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. Celebrate Black History
2. Wife of missing man says she’ll keep on searching
3. Hinds County inmate sues three local media outlets for revealing HIV status
4. West and South next on Democrats’ agenda
5. U.S. court denies appeal of Ayers plaintiffs
6. Death penalty in the spotlight again
7. Supreme Court decision could save MS inmates
8. Window of opportunity: Pearl Street AME kids compete for top honors

NATION/WORLD
1. Minority engineers work on exciting Mars landing
2. New law limits insurers’ use of credit report
3. White student calls self African American
4. Jury hangs in case of cop who punched handcuffed black teen
5. Majority of Americans support passage of official language
6. 175 artists nominated for NAACP Image Award
7. Blacks urged to become more financially literate
8. Missouri lottery celebrates #18

STATE/METRO
1. Medical Mall promotes education, arts, and health during Black History Month
2. Pay increases despite loss of manufacturing jobs
3. Links, Inc. presents The Cotton Blossom Singers in concert
4. Hilton adds high-speed wireless
5. Mississippi children to receive $227,700
6. Slavery and the Silver Screen film debuts in Natchez, Feb. 20
7. UMC dental students plan race to benefit children’s hospital

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: Ill fares the land
2. Letters to the editor from Jo Gregory and Eugene Parks
3. The question of patriotism just a charade cast at thinkers
4. Forty acres and a mule: Fact or fiction?

PERSPECTIVE
1. We must struggle against cultural surrender
2. The challenge to create a new society: Africans in America must lead the way
3. Reparations now!!!
4. Immigration law question and answer

EDUCATION
1. Education pioneer James Meredith to visit Hattiesburg High School
2. JSU to host screening of second Emmett Till film and discussion
3. My Mississippi Eyes joins others, addresses presidential candidates
4. Alcorn professor Alex Acholonu knighted by Nigerian president
5. JSU to participate in 15th annual National African American Read-In
6. Alcorn to host third annual science far competition

NEWS
1. 2004 MS Majesty Awards recognize African American living legends
2. Boys & Girls Clubs of Central MS new promotions
3. Nissan North America announces first African American Internal Communications director
4. Sharpton and others to receive Sit-In Movement Inc. Human Rights Award
5. Sharpton fined by FEC
6. Bush-backed malpractice caps failed California doctors
7. Oklahoma NAACP joins black Cherokee fight
8. People to Barbour: Listen to us, gov
9. Tougaloo benefit Saturday
10. Justice summit set for Sunday
11. Black Press of America joins Hip Hop summit to boost voter registration
12. The Canton Community Character Institute celebrates first anniversary
13. Bill Miller remembered
14. Mississippi’s best minds to travel to South Africa
15. “When They Were Strangers at our Gate” on display at Smith Robertson Museum
16. W. Franklyn Richardson seeks top Baptist post for Nat’l Baptist Convention, Inc. USA
17. New study finds black women are major earners, family decision makers
18. NAACP blasts Bush’s reforms
19. The 12th Annual Trumpet Awards
20. National Initiative to save black youth who dream of attending college
21. Fewer blacks receive doctorates in science and engineering
22. Appeals ruling reverses life sentence in murder case of 14-year-old U.S. teen
23. Former homosexuals refute claims by black gay marriage advocates
24. Highlights of Eliza Pillars Registered Nurses of Mississippi District IV 2003 Annual Scholarship Gala held at Mikhail’s

BOOKSHELF
1. Laelia: Three sisters who are “doing it” for themselves
2. America behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
3. Toni Morrison’s brutal realities
4. In Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
5. Burn, Baby! Burn!
6. Time of our Singing
7. Who was Amelia Earhart?
8. Wild Thornberrys
9. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. A few credit solutions will keep you debt free
2. Websites mean business

SPORTS
1. JSU travels to Valley for toughest game of the season
2. JSU women blast Grambling
3. The Super Side of Super Bowl
4. Super Bowl XXXVIII could be one classic defensive struggle

HEALTH
1. Americans answer call but more blood donations are still needed
2. Don’t let sniffles ruin the mood
3. Winning the battle to keep heart vessels open
4. Ten reason people can’t lose weight
5. Hope for patients with the other high blood pressure
6. Diabetes scholarship for minority medical education

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
Last week we presented, for your approval, a portion of the life and contribution of Joe Albright. We also added that he was inspired and mentored (to some extent) by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune Cookman College in Florida and adviser to presidents, who was much-respected and a highly effective speaker and fighter for equal rights for women in this action.

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Film on actress Beah Richards set for Vicksburg premiere Sunday
2. Sensational dance moves take center stage in “You Got Served”
3. Gospel sensation Smokie Norful and wife welcome a second baby
4. Taganai performs at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino