Legal Notices, Classifieds, and Up and Down Farish Street (chronicles the history of Jackson, MS) are published in each issue of the Jackson Advocate

FRONT
1. Passing the torch
2. Whitlow says JPD crime reduction plan ineffective
3. Shirley Chisholm: Pioneer dies, unbought and unbossed
4. Les Brown to speak in Jackson
5. Blacks risk loss in county government; Winfield named attorney by Warren County Supervisors
6. Hip hop teen summit to draw attention to rise in syphilis, new drug street names

NATION/WORLD
1. NAACP calls for investigation into death of black student at Bourbon Street bar
2. New program launched to boost minority teachers in urban, rural communities
3. San Antonio’s MLK march follows new route Jan. 17
4. African journalist killed in hometown
5. Black studies scholar Barbara Woods die

EDITORIALS
1. Why not REALLY back the United Nations?
2. Fat Albert’s lessons for Cosby
3. A new low for reality TV: Trivializing adoption
4. Rapid transit system needed for tri-county area
5. Letters to the editor from Jane Marshall and Jerry Ward
6. Tisdale’s Topics: Save us!

PERSPECTIVE
1. The challenges of a new season
2. Take courses on love, marriage and family
3. Immigration law question and answer

EDUCATION
1. Bettina Henderson studied abroad at Mahatma Gandhi College in India
2. JSU’s Rankin County Alumni Chapter to foster new constituency, alumni support
3. MS’s children in dire straits!
4. January is time to apply for money for college

STATE/METRO
1. Lewis Art Gallery to hold faculty show at Millsaps
2. Legislators press for Tupelo hospice program
3. Demolition of Hamlin Hall
4. Head Start, music fans mourn two December losses in Vicksburg
5. MDOC announces new superintendent
6. Bumpers Drive-in announces its 2005 scholarship program

NEWS
1. Higher FHA home loan limits to help more American families become homeowners
2. Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series present the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats
3. MS Youth Symphony Orchestra auditions
4. Greer to announce for Ward 2
5. The swearing in ceremony for Hinds County Election Commissioners
6. Community Kwanzaa Celebration Coalition
7. Highlights from the Thelma Sanders Annual Christmas Scholarship Dance

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. November unemployment rate drops slightly over the month
2. Your W-2: Tips to help you this tax season
3. Watkins & Young renovations
4. 58th Cattlemen’s convention to be held February 11-12
5. Tips on buying a used automobile
6. Help on getting computer problems resolved

BOOKSHELF
1. “If God can change me, He can change anybody”: A spoken word on the cover of the new book INMATE 46857
2. Book on what life is like on the wrong side of the law
3. SpongeBob’s Day Off
4. Little Red Hen

SPORTS
1. No Provine players named to MAC All-State team
2. Nationally ranked high school basketball stars compete
3. Top stories of 2004
4. Reggie White, you made a difference, we will miss you
5. James Moore wins Cadillac

HEALTH
1. Arthritis drugs causing heartaches and pain across the nation
2. The Lions Speak: African American men and life long education
3. Blacks (again) resolve to live healthier lives
4. One study finds AIDS virus transmitted orally
5. MO woman donates kidney to stranger

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
Championship games … family reunions … ring out the old year … go tell it on the mountain -- the black Montford Point Marines sing out as they tell us “come to the convention in the Windy City this year … then a birthday salute and we Move on Down the Line!

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Group Linkin Park launches charity for Tsunami victims
2. “Barbershop” comes to TV
3. The deadly reason behind their rhyme
4. Hotel Rwanda, a must see