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. Lone testimony prevents Culp from receiving bond
2. RNA officers challenge Bush on reparations
3. Lanier’s Rhodes ruled ineligible
4. Jackson, MS branch NAACP held installation
5. NAACP reaffirms opposition to war in Iraq
6. Coalition successful in halting Foster’s execution
7. Mother of Emmett Till dies before seeing justice for son
8. MLK Week

NATION/WORLD
1. NURFC completes rescue of KY slave pen with aid of $1 million donation
2. Has hip-hop replaced the civil rights movement?
3. Deadly cyanide dumped unearthed near Namibia Coast
4. Railroad industry makes tremendous safety gains

STATE/METRO
1. Class-size reduction adds up in JPS
2. JABJ contribute to toy drive for children infected with HIV

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: Changing colors
2. Letter to the editor from Ben Jealous
3. Watching the Republicans in the aftermath of Trent Lott
4. Taxation without representation!

PERSPECTIVE
1. True confessions of a hustler
2. Reparations and economic independence
3. The Cincinnati boycott in Over-the-Rhine

HOMELAND
1. Rumsfeld meets with Dijibouti
2. Soldier wounded by border guard
3. Peace rally runs into war veterans
4. America salutes Lamin Foray
5. Bush rallies troops on way to war
6. Affair with Bin Laden hurts black novelist
7. Powell: U.S., allies fret about N. Korea
8. Who is poisoning the “homeland”?

EDUCATION
1. Jackson State establishes community service center
2. MBC accreditation yanked
3. It’s time to recover our political and common sense for our children’s sake
4. Weir Hall renovation complete, facility to open Spring 2003
5. MS Action for Progress receives grant
6. JSU School of Engineering partners with TSU to enhance research, academic offerings
7. UM counseling center provides scholarship, plans 5th annual run/walk for cancer survivorship

ENTERTAINMENT
1. 30th Annual Music Awards to air on ABC-TV, Jan. 13
2. Harlem dancers in Jackson Jan. 30
3. Growing Pains by Kehinde K. Gaynor

NEWS
1. Not all Everett Avenue residents happy over name change
2. Morris Brown gets creative to stay afloat
3. Ford/Firestone wrongful death trial underway
4. Carol Todd Robinson honored
5. FEED announces 2003 banquet speaker
6. Grant allows MS youths to improve academic, social and economic development skills
7. Protests continue as new metro police chief takes office
8. Miami police corruption worst in two decades
9. Alabama researcher demands justice for lynched blacks
10. Union organizers to honor King’s legacy
11. New age calls for end of juvenile death penalty
12. Canton natives committed to progress
13. JSU to host 34th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday convocation Jan. 15
14. Pioneer leader Johnnie Middleton dead at 89
15. Unemployment down but many still out of work
16. Boyz in the Hood meet the Wizardz of Wall Street
17. Club Seven brings several new approaches to cultural heritage
18. Shielding state’s nursing homes from wrongdoing
19. More French soldiers amid rising Cote d’lvoire violence
20. Documents detail tobacco industry’s hold on black groups
21. Are you an “everyday genius”?

HBCU SPORTS
1. Bowie State Bulldogs take down defending CIAA champs, 67-59
2. Boykin helps Coppin State snap losing streak
3. Hampton downs UMES as Trotter hits team milestone
4. Lady Eagles win overtime thriller, 68-60
5. Robert Braddy inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame
6. 2003 HBCU composite football scores and standings

NATIONAL SPORTS
1. Wizards shock Pacers in overtime, 107-104
2. Falcons end Packers’ home playoff streak
3. Buckeyes upset Miami to claim national title

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
Leontyne, her voice a priceless treasure. A belated salute to Mississippi’s finest. Marian Anderson, her great talent lighted the way. Then, comments on Trent Lott and another benighted soul, Fielding Wright. Next, a glance at the world’s most powerful woman. She’s black and from Birmingham. Finally, a look at a question from Rev. Henry Leroy Anderson of Vicksburg.

HEALTH
1. Understanding health claims
2. Protecting Africa’s children from measles
3. Kids and Marijuana: Not a harmless high
4. A new way to keep youth from smoking
5. Vegetable fad is out of step with vets’ advice
6. Death by neglect: Why we should care about HIV testing

BOOKSHELF
1. McFarland offers up a winning foursome
2. The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life
3. The Delany Sister Reach High

FOOD
1. Honeyed Fuji Apple Pasta Salad
2. Northwest Bruschetta
3. Smokey Apple Quesadillas
4. Honey-Jewel Tarts