Featured Articles for the January 3-9, 2002 Issue

NATION/WORLD
1. Cruising the road traveled
2. Group seeks new trial for Abu-Jamal
3. Youth spending 100 billion dollars a year
4. Senate action brings black museum closer to reality

STATE/METRO
1. Investigation no further along in arson case of Abdul Rauf's home
2. Students, historians, leaders to visit state to learn about "The Movement"

EDITORIALS
1. What would Christ say
2. Happy New Year
3. Collective bargaining for all public workers long overdue
4. For the wretched of the earth, the greatest gift is justice

PERSPECTIVES
1. Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men, women, and youth
2. Making safe sexual choices: Condoms are safe and abstinence is even safer

SPORTS
1. Scholar athlete named to 2001 national honor roll
2. Doug Williams to be honored during 2002 Super Bowl Week
3. McNair successful despite average year for his Titans
4. New year spels job for Hughes
5. Ready to rumble
6. Tuskegee wins with Pioneer Bowl shutout over Virginia Union
7. Saint Augustine's College names new coach
8. NC A&T's Deloatch, Hicks and Howard's Arah, White names All-Americans
9. Totten's the man at Mississippi Valley State
10. Former Bulldog scores five points in the NFL
11. Commissioner says contraction could come in February
12. NY Jets could make playoffs with one more win
13. Report: Issel denies accepting buyout from Nuggets
14. Nomo, Dodgers agree to two-year deal
15. Agent says Gonzalez interested in NBA

FOOD PAGE
1. Chinese New Year: It's easy and fun
2. The menu
3. The table setting
4. Kung Pao Pork
5. Hot & Sour Soup
6. Egg Rolls with Sweet & Sour Dipping Sauce
7. Chinese Chicken Salad
8. Easy Stir-Fry
9. In the Lunar Year 4700

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
1. 17th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards
2. Lifetime presents Black History Month portraits
3. Poetry Corner

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
This is a special column that chronicles the history of Jackson, Mississippi.

BOOKSHELF
1. It's all good hair
2. SISTERFRIENDS: Portraits of Sisterly Love
3. SEPIA DREAMS: A celebration of Black Achievement through Woods and Images: A collaboration between Matthew Jordan Smith and Dionee Bennett
4. Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability
5. Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics

BETTER LIVING
1. Buying antibiotics online: What you need to know
2. When to see a neurosurgeon: Lower back pain, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, carpal tunnel syndrome, brain tumors and more...