Barack Obama Magnet School and Tougaloo College sat

to notice how much we as humans avoid confronting death. “(Chang) was questioning her own mortality, and she was also questioning loneliness, which now statistically (is) one of the worst diseases in the United States,” says Greater Jackson Arts Council Execu-

17. “... I had no idea what to expect, but by the next day, the wall was entirely filled out, and it kept growing.”

Scott says GJAC decided to bring the wall here because it would give people a chance to contemplate their lives.

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The Greater Jackson Arts Council and Visit Jackson unveiled Jackson’s “Before I Die” wall, a project that artist and activist Candy Chang began in 2015 for locals to share their innermost dreams and desires.

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on the stairwell, their arms perched on the railing as they watched the crowd below. All in the arts center on April 17 were waiting on one thing: getting a first look at Jackson’s “Before I Die” wall. The city’s wall, which is part of the “Quality of Life” programming partnership between the Greater Jackson Arts Council and Visit Jackson, is now one of around 5,000 around the world.

Once the green cover came down, the real event began, as onlookers watched former Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. write on the wall. Others in the crowd then followed, adding their thoughts.

Candy Chang started the project in 2015 after the death of a loved one, Joan. The website for the “Before I Die” project says that Chang thought about how Joan wanted to do so many things with her life before she died. As she dealt with grief and depression, she also began

tive Director Janet Scott. “ … She wanted to do something that would bring people together to talk about that subject.” In a 2018 Cigna study on loneliness in America, 46 percent of those surveyed reported always feel(ing) alone, and 47 percent reported feeling left out.

Amid Chang’s contemplation, she decided to try an experiment. She created a stencil of the words “Before I die I want to…,” and with help from friends, she turned the wall of an abandoned house in her neighborhood into a giant chalkboard wall where people could come and write their dreams and aspirations.

“Out of that grief and that depression, I made this thing on an abandoned house in my neighborhood in New Orleans just to see if I could find a little bit more perspective of my neighbors,” Chang said at the arts center press conference on April

wall that people already signed, you’ll understand,” she says. “Some are, ‘I want to be on Broadway,’ but others are, ‘I want to live the life God has planned for me,’ and ‘I want to be an amazing helper.’ ‘I want to cure cancer.’ There’s just a lot of really deep things people start thinking about when you start thinking about what is something you really, really care about and that you’re passionate about?”

The Jackson wall is a little different, as once it is filled up, GJAC and Visit Jackson plan to seal it, making it the first permanent “Before I Die” wall.

“For what we do here at the council in making sure that creativity (creates) a positive impact on the community, the work that we’re investing in the Jackson surrounding area as it relates to art, we want the community to know that their feelings are heard, that the healing that we

see that needs to happen here … is being respected and heard, and we know at the council we’re getting that voice out for this community,” says Silbrina Wright, GJAC special events manager.

Making the wall permanent will leave a legacy for families of those who sign the wall, she says, and it also gives those whose voices may not otherwise be heard an outlet.

“These are just ‘regular Joe’ folk that are in the community that have interests and investments, and we want them to know that their hopes and dreams are just as special as anyone else, that it has a platform,” Wright says. “One of the things that we are focused on here at the council is being able to impact the community, and show the community the value that they have to the richness of the City of Jackson and the surrounding area as it relates to art.

Sealing it only confirms that. It makes sure that they know that these things are permanently heard.”

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The wall is part of the organization’s recent focus on art and social justice, Scott says. “The world itself actually needs a lot of healing,â€? she says, “and we have focused on that. I’ve always said, ‘I don’t want art to be a nicety. I want it to be a necessity,’ and that is the reason that we are trying really hard ‌ to hear everyone in the community and how they feel and what they feel.â€?

As the arts council, she says, the organization can cross barriers and get into neighborhoods, communities and schools in the metro area, and let people vent about their frustrations in life. “Using art as a therapy really helps people understand why they’re angry, why they’re hurt, why they’re happy, a lot of reasons, but they’re able to actually come to grips with it using an art medium,�

she says. â€œâ€Ś They can come to grips with that and maybe understand it a little better.â€?

Chang said in a 2016 TED Talk that the “Before I die� wall is “about knowing you’re not alone; It’s about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways; it’s about making space for reflection and contemplation; and remembering what really matters most to us as we grow and change.�

The wall is open to anyone who comes through the arts center (201 E. Pascagoula St.), Scott says. It is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, find the Greater Jackson Arts Council on Facebook. For more information on the “Before I Die� project, visit beforeidieproject.com.

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The “Before I Die� wall is open to anyone who visits the Arts Center of Mississippi. Once the wall is filled up, the Greater Jackson Arts Council plans to seal it, making it the first permanent “Before I Die� installation.

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Truth to Power: Blacklists, Boycotts and the First Amendment

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a blacklist of companies that boycott Israel. In Texas, “companies” was interpreted as including individuals working for state agencies.

Blacklisting activists has a long history in this state, as the 133,000-page Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission files show. From the House Un-American Activities Committee to COINTELPRO, blacklists have deprived activists of their livelihoods and even their lives.

In addition to state-sponsored campaigns against Palestinian rights activists, many independent organizations and individuals, including Trump associate Alan Dershowitz, have attempted to stifle discourse on the subject, even interfering

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f there’s a competition to determine which state legislature can pass the greatest number of blatantly unconstitutional bills in the shortest period of time, Mississippi’s would be a worthy contender. Its most recent target is the right to boycott.

In April, Phil Bryant signed HB 761, the “Israel Support Act,” into law, following landslide votes in both legislative chambers. This law prohibits Mississippi state government agencies from investing in companies that boycott Israel (which the bill defines as including the illegal settlements in occupied Palestine, a clear legitimization of the occupation).

Founded in 2005, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, also known as BDS, attempts to use economic pressure to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Because this tactic is so effective, politicians are working overtime to counter it by passing nearly identical bills. Mississippi’s law, copied from the Texas statute found unconstitutional on April 25, is a violation of free speech and will almost certainly be struck down. However, cost is apparently no object when politicians like Bryant seek opportunities to posture.

Perhaps the most disturbing part of the law is its requirement that the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration compile

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In April, Gov. Phil Bryant signed HB 761, the “Israel Support Act,” into law, following landslide votes in the House and Senate. The law prohibits state government agencies from investing in companies that boycott Israel.

with hiring or firing decisions of academics deemed insufficiently Zionist.

Canary Mission is perhaps the most threatening of these extra-legal groups. Intentionally secretive about who funds, creates and updates the organization, it nevertheless has tremendous power to harm students, faculty members and others who speak out about Israeli injustices.

Canary Mission has blacklisted and harassed many of my friends and heroes.

Kiese Laymon, one of my favorite professors at the University of Mississippi, who was raised in Jackson, was blacklisted in 2014 while teaching at Vassar College.

Arab women, who were students in a class on the Israel-Palestine conflict, spoke out about the fact that they would be excluded from the class trip to Israel because they would not be allowed into the country. Laymon helped facilitate a forum where the Vassar community could discuss the students’ complaints, an action that landed him on the Canary Mission blacklist, although their account was riddled with misinformation.

“They write those profiles like they know, but they never reach out to you,” he told the Jackson Free Press. “So it said, ‘Member of SJP, Member of BDS.’ I didn’t even know what that sh*t meant. I knew there were young women of color who were being denied something that other people had access to, and this woman in this meeting compared them to abortionclinic bombers. That’s wrong.”

Inclusion on these blacklists results in threats and harassment. And not from amateurs. A New Yorker article quoted a

former Mossad deputy director on the tactics he deploys against actual or suspected BDS activists. “You don’t kill them but you do have to deal with them in other ways,” the intelligence officer said.

Laymon, himself a former abortion-clinic defender, has also encountered this backlash.

“I’ve gotten a gazillion death threats,” Laymon said. “And almost routinely, every place I go, they send emails. ‘Do you know the person you invited, Kiese Laymon, is anti-Semitic?’”

However, confronting anti-Semitism is not the true objective of Canary Mission, the Mississippi Legislature or other antiPalestine organizations. In fact, their conflation of settler-colonialism with Judaism is deeply anti-Semitic and ignores the vast number of Jewish people engaged in the struggle for peace with justice in Palestine.

Moreover, Christian Zionist ideology, which motivates politicians like Bryant to adopt pro-Israel policies, is itself anti-Semitic and based on the belief that a Jewish state in the Middle East will precipitate the end of the world (in which all nonChristians will convert or be killed). Today, as congressmen quote “Mein Kampf” in the U.S. Congress and hate crimes surge, distinguishing between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is more important than ever.

We do so by fighting against incursions on free speech and the right to protest.

Jaz Brisack is a labor organizer, abortion clinic defender, and the University of Mississippi’s first woman Rhodes Scholar.

This column does not necessarily reflect the views of the Jackson Free Press.

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‘He Called Me Son’

Former Vice President Biden shared that story at a campaign stop for Alabama Democrat Doug Jones in October 2017, telling a Birmingham crowd of more than 1,000 that it illustrates “what the system needs today.”

“Even in the days when I got here, the Democratic Party still had seven or eight old-fashioned Democratic segregationists,” Biden told those gathered, many of whom were African American. “You’d get up there and argue like the devil with them, and then you’d go down and have lunch or dinner together. We were divided on issues,

Vice President Joe Biden talked about his mentor James O. Eastland at a rally for Democrat Doug Jones in Birmingham, Ala., in 2017.

but the political system worked.”

Fewer than two months before Biden’s rally with Jones, white supremacists carrying swastikas, Confederate flags and tiki torches had marched on the college town of Charlottesville, Va., where they unleashed deadly racist violence, with one killing Heather Heyer after driving into a crowd of counter-protesters. The president of the United States defended them, saying there were “fine people on both sides.”

When Biden announced his third bid for president late last month, he invoked those dark moments to make his case against Donald Trump.

“With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equiva-

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ong-time cotton planter James O. Eastland puffed on a bulging cigar in the U.S. Senate dining hall in Washington, D.C., during dinner one evening, or as the balding 73-year-old senator called it, “sup’uh.” In a few short months, the powerful Mississippi Democrat would retire, closing the book on a political career that he began and grew by using overtly racist appeals and outspoken opposition to civil rights.

On that evening in 1978, though, the powerful Dixiecrat would once again offer counsel to one of his favorite young mentees. Soon after 40-year-old Delaware freshman Sen. Joseph Biden joined him, Eastland sensed something was amiss.

“Son, what’s the matt’uh?” Eastland asked a visibly dejected Biden.

Biden, a member of the prestigious Senate Judiciary Committee that Eastland chaired, explained that he faced tough reelection odds in November, and feared he might lose his seat.

“What ole Jim Eastland can do for you in Del’uh’wah?” offered Eastland, whose history of explicit white-supremacist rhetoric included warnings years earlier that integration would lead to “mongrelization” and a lowering of educational standards.

“Well, some places you can help, Mr. Chairman, and some places you’d hurt,” Biden replied, knowing Eastland’s endorsement would, if anything, cost him votes in the more liberal northeast.

“Well, I’ll come to Del’uh’wah and campaign for you or agin’ you, whichever will help the most,” the man known back home as “Big Jim” replied knowingly.

“I promise.”

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lence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it,” Biden said in his announcement video.

“And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime. I wrote at the time that we’re in the battle for the soul of this nation. Well, that’s even more true today. We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.

“I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time.

But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation—who we are—and I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”

Yet at the rally for Jones, who prosecuted two klansmen for the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that left four black girls dead, Biden extolled the virtues of oldschool political camaraderie that allowed northeastern liberal men to break bread with unrepentant southern segregationists in pre-party-switch times—framing it as an antidote to Trumpism. More than just a nostalgic paean to the ways of days gone by, though, Biden was paying homage to men who helped guide his early Senate career.

“(Eastland) never called me ‘senator,” Biden told the Jones supporters. “He called me ‘son.’”

The Scranton, Pa., native who would someday serve as the vice president to America’s first black president spent his first term relying on the counsel and mentorship of not only Eastland, but also Mississippi’s other powerful segregationist Dixiecrat: U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis.

‘Godfather of Mississippi Politics’

Born in Forest, Miss., Eastland was part of a family steeped in the mythmaking of the so-called “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy that falsely recast the South’s role in the Civil War as one of gallantry and honor—a fight not to defend the institution of human slavery, but to preserve white southerners’ “way of life.” The family’s history primed its descendants to accept this mythological rewrite; the Eastlands had moved to Forest only after Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman razed their farm eight miles north in Hillsboro.

Eastland’s mother, Alma Austin Eastland, “was weaned on firsthand reports of Yankee brutality and bitter and one-sided, often misguided, even hysterical accounts of ‘Negro rule’ during Reconstruction,” historian J. Lee Annis wrote in his 2016 book, “Big Jim Eastland: The Godfather of Mississippi Politics.”

Alma’s father, Capt. Richmond Austin, had served under Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg and then in the cavalry under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War ended. Austin passed a whitewashed portrayal of that heritage on to his daughter, who then passed it on to her son, the future U.S. senator.

Not content with just instilling her

Thurmond at his 2003 funeral. “I looked into his heart, and I saw a man, a whole man,” Biden told the mourners who had gathered. “I tried to understand him. I learned from him. And I watched him change oh so suddenly. Like all of us, Strom was a product of his time. But he understood people. He cared for them.

He truly wanted to help. He knew how to read people, how to move them, how to get things done.”

“He really says Strom had really changed,” Eubanks said of Biden. “I’m not sure Strom really changed. He was forced to ‘change.’ The laws changed.”

The Southern Manifesto

In the spring of 1956, both of Mississippi’s senators gathered around a mahogany table and signed onto the Southern Manifesto, denouncing the Supreme Court’s desegregation orders as a “clear

Former U.S. Sen. James Eastland, sometimes called “The Godfather of Mississippi Politics,” was a Dixiecrat known for his staunch support of segregation. He was also an early supporter of young Joe Biden.

of Reconstruction. The war ended in 1865, and Reconstruction ended 12 years later in 1877. (His math was a little off.)

Today, Biden says that he believes the segregationists he served with, like Eastland, Stennis and South Carolina Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond, changed before the end of their lives, University of Mississippi historian W. Ralph Eubanks told the Jackson Free Press that he is not so sure that is true.

“I think a lot of it is Joe Biden’s affability,” Eubanks said. “He wants to love everybody. It is, in some ways, admirable.

I mean, you just think, ‘Gosh, this is just really admirable that this is a politician that really crosses the aisle.’”

Eubanks pointed to Biden’s praise of

abuse of judicial powers.” Though Stennis kept a lower profile than Eastland on matters of race, he helped write the document, which segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina first drafted. Publicly, Eastland’s bombastic rhetoric exceeded Stennis’, with Eastland warning shortly before the Brown v. Board decision that integration would result in lower education standards.

Stennis and Eastland often aligned in their response to civil-rights efforts. After white supremacists murdered 14-year-old African American Emmett Till, claiming he had whistled at a white woman, Eastland and Stennis responded to the outcry by publicly revealing that the victim’s father, Private Louis Till, had been

court-martialed, convicted, and hanged a decade earlier for the murder of one Italian woman and the rape of two others. Those revelations, Annis writes in “Big Jim,” did nothing to assuage the nationwide horror that photos published in Jet Magazine showing Till’s disfigured body had inspired.

‘A Liberal Trainwreck’

One aspect of the civil-rights agenda that Eastland hated most was the use of busing to send children to school across district lines in order to make schools more integrated.

“Forced busing to achieve racial balance ordered by federal courts is reprehensible, cruelly seeking to make our schoolchildren the victims of a problem of historical dimension,” The Boston Globe reported Eastland saying in 1973.

Just a few months earlier, a new colleague had joined the Senate who would help him in his fight to dismantle busing laws: Joe Biden.

Though he largely disagreed with his new Dixiecrat colleagues’ views on civil rights, Scranton’s future most-famous son would soon come to ally with them to fight against the key integration program.

Busing was not used to fight publicschool segregation in the South only, and its introduction in the North caused some northern liberals, like Biden, to rethink their support for it and even join anti-busing southern Democrats in that fight, Millsaps civil rights historian Stephanie Rolph told the Jackson Free Press on April 30.

“We kind of see them drop back into a space that they can share with each other,” Rolph explained.

During his first two years in office, Biden had generally voted in favor of busing, but soon changed.

Eubanks said he thinks Biden’s position changed due to “political expediency.”

As Biden ran for Senate in 1972, segregationist Dixiecrat George Wallace won the party’s Florida primary, spawning a raft of anti-busing legislation. At the same time, busing had become a big issue in Delaware as children were being bused out of the suburbs and into Wilmington and vice versa.

“Southern politicians, who had been pushing against desegregation in the 1950s, realized, ‘Oh, OK, now that it’s hit the doorstep of the northeasterners, they don’t like it any more than we do.’ And these political alliances began to form. So that’s why you had someone like Joe Biden making alliances with Strom Thurmond, James Eastland and John Stennis,” Eubanks said.

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men had full voting rights and even held high office in Mississippi, he admitted, but that ended in 1877. In Reconstruction’s wake had emerged not only a bloody reign of racial terror and oppression, but organizations like the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the racist Jim Crow laws that Eastland and other southern politicians spent the mid-20th century supporting.

The emergence of the Civil Rights Movement and the orders to desegregate constituted a “Second Reconstruction,” Eastland told supporters at the time. The long-suffering South, though, would ultimately win the same kind of cultural victory through persistence.

“How long did it take the South to win the war?” Eastland asked a crowd in the 1950s, as Annis recounts it. “Eleven years, wasn’t it?”

Eastland was referring to the time between the end of the Civil War and the end

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family’s racist heritage in its next generation, though, Alma Austin Eastland became the president of the Scott County chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization which has long worked to romanticize realities of slavery, the war and Reconstruction. The UDC led efforts to ban books that either portrayed the North and President Abraham Lincoln positively or that cast the South in an unsavory light by, for example, accurately identifying slavery as the true “cause” for which Confederate states seceded and fought.

To wild success, they pushed for history textbooks in public schools that were not just sympathetic to the South, but Lost Cause propaganda designed to indoctrinate future generations of children with Dixie fantasy. The materials painted an insufferably dishonest portrait of an Old South in which happy slaves served kindly masters, and public scorn and condemnation awaited the supposedly few slave owners who dared to mistreat the humans they kept as property.

Just as visible as the myths their textbooks inculcated in the minds of children nationwide for much of the 20th century, though, are the gangly Confederate statues that litter public squares, graveyards, college campuses and courthouse lawns across the South—looming reminders of the endurance of old-fashioned white supremacy and, with each second they continue to stand, the tacit acceptance of it that still holds sway in the communities where they remain.

As president of the UDC’s Scott County chapter, Alma Austin Eastland used her fundraising prowess to help make sure that, for more than a century after its 1917 dedication, Mississippi lawmakers would walk past a monument dedicated to the “Women of the Confederacy” every day. The monument, which features two women gathered around a dying Confederate soldier, still stands in front of the steps outside the Mississippi Capitol building today.

The Daughters of the Confederacy “aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, where states’ rights and white supremacy remained intact,” historian Karen Cox explained in her 2003 tome, “Dixie’s Daughters.”

The future Sen. Eastland drank his mother’s version of history up. In the mid1950s, as the Montgomery Bus Boycott drove a new wave of civil-rights activism more than a year after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision had mandated an end to segregation in public schools, Eastland revealed his belief that the South had, in fact, won the war, albeit belatedly.

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tion that could pass in the Senate.

“Guys like Stennis and Eastland have more in common with Biden and people like him than people would normally think, because of this very thing,” Rolph said. “And white southerners, especially in the Democratic Party, take a lot of pride in the fact that the North begins to experience some of what they consider to be a violation in the late ’60s and early ’70s.”

In 1976, the Wilmington Evening Journal reported on a speech Biden gave to a group of fifth-graders in Newark, Del., telling them he understood their feelings about busing, but that he hoped they would not blame African American kids for it.

“Kids had no choice in this,” he told the white children. “You shouldn’t hate black kids. They had nothing to do with it. Black kids don’t want to come to your school any more than you want to go to their school.”

On two occasions in 1977, Biden wrote Eastland to thank him for his help as he sought to bring anti-busing legislation to the floor. For segregationists like Eastland and Stennis, expressing opposition to “forced busing” was code for their opposition to public-school integration in general.

“I am opposed to the busing of schoolchildren for the sole purpose of overcoming racial imbalance,” Stennis wrote in a 1973 letter to a constituent. “This unreasonable busing is injurious to our school children and only benefits some Washington sociopolitical statistician.”

In “Promises to Keep,” Biden recalled explaining to an angry crowd of white parents that his opposition to busing was not total. “Look, I told them, I was against busing to remedy de facto segregation owing to housing patterns and community comfort, but if it was intentional segregation, I’d personally pay for helicopters to move the children. There were howls in the crowd,” he wrote.

Much of the segregation that cropped up in public schools, though, was the result of white flight, as white peoples abandoned their city neighborhoods and moved to the suburbs to avoid integration, which naturally changed housing patterns.

In Jackson, white flight was devastating to the cause of integration. Anecdotal evidence and national trends suggest integration efforts peaked there in the 1980s.

Today, in the Jackson Public Schools District, which is the largest in the state, the most integrated school is 95% black.

Biden’s Housing Restrictions

Rolph told the Jackson Free Press

that she sees Biden’s attempt to divide busing in cases of “de facto” segregation and busing in cases of “intentional segregation” as part of a longstanding effort by some politicians to divide “racism in the north from racism in the south.”

“The Civil Rights Movement in the north is much more complicated, because it’s tied to economic patterns, it’s tied to disenfranchisement,” she said. “But (Biden’s explanation) also erases the history of deliberate housing restrictions that were put into place as early as the 1920s.

So he would have to confront the longterm building of a de facto system of segregation, which is something that we are still trying to dig out of.”

At one point, Biden himself lived in a Vermont home that, on the deed, in-

it pointed to Biden’s “hypocrisy,” after he and other members of the committee questioned a similar deed for a house Rehnquist owned that barred Jews. Biden, though, said he had never seen the deed, and that neither he nor his parents had signed it.

Still, the existence of such a deed aligns with Rolph’s point about the complexity of the Civil Rights Movement in the north, contra Biden’s suggestion that “intentional segregation” could easily be distinguished from separation as a result of “housing patterns and community comfort.”

“You can say, in that way, that the southern Civil Rights Movement was a clear success—if it was focused on desegregation and voting rights,” Rolph said.

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As a liberal senator before segregationists switched to the GOP, Joe Biden’s (left) friendships extended to not only conservatives, but notorious racist Dixiecrats like former Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (right).

cluded restrictions that said it could not “be owned or occupied by any Negro or person of Negro extraction,” The Baltimore Sun reported in August 1981. His father, Joseph Biden Sr., had purchased the home in 1969, and transferred it to the younger Biden in 1971, just before his first run for Senate. The deed, which had been drawn up in 1940, added that the prohibition “is not intended to include occupancy by a Negro domestic servant ....”

James McClellan, a Republican supporter of William H. Rehnquist’s nomination as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, invoked the deed during a 1981 hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Biden sat on. McClellan said

equity, equal opportunity, fair housing, that was not as clear-cut. So I think his position kind of reflects an easy out for a number of public figures to say, ‘Well, this wasn’t done perfectly. It’s just the way it shook out.’ But that points to a system that was built on supremacy.”

Biden’s anti-busing efforts earned a rebuke from then-President Jimmy Carter.

They never became law.

Still, opposition to busing did not come only from segregationists. In a 1974 letter, 335 black parents joined 1,737 white parents in the rural Marion County, Miss., communities of Bunker Hill and Improve to complain, in a letter to Stennis, that some of their children were being bused be-

tween 17 and 49 miles or more away from home, causing them to have to leave earlier in the morning and get home later in the afternoon than other kids. Were it not for busing, they would attend the nearby Improve High School.

“Our school is not against integration,” the parents wrote. “We are against the long bus ride to Marion County (High School).”

Indeed, Rolph said, not all objections to busing were rooted in naked racial animus.

“Outside of the South, I think a lot of those objections in places like Boston, for example, came from blue-collar, white working-class families who found it to be a hardship for their kids to be bused 45 minutes away when their parents were working hourly jobs, maybe, in the neighborhood, or near the neighborhood,” she said. “Or because they had moved into the neighborhood because the schools were really good, and now that meant nothing.”

Those class dynamics cannot be easily separated from race, though, she said.

“I would argue that a lot of this is rooted in racial identity and what it means to be white,” she said. “You may be a workingclass white person, but you’re white, and that gives you access to things that a black working-class family or a black middle-class family may not have access to.

“When busing procedures are put into place in the ‘70s, really, it is white workingclass voters who revolt, because they feel like they are now being discriminated against because they are white. And to send their kids to a school they did not choose, through their choice of neighborhood— that really undermines their work ethic, their ideology and what they believe to be true about success,” Rolph added.

‘It Set Me Free’

The Dixiecrat mentorship Biden received during his early years in the Senate appear to have left their mark. In 1986, The Morning News reported on Biden’s trip to Alabama, where Democratic state Sen. Howell Heflin told the crowd he “understands the South” and its “traditions and values.” Biden, the Morning News reported, “even offered the crowd a bit of absolution, telling them that they had confronted their racial problems and dealt with them” and that “apologies were no longer necessary.”

“A black man has a better chance in Birmingham than in Philadelphia or New York,” Biden said then.

That is a sentiment Eastland, who retired in 1978, surely would have appreciated. He softened his rhetoric on race

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From the time he entered the Senate, U.S. Sen. John C. Stennis voted against every civil rights bill that came before his desk until he voted to renew the Voting Rights Act in 1982.

strong segregationist past, however. “Our state is over the hump. I think we oughta forget the battles we had,� Eastland would say when asked, Annis’ book recalls.

Stennis, who had never voted for a civil-rights bill since the day he entered the Senate in 1948, broke with his past when he voted to extend the Voting Rights Act in 1982. The next year, he opposed the bill that created the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday—a bill supported by even South Carolina segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond, another Dixiecrat friend whom Biden had vouched for.

In 2008, Biden told Jackson Free Press editor Donna Ladd that Stennis was a “hell of a guy,� and recalled their first meeting, in which Stennis instructed him to sit down at a large mahogany desk, around which were 12 chairs. “‘Son, what made you run for United States Senate?’� Biden recalled Stennis asking him. “Like a damn fool I told him the exact truth without thinking about it. I said, ‘Civil rights, sir.’� “As soon as I did, I swear to God I began to get these beads of sweat on my head, and it was like, ‘Oh geez, what have I said?’ He looked at me and he said, ‘Good,

good, good,’ and that was the end of the conversation,� Biden told Ladd.

Then, Biden recalled another conversation that took place 18 years later as Stennis was retiring. At that meeting, Stennis put his hand on the same table. “You see this table and chair? This table was the flagship of the Confederacy from 1954 to 1968,� Biden recalled Stennis saying. “Senator (Richard B.) Russell had (representatives from) the Confederate states sit here every Tuesday to plan the demise of the Civil Rights Movement. We lost, and it’s good we lost.� “Then he looked at me,� Biden continued, “and I got chills when he said: ‘It’s time this table goes from the possession of a man against civil rights to a man for civil rights.’ I said, ‘Mr. Chairman, I’m honored,’ and we spoke a few more seconds.

When I got to the door, he said, ‘One more thing, Joe.’ He turned in his wheelchair, and he said, ‘The Civil Rights Movement did more to free the white man than the black man.’ I said, ‘How’s that, Mr. Chairman?’ He went like this.� Biden held his fist over his heart and quoted Stennis: “‘It freed my soul. It freed my soul.’�

Still, Stennis admitted no remorse even as he was retiring, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported after interviewing him in 1988. “Stennis offers no apologies for once fighting the lost racial causes of his beloved Mississippi. ‌ And as that career comes to a close, the 87-year-old patriarch of the Senate feels no need to offer excuses for having ‘done my duty,’â€? the report reads.

In that same report, Biden praised Stennis as “the epitome of the good and the virtue that the Senate� should stand for.

No Democrat has won Stennis’ seat since his last re-election in 1982. Only one Democrat has come within fewer than 10 points of winning it—Democrat Mike Espy in last year’s special election who would have been the first African American to hold a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi since Reconstruction, had he won.

This year, Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, a supporter of the current Mississippi flag, which bears within it the emblem of the Confederacy, approved a new license plate. The plate gives drivers the option of displaying the “Mississippi Stennis Flag.�

Laurin Stennis proposed her new design to help the state shed the imagery of its past—a history marked and shaped by the hands and votes of her own grandfather, who inked the Southern Manifesto.

The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

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in later years, even as he donated large amounts of money to segregation academies in the Mississippi Delta.

In 1985, Eastland sent a $500 check to the Mississippi NAACP, an organization he had once railed against, and a letter to its chairman, Aaron Henry, with whom he had struck a friendship. “Thousands of us have been helped by your gallant, dedicated and persistent leadership that has made recognition of a life that includes all mankind possible,�

Eastland wrote to Henry.

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Holi, also know as the “festival of spring” celebrates the arrival of spring, end of winter, and also love and color. On Saturday, April 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., people from all different backgrounds in the Jackson metro area attended HOLI Mela 2019 at the Hindu Temple Society of Mississippi.

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Jeff (left) and Cynthia Macleod (right) were one of the many couples at CelticFest who represented their clan’s history.

The event was March 29-30 at the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum.

Jenny Lewis performs at Duling Hall on Wednesday, April 10.

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Ashley Williams (left) and Kaitlin McCain (right), who own Ash & Kate’s Jar Bakes, pose for a photo at midtown’s Vibe Fest on April 20.

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Candy Chang (center) poses with Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba (left) and first lady Ebony Lumumba (right) at the unveiling of the “Before I Die” installation at the Arts Center of Mississippi on Wednesday, April 17.

Czech Republic-born artist Martina Celerin uses a dimensional weaving technique in her art, which gives her work a three-dimension look and feel. She was one of the artists at the Ridgeland Fine Arts Festival at the Renaissance at Colony Park April 6-7.

Husband and wife Chuck (left) and Isabelle Crawford (right) pose for a photo at the Santé South Wine Festival at the Renaissance at Colony Park on Saturday, April 6.

The event happened in conjunction with the Ridgeland Fine Arts Festival.

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Heavenly Sweetz

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ver since Brandon native was the baker in the family, topped with cinnamon and nutmeg.

Regina Wallace opened and that she got that gift for In addition to working with other midtown busiHeavenly Sweetz Bakit from her. nesses, Wallace also donates her products to organizations ery inside The Hatch

“My mother is older such as The Ladybug Club, a nonprofit mentoring orgain midtown (126 Keener Ave.) now and can’t do the com- nization for girls ages 6-14 that aims to help them build in October 2018, her business munity cooking she loves as self-confidence and self-sufficiency. The group holds its has expanded beyond the conmuch anymore, so I feel like meetings inside the Hatch, and Wallace has catered some fines of the bakery’s storefront.

I’ve picked up where she left of the events. She has also donated food to events such as

Wallace partnered with off,” Wallace says. the Crossroads Film Festival in early April.

Coffee Prose, a combination

McKennis also encour- “I consider myself a giver, and since I don’t have a coffee shop and bookstore aged her to take up baking as lot of time around here, I make sure to give to my comin midtown, to sell cakes, a profession. Wallace initially munity anywhere I can any chance I get,” Wallace says. cupcakes, cookies, Danishes started baking as a hobby in “I also love to see the smiles on people’s faces when they and other baked goods at 1998 after being laid off from try my food. A big part of why I do this is for that feeling the business. her previous job as a factory of satisfaction.”

“Midtown has strongly worker. In 2015, McKinnis Wallace has partnered with Millsaps College’s embraced me as a business convinced her to begin sell- ELSEWorks program, which aims to teach students to be owner since I opened my ing cakes through Facebook community leaders and grow local businesses. Starting in shop,” Wallace says. “My fa- Regina Wallace opened Heavenly Sweetz as a cottage-food vendor October 2018, the program assigned four of its students vorite thing has come to be Bakery at The Hatch in midtown in (someone who makes and help Wallace solve problems with her business, aiding meeting new people and see- October 2018. sells food in small batches out her with tasks such as building the website, writing copy ing the delight on their faces at of the home). for the business’ blog and getting Heavwhat I bake.”

At first, Wallace mainly sold cakes only on enly Sweetz certified by the U.S. Food and

She also sells cakes at Collins Dream Kitchen and Thanksgiving and Christmas. In 2018, she Drug Administration. ELSEworks is also scones at M7 Coffee House opened a commercial kitchen for Heavenly helping her with packaging for shipping

Wallace’s mother, Jeanette McKennis, regularly Sweetz at The Hatch, and created a website so she can expand the business, she says. cooked for her neighborhood and people in surrounding and Facebook page for orders.

“I want to be community-minded, communities, Wallace says. McKennis also frequently do- Heavenly Sweetz offers cupcakes, tiered and running Heavenly Sweetz connects nated clothing and food to charities on holidays, and put cakes, pies, cookies, sheet cakes and stanme to everyone in my community while together gift baskets for people in need. dard cakes in flavors such as caramel, Italian satisfying my need to give back,” she

Wallace’s grandmother, Willie Gaines, was one of the cream, lemon, strawberry and carrot, as well says. “My mother and grandmother founding families of Fannin, Miss., in the 1930s. as specialty creations such as banana pudwere both givers, and now it’s part of

“Even though I never got to meet my grandmother, ding cupcakes, lemon elderberry cake and who I am too.” my mother always told me stories about how much she more. Wallace’s latest addition to the menu For more information or to place orloved to cook and feed people,” Wallace says. is scones in flavors such as strawberry, blue- A cake from Heavenly ders, visit heavenlysweetz.com or find the

McKinnis always told Wallace that her grandmother berry, lemon curd, and peaches and cream Sweetz Bakery business on Facebook.

Acacia Clark

Best of Jackson: Burgers of Note

by Amber Helsel

Super Burger (also known as the Stamps burger): a half-pound of ground beef with mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, pickles, lettuce, tomato and onions. You can also get a Double Super with or without cheese.

Babalu Tapas & Tacos (622 Duling Ave., Suite 106, 601-366-5757, eatbabalu.com) Black bean burger (vegetarian): housemade black-bean cake, fire-roasted-tomato salsa, pickled red onions, argula and Hass avocado Burgers & Blues (1060 E. County Line Road, Suite 22, Ridgeland, 601-899-0038, burgersblues.com) Comeback Burger: 8-ounce patty with fried green tomatoes, comeback sauce, Pepper

Fine & Dandy (100 District Blvd. E., 601202-5050, eatdandy.com) That BBQ Burger: Two thin patties with smoked cheddar, grilled romaine lettuce, barbecue sauce, pickles and crispy shallots Lou’s Full-Serv (904 E. Fortification St., Suite B, 601-487-6359)

The Super Burger, also known as the Stamps Burger

Jack cheese, mayonnaise and a fried egg

Burger No. 7: Beef patty with candied bacon, grilled green tomatoes, caramelized red onions, smoked tomato-bacon aioli and provolone

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Smokes Poblano Queso / Smokehouse Beans / Pickled Onions Pico de Gallo / Mississippi “Sweet” BBQ Sauce / Sour Cream

Pulled Pork … 10.99 // Smoked Chicken … 10.99 Brisket … 11.99 TACOS Flour Tortillas / Mango-Jícama Cole Slaw / Pico de Gallo / Mississippi “Sweet” BBQ Sauce

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BBQ Pork Sandwich … 8.99 BBQ Chicken Sandwich … 8.99 BBQ Brisket Sandwich ... 9.99 Fried Green Tomato BLT … 8.99 White BBQ Chicken Sandwich … 8.99 The Bacon Melt …11.99 Boudin Burger …10.99 Fried Bologna Sandwich ... 8.99

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Award Winning Pepsi-Cola Glazed Baby Back Ribs Half-Slab … 15.99 / Full Slab … 26.99 Pulled Pork Plate … 12.99 Brisket Plate … 14.99 Smoked Half Chicken Plate … 13.99 ‘Que Sampler … 22.99 Pitmaster Sampler ... 29.99 Grand Champion Sampler for 2 ... 49.99 Red Beans & Rice ... 13.99 SIDES Collard Greens / Fries / Smoked Tomato Cole Slaw Potato Salad / Pasta Salad / Watermelon Smokehouse Beans / Pork Rinds Fried Green Tomatoes / Side Salad ... 2.99 PIGLET PLATES (Served w/ Fries & Soda, Lemonade or Iced Tea)

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COMMUNITY Open Mic hosted by Reed Smith May 1, May 8, May 15, 9 p.m., at Martin’s Downtown (214 S. State St.). Participants sing, read poetry, tell jokes and more. Free admission.

MUSIC

Fondren After 5 May 2, 5-8 p.m., at Downtown Fondren Historic District (2906 N. State St.).

The neighborhood open house offers attendees opportunities to enjoy food from one of nearly two dozen of Jackson’s restaurants, bakeries, bars and coffee shops. Vendors sell various goods.

Other street fair-like activities available. Free admission; finditinfondren.com.

Mississippi Mercantile May 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Trademart Center (1200 Mississippi St.). J&M Entwined Designs hosts the event where attendees can browse and purchase candles and other original products. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

A Rummage and Bake Sale May 4, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., at Nativity Lutheran Church (495 Crossgates Blvd., Brandon). The event offers attendees the chance to purchase various items at the rummage and bake sale. The sale will be held inside.

Free admission, item prices vary.

Tonya Boyd Cannon: In the Cradle of America’s Music

by Brinda Fuller Willis

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oul singer Tonya Boyd-Cannon sits in a unique place for music with her roots in Mississippi and Louisiana.

“I was blessed to live in the cradle of America’s music … gospel, blues, jazz, creole and country birthing in me the soul of a minstrel,” she says. “I cross all genres because Mississippi and Louisiana encompass so many aspects of the multi-ethnic and cultural spectrum depicting the human condition, which is the inspiration for my songwriting.”

Boyd-Cannon was born in Jackson and grew up in Louisiana. She started her singing journey in the choir at Balls Temple AME Church in Greenville, Miss. More than 25 years ago, she moved to New Orleans.

In 2005, Boyd-Cannon evacuated back to Jackson when Hurricane Katrina hit, and while here, she began to hone her craft more. The familiarity of Jackson’s music scene made it easier to continue singing, she says.

“I was able to return to a place where I felt comfortable enough to work as a singer and raise my children,” she says.

She returned to New Orleans in 2018 and was eventually able to move back into her home in the previously devastated 9th Ward, where she presently resides with her husband, John Cannon IV, and children John Cannon V and Jontè Cannon.

She released her first album, “Rise My Child,” in 2006. She released her latest single, “Beggin’ You Not 2 Go” in 2018.

Boyd-Cannon received a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Tougaloo College in 2008 and master’s degree in music education from Jackson State

Tonya Boyd-Cannon performs at ISH Grill & Bar on May 4.

University in 2010.

In 2015 at age 35, Cannon got her break during a blind audition for “The Voice” in 2015. She was a top-20 finalist and went onto Los Angeles, where she was eliminated. Throughout “The Voice” competition, she sang cover songs of Pharrell Williams’ “Happy,”

Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida,” Matthew Wilder’s “Break My Stride,” Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing,” Bonnie Raitt’s “Something to Talk About” and Jill Scott’s “Golden.”

While growing up, she listened to gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, country and rock ‘n’ roll, and with a bit of Creole and

Zydeco mixed in, which gives her more influences for her music, she says. That mix allows her to create her own sound, letting her draw inspiration from artists such as Aretha Franklin, Bobby McFerrin, Barry White, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson and Randy Travis, she says.

“Before every show I meditate on a Bobby McFerrin song, ‘Invocation,’ to help get in a place of humbleness which allows me to leave it all on stage,” she says.

As a performer, Cannon classifies herself as a “soul singer” because “I put my heart and soul into every song I write and sing. … I leave my soul on the stage, and that’s what connects me to my audience, they feel what I feel.”

Since 2016, she has worked with the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, conducting vocal workshops with children in the city.

“My mission is to be (intimately) involved in my community teaching vocal workshops, advocating for the arts in my own community,” she says. Additionally, she worked as a teacher with Little Village Youth ensemble at Dillard University in 2014 and sang backup on R&B singer Jean Knight’s 1999 album “Queen.”

Recently, Tonya headlined at the 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and opened for Melissa Etheridge during a cruise.

Boyd-Cannon will perform at ISH Grill & Bar (5105 Interstate 55) on Saturday, May 4, at 9 p.m. For more information about her, find her on Facebook or visit tonyaboydcannon.com. See more stories at jacksonfreepress.com/music.

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aTo Do Listd Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) • Basics of Investing May 6, 6-7:15 p.m. Mark Maxwell is the instructor. Participants learn about topics such as stocks, bonds, annuities,

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Free admission, vendor prices vary; call 601-6720755; email dyowell@aol.com.

Jackson Black Business Expo May 11, noon-5 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105

THURSDAY 5/2

PIXABAY

Harry Potter Trivia is from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Willie Morris Library (4912 Old Canton Road).

The event invites children to participate in the trivia night. Attendees also craft their own “Marauder’s Maps.” Wands distributed to participants. Children encouraged to dress up for the event. Free admission; call 601-987-8181; email kwest@jhlibrary.org.

mutual funds, taxation, qualified plans and more. $80; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• How to Sell What You Write May 7, 6-7 p.m. James L. Dickerson is the instructor.

Participants learn to sell their unpublished work. Includes one-on-one evaluations of nonfiction book proposals, magazine query letters, synopses and first chapters of novels. $150; millsaps.edu.

• How to Edit What You Write May 7, May 14, 6-8 p.m. Gerard Helferich is the instructor.

The course teaches fiction and nonfiction writers to take their work from first draft to finished manuscript. Class meets Tuesdays from May 7-June 4. $110; millsaps.edu.

Events at Fenian’s Pub (901 E. Fortification St.) • Karaoke May 6, May 13, 9 p.m. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

• Open Mic May 7, May 14, 9 p.m. Free admission.

Thrive @ Work 2019 May 7, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at Womens Foundation of Mississippi (2906 N. State St.). The event showcases businesses with innovative workplace policies and holds discussions regarding their positive impacts for both the employee and employer. During the luncheon, a panel of business leaders share their experiences, both successes and challenges, to foster discussion and learning. Tickets: $100 individual; $1,000 table for 10; $1,500 Visionary Sponsor (table and special, event-wide recognition), $2,500 Leadership Sponsor (table and premier, event-wide recognition); $5,000 Leadership Premier Sponsor (two tables of 10, eventwide and organization-wide recognition); call 601-326-0700; email blake@womensfoundationms.org; womens-foundation-of-mississippi. networkforgood.com.

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Karaoke May 7, May 14, 7:30-11:30 p.m., at Shucker’s Oyster Bar (116 Conestoga Road, Ridgeland). Free admission; shuckers ontherez.com.

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Southlife Car Show May 11, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m., at Trustmark Park (1 Braves Blvd., Pearl). The show includes some of Mississippi’s most famous cars, trucks, bike, food, music and more. $22.95$42.95; find it on Facebook.

Magnolia Flower Festival May 11, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Renaissance at Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). Vendors sell flowers and flower-inspired products, arts, food and more. A “Flower Hat Contest” challenges attendees to bring decorated hats. Stations allow children to make corsages for Mother’s Day. Gardening professional Phillip Watson answers questions and signs copies of his book.

E Pascagoula St). The annual event encourages community and economic exchange with African American entrepreneurs and businessowners. Attendees may purchase products from the various stalls. Panels held on topics of doing business in a city, starting one’s own business, branding and marketing, and business technology. The event also hosts a job fair. Free admission for shoppers; $75 registration for vendors; find it on Facebook.

S. Lamar St.). A museum educator leads families with children ages 6-10 in an art project taking inspiration from a different artist each month. This event takes place on the second Sunday of each month. $10 per child; call 601960-1515; email mdrake@msmuseumart.org; msmuseumart.org.

FOOD & DRINK Cinco de Mayo Celebration—Sombra May 2, 6 p.m., May 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m., May 4, 6 p.m., May 5, 11:30 a.m., at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (140 Township Ave., Suite 100, Ridgeland; 111 Market St., Flowood). The four-day event celebrates Cinco de Mayo. On Thursday, both locations host a Mustache Dash fun run. Participants choose to run either 1 or 4 miles and receive a complementary drink afterward. On Friday-Sunday, both locations feature live music from Jackson Gypsies, Stace & Cassie, Twisted Grass, Jason Turner and Steele Heart. See link for schedule. The Flowood location will also have face-painting on Sunday. Drink specials available throughout the event. Free admission, food/ drink prices vary; ridgeland.sombramexicankitchen.com.

First Annual Mothers Day See Sip and ShopMay 11, 1-6 p.m., at Club to Fly (1220 W. Ridgeway St.). The inaugural Mother’s Daythemed event hosts multiple vendors selling a variety of goods. Includes complimentary cocktails, food, live music and giveaways. $5 admission for couples, $10 admission at door; find it on Facebook.

The Right Way to Start a 501c3 Nonprofit May 14, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at Mississippi Alliance for Nonprofits and Philanthropy (201 W. Capitol St., Suite 700). The workshop provides the legal and practical steps to successfully organize and secure state and federal approval to operate as a tax-exempt organization. The class includes a guidebook developed by the Mississippi Center for Nonprofits (valued at $49). The workshop covers completing IRS Form 1023-EZ, creating bylaws and setting up a board of directors, drawing a funding plan and more. $149 per person; call 601-968-0061; email jeffery@msnonprofits. org; www3.thedatabank.com.

Simple Steps to Start and Grow Your Well-Run Business May 14, 6-7:30 p.m., at Dependable Source Corp. of Mississippi (840 E. River Place, Suite 605). The interactive business education and training program focuses on actions and outcomes, with practical applications. Participants review, discuss and apply key information from the lessons while creating or updating their customized business action plan and model.

The class contains six lessons, taking place on the second and fourth Tuesday of May, June and July. The first and last lessons are live, whereas the middle four are done through conference calls. Prices: $59 early registration, $79 on-site registration, $29 Women for Progress member, $29, $29 SCORE Metro Jackson member, $29 Greater Jackson Partnership member. $29-$79; call 601-359-3420; email scoremstraining@ gmail.com; events.r20.constantcontact.com.

KIDS Hoot & Holler Family Creation Lab May 12, 2-3:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380

them potentially choose a doctor for their child.

Free admission; parentsandkids.com.

Champagne Afternoon Tea May 4, 2-5 p.m., at Estelle Wine Bar & Bistro (407 S. Congress St.).

Participants enjoy food and adult beverages. $27 per person; find it on Facebook.

NogginFeast May 6, 7 p.m., at Renaissance Colony Park (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland). Local restaurants and vendors offer a selection of food, drinks and desserts. Chris Gill, The Sole Shakers, Joseph LaSalla and other local music artists perform. $50; call 601-981-1021; msbraininjury.org.

“BBQ, Beer & Live Trivia” May 6, May 13, 7:30 p.m., at The Pig & Pint (3139 N. State St.).

Challenge Entertainment presents Live Trivia, featuring a $50 gift card for first place, a $20 gift card for second place, and a $10 gift card for third place. Free admission; pigandpint.com.

Chick-fil-A Social Celebration May 10-11, 8-11 p.m., at Chick-fil-A (Byram) (401 Handley Blvd., Suite A, Byram). The post-celebration follows the Swinging Bridge Festival and features live music, games and giveaways. Free admission, food prices vary; find it on Facebook.

“The Mixer” Dinner Theater at Char May 13, 7-9 p.m., at Char Restaurant (4500 I-55 N. Frontage Road). The Detective and Char present a comedic theatrical performance while participants dine. Cocktails and seating begin 6 p.m.

Reservations required. $49, plus tax and gratuity; call 601-291-7444; email thedetectives@ymail. com; thedetectives.biz.

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Blue Suede Breakfast is from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Mississippi Trade Mart (1200 Mississippi St.). The breakfast allows attendees early access to the Mercantile Mississippi shopping event. Includes live music from an Elvis Presley tribute artist. Tickets to the breakfast also cover entry into the main shopping event for both days. $20; find it on Facebook.

Zotovich Wine Tasting May 2, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at The Manship (1200 N. State St., Suite 100).

Participants taste various wines from Zotovich and eat food prepared by The Manship. $65 general admission; find it on Facebook.

FinnFeast May 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at St. Richard Catholic Church (1242 Lynwood Drive). The event offers attendees a dinner of spaghetti, garlic bread, salad, dessert and a drink. The event also hosts a bingo game. $10 dinner adult, $5 dinner child, $1 per bingo game card.

Pancakes & Pediatricians May 4, 9-10 a.m., at Children’s Medical Group (1867 Crane Ridge Drive, Suite 101B). Parents can have a breakfast lunch where they can take a tour of the clinic, meet pediatricians and ask questions to help

Boxing & Kickboxing May 1-2, May 6-9, May 13-15, 5-7 p.m., at Boxers Rebellion Fighting Arts & Fitness (856 S. State St., Suite E). Instructors teach participants boxing and kickboxing skills. $15 single day, $100 session; more options shown on website; call 262-994-3174; email jeremy@boxersrebellion.com; boxersrebellion.org.

Choreorobics Dance Off @ Steps the Studio May 1, May 8, May 15, 6:15-7 p.m., at Steps the Studio, School of the Performing Arts (6800 Old Canton Road, Suite 113, Ridgeland). Choreographer Roger L. Long and dance professional Tena Long instruct participants in hip hop-styled dance fitness techniques. $10 per person; call 601-853-7480; email golongproductions@ yahoo.com; choreorobics.com.

Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) • Move Sense: Exploring the Body & Self Through Movement May 1, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Jane Newkirk is the instructor. The class is based on principles of the Axis Syllabus and somatic movement, combining bio-mechanics, art, imagery and movement. $95 plus $5 supplies fee; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Advanced Basketball May 1, 7-9 p.m. Jimmy Smith is the instructor. The class is for current and former college basketball players looking to develop advanced skills and complex team strategy. $120 per person; millsaps.edu.

• T’ai Chi May 2, May 9, 6:15-7:45 p.m. Mike Chadwick is the instructor. Participants learn about and practice Yang-style T’ai Chi with an emphasis on health, stress management, increased balance and more. Class meets Thursdays from April 4-May 23. Limited class size. $150; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

SATURDAY 5/4 Belhaven Heights Park Beautification Project is from 8 a.m. to noon at 750 Madison St. Volunteers help remove small limbs, debris and brush from along the tree line.

Other projects include landscaping, painting benches and trash receptacles, and lining the existing walking trail. Registration begins 7:30 a.m. Participants receive a free T-shirt and lunch at the completion of the project. Free admission; greaterbelhaven.com.

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Free West African Dance Class May 5, May 12, 2-3:30 p.m., at Central United Methodist Family Life Center (517 N. Farish St.). The class teaches West African choreography and performance. All ages and experience-level are welcomed. Baby and child-friendly class. Strollers, carriers, playpens are welcome. Live music from Alkebulan Music Philosophy. Sponsored

by Greater Jackson Arts Council and Mississippi Arts Commission. Free admission; call 601-9839305; email shanina.carmichael@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

2019 Children’s Mental Health Summit May 8-9, 8 a.m., at Hilton Jackson (1001 E County Line Road). The event features a number of panels on how stigmas affect children’s mental health. Guest speakers include Miss Mississippi Asya Branch, Special Agent for the FBI Christopher Freeze, political analyst for NBC News Elise Jordan, Canopy Autism Solutions Director Dr. Jim Moore, former Supreme Court Justice Randy Pierce, and Canopy Chief Engagement and Diversity Officer Taheti Watson. Includes materials, refreshments, lunch and continuing educaiton credits. Limited to 30 participants. $100 per person; helpkidsthrive.org.

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• Yoga for Everyone May 7, May 14, 6:15-7:30 p.m. Sally Holly is the instructor. Participants learn yoga techniques and postures to strengthen muscles and increase flexibility.

Must bring sticky mat and a firm blanket.

Class meets Tuesdays from April 16-July 2. $150; call 601-974-1130; millsaps.edu.

Events at Highland Village (4500 I-55 N. Frontage Road) • Bend & Brew | Pure Barre Style May 3, 5-6 p.m. Heidi Hogfrefe and her team lead the hour-long fitness session in The Courtyard.

All fitness levels welcome. Those who stay until the end can attend the post-workout happy hour drink. Those who wish to use mats should bring their own. Free admission; call 601-982-5861; email lynsie.armstrong@ wsdevelopment.com.

• Bend & Brew | High Intensity Fitness May 8, 6-7 p.m. Sean Cupit from Crossfit 601 instructs attendees in a high-intensity workout.

All fitness levels welcome. Participants given a cold craft beer afterward. The event occurs every second Wednesday of the month. Free admission; call 601-982-5861; email lynsie. armstrong@wsdevelopment.com.

Natchez Trace Century Ride May 4, 7 a.m.-4 p.m., at Ridgeland Recreation & Parks (304 Highway 51, Ridgeland). Participants ride bikes in the cycling event that travels through the town. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Cinco de Mayo Lucha Libre Showcase May 4, 6:30 p.m., at City Hall Live (1000 Municipal Drive, Brandon). HoodMark Lucha Libre presents the family-friendly Mexican wrestling event featuring luchadors from award-winning TV show “Lucha Underground,” Lucha Libre AAA, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and more. $15 general admission, $20 ringside, free age 5 and under; call 769-798-4717; email hoodmarkluchalibre@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

“Sweat” May 1-4, 7:30 p.m., May 5, 2 p.m., at New Stage Theatre (1100 Carlisle St.). The stage-play tells the story of a group of friends who work together on the factory floor and have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets and laughs. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other. $30 ticket; newstagetheatre.com.

The Bard on the Bricks presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” May 2-4, 7-9 p.m., at Leake St, Olde Towne Clinton (300 Jefferson St., Clinton). The troupe presents a theatrical performance of the classic Shakespeare comedy.

Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating. Free admission, food prices vary; call 601-924-5472; email abennett@clintonms.org; find it on Facebook.

“Twelve Angry Jurors” May 2-4, 7:30 p.m., May 5, 2 p.m., at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). The courtroom drama tells the story of 12 jurors as they deliberate the

Attendees watch the performance. The show also sells various merchandise for the character. $45-$269.50; find it on Facebook.

“The Dying of Ida Greene” May 8-10, 7:30 p.m., May 11, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., at Chad Mars’ Studio (854-C1 Centre St., Ridgeland).

Ida Greene, a young woman with a mysterious illness, must navigate her changing relationships with her husband, a drifting friendand the nurse who becomes her caretaker. Written by Jackson transplant Michael Tobin and directed by Joseph Frost. Attendees receive complimentary coffee after the show. $15 general, $10 student; email info@hearthandmanteltheatre.com; hearthandmanteltheatre.com.

“If Not Us, Then Who? From Freedom Rides to Freedom Summer” May 9, 6-7:30 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). In the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium. The museum partners with New Stage Theatre to host this single-night theatrical performance. The original play chronicles two historic events that made an impact on American history and Mississippi. In 1961, 13 Freedom Riders began a journey to fight racial segregation. In 1964, Mississippians and out-of-state volunteers organized Freedom Summer, a massive voter registration drive to give African Americans a voice in politics. Free admission; call 601-576-6800; email info@ mscivilrightsmuseum.com; find it on Facebook.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • The Band Perry May 2, 8 p.m. The Grammy Award-winning sibling trio band performs.

Seating first-come, first-served. There will be a $5 upcharge taken at the door for people under 21. $30 advanced, $35 day of; find it on Facebook.

• Reignwolf at Duling Hall May 7, 8 p.m.

The rock-and-roll band performs as part of its tour celebrating the group’s first full-length album. $10 advanced, $15 at door; dulinghall. ticketfly.com.

Greek Fest 2019 May 3-5, 11 a.m., at Holy Trinity—St John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church (5725 S. Pear Orchard Road).

Attendees may try an array of Greek food and wine and otherwise experience a taste of Greek culture. Free admission, $25 “Taste of...,” $50

SATURDAY 5/11 Youth Fish Tales Rodeo begins 8 a.m. at LeFleur’s Bluff State Park (3315 Lakeland Terrance). Youths ages 15 and below fish in the second-annual event.

Includes games and prizes. Participants must bring their own fishing gear. Free admission.

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Farewell Play Tour May 7, 7 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The tour serves as Tyler Perry’s last hurrah in terms of playing his character, Madea.

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Mississippi State University football made program history with three players taken in the first round of the NFL Draft this past weekend. MSU had five players drafted overall.

THURSDAY, MAY 2

College baseball (6-8:30 p.m., SECN): Mississippi State University v Texas A&M University FRIDAY, MAY 3

College baseball (7-9:30 p.m., SECN+): University of Mississippi v Louisiana State University SATURDAY, MAY 4

Horse racing (1:30-6:30 p.m., NBC): 145th Kentucky Derby.

SUNDAY, MAY 5

College softball (noon-2:30 p.m., SECN+): UM v University of Georgia MONDAY, MAY 6

MLB (7-10:30 p.m., ESPN): Philadelphia Phillies v St. Louis Cardinals TUESDAY, MAY 7

NBA (7-9:30 p.m., TNT): Philadelphia 76ers v Toronto Raptors WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

College baseball (6:30-9 p.m., SECN+): University of Memphis v MSU THURSDAY, MAY 9

College softball (1:30-10 p.m., SECN): 2019 SEC Softball Tournament second round FRIDAY, MAY 10

College baseball (6:30-10 p.m., SECN+): MSU v UM. SATURDAY, MAY 11

College baseball (4-9:30 p.m., SECN+): MSU v UM SUNDAY, MAY 12

College baseball (12-3:30pm ESPN2): MSU v UM

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verdict of a homicide case that could mean the death of a young man. Reservations encouraged. $15 adult, $10 seniors, children and military; blackrosetheatre.org.

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wine tasting; greekfestjackson.org.

Titans of Tribute: Motley Crucial and Poison Overdose May 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Pop’s Saloon (2636 Gallatin St.). The two tribute bands perform. For ages 18 and up. $15 general admission, $100 reserved table of 4; find it on Facebook.

NBA (TBA TNT): Boston Celtics v Milwaukee Bucks TUESDAY, MAY 14

NBA (7:30-8 p.m., ESPN): 2019 NBA Draft Lottery WEDNESDAY, MAY 15

MLB (6-10 p.m., ESPN): MLB teams to be announced

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aTo Do Listd Belhaven Grilled Cheese Festival May 5, 2-6 p.m., at Laurel Street Park (1841 Laurel St.). The annual festival features various types of grilled cheese dishes for attendees to try. Participants may register to enter either the restaurant or home chef competition. Volunteers welcomed.

Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

Events at Brandon Amphitheater (8190 Rock Way, Brandon) • Michael W. Smith and Newsboys United— Surrounded & United: The Tour May 5, 6 p.m. The two music acts perform. $25-$40; ticketmaster.com.

• Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time Tour May 10, 7:30 p.m. Comedian Jim Gaffigan performs. $30-$75; find it on Facebook.

The Millennium Tour May 5, 7:30 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.).

Musical artists B2K, Mario, Pretty Ricky, Lloyd, Bobby, V, Ying Yang Twins and Chingy perform. $45-$208; find it on Facebook.

Pop Up Comedy Series featuring Jasmin Brown May 5, 7:30 p.m., at Johnny T’s Bistro & Bar (538 N. Farish St.). Stand-up comedian Jasmin Brown performs. $20 general, $35 VIP (reserved seating and meet-and-greet); call 601954-1323; email johnnytbistro@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

CMBS Blue Monday May 6, May 13, 7 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The Central Mississippi Blues Society presents the weekly blues show, which features a “Front Porch Acoustic Hour” and a jam with the Blue Monday Band. Cash bar available. $5 admission, $3 for CMBS members; call 601-948-0888.

Swinging Bridge Festival May 10-11, 4-10 p.m., at City of Byram, MS Official Municipal Site (5901 Terry Road, Byram). The festival features fair rides, crafts, music and fireworks. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

Pepsi Pops 2019 - A Blast in the Park May 10, 4:30-10 p.m., at Old Trace Park (Old Park Triangle, Ridgeland). The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra performs on the Rez. The event also includes a fireworks display, a kid’s playground, food trucks and music from advance bands. $15 advanced, $20 at gate; find it on Facebook.

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• “Where the Angels Lived” Book Signing May 7, 5 p.m. Author Margaret McMullen signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $17.95 signed book, free reading; lemuriabooks. com.

• “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” Book Signing May 13, 5 p.m. Author Casey Cep signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26.95 signed book, free reading; lemuriabooks.com.

“The Song of Jupiter” Book Signing May 4, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Barnes & Noble (Ridgeland) (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite 3009). Author Glen R. Stripling signs copies for his new sci-fi novel. TBA.

TUESDAY 5/14 “Evening Splendor” Orchestral Concert begins 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.). In the concert hall.

The concert features Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1” with full orchestra and guest soloist. The

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“Twilight Concert” begins 7 p.m.

The “Rooftop Rendezvous” begins 8:15 p.m. at Wier Boerner Allin, with live guitar music by David Keary. $100 per person for concert and soiree; msotickets.com.

CS’s Friday Night Live May 10, 8 p.m., at CS’s (1359 N. West St.). The weekly event features live music from DBL Tour and other music artists. Doors open 7 p.m. $5 cover charge.

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Flowood Family Festival May 11, 4-10 p.m., at Liberty Park (Flowood). The festival provides family fun with live entertainment from headlining act for King & Country as well as special guest Jordan Feliz. Pinelake Worship Band also performs. Free admission; cityofflowood.com.

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Lillian Axe at Bonny Blair’s May 11, 7:30 p.m., at Bonny Blair’s (1149 Old Fannin Road, Brandon). Louisiana Music Hall of Fame members and Jackson IKON Award winners Lillian Axe performs. Tickets: $20 ages 21+ (advanced), $25 ages 21+ (at door), $25 under 21 (advanced), $30 under 21 (at door), $50 table for 2, $90 table for 4, $130 table for 6. $20-$130; find it on Facebook.

LITERARY SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Books (4465 I-55 N.) • “The Abolitionist’s Daughter” Book SigningMay 3, 5 p.m. Author Diane C. McPhail signs copies. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26 signed

CREATIVE CLASSES Events at Millsaps College (1701 N. State St.) • Italic Calligraphy May 2, May 9, 6-8 p.m. Cathy O’Rear is the instructor. Participants learn to create Italic forms with a broad-edged pen, designing a short quotation and learning the basics of envelope addressing. Limited to 15 people. Class meets Thursdays through May 16. $110 plus $20 instructor fee; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Beginning Harmonica May 6, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Scott Albert Johnson is the instructor. Participants learn rudiments of playing single notes, the difference between melodic and blues harmonica playing, basic songs and phrases, and more. $100 (plus harmonica); call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• To Tell the Truth: The Art of Creative Nonfiction May 6, May 13, 6:30-8 p.m. Ellen Ann Fentress is the instructor. Participants

explore a variety of nonfiction forms, including memoir, personal essay, criticism and humor. $110; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Transformational Writing: How to Find Your Voice May 6, May 13, 6:30-8 p.m. Jean Farish is the instructor. Participants learn to sharpen their writing skills, develop their own voice, discover their stories and more. $110 plus $15 material fee; call 601-974-1000; millsaps.edu.

• Knitting a Sock May 7, May 14, 6-8 p.m.

Donna Peyton is the instructor. Participants learn to construct a top-down sock and skills such as turning a heel, gusset shaping and more. Basic knitting skills and knowledge of casting on, knitting, purling and knitting in the round needed. Class meets Tuesdays through May 28. $70 plus materials; call 601974-1000; millsaps.edu.

Rubber Stamp & Craft Paper Company May 11, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at Pearl Public Library (2416 Old Brandon Road, Pearl). The adult crafting group makes projects using crafting paper and rubber stamps on the second Saturday of each month. Free; find it on Facebook.

ARTS & EXHIBITS Spirits of the Passage May 1-5, May 8-12, May 14-15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). The traveling exhibit showcases rare artifacts uncovered from the wreckage of a sudden slave trip. $10 adult, $8 senior, $6 child; email info@mscivilrightsmuseum.com; twomississippimuseums.com.

need. $30 5K, $15 mile; saintrichard.com.

Episcopal Drawdown - Proceeds to benefit Habitat for Humanity MS Capital Area May 4, 6-9 p.m., at St. James Episcopal Church (3921 Oakridge Drive). The annual fundraiser benefits the next Habitat for Humanity–Episcopal Build project later this year. Each ticket is good for two people and includes one entry in the drawing for a $10,000 prize. The event also features live music and a silent auction. Refreshments provided. Registration and payment must be completed

by May 3 at 5 p.m. to attend. $100 (admits two to the event, includes food and beverages); call 601-982-4880; standrewsjxn.wufoo.com.

The 12th Annual Seersucker & Sombreros May 4, 3-8 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The annual party celebrates both the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo.

The event features live music entertainment, the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby, silent auction, food and an open bar. All proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Central Mississippi. $60; find it on Facebook.

Brawn and Bubbles 5K Run for the Brain May 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Reservoir Pointe (140 Madison Landing Circle, Ridgeland). Participants run and walk in the 5K event benefitting the MIND Center, a national leader in Alzheimer’s research and clinical services. Includes food, drink and live music. Registration closes May 6. $35 5K run, $65 VIP, $25 virtual run; call 601-984-4467; email mindcenter@umc.edu.

Nicole Dikon Art Gallery May 2, 5-7 p.m., at Fischer Galleries (736 S. President St.). The gallery presents artwork from the Maui, Hawaii, native, showcasing her use of woodblock printing, etching, lithography, book and zine making and more. Admission TBA.

Swing Fore the Kettle Golf Tournament May 10, 11:30 a.m., at Castlewoods Country Club (403 Bradford Drive, Brandon). Participants play golf. Proceeds benefit social service programs for The Salvation Army of Jackson. Lunch and oncourse refreshments provided for attendees. Prizes awarded to top three teams. Individual player: $125, Sponsorship/Team pricing available; email salvationarmyalm.org.

Art & Coffee May 4, 10-11:30 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The event takes place on the first Saturday of each month and features a discussion of current and upcoming exhibitions with museum staff members and special guests. Includes complimentary coffee. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; msmuseumart.org.

Meals on a Mission: Cupcakes for Mom May 11, noon-4 p.m., at The Fresh Market (1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite 1001, Ridgeland). The Fresh Market partners with Feeding America to host a Mother’s Day-themed event.

Attendees may purchase gourmet cupcakes for $3 each and then decorate them to give to their mother figures. $3 per cupcake.

Ostinato featuring Ohmme May 5, 6-8 p.m., at AND Gallery (133 Millsaps Ave.). The event features an art display as well as live music from the Chicago-based duo Ohmme as part of the Ostinato series, which showcases a new series of mixed media wall sculptures that play with the repetition and pattern found in a collection of everyday objects. Free admission; email andgalleryart@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

JFC 12th Annual $10,000 Drawdown and Silent Auction May 11, 7:30-10:30 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.). Jackson Futbol Club hosts the fundraising event to benefit the thousands of soccer players both young and old that it supports. One standard ticket admits two adults and includes two adult beverages (water and sodas complimentary). Limited to 400. Each ticket enters attendees in a drawing for a grand prize of $10,000. The $125 insured ticket allows those whose tickets are drawn in the first 75 draws to have their tickets re-entered for another chance at the $10,000 prize. $100 standard ticket, $125 insured ticket; find it on Facebook.

Ask for More Jackson Arts Exhibit May 15, 8 a.m.-9 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall Foundation (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.). The exhibit features art from Jackson residents. Free admission; call 601-969-6015; email egraham@ afmjackson.org.

BE THE CHANGE Flight to the Finish XI May 4, 9 a.m., at St. Richard Catholic Church (1242 Lynwood Drive). The event hosts the Cardinal Men’s Club 5K Run, the 5K Race Walk and the Mile House Challenge. Participants run/walk to support St. Richard’s. Proceeds benefit the outdoor classroom project and financial aid for students in

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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5/1 - 5/14 1908 Provisions - Ronnie Brown 6:30 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - American Band 7 p.m.

Cerami’s - Ron Sennett 6 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - Circles Around the Sun 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Jason Turner Band 8 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - T Baby midnight Fenian’s Pub - Pistol Hill 10 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Dan Confait

Bonny Blair’s - Phil Yarbrough 7 p.m.

Brandon Amphitheater - Michael W. Smith & Newsboys United

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Dirt Road Cadillac 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny Brooks & Friends 7:30 p.m.

Lost Rabbit – Travelin’ Jane 6 p.m.

Barrelhouse - John Causey 7:30 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Keys vs Strings 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - The Band Perry; Dream Chief 8 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Chris Minter & the

Martin’s - Winston Ramble 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - V-Twin 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny Duo 5:30 p.m.; Snazz 8 p.m. $5; Shayne Weems 10 p.m.

Soulshine Pizza Factory, Ridgeland Thomas Jackson 7 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Saturday 5/4 Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - ZOSO 8 p.m. courtesy Eddie Cotton / Facebook

Eddie Cotton Jr.

KJ Funkmasters 11 p.m. $5

Bonny Blair’s - Bad Reign 8:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Brian Smith

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Zach Bridges

Georgia Blue, Flowood Ron Etheridge

Hops & Habanas - Risko & Friends 6:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Chad Wesley

Iron Horse Grill - Bill Abel 6 p.m.

Green Ghost Tacos - Risko & Friends

Kathryn’s - Steele Heart 6:30 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - 19th Street Red 9 p.m.

Lost Pizza Co., Flowood - Phil or Trace 6 p.m.

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

Iron Horse Grill McKinney Williams 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - The XtremeZ Band 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - DoubleShotZ 6:30 p.m.

Mississippi Coliseum - B2K, Mario, Pretty Rick, Lloyd, Bobby, V, Ying Yang Twins & Chingy 7:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Road Hogs noon; Proximity 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Keys vs Strings 3:30 p.m.

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

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

Monday 5/6

Pelican Cove - Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Friday 5/10 1908 Provisions - Andrew Pates 6:30 p.m.

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Allison Collins Band 8 p.m.

Burgers & Blues - Larry Brewer and Doug Hurd 6 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - The Marcus King Band 7:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Aaron Coker Georgia Blue, Madison Shaun Patterson

Sunday 5/12 1908 Provisions - Knight Bruce 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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

Iron Horse Grill - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - SOULSTEW 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Buzz and Gina Trio noon; Bonfire Orchestra 5 p.m.

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

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

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

Monday 5/13

Hal & Mal’s - Central Mississippi Blues Society 7 p.m. $5

Iron Horse Grill - Ted Hefko 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Stevie Cain - American Idol Contestant 6:30 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Robin Blakeney and Sammy Qadan 6 p.m.

Martin’s - CBDB 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Keys vs Strings 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jason Turner Band 7 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Tuesday 5/7 Bonny Blair’s - Open Jam with Sonny Brooks 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Duling Hall – Reignwolf w/ Welles 8 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m.; Snazz 8 p.m. $5;

Pelican Cove - R J and the Good Time Band 2 p.m.; Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Jay Wadsworth 7 p.m.

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Eddie Cotton Jr. 8 p.m.

Martin’s - Little Raine Band 10 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner

Martin’s - Shake It Like a Caveman w/ Nonconnah 10 p.m.

Pops’ Saloon – Titans of Tribute “Motley Crue” 10 p.m.

Kathryn’s - The Sole Shakers 7 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Tiger Rogers 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Charade 6 p.m.

1908 Provisions - Vince Barranco 6:30 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Terry “Harmonica” Bean 9 p.m.

Green Ghost Tacos - Marion Geissingtger noon-3 p.m.

Shucker’s - Road Hogs 7:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jackson Gypsies 7 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Chris Minter & the KJ Funkmasters 11 p.m. $5

Georgia Blue, Madison Brandon Greer

Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m.; Faze 4 8 p.m. $5; Topher Brown 10 p.m.

ISH – Tonya Boyd-Cannon 9 p.m.

Friday 5/3

Cerami’s - Larry Brewer 6 p.m.

Country w/ Jordan Feliz 5 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Chad Wesley

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Brandon Greer

Pelican Cove - Richard Lee Davis and Blake Edward Thomas 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Thursday 5/9 1908 Provisions - Scott Albert Johnson and Chalmers Davis 6:30 p.m.

AND Gallery - Ohmme 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - T. J. Russell 6 p.m.

1908 Provisions - Chuck Bryan 6:30 p.m.

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

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Mockingbird Session 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m.

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Sunday 5/5

Shucker’s - Sonny Brooks & Friends 7:30 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood Shaun Patterson Iron Horse Grill - Casey Phillips 9 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Chasin Dixie Duo 10 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Central Mississippi Blues Society 7 p.m. $5

Bonny Blair’s - Open Jam with Sonny Brooks 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Ron Etheridge 5:30 p.m.; Faze 4 8 p.m. $5; Josh Journeay 10 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Soulshine Pizza Factory, Ridgeland – Scott Stickland 7 p.m.

Duling Hall - Todd Snider; Elizabeth Cook 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Keys vs Strings 6:30 p.m.

Saturday 5/11 Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Allison Collins Band 8 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Phil and Trace 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

Tuesday 5/14

Bonny Blair’s - Lillian Axe and Shatter Frame

Bonny Blair’s - Open Jam with Sonny Brooks 7 p.m.

1908 Provisions - Dan Gibson

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Dusty Welch 7 p.m.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

I invite you to explore the frontiers of what’s possible for you to experience and accomplish.

One exercise that might help: Visualize specific future adventures that excite you. Examples?

Picture yourself parasailing over the Mediterranean Sea near Barcelona, or working to help endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica, or giving a speech to a crowded auditorium on a subject you will someday be an expert in. The more specific your fantasies, the better. Your homework is to generate at least five of these visions.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

You Cancerians can benefit from always having a fertility symbol somewhere in your environment: an icon or image that reminds you to continually refresh your relationship with your own abundant creativity; an inspiring talisman or toy that keeps you alert to the key role your fecund imagination can and should play in nourishing your quest to live a meaningful life; a provocative work of art that spurs you to always ask for more help and guidance from the primal source code that drives you to reinvent yourself. So if you don’t have such a fertility symbol, I invite you to get one. If you do, enhance it with a new accessory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

“We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves,” writes educator Parker Palmer. That’s the bad news, Virgo.

The good news is that you are in prime position to escape from the whiplash. Cosmic forces are conspiring with your eternal soul to coalesce a well-balanced vision of your true value that’s free of both vain misapprehensions and self-deprecating delusions. Congrats! You’re empowered to understand yourself with a tender objectivity that could at least partially heal lingering wounds. See yourself truly!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

The country of Poland awards medals to couples that have stayed married for 50 years. It also gives out medals to members of the armed forces who have served for at least 30 years. But the marriage medal is of higher rank, and is more prestigious. In that spirit, I’d love for you to get a shiny badge or prize to acknowledge your devoted commitment to a sacred task—whether that commitment is to an intimate alliance, a noble quest or a promise to yourself. It’s time to reward yourself for how hard you’ve worked and how much you’ve given.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Scorpio poet Sylvia Plath wrote, “I admit I desire, / Occasionally, some backtalk / From the mute sky.” You’ll be

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

In January 1493, the notorious pirate and kidnapper Christopher Columbus was sailing his ship near the land we now call the Dominican Republic. He spotted three creatures he assumed were mermaids. Later he wrote in his log that they were “not half as beautiful as they are painted (by artists).”

We know now that the “mermaids” were actually manatees, aquatic mammals with flippers and paddle-shaped tails.

They are in fact quite beautiful in their own way, and would only be judged as homely by a person comparing them to mythical enchantresses. I trust you won’t make a similar mistake, Sagittarius. Evaluate everything and everyone on their own merits, without comparing them to something they’re not.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“I want what we all want,” writes novelist Jonathan Lethem.

“To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.” Even if you haven’t passionately wanted that lately, Capricorn, I’m guessing you will soon. That’s a good thing, because life will be conspiring with you to accomplish it. Your ability to express yourself in ways that are meaningful to you and interesting to other people will be at a peak.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Using algorithms to analyze 300 million facts, a British scientist concluded that April 11, 1954, was the most boring day in history. A Turkish man who would later become a noteworthy engineer was born that day, and Belgium staged a national election. But that’s all. With this non-eventful day as your inspiration, I encourage you to have fun reminiscing about the most boring times in your own past. I think you need a prolonged respite from the stimulating frenzy of your daily rhythm. It’s time to rest and relax in the sweet luxury of nothingness and emptiness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

“The Blue Room” is a famous Picasso painting from 1901.

Saturated with blue hues, it depicts a naked woman taking a bath. More than a century after its creation, scientists used X-rays to discover that there was an earlier painting beneath “The Blue Room” and obscured by it. It shows a man leaning his head against his right hand. Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield says that there are some people who are “like a painting hidden beneath another painting.” More of you Pisceans fit that description than any other sign of the zodiac. You may even be like a painting beneath a painting beneath a painting—to a depth of five or more paintings.

Is that a problem? Not necessarily. But it is important to be fully aware of the existence of all the layers. Now is a good time to have a check-in.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

“How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. “How slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!” Your first assignment in the coming days, Aries, is to devote yourself to quenching the hunger and thirst of your soul with the same relentless passion that you normally spend on giving your body the food and drink it craves. This could be challenging. You may be less knowledgeable about what your soul thrives on than what your body loves. So your second assignment is to do extensive research to determine what your soul needs to thrive.

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It’s less common that I address your sacred obligation to give back to life for all that life has given to you. I only infrequently discuss how you might engage in activities to help your community or work for the benefit of those less fortunate than you. But now is one of those times when I feel moved to speak of these matters. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial to perform specific work in behalf of a greater good. Why crucial? Because your personal well-being in the immediate future depends in part on your efforts to intensify your practical compassion.

wise to borrow the spirit of that mischievous declaration.

Now is a good time to solicit input from the sky, as well as from your allies and friends and favorite animals, and from every other source that might provide you with interesting feedback. I invite you to regard the whole world as your mirror, your counselor, your informant.

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“We must choose between the pain of having to transcend oppressive circumstances, or the pain of perpetual unfulfillment within those oppressive circumstances,” writes mental health strategist Paul John Moscatello. We must opt for “the pain of growth or the pain of decay,” he continues. We must either “embrace the tribulations of realizing our potential, or consent to the slow suicide in complacency.” That’s a bit melodramatic, in my opinion. Most of us do both; we may be successful for a while in transcending oppressive circumstances, but then temporarily lapse back into the pain of unfulfillment. However, there are times when it makes sense to think melodramatically. And I believe now is one of those times for you. In the coming weeks, I hope you will set in motion plans to transcend at least 30 percent of your oppressive circumstances.

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6. Interior Concepts (435 Cedars of Lebanon Road, 601-366-7700)—This family-owned interior-design business has tons more options for tile, flooring, cabinets and more than the big-box stores.

7. Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave., 601376-9404)—It’s a funky comic and record shop that also hosts events each week from comedy to music to art exhibitions.

8. Little Big Store (201 W. Main St., Raymond, 601-857-8579)—This Raymond record shop is in an old train depot packed full of thousands of records.

9. Pearl River Glass Studio (142 Millsaps Ave., 601-353-2497)— I’ve always loved how the studios seem to unfold through mysterious gardens interspersed between each workshop.

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