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. Fight on to replace Eiland 2. Black victims of chemical pollution offered only $400 3. Holiday Inn kicks out hurricane evacuees to lodge rodeo wranglers 4. ACORN leads March on Washington 5. Tuesday is Black Aids Awareness Day 6. Coretta Scott King, Torch Bearer of the Dream, Make Final Transition 7. Thompson brings the ‘mountain to Muhammad’ 8. December’s unemployment rate remains constant 9. Masters of Social Work Student Association hosts luncheon

NATION/WORLD
1. Three months later Bush refocuses on Katrina 2. Ted Koppel joins National Public Radio 3. World premiere of Blues Divas’ on Starz 4. More than 3,200 still missing in Katrina aftermath

STATE/METRO
1. Reintegration counseling available 2. Slain civil rights worker’s family makes gift to collection at Neshoba County library 3. Jackson CBC seeks 2006 Miss Hospitality 4. JSU Project Hoop produces new homeowners 5. Jordan chosen as Officer of the Month 6. Carr and Osborne pulled double duty as registrars at the MS Caucus of Local Elected Officials Mid-Winter Conference 2006

EDITORIALS
1. There is still a need for Black History Month 2. Tisdale’s Topics: The road to serfdom! 3. Children: You are cared for! 4. Nagin’s ‘Chocolate City misinterpreted and hyperbolized by media 5. Uplifting Families: Treat your wife like a thoroughbred and she’ll never become a nag!

PERSPECTIVE
1. New Orleans reconsidered: Race or class 2. Rep. Chuck Espy’s 2006 Legislative agenda 3. Immigration law question and answer

EDUCATION
1. Melton to keynote Midsouth Winter Journalism Conference at Belhaven 2. 12-year-old seeks funds in becoming student ambassador to Australia 3. Hospitality and Gaming Management; Computer Networking and Info Technology now offered at Alcorn 4. Praxis I preparation workshop 5. 100 Black Men of America, Inc. national scholarship program 6. Ramon and Regan Jackson poems published in the International Who’s Who in Poetry

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. Debra Lee elevated to chairman and CEO of BET 2. How to spend your 2006 tax refund

BOOKSHELF
1. Author encourages turning adversity into victory 2. Black educator authors several books to reveal truth about grants 3. How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses 4. Since reconstruction, Ms has struggled to desegregate

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
NEWS 1. Tap dancer Fayard Nicholas dies at 91 2. ‘Something New’ breaks new ground 3. Jackson Forward Lookers Federated Club 20th Annual Heritage Luncheon, Feb 4 4. MS Symphony Orchestra, MS Mass Choir unite for Medgar Evers tribute concert 5. Win an afternoon with Vivica A. Fox 6. Rip Daniels receives top honor 7. JSU holds ‘SHOP for Wealth’ program 8. 930 Blues Café Schedule of Events 9. JSU celebrates grand opening of Walter Payton recreation and wellness center 10. Cancer patients look and feel better thanks to local program 11. Vocalist Heather Headley returns to music limelight 12. New artists added to the 2006 Essence Music Festival lineup 13. New Stage Theatre hires interim artistic director 14. Minority Contractors Association, Inc. of Mississippi holds annual awards luncheon

SPORTS 1. JSU basketball wrap up 2. Senior Day at Lanier 3. Basketball Camp

HEALTH
1. Quiet killer radon second leading cause of lung cancer 2. THE LION SPEAKS: African American men and Black History month 3. Mississippi health official warns of dangers of dinking while pregnant 4. Finding causes of chronic headaches 5. Yale cardiologist tells how to create your lifelong personal heart care plan