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“What sets Cleanstraww apart from something similar like LifeStraw (a filtration device that Switzerland-based company Vestergaard created) is that it cannot filter out heavy metals like lead, which is a major component of the water crisis facing Jackson and places like Flint, Michigan,” Pierce says. “I want to make this straw readily available everywhere and for it to become a household product that can surpass bottled water, which can also have a lot of impurities and often isn’t as filtered as a lot of people may think.”

Pierce, 36, graduated from Murrah High School in 2001 and went on to study architectural drafting and geographic information systems, such as GPS devices, at Hinds Community College.

After receiving his associate’s degree in geographic info systems from Hinds in 2004, he worked as a tempura chef at Little Tokyo in Jackson from 2004 to 2009, then as a site technician at the University of Mississippi Medical Center until 2012. He then spent worked as a fish processor at an offshore commercial fishery on the Bering Sea before he decided he wanted to go back to college.

Pierce enrolled at JSU in 2014 and earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial technology in 2017. He currently works for Jackson Public Schools as a network analyst.

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n 2013, Jackson native LaMonté Pierce was growing weary of the city’s continuous boil-water alerts and the constant need to pick up bottled water. At the time, he wished there could be a quick and cheap solution to the problem, and thought of the idea of filtering water through a straw.

“I remember wondering if something like that had been done, and why it couldn’t be available to the public at an affordable price,” Pierce says. “However, at the time I thought that something that simple may not actually work, or someone would have done it.”

A graduate student who is studying technical education at Jackson State University, Pierce got the chance to revisit that thought and make the product a reality when he took part in a 3Dprinting challenge at a cyberlearning summit at JSU in 2016. The goal was for students to work together over the course of three days to invent a solution to a problem facing Mississippi.

Pierce decided to see if his filtration straw idea could work to address the city’s water contamination problem. After discovering plans on Thingiverse, an online 3D-printing blueprint database, for a can that functioned similarly to what Pierce had in mind, he re-purposed the design into what he dubbed the “Cleanstraww.”

After the summit, Pierce secured a patent for the product and created a company called Cleanstraww, LLC, as well as a

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publisher’s note

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want to start this column by putting a coda on the “Billy Graham Rule” discussion that Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert Foster set off when he refused to let a woman reporter do her job if she didn’t bring a male colleague with her. Republican Bill Waller Jr., also running for governor, later said he also will not meet with a woman in private.

I have three thoughts on this. One of them was said well by Attorney General Jim Hood—it’s “ridiculous” in this day and age to refuse to meet with women in professional and political settings. As a potential governor of the state, if you aren’t really clear about how you plan to implementthis sort of “rule” then you risk your ability to serve the electorate as a modern American politician. (And note that the job is to serve—not just set rules.)

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Which brings me to my second item— if a male politician elects to follow the “Billy Graham Rule,” it really is incumbent upon him to make the accommodations necessary to meet with women—reporters, constituents, policy advisers and advocates.

They have jobs to do and businesses relying on them. It’s not the professional woman’s responsibility to accommodate a personal promise you made to your wife.

For the interview that begat this tempest from Foster, his campaign had every opportunity to have a male staffer or volunteer present. (Indeed, we’re told that was the plan.) And he or his staffer easily could have recorded the entire interaction if their concern was honestly that the reporter might make up a salacious allegation against him.

Foster doesn’t appear to be all that serious about how he would govern in the shadow of the Billy Graham Rule—who was a preacher, incidentally, not an elected official. Foster has turned these 15 minutes of fame into a bumper-sticker campaign, during which he’s proudly flaunted his willingness to meet with male reporters.

This looks little more like an opportunity to greet like-minded right-wing evangelicals “in the marketplaces.”

Speaking of the New Testament brings me to my third point. Part of Foster’s tweeted defense of his behavior includes the lines: “The Bible tells us to avoid the appearance of evil. And that is what I did.”

Scholars have read closely this (mis)translation of 1 Thessalonians 5:22, where “every appearance of evil” is really translated more correctly as “every form of evil.”

Daniel B. Wallace famously called it the “Sin Sniffer’s Catch-All Verse.” Given its prominence in the politics of today, we need to revisit this mistranslation, as it seems to have found cynical support among people who want to push back on women’s gains as professionals and leaders.

I have no desire to criticize Foster or Waller in how they honor their wives. But if they’re going to assert the “Billy Graham Rule” in the workplace, it really is their responsibility to make clear what they’re going to do to overcome the limitations it creates for the women who need to be heard by, or interview, their elected officials.

In other words: Once they get out of their trucks, they’re going to need to play by the public’s rules.

Having said that, let me turn now to the primary election before us—and the issue in your hands. The JFP’s small staff has been working hard to bring you coverage of important primary races this season in anticipation of the primary election coming Tuesday, Aug. 6.

In Jackson and Hinds County, we have important races that offer a real opportunity to move forward when it comes to efficient criminal justice in the area. Donna Ladd brings you a look at the Hinds County district attorney and Hinds County sheriff races; she’s been doing triple duty as editor, writer and podcast host for a number of

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JFP Editor Donna Ladd interviews Rep. Ronnie Crudup Jr. for a Let’s Talk Jackson podcast (letstalkjackson.com). Crudup is running for re-election after winning a special election in the spring. He did not ask for a chaperone.

important discussions this primary season.

In many cases, these elections (and any subsequent runoffs) will likely decide the officeholder for the next four years, so read up and check out those podcast interviews and transcripts so you can choose wisely!

Reporter Ashton Pittman focuses his attention on state-wide races in this issue, with coverage of the governor’s race and providing information on key statewide offices. While your influence in these races might hinge on which primary ballot you pick up at your polling station, some of these primaries will lead to actual twoparty contests (imagine that!) in November.

Along with this issue and continuing coverage at jfp.ms/2019elections, I also encourage you to keep up with Donna and Ashton at letstalkjackson.com, where we are

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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 contributed to the cover package.

Aliyah Veal is Jackson native with a bachelor’s degree in English from Spelman College and a master’s in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She’s a huge fan of Tupac, “Rugrats” and MCU movies. She contributed to the cover package.

Freelancer Malcolm Morrow has a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the founder of Jacksonbased entertainment blog The Hood Hippie. He wrote a story about Shiro Ethiopian Restaurant & Café.

feverishly posting podcast interviews with local candidates focused on issues and solutions that affect all of us—not horse-race, partisan politics.

Kudos to Donna, Ashton, city reporting intern Aliyah Veal, Managing Editor Amber Helsel and Art Director Kristin Brenemen for a great issue, and a hat tip to Events Editor Nate Schumann for his help with editing this issue and, of course, Dustin Cardon’s work on the website and Zilpha Young on ads and house design.

Finally, I’d expected to write a little something more this month about July 4 and independent journalism, in part to thank the JFP VIPs who have supported our reporting thus far in 2019.

But “election time” is as good a time as any to point out how important it is to have a staff of dedicated journalists working to get you actionable information. I like to call what JFP does “the hard work”—sitting in meetings, making calls, getting quotes, researching solutions and evidence, setting up interviews and podcasts, and working daily to get the truth out to our readers. It’s work that is critical to a functioning democracy.

So, during this summer of independence and impending elections, if you’re feeling patriotic—particularly about the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate— then I invite you to join the other JFP VIPs with a monthly or annual subscription. See jfp.ms/vip for more details.

Oh—and vote on Aug. 6!

Todd Stauffer is the publisher, president and co-founder of the Jackson Free Press.

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Elders at Risk and Looking for Solutions

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hristie Jackson had just come from the grocery store on July 5 at around 6 p.m. when she saw her 95-year-old neighbor, without shoes on, across the street on another neighbor’s patio. She went outside to check on her.

Call somebody. Someone has come in my house and beat me and choked me,’” the neighbor told Jackson.

Jackson told her son Matthew to get her neighbor some shoes, and she immediately called 9-1-1. She then stepped out into the street and saw that her neighbor’s front door was wide open. The cops were taking too long so she called the Jackson Police Department’s dispatch number. Soon, both an ambulance and police showed up.

As other neighbors started to come outside to see what was happening, the police arrived and checked the house but did not find anyone inside. American Medical Response medics inspected her neighbor, but they said they did not find any bruising or signs of struggle, she said.

But the elderly neighbor was clear that when she went to her storage room, a man was standing there. He then dragged her into the house, sat on her back, and was beating and choking her, she told those gathered.

The attacker asked Jackson’s neighbor where her money was, and she told him she would give it to him if he let her up.

When he did, she ran through her kitchen and den before bolting out her front door.

It was clear to Jackson that the elderly woman was attacked. “After AMR left, you could see the purple bruises started to come in her face. Within the hour, you could see finger (imprints) on both her arms. It was clear someone had grabbed her,” she said. “She had carpet burns on her knees. She had a knot coming up on her forehead.”

Despite what they saw, Jackson said the police maintained that there were no signs of a break-in and questioned the neighbor’s sanity.

“He kind of played it like she imagined it. Not this lady. Not her. She is very

West Jackson has seen several home invasions in the past few weeks, including the assault of a 95-year-old woman.

Residents want solutions and for the police to take the threat to the elderly seriously.

much in her right mind,” Jackson said.

The officer wrote the report as an assault instead of a home invasion because there were no signs of a break-in.

‘See Something, Say Something’ Jackson is concerned about the response to her neighbor, especially because police officers say crime in the

area has decreased.

“It was unreal to think that someone would do this to her. It used to be where old people and kids were off limits. I don’t know what people are on or what’s going on in this city, (but) they are preying on the elderly, and some elderly people are scared,” she told the Jackson Free Press.

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This incident, along with a string of other incidents, was cause for an emergency community meeting at the Golden Key Community Center on July 9. Residents from the Shady Oaks, Bel-Air, Delhaven and High School Park community went to the meeting to voice their concerns with officers from the Jackson Police Department, who

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JPS Unveils ‘Transformational’ Plan for Public Schools

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ackson Public Schools now has a plan to “trans- educators; safe, supportive and positive learning environ- to be fulfilled individually. We believe it is important to address each of those and that they (students) will be form” education in Mississippi’s capital city, in ments; and a culture of accountability and excellence.

“At Jackson Public Schools, we (want to) prepare prepared to do it,” Greene said. part the culmination of a partnership to respond The booklet also lists milestones that the school disto a threatened State takeover of public schools. scholars to achieve globally, to contribute locally and trict hopes to reach by 2024. Some of these City leaders say it will help ensure that all goals include having 40% or more JPS stuchildren in the district get a high-quality dents performing at Level 4 or 5 in reading education. It would also expand access to and math for third- through eighth-graders pre-K programs for 4-year-olds. and for high school end-of-course exams; JPS Superintendent Errick L. Greene 80% or more students graduating in four unveiled “Excellence For All,” the new years; and 10% or fewer students getting strategic plan for educating Jackson stususpension per school year. dents, at a press conference inside the As far as when residents can expect Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural to see results from the plan, Greene said Center on July 18, then at a community people should not expect for every piece gathering at Henry Kirksey Middle School of the plan to be in place by August. that evening. “Excellence for all folks.

“We know that all of this work canThat’s the name of the game. We’re very not happen right off,” he said. “But each intentional about naming our plan ‘Excelyear we’ll identify specific goals that we lence for All.’ That’s where we’re headed,” believe we’ll achieve, (and) that’s how Greene said at Smith Robertson. we’ll ensure that there is clarity on exactly JPS defines Excellence For All “as a series of commitments to the scholars what we’re focusing on that year and how we’ll be able to show progress is made.” and families of Jackson Public Schools Greene also said that the school disand will guide the district’s decisions trict is working hard to not be a burden on and actions over the next five years,” a Parents, educators, community members, students and others packed into the city as far as the budget is concerned. strategic-plan booklet says.

“We have identified a list of partners The plan has five commitments: high- Henry Kirksey Middle School in Jackson for the unveiling of the new strategic quality early learning for 4-year-olds; in- plan for Jackson Public Schools on Thursday, July 18. Afterward, they split into who have already started to identify some novative teaching and learning; engaging groups to brainstorm about bringing the plan to fruition.

ELDERS were also in attendance.

Joyce Jackson, Christie Jackson’s mother, recounted the attack of their 95-year-old neighbor. She also recalled an incident that happened the following night in which another neighbor, Larry, held a man at gunpoint after he found him in another resident’s yard, beating on the neighbor’s patio table with a 2-by-4.

“We are very emotional about the kind of service we are getting (and) how long it takes. We need to work out some type of strategy (for how) we gone patrol our neighborhoods. We want to know what you all are going to do about our neighborhoods,” Joyce Jackson told JPD officers at the meeting.

Precinct 3 Lt. Joseph Wade said he is concerned about what has been happening in the community. When Joyce Jackson asked Wade how the department reports crimes, he said they classify them based on what elements fit.

The sergeant, the commander and the lieutenant review the reports before they go downtown to the chief, he said.

“I spent an hour and a half in a meeting at Precinct 3 today talking only about this. There’s nothing more important right now to me than to make sure this does not happen again in our city, in our precinct, in our community,” Wade said.

He explained that Precinct 3 has 11 beats, meaning there should be 11 officers working at one time. However, the number can go up if they have special details going on.

“You may have 15 to 20 (officers) working Precinct 3 at (a) particular time depending on the day,” Wade said.

Commander Sequena Banks, the major investigation commander, said a suspect is in custody for a home invasion involving a woman in her 80s that occurred in Shady Oaks at the end of June. Police arrested Tommy Sheriff, 50, on July 9 and held him on a $1,000,000 bond for kidnapping and burglary. The police are hoping he can connect them to other attacks, she said.

“If you see something, say

something. Anything that you have that may help us, we want it,” Banks told residents. “Don’t think that any information may not be good enough.

All of your information is good to us.”

Chief James Davis and Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba did not attend the meeting. Joyce Jackson said Chief Davis did follow up afterward and wants to set up a meeting with everyone involved in the incident.

On the attacks, Lumumba told the Jackson Free Press: “The most repulsive criminal acts are those perpetrated against children and the elderly. Our police department is on high alert concerning these incidents, and we will assure the protecting of our city and especially our most vulnerable populations.”

‘Where Is The Solution?’

Shambani Watts’ mother, Jeraldine Watts, lives in the Shady Oaks community and, due to recent events, she has asked his more ELDERS p. 8

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Collaboration Key to Ending Homelessness?

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At the June 27 Jackson City Council meeting, Poindexter Park Neighborhood Association Vice President Sheila Harper and other west Jackson residents voiced their concerns about the center.

“I believe a lot of people think we’re coming in to be another shelter or another soup kitchen that wants to hand out stuff. We’re giving people a hand up, not a hand out,” she said.

Putalamus White

utalamus White, founder of the Jackson Resource Center, was working at the Gateway Rescue Mission Shelter on Gallatin Street In 2003 when she met 16-year-old Daniel. His parents had given the teenager a one-way ticket to Jackson and told him “to figure it out.” The center did not take underage individuals, however.

There was nowhere for Daniel to go, and he was sleeping outside the shelter.

After his first day, White took the boy home with her.

“I got him into high school, he graduated, he went to college, and he’s living a very productive life,” she told the Jackson Free Press on July 17.

White knows she kept Daniel from living off the streets and that if she had not taken him in, he could be living a very different life. “Not everyone has that (help). There’s a possibility we can change that trajectory,” she said.

White is hoping to change the state of homelessness in the capital city through the Jackson Resource Center, which The Healing Place is set to build in west Jackson.

“It’s going to be a one-stop shop where services, agencies and community organizations are coming under one roof to service the needs of those individuals that are in need,” she said.

The Mississippi Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Human Services, vital statistics and medical treatment are some of the services the center will offer.

West Jackson residents are resisting White’s plans to put the center in their community, however.

able life,” Harper suggested.

Despite Harper’s suggestion, White said she has had conversations with the assistance groups in the neighborhood, but that it has been difficult, she said. “The opportunity center is not large enough for the services we’re proposing to bring into the community,” she said.

White has visited resource centers in other cities for ideas. If the resources are under one roof where most individuals who need the services are located, it will be easier for those individuals to change their life, she has learned.

“We’ve found that these resources have helped lower the homeless population once they get the help they need. They can go from living on the streets to being in their own apartment and getting jobs,” she said.

Residents made it clear they do not want the center in their community.

White said she has compassion for their rejection of the center, but added that it is disheartening to not have their support.

“I understand if we’re not open-minded to new and open ideas that we haven’t seen, then we’ll never see real change,” she said.

She has sat down with the west Jackson residents to discuss the center in detail, but they stood firm in their decision to oppose the project in their community.

‘Help the Stewpot’

Sheila Harper told the Jackson Free Press that she has not seen any positive changes in the neighborhood from Stewpot or the opportunity center moving into the west Jackson neighborhood. Harper wants the Resource Center to work with organizations already in the community.

“Help the Stewpot. Help the opportunity center then. Help them create a plan where it can be economically feasible for these people to have a sustain-

‘We Don’t Have True Facts’

Last year, White learned that a young man and his family were sleeping in the lobbies of local hospitals for four and a half months of his senior year in high school. She found out because her neighbor messaged her through Facebook and asked if she could help them.

White said there are many homeless people that “go through the cracks” by not going to homeless shelters or parks for refuge, but go to a neighbor or friend for assistance. Because of this, it is hard to know exactly how many local residents are homeless, she said.

“We don’t have true facts,” she said.

“We have called the Jackson Police Department, hospitals, the Department of Mental Health to get some type of stats, and nobody speaks numbers.”

give you an alert and tell you somebody is coming into your yard,” he said.

Watts said everyone that has an email can look at the footage, and they can access the footage anywhere in the world. “What it does it gives someone else the opportunity to say I’m watching my mom’s house, maybe I can watch the neighbor’s house.” he said.

Residents and JPD offered other solutions from self-defense maneuvers to a cop cam that requires Wi-Fi and SD cards to work. Some residents who grew up in the neighborhood are starting a patrol crew to ride around and monitor the area.

Joyce said she would like for the police department to create a stationary police force using retired, veteran police officers who are already trained.

“These are retirees that may want to work a few hours. Schedule those people in those neighborhoods. This is your area here, and this is your zone.

Station the police so there will always be someone available and visible,” she told the Jackson Free Press.

Joyce said the police need to question suspicious individuals who may be walking around the neighborhood. In the meantime, she’s

been taking pictures of the individuals and will watch them go around the block.

Christie Jackson said she wants the police department to be held accountable, be more transparent and be more visible in the neighborhood.

“Somebody has got to do something. They’re always talking about finding a solution, (but) where is the solution? My neighbors are scared,” Christie Jackson said.

Follow Jackson Free Press reporting intern Aliyah Veal on Twitter @AliyahJFP. Send tips to aliyah@jacksonfreepress.com.

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daughter to take her to the shooting range, he said. “That’s not where I want my mother in her golden years. I don’t want her to feel that way in her home,” he told residents at the meeting.

As a former police officer, Watts said he recognizes that there are not enough officers to patrol the area all the time. A year ago, he put his entire family on patrol at his mother’s house through the Ring app, he said.

“You screw it right into your wall, and guess what? It’s now giving this system where it’s monitoring your home where if someone walks up. It’s going to

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HOMELESS, from page 8

White said the Point-in-Count system is the federal government’s yearly count of the number of the number of sheltered and unsheltered homeless people during a certain window of time.

It does not give you an accurate count, White said. “Say we go under the bridge on Gallatin (Street) and see if anyone is out there and count the number of people there at 6 a.m. If it’s 20 people there, that’s all we can document,” she explained.

“There is a spot on Northside Drive near the interstate. There’s a building the homeless have broken into, and they stay there. If you don’t know that spot, you can’t count them. It’s a broken system,” White said.

For 2019, the Point-in-Count system for Hinds, Warren, Rankin, Madison, Copiah, Pearl River, Stone, George, Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties yielded 489 homeless people combined, but no specific number of homeless people inside the Jackson city limits.

White said she had a meeting with Mukesh Kumar, director of the City’s Department of Planning and Urban Development, to suggest software, Charity Tracker, that could link all the agencies and organizations in Jackson that help the homeless.

“The fact that we are not all connected makes it hard to get numbers. There’s so many that go through the cracks that you don’t know about,” she said.

The Jackson Free Press reached out to Mukesh Kumar for a response to White, but he was not available for comment.

‘Committed to Doing That Work’

In 2015, the City of Gulfport managed to get veteran homelessness to functional zero, which is the threshold demonstrating that veteran or chronic homelessness has ended. Mary Simons, executive director of the Open Door Homeless Coalition, said her group achieved this by partnering with Community Solutions’ Built for Zero.

Simons said they had counted 98 homeless veterans in January 2015 and by the end of that year, the city and their partners had housed 276 veterans and their families. She said since 2014, they have placed an average of 150 families in housing and provided services for them.

“Prior to them, we were similar to a lot of communities. We have great programs but weren’t necessarily going beyond meeting together. We would track individual programs but didn’t pay enough attention to what was happening in between the programs,” she told the Jackson Free Press.

Anna Kim, strategic communica-

tions, said Community Solutions is a nonprofit that works to end homelessness and the conditions that create it. “(Built for Zero) is a national movement of more than 70 communities that are working to end homelessness,” she told the Jackson Free Press.

Jake Maguire, who directs the Build for Zero team for Community Solutions, said at its core homelessness is the result of people not being able to afford, or not being able to access stable, housing.

“Primary drivers of that experience tend to be health crisis-related or connected to job loss, but again, it’s so many things.

Structural racism also continues to be a massive driver of who experiences home-

There is still so much work to do, and we’re committed to doing the work. lessness, and for how long,” he said.

Kim said Built for Zero uses VI-SPDAT, which stands for “vulnerability index service prioritization decision assistance tool,” to help understand homeless individuals, what their vulnerabilities are and what support they need.

Maguire told the Jackson Free Press that VI-SPDAT is a short questionnaire that asks homeless people about their experiences. “What kind of resources might make the most sense? What intervention do we want to triage them towards?” he said.

“Communities need an intelligent way, just like when you go to an emergency, to sort through the folks they’re dealing with and connect people to the right programs.”

He said you use the questionnaire for 15 minutes, and it will spit out an acuity score. The score helps indicate how accurate a person’s needs are and how severe their situation might be. “It should never be used alone. It’s not a robot. It’s designed to be used with clinical judgment and what else we know about that person,” he said.

Maguire said each city has a different process for finding and interviewing homeless individuals and it depends on how someone is experiencing homelessness. “Ideally, no matter where you show up as homeless, you get assessed the same way into a shared database with appropriate privacy protections for your data,” he said.

Simons said Gulfport has partnered

with Community Solutions since 2014, using the VI-SPDAT. The tool made a big difference. “That was the first time we were really seeing everyone by name, understanding their vulnerability, understanding what was really going on with them and what their needs are,” Simons said.

Simons said the system also helped them figure out what services to increase.

They formed partnerships with mentalhealth centers, identified homeless veterans who needed mental-health care and made appointments for the centers to see them.

She said it was exciting to get veteran homelessness from 98 veterans experiencing homelessness to functional zero by the, but the work does not stop because they must sustain the effort.

They are now working to reduce chronic homelessness, she said.

“We still have lots to do until there is a pathway to a solution for everybody.

Even though we as a community have achieved some really ambitious goals, there is still so much work to do, and we’re committed to doing that work,” Simons said.

‘I’m In’

There is no date for construction of the west Jackson center, White said; however, she wants to work with the community and not against them.

“I just moved back to west Jackson, so it won’t be y’all coming in our neighborhood, putting it in our neighborhood and leaving,” White said. “I don’t have any plans of going anywhere. When I say I’m in this thing, I’m in.”

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additional resources to support us in some of the big initiatives we have,” he said. “... This is the JPS plan. This is the Jackson plan. This is a plan that will ensure every child experiences excellence.”

The Better Together Commission, an independent group of citizens, spearheaded the efforts. The commission began its work in 2017 after Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba and Gov. Phil Bryant entered into a memorandum of understanding between JPS and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in order to avoid a state takeover of the struggling school system.

Lumumba praised the plan in a press release Friday morning.

“We all agree that we have an opportunity for a transformational school district and that Jackson needs to be the light of intellectual capital for our state and country,” Lumumba said. “The citizens also have played the most critical role in this endeavor because we know that while we can bring in individuals with an understanding of policy and curriculum, that none of this would be successful without the buy-in from our parents and our children.”

Gov. Bryant praised the plan in a statement on Friday.

“The dedicated work of the commission has culminated in a five-year strategic plan that will help achieve sustainable change and improved outcomes for children,” Bryant said.

Follow Jackson Free Press reporting intern Aliyah Veal on Twitter @AliyahJFP. Send tips toaliyah@jacksonfreepress.com.

Ashton Pittman contributed to this report.

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t is interesting how quiet the million dollars to replace all these bridg- infrastructure woes are a need. proponents of the “One Lake” plan have es, and this cost was not included in the Second, raw sewage entering the been over the last couple of months.

Rankin-Hinds Flood Control District’s local waterways can directly impact Maybe it is because in September draft Environmental Impact Statement. human health by introducing high levels 2018, U.S. Congressman Steve Scalise, Second, imagine the traffic snarl if all of bacteria (specifically E.coli) into the R-Louisiana, added language to the Amer- of these bridges had to be replaced. This local waterways. So you can’t go swimica’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 to would make the never-ending construc- ming and wading in the Pearl River at stall the progress of the One Lake project. tion on Highway 49 South and Interstate Belhaven Beach; you have to tell the The language in the neighborhood kids act outlined that the U.S. that they can no longer Army Corps of Engineers wander and explore local must entirely vet the One creeks, and you must tell Lake plan to ensure that your fishing buddies that there would not be adthey cannot go fishing in verse environmental or the Pearl River around economic impacts to the Jackson because it is unlower Pearl River and any safe to consume the fish. past and ongoing restoraBeyond these recreational tion activities in southactivities, the Pearl River eastern Louisiana. Scalise is where we extract our is an unlikely ally in the drinking water. Because opposition of the One safe and clean drinking Lake project because one water is one of the most could never paint him as basic human needs, we a “liberal tree hugger.” On should prioritize fixing the contrary, he is a conbroken sewage lines for servative Republican from this reason alone. a conservative district in Third, because Louisiana. A Republican sewage has ended up in has represented his district the Pearl River and local dating back to 1977, and creeks (Hanging Moss, it has strongly leaned Will Selman: “I now understand why One Lake proponents have Eubanks, Town and Republican in every presi- been so quiet. ... There hasn’t been much good news for them Lynch), where would it over the last eight to 10 months.” dential election dating end up if the One Lake back to 2000. project was constructed?

U.S. Congressman Bennie Thomp- 55 South look like minor inconveniences.

All the sewage would have drained dison, D-Mississippi also voiced opposition Third, the funds could fix existing rectly into the One Lake project because to the One Lake project in September roads and bridges that are in desperate need these waterways empty into the proposed 2018. The project would directly impact of repair rather than having to reconstruct project area! So along with capturing all his Congressional district, and in his letter nine bridges that are currently functional the storm-water runoff from the City of to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and and do not need replacement.

Jackson laden with fertilizers and copithe Rankin-Hinds Flood Control District, Or maybe it was it the Mississippi ous amounts of trash, it will also serve as he raised 54 questions that they needed to Department of Environmental Qual- a collection point for much of Jackson’s answer regarding the project. ity declaring a “water contact advi- sewage leaks and effluent that are enterThompson’s objections ranged from sory” in May 2019 when an estimated ing into the local waterways. an inadequate opportunity for the public 23.6 million gallons of “minimally I now understand why One Lake to review the plan to public-health impacts treated sewage” entered the Pearl River proponents have been so quiet. There to environmental harm. Therefore, it is and its tributaries, all sourced from City hasn’t been much good news for them telling that opponents of the project have of Jackson sewage pipes. over the last eight to 10 months. If these come from both sides of the political specThis final one to me is the kicker be- new facts don’t convince the proponents trum, a rare common ground in today’s cause this advisory has lasted two months, to change their minds, they might need polarized political discourse. and there is no sign that MDEQ will lift it. a more accurate name for their project: Maybe it was the Mississippi It is significant for multiple reasons. First, it “One Sewage Lagoon.”

Department of Transportation who said in underscores the need for funds to support Will Selman is an assistant December 2018 that all nine bridge spans desperately needed sewage infrastructure professor of biology at Millsaps College. crossing the Pearl River, including both improvements that are an immediate need This column represents the views of the spans of Lakeland Drive and Interstates 55 (on top of the road and water infrastruc- author and does not necessarily reflect the and 20, would catastrophically fail if devel- ture needs) rather than spending taxpayer opinions of Millsaps College. opers completed the One Lake project. dollars on the One Lake project.

This column does not necessarily First, it would cost several hundred The One Lake project is a want; the reflect the views of the JFP.

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Vying for Governor: The Issues

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to expand Medicaid. That decision has left about 300,000 Mississippians with no plausible health-care options, and it has also imperiled already-struggling rural hospitals that would see a boost if more Mississippians had access to Medicaid.

Since 2015, five hospitals in the state have closed due to financial stress, and 31 others are endangered, meaning both jobs and public safety are at risk. One of those is the Marion General Hospital in Marion County—the only emergency room within a 40-minute drive.

“We have a plan,” Waller said, pointing to one drawn up by the Mississippi Hospital Association.

During a May press conference, MHA unveiled a proposal called “Mississippi Cares” that, like Medicaid expansion, would insure around 300,000 more adults in the state, ages 19 to 64 who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level.

“This is not Medicaid expansion.

This is Medicaid reform,” MHA President Timothy Moore told the audience, using the term Republicans who support expanding Medicaid prefer in order to distance themselves from Obama.

The proposal is for a private-public partnership between the state, government, hospitals and plan members that “emphasizes personal responsibility and

health-care consumerism.” Patients would pay $20 a month in premiums and $100 for non-emergency use of a hospital emergency room.

“It won’t cost any tax money. It will help everybody. It will get a lot of money in the system, and we will keep our health care,” Waller told the Marion County audience.

In a January interview, Mississippi Rep. Robert Foster, another GOP candidate in the race for governor, told the Jackson Free Press that he, too, supports expanding Medicaid under the banner of “Medicaid reform,” but with potential work requirements added in.

Earlier this year, though, GOP frontrunner Reeves made clear that he has no intention of agreeing to “Obamacare expansion,” as he derisively calls it.

In the January interview with the Jackson Free Press, though, Foster explained why he thinks that’s the wrong approach.

“All the people who work in Mississippi are paying federal taxes, and our dollars are being redistributed to other states, and we’re not getting the benefit here,” Foster said. “The people contributing should be receiving what they’re helping pay everybody else to use.

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“We’re going to get the roads and bridges straight, because you have to have them,” Waller said at a Marion County political forum in June.

In that county alone, he pointed out, 12 bridges and multiple county and state roads are closed due to disrepair. In recent years, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, Waller’s main rival in the election, has repeatedly refused to pass legislation to increase infrastructure funding, preferring massive tax breaks, including $260 million a year for out-of-state corporations, instead. Last year, Reeves did agree during a special legislative session to establish a state lottery, and to direct the revenue it generates toward infrastructure.

Waller’s father, William Waller Sr., served as governor in the 1970s. Like his son, he was known for focusing on breadand-butter issues, having jettisoned the racial politicking of the 1960s and ’70s.

In a break from the Dixiecrats of the past, Gov. Waller used his time in office to advance the rights of black Mississippians by, for instance, appointing African Americans to key cabinet, board and judicial positions and killing the racist Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission that had used its power to investigate, intimidate and harass black civil rights leaders. Mostly, though, Waller Sr. focused on improving state highways, and combating drug abuse, and bringing more jobs to the state.

“Bill Waller is a redneck who has felt a hoe in his hands,” Waller Sr. would say during 1971 campaign stops.

His son’s own plan to “put hoes in the hands” of state workers to improve the roads may be the main item on his agenda, but he also talks a lot about another issue that keeps many Mississippians up at night: health care.

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“We’re sticking our heads in the sand because we don’t like the policy of Obamacare. I think it’s bad policy. The ACA is bad policy that has a lot of flaws, but it is the law of the land. And Mississippi is going to have to do what is in our best interests until that law is changed in Washington.”

‘Fight for the Poor’

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, the leading Democratic candidate for governor, was the first candidate to call for Medicaid expansion when he

announced his campaign in his hometown of Houston last fall.

There, he sharply criticized the state’s Republican leadership’s rejection of federal dollars for Medicaid expansion that the Affordable Care Act offered.

Their decision, he said, accelerated the closure of Mississippi’s rural hospitals.

“We had an emergency room here in Houston my whole life, and now that emergency room is closed,” he said. “In 1940, we had better emergency health care in rural Mississippi than we have right now. That’s insane.”

Trace Regional Hospital in Houston closed its doors in 2014, making it among five of the state’s rural hospitals that have closed since 2010.

Losing rural hospitals means losing economic opportunities, Hood said, a point that Waller would also make in Marion County last month.

Like his Republican counterparts, Hood invokes religion while arguing for policy, though not typically on the sort of “traditional values” issues that animate them.

“Jesus taught us to fight for the poor and the elderly and the widows and the children—the least among us,” he said. “This is the Mississippi I will fight for—hard-working folks who love family, care for each other and want to build a better life.”

Two of his Democratic opponents, Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith and Jackson native Velesha Williams, have also called for Medicaid expansion in Mississippi.

“We can’t turn down help that will help Mississippians,” Williams told the Jackson Free Press in May.

Robert Shuler Smith echoed the sentiment in an interview with The Clarion-Ledger on July 16. “There should be some expansion to cover people who are not covered,” he said.

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Hood’s campaign promises include a vow to overhaul the state’s mental healthcare system, which languishes behind most of the country. Even so, as attorney general, he is defending the State in federal court against charges that its health-care system is discriminatory and inadequate.

Throughout June, Jackson-based U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves heard arguments in United States v.

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During that interview, Williams also talked about education. If elected, she would fight to end educational disparities, which fall along racial and economic lines throughout Mississippi. In the mostly black Delta particularly, children go to poorly funded schools with meager resources.

While the state, which has some of the lowest teacher pay in the nation, is struggling to retain teachers thanks to an ongoing shortage, it is far worse in Delta counties.

“The range in which the disparity exists from school district to schools within the district is alarming,” Williams told the Jackson Free Press. “You have some schools that don’t have appropriate books, don’t have books or have missing pages with books. My kids were fortunate enough to have two sets of books, one set for the classroom and one to keep at home. We need to put all our kids on a level learning field.”

Hood has also called for higher teacher pay, as have Foster and Waller. At the Marion County forum, the Columbian Progress reported, Waller called for a teacher pay raise “every year.” In March, Foster voted for a $1,500 raise, but criticized it for being too low—especially considering the fact that Reeves and other GOP leaders helped push through a $3 million increase for private vouchers.

Reeves, though, boasted about his record on teacher pay. Since he came to office nearly eight years ago, he said, teachers have seen their pay increase by $8,000.

In the Democratic race, Smith told The Parents’ Campaign in a questionnaire that he would consider vouchers on a limited basis.

“Most likely I would consider vouchers under extraordinary circumstances, such as bullying and other areas that require such alternatives,” he wrote. “However, we must fully fund our schools to address the needs of all students. We would evaluate on a case by case basis under certain circumstances.”

Foster has sought to carve out his own spot in the Republican race on the issue of education.

“As the only Republican candidate with kids who attend public school, I am committed to putting education first— ahead of politics,” he wrote on Facebook on July 18. “As governor, I will fight to remove burdens that complicate teachers’ jobs and provide more competitive salaries for those educating Mississippi’s future workforce.”

‘Ready to Work’

In mid-July, Reeves unveiled his first major policy proposal as a candidate: A $100-million plan to make Mississippi a “Ready to Work” state that includes $75 million for career-training programs at colleges, would cap college-tuition costs for some students pursuing bachelor’s degrees, and bring computer-science classes to K-12 classrooms across the state.

The candidate’s plan would make Mississippi eligible for grants under the federal Ready to Work initiative, which helps longterm unemployed people gain job training skills for employment. It involves collaborations between employers, nonprofit organizations and federal job training programs.

“We need the next generation of Mississippi workers to be equipped to take on any job,” the Republican candidate for governor told a crowd at Jones College on July 16. “With the right training, I believe Mississippians could do that job.”

The proposal includes $1 million to help high-school students earn more college credits and industry credentials; $20 million “to help families get up on their feet and ready to work by dealing with many of the issues that our neighbors face today like childcare and transportation”; and $1.5 million to bring more computer science classes to K-12 schools.

In an email to supporters the next day, Waller linked workforce training to the state’s teacher shortage crisis and pay. “The future of Mississippi’s economy starts with having an educated workforce,

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one was unnecessarily institutionalized,” Shelson said.

During the month-long trial, though, the U.S. government brought in witnesses who have worked in the state’s mental health system who testified to the contrary.

When the JFP asked Hood communications director Margaret Ann Morgan why Hood chose to defend the State, she pointed to Hood’s position that his job requires him to do so. She also noted Hood’s press release from Aug. 2016, shortly after the DOJ filed those charges.

The Jackson Free Press reached out to Hood’s office Wednesday morning for comment. His communications director, Margaret Ann Morgan, pointed to an August 2016 press release they released the day the Justice Department first filed the lawsuit.

“It’s our obligation as Christians and people of faith to take care of those who are unable to take care of themselves,” Hood said at the time. “It’s time for each of us to move forward to better fulfill that fundamental responsibility.”

In an interview in April, Williams also brought up mental health as a core issue she would want to address.

“We have to think about our physical, mental and spiritual health, I believe. That’s the wholeness of the person,” she said. “I used to receive, when I worked at Jackson State, grant funding from the Department of Mental Health. I understand that we

have citizens with real serious mental health issues. And like anything, it’s a scale. You have some people who have health care, but it doesn’t cover mental-health treatment.”

Bill Waller and that’s why we must increase teacher salaries, and not just in election years,” he wrote. “We’ve got to bring more job training skills to high school students who don’t go to college so they’re prepared to get a good-paying job and start a career.”

The ‘Heartbeat Law’

Most of the time, Reeves prefers to focus on so-called “social issues” that he can use to fan the flames of the culture war in

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his favor. With his bet on evangelical voters, he has made his support for the new fetal heartbeat law that bans abortions after a heartbeat becomes detectable a centerpiece of his campaign. At the Marion County event, he thanked area State Sen. Angela Burkes Hill for sponsoring the law, which bans nearly all abortions at six weeks.

Reeves did not mention that state Rep. Robert Foster, one of his opponents in the race for governor, had introduced a nearly identical “heartbeat bill” in January, around the same time Hill did.

The House passed Foster’s bill, with no exceptions for rape, incest or cases of severe fetal deformity.

In a Jan. 30 interview with the Jackson Free Press, Foster said he considers all abortion “an evil that our society is going to have to answer for”; even in a case where a fetus is non-viable and possibly suffering excruciating pain, he said, nature should be allowed to take its course.

“If that baby is born and doesn’t survive, then that’s natural,” he said. “That way of the baby passing to me is a more humane way that going in and us killing it. You don’t take somebody who is old and then just go and kill that person because they’re old and they have pains.”

Foster’s six-week abortion ban is not the one that became law; the Senate also passed Hill’s, and Reeves, who in his role as lieutenant governor also serves as president of the State Senate, convinced Republicans to rally around the Senate bill instead.

Hood is defending the heartbeat law in federal court. After U.S. District Court Carlton Reeves struck it down as unconstitutional, Hood appealed it to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, where it awaits trial. Hood calls himself “pro-life,” but has shied away from taking a solid position on the six-week ban.

Mississippi voters will go to the polls to choose party primary candidates on Aug. 6.

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Mississippi, in which the U.S. government is suing the State for failing to ensure the state’s mental-health system upholds the civil rights of those with mental illnesses. The U.S. Department of Justice cited not only the long jail stays, but the over-hospitalization of people who could receive effective treatment in their own communities.

In closing arguments on July 1, Jim Shelson, an attorney for Hood’s office, denied the charges on behalf of the State of Mississippi

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Hinds DA, Sheriff Hopefuls Share Plans, Philosophies

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During the run-up to the Hinds County primaries on Aug. 6, the word “reform” flies around a lot in the two races that have the most direct effect on the local criminal-justice system— district attorney and sheriff—as well as from Marcus Williams, a young defense attorney running for Democratic Sen. John Horhn’s seat. Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba endorsed Williams this week.

The refrain is most prominent in the DA’s race for the seat Robert Shuler Smith is vacating after 12 rather tumultuous years plagued by slow prosecutions and “reform” inconsistency. After all, the main job of the sheriff is to run a crumbling jail often packed with low-level offenders and people waiting for trial, sometimes for years. The next sheriff arguably could benefit the most from certain reforms, aside from the accused themselves and the community by extension, in not having to house and care for low-level offenders and those who cannot afford to pay fines.

The next district attorney, though, would likely be in the driver’s seat of any system reforms; he or she now has a team of judges elected last year (including former DA Faye Peterson) who seem amenable to fixing what many consider a “broken” system and, especially, speeding up the process so someone does not sit in jail for six years without a trial, as Sheriff Victor Mason described one current inmate housed in the Raymond detention center, which he oversees.

All three of the DA candidates— long-time prosecutor Stanley Alexander, civil-rights attorney Jody Owens and defense attorney Darla Palmer—all support some kind of reform to the system, especially by not incarcerating low-level, non-violent offenders. They would opt instead for diversion programs and potential expungement so the offenders can build productive lives and avoid becoming more hardened criminals in jail.

stuck in jail without a trial or because they cannot afford a fee.

Owens points to the need for “smart justice”—meaning alternatives to incarceration for non-violent offenses including drug crimes, while acknowledging the spiking homicide rate in Jackson. “I was on a radio station the other day, and people were clapping just because we didn’t have a murder that day,” he told me in his recent podcast.

The decarceral approach only goes so far, Owens said. “We have to convict violent offenders who terrorized our communities. We have to let people know that crime will not be tolerated in Hinds County, but that doesn’t stop the cycle.” That takes closer collaboration between agencies and the community, he said, especially since over-incarceration can actually make crime worse.

Owens is also concerned about over-policing, training and transparency, while not ignoring that officers are often overworked and underpaid.

The “reform” positions of Owens, who has fought to keep young people out of jail and prison, and Stanley Alexander are unexpectedly similar. A recent podcast with the long-time prosecutor in first Hinds County and now the Mississippi Attorney General’s office, where Alexander focuses on public integrity, revealed that he, too, wants to avoid incarceration of low-level and non-violent offenders, opting instead for diversion and drug-court programs.

“But we’ve got to do something because there is no consequence for doing wrong, you know, the good kid starts in.

Well, why am I wasting my time trying to be a good kid?” Alexander said in his Let’s Talk Jackson Politics podcast.

Alexander was the only DA candidate who pointed out that the problem with backlogs in the system often are about the difficulty of prosecuting cases of violent crime and murder, combined with poor work ethic and management that can plague the criminal-justice system without experienced leadership steering and righting the ship.

The biggest difference between Owens and Alexander, who was assistant DA to now Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson when she was the county’s top prosecutor, seems to boil down to experience within the criminal system.

“I’m actually the only person in the race who’s actually taken a felony case and prosecuted it at trial,” he told me.

That felony experience has ranged from prosecuting cases against former Mayor Frank Melton and current DA Smith, as well as many murder cases.

Alexander believes his intimate knowledge of the apparatus of being a prosecutor will enable him to start fixing the system and reducing pretrial deten-

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Alexander says opponents may not share his belief that elected officials should be held accountable when a grand jury believes they may have broken the law—the “public integrity” aspect of his current position with the State of Mississippi. That work is not always popular— whether it is prosecuting police officers who shoot unarmed people, a sitting DA or state workers who steal.

“My job is to do what the grand jury tells me to do,” he said. “And and that’s the law, and that’s what’s fair,” he said.

Defense attorney Darla Palmer is not a big fan of the “Smart Justice” movement that Owens represents, and she takes umbrage with the idea that the local criminal-justice system is “broken.” Of the three DA candidates, she comes across as the most traditionally “tough on crime,” focusing heavily on the rights of victims to see justice.

A crime victim herself, Palmer emphasizes that the district attorney’s job is to prosecute criminals and lock them up as warranted so they are no longer a threat to the community. As for prevention, including with juveniles, she is blunt that it is not the DA’s job.

Palmer sees the DA’s role as communicating to young people what can happen to them if they commit crimes— basically a “scared straight” approach to steering them away from acting illegal.

Like her opponent, Palmer believes the office must be managed well with the DA taking a leadership role in reducing

Podcasts with the Pols The JFP is posting in-depth, solutions-oriented podcasts with candidates for state and local offices near daily at LetsTalkJackson.com. To date, we’ve interviewed Ronnie Crudup Jr., Cassandra Welchlin, Marcus Williams, Vicki Slater and Shanda Yates for #MSLeg; Stanley Alexander, Jody Owens and Darla Palmer for Hinds DA; Juan Cloy, Victor Mason and Lee Vance for Hinds sheriff. All podcasts drop at LetsTalkJackson.com.

Interested candidates can email ashton@jacksonfreepress.com.

backlogs and long pretrial detention. She says her experience as a criminal defense attorney means she understands how the system works and helps her see what’s needed to improve it.

Sheriffs on the Jail, Backlogs

By print time, the JFP had interviewed three of nine candidates for Hinds County sheriff for podcasts.

Current Sheriff Victor Mason, former JPD Chief Lee Vance and former JPD officer and Canton Assistant Chief Juan Cloy talked a lot about the need to reduce the backlogs at the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond, improve the poor conditions of the facility, and the need for a new jail that is cheaper and safer over the long run.

They all addressed the pretrial backlog, which the sheriff does not control.

All three said, however, that they would collaborate with other people in the system—judges, police, the new DA—to resolve those backlogs.

Mason, in particular, addressed scandal he was involved in as sheriff and federal warnings about the jail’s conditions, saying he has personally learned much he wants to improve during his tenure. He

and others called on the Hinds County Board of Supervisors to help improve conditions for both inmates and workers at the jail. (The JFP is sending questionnaires to supervisor candidates this week.

Watch jfp.ms/2019Hinds for answers.)

Vance relied heavily on his experience, and obvious name recognition as a long-time police officer and chief in Jackson, emphasizing that he could build a coalition to improve conditions at the jail, as well as to participate in crimefighting strategies, drawing on his familiarity with local conditions.

Cloy came across as the most reformist candidate for sheriff interviewed to date. A national speaker and trainer for police officers in negotiation and other law-enforcement skills, he emphasized the need for the sheriff to help lead in building a stronger criminal-justice system, using national evidence-based standards and best practices. He believes the sheriff should lead on efforts to redirect and prevent crime by juveniles.

Listen to podcasts at letstalkjackson. com and see jfp.ms/2019Hinds for coverage and questionnaire answers and to comment.

Sheriff candidates can schedule a podcast by emailing donna@jacksonfreepress.com.

Hinds County Primary Elections

Hinds County Tax Assessor Charles E Stokes, incumbent Hinds County Tax Collector Eddie J. Fair, Incumbent Timothy Lewis Dorris Sutton-Coleman Hinds County Chancery Clerk Eddie Jean Carr, incumbent Hinds County Circuit Clerk Zack Wallace, incumbent Hinds County Coroner Schwanna S. Gardner Sharon Grisham-Ste war t, incumbent Lee Thompson Jr.

Hinds County Attorney Gerald A. Mumford Hinds County Sheriff Victor Mason, incumbent Lee Vance Donald Rhodes Richard Spooner Les Tannehill Juan Cloy Colendula Green George E. Monroe Charlette Oswalt Torrence Mayfield Hinds County Supervisor District 1 Robert Graham, incumbent Fred Nelson Jr., D Hinds County Supervisor District 2 David L. Archie, D Toni Johnson, D Darrel McQuirter, incumbent

Hinds County Supervisor District 3 Silas Bolden Jr. Credell Calhoun Jermal Clark Antonio Porter Pronto Downing Hinds County Supervisor District 4 Vern O. Gavin Bryan White Mike Morgan, incumbent Hinds County Supervisor District 5 Chris Carson Charles “Tony” Davis Henry Fuller Malcolm Johnson Bobby “Bobcat” McGowan, incumbent Patty Patterson Democrat Republican Independent

Hinds County Justice Court Judge District 1 Don Palmer, incumbent E. Sirena Wilson Hinds County Justice Court Judge District 2 Tabitha Britton-Porter, incumbent Sam Cain Brian Grizzell Eddie Robinson Hinds County Justice Court Judge District 3 Frank L. Sutton, incumbent Hinds County Justice Court Judge District 4 JoAnn Archie Dennis J. Ayers Annita Bonner Hoshina Hill-Jones Kenneth W. Lewis Tiffany Horton-Williams

Hinds County Justice Court Judge District 5 Pearlie Brown Owens Hinds County Constable District 1 Jerry Moore, incumbent Hinds County Constable District 2 John Brown, incumbent Leon Jones Cedric Love Hinds County Constable District 3 Lawrence Funchess, incumbent Hinds County Constable District 4 Leon Seals, incumbent Hinds County Constable District 5 Bennie Buckner, incumbent

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GOP AG’s Race: A ‘Crusade’ Against Drugs

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In his run for the Republican nomination to become Mississippi’s next attorney general, Andy Taggart is drawing from that experience to make fighting the proliferation of illicit drugs and rehabilitating addicts his No. 1 issue. He calls it a “crusade.”

“The chief law-enforcement official of the state ought to be focusing the resources of his or her office on what I believe to be the greatest danger to the entire state: that would be the scourge of drugs,” Taggart said at a candidates’ debate at William Carey University in Hattiesburg on June 5.

The Mississippi attorney general’s toolkit allows him or her to affect state drug laws in several ways, including regulatory and prosecutorial options. Current Attorney General Jim Hood, for example, filed a lawsuit against three of the nation’s largest opioid distributors last year, alleging they flooded the market with too many pills. The attorney general’s office

also has an appointee on the state Board of Nursing, where they can influence prescription and drug dispensing practices.

The position also affords the opportunity to work with state and local law enforcement on dealing with cases involving drug trafficking and prosecutions. State attorneys general often use their clout to go to the Mississippi Legislature and push for

as attorney general to find strategies to help reduce drug abuse.

‘Fight Every Angle’

At the June 5 debate, Mississippi Rep. Mark Baker of Brandon, who is also running for the Republican nomination, said it would take more than just working with local law enforcement.

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ne night in the summer of 2012, Karen Taggart stood on the second step of the stairs so she could hug her 6-foot, 7-inch son, Brad, goodnight. The lanky 21-year-old had returned home from the University of Mississippi to live with his parents in Madison so he could enroll in summer classes at Mississippi College instead. But when his mother returned home the next morning, she found her curly-haired boy dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Her husband and Brad’s father, attorney Andy Taggart, was on a business trip in Chicago when his wife called with the devastating news. As he rushed back to Mississippi, he called his friends back home with a plea.

“Please take care of my bride until I can get back to take care of her,” he said.

Hours after Brad’s mother discovered his body, her other son, Drew, found a handwritten note his brother had left.

“I hate that I’m putting you through this,” Brad wrote. “I’ve lost my mind due to drugs. I have no emotions, I can’t be happy ever, and I’m empty inside. Drugs have robbed me of my memory and knowledge that I’ve gained. … I have no hope.”

His family knew he had felt overwhelmed while he was in Oxford, but had no idea that he had been struggling with drug addiction.

Mississippi Rep. Mark Baker (right), R-Brandon, is running on a “tough on crime” approach to drugs. Andy Taggart (left) has a more balanced platform.

changes and updates to a variety of laws.

Taggart and his wife’s experience, he told the debate audience on June 5, gave them “steely-eyed” determination to fight drug crime.

“If we are candid with one another, folks, it is the poison that is causing every single family in every single one of our communities to be at risk in some way or another,” Taggart said.

Taggart criticized current Attorney General Jim Hood, who is running for the Democratic nomination for governor, for not “configuring the resources” necessary to fight substance abuse. Taggart’s main concern is not just opioids, but with illicit drugs like the ones his son struggled with, like cocaine, LSD and ecstasy, he said.

“We need to focus our resources on dealing with that issue, acknowledging the difference between predators on the one hand and victims on the other—figuring out ways to redeem, rehabilitate and restore victims back to contributing members of our community, and nailing the predators to the wall,” Taggart said.

Taggart said he would use his power

“We have got to lead this office back to lawyering, back to protecting the public interest. Back to working with law enforcement,” he said. “Mr. Taggart talked about the scourge of drugs. The opioid crisis will not be fixed until we can get the departments in federal, state and local agencies (to work together), and the attorney general has got to lead the way.”

The other Republican candidate for attorney general, current Treasurer Lynn Fitch, also promises to fight drugs in the state and to be “tough and smart on crime.” Like everyone except Taggart, her focus is on prescription drugs.

“I will fight the opioid crisis in Mississippi,” Fitch’s platform on her website reads. “This affects everyone across gender, race, age and income lines, and I will bring together all interested parties to fight every angle of this epidemic.”

In the Legislature, Baker has backed several bills in recent years that relate directly to drug crimes.

This past legislative session, he introduced House Bill 1104, which would have brought a controversial practice

back to the state that allows law enforcement, often with no court oversight at all, to seize property that they believe a suspect used or gained in the commission of a drug-related offense.

Baker did support the Criminal Justice Reform Act, which the Legislature passed and Gov. Phil Bryant signed into office. Among other changes aimed at reducing incarceration, it reforms the state’s drug courts. Under the umbrella of “intervention courts,” it allows for a more targeted approach to specific needs, with some organized as mentalhealth courts.

‘Business-Friendly’

During the June debate, Baker laid out his vision in other areas, too. He criticized Hood for his history of prosecuting corporations. Hood’s record includes lawsuits against utility Entergy for overbilling customers, and Navient Corporation, which doled out student loans that the attorney general said they knew could never be paid back.

“CEOs don’t come where they aren’t wanted,” Baker told the June 5 debate audience, suggesting he would limit the number and kinds of lawsuits against corporations.

On her website, Fitch promises to “protect all Mississippians from unfair and deceptive practices,” without naming specifics. But she also vows to be a “business friendly” attorney general.

“I will apply a business-friendly model to our work, streamlining rules and regulations to engage businesses as partners in meeting people’s needs,” her website reads.

In the June debate, Baker spoke out against Hood’s hiring out outside counsel, or private lawyers, to take on big cases. That practice has been roundly criticized by business interests; in the 1990s, tobacco companies are still paying Mississippi millions every year thanks to a successful lawsuit thenAttorney General Mike Moore launched in the 1990s with the help of private counsel.

In the Legislature, Baker has tried to unsuccessfully to pass legislation that would make it harder for an attorney general to use outside counsel. Fitch, Collins and Taggart have all expressed an openness to continuing the practice.

Follow State Reporter Ashton Pittman on Twitter @ashtonpittman. Send tips to ashton@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Real Deal Back to School Giveaway Jeremiah Carver, chief executive officer of Real Deal Security in Jackson, is hosting his company’s eighth-annual back-to-school giveaway on Sunday, July 28, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Legends Barber Shop (2602 Medgar Evers Blvd.).

During the event, Legends will provide free haircuts, and Carver will give away free school supplies and backpacks, including customizable backpacks that children can have specific designs printed on.

The giveaway will also have free hotdogs and hamburgers, face painting, space jumps, an obstacle course, live music from DJ Sinatra and more.

For more information, call 601-862-2780 or find the event on Facebook.

(4801 Watkins Drive) from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event will have free bookbags and school supplies. Ahead of the giveaway, attendees can pay $3 to enter a drawing for a laptop. For more information, find the event on Facebook or call 601-954-0352.

Word and Worship Back to School Blast Word and Worship Church (6286 Hanging Moss Road) will give away free school supplies for students in grades K-12 from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 27,

sic, games for children, free food and more.

For more information, call 769-257-0073 or 601608-8365, email wfbcmississippi@gmail.com or find the event on Facebook.

Back to School Party Metro Grace Community Church (3023 Highway 80 E., Pearl) will hold a back-to-school party on Wednesday, Aug. 7, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will include free hotdogs, drinks and snacks for students and their parents, as well as live music and games. For more information, call 601-9392182 or find the event on Facebook.

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Back 2 School $1,000 Shopping Spree Giveaway Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland) is hosting a $1,000 backto-school giveaway raffle now through Aug. 1. To enter the raffle, a participant must spend at least $100 with select retailers at the mall and bring their receipt to the Northpark management office during normal business hours. The retailers are H&M, Journeys, Windsor, Hollister Co., LensCrafters, Yankee Candle, Buckle, Rack Room Shoes, Sunglass Hut, Victoria’s Secret, Journey Kidz and Hot Topic.

Northpark will announce the winner on Aug. 1. For more information, call 601-863-2300 or find the event on Facebook.

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City of Jackson Celebrating Our Scholars Back to School Event The City of Jackson will host the “Celebrating Our Scholars” back to school event on Saturday, July 27, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The event is free and open to all Jackson Public Schools students.

In addition to giving away free school supplies, the event will also have bounce houses, face painting, live music and more. Parents will also be able to meet with representatives of local tutoring, sports and after-school programs. JPS will also provide on-site registration at the event for children who were not registered for school before the July 12 deadline. For more information, call 601-9601084 or find the event on Facebook.

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GEO Back 2 School 2019 Generational Empowerment Organization, Inc., a nonprofit that focuses on mentoring, public speaking and education, will host its fourth-annual back-to-school event at New Solid Rock Christian Church (3011 Forest Ave. Ext.) on Sunday, Aug. 3, beginning at 11 a.m. The event will include free food, games and school supplies for all grade school children while supplies last.

GEO will also hold a raffle for five backpacks filled with school supplies. The entrance fee for the raffle is $1 per attendee at the event. For more information, visit changegeo.org, email changegeo@gmail.com or find the event on Facebook.

Back to School Giveaway On Saturday, Aug. 3, Hustle Harder Entertainment, Crazy Boy Entertainment and MISSISSIPPI Talent will host a back-to-school giveaway event at Lake Hico Park

The start of the school year is right around the corner. Make sure your children are prepared and have all the school supplies they need.

while supplies last. Children must be present to receive the school supplies. For more information, call 601-7133597or find the event on Facebook.

Back 2 School Bash Wright’s Foundation for Better Communities, a Jackson-based nonprofit that partners with local businesses to host food drives and other events for people in need, will sponsor a “Back 2 School Bash” on Saturday, Aug. 3, to distribute school supplies to Jackson children.

The event is from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at The Perkins Center (1831 Robinson St.).

The event includes free haircuts and styling, live mu-

Back2School Popup Shop Online shoe retailer Daily Dose Shoetique will host a Back2School Popup Shop at 201Capitol (201 W. Capitol St. Suite, 100) on Sunday, Aug. 4, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event will include items from Daily Dose and other online retailers from Jackson, Hattiesburg and Laurel.

Daily Dose owner Marquitta Moore will also conduct a backpack giveaway at 5 p.m., in which she will give out 20 backpacks filled with school supplies for children. Visitors must register for the giveaway in advance by calling Moore at 601-319-5774 or emailing dailydoseshoetique@gmail.com. The pop-up shop will also include a raffle for one backpack that Ashley Nora, a Mississippi-born artist living in Indianapolis, hand-painted and that will contain products from vendors at the event.

For more information, find the event on Facebook.

Stuff the Bus for Boys & Girls Club at the Outlets of Mississippi The Outlets of Mississippi (200 Bass Pro Drive, Pearl) is holding a “Stuff the Bus” campaign to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi now through Monday, Aug. 5.

Customers who purchase school supplies at specific stores at the Outlets and drop them off as donations to BGCCM will have the chance to win a $250 gift card for the Outlets. Customers must be 18 or older to enter the raffle.

Participating stores will have special window decals on display throughout the event. Customers can donate items at the visitor services center across from the Outlets food court during business hours.

The Stuff the Bus campaign will also coincide with the upcoming tax-free shopping weekend Friday, July 26, and Saturday, July 27. For more information visit outletsofms.com or find the event on Facebook.

School Supplies Added to Mississippi Tax-Free Weekend Mississippi’s annual sales-tax holiday will take place from July 26-27. During the tax-free weekend, Mississippians will be able to purchase clothing and footwear valued at under $100 without the 7% state sales tax.

For 2019, the state Legislature has also added school supplies to the list of tax-free items for the first time. Sen. Chuck Younger co-authored the bill that would add school supplies to the list. It passed in the 2018 legislative session.

The Mississippi Department of Revenue website has a description of items that are eligible for the two-day tax break.

See and add more at jfp.ms/bts2019.

Know what your child needs for the school year? Here are the list of supplies for grades K-5 from Jackson Public Schools’ website.

Kindergarten Crayons (package of eight large and 16 regular) Washable markers Hand sanitizer 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks 12-inch-by-18-inch Manila paper Scissors (blunt, Fiskars preferred) Primary pencils Six-line manuscript tablets Two pocket folders Change of clothing (in a plastic bag, labeled with child’s name) First Grade 24-count package of crayons Washable markers 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks Hand sanitizer 12-inch-by-18-inch Manila paper Scissors (blunt, Fiskars preferred) No. 2 pencils Eight-line manuscript tablets Erasers (Pink Pearl or Artgum) Six pocket folders (assorted colors) 12-inch plastic ruler (needs to have lines indicating 1/4-inch, 1/8inch and 1/16-inch markings) Second Grade 24-count package of crayons Washable markers Colored pencils Hand sanitizer 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks 12-inch-by-18-inch Manila paper Scissors (Fiskars preferred) No. 2 pencils Wide-ruled notebook paper Two spiral-bound notebooks or composition tablets (wideruled, standard paper size) Erasers (Pink Pearl or Artgum) Six pocket folders (assorted colors) 12-inch plastic ruler (needs to have lines indicating 1/4-inch, 1/8inch and 1/16-inch markings) Third grade 48-count package of crayons Washable markers Colored pencils 8-ounce school glue Glue sticks Hand sanitizer 12-inch-by-18-inch Manila paper

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COMMUNITY Events at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland) • Back 2 School $1,000 Shopping Spree Giveaway July 24-26, July 29-31, Aug. 1, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The mall holds a back-toschool $1,000 giveaway raffle. To enter the raffle, participants must spend at least $100 with any of the following retailers within the mall: H&M, Journeys, Windsor, Hollister Co., LensCrafters, Yankee Candle, Buckle, Rack Room Shoes, Sunglass Hut, Victoria’s Secret, Journey Kidz and Hot Topic. Participants must bring receipts showing the $100 or greater purchase to the mall’s management office during opening hours. The mall will announce the winner on Aug. 1. Individual store prices vary; call 601-863-2300; email sreeks@ visitnorthpark.com.

• Cotton Candy Heaven Grand Opening— 110 Flavors July 26, noon-5 p.m. Cotton Candy Heaven holds a grand opening celebration for its new location in Northpark. Food prices vary; call 678-834-6472; find it on Facebook.

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The Brewery Comedy Tour is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Hops and Habanas (2771 Old Canton Road). Comedians perform as part of the traveling comedy tour. $20 admission; universe.com.

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goods. Includes prizes. Jackson Friends of the Animal Shelter provides participants with information on how to adopt a new pet. For admission, attendees should bring a 5-pound bag of dry pet food as a donation; call 601-863-2328; find it on Facebook.

• Pop-Ups at the ‘Park July 27, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Vendors come and set up pop-up booths throughout Northpark to sell their products. Free admission, vendor prices vary; find it on Facebook.

Stuff the Bus for Boys & Girls Club July 24, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., at Outlets of Mississippi (200 Bass Pro Drive, Pearl). Customers who purchase school supplies at specific stores at the Outlets and drop them off as donations to the Boys & Girls Club of Central Mississippi are entered into a raffle for a $250 gift card for the Outlets of Mississippi. Participants must be 18 or older to enter the raffle.

Participating stores will have special window decals on display throughout the event. Customers can donate items at the visitor services

FRIDAY 7/26 Christmas in July at MCM is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). The Christmasthemed event invites participants to wear their pajamas and partake in photos with Santa, hot cocoa ice cream sundaes, holiday crafts, PIXABAY train rides and more. Kids can test out eight new toys from Louis LeFleur’s Trading Post. $10 admission, free for MCM members; find it on Facebook. center across from the Outlets food court during business hours. The event ends Aug. 5.

Item prices vary; find it on Facebook.

Open Mic hosted by Reed Smith July 24, July 31, Aug. 7, 9 p.m., at Martin’s Downtown (214 S. State St.). Participants sing, read poetry, tell jokes and more. Free admission.

Jackson, MS ServSafe® Manager Certification Exam & Instructor-Led Course July 25, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., at Best Western Plus Flowood Inn & Suites (1004 Top St., Flowood). The program blends the latest FDA Food Code, food safety research and years of food sanitation training experience.

Managers learn to implement essential food safety practices and create a culture of food safety. All content and materials are based on actual job tasks identified by a food-service industry expert. Certification exams administered following the training. $100$340; find it on Facebook.

Christmas in July at The Mustard Seed July 25, July 30, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at The Mustard Seed (1085 Luckney Road, Brandon). Participants paint three Christmas ornaments apiece in a reserved one-hour time slot. Multiple sessions available each day; see website for details. Attendees may pick up their ornaments in September after they have been glazed. Limited spots available. Reservations required. A charitable contribution receipt of $70 given for each $100 payment. $100 per person (includes three ornaments); r20.rs6.net.

Under the Light: A Closed Society July 25, 5:30-7 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). In the This Little Light of Mine gallery. The Under the Light series takes visitors on a deep dive into each of its eight galleries. The subject of this edition of the series is the museum’s fourth gallery, “A Closed Society,” which examines the impact that Emmett Till’s death had on the Civil Rights Movement. Daphne Chamberlain, dean of the Division of Social Sciences at Tougaloo College, presents. Free admission; call 601-576-6800; email info@mscivilrightsmuseum.com; find it on Facebook.

EQ Meet Up: Preparing To Grow July 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at Sal & Mookie’s New York

Pizza & Ice Cream Joint (565 Taylor St.).

The entrepreneurship-centric event focuses on growing your respective businesses.

Panelists include Anne Turner and Tracy Osborn. Includes pizza. Admission TBA; call 601-368-1919; email jeffg@bravobuzz.com; find it on Facebook.

Events at Mississippi Trademart Center (1200 Mississippi St.) • Jackson All-Star Party July 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Southern Miss Alumni Association kicks off the 2019-2020 football season at the University of Southern Mississippi with

SATURDAY 7/27 Southlife Car Show is from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Southlife (1 Braves Blvd., Pearl). The car show features vehicles of all varieties, including bagged and bodied, classics, trucks, motorcycles and more. Level 1 tickets

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a party. Alumni and other fans can interact with athletes, hear from coaches, take pictures of Seymour and more. $10 general admission, $25 per family (parents and children); southernmissalumni.com.

• Mississippi Wildlife Extravaganza Aug. 2-4, 6 p.m., at Mississippi Trademart Center. The nature and wildlife-themed, three-day event features vendors and booths on various outdoors pastimes and hobbies.

Admission TBA; mswildlife.org.

Capitol City Rockstar Networking July 25, 6-9 p.m., at 4th Avenue Lounge (209 S. Lamar St.). Professionals from a number of fields gather for the networking event hosted

by Jim Griffith. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

City Career Opportunity Fair July 26-27, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., at Kaleidoscope of Learning (335 Byram Drive, Byram). The inaugural event allows students and other locals the opportunity to network with business professionals from various fields and potentially pursue career paths. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Friday Forum July 26, 9 a.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). The weekly series features lectures and presentations on various topics from a number of reputable guests. The topic for each forum changes every week. Free admission; email nmcnamee72@ gmail.com.

Black Friday in July July 26, 5-7 p.m., at The Outlet (3844 W. Northside Drive). The store offers a single-day sale in which all customers receive a 30% discount off their entire purchases. Some exclusions apply. Item prices vary; call 601-366-3329; email theoutlet@ kalalou.com; find it on Facebook.

Awaken The Warriors - Men’s Conference July 27, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., at Keypoint Church (614 Magnolia St.). The church hosts its first conference for men to gather and grow deeper into their faith. Guest speakers include Sino Agueze, Dwayne Higgason and Dan Hall. $25; call 601-605-2880; email office@keypointechurch.com; find it on Facebook.

Back 2 School Drive And Pop Up Shop July 27, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Kids University (6148 Northfield Drive). The event features a number of pop-up shops with vendors selling school supplies. Free admission, item prices vary; call 601-622-5480 (Tiffani), 601-2140778 (Angela); find it on Facebook.

Dream Party July 28, 1-4 p.m., at DMD Event Planning and Design (5430 Executive Place). The boutique hosts a sale on its selection of jewels and accessories that are adorned with pearls. Free admission, item prices vary; call 601-238-5312; email melissabanks818@ gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

Summer Salon and Stylist Showdown July 28, 6-9 p.m., at Freelons Restaurant Bar & Groove (440 N. Mill St.). Jackson Fashion Week hosts the event, which invites attendees to come and see the latest trends in hair and fashion put to use. $10 advanced, $15 at door; find it on Facebook.

Political Community Forum July 30, 6 p.m., at College Hill M.B. Church (1600 Florence Ave.). The church holds a public forum to discuss candidates in upcoming local elections so that attendees can become more informed voters. Free admission; allevents.in.

Judicial Forum July 30, 6:30 p.m., at Beth Israel Congregation (5215 Old Canton Road). The forum allows members of the community come out and learn more about the candidates for Justice Court in Hinds County. Doors open 6 p.m. Free admission.

“Harry Potter” Trivia Night at Sombra July 31, 6 p.m., at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (111 Market St., Flowood). The restaurant hosts a trivia night based on the “Harry Potter” franchise. Food and drink specials offered. Prizes awarded to first, second and third place winners. Free admission, food and drink prices vary; flowood.sombramexicankitchen.com.

WEDNESDAY 7/31 STEM Basketball Camp is from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Baptist Healthplex–Clinton (102 Clinton Parkway, Clinton). The camp offers children ages 6-11 both training in basketball skills from the Skyhawks and activities that

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bolster knowledge of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Additional dates: July 2930, Aug. 1-2. $250 for the week; find it on Facebook.

Youth Media Project Crime Forum Honoring Cedric Willis Aug. 1, 6-8 p.m., at Walton Elementary School (3200 Bailey Ave.).

The Youth Media Project hosts its fourth town-hall dialogue to discuss causes of and to brainstorm solutions to violence. The event honors Cedric Willis, who spoke with YMP multiple times. All voices welcome.

Snacks and drinks provided. Free admission; call 601-863-5568 or 601-362-6121, ext.

15; email info@youthmediaproject.com.

The Right Way to Start a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Aug. 1, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy (201 W. Capitol Street, Suite 700). The workshop provides the legal and practical steps to successfully organize and secure state and federal approval to operate as a

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SUNDAY 7/28 Mindful Midtown: CommUNITY Yoga is from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at The Community Canvas @ Jax-Zen (155 Wesley Ave.). The event hosts a series of community classes with a diverse section of practices relating to mindfulness. Led by teachers and facilitators familiar with the fields.

Classes are “open level,” meaning that the teacher gives each person options to adjust the practice as needed. Limited space. Reservations recommended. $10 per class; call 601-691-1697; email contact@jax-zen.com; find it on Facebook. tax-exempt organization. The class includes a guidebook developed by the MS Center for Nonprofits (valued at $49). The workshop covers completing IRS Form 1023-EZ, creating bylaws, setting a board of directors, creating a funding plan and more. $149 per person; call 601-968-0061, ext. 15; email jeffery.duplessis@alliancems.org; www3.thedatabank.com.

The Jump Conference Aug. 1-3, 5-10 p.m., at New Horizon Church (1750 Ellis Ave.).

The conference features on performing arts such as mime, dance and flag. $35 (includes T-shirt); find it on Facebook.

Premier Wedding Show Aug. 1, 6-8 p.m., at The IVY (1170 Luckney Road, Flowood).

Attendees get to meet with and learn about professional wedding vendors from the central Mississippi area. Live models showcase recent bridal fashions. Includes grab bags, cake tastings, food, drink and photo booths. $15 general admission, $45 VIP experience; call 601-906-5499; email paulsmith5@ earthlink.net; premierweddingshow.net.

Summer Classic Horse Show Aug. 2-4, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., at Rankin County Multipurpose Pavilion (649 Marquette Road, Brandon).

Sponsored by the Mississippi Hunter Jumper Association. Participants attend the three-day horse show that promotes equestrianism.

Admission TBA; call 601-591-0944; email pavilion@rankincounty.org; find it on Facebook.

Drawdown of Champions Aug. 2, 6-9 p.m., at Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum (1152 Lakeland Drive). The museum hosts the party to celebrate the 2019 inductees to the Mississippi Hall of

Fame. Attendees meet some of Mississippi’s top sports professionals. Includes bids on autographed sports memorabilia, golf outings, home accessories and additional items.

Each ticket includes food, an open bar and a chance in a drawing for a $5,000 grand prize. $50 general admission; find it on Facebook.

A ONEderful Life Aug. 3, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). The event features discussion panels that focus finding “the one” in love, in business and in finding a purpose. Guest speakers include Melissa Banks, Paul and Carlotta Franks and Jerrica Stimage. VIP tickets come with VIP seating, two free ebooks, break refreshments and access to vendors. General admission tickets are $40 for an individual, $75 couple.

VIP tickets are $50 for an individual, $90 couple. $40-$75 general admission, $50-$90 VIP; call 601-420-4202; email table100@ tableonehundred.com; onederfullife. eventbrite.com.

Back2School Popup Shop Aug. 4, 2 p.m., at 201Capitol (201 W. Capitol St.). The backto-school event features a number of vendors, including boutiques, shoetiques and body care specialists. Free admission, item prices vary; call 601-278-3944; email 201capitol@ gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

Roots of Revolution: Reaching Back | Pushing Forward Aug. 7, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., at The Westin Jackson (407 S. Congress St.). The Association of African American Museums hosts the 41st annual event. The conference focuses on the reaching back and pushing forward requisites of leading people, developing systems, improving organizations, protecting collections and impacting futures through the preservation of African American art, history and culture. It also explores how technologies can extend institutions’ capacities to make their collections and programs more accessible to users, as well as the necessity of collaboration in a revolutionary digital age. Tickets: Regular Registration (ends July 31)—$525 AAAM member, $625 nonmember, $575 presenter, $475 one-day rate, $425 student; on-site registration—$550 AAAM member, $650 nonmember, $600 presenter, $500 one-day rate, $450 student.

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KIDS “I Am” VBS at Crossroads of Life July 24-26, 6-8:30 p.m., at Crossroads of Life Church (6775 S. Siwell Road, Byram). Students entering grades 1-6 attend the vacation bible school. Includes recreational sports, crafts, snacks, music and more. Free admission, donations accepted; call 601-3736230; email crossroadsbyram6775@gmail. com; find it on Facebook.

THURSDAY 7/25 AWARE 2019 is from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Fondren Church (3327 Old Canton Road). The event aims to educate people of all backgrounds on how to better recognize the signs of human trafficking in Mississippi and what they can do to mitigate it. Includes a panel with local experts and breakout sessions that will cater to the different roles that exist in the community (such as teachers/ coaches, parents, medical professionals, social workers and more.) Free admission; find it on Facebook.

“The Face Race” VBS July 24, 7 p.m., July 25-27, 6 p.m., July 28, 10 a.m., at First United Pentecostal Church Brandon (1368 W. Government St., Brandon). The church hosts a vacation bible school for children. Includes bible studies and other activities. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Fun Fridays: Prehistoric Plants July 26, 10 a.m.-noon, at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive). Attendees learn about prehistoric plants and can browse the “Dinosaurs Around the World” exhibit. $6 adult, $4 child, kids ages 3 and below free; find it on Facebook.

Celebrating Our Scholars: Back to School! July 27, 2-6 p.m., at Jackson Convention Complex (105 E. Pascagoula St.). The City of Jackson hosts the back-to-school event. Includes free-

MONDAY 7/29 “Delivered” Dinner Theatre at Amerigo is from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Amerigo (361 Township Ave., Flowood). The Detectives present a comedic theatrical performance while participants dine.

Cocktails and seating begin 6 p.m.

Reservations required. $49, plus tax and gratuity; call 601-9371752; email thedetectivestheatre@ gmail.com; thedetectives.biz.

school supplies, bounce houses, face painting, live music and more. Parents able to meet with representatives of local tutoring, sports and other after-school programs. JPS provides on-site registration for children who were not registered for school before the July 12 deadline. Free admission; call 601-960-1084; find it on Facebook.

Grace City VBS “Roar” July 29-31, 6-8 p.m., at Grace City Church (787 E. Northside Drive). Kids ages 3-10 attend the church’s animal-themed vacation bible school. Registration requested. Free admission, donations accepted; call 769-216-3168; email info@ gracecityjackson.org; find it on Facebook.

TUESDAY 7/30 College and Career Fair is from noon to 4 p.m. at Hinds Behavioral Health Services (3450 Highway 80 W.). Participants attend the career fair and learn about job opportunities while networking with local companies and organizations. College representatives also attend to give attendees information about secondary education options. Free admission; call 601321-2400; email jwroten@hbhs9. com.

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• Question It? Discover it! Brain Day July 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Specialists from the University of Mississippi Medical Center teach children about the brain and its various parts and explain how and why they work the ways they do. Included with cost of admission. $10 general admission, free for MCM members; call 601-709-5469; email sbranson@mcm.ms; mschildrensmuseum.org.

• Visiting Artist: Roz Roy July 27, noon-1 p.m.

Visiting artist Roz Roy instructs children in crafting mixed media artworks while layering textures, colors and designs. $10

TUESDAY 7/30 College and Career Fair is from noon to 4 p.m. at Hinds Behavioral Health Services (3450 Highway 80 W.). Participants learn about job opportunities while networking with local companies and organizations. College representatives also attend to give attendees information about secondary education options. Free admission; call 601-321-2400; email jwroten@ hbhs9.com.

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• Magic Mondays at MCM July 29, Aug. 5, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. The museum extends its hours and hosts a Food Lab program at 3:30 p.m. $10 general admission, free for MCM members; call 601-709-5469; email sbranson@mcm.ms; mschildrensmuseum.org.

K-8 Intensive Summer Intervention Program July 29-31, Aug. 1, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., at Jackson Education Support (2637 Ridgewood Road). The program provides academic tutelage to students grades K-8 in various school subjects to prepare them for the upcoming school year. Students must have finished the previous year with grades of Cs to enroll.

Students are taught according to their grade level. $500 per session, both can be taken; call 601-724-2152; email learn@je411.com; je411.com.

GEO Back 2 School 2019 Aug. 3, 2-6 p.m., at Cultivation Food Hall (1250 Eastover Drive). Hosted by Generational Empowerment Organization. The back-to-school event includes food, games and free school supplies while they last. Also includes a raffle for five free backpacks filled with school supplies at $1 per visitor. Free admission; email changegeo@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

Back to School Party! Aug. 7, 6:30-8 p.m., at Metro Grace Community Church (3023 Highway 80 E., Pearl). The church holds a back-to-school party that includes live music and games, as well as free hotdogs, drinks

THURSDAY 8/1 Campbell’s Bakery Cheesecake Challenge is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Rickhouse by The Manship (717 Poplar Blvd.). The inaugural event brings together local restaurants and bakeries to let participants try their homemade cheesecakes and other desserts. Proceeds benefit the Good Samaritan Center.

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per person (bourbon tasting, food demos and full meal); call 601.948.3429, ext. 305; email marketing@fairviewinn.com.

and snacks for students and parents. Free; call 601-228-1288; email metrogracecommunitychurch@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

“TBD” Dinner Theater at El Centro July 26, 7 p.m., at El Centro Grill (318 State St.). The Detectives and El Centro present a comedic theatrical performance while participants dine. Cocktails and seating begin 6 p.m.

Reservations required. $42, plus tax and gratuity; call 601-937-1752; email thedetectivestheatre@gmail.com; thedetectives.biz.

FOOD & DRINK Blues, Bourbon & BBQ July 26, 5:30-10 p.m., at 1908 Provisions Restaurant (734 Fairview St.). The event features a full threecourse barbecue meal, live entertainment, food demos and bourbon tasting. Reservations required. Schedule: 5:30-7 p.m. cash bar and snacks, 6-6:20 p.m. bourbon tasting and Kristen Stanley, 6:20-6:40 p.m. bourbonglazed barbecue demo and chef Zack Athearn, 6:40-7 p.m. bourbon chocolate chess pie and pastry chef Mercedes Loft, 7-10 p.m. family-style dinner and live blues music. $39

True Local Farmer’s Market July 27, Aug. 3, 2-6 p.m., at Cultivation Food Hall (1250 Eastover Drive). The weekly farmers market brings together local vendors selling produce, crafts and other goods. Vendor prices vary; call 601-487-5196; email events@cultivation foodhall.com; find it on Facebook.

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Shiro Cafe & Restaurant serves a buffet of Ethiopian dishes such as spicy lentils and turmeric potatoes and carrots—with multiple vegetarian dishes— and the business also has a make-your-own-salad bar, among other items.

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n the ground floor of Capital Towers downtown, a recently opened Jackson restaurant is offering something new (and healthy) to the city’s cuisine. Shiro is an Ethiopian buffet-style restaurant facing Pearl Street at the corner of Congress.

The owner, Samuel Tilahun, moved to Jackson in 2018 to work as a software engineer for insurance company BlueCross BlueShield. He was disappointed to find no dining options for this African cuisine already popular in many U.S. cities.

“I’ve always had a passion for cooking, and I have extensively studied nutrition and how food affects the body,� he says. “I saw opening a restaurant as a way to combine those interests in the perfect way.�

Tilahun brought his concept to Yusef Ali, the owner of Aladdin Mediterranean Grill, because he had seen Ali’s success and how much his restaurant had flourished.

Ali agreed to come on as co-owner, and the journey began. Tilahun opened Shiro on Monday, April 29.

“Ethiopian food isn’t common to the people of Jackson, so we’re starting slow to give people a chance to get acquainted with the spicy, robust flavors used in the food,� Tilahun says. “That is why we are ... buffet style, so that people can come in a try a number of things and see what best suits their palette.�

The buffet includes chicken, beef, lamb, spicy lentils, turmeric split peas, collard greens, turmeric potatoes and carrots, injera, which is a traditional Ethiopian bread similar to a tortilla, and more. For breakfast, Shiro serves savory crepes, including one with grilled chicken and one with eggs and cheese, and sweet crepes such as banana and Nutella; and dishes from scrambled eggs and cheese to ful medames, which are slow-cooked fava beans. The restaurant also has a make-your-own salad bar.

Shiro has an app in development, one feature of which allows users to view the menu and place online orders for delivery.

Another feature of the app will calculate the nutritional value of people’s meals from the restaurant.

“Based on the guests’ selections of proteins, carbs and vegetables, the app will calculate the minerals present, the fat content and the overall nutrition of the meal,� Tilahun says. “I have always been very conscious of what goes into my body and making sure that I am eating the right things. I wanted to use my knowledge of nutrition to help my guests make the right choices as well.�

Shiro Cafe & Restaurant (125 S. Congress St., Suite 106, 769-572-4555) is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. For more information, find the business on Facebook.

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aTo Do Listd Wine Tasting at Amerigo July 30, 6-8 p.m., at Amerigo (6592 Old Canton Road, Ridgeland). Sample four wines, paired with bruschetta and tiramisu. Featured wines include San Angelo Pinot Grigio, Banfi Chianti Classico, L .Jadot Macon-Villages Chardonnay (Unoaked) and Perrin Cotes du Rhone Villages. Reservations recommended. $25, plus tax and gratuity; amerigo.net.

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Groups and couples that wish to sit together should purchase tickets in the same transaction. Limited space. Reservations required.

Doors open 6:45 p.m. $41.50 general admission, $250 VIP table; email jleeproductions@ yahoo.com; Eventbrite.

FRIDAY 8/2 Save Our Summer Blood Drive is from noon to 6 p.m. at Outlets of Mississippi (200 Bass Pro Drive, Pearl). The mall hosts a blood drive on the plaza outside the food court. Participants are entered into a drawing for a $250 gift card. Free admission; find it on Facebook.

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Fondren After 5 Aug. 1, 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 fairlike activities available. Free admission; finditinfondren.com.

Campbell’s Bakery Cheesecake Challenge Aug. 1, 7-10 p.m., at Rickhouse by The Manship (717 Poplar Blvd.). The inaugural event brings together local restaurants and bakeries to let participants try their homemade cheesecakes and other desserts. Proceeds benefit the Good Samaritan Center. Each guest is allowed to try every cheesecake and dessert present at the event. $20 individual ticket, $30 per couple (two tickets for $30); call 601-362-4628; find it on Facebook.

The “Sip & See” Dinner Theater Aug. 4, 7:30-10 p.m., at Johnny T’s Bistro & Blues (358 N. Farish St.). The troupe performs an interactive, comedic dinner theater while participants dine. Includes a three-course meal.

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“The Music Man” begins 2 p.m. at Black Rose Theatre (103 Black St., Brandon). The musical by Meredith Wilson centers around Harold Hill, who shows up in River City and cons the town into starting a band and purchasing uniforms and instruments from him. Harold, however, faces a dilemma and has trouble deciding whether he should skip town when he falls for the local librarian.

Additional dates: Aug. 1-3, 7:30 p.m. $10-$15; email harrisjn24@ gmail.com; blackrosetheatre.org.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Boxing & Kickboxing July 24-25, July 29-31, Aug. 1, Aug. 5-7, 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 July 24, July 28, July 31, Aug. 4, Aug. 7, 6:15 p.m., at Steps the Studio (6800 Old Canton Road, Suite 113). Dance professional duo Roger and Tena Long instruct participants in the hip-hop dance class that aims to provide a way for people to both enjoy dancing while exercising. Individual rates are $10 per class for drop-ins and $50 for unlimited classes for the month (total of eight). The family rate is $70 per month for two adults and any children ages 21 and under within the same home. $10 drop-in rate, $50 for month (eight classes); choreorobics.com.

Mindful Midtown: CommUNITY Yoga July 28, 9:30-10:30 a.m., at The Community Canvas @ Jax-Zen (155 Wesley Ave.). The event hosts a series of community classes with a diverse section of practices relating to mindfulness. Led by teachers and facilitators familiar with the fields. Classes are “open level,” meaning that the teacher gives each person options to adjust the practice as needed.

Limited space. Reservations recommended. $10 per class; call 601-691-1697; email contact@jax-zen.com; find it on Facebook.

Events at Soul Synergy Center (5490 Castlewoods Court, Suite D) • Therapeutic Sound Bath July 31, 7-9 p.m.

The center hosts an event where sound waves and frequencies created by crystal and Tibetan metal singing bowls, gongs and chimes are used to help attendees relax. $45; call 601-992-7721; email soulsynergy center@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

• The Salt Cave Breath Class Aug. 5, 7-8 p.m. The class focuses on the healing benefits of mindful breathing and salt therapy as the instructor guides participants through breath work, body awareness, visualization and music. Must bring and wear white

socks to class. Attendees are recommended to arrive 15 minutes early as the class begins sharply at 7 p.m. Limited space.

Admission TBA. Bend & Brew | Pure Barre Style Aug. 2, 5:30-6:30 p.m., at Highland Village (4500 I-55 N. Frontage Road). 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.

Neurocritical Care Symposium Aug. 6, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m., at Jackson Medical Mall Foundation (350 W. Woodrow Wilson Ave.).

In the UMMC Conference Center. The event features discussions on neurocritical care. Includes guest speakers Romergryko Geocadin and Jose Suarez, former and current presidents of the Neurocritical Society, respectively. Admission TBA; cvent.com.

Creative Healing Studio Aug. 7, 12:30-2 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Art therapist Susan Anand leads the bimonthly art activity for adults being treated for cancer or those who have previously been diagnosed with cancer. All skill levels welcome. Registration required. Free admission; call 601-960-1515; email smainlay@aol.com; msmuseumart.org.

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

Football is close to returning. NFL training camps open as the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons start practice in preparation of the Hall of Fame game. The New Orleans Saints first practice is July 26 as the team gets ready to open the season.

THURSDAY, JULY 25

MLB (6-9:30 p.m., MLBN): New York Yankees v. Boston Red Sox or Minnesota Twins v. Chicago White Sox FRIDAY, JULY 26

MLS (9-11 p.m., ESPN): Los Angeles FC v. Atlanta United SATURDAY, JULY 27

MLB (6-9:30 p.m., FS1): Houston Astros v. St. Louis Cardinals SUNDAY, JULY 28

Pan Am (7-11:30 p.m., ESPNU): 2019 Pan Am Games from Lima, Peru MONDAY, JULY 29

MLB (6-9:30 p.m., ESPN): Atlanta Braves v. Washington Nationals TUESDAY, JULY 30

Pan Am (7-10 p.m., ESPNU): 2019 Pan Am Games from Lima, Peru

MONDAY 8/5 CMBS Blue Monday begins 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. Additional date: July 29. $5 admission, $3 for CMBS members; call 601948-0888; halandmals.com.

Popcorn & Pajamas: Museum and a Movie July 26, 6-8:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (2148 Riverside Drive).

The museum hosts a screening of the movie “Jurassic Park.” Attendees are invited to wear pajamas or dinosaur-themed outfits.

Participants can browse the animatronic “Dinosaurs Around the World” exhibit. Also features dinosaur-themed activities during the movie. Complimentary popcorn included.

Limited space. Reservations required.

Members: $5 adult, $3 child; Nonmembers: $7 adult, $5 child; find it on Facebook.

Summer Movie Matinee Series July 30, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). The mall hosts a film screening of a different movie each week for

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31

MLB (7-10:30 p.m., ESPN): Chicago Cubs v. St. Louis Cardinals THURSDAY, AUG. 1

NFL (7-10:30 p.m., NBC): Denver Broncos v. Atlanta Falcons FRIDAY, AUG. 2

NSWL (6-8 p.m., ESPNEWS): Houston Dash v. Reign FC SATURDAY, AUG. 3

NFL (6-10 p.m., ESPN): 2019 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony SUNDAY, AUG. 4

MLB (6-9:30 p.m., ESPN): Boston Red Sox v. New York Yankees MONDAY, AUG. 5

Baseball (6-11 p.m., ESPN2): Little League World Series Southeastern Regional Semifinals TUESDAY, AUG. 6

Basketball (8-11:30 p.m., ESPN): The Basketball Tournament Championship, championship game WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7

Pan Am (6-11 p.m., ESPNU): 2019 Pan Am Games from Lima, Peru

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Free admission; call 601-863-2300; email sreeks@northparkmall.com.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS Saturday Mourning at Cowboy’s Saloon July 24, 7:30 p.m., at Cowboy’s Saloon (208 W. Capitol St.). The music group performs.

FLAW and Sons of Texas also perform. $15 admission; songkick.com.

Events at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) • Shannon McNally July 25, 8 p.m. The singer-songwriter known for her pop and rock music performs. Doors open at 6 p.m. There is a $5 upcharge for people under 21. Attendees under 18 must have a parent or guardian present. $10 advanced, $15 day-of; ticketfly.com.

• Stephanie Adlington & Aaron Lessard July 26, 8-10:30 p.m. The two musicians collaborate to present an evening combining Adlington’s blues and jazz style with Lessard’s vintage rock style. Doors open at 6 p.m. There is a $5 upcharge for people under 21. Attendees under 18 must have a parent or guardian present. $10 ticket; ticketfly.com.

• Bedon & Lo Noom Aug. 2, 8 p.m. The two young music artists known for their alternative sounds perform. Doors open at 6 p.m. There is a $5 upcharge for people under 21. Attendees under 18 must have

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TUESDAY 8/6 Salsa & Swing Dance Classes is from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Vault Venue (202 N. College St., Brandon). Instructors teach attendees the basics of salsa and swing dancing. The final day of Aug. 6 includes a party with live music, food and drink. Additional date: July 30. $15 per person per class, $25 for the party on Aug. 6; call 601-260-9277; email events@thevaultvenue.com; thevaultvenue.com. $40-$55; call 601-960-1537; email jdlewis@ jacksonms.gov; ticketmaster.com.

BIG SMO & Burnham Road July 27, 10 p.m., at Pops Saloon (2636 Gallatin St.).

The country rap singer-songwriter and the Brandon-native country band perform. $20 general admission, $70 admission and meet & greet; find it on Facebook Tedeschi Trucks Band: Wheels of Soul 2019 July 31, 7 p.m., at Brandon Amphitheater (8190 Rock Way, Brandon). The 12-piece jazz, blues and gospel band per-

SATURDAY 8/3 Blue Bell Ice Cream Safari is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). Local organizations, businesses and celebrities scoop more than 20 flavors of ice cream in the 25th annual fundraiser for the zoo. A kid zone features inflatables, face-painting, crafts, games and more. $14.25 adult, $11.25 children ages 12 and under, $4 members; find it on Facebook.

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a parent or guardian present. $10 general admission, $8 student ticket; ticketfly.com.

• The Brummies Aug. 3, 8 p.m. The Nashville-based rock band performs.

An upcharge of $5 taken at the door for people under 21. Attendees under 18 must have a parent or guardian present. $10 general admission; ticketfly.com.

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CS’s Friday Night Live July 26, Aug. 2, 8 p.m., at CS’s (1359 N. West St.). The weekly event features live music from DBL Take and other music artists. Doors open 7 p.m. $5 cover charge.

We Are One Jackson Music Fest July 27, 7 p.m., at Mississippi Coliseum (1207 Mississippi St.). The concert features performances by Grammy Award winner Monica, Grammy nominee Joe, Dru Hill with Sisqo and Stephanie Luckett. Hosted by the Rickey Smiley and Friends Tour comedienne Rita Brent. $42-72; ticketmaster.com.

85 South Jackson Mississippi July 27, 7 p.m., at Thalia Mara Hall (255 E. Pascagoula St.). The comedy troupe performs.

forms. Blackberry Smoke and Shovels & Rope also perform. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. $20-$165.25; brandonamphitheater.com.

Events at ISH Grill & Bar (5105 Interstate 55 N.) • Trap & RnB Silent Headphone Party Aug. 2, 8 p.m. The venue hosts a silent headphone party, where attendees are lent headphones that let them listen to the DJs’ music or have silence. Includes trap, R&B and hip-hop music from DJ Unpredictable, DJ Nasty Sho and Ron tha DJ. Admission TBA, food and drink prices vary; find it on Facebook.

• A White Night Aug. 3, 5 p.m.

UNFAZED Show & Band performs at the party. Show begins 9 p.m. Includes new menu and cocktails. Live DJ. Hosted by Coach Antonio Knight. Admission TBA, food and drink prices vary; find it on Facebook.

Independent Artist - The Plug Tour Aug. 3, 7 p.m., at Soop’s The Ultimate (1205 Country Club Drive). The event features musical

performances by Thunda & Lightnen, Falisha Janae, Raven Salve “Jammin’ My Jelly Roll,” Nene Lioness “Twisted” and Sirnature Alexzander “Hey Ms Sexy Thano.” Hosted

by Promoter: J Bunny. $20 advanced, $25 at-door; call 601-922-1402; email soops601@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

LITERARY SIGNINGS Events at Lemuria Bookstore (4465 Interstate 55 N.) • “The Art of Rivers” Book Signing July 27, 2 p.m. Janet W. Ferguson signs copies of her book. $15 signed copy; lemuriabooks.com.

• “MaeMae’s Grandmother Book” Signing Aug. 3, 2 p.m. Marilyn Tinnin signs copies of her book. $20 signed copy; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Red Truck Bakery Cookbook” Signing Aug. 6, 5 p.m. Brain Noyes signs copies of his book. $25 signed copy; lemuriabooks.com.

History Is Lunch: Tom Howorth July 31, noon-1 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). In the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium. Tom Howorth presents “Frederick A.P. Barnard: The Man and the Observatory.” Free admission; call 601-576-6998; email info@mdah.ms.gov; mdah.ms.gov.

CREATIVE CLASSES Bring Your Own Piece Finishing Class July 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at Southern Institute of Faux Finishing (1091 Old Fannin Road, Brandon). The class instructs attendees on how to professionally furnish their own wooden goods. Participants should bring their own wooden pieces to use during the class. Taught by Jolie. $175 per person; call 601-919-3289; email orders@fauxfinishbiz. com; find it on Facebook.

Zion’s Hair Braiding Class Mississippi Aug. 3, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., at Hilton Garden Inn (235 W. Capitol St.). Professionals with over 15 years of experience instruct attendees on how to style various types of braids, including box braids, cornrows, stitch braids, and senegalese, kinky and Havana twists. They additionally advise participants on how to operate their own hair braiding business. All tools and supplies provided. Hors d’oeuvres included. Certificates of completion provided to attendees at the end of the event.

A nonrefundable deposit of $100 required to reserve a space, which counts toward the $400 total. The rest of the balance will be paid at the door. $400; find it on Faceboo

WEDNESDAY 8/7 “Summerlings” Book Signing begins 5 p.m. at Eudora Welty House (1119 Pinehurst St.). Lisa Howorth signs copies of her book.

Reading at 5:30 p.m. $24.95 signed copy, free reading; lemuriabooks.com.

Shut Up and Create! Aug. 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Grab a final spot in Donna Ladd’s popular creativity workshop. Regular $250, but email class@writingtochange.com for daily deals until final spots filled. Includes lunch, snacks, suppliesSee writingtochange.com.

ARTS & EXHIBITS Art in Mind July 24, 1-2:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the Bancorp South classroom. Art therapist Susan Anand and McKenzie Drake lead the hands-on art activity designed to stimulate observation, cognition and recall.

Registration required. The event takes place on the fourth Wednesday of each month.

Free admission; call 601-496-6463; email mindclinic@umc.edu; msmuseumart.org.

Spirits of the Passage Through Aug. 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). Traveling exhibit showcases rare artifacts uncovered from the wreckage of a sunken slave ship. $10 adult, $8 senior, $6 child; email info@mscivilrightsmuseum. com; twomississippimuseums.com.

BE THE CHANGE AWARE 2019 July 25, 5:30-8 p.m., at Fondren Church (3327 Old Canton Road).

The event aims to educate people of all backgrounds on how to better recognize the signs of human trafficking in Mississippi and what they can do to mitigate it. Includes a panel with local experts and breakout sessions that will cater to the different roles that exist in the community (such as teachers/coaches, parents, medical professionals, social workers and more.) Free admission; find it on Facebook.

Back to School Blast July 27, 10 a.m.noon, at Word and Worship Church (6286 Hanging Moss Road). The back-to-school event offers information, fellowship and free school supplies while they last. Children must be present to receive supplies. Free admission; call 601-259-5776; email wordandworship6286@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

Jackson Zoo Safari Sunset July 27, 4-7:30 p.m., at The Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The fundraising event sponsored by Trustmark Bank features keeper presentations, animal encounters, inflatables, the Splash Pad, face painting, train and carousel rides, games, activities, live music from Hunter Gibson and more. For an additional $7, adults ages 21 and up can sample several Mississippi craft beers from LD’s BeerRun, served by JXN Barley’s Angels. All admission and membership sales support the animals, as well as a portion of proceeds from Twisted Pretzel, Brick Street Pops, Dippin’ Dots and Back Yard Burgers. $10.25 adult, $7.25 child; find it on Facebook.

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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7/24 - 8/6 Wednesday 7/24 1908 Provisions - Bill Ellison 6:30 p.m.

Alumni House - Gena and David Steele Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Cowboy’s Saloon - FLAW, Sons of Texas, September Mourning 7:30 p.m. $15 Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Jimmie Allen 6:30 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny & Co. 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Thursday 7/25 1908 Provisions - Chuck Bryan 6 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Dirty D and Don Grant Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Cowboy’s Saloon - Telethon, Micah Smith and Inner Voices 9 p.m. $10 Drago’s - Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - Shannon McNally 8 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Chris Minter & the KJ Funkmasters 11 p.m. $5 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Candy Lee Dobbs 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Nathan Logan 7 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Barry Leach

Micah Smith See more music at jfp.ms/musiclistings.

To be included in print, email listings to music@jacksonfreepress.com.

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Nu Corp 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Lovin’ Ledbetter 9 p.m.

Castlewoods Country Club - Larry Brewer 7 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

CS’s – Beebees, Phantom Mile,Witchcake and K-Tray 8 p.m. $5 Cowboy’s Saloon - Shatterframe!

9 p.m. $10 Drago’s - Simpatico 6 p.m.; Jason & Misty Fairchild Duling Hall - Stephanie Adlington & Aaron Lessard 8 p.m. $10 F. Jones Corner - The Blues Man 10 p.m. $5; “Big Sexy” Anissa Hampton midnight $10 Georgia Blue, Flowood - Aaron Coker 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Shaun Patterson 7 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Lucky Hand Blues Band 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m.

Martin’s - Ross Cooper 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Chad Perry Band 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny Duo 5:30 p.m.; Snazz Band 8 p.m. $5; Jason Turner Trio 10 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Press Play 60 midnight $10 Genna Benna, Brandon - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Chad Wesley 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner 7 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Bernard Jenkins 9 p.m.

ISH – Karen Brown 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Luckenbach - Willie Nelson Tribute Band 7 p.m.

Martin’s - Andrea & Mud, Tyler Keith & The Apostles and Witchcake 10 p.m.

Mississippi Coliseum – Monica, Joe and Dru Hill 7 p.m.

Pelican Cove - T Baby 2 p.m.; Lucky Hand Blues Band 7 p.m.

Pop’s Saloon – Big Smo & Burnham Road 10 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads & Steele Heart 3:30 p.m.; Snazz Band 8 p.m. $5; Josh Journeay 10 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Thalia Mara Hall – 85 South 7 p.m.

The Biscuit Company, Vicksburg - Bill “Howl-N-Madd” Perry with Shy 6 p.m.

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

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Iron Horse Grill - Ted Hefko 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - The Sole Shakers 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Road Hogs 6 p.m.

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

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Friday 7/26 1908 Provisions - Chris Gill and Scott Albert Johnson 6:30 p.m.

Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 7 p.m.

Saturday 7/27 Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Nu Corp 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Steele Heart 9 p.m.

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Cowboy’s Saloon - Robbins n Lawless, Once, We Were Saints 9 p.m. $10 CS’s – Surfwax & Patch 8 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel &

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 - Ronnie Magee Band 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Stace and Cassie noon; Bad Charlotte 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Chris Gill and The Sole Shakers 3:30 p.m.

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

The Biscuit Company, Vicksburg - Gena Steele & Buzz Pickens 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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

Monday 7/29 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Central Mississippi Blues Society 7 p.m. $5 Kathryn’s - Johnny Crocker 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Keys vs Strings 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Tuesday 7/30 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Raphael Semmes & Friends Pelican Cove - Acoustic Crossroads Trio 6 p.m.; Hunter Gibson 6:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

Wednesday 7/31 1908 Provisions - Dan Gibson 6:30 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Brian Jones Brandon Amphitheater - Tedeschi Trucks Band, Blackberry Smoke, Shovels & Rope 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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

Pelican Cove - Pichard Lee Davis and Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny & Co. 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Thursday 8/1 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Chris Minter & the KJ Funkmasters 11 p.m. $5 Iron Horse Grill - Live Music 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Steele Heart 6:30 p.m.

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

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

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Friday 8/2 Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Fortag 8 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Duling Hall - Bedon & Lo Noom 8 p.m. $10 F. Jones Corner - The Blues Man 10 p.m. $5; TiffStarr and #MatchSquad midnight $10 Kathryn’s - Faze 4 Dance Band 7 p.m.

Martin’s - The Iceman Special 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Silver Tree Crossing 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Crocker & Reynolds 3:30 p.m.; The Jason Miller Band 8 p.m. $10; Josh Journeay 10 p.m. $10 Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m

Saturday 8/3 Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Fortag 8 p.m.

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Cowboy’s Saloon – Dark Sky Machine, Killjay, Weeping Hour 7 p.m.

CS’s - Karaoke 8 p.m.

Duling Hall - The Brummies 8 p.m. $10 F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5;Sorrento Ussery midnight $10 Hal & Mal’s – Hannah Belle 8 p.m.

Martin’s - Voodoo Visionary 10 p.m.

Offbeat - Evil Engines, Hash Redactor, Kicking 7 p.m.

Pelican Cove - RJ and the Good Time Band 2 p.m.; Mississippi Moonlight 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Acoustic Crossroads 3:30 p.m.; The Jason Miller Band 8 p.m. $10; Topher Brown 10 p.m. $10 Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Sunday 8/4 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 - The XtremeZ Band 6 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Road Hogs noon; Acoustic Crossroads 5 p.m.

Shucker’s - Big Al & the Heavyweights 3:30 p.m.

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

Well’s Memorial United Methodist Church – Krystal Jackson 3 p.m.

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

Monday 8/5 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Joseph LaSalla 6:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Alexander and Patterson 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Tuesday 8/6 Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Martin’s - Paul Wall 8 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Dylan Scott 6:30 p.m.; Robin Blakeney 8 p.m.

Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

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8/7: New Bourbon Street Jazz Band 8/8: D’Lo Trio 8/9: Cary Hudson 8/10: Oyster Open 8/12: CMBS Presents Blues Monday 8/13: Dinner, Drinks, and Jazz 8/16: Abe Partridge 8/18: Patio Series ft. Clitter Critters, Night Surf and The Start Up 8/19: CMBS Presents Blues Monday

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

The Queen of North America and Europe called me on the phone. At least that’s how she identified herself. “I have a message for your Leo readers,” she told me. “Why Leo?” I asked. “Because I’m a Leo myself,” she replied, “and I know what my tribe needs to know right now.” I said, “OK. Give it to me.” “Tell Leos to always keep in mind the difference between healthy pride and debilitating hubris,” she said. “Tell them to be dazzlingly and daringly competent without becoming bossy and egomaniacal. They should disappear their arrogance but nourish their mandate to express leadership and serve as a role model. Be shiny and bright but not glaring and blinding.

Be irresistible but not envy-inducing.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

I predict that between now and the end of the year, a Libran genetic engineer will create a new species of animal called a dat. A cross between a cat and a dog, it will have the grace, independence and vigilance of a Persian cat and the geniality, loyalty and ebullient strength of a golden retriever. Its stalking skills will synthesize the cat’s and dog’s different styles of hunting. I also predict that in the coming months, you will achieve greater harmony between the cat and dog aspects of your own nature, thereby acquiring some of the hybrid talents of the dat.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Scorpio poet Marianne Moore (1887–1972) won the Pulitzer Prize and several other prestigious awards. She was a rare poet who became a celebrity. That’s one of the reasons why the Ford car company asked her to dream up interesting names for a new model they were manufacturing. Alas, Ford decided the 43 possibilities she presented were too poetic and rejected all of them.

But some of Moore’s names are apt descriptors for the roles you could and should play in the phase you’re beginning, so I’m offering them for your use. Here they are: 1. Anticipator. 2. The Impeccable. 3. Tonnere Alifère (French term for “winged thunder”). 4. Tir á l’arc (French term for “bull’s eye”). 5. Regina-Rex (Latin terms for “queen” and “king”).

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

It’s conceivable that in one of your past lives you were a pioneer who made the rough 2,170-mile migration via wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in the 1830s. Or maybe you were a sailor who accompanied the Viking Leif Eriksson in his travels to the New World five hundred years before Columbus. Is it possible you were part of the team assembled by Italian diplomat Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who journeyed from Rome to Mongolia in the 13th century? Here’s why I’m entertaining these thoughts, Sagittarius: I suspect that a similar itch to ramble and explore and seek adventure may rise up in you during the coming weeks. I won’t be surprised if you consider making a foray to the edge of your known world.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

When the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, the crocodiles didn’t. They were around for 135 million years before that era, and are still here now. Why? “They are extremely tough and robust,” says croc expert James Perran Ross. Their immune systems “are just incredible.”

Maybe best of all, they “learn quickly and adapt to changes in their situation.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m naming the crocodile as your creature teacher for the coming weeks. I suspect you will be able to call on a comparable version of their will to thrive.

(Read more about crocs: tinyurl.com/ToughAndRobust.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“My only hope is that one day I can love myself as much as I love you.” Poet Mariah Gordon-Dyke wrote that to a lover, and now I’m offering it to you as you begin your Season of Self-Love.

You’ve passed through other Seasons of Self-Love in the past, but none of them has ever had such rich potential to deepen and ripen your self-love. I bet you’ll discover new secrets about how to love yourself with the same intensity you have loved your most treasured allies.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

“Poems can bring comfort,” writes Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield.

“They let us know ... that we are not alone—but they also unseat us and make us more susceptible, larger, elastic. They foment revolutions of awareness and allow the complex, uncertain, actual world to enter.” According to my understanding of upcoming astrological omens, Pisces, life itself will soon be like the poems Hirshfield describes: unruly yet comforting; a source of solace but also a catalyst for transformation; bringing you healing and support but also asking you to rise up and reinvent yourself. Sounds like fun!

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

After analyzing unusual animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter and the position of the moon, a psychic has foretold that a moderate earthquake will rumble through the St. Louis, Mo., area in the coming weeks. I don’t agree with her prophecy. But I have a prediction of my own.

Using data about how cosmic forces are conspiring to amuse and titillate your rapture chakra, I predict a major lovequake for many Aries between now and Aug. 20. I suggest you start preparing immediately. How? Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness. Get yourself in the frame of mind to seek out collaborative catharses that evoke both sensory delights and spiritual insights.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are,” wrote Taurus philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. You could use that idea to achieve a finer grade of peace and grace in the coming weeks. The navel-gazing phase of your yearly cycle has begun, which means you’ll be in closest alignment with cosmic rhythms if you get to know yourself much better. One of the best ways to do that is to analyze what you pay most attention to. Another excellent way is to expand and refine and tenderize your feelings for what you pay most attention to.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote that in Havana, people refer to their friends as mi sangre, my blood or mi tierra, my country. In Caracas, he reported, a friend might be called mi llave, my key or mi pana, my bread. Since you are in the alliance-boosting phase of your cycle, Gemini, I trust that you will find good reasons to think of your comrades as your blood, your country, your key or your bread. It’s a favorable time for you to get closer, more personal and more intimate. The affectionate depths are calling to you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Your emotional intelligence is so strong right now that I bet you could alleviate the pain of a loved one even as you soothe a long-running ache of your own. You’re so spiritually alluring, I suspect you could arouse the sacred yearning of a guru, saint or bodhisattva. You’re so interesting, someone might write a poem or story about you. You’re so overflowing with a lust for life that you might lift people out of their ruts just by being in their presence. You’re so smart you could come up with at least a partial solution to a riddle whose solution has evaded you for a long time.

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Congrats, Virgo! You are beginning the denouement of your yearly cycle. Anything you do to resolve lingering conflicts and finish up old business will yield fertile rewards. Fate will conspire benevolently in your behalf as you bid final goodbyes to the influences you’ll be smart not to drag along with you into the new cycle that will begin in a few weeks. To inspire your holy work, I give you this poem by Virgo poet Charles Wright: “Knot by knot I untie myself from the past / And let it rise away from me like a balloon. / What a small thing it becomes. / What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue.”

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Joshua Quinn is constantly empowering young men of color through his position as chief executive officer of the BARS Institute, but in his free time, you can find him around town. Here are some of his favorite places in Jackson.

1. Salsa Mississippi Club & Studio (605 Duling Ave., 601-2136355)—Latin dancing at Salsa gives Jacksonians an opportunity to gain a global education and intellectual expansion.

music, cultural experiences, good drinks and great vegan food.

2. Kundi Compound (3220 N. State St., 601-345-8680)—It is a safe haven and “chill spot” for local progressives, creators and intellectuals.

5. Big Apple Inn (509 N. Farish St., 4487 N. State St., 601-354-9371)— Not only is the food and service great, but Big Apple Inn also has a mixture of culture, local civil-rights history, and a legacy that speaks to the power of persistence and longevity of locally owned businesses.

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3. Soul Wired Café (4147 Northview Plaza Drive, 601-790-0864)—Soul wired has amazing local poetry, live

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4. Lounge 114 (105 Capitol St., 769257-6223)—The setting makes you feel like you’re in a lounge in NYC.

6. Gloria’s Kitchen (3417 West St., 601-362-0009)—There is “southern cuisine” and there is “soul food.”

Gloria’s Kitchen is soul food.

7. F. Jones Corner (303 N. Farish St., 601-983-1148)—For those of us who are night owls or get off late at night, this is the spot you go to get great food, no short-changing on the drinks and live Mississippi blues.

8. Capital City Kayaks (601953-7615)—This is one of the most amazing, educational and

therapeutic experiences available in the city.

9. The Pizza Shack (925 E. Fortification St.)—This business caters to the diverse palates of the capital city.

10. Offbeat (151 Wesley Ave., 601376-9404, offbeatjxn.com)—If you are into comic books and want to feel like a kid again, this is the place for you.

Offbeat has weekly events such as movie nights, parties, art shows, etc.

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