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8 Empowering a Workforce Read our story on the Refill Cafe and its mission to equip young adults with the skills they need for future careers and jobs.

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year into his job as athletic director at Jackson State University, Ashley Robinson has been looking forward to implementing his plans to advance the athletics department. The former Murrah High School basketball star says that “the tradition, (the) 50,000 alumni, a lot of potential, four NFL Hall of Famers and growing up in Jackson” drew him to the position.

“I always dreamed to be a part of JSU,” he says.

When he accepted the AD job, Robinson identified areas where the program could improve to reach a new level of success.

“We needed to change the culture, fix the structure and organization, and bring a new energy to the program,” he says. “And I believe we accomplished that in the first year.”

Since becoming athletic director, Robinson has partnered with Nike on a five-year apparel deal, updated the athletic website, added live-stream stats and has been working with the media to better market the program. He strives to raise the number of home football games to five or six per year and hopes to see ticket sales to begin averaging 15,000 to 20,000 per season. At present, the department has sold 4,700 season tickets, but Robinson expects the number to rise as the new season draws nearer.

“We have a five-year plan in place and are working on

Ashley Robinson upgrading the facilities for all sports,” he says. “We are engaging and meeting with alumni all over the country, trying to call or email back when we hear from alumni and hope to create a classic football game in Jackson.”

Robinson believes in his “5 Cs”: communication, customer service, change, Commissioner’s Cup and championships, meaning that the program must work toward keeping open communication with the media and alumni; uphold respectable customer service to JSU fans; change the culture of the athletic program; win the Commissioner’s Cup, which the best overall SWAC athletic program receives; and bring championships to the university. JSU is poised to deliver on these goals with the right coaches in place, he says.

In his role, Robinson sees his job as being a “moral, supportive athletic director.” He aims to support the coaches and athletes by giving them the tools they need to be successful.

Robinson’s motto for his goals is “build on tradition and blaze new trails,” he says.

“Historically, when Jackson State is going strong, it means the city of Jackson is going strong. If we can get back to that winning JSU tradition, it will help strengthen the city as we win.”

—Bryan Flynn

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ast Saturday, I attended a Mississippi Book Festival panel called “Enneagram: How We See and Why It Matters.” For those who don’t know what the enneagram is, it’s comprised of nine numbers that essentially tell us how and why we see the world the way we do. I’m a type 5, so basically, I’m constantly in search of information and tend to be pretty aloof.

However, during the panel at the book festival, the panelists didn’t talk much about the enneagram itself. Like the title suggested, panelists Suzanne Stabile and Brian McLaren, and moderator George Patton, used it to frame some of the stuff that’s happening in the world, especially in concerns of the Christian church, as enneagram has a bit of a spiritual component.

The thing that stuck out most to me at the panel was when they talked about the

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idea of belonging, something we should all be pondering about right now with everything that’s happening in the world.

A couple of weeks ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents raided plants in Mississippi, detaining nearly 700 immigrants, some of whom had children who just started school that day, and without notifying schools or others about the need to care for the kids, as Ashton Pittman reports on page 6.

Since that moment, I’ve been thinking a lot about all of us just wanting a place to belong. We all want to feel wanted and needed and secure. I know I do. It’s the reason I do things like linger way longer than I should after church. And I bet you dollars that members of the immigrant community also just want to belong. It’s really not a hard concept, but it’s one we get wrong so often as humans.

At one point in the panel, moderator Patton asked author Stabile to comment on

the way the Christian church tends to treat the LGBT community.

“I fear that we are feeling like we can’t belong unless somebody doesn’t, and so I think we’ve assigned a new group of people to fill that role for us collectively,” Stabile said.

Then, the panelists talked about how immigrants are now becoming that group.

There’s been so much hate and devisiveness over this issue. As a side note: If you’re more worried about people breaking a law than you are of their well-being, you’ve seriously lost touch with your humanity.

“I think the problem is that we just fail to reflect on when we have been the other,” Stabile said. “… I want you to think about when you’re the other, spend a lot of time thinking about how you feel when how you’re the other and how you’re trying to find a place to stand when you’re the other, and then decide when you want to be a part of making somebody else feel like the other.”

Near the end of the panel, Stabile turned to McLaren and asked him, “Brian, what makes you hopeful?”

There’s a type of hopeful, he said, where a person believes that everything will be OK no matter what. Then, there’s another kind of hope where the person recognizes that things are already a mess, so there’s no use fighting it. But right in the middle, he said, is a place where he recognizes that things could get better or worse, but he has a role to play either way.

I agree.

Amid the horrible news that kept breaking around the ICE raids, there was some hope, as always. Yes, there was a lot of deserved condemnation of what was happening, but people were also asking

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“I think part of it lies in learning about other people, and realizing that all of us are chasing the same thing anyway. We all want to feel wanted and secure and like we belong, and we’re all searching for a purpose.”

how they could help. Churches and organizations did food and supply drives, and a bunch of people stepped up to help, from lawyers helping place kids and reunite families to people providing shelter. Our mostread story from the last two weeks is the one with resources.

It was a sign of hope for me in a time when it seems that we’ve just lost touch with each other. In our quest for belonging, we’ve forgotten that others also want to belong. We’ve also forgotten that love is greater than hate.

There’s something else I took from the panel. McLaren finds hope in science, he said. “If you go to your basic physics class, and learn about cosmology and the origin of the universe, it basically tells you that

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For nearly a decade, Bryan has covered sports for the JFP. Bryan has lived in Mississippi most of his life and is the father to a very outgoing daughter.

When not covering sports, Bryan is enjoying his life to the fullest and time with his daughter. He wrote the football preview.

State reporter Ashton Pittman is from Hattiesburg, Miss. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied journalism and political science. He wrote about the runoffs on Aug. 27, and continued coverage of the ICE raids.

Taylor Williams is a student at MSU who is pursuing an English degree.

With no spouse or kids, she only has her parents to annoy with all of her questions. She wrote about the Covered event on Aug. 28-29.

14 billion years ago, there was a hot mess, and now we have Mozart and Bach and ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic and Wanda Sykes and Rembrandt and Bruce Springsteen, and you think, ‘From a hot mess, the way the universe works, beauty can still come.’

I think that’s part of what God is in the universe. God is the creator, a loving, imaginative, creative force that out of a hot mess can bring beauty.”

That notion also gives me hope that beauty can come from complete chaos.

Earlier this year, some people came and cut my entire yard—front and back. My bamboo and weeds had grown out of control, but they came and spent a couple of hours making it look like a backyard again. From that hot mess came beauty. The same thing happened when my mom and sister helped me clean my house on the Fourth of July.

From a hot mess came beauty, thanks to the kindness of friends and family.

I don’t claim to know how to solve the world’s problems. I can barely even solve my own. But I think part of it lies in learning about other people, and realizing that all of us are chasing the same thing anyway. We all want to feel wanted and secure and like we belong, and we’re all searching for a purpose. The world may be chaotic, but instead of descending into that place where we shrug our shoulders and say “I can’t stop this,” we could reach out to help someone else up.

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Dr. Greene has a doctoral degree in Educational and Organizational Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania; two master’s degrees in Education — one from Trinity University and another from Howard University; and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Howard University.

JPS recently released its strategic plan for improving the grades they receive as a district and working to improve the quality of education provided to what Dr. Greene calls “scholars,” and to avoid a state takeover. He spoke with JFP Editor-in-Chief Donna Ladd about the district’s new strategic plan, including for “joyful learning” and a new dedication to “excellence.”

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As ICE Raided, Children Cried and Educators Scrambled

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Children of mainly Latino immigrant parents hold signs in support of them and those individuals picked up during an immigration raid at a food processing plant, during a protest march to the Madison County Courthouse in Canton, Miss., on Aug. 11, 2019

no parent to pick them up.

‘Why Are They Doing This?’

At Scott Central High School about 20 minutes from Sebastopol, Superintendent McGee started getting calls from the public schools in Morton that ICE had raided the Koch Foods plant there.

“Hey, what do we do? Somebody came to pick a child up, but they’re not on

the sign-out list,” McGee recalled a school official saying.

“So we started saying, ‘OK, why are they doing this?’” McGee told the Jackson Free Press in an interview on Aug. 10.

McGee rushed back to the school in Morton. By the time he got there, the halls were filled with children and their family friends and relatives, all in varying states of shock, anguish and confusion.

Sometime close to noon, the agency finally informed McGee and other superintendents in affected areas that they had, indeed, raided the seven poultry plants.

School districts across Mississippi, working with the local Child Protective Services, scrambled into the night trying to make sure all the children had a safe place to go.

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cott County Superintendent of Education Tony McGee was driving to different schools in his district at 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 7 when something caught his eye. In Sebastopol, a small town about an hour and 15 minutes northeast of Jackson, he noticed a large law-enforcement presence outside the PECO poultry plant there. Not knowing what was going on, he drove on, unaware that federal agents were pulling dozens of workers out of the facility, zip-tying their hands and marching them onto buses.

The Sebastopol plant was one of seven across Mississippi where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carried out the largest one-day worksite raid in any one state in U.S. history that day. Alongside the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Mike Hurst coordinated the operation from Jackson.

“Let them go! Let them go!” the Associated Press reported some friends, family members and children crying as ICE agents loaded workers onto buses at a poultry plant in Morton, Miss., which is also in Scott County.

Some 650 federal agents had poured into Mississippi from around the country to storm seven poultry plants in six towns that day, arresting nearly 700 workers, many of them the parents of young U.S. citizens.

At schools near the targeted towns, some Hispanic and Latino teenagers began learning about the raids through text messages and notifications on social media that morning.

Some of the students, knowing their parents worked at the plants targeted and were undocumented, left class and went to principals and counselors, pleading to be allowed to check on younger siblings. But staff members did not even know what was happening, yet.

No one had bothered to tell the schools or even Mississippi’s Child Protective Services that many children were about to be stranded on the first day of school with no parents to pick them up or plan to care for them. Some babies and toddlers remained at daycare centers with

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Slaughter-Harvey spent the night helping place about 30 children whose parents had been taken away.

The next morning, ICE released about 300 of the detained parents of children who had no one else to care for them. Slaughter-Harvey, a long-time civil-rights attorney, watched as a handful of the children under her stead tearfully wrapped their arms around mothers they had feared they might not see again for a long time.

“Some of them knew nothing about where their parents were. When their parents were reunited with them, they ran up and started hugging and crying, and it touched my heart,” the prosecutor told the Jackson Free Press on Aug. 8.

That same day, U.S. Attorney Hurst sent out a joint press statement with ICE, claiming protocol was followed

for the families.

“Pursuant to (Homeland Security Investigations) procedures as part of the operation, all those detained yesterday were asked whether they had any children who were at school or childcare and needed to be picked up,” Hurst’s statement claimed.

“In order to make it possible for detained aliens to contact family members and address childcare issues, HSI made cell phones available for use by detained aliens to make arrangements for the care of their children or other dependents.”

But people on the ground, including educators, saw no evidence of humane procedures with the children, especially, in mind.

‘Visiting Terror on Families’

When Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman, arrived in Mississippi on Aug. 16 to meet with affected families, he called what he saw an “attack on Hispanics.”

In his hometown of El Paso just weeks earlier, a whitesupremacist gunman had killed 22 people at the local Walmart. Just before the shooting, the suspect wrote in an online post that he was doing it because of a supposed “Hispanic invasion”—echoing language President Donald Trump, as well as FOX News, has frequently used about an “invasion” of migrants from South of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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‘Open-minded’ To Solutions

Before the students start the actual restaurant work, though, they are spending five weeks learning skills they need to succeed in life and in the working world.

Refill Jackson President and CEO Emily Stanfield said at the Aug. 2 Friday Forum that participants spend the first five

weeks of a 10-week program in the classroom learning curriculum dedicated to mental health, financial education, resumé building and mock interviews.

“They will spend five weeks in Refill Café applying some of the things they learned in the classroom to a real-life work setting,” Stanfield explained.

On Aug. 8, as the hammering faded into the background, Butler asked students to define “open-mindedness” in their own

‘Budding With Potential’

After Refill students came back from a brief break, they rolled into the second session: their Smart Start portfolio. Butler said the Smart Start curriculum is a workforce training program that is offered through the Community College Board and community-college system in Mississippi.

“On the other end of the 45-hour course, you get a three-hour college credit course. The course is also a prerequisite for

and natural resources; and finance.

Butler assigned students the task of searching O-Net Online, a database of occupational information, to find their top two career clusters and then fill out a worksheet to determine what jobs match their interests.

“The thing that’s really tricky, and this is true for all 18- to 24-year-olds, is figuring out what you’re interested in.

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ommon and John Legend’s Oscar-winning song “Glory” filled the classroom above the Refill Café on Aug. 8 as Jordan Butler waited for more students to arrive. It was week two of The Refill Jackson Initiative, a workforce training program that supports Jackson’s vulnerable young adults between the ages of 18 and 24.

The program teaches participants soft skills that are essential for getting and keeping a job, as well as on-site job training through working in the café.

The café, which at one point was yellow, is now white with a wraparound patio for outdoor seating and a wheelchair ramp for those who cannot take the stairs. Construction workers pounded hammers to finish renovations on the café on Adams Street as students engaged in their daily exercise on Aug. 8.

Refill Café will soon serve lunch weekly to the surrounding Jackson community. The restaurant will also act as a job training site for members enrolled in the program. Students will obtain job experience by working at the restaurant and get paid. Refill Jackson is one of many across the country including the Café Reconcile program in New Orleans.

When the café opens on Aug. 26, restaurant manager Sharna Shields, who has more than 10 years of restaurant experience, will teach student-workers how to properly cut food, and about cross-contamination, food allergies and hygiene, she said.

“Every single member gets to rotate stations, so everyone will know what it’s like to be a dishwasher, to be on the sandwich station, to be a cashier, to bus the tables. Restaurant work is very humbling, in my opinion,” Shields said.

“Nine times out of 10, whatever you learn in the restaurant you can take anywhere,” Shields said. “We’re not making restaurant workers. We’re making employees.”

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The Refill Jackson Initiative’s Vice President of Training and Education Jordan Butler talks on Aug. 8 with Refill Jackson students about the meaning of open-mindedness inside the soon-opening Refill Café in west Jackson.

words. Elizabeth Garcia said she thinks open-mindedness means a willingness to accept other people’s ways of thinking. “If you’re close-minded, you’re not going to even consider it,” she said.

Kyra Tolston said open-mindedness means getting yourself out of the same rut. She recalled seeing a picture online that fit her definition of the word. “It was someone standing on two sides. To one (person), it looks like a 6, and to another (person) it looks like a 9. You stand at different angles and see different things,” Tolston said of the picture.

Butler asked the class what quotes resonated with them the most. Da’Quan Myatt said he agreed with Frank Zappa’s words: “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.”

“It relates (to me). If it’s not open, it won’t do this or do that,” he said.

Tolston said the Refill Jackson program is an example of them being openminded. “If we weren’t open-minded to getting new solutions to the problems we have, we wouldn’t be here today,” she said.

many of the adult education programs, whether that is completing your highschool equivalency or going into any kind of certification program,” Butler said.

Following graduation, students will receive a SMART Start certificate, recognized statewide, that gives them the ability to put the program on their resumés.

“What are the top three things you need to be career ready?” Butler asked the class.

Myatt said you have to know what your interests are. “If you don’t like it, you don’t want to do it,” he said.

Butler said students should not only find a job that matches their interest, but one that will also be in high demand, which is the second need.

“What’s the third need?” she asked.

“Get an idea of the type of job you will need to help support yourself and your family,” Tolston said.

The lesson of the day focused on 16 career clusters, groups of professions that share a common interest, such as architecture and construction; agriculture, food,

ence. It’s a starting place for thinking about what type of fields they might be drawn towards,” Butler said.

The students come from various backgrounds and levels of education and represent a wide variety of interests and skill sets, she added. “They are caring and insightful, and they are incredibly hardworking, and they’re curious. They’re budding with potential and thrive in a positive environment where they are given feedback, support, and opportunities where they can be successful and show leadership.”

‘It’s Not How It Was’

“It’s not how it was, at least, for my parents, where you finish school, you might go to college and then you sort of settle into that career for 30 years to get your pension,” Stanfield told the audience at the Refill Café’s Friday Forum on Aug. 2.

Stanfield said people are now moving around to different companies for only one, two or four years, especially vulnerable populations who might lack support networks, skills and resources.

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“We offer to fill in those gaps that vulnerable populations may be experiencing,” Stanfield said.

The Refill Jackson program started July 29 and recruited 10 young adults—five women and five men. After graduating from the program in early October, Refill will provide members 10 months of follow-up support.

Career Coordinator Amber Parker said she and Vice President of Social Services Betsy Smith will continue talking to members to address any barriers they are facing in trying to find full-time employment, staying employed or any personal issues they might face.

Parker books guest speakers to expose the members to different industries and, after graduation, she will help connect them to internships. “It’s always good to have those internships to help them figure out what they want to do or sometimes what they don’t want to do,” she said.

The internship lasts four months, and members are able to job shadow and get entry-level work experience.

‘That Type Of Change’

Da’Quan Myatt, whose career goal is in culinary arts, said he is excited to start working inside the café. He learned how to cook from his mom, and he eventually wants to go to culinary school and then open his own restaurant.

“I like to work with my hands. I worked in a restaurant, but not a café. I

think at the end, it’s going to be all worth it. All the training we do,” Myatt told the Jackson Free Press.

“I feel the same way. I’m ready to work. I’m very excited because I never worked in a café before, so that’s something I would like to experience,” said Angalec Felton, who is interested in cosmetology.

Morning discussion transitioned to a conversation less about word concepts as students began to share their personal growth, future plans and thoughts about the program.

Participants said they’ve learned lessons like accountability, leadership, standing firm and how to work in a group.

Martin Maberry, who is interested in working in construction, said he keeps coming back to the program because the staff cares, and they try to help him become a better person. “Where I grew up, people don’t really care. People always trying to down you. They don’t want to see you make it out,” he said.

“I come here everyday because I can’t learn anything without being in the classroom. I feel like this is a safe place. It’s teaches me what to do and what not to do in the workplace. It also teaches me skills that I might need in life. I learn new words every day. It’s positivity,” Felton said.

The students have grown closer as friends and family, and they learn each other’s flaws and pasts.

Jatavius Harris, who wants to be a shoe salesman, said his fellow classmates help him out as much as they can.

“I ride the bus with you (Myatt), you (Felton) make sure that I’m doing good, and I’m here and he (Maberry) helped me when I finally decided that I was fed up with this place. He got me to come back and finish. Not too many people would do that for me,” Harris said.

Myatt said he sees himself doing very well in life, while Felton said she will continue to push herself on the road to success.

“I feel like I’m going to be a better person. I think I’m going to feel bigger,” she said.

“Actions speak way louder than words. I just want to leave here, come back

five years from now, if they’re still here, and come in like, ‘Whoa, that’s a whole different person. That’s not the same kid that was in my classroom.’ That type of change,” Maberry said.

The grand opening for the Refill Café is Aug. 26 at 11:30 am. The following day, the café will be open for its normal business hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. MondayFriday. Menu items will include soups, salads, sandwiches and blue plates, and meals should cost customers no more than $15, Shields said.

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migrants do not have transportation to get there. “And some of them are scared to go (out in public),” he added.

National groups have been donating to his district to help the children, and they have been getting help from the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, too. The district plans to use those donations, McGee said, to help cover the costs of food and bills. In the meantime, staff members from the schools are traveling to the homes of children affected and especially those who had not returned to school, bringing them care packages with food and other necessities.

“We’re just doing the best we can,” McGee said. “We’re putting the academics on the backburner and trying to talk to the kids to help them through the process.”

The University of Mississippi Medical Center is working with the district to provide counseling services to the kids who had gone through the traumatic experience, the superintendent said.

The Jackson Public School District, where some children were also affected because of the city’s proximity to some of the raid sites, has also been working with MIRA to care for those kids.

“Recent raids and arrests by federal immigration officials in Mississippi have heightened a sense of anxiety for families and students. Jackson Public Schools is committed to educating children regardless of race, ethnicity, country of origin, or a student’s immigration status,” an Aug. 8 JPS press statement reads.

“We are working closely with the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance and community partners to provide resources and support to ensure all of our families and students feel safe in their communities,” JPS added.

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Trump administration chose to target Mississippi, which has one of the lowest smallest immigrant populations in the country.

“I don’t know, other than to strike terror into the heart of this community, and if that were the goal, … he is getting it done,” O’Rourke answered.

Just minutes before, the candidate had met with several affected immigrant families near their homes in Canton, where he knelt down on the grass to speak to a 2-year-old girl in pink while her father’s palm rested atop her black pigtails.

Her father, speaking in Spanish, told O’Rourke that he and his wife are Guatemalan immigrants, though their daughter is a native-born U.S. citizen.

During the raids at the plant in Canton, ICE took his wife. Because the little girl has a father who can care for her, he told the El Pasoan, ICE has not released her mother,

Read full team coverage of ICE Raids at jfp.ms/immigration

holding her in a facility two hours away.

“We’re visiting this kind of terror on families who have done nothing wrong, who pose no threat. We’ve got to make it better,” O’Rourke told the press afterward.

‘How Do We Buy Groceries?’

Even for the parents who returned to their children starting the day after the raids, though, all was not well. They cannot go back to work to provide for their families, and they have to wear ankle monitors to ensure they do not work while waiting for court dates, leaving families without money for food, bills or rent. Churches and other community organizations are working to help the families as best they can.

So is the Scott County Public School District.

“Right now they’re worried about, ‘How do we buy groceries? And how do we pay bills?’” McGee told the Jackson Free Press. Even though there are churches and centers set up, he said, some of the im-

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Partners Needed to Fight Homelessness

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We need more partners at the table. organized the PIT count this year has started working with Outreach Workers from the Veterans Administration, Grace House, Mississippi United to End Homelessness and Catholic Charities to map out known encampments and coordinate efforts at reaching the people living there. We recognize the need for ongoing contact, if for no other reason than developing trust. Not every person experiencing homelessness is ready to be housed at first ask. Once they are, we want them to know who can help them and how.

Veal mentioned White’s suggestion that the City use Charity Tracker. All homeless programs that receive HUD funding are required to use a database called the Homeless Management Information System, or HMIS. At present, 14 agencies in our CoC are using HMIS. It is not a perfect system, but it does help us track (and

Rehousing grant that HUD funds.

Through its CHOICE grant from the Department of Mental Health, MUTEH has provided housing to 44 people living in the Jackson area who were experiencing homelessness and who also have a severe mental illness. Grace House has helped 38 people experiencing homelessness and liv-

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read with great interest Aliyah Veal’s recent article, “Collaboration Key to Ending Homelessness?” I think her question is on target: Research does, in fact, prove that collaboration is the key to ending homelessness. However, more collaborative work is happening in our community than made it into her article.

Stewpot participates in a collaborative of more than 35 agencies and advocates whose primary goal is to end homelessness in our area. This group, the Central MS500 CoC, uses a model called Housing First, which houses a person or family experiencing homelessness using a combination of short-term financial assistance and a tailored array of supports to help them stay there long-term.

The CoC is also responsible for organizing the Point-in-Time count that Veal references. The PIT count’s main purpose is to take a snapshot of an area’s homeless population. It tells us how many people are homeless on any given night in our community, sheltered and unsheltered. From this information, we extrapolate how much permanent housing is needed to ensure that every person who is sleeping in a shelter or in a place not meant for human habitation.

This is important for strategic planning.

Of course, the limits of this kind of counting are obvious. As Talla White pointed out in Veal’s article, the PIT count does not tell us how many people are doubled up with family or friends or living in hotels, and it doesn’t include those who live “off the grid” or evade counting efforts.

That’s one reason the group who

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We can do more to end homelessness, says Rev. Jill Buckley of Stewpot, through working together and having more partners at the table.

share information on) the services accessed by individuals and families experiencing homelessness. It also stores information gathered by the VI-SPDAT interview tool, which helps us determine which persons or families experiencing homelessness are the most vulnerable and for whom help needs to be prioritized. From this list, agencies coordinate resources for people, ensuring that those most in need don’t end up in a system of endless referrals but little help.

In the past year, the Central MS-500 CoC has joined the Built for Zero, or BFZ, movement, also referenced in Veal’s article.

(BFZ is the program that helped Open Doors Homeless Coalition on the Gulf Coast reach their goal of housing all homeless veterans.) BFZ drills down on the data gathered in the HMIS system and helps us develop strategies to address obstacles to getting people housed. But it also connects us to our peers in other states, so we can share ideas, celebrate breakthroughs and learn from one another’s insights and mistakes. Currently, we are connected to CoCs in Santa Fe, N.M., and Anchorage, Alaska.

Many of these efforts fly under the radar. For example, over the past 12 months, Stewpot has helped 86 households experiencing homelessness to find permanent housing through our Rapid

ing with HIV/AIDS to find and keep stable housing and another 102 people who are homeless and have a chemical dependency.

Altogether, that is a pretty deep impact, and this is only a partial listing.

Are these efforts perfect? No. There is much room for improvement, but the CoC has a growth mindset.

Do we want to do more? Yes! But we need more partners at the table.

Colin Groth was the government relations director at the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority when he was invited to a meeting for Strive Together, Cincinnati’s home-grown effort to make sure every child in their city succeeds “from cradle to career.” At first not sure how he could help, he eventually helped organize city buses to transport children to summer camps. As he related at the last BFZ Learning Session in Atlanta, he did not know how he could be part of the solution until he came to the table. You or your organization could be part of helping to end homelessness in the Jackson metro area. But we need you at the table. As with all ambitious endeavors, we will accomplish more together than apart.

Rev. Jill Barnes Buckley is the executive director of Stewpot Community Services.

This column does not necessarily reflect the views of the JFP.

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Medicaid, Education at Center of Waller v. Reeves Runoff

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That decision, Waller argues, could discourage people from working so much that they exceed the earnings level to qualify for regular Medicaid.

“Why not make it advantageous for someone on welfare to go to work without losing all their benefits? That’s how you move people into the workforce,” Waller said at the Aug. 14 press conference.

to a clinic for treatment continue to end up in rural emergency rooms, often for non-emergencies. It is one of the biggest strains on rural hospitals in the state.

Since 2013, when the ACA went into full effect and state leaders refused federal funds to expand the program, five rural hospitals in Mississippi have shut

Reeves Misleads on Waller Plan In the runoff, Reeves has sought to discredit Waller with Republican voters by associating him and his ideas with Obama.

Two weeks before the runoff, Reeves’ campaign began sending mailers out to voters that show a photo of Waller with the words “OBAMACARE” ASHTON PITTMAN

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doctor in a white coat eagerly shook Bill Waller Jr.’s hand and rushed back off to work after posing for a photo with the former Mississippi Supreme Court chief justice and his wife, Charlotte, alongside a host of other Hattiesburg Clinic doctors, nurses and clinic staff. The visit marked the candidate’s second stop of the day with a former GOP primary rival, Mississippi House Rep. Robert Foster, who had endorsed him in the party runoff earlier that morning.

Waller’s stop at the clinic was a significant reminder of one of his key platforms, and perhaps the biggest issue of the campaign. He supports what he calls “Medicaid reform,” which would bring affordable health-care options to about 300,000 working Mississippians whose households make too much for traditional Medicaid, but not enough for subsidized private insurance.

The Mississippi Hospital Association also claims that expanding Medicaid will help save dozens of rural hospitals in the state facing financial peril.

“Justice Waller has demonstrated to us an understanding of the issues facing our citizens’ access, or lack of access to health care and our hospitals’ financial pressure,” Hattiesburg Clinic Executive Director Mike Thornton said before introducing Waller at an Aug. 13 press conference.

Waller’s runoff opponent, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, disagrees. In speeches and in ads, Reeves calls Waller’s plan “Obamacare expansion,” a reference to the fact that President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law, the Affordable Care Act, makes Waller’s plan possible.

Under the ACA, states could expand the Medicaid program to fill in the “coverage gap” between traditional Medicaid and private subsidies. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Reeves, though, rejected the idea, along with over $1 billion a year from the federal government to pay for it, leaving a large number of Mississippians with no realistic health care options.

by Ashton Pittman

Rural Hospitals Under Threat In February, 23-yearold Shyteria Shardae Shoemaker died in Houston, Miss., after suffering an asthma attack, the Chickasaw Journal reported.

Friends called 911 at 1:18 a.m. to say they were taking her to the hospital in Houston, but the operator told them its emergency room had closed in 2014 under financial strain, and that they should take Shoemaker to the local fire department instead.

Once they arrived at the fire department eight At a campaign stop at the Hattiesburg Clinic in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Aug. 13, former Mississippi minutes later, an ambulance Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. (front left) poses with his wife, Charlotte (front came and drove her about center), former primary opponent Robert Foster (front right) and a group of medical workers.

30 minutes further to the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Calhoun their doors, leaving some 45 minutes or stamped in large letters. It included four City. At 2:38 a.m., an hour and 20 min- further away from the nearest emergency bullet points, each making inaccurate or utes after her friends first dialed 911, room. That can be deadly—as it was in misleading claims about the MHA proposal Waller supports. emergency-room workers pronounced Shoemaker’s case.

Reeves’ mailer claims Waller’s plan her dead.

Several Republican statewide Just four months earlier, Mississippi candidates embrace Medicaid expansion would “cost state taxpayers over $200 Attorney General Jim Hood, now the in some form. Delbert Hosemann, the million per year.” The MHA plan that Democratic nominee for governor, had Republican nominee for lieutenant Waller supports, though, would not rely announced his campaign in Houston, governor who would have broad legisla- on state tax funds. The federal governhis hometown. There, he called for Med- tive powers if elected, told the Jackson ment has already agreed to pay 90% of icaid expansion, warning of the dangers Free Press in January that he supports the cost of Medicaid expansion, which of rural hospitals like the one in Hous- Medicaid expansion. So did Foster. The would leave the State to pay around ton closing.

Mississippi Hospital Association also $159,000 per year by 2025 under a “We had an emergency room here announced its “Medicaid reform” plan, straightforward expansion, the Missisin Houston my whole life, and now that rebranded to distance it from the ACA sippi Institutions of Higher Learning estimated four years ago. emergency room is closed,” Hood told “expansion.”

Under Waller’s plan, though, the supporters there in October 2018.

“I’m the only candidate running “In 1940, we had better emergency for governor that opposes Obamacare State would pay none of the remaining health care in rural Mississippi than we expansion in Mississippi,” Reeves an- 10%. Instead, recipients of expanded have right now. That’s insane.” nounced proudly at the Neshoba Coun- Medicaid would pay limited fees, includUninsured people who cannot go ty Fair on Aug. 1, calling it a “bad idea.” ing a $20 monthly premium and $100

2019 Party Runoff ‘I.V. League’ Tax Breaks In July, Reeves accepted an endorsement from the Mississippi State Medical Association’s political arm, the Mississippi Medical PAC, a physicians’ group that calls itself the “I.V. League” of donors. Joining the PAC in offering its endorsement was Jeff Coyler, a plastic surgeon who served as the Republican governor of Kansas from January 2018 to January 2019. The PAC has supported anti-expansion candidates in the past, including Bryant, and donated $20,000 to Reeves earlier this year.

“The Medical Association has a long history of working with the lieutenant governor,” MSMA Executive Director Claude Brunson said in a July 12 press

create a health care system that better serves our entire state,” Reeves said in the July 12 press statement. “We can bring quality care to underserved areas. We can keep Mississippians healthy. And we can lower costs to them.”

Reeves did not explain how those plans would help keep rural hospitals afloat, or bring more health-care options to uninsured Mississippians.

Brunson praised Reeves for his history of working with MSMA. “The lieutenant governor has been there right by our side ever since he became the lieutenant governor. We have a very comfortable relationship with him,” Brunson said. “He’s always honest, upfront, and direct with us about where he is Top 3 Donors on issues.”

Waller and Reeves Tate Reeves have other disagree1. Electric Cooperatives of ments, too—not just on Mississippi PAC — $50,000 Medicaid.

2. Mississippi Health Care Association PAC, LLC — $50,000 3. France Lee (of First Tower Corp.) — $40,000

At Odds on Education “We agree that the picture of having the highest-paid Bill Waller Jr. superintendent and the 1. Friends of Mississippi lowest-paid teachers is Hospitals PAC — $50,000 wrong,” Waller said at an 2. Mr. and Mrs. Wirt Yerger Aug. 14 event with FosIII (of Cavalier Group) — $30,000) ter, alluding to the fact 3. Mr. James L. Barksdale that Reeves scuttled an (of Barksdale Management) attempt at a $4,000 teach— $25,000 er pay raise this year— and that the Mississippi Department of Education Superintendent Carey Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves traveled to Jones College on July 16 to announce plans to invest $100 Wright is the highest-paid million in vocational training. in the nation, making $174,000 per year.

17.3% in Texas; and from 9.1% to 9.4% release. “As most people know, health care At last month’s debate and at the Nein Alabama. is a very complex and complicated issue. shoba County Fair, Foster and Waller also None of Louisiana’s rural hospitals has And there’s a number of different areas jointly criticized Reeves for the way he closed since then. Across the country, 106 that we have to address in health care pushed through a $3-million expansion of rural hospitals have closed since 2013, and policy and medical policy.” the state’s voucher program, which transfers 72% were in states that declined to expand Reeves wooed the PAC, supported public-education funds to tuition for priMedicaid. by many prominent doctors in Mississippi vate schools. Republican leaders, including “Some say we are doing fine. The fact who are listed on its website, with a plan Reeves, who is president of the Mississippi is, we have 31 rural hospitals on the verge of that gives tax breaks to physicians who Senate, snuck the money into an unrelated closing,” Waller told a crowd at the Nesho- agree to locate to “underserved areas” and funding bill just minutes before asking ba County Fair on Aug. 1. “This is where to businesses that contribute to local hospi- members to vote—without telling them we are. This is the decision point.” tals. He also promised to increase scholar- about the voucher funds.

At the fair and throughout the cam- ships and residency programs for doctors At the fair, Reeves defended his paign, Waller has pointed out that his working in rural areas and to support tele- support for the voucher program, saying Medicaid plan is similar to the one U.S. medicine, but offered no specifics. Already, it helps special-needs children. A PEER Vice President Mike Pence used to expand Reeves says, he steered $27 million to such committee review of the program last year, Medicaid in his state when he was governor programs in the Legislature. though, found that just a few hundred of Indiana.

“I know that with innovation, children are able to take advantage of the incentives and investment we can vouchers. Of those, many go to private

schools that do not even have specialneeds facilities. In some of those cases, public schools have to use their specialneeds resources to help the children at private schools.

While Reeves claims there is not enough money for a more substantial teacher pay raise, he unveiled a $100-million proposal at a stop in Jones County on July 13, which would invest $75 million to boost career and technical programs in Mississippi community colleges. Some of the remaining funds would go to K-12 education for programs like software development training.

Waller has criticized Reeves’ proposal, saying the main focus should be on getting more career and technical programs into K-12 schools across the state.

“We agree that career and technical education needs to be a part of our high schools—not community colleges,” Waller said at the Aug. 14 press conference with Foster.

‘Solutions, Not Politics’ Waller also criticizes Reeves for not doing more to fund repairs for the state’s roads and bridges. His infrastructure plan calls for hundreds of repairs to roads and bridges all across the state—and for new ones. At campaign events, Waller often wears a Trump-style red baseball cap with the words, “Make Mississippi Roads Great Again” in white.

Reeves has been light on policy proposals throughout the campaign, preferring instead to focus on national wedge issues designed to lure the most conservative of voters. Many of the ads he runs on Facebook refer to his love for Trump; his disdain for the four young, out-of-state Democratic congresswomen of color who make up what’s known as “The Squad”; his support for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, raids; and his disagreement with liberals in states like California.

“There’s nothing conservative about pretending Mississippi doesn’t have issues to address. That’s why I’m proposing conservative solutions, not politics as usual,” Waller wrote in an Aug. 14 press release.

“I’m not satisfied with Mississippi having the lowest-paid teachers in America, 5,000 miles of state highways and 400 state bridges that need repair, and half of our rural hospitals in jeopardy of closing.”

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for non-emergency ER visits, while hospitals would cover the remaining costs.

Reeves’ mailers also claim Waller’s plan would “drive up the cost of private health insurance” and “cause thousands to lose their current insurance.” With no evidence, they point to Louisiana, which expanded Medicaid in 2016, as having experienced these pitfalls.

In fact, data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that Louisiana’s uninsured rate dropped after it expanded, falling from 10.3% to 8.4% between 2016 and 2017. Over that same period, the uninsured rate in neighboring non-expansion states increased, rising from 11.8% to 12% in Mississippi; from 16.6% to

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Democratic Primary Runoff Deborah Dixon*; “Great education for all students; Higher pay for all state employees; Roads and bridges.” (Facebook) Age: 58 Hometown: Jackson Occupation: Incumbent House Representative jfp.ms/DeborahDixon

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“Affordable rates, reliable services, accessible utilities.”

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Bobby “Bobcat” McGowan* (D) “My promise to you, the citizens of Hinds County District Five, is to remodel District Five.” (Facebook) Age: 56 Occupation: Hinds County Public Works Department road crew for 30 years, moving up to supervisor. Hinds supervisor since 2016.

Owner, B&R Chartering Services @supervisorbobcatmcgowan Supervisor’s page: jfp.ms/BobbyMcGowan

IN Eddie Robinson (D) “Integrity, Honesty, Commitment” Age: 43 Occupation: 30 years law enforcement: Jackson Airport police officer, Hinds County deputy, Hinds County DA’s chief investigator @eddie.robinson.73550

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The Aug. 27 statewide, local and district-level primary runoffs are open to anyone who registered to vote at least 30 days in advance, even if they did not vote in the Aug. 6 primaries. However, if people voted in one party’s primary in the Aug. 6 election, they cannot switch parties and vote in the other runoff.

“If you voted in the Republican primary, you cannot vote in the Democratic (runoff) primary in three weeks and vice versa,” Hinds County Republican Party Chairman Pete Perry told the Jackson Free Press on Aug. 7. “If you did not vote, you can vote in whatever primary.”

After voters decide, party nominees will face off against one another in the Nov. 5 general election.

Voters must show an accepted form of photo ID at the voting booth, a list of which is available on the secretary of state’s website. County circuit clerks across the state offer all residents free photo IDs that they can use to vote. For more information on voting and voter ID, go to sos.ms.gov/vote.

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Lee Vance (D) “Lee Vance knows the value of being connected. That’s why he’s running for this position. Help him help you.” (campaign website) Age: 61 Occupation: 30 years in Jackson Police Department, including police chief under Mayors Yarber, Lumumba vance4sheriff2019.com/ jfp.ms/LeeVance Podcast: LetsTalkJackson.com

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2018 Recap

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Head coach Joe Moorhead’s first season at Mississippi State University felt like a letdown. The Bulldogs returned quarterback Nick Fitzgerald, albeit from injury, and one of the best defenses in the nation last season. MSU finished 8-5 overall and 4-4 in the Southeastern Conference, but it is easy to argue that the Bulldogs left a few wins on the field. Mississippi State started the season strong at 3-0, but there were glimpses of trouble ahead.

The Bulldogs offense struggled in the passing game, as Fitzgerald worked to get comfortable playing after injury. His wide receivers did little to help him, and his accuracy struggled at times. As a result, MSU’s offense was one-dimensional.

This showed in the fourth game of the season when the University of Kentucky beat MSU 28-7 in a game that was closer than the final score. The Wildcats only led 14-7 after three quarters, but the Bulldogs managed just 201 yards of total offense.

The MSU offense struggled in the next game when the University of Florida held the Bulldogs to 202 yards of total offense. Florida’s defense helped the Gators pull off the 13-6 upset.

MSU got back on track against Auburn University, winning a game that broke a losing streak. Fitzgerald tossed four interceptions in a 19-3 loss to Louisiana State University, in which the Tigers kicked five field goals and scored one touchdown.

Turnovers doomed the Bulldogs in the Outback Bowl, as the University of Iowa 18 upset MSU 27-22. Except for the Alabama

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Head coach: Joe Moorhead (46-18 overall, 8-5 entering second year at MSU, entering sixth season of coaching)

season in yards-per-game passing and 10th in total offense last season. Mastering the balancing act of getting more out of the pass and keeping the running game strong is what MSU is paying Moorhead well to accomplish.

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game, if MSU had played better offense or protected the ball better in the other four losses, this team could have won nine or 10 games easily. Instead, the Bulldogs finished with what could be considered a lackluster eight wins. It was still a successful season under a new head coach but disappointing with all the talent that returned last season.

2019 Prediction

and two of the top three running backs, Kylin Hill and Nick Gibson, and receiving leaders Stephen Guidry and Osirus Mitchell return. The linebackers return on defense, even if the secondary and down defensive linemen need some rebuilding. Overall, Moorhead has good depth on defense to rebuild, and he has options at quarterback to figure out who can help this team win.

Season Overview

The Bulldogs have some work to do in Starkville. Moorhead must find a replacement for Fitzgerald and rebuild one of the best defenses in the nation from last season. The head coach also has to continue to install his offense and figure out how to get more out of his passing game.

The good news is the offensive line returns three out of five starters, Greg Eiland, Steward Reese and Darryl Williams,

2018 record: 8-5 overall, 4-4 SEC Radio: 105.9 FM Stadium: Davis Wade Stadium

2019 Outlook

Most of Bulldog nation will be waiting to find out who between returning Keytaon Thompson and graduate transfer Tommy Steven earns the starting quarterback jobs.

It is a must for this team to get more out of the passing game but not forget about the running game, which got the team second place for the yards per game SEC statistic.

MSU finished 13th in the conference last

Getting off to a fast start shouldn’t be hard for the Bulldogs, with three of the first four games at home. The team should start 4-0, barring any major injuries on offense and defense. The lone non-home game is a neutral-site game against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, but after that, the next four out of five are on the road.

Back-to-back road games against Auburn and the University of Tennessee sandwich a home game against LSU before back-to-back road games against Texas A&M and the University of Arkansas. The Bulldogs finish the season with three home games against Alabama, Abilene Christian University and the University of Mississippi. MSU should be able to win two out of the four road games, and depending on how well Texas A&M is playing, it could be three games. The Bulldogs should win seven or eight games with ease. A nine- or 10-win season is possible if MSU can pull an upset or two.

Prediction: 8-4 Schedule Aug. 31, Louisiana (neutral site); Sept. 7, USM; Sept. 14, Kansas State; Sept. 21, Kentucky, Sept. 28, Auburn; Oct. 12, Tennessee; Oct. 19, LSU; Oct. 26, Texas A&M; Nov. 2, Arkansas; Nov. 16, Alabama; Nov. 23, Abielene Christian; Nov. 26, Mississippi

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Things started well in 2018 for the University of Mississippi. The team opened with two straight wins as a high-powered offense carried the load. But there were reasons to be concerned about the defense, even in those blowout wins.

Alabama dispatched the Rebels in a 62-7 route, but the Crimson Tide did that to most teams last season. UM got back on track with a victory over Kent State University before losing to Louisiana State University. Mississippi went on a two-game winning streak, taking out the University of Louisiana-Monroe and getting the team’s only SEC win of the season against the University of Arkansas. Then the wheels fell off. After starting 5-2, the Rebels lost to Auburn, South Carolina, Texas A&M University and Vanderbilt. The team still had a chance to finish at .500 with a win in the Egg Bowl; however, Mississippi State won.

Season Overview

No matter how you look at it, Matt Luke has done a masterful job at keeping

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2019 Outlook

this program afloat. The team could have gone in the tank completely, but the Rebels have mostly shown a fighting spirit.

The coaches and players knew the team wouldn’t be in a bowl game, but they played competitively on the field.

This season, there is a bowl game to play for at the end. While the Rebels still face some NCAA sanctions, they can start finding their way out of the wilderness.

Luke can turn the program around quickly with a trip to a bowl game.

The Rebels will play a more runbased spread attack under new offensive coordinator Rich Rodriguez, and he will turn the offense over to redshirt freshman Matt Corral. How quickly Rodriguez can get the new offense installed can help the young quarterback later in the season.

Wide receiver is where the Rebels lost a ton of production. Three of last year’s receiving unit moved on to the NFL; however, there is some experience returning in Elijah Moore and Braylon Sanders. Both receivers will have to step up and carry more of the load.

Stopping the run will be the major goal this season, but UM has been terrible at that over last few seasons. That job will fall to Benito Jones and Josiah Coatney with linebacker Mohamed Sonogo helping out.

2019 Prediction

UM needs to get off to a fast start, and the team’s schedule lines up for that.

A trip to the University of Memphis opens

Head coach: Jay Hopson (21-16 at USM, 53-33 overall, entering fourth season at USM, ninth overall) 2018 record: 6-5 overall, 5-3 C-USA

Just like the Bulldogs, the University of Southern Mississippi left at least three wins on the field last season. USM could have won nine games if things had gone differently in the three games it lost by a combined seven points.

Southern Miss started out with a win over Jackson State University before losing 21-20 to the University of LouisianaMonroe. A contest against Appalachian State University ended up getting cancelled for a strange three-game start. USM beat Rice University losing 24-13 to Auburn.

The Golden Eagles played the team’s worst game in a 30-7 defeat to North Texas University. Southern Miss snapped the twogame losing streak against the University of Texas-San Antonio for a 27-17 win.

But USM couldn’t muster a winning streak, dropping the next game 20-17 to the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Southern Miss held off Marshall University 26-24 but followed it up with a 26-23 overtime loss to the University of Alabama Birmingham. The Golden Eagles did finish the season strong with wins over Louisiana

but has plenty of depth to replace the players who are gone. The defense should be a strength for this team.

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2019 Outlook

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Tech University and the University of Texas-El Paso. USM didn’t earn a bowl bid.

The Golden Eagles bring in a new offensive coordinator in Buster Faulkner this year. He will have plenty of weapons for his offensive scheme. This main concern will be getting the offensive line to improve, and that should help the win total.

While the defense loses some production from last season, it returns more than enough talent to be near the top of Conference USA in defense. An improved offense would help take the pressure off the defense, but this unit can still win games for the team.

Season Overview

The biggest area in need of a quick improvement is the offensive line. Southern Miss’ lack of a running game and offensive struggles is a direct product of the offensive line. The good news and bad news, depending how you look at the situation, is that all five starters return this season.

USM returns six starters on defense

2019 Prediction

It would not be a shock for USM to start the season 1-4. The Golden Eagles open at home against Alcorn State University before three straight road games.

USM starts the trip at Mississippi State in a game that could be close, but the Bulldogs should win. Southern Miss next faces a

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the season in a winnable game. That sets up a major three-game home stand. The Rebels host Arkansas, Southeastern Louisiana University and the University of California. All three games could easily end up as wins. A 3-1 start would be perfect for the Rebels. After the Cal game is a trip to Alabama and most likely a loss.

The Rebels return home to get a Vanderbilt team they can defeat, and if they get the start they need, they will be at four wins. Next comes a trip to the University of Missouri, a home game against Texas A&M and a road game at Auburn.

Seven wins would be the max for this squad. Two new coordinators, fixing the defense and retooling the offense is a big job and will cut back on victories. Six wins is attainable as long as the Rebels beat teams with lesser talent.

Prediction: 6-6 Schedule: Aug. 31 @ Memphis; Sept. 7, Arkansas; Sept. 14, Southeastern Louisiana; Sept. 21, California; Sept. 28, Alabama; Oct. 5, Vanderbilt; Oct. 12 @ Missouri; Oct. 19, Texas A&M; Nov. 2, Auburn; Nov. 9, New Mexico State; Nov. 16, LSU; Nov. 28, Mississippi State

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strong Troy University squad in a game that is winnable for the Golden Eagles but feels like a coin-flip on who wins. The road trip ends against Alabama. A USM win over the Crimson Tide would be the biggest upset in recent college football history.

Barring injuries, USM could finish the season with a good schedule in C-USA. A home game against UTEP is winnable.

Southern Miss gets division rival North Texas at home in another game that could be a coin flip. A two-game road trip against Louisiana Tech and Rice University means two winnable games.

Anything less than seven wins would be a disappointment. A few breaks and an eight- or nine-win season is possible. That would mean little drop-off on defense, an improvement on offense and not losing games this team should win, like in seasons past. Prediction: 8-4 Schedule Aug. 31, Alcorn State; Sept. 7 @ MSU; Sept. 14 @ Troy; Sept. 21 @ Alabama; Sept 28, UTEP; Oct. 12, North Texas; Oct. 19 @ Louisiana Tech; Oct. 26 @ Rice; Nov. 9, UAB; Nov. 16, UTSA; Nov. 23, Western Kentucky; Nov. 30, Florida Atlantic

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2018 Recap

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Head coach: Matt Luke (11-13 overall, all at UM entering third season) 2018 record: 5-7 overall; 1-7 SEC

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2018 Recap

To say the 2018 JSU football season was up and down would be putting it mildly. JSU opened the season with a beating from Southern Miss, but there is no shame in that loss. The Tigers’ next game against Tennessee State University was cancelled. JSU then finally got the first win of the season against Florida A&M University in an 18-16 nailbiter. The team followed it up with a 21-16 loss to Alabama A&M University. After that game, offensive coordinator Hal Mumme resigned. The program brought him in to jumpstart the Tigers offense, but in three games, the team averaged just 13.7 points.

After a loss to Southern later in the season, JSU let go then-Head Coach Tony Hughes and made John Hendrick the interim head coach. He got off to a strong start with a 34-28 win over Prairie View A&M University and then a 20-2 win over Alabama State.

Last year, JSU boasted one of the best defenses in the SWAC, but the offense was one of the worst in the conference.

Keonte Hampton Season Overview

Keeping the defense sharp and getting more out of the offense will go along way to helping this team win more games.

There is plenty of experience on the offense returning this season. Now the coaching staff has to figure out how to put

Alcorn State University Braves 2018 record: 9-4 overall; 7-1 SWAC

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Outlook and Prediction

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Alcorn State University has owned the SWAC East division over the last five seasons. The Braves won their division with ease and its third championship game over the same time period. Alcorn State has played in the SWAC championship game every year since 2014.

That streak is not likely to change this season, as Alcorn State is loaded with talent. The Braves landed 14 players on either the First or Second Team Preseason All-SWAC. SWAC Preseason Offensive Player of the Year in quarterback Noah Johnson and SWAC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year in Soloman Muhamad headline those players.

Barring major injury, there should not be much that keeps the Braves from another SWAC East championship.

Prediction: 8-3 Schedule: Aug. 31 @ Southern Miss; Sept. 7, Mississippi College; Sept. 14, McNeese State; Sept. 21, Prairie View; Sept. 28, Mississippi Valley State; Oct. 5 @ Alabama State; Oct. 12, Savannah State; Oct. 26 Southern; Nov. 9 @ Grambling State; Nov. 16, Alabama A&M; Nov. 23 @ Jackson State

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the pieces in place together to deliver some wins. The defense will have to be retooled, but there is plenty of talent to work with on that side of the ball. If this unit doesn’t slip much from last season, JSU will have a chance in most every game.

2019 Outlook

Hendrick won’t lack for options at quarterback. Derrick Ponder returns along with Jack Stouse. He will also get a look at transferring quarterbacks Matt Little and Jalon Jones. Both top running backs return this season. Leading rushers Jordan Johnson and Keyshawn Harper need to help get the running game going after finishing seventh in the conference last season.

Defense should be this team’s calling card early if the offense doesn’t get going quickly. If both the offense and defense comes out on fire, this team could battle Alcorn State for the division title.

2019 Prediction

The season starts with a neutral site game in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference/SWAC Challenge against Bethune-

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Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils 2018 record: 1-10 overall; 1-6 SWAC Outlook and Prediction

Mississippi Valley State University won just a single game in head coach Vincent Dancy’s first year at the helm of the program. Dancy has one of the toughest jobs in college football as he tries to turn around a program that has not won more than two games since 2012. Dancy returns just 34 players from last year’s team, with 46 new players coming in as fresh-

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Cookman University. Jackson State should have a great chance at two wins in its first two home games against Grambling State University and Alabama State.

A road game against Prairie View will be a tough one to win. JSU will also have a hard time with three top SWAC teams: Alabama A&M, Southern and Alcorn State.

There is a great chance for JSU to finish the season at 6-6. If the Tigers offense improves, and the defense doesn’t slip much, there could be a seven- or eight-win season in store for the Tigers.

One thing is for sure, JSU fans want to see this team compete for SWAC titles again. A poor showing could start rumblings from a frustrated fan base.

Prediction: 6-6

Schedule Sept. 1, Bethune-Cookman (neutral site); Sept. 7 @ South Alabama; Sept. 21, Tennessee State (neutral site); Sept. 28, Kentucky State (neutral site); Oct. 5, Grambling State; Oct. 12, Alabama State; Oct. 19 @ Mississippi Valley State; Oct. 24 @ Prairie View; Nov. 2, Arkansas-Pine Bluff; Nov. 9 @ Alabama A&M; Nov. 16 @ Southern; Nov. 23, Alcorn State

men, junior college signees and transfers. All of these new players will have a chance to get on the field quickly this season.

The Delta Devils did not land any players on either the First or Second All-SWAC Preseason team. One factor for no players from MSVU receiving preseason honors could be the high amount of player turnover.

The team could find a win in its game against Virginia University-Lynchburg, but finding a second win looks difficult to predict at this point. Nevertheless, MVSU could pull out a surprise victory like they did in last year’s win over the Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

Prediction: 2-9 Schedule: Aug. 31 @ Tennessee State; Sept. 7 @ Lamar; Sept. 21, Bethune-Cookman; Sept. 28 @ Alcorn State; Oct. 5, Virginia-Lynchburg; Oct. 12 @ Arkansas-Pine Bluff; Oct. 19, Jackson State; Oct. 26, Texas Southern; Nov. 2, Alabama State; Nov. 16, Grambling State; Nov. 23 @ Alabama A&M

Delta State Statesmen 2018 record: 2-8 overall; 2-6 GSU Overview and Prediction

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Shorter University on Oct. 25. The Statesmen fell short, though, in the next game against the University of West Georgia in the penultimate game of the season. DSU finished the season with 28-21 win over Mississippi College. Finishing with two victories over the final three games gives some hope for the 2019 season.

One way Delta State can improve right away this season is by winning on the road. DSU went 0-5 away from home last season.

Don’t expect the Statesmen climb to the top of the Gulf South Conference, but the team should improve over last season and begin to move back up in the GSC. Prediction: 5-5 Schedule: Sept. 5, Tusculum University; Sept. 14 @ Grand Valley State; Sept. 21, Florida Tech; Sept. 28 @ North Greenville; Oct. 5, West Alabama; Oct. 12, Valdosta State; Oct. 19, West Alabama; Nov. 2, Shorter University; Nov. 9, West Georgia; Nov. 16, Mississippi College

Mississippi College 2018 record: 3-7

Millsaps College Majors 2018 record: 5-5 overall; 3-5 SAA OUTLOOK AND PREDICTION

Millsaps College started out hot to begin the 2018 season, winning its first four games, including a season-opening win over Belhaven and the first two games of Southern Athletic Association.

The Majors, however, dropped the next five straight games after the fast start. The first three losses were close. Millsaps lost by three points to Rhodes College and 11 points to Austin College, and had a seven-point double-overtime loss to Berry College. A play or two difference in those three games could have led to a winning season, but the Majors finished 5-5 on the season.

Millsaps was fifth out of the nine-team SAA in offense and defense. Improvements in offense and defense could push the Majors up the conference standings. The program feels like it is on an upswing, and a winning season may be on the horizon.

Prediction: 7-3

OVERVIEW AND PREDICTION

BELHAVEN ATHLETICS

The Choctaws have not had a winning season since going 9-3 in 2009, although this may partially be due to moving from Division III to Division II and the adjustments that come with that.

Last season, MC led the Gulf South Conference in rushing per game with 266 yards per contest.

That shouldn’t chance in year two under offensive coordinator Tommy Laurendine and his option attack. The defense finished near the bottom of the conference and needs to improve Tony Gilbert, new defensive coordinator. A middle-of-the-conference defense could mean a chance at a winning season if the offense doesn’t slip.

Mississippi College should compete in Blaine the Gulf South and at the Division II level McCorkle this season. If this team isn’t in the running for a .500 season, changes could be coming to the coaching staff.

Prediction: 5-5 Schedule: Sept. 7 @ Alcorn State; Sept. 14, Albany State; Sept. 21, North Greenville; Sept. 28 @ West Florida Oct. 5 @ Valdosta State; Oct. 12, Florida Tech; Oct. 26, Shorter University; Nov. 2 @ West Georgia; Nov. 9, West Alabama; Nov. 16, Delta State

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Schedule: Sept. 5, Belhaven; Sept. 14 @ Westminster College; Sept. 21, Rhodes College; Sept. 28, Berry College; Oct. 5, Centre College; Oct. 12 @ Austin College; Oct. 19, Trinity University; Nov. 2 @ Sewanee; Nov. 9, Hendrix College

Hinds Community College Eagles 2018 record: 4-5 overall; 2-4 south division OUTLOOK AND PREDICTION

Head coach Larry Williams has spent the last two seasons putting foundation and his stamp on the Hinds CC program.

He has done a fair job replacing a legend in Gene Murphy as head coach.

This team started out losing two of its first three before going on a three-game winning streak. The season went south over the final three games, though.

HCC plays some of the toughest competition in the nation at the junior college level. That won’t change this season. This year, the Eagles should finish with a winning record, but it won’t be elite.

Prediction: 6-3 Schedule: Aug. 29, East Mississippi; Sept. 5 @ Mississippi Delta; Sept. 12 @ Jones County; Sept. 19, Southwest Mississippi; Sept. 26 @ Pearl River; Oct. 3, Coahoma; Oct. 10, Copiah-Lincoln; Oct. 17 @ East Central; Oct. 24, Mississippi Gulf Coast

OVERVIEW AND PREDICTION

Holmes Community College Bulldogs

Belhaven University started the season on a three-game losing streak that included a season-opening 18-3 to rival Millsaps College. The Blazers earned the first win of the Blaine McCorkle era in a 20-19 win over Howard Payne University.

That winning feeling didn’t last long, as the Blazers lost the next five games. Belhaven finished the season on a high note with an 8-0 win over Sul Ross State University. Belhaven, like Mississippi College, is transitioning as a program. The Blazers officially finished their move from NAIA to Division III. While it would be a mistake to think the Blazers are ready to play for titles even with full Division III membership, an improvement from two to four wins is a step in the right direction.

Prediction: 4-6

2018 record: 5-4 overall; 3-3 north division

Schedule: Sept. 5 @ Millsaps; Sept. 14, Louisiana College; Sept. 21 @ Mary-Hardin Baylor; Sept. 28, McMurry University; Oct. 5 @ East Texas Baptist; Oct. 12, Southwestern University; Oct. 19 @ Hardin-Simmons; Nov. 2 @ Texas Lutheran University; Nov. 9, Sul Ross State; Nov. 16, Howard Payne

OUTLOOK AND PREDICTION

Holmes Community College has been going backward since 2016’s 7-3 score. In 2017, the Bulldogs slipped to a 6-3 record, and last season they fell to a 5-4 record. If that holds, HCC should finish 4-5 this season, the same as the 2015 season. Just like Hinds, Holmes plays tough foes week in and week out.

Avoiding a midseason losing streak will be key for this team to finish near the top of the division. Just like Hinds, it feels like the Bulldog will turn things around and start to climbing back up the division. Prediction: 6-3 Schedule: Aug 29 @ Copiah-Lincoln; Sept. 5, Jones College; Sept. 12, Mississippi Gulf Coast College; Sept. 19 @ Northeast Mississippi; Sept. 26, Northwest Mississippi; Oct. 3 @ Itawamba; Oct. 10, East Mississippi Oct. 19 @ Mississippi Delta; Oct. 24, Coahoma Check out more sports coverage at jfp.ms/sports.

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Back to School “Clear Your Card” Sale Aug. 21-24, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Jackson Hinds Library System (300 N. State St.). The library allows anyone with a balance to pay off fines at a 50% discount. Does not include the $10 collection fee required if one’s account is in collection status.

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Women to Women: A Celebration Luncheon Aug. 22, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at Country Club of Jackson (345 St. Andrews Drive, Ridgeland).

Fashion and lifestyle influencer and blogger Jane Foster presents on what she has identified as the top 10 fashion trends for the fall at the thirdannual luncheon event. Vendors from a number of shops and boutiques on-site to display and sell

goods to attendees. Admission TBA; call 601991-9996; email admin@ridgelandchamber.com; find it on Facebook.

Game Night Aug. 22, 3:30-5 p.m., at Willie Morris Library (300 N. State St.). The library hosts the events on the second and fourth Thursday of every month. Attendees play board,

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A Fresh Look at Art Museum’s Permanent Collection

by Amber Helsel

“Margaret Walker is looking at the 20th century.

She wrote in the early ’80s, I believe, so the (century) wasn’t quite over yet, but she’d seen enough of it to know the scope of what was happening with World War I and II and Vietnam and all the social change that was happening, and she really looked at the present moment that, not just African Americans, but people in the United States, what the social scene looked like, and so she Radcliffe Bailey/courtesy MMA

“This is my century— Black synthesis of Time: The Freudian slip The Marxian mind Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith and Du Bois’ prophecy: the color line.

These are the comrades of Einstein, the dawning of another Age, new symphony of Time.”

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he Mississippi Museum of Art is reinstalling its permanent collection, but this time, the institution is telling the story a little differently.

The first iteration, “The Mississippi Story,” had been up for 10 years before it came down in August 2017 to make way for “Picturing Mississippi, 18172017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise.”

“Even though we were switching pieces out all the time, the themes just felt a little stale and a little uninspired after a while,” says Elizabeth Abston, the museum’s curator of American art.

Executive Director Betsy Bradley’s ultimate goal, Abston says, was to reinterpret the museum’s permanent collection.

“(Picturing Mississippi) gave us the chance to research what art had made about the state,” Abston says.

“It really gave us a lot of research opportunity to think about what is out there, and then what do we have and what can we do with it. It really became a matter of, ‘How can we interpret Mississippi in a new and exciting way and showcase our collection with it, as well?’”

MMA went through five or six drafts of reinterpretation, but ultimately, the museum decided on “New Symphony of Time,” which opens Sept. 7.

The exhibit takes its inspiration from Margaret Walker’s epic poem, “This Is My Century: Black Synthesis of Time.”

Bradley wanted a literary focus to tie the exhibition together, Abston says, so they chose Walker’s poem.

“New Symphony of Time” at the art museum will include pieces from the permanent collection like Radcliffe Bailey’s “Voyage of No Return.”

wanted to, in a way, restructure that, and look back not to, like, Greek and Roman history, but to African history and Egyptian history and that sort of mythology, so she’s in a way rewriting history to look at it from an African, African American perspective.

“… She’s a very classically trained poet, so you will see some Greek and Roman emphasis throughout, and the way she pulls together her words, she’s just phenomenal. She’s looking at ‘The Iliad’ and that sort of thing too. She’s taking this global view, and almost a feminist view as well, looking at powerful women and looking at

the pain but also the hope and the future, and there’s a lot of like, bigness there, and universal themes and time, as well, is obviously a very essential component.”

While exhibits like “Picturing Mississippi” had a linear, chronological component, “New Symphony” is a little different. Instead of timelines, MMA is grouping the 170-plus pieces into themes from Walker’s poem: ancestry and memory; migration, movement and home; shared humanity; the natural environment; and liberty for all.

“They don’t really try to address (eras) in each room but more of an idea,” she says.

Each area will correspond to a color. Kiyomi, the company that is designing the exhibition space, came up with a color palette from the art that will be in the exhibition and then matched the colors with each theme. To showcase pieces from non-Mississippi artists whose work helps tell “New Symphony”’s story, each section will have a “Look On” area (the name is a reference to the poem), a strip of color designated for the painting and an activity that corresponds with each.

“Look On” is a way for MMA to showcase important non-Mississippi pieces in the collection while tying them to a Mississippi-based artist.

Abston says it’s important to tell the state’s artistic story in “New Symphony”’s format.

“People have these preconceived notions about what the state is, and there’s so much emphasis culturally on the music and the literary side, and so we feel like it’s our responsibility to tell this artistic story and broaden those narratives too,” Abston says.

On Sept. 6, “New Symphony of Time” at the Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St., 601960-1515) will be open to MMA members only from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 11:30 a.m. gallery talk with Lauren Stennis that day is free and open to the public. The exhibit will open to the public n Sept. 7. On the day of the public opening, MMA will have events such as an art lab, literary readings, tours and more. For more information, visit msmuseumart.org.

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card and video games. Free admission; call 601-987-8181.

Friday Forum Aug. 23, Aug. 30, 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 guests.

The topic of the forums change every week.

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Verragio Bridal Show: Albriton’s Jewelry Aug. 23, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Aug. 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Albriton’s Jewelry (4460 Old Canton Road). The jewelry store hosts a bridal show featuring Verragio rings, including engagement rings and wedding bands for both men and women. Participants may speak with jewelers about creating custom rings. RSVP. Admission TBA, call to learn; call 601-9824020; email info@albritons.com; find it on Facebook.

Pop-Ups at the ‘Park Aug. 24, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). Vendors come and set up pop-up booths throughout Northpark to sell their products. Free admission, vendor prices vary; find it on Facebook.

Corvette Caravan 2019 Aug. 27, 2-5 p.m., at Rogers-Dabbs Chevrolet (1501 W. Government St., Brandon). Attendees come to view more than 70 Corvette cars that are parked in display as the touring car show visits Jackson for the first time. Includes live entertainment from DJ Dave and food from One Guy Steak and

WEDNESDAY 8/21 Creative Healing Studio is from 12:30 p.m. to 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 601-9601515; email smainlay@aol.com; msmuseumart.org.

Woman to Woman with Joanne: 5th Annual Empowerment Conference Aug. 31, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.). The conference invites women to gather and encourage one another through presentations, praise and worship, dramatizations, spoken word, miming and more. Vendors on site. Guest speakers include Juanita Ward, her mother Mary Ward, Kimberly L. Campbell, Maya Schopmeyer, LaTanya DeLoach, Mya Bell and “The Encourager.” Topics include self-worth, finances, mental health, religion and more. $40; call 601-398-6733; email woman2woman. joanne@yahoo.com; womantowomanwithjoanne.com.

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Chicken food truck. Admission TBA; call 601825-2277; email rogersdabbs@yahoo.com; find it on Facebook.

2019 Back to the Bricks Aug. 27, 5-7 p.m., at Main Street Clinton (100 E Leake St.). The block party welcomes students who are entering or reentering Mississippi College for the new school year. Local businesses set up booths to showcase and distribute information on their goods and services. Businesses may register for a space at the event for $100. Free admission; businesses pay $100 to set up a booth; call 601-924-5472; find it on Facebook.

Transform Conference 2019 Aug. 30, 7 p.m., Aug. 31, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at The Epicenter Church (3102 Monticello Drive). The two-day conference focuses on religion and spirituality while also featuring entertainment and other activities. The first day includes interactive games and a presentation from Felix Anderson, owner of “Wake Your Successful Self Up.” The second day features breakout sessions, fellowship and activities for all age groups. Free admission; call 769-233-7856; email theepicenterchurchms@yahoo.com; find it on Facebook.

Corkscrews and How Do You Do’s is from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Vault Venue (202 N. College St., Brandon). The Rankin County Chamber holds a wine tasting event.

Includes food, drinks and musical entertainment. $25 ticket; call 601825-2268; rankinchamber.com.

Brandon 042 Car Show Aug. 31, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Brandon City Hall (1000 Municipal Drive, Brandon). The inaugural car show invites locals to enter their cars, trucks, motorcycles and other automobiles into the competition. Winners receive cash prizes or other trophies. Proceeds benefit Cash Medders Memorial Fund. Free admission, $25 entry fee; find it on Facebook.

Repticon Jackson Reptile Show Aug. 31, Sept.

1, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Wahabi Shrine Center (4123 Interstate 55 S.). The two-day reptile show features live animals from around the world and purchasable pets. Includes vendors selling goods for exotic pets, as well as seminars and demonstrations. $12 adult, $5 children ages 5-12, children 4 and under free; find it on Facebook.

Backyard Mud Fest Aug. 31, Sept. 1-2, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Mississippi Off Road (1200 Elton Road E.). The mudding festivals returns featuring RV hookups, trails for mud-riding, camping sites and live music from country rock band Trademark. The land spans 740 acres. Also includes a truck bounty hole competition with a $2,500 prize. $40 per person at gate, kids ages 10 and under free; msoffroad.com.

Budding Bookworms Story-time Aug. 21, 10:30-11:30 a.m., at Willie Morris Library (4912 Old Canton Road). Members of the library read age-appropriate books to children up to 4 years old and guide them through activities that encourage early literacy. This month’s books are about ice cream, pools, picnics and more. Free admission; call 601-987-8181; email kwest@jhlibrary.org.

Tooth Fairy Day Celebration Aug. 22, 6-8 p.m., at Northpark (1200 E. County Line Road, Ridgeland). The mall hosts a celebratory event themed after National Tooth Fairy Day. Visitors can meet the Tooth Fairy, make their own tooth keepsake pouches, learn about dental care from local pediatric dental professionals, watch “The Tooth Fairy” starring Dwayne Johnson, play games, win prizes and more. Free admission; call 601-863-2300; email cpender@visitnorthpark.com.

Magic Mondays at MCM Aug. 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Mississippi Children’s Museum (2145 Museum Blvd.). 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.

FOOD & DRINK True Local Farmer’s Market Aug. 24, Aug. 31, 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@ cultivationfoodhall.com; find it on Facebook.

Smokin’ on The Rez BBQ & Music Fest Aug. 24, 2 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at Lakeshore Park (1112 Northshore Pkwy., Brandon). The seventhannual festival features food vendors, a barbecue competition, a steak cook-off and live music from Acoustic Crossroads and The Chill. $5 general admission, children 12 and under free; call 601-605-6880; email smcmullan@therez. ms; find it on Facebook. “#CanYouHearMeNow?” Dinner Theater at Sombra Aug. 24, 7 p.m., at Sombra Mexican Kitchen (111 Market St.). The Detectives present a comedic theatrical performance while participants dine. Cocktails and seating begin 6 p.m. Reservations required. $42, plus tax and gratuity; call 601-291-7444; email thedetectives@ymail.com; thedetectives.biz.

Big $2 Cool Dawgz Fest Sept. 1, 1-6 p.m., at Soul Wired Cafe (4147 Northview Plaza Drive).

The restaurant hosts an event where they sell specially made “carrot hotdogs” while supplies last. The family-friendly event also features space jumps, vendors, games and more. Free admission, $2 per carrot hotdog; call 601-7900864; find it on Facebook.

“Labor Of Love” Pie Baking Contest & Car Cruise In Sept. 2, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., at McClain General Store (874 Holly Bush Road, Brandon). Attendees compete in the secondannual pie-baking contest. Prizes awarded to first-, second- and third-place winners. Contest rules available on the McClain website. Car Cruise In by Mississippi Classic Cruisers. All contestants must be registered and have pies dropped off before 1:30 p.m. Judging will begin at 2 p.m. Free admission; email kris@mcclain. com; mcclain.ms.

SPORTS & WELLNESS Boxing & Kickboxing Aug. 21, 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.

Ovarian Cancer Lunch & Learn Aug. 22, noon-1 p.m., at Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum (1150 Lakeland Drive). In the Sparkman Auditorium. Newk’s Cares and St. Dominic Hospital host the third-annual lunch event, which teaches attendees about the symptoms and statistics of the disease. Panelists include Dr. Christy Haygood, gynecologic oncologist at St. Dominic; Carol Barnes, Ph.D., kinesiology professor at Mississippi College; Jennifer Boone, oncology survivorship navigator and co-coordinator of St. Dominic’s Woman to Woman program; and Dr. Katherine Fun, assistant professor in the gynecologic oncology division at Washington University in St. Louis.

Lunch provided by Newk’s Eatery. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Free admission; call 601-200-2000; find it on Facebook.

Death by 5K Challenge Aug. 24, 8 a.m., Aug. 25, 8 a.m., at RunStrong Training Center (1909 Spillway Road, Brandon). The training center hosts a 24-hour marathon event, with a 5K starting every 2.5 hours, totaling 10 5Ks. Runners can rest inside in between sessions. Snack foods provided throughout the event, with hot food served at lunch and dinner times. Registrants receive T-shirts for the event. Finishers receive a custom award. Admission TBA; call 601-906-4622; email jeremy@runstrong.fit; find it on Facebook.

Caturday Yoga at Cathead Aug. 24, noon, at Cathead Distillery (422 S. Farish St.). The event begins with 45 minutes of yoga, and then attendees can attend a tour of the distillery afterward. The tour includes samples of Cathead’s products. $12 admission (yoga and tour); call 601-667-3038; find it on Facebook.

“Big” Hip Hop Dance-a-thon 2019 Aug. 24, 1:30-3:30 p.m., at Steps The Studio, School of the Performing Arts (6800 Old Canton Road, Suite 113, Ridgeland). Roger and Tena Long instruct participants in “big” dance choreography as part of the one-day, high energy hip-hop

FRIDAY 8/23 2019 Mississippi’s Most Influential African American Awards Gala is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Hilton Jackson (1001 E. County Line Road). The event recognizes African Americans in the state of Mississippi, awarding 25 people with special honors. The gala also honors six Mississippians as legacies: Alyce Clark, Dr. Don Cole, W.C. Gorden, John James, Flonzie Brown Wright and Dr. John Perkins. $100 individual; call 601957-2800; find it on Facebook.

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Godfrey’s: A Combination of Cultures in Cuisine

by Aliyah Veal

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Chef and restaurant owner Godfrey Morgan stands behind the bar of his restaurant, Godfrey’s, which serves cuisine from southern, Asian and Caribbean cultures.

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odfrey Morgan’s upbringing in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, was full of water, sun and great Caribbean food, he says. His grandmother, Emiline Leer, was a chef who owned her own restaurant, and after seeing her in action, he decided to pursue a career in the culinary arts.

“A memory that sticks out is the smell.

When you go into the kitchen, and she’s cooking, like, it just makes you happy. It smelled so good,� Morgan says.

The biggest lesson he learned from his grandmother was how to approach and respect food, he says.

“(Treat) it with love. When you’re cooking something, you have an idea of how you want it to look and taste.

That’s my version of respecting the product,� he says.

Morgan graduated from Baracca Beca High School in Jamaica in 1994 and moved to Jackson, Miss., in 2001 to attend Hinds Community College for culinary arts. While in school, he worked at BRAVO! Italian Restaurant & Bar and Bruno’s Eclectic restaurant as a line cook.

After graduating from Hinds in 2004, he opened Godfrey’s Takeaway. It closed two years later, and he moved to Memphis, returning to Jackson in 2007 when his wife at the time, Wanda Macon, got a job as a professor at Jackson State University.

Morgan began working at the Diamond Jacks Casino as an executive chef.

That same year, JSU was looking for its first executive chef for its student union building. He applied for and got the job, working there for 10 years while catering part-time.

In August 2018, while waiting at the airport in the Bahamas to return from a catering event, he checked his voicemail. He had 13 messages of people wanting him to cater, he says. He went to work on Monday and by Wednesday turned in his resignation letter, deciding to cater full-time.

Around Jan. 1, 2019, he bought the building for Godfrey’s, a restaurant that combines Carribean, Asian and Southern cuisine. He opened the restaurant on March 14. The original plan was to do just catering, but that soon changed as his food was in high demand, Morgan says.

His menu is inspired by a culmination of cultures. Popular dishes on the menu include oxtail, sticky ribs, jerk chicken spring rolls, fried chicken and lobstershrimp toast. Sometimes, customers eat one dish at the restaurant and take one to go, the chef says.

“It’s a presentation of me,� Morgan says. “Everything I like and stuff I like to mix together.�

Morgan has not done a lot of advertising for the restaurant, he says, but it’s always packed because one person comes and tells someone else about the food. In the future, he wants to open up another location in Jackson and one out of the state.

Godfrey’s is open Monday through Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. for lunch and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. for dinner, and Thursday and Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. For more information, visit find the restaurant on Facebook.

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The Salt Cave Breath Class Sept. 2, 7-8 p.m., at Soul Synergy Center (5490 Castlewoods Court D, Flowood). The class focuses on the healing

SATURDAY 8/24 2019 Red Brick Roads Music & Art Festival is from noon to 10 p.m. at Olde Town (Jefferson Street, Clinton). Main Street Clinton and the Clinton Chamber of Commerce host the annual event. The festival features vendors selling food and more than 20 craft beers from Fat Tire, Abita and Miller Lite; the “Red Brick PIXABAY Brew” home brew beer competition; a talent competition; visual and interactive art; and a number of film screenings. Also includes live music from Sam Mooney, Chance Peña, Ally, Ryan Warnick, Yoke Lore, Empty Atlas, J and the Causeways, Shelley Fairchild, Repeat Repeat and Marc Broussard. Children ages 10 and under free. Tickets for only Saturday’s market are $5 from noon to 3 p.m. and will be available at the gate. Additional date: Aug. 23, 6-10 p.m. $15 Saturday pass; $20 weekend pass; $125 VIP weekend pass; call 601-924-5472; redbrickroads.com.

Jackson Twerk Camp: Twerk Intensive Aug. 31, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., at Taboo Dance and Aerial Fitness (856 S. State St.). Fitness trainer Stacee Collins leads participants in a two-hour intensive event that focuses on “twerking.” The course includes instructions on technique, cardio, floor work and choreography. Open-level. Ladies only.

For ages 18 and up. call 601-502-4000.

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. Limited space. Admission TBA.

STAGE & SCREEN “If These Porches Could Talk” Film Screening Aug. 22, 7-9 p.m., at Malco Grandview Cinema (221 Grandview Blvd., Madison). The theater screens the movie made by local filmmakers and actors. The film is the second installment of the “Porches and Private Eyes” movie series. In the story, one of the main characters Patsy is arrested by the town’s new sheriff as an alleged accomplice in a murder, leaving small-town detective Ann as the one responsible for discovering the truth. Director Travis Mills and select cast members attend a Q&A after the screening. $10 advanced, $15 at-door; call 601-898-7819; find it on Facebook.

The Brewery Comedy Tour Aug. 29, 7-9 p.m., at Hops and Habanas (2771 Old Canton Road). The nationwide comedy tour presents a number of comedians performing standup. $20; call 769-572-4631; email fhops2014@gmail.com; universe.com.

The Social Media Comedy Takeover Tour Sept. 1, 7 p.m., at The Alamo Theatre (333 N. Farish St.). A number of comedians and social-media influencers perform, including Darren Fleet, Prince T Dub, Kerwin Claiborne and Mojo Brooks, also known as Mr. James. Doors open at 6 p.m. $30 general admission, $60 VIP meet-and-greet; call 601-352-3365; email thehistoricalamotheater@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

SUNDAY 8/25 Choreorobics Dance Off @ Steps the Studio begins 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.

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS CS’s Friday Night Live Aug. 23, 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.

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dance intensive/challenge. For all ages and experience levels. $20 door fee; call 601-918-6580; choreorobics.com.

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aTo Do Listd Mississippi Community Symphonic Band Concert Aug. 24, 7-9 p.m., at Belhaven Center for the Arts (835 Riverside Drive). Belhaven University hosts the Mississippi Community Symphonic Band for a free orchestral concert featuring Mississippi Swing. Free admission; call 601-594-0055; email jpearson55@ bellsouth.net; mcsb.us.

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Each ticket covers the cost of one parent and one child and includes nine cookies for decoration.

Additional children can attend for $10 more each, which includes four more cookies. Registration required. $40 general admission, $10 more for each additional child; call 601-4878081; thestompinggroundsms.com.

MONDAY 8/26 Business Empowered Mississippi Lunch & Learn is from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Crab Boat (1029 Highway 51, Suite A, Madison). The organization hosts its monthly lunch event. Professionals from a number of areas network over lunch. Includes door prizes.

RAWPIXEL Attendees responsible for paying for their own lunches. RSVP. Free admission, food and drink prices vary; call 601790-9787; email crabboat01@gmail.com; find it on Facebook.

CMBS Blue Monday Aug. 26, Sept. 2, 7 p.m., at Hal & Mal’s (200 Commerce St.). The Central Mississippi Blues Society presents the weekly blues show, which features a “Front Porch Acoustic Hour” and a jam with the Blue Monday Band. Cash bar available. $5 admission, $3 for CMBS members; call 601-948-0888; halandmals.com.

Fondren Covered: Mississippi Artists Aug. 28, 7-9 p.m., at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.).

The event features cover artists performing songs from a number of well-known music artists from Mississippi, including Elvis Presley, Jimmy Buffett, Conway Twitty, Faith Hill, Britney Spears, Lance Bass (NSYNC), Sam Cooke, Dorothy Moore and many others. $25 admission; call 601-910-6230; covered-music.com.

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Events at Lemuria Bookstore (4465 Interstate 55 N.) • “Life Between The Levees” Book Signing Aug. 22, 5 p.m. Melody Golding signs copies of her book. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $50 signed copy, free reading; lemuriabooks.com.

• “Friends of the Library” Book Signing Aug. 27, 5 p.m. Susan Cushman signs copies of her book. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $14.95 signed copy, free admission; lemuriabooks.com.

• “The Yellow House” Book Signing Sept. 4, 5 p.m. Sarah M. Broom signs copies of her book. Reading at 5:30 p.m. $26 signed book, free reading; lemuriabooks.com.

History Is Lunch: Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential Aug. 28, noon-1 p.m., at Two Mississippi Museums (222 North St.) In the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium. Roger Stolle presents his new book “Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life.” Free admission; call 601-576-6800; email info@mdah.ms.gov; mdah.ms.gov.

CREATIVE CLASSES Mommy & Me Princess Cookie Decorating Class Aug. 29, 6-7:30 p.m., at The Stomping Grounds (310 Airport Road, Pearl). Participants decorate cookies in this “Mommy & Me” class.

ARTS & EXHIBITS Art in Mind Aug. 28, 10:30 a.m.-noon, 1-2:30 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). In the BancorpSouth 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.

PROFESSIONAL & BIZ The Mississippi Impact Aug. 24, 3-5 p.m., at Country Inn & Suites (3051 White Blvd., Pearl). Dean Nembhard of The Pioneer Impact presents on how he has used digital marketing to reach financial success and how his faith has impacted his career. Pioneer educator Constance Washington also presents. Free admission, pre-registration requested; call 601-420-2244; find it on Facebook.

Guest Speaker Amy Wilson: CASA Mississippi Aug. 26, 5:30-6:30 p.m., at Embassy Suites (200 Township Ave., Ridgeland). The Capital Area Sunset Rotary Club hosts a meeting featuring guest speaker Executive Director Amy Wilson of CASA Mississippi, or the Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children. Wilson presents on the impact CASA has made and how attendees and their companies can expand CASA services. Free admission; call 601-441-1889; find it on Facebook.

Planning for a Healthy Business Aug. 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Mississippi e-Center at Jackson State University (1230 Raymond Road).

The event features instructional presentations on how to better start and run a business. Admission TBA; find it on Facebook.

Capitol City Rockstar Connect Aug. 29, 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; call 800-205-2327; Eventbrite.

BE THE CHANGE SOU Sportsman’s Banquet Aug. 22, 5:30-9:30 p.m., at The South Warehouse (627 E. Silas Brown St.). Southern Outdoors Unlimited hosts the inaugural banquet. Includes food, drinks and silent auctions on outdoors and sporting goods.

Proceeds benefit the organization, whose goal is to introduce people with disabilities to outdoors activities. $65 individual, $100 couple, $35 youth; call 601-540-7240; find it on Facebook.

Behind the Red Shield Gala Aug. 22, 6:30-9 p.m., at The Westin Jackson (407 S. Congress St.). The gala promotes The Salvation Army’s philanthropic efforts. Includes live music from Anthony Evans. Jonathan Evans serves as the event’s special guest. $75 general admission; find it on Facebook.

Belk’s Back-to-School Charity Sale Aug. 24, 7 a.m.-10 p.m., at Belk (150 Dogwood Place, Flowood). The clothing store hosts a back-toschool sale, offering exclusive discounts on its goods. To access the sale, customers must purchase a $5 ticket from a partnering nonprofit or from Belk itself. The $5 is then deducted from the customer’s purchase afterward. All proceeds from the sale benefit partnering nonprofits that support local education initiatives, as well as other charities dedicated to community enrichment. $5 to access sale (Customers will receive a $5 coupon); email liv.weller@fleishman.com.

BankPlus Presents Enchanted Evening Aug. 24, 7-10 p.m., at Mississippi Museum of Art (380 S. Lamar St.). Friends of Children’s Hospitals hosts its annual fundraising gala to benefit the children treated at the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children. The end-of-summer celebration includes food, music and more. $100 general, $60 ages 35 and younger; call 601-9360034; find it on Facebook.

Real Men Wear Pink Reveal Party and Fundraiser Aug. 29, 5:30-9 p.m., at Table 100 (100 Ridge Way, Flowood). The organization hosts the fundraising event that supports projects that work toward raising awareness and helping those who have breast cancer. Attendees wear pink for the event. Includes a silent auction; winners announced at 8:30 p.m. Also includes live entertainment from 601 LIVE. Tickets for Mississippi Braves games can be bought to help further support the organization’s goals. Participants may call to purchase tickets in advanced. $10; call 601-321-5512; find it on Facebook.

Big Green Egg Fundraiser for Batson Aug. 30, 4 p.m., at Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children (2500 N. State St.). Participants enter a drawing to win a Big Green Egg grill from Mississippi Federal Credit Union in the fundraiser set to benefit Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children.

Entry is open until Aug. 30 at 4 p.m., and the winner is announced soon afterward. The 262 square-inch, 162-pound grill features an 18.25inch grid and a deep dish baking stone. $10 for

SATURDAY 8/31 Jackson Zoo Frozen Treat Animal Enrichment Weekend is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Jackson Zoo (2918 W. Capitol St.). The Labor Day weekend event features frozen treats for guests and animals alike, including frozen meat pops for the tigers and PIXABAY fruit popsicles for chimps and lemurs.

Attendees can watch the animals eat the treats while eating their own that they may purchase from locations throughout the zoo. Additional dates: Sept. 1-2, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $10.25 general, $7.25 kids ages 2-12, $9.25 military; call 601-3522580; email info@jacksonzoo.org; find it on Facebook.

Designer Handbag Bingo Aug. 24, 9 a.m.-noon, at Smith Robertson Museum & Cultural Center (528 Bloom St.). Dress for Success Metro Jackson hosts a fundraising bingo event. Participants compete to win authentic designer handbags by Louis Vuitton, Brahmin, Tory Burch, Coach, Kate Spade and Michael Kors. Tickets include brunch, mimosas and one bingo card.

Additional bingo cards can be bought for $5 each. $40 ticket, $5 per additional bingo card; call 601-960-1457; metrojackson. dressforsuccess.org.

CARA’s 12th Annual Dog Days of Summer Aug. 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Pelahatchie Shore Park at the Reservoir (Brandon). The fundraiser event supports local pet shelters. Includes live music, arts and crafts vendors, lunch from Outback and Pizza Shack, a silent auction, pony rides and a children’s carnival ($5 entry). Also features agility, training and K9-unit demos. Admission for the event is a bag of dry pet food. One bag of dry pet food; $5 children’s carnival; carams.org.

single entry, $35 for five entries; call 601-9841000; rafflecreator.com.

Labor of Love 2019 Sept. 2, 7-10 a.m., at Harper Rains Knight & Co (1052 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite 100, Ridgeland). Participants run and walk in the fundraising 10k and 5K event that benefits The Salvation Army Jackson Metro Area and its philanthropic efforts.

Registration is $35 until Aug. 29 and $40 afterward until race day. $35/$40 registration, $10 children ages 7-18; call 601-982-4881; raceroster.com.

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

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Topher Brown was one of the past performers at Covered. The next event is Aug. 28-29 at Duling Hall in Fondren.

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since the first performance in 2012.

“When Gary called me and asked me to be a part of this, … I was thrilled and honored, and from the first time I ever did it, I was just blown away by what a fun time it was and how much good music we were able to create together and all for a good cause,” he says.

Guest artists also bring their own styles of music. This year will feature Mississippi native Skylar Lane, who got fifth place on the 11th season of “American Idol.”

During this month’s Covered, the artists will cover many songs of those who were born in Mississippi, including Elvis Presley, Faith Hill, Jimmy Buffet, ConwayTwitty, Britney Spears, Sam Cooke, Dorothy Moore and more.

The event will benefit developmental center The Little Lighthouse.

Phil and Marcia Mitchell founded the organization in Tulsa, Okla., in 1972, and opened a location in Jackson, Miss., in January 2006. The tuition-free school serves students with special needs between the ages of 6 weeks and 6 years old, the organization’s website says. It also provides support groups, seminars and training sessions for the parents.

“Our parents don’t pay anything, and it costs us about $17,000 a year per child to provide the services, so every dollar raised or donated goes directly into providing the early-intervention services for the kids,” says Fran Patterson, the director at The Little Lighthouse.

Covered is Aug. 28-29 at Duling Hall (622 Duling Ave.) starting at 7 p.m. For more information, visit covered-music.com.

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overed gives Jackson-based bands the chance to gain exposure while also letting Jacksonians contribute to a good cause.

While helping start Fondren Church, Gary Watts started Fondren Covered, now just Covered, in February 2012.

“I was trying to determine what could we do from … the church’s perspective to give back to the community,” he says.

After leaving the church’s ministry in 2015, Watts continued this event through the support of his Jackson-based technology company Fuse.Cloud, where he serves as founder and chief executive officer.

During Fondren Covered, local artists sing popular songs from other artists, and attendees can donate to a local nonprofit.

“The benefit (of the event) is twofold.

Not only do people get to come to a really, really good environment for good music, hear some of the best Jackson players play, and hear music that they know and love, but also they get to learn about really good causes around the community and get involved in that way,” he says.

The event, which the organizers shortened to just “Covered,” takes place twice a year at Duling Hall in Fondren.

Watts brought different local musicians together to form a house band to play at each event. This band includes musical director Topher Brown, guitarist Patrick Harkins, saxophone player Judson Wright and others.

Harkins has owned Fondren Guitars in Fondren for 13 years. He has been playing guitar for about 24 years. Watts invited him to play in the house band every event

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8/21 - 9/3 Wednesday 8/21 1908 Provisions - Bill Ellison 6:30 p.m.

Alumni House - Jerry Brooks and Jack Beal 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Gator Trio 6:30 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - New Bourbon Street Jazz Band Martin’s - Open Mic 9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Owens and Pratt 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny & Co. 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Thursday 8/22 1908 Provisions - Chuck Bryan 6 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Charade Unplugged 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’ - Barry Leach 6 p.m.

Duling Hall – George Porter Jr. & Running’ Pardners 7:30 p.m.

Fenian’s - Chris Nash 9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Chris Minter & the KJ Funkmasters 11 p.m. $5 Genna Benna, Brandon - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Casey Phillips 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Jenn N Josh 7 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - D’Lo Trio Iron Horse Grill - Patrick McClary 6 p.m.

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Hunter Gibson 7 p.m.

Fenian’s - Risko & Friends 9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - The Blues Man 10 p.m. $5; Lonn’e George & Flasche midnight $10 Genna Benna, Brandon - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Aaron Coker 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison Shaun Patterson 7 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Crooked Creek Iron Horse Grill - Barry Leach 9 p.m.

Offbeat – Jig the Alien & DBL Take 7 p.m.

Kathryn’s - The Sole Shakers 7 p.m.

Martin’s - The Mighty Pines w/ Ron Etheridge 10 p.m.

Olde Town, Clinton (Red Brick Roads festival) - Sam Mooney, Chance Peńa, Ally, Ryan Warnick 7-8:15 p.m.; Yoke Lore 8:30-10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Lucky Hands Blues Band 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny Duo 3:30 p.m.; Hairicane 8 p.m. $5; Jonathan Alexander10 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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

Saturday 8/24 Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Brandon Bennett 8 p.m.

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Georgia Blue, Madison - Jason Turner Hal & Mal’s - Bob and Todd Duo Iron Horse Grill - The Nellie Mack Project 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Acoustic Crossroads 7 p.m.

Martin’s - Ice Station Zebra with Risko & Friends 10 p.m.

Offbeat – Mr. Fluid 7 p.m.

Olde Town, Clinton (Red Brick Roads festival) - Empty Atlas 4 p.m.; J & The Causaways 5 p.m.; Shelley Fairchild 6 p.m.; Repeat Repeat 7:15 p.m.; Marc Broussard 8:30 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Stace and Cassie 2 p.m.; Lovin Ledbetter 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Keys vs Strings 3:30 p.m.; Hairicane 8 p.m. $5; Chad Perry 10 p.m. $5 Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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

Sunday 8/25 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.

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

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

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

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

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Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - CMBS presents Blue Monday 7 p.m. $5 Pelican Cove - Robin Blakeney and Jonathan Alexander 6 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

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Tuesday 8/27 Pelican Cove - Road Hogs 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - DoubleShotz 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Friday 8/23 1908 Provisions - Hunter Gibson and Larry Brewer 7 p.m.

Alumni House - Pearl Jamz 7 p.m.

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Pop Fiction 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Steele Heart 9 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Ralph Miller 6 p.m.

Fairview Inn - Larry Brewer and

Bonny Blair’s - Ronnie McGee Band 9 p.m.

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Cowboy’s Saloon - Powershrine with KREAUX 9 p.m.

CS’s - Karaoke 8 p.m.

The Falk House – Seth Power Band/ Mikey Duran Fenian’s - TJ Russell 9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Stevie J midnight $10 Genna Benna, Brandon - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Chad Wesley

Bonny Blair’s - Open Jam 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Doug Hurd 6 p.m.

Fenian’s - Open Mic 9 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Jazz with Raphael Semmes Table 100 - Chalmers Davis 6 p.m.

Wednesday 8/28 1908 Provisions - Hunter Gibson and Larry Brewer 7 p.m.

Alumni House - Gena and David Steele 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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

Martin’s - Open Mic 9 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Phil Yarborough 6 p.m.

Shucker’s - Sonny & Co. 7:30 p.m.

Table 100 - Andy Henderson 6 p.m.

Thursday 8/29 1908 Provisions - Chuck Bryan 5 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Larry Brewer and Doug Hurd 7 p.m.

Char - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Hunter Gibson 6 p.m.

Fenian’s - Chris Nash 9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Chris Minter & the KJ Funkmasters 11 p.m. $5 Genna Benna, Brandon - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Live Music 7 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Brian Jones Iron Horse Grill - Steve Chester 6 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Keys vs Strings 6:30 p.m.

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

Table 100 - Andrew Pates 6 p.m.

Friday 8/30 1908 Provisions - Bill Ellison 6:30 p.m.

Alumni House - Gena and David Steele 7 p.m.

Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Masters 8 p.m.

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

Castlewoods Country Club Larry Brewer 7 p.m.

Center Stage of Mississippi Sedric Brinson, Stephanie Luckett and Terrell Moses 8 p.m.

Char - Ronnie Brown 6 p.m.

Drago’s - Richard McKey & Keri Davis Duo 6 p.m.

Fenian’s - Ariel Blackwell 9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - The Blues Man 10 p.m. $5; TiffStarr Haywood midnight $10 Hal & Mal’s - Barry Leach Genna Benna, Brandon - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Live Music 7 p.m.

Iron Horse Grill - Blind Dog Otis 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Faze 4 Dance Band 7 p.m.

Martin’s - Anne Freeman & the Garbage Sons, Spencer & Dylan 10 p.m.

Pelican Cove - Chris Gill and The Sole Shakers 7 p.m.

Shucker’s - Andrew Pates 3:30 p.m.; Hunter & The Gators 9 p.m. $5; Jason Turner Trio 10 p.m.

Table 100 - Tommie Vaughn 6 p.m.

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

Saturday 8/31 Ameristar Bottleneck Blues Bar, Vicksburg - Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Masters 8 p.m.

Bonny Blair’s - Just Cauz 9 p.m.

Char - Bill Clark 6 p.m.

Cowboy’s Saloon - Jason Daniels Band, Stonewalls, The Start Up 8 p.m.

CS’s - Karaoke 8 p.m.

Fenian’s - Bradley Bankester 9 p.m.

F. Jones Corner - Big Money Mel & Small Change Wayne 10 p.m. $5; Doug Brousseau & River City Allstars midnight $10 Genna Benna, Brandon - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Flowood - Live Music 7 p.m.

Georgia Blue, Madison - Live Music 7 p.m.

Hal & Mal’s - Royal Horses (RR) Iron Horse Grill - Anissa Hampton 9 p.m.

Kathryn’s - Jay Wadsworth 7 p.m.

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36 Jai ___ (fast-paced game) 37 “American Pie” actress Suvari 39 Kitten’s sound 42 Supporter of the 1%, say 44 “Family Guy” creator MacFarlane 45 “Scooby-Doo, Where ___ You?” 47 “32 Flavors” singer DiFranco 48 Work shift for some 49 Sell out, in a way 50 George Jetson’s son 51 Ski area

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Sailors have used compasses to navigate since the 11th century. But that tool wasn’t enough to guide them. A thorough knowledge of the night sky’s stars was a crucial aid. Skill at reading the ever-changing ocean currents always proved valuable. Another helpful trick was to take birds on the ships as collaborators. While at sea, if the birds flew off and returned, the sailors knew there was no land close by. If the birds didn’t return, chances were good that land was near. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because I think it’s an excellent time to gather a number of different navigational tools for your upcoming quest. One won’t be enough.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

What do you want from the allies who aren’t your lovers?

What feelings do you most enjoy while you’re in the company of your interesting, nonromantic companions?

For instance, maybe you like to be respected and appreciated. Or perhaps what’s most important to you is to experience the fun of being challenged and stimulated.

Maybe your favorite feeling is the spirit of collaboration and comradeship. Or maybe all of the above. In any case, Scorpio, I urge you to get clear about what you want— and then make it your priority to foster it. In the coming weeks, you’ll have the power to generate an abundance of your favorite kind of nonsexual togetherness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

As the CEO of the clothes company Zappos, Sagittarius entrepreneur Tony Hsieh is worth almost a billion dollars.

If he chose, he could live in a mansion by the sea. Yet his home is a 200-square-foot, $48,000 trailer in Las Vegas, where he also keeps his pet alpaca. To be clear, he owns the entire trailer park, which consists of 30 other trailers, all of which are immaculate hotbeds of high-tech media technology where interesting people live. He loves the community he has created, which is more important to him than status and privilege. “For me, experiences are more meaningful than stuff,” he says. “I have way more experiences here.” I’d love to see you reaffirm your commitment to priorities like his in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’ll be a favorable time to do so.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Medical researcher Jonas Salk developed a successful polio vaccine, so he had a strong rational mind. Here’s how he described his relationship with his nonrational way of knowing. He said, “It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner.” I bring this up, Capricorn, because the coming weeks will be a favorable time to celebrate and cultivate your own intuition. You may generate amazing results as you learn to trust it more and figure out how to deepen your relationship with it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Aquarian environmentalist Edward Abbey once formulated a concise list of his requirements for living well.

“One must be reasonable in one’s demands on life,” he wrote. “For myself, all that I ask is: 1. accurate information; 2. coherent knowledge; 3. deep understanding; 4. infinite loving wisdom; 5. no more kidney stones, please.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to create your own tally of the Five Crucial Provisions. Be bold and precise as you inform life about your needs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

“We may be surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers,” wrote author Janette Oke. I suspect that observation will apply to you in the coming weeks. If you’re an atheist or agnostic, I’ll rephrase her formulation for you: “We may be surprised at whom Life sends to answer our entreaties.”

There’s only one important thing you have to do to cooperate with this experience: set aside your expectations about how help and blessings might appear.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

It’s not cost-efficient to recycle plastic. Sorting and processing the used materials to make them available for fresh stuff is at least as expensive as creating new plastic items from scratch. On the other hand, sending used plastic to a recycling center makes it far less likely that it will end up in the oceans and waterways, harming living creatures. So in this case, the short-term financial argument in favor of recycling is insubstantial, whereas the moral argument is strong. I invite you to apply a similar perspective to your upcoming decisions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

African American slaves suffered many horrendous deprivations. For example, it was illegal for them to learn to read.

Their oppressors feared that educated slaves would be better equipped to agitate for freedom, and took extreme measures to keep them illiterate. Frederick Douglass was one slave who managed to beat the ban. As he secretly mastered the art of reading and writing, he came upon literature that ultimately emboldened him to escape his “owners” and flee to safety.

He became one of the 19th century’s most powerful abolitionists, producing reams of influential writing and speeches. I propose that we make Douglass your inspiring role model for the coming months. I think you’re ready to break the hold of a certain curse—and go on to achieve a gritty success that the curse had prevented you from accomplishing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

For 25 years, businessman Don Thompson worked for the McDonald’s fast food company, including three years as its CEO. During that time, he oversaw the sale and consumption of millions of hamburgers. But in 2015, he left McDonald’s and became part of Beyond Meat, a company that sells vegan alternatives to meat. I could see you undergoing an equally dramatic shift in the coming months, Gemini: a transition into a new role that resembles but is also very different from a role you’ve been playing. I urge you to step up your fantasies about what that change might entail.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot,” wrote author Audre Lorde. As an astrologer I would add this nuance: although what Lourde says is true, some phases of your life are more favorable than others to seek deep and rapid education. For example, the coming weeks will bring you especially rich teachings if you incite the learning process now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

The American idiom “stay in your lane” has come to mean “mind your own business,” and usually has a pejorative sense. But I’d like to expand it and soften it for your use in the coming weeks. Let’s define it as meaning “stick to what you’re good at and know about” or “don’t try to operate outside your area of expertise” or “express yourself in ways that you have earned the right to do.” Author Zadie Smith says that this is good advice for writers. “You have to work out what it is you can’t do, obscure it and focus on what works,” she attests.

Apply that counsel to your own sphere or field, Leo.

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