James 'Juju' Scurlock: why you should say his name, too

Six years ago, when James Scurlock asked his 16-year-old son James Reginald, AKA Juju Da Fu, aka Little James, to attend a rally in Omaha following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Juju shrugged it off.

“I’m not into that,” he told his dad. “When I get older, maybe.”

But last November, everything changed. 

“She looks just like him,” his older brother Nick Harden says. “Hella chill and always smiling.” 

Her name is Jewels, and she’s seven months old. Juju once jokingly said he wanted 18 kids, but now, with his daughter cradled in his arms, he was wholly absorbed by just the one. Suddenly the world seemed bigger, the future longer, the politics more personal.

“He started worrying more about what was going on in the world today,” his father says. “I think it started to weigh in on him like, whoa, this is really what’s out here? He was like, ‘Dad, I’m gonna have to have the black talk with her, huh?”

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