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Carrying on ‘dreams from the past’ MSMS, local students to produce Eighth of May celebration to commemorate local Black history Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science senior Jaylin Jones performs a spoken word poem he wrote called “White Black” at a dress rehearsal for the Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration at Sandfield Cemetery on Wednesday. Jones and other MSMS students from Chuck Yarborough’s African American History Course and the school’s Voices in Harmony gospel choir will present the celebration, with live music and performances as historic Black figures buried in the cemetery, on Saturday at 11 a.m. Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
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Carrie is a creative who works in inclusive marketing and a mother of four
I’m a California baby born on the Sunday before Mardi Gras flown from San Francisco International to New Orleans’s Louis Armstrong at 2 months old, to be baptized in the waters of Blessed Sacrament Church, where my parents were married in the summer of 1969, a birthright that mattered most to my mother and my grandmother: descendants of the diaspora, survivors of the hurricane and the flood, two women bred from the same New Orleans sweat and soil and love that made magic of my bicoastal childhood.
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