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. Highlights of MLK banquet
2. King family continues five-year fight against shoddy Alabama legal system
3. Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman trial: Agent X to take stand?
4. OMH funds JSU alumni HIV/AIDS youth prevention efforts in sixteen states
5. Julian Bond to speak in Jackson

NEWS
1. Highlights of the Magnolia Bar Breakfast
2. The Links, Inc. donates books
3. Piney Woods happenings!
4. Meeting for foster parents
5. Women to speak about the impact of abortion on their lives at Capitol
6. Kwanzaa at Isaac Byrd
7. Downtown improvement
8. MS Conference of Black Mayors
9. Town of Kilmichael holds inaugural MLK celebration and commemorative march
10. Regan Jackson submits poem on MLK
11. AHA launches campaign to mobilize women for heart disease awareness

NATION/WORLD
1. NAACP mourns passing of civil rights activist James Forman
2. Rep. Melvin Watt assumes chairman of CBC
3. Feds made Johnson, and interracial sex America’s taboo
4. Supreme court drug ruling throws sentencing guidelines into doubt
5. Muslims still seen as a threat to U.S.

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. BellSouth lowers rates for calls to countries impacted by tsunami
2. Gingiss now Tuxedo Junction
3. Free boot camp business training sessions available
4. Third Annual Mississippi Business Integrity Awards
5. Give and grow rich

BLACK HISTORY EVERY MONTH
Children of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

BOOKSHELF
1. Reading outside the box
2. Book documents how African American migrations shaped country and culture
3. Who’s Home?
4. Emily’s Tea party
5. Black author makes strides in nursing history
6. A true story of Sally Miller and her fight for freedom in Old New Orleans
7. The Strong, Silent Type

SPORTS
1. MS Stingers participate in the 11th Annual MLK parade in Greenville
2. Ice show to raise money for 2005 Special Olympic World Winter Games athletes
3. Jackson State alumni’s financial status essential in weighing athletic pursuits
4. NFL Playoffs: Red states vs blue states
5. Sports injuries: More on McNair, Rice and Favre

HEALTH
1. Hope and help for families battling cancer
2. Test Your Knowledge: Be alert to the winter SIDS risk!
3. The Lions Speak: African American men and their working wives
4. Keeping an eye on children’s vision
5. FDA again weighs morning after pill

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
First we talk inauguration … the question is which one? We brief you on presidents and sinners, politics and public relations. Then we take you farther down the Central Pacific toward an island we’d rather forget. Next we answer questions .. honor a birthday or two … glance at special events if there are any … and Move on Down the Line!

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Foxx snags Golden Globe best actor in movie “Ray”
2. JSUNAA hosts scholarship concert featuring Bobby Rush
3. MSO continues intimate classics series with “Mozart by Candlelight”
4. “Sisters in the Spirit” 3rd annual tour kicks off February 1st
5. Dead Ludacris, T.I. beef lingers online
6. New Stage resumes 39th season with “Shiloh Rules”

EDITORIALS
1. What would Jesus think?
2. Help stop the war in Iraq
3. We must all work together to protect Social Security
4. Tisdale’s Topics: East meets West
5. How the rich continue to exploit the poor

PERSPECTIVE
1. Tsunami: A challenge for global transformation

EDUCATION
1. Justice Graves to teach at Millsaps and participate in Lovett Elementary program
2. UM reps to host “A night with Ole Miss” in Jackson
3. Help in choosing a “good” college
4. Brittany Johnson serves as page for Mississippi Senate
5. Parent Academy: The power of parental involvement
6. Technology program for high school girls at MIT
7. MS Department of Education to hold luncheon honoring the Milken recipients
8. The Project Learning Tree trained and certified 23 WEE CARE Byram employees

STATE/METRO
1. Local sorority to celebrate Founders Day Jan. 29th
2. Mary Church Terrell Literary Club meeting
3. 205 Forward Lookers Heritage Luncheon
4. Forward Lookers Federated Club finalize plans
5. Raspet Lab touchdown
6. Les Modernettes Social Club celebrates accomplishments
7. Multi-media exhibit showcases medical advances in surgery