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. Fathers, sons get together for more than just dinner
2. Council can take action on Ward 6
3. Women for Progress
4. Johnnie Cochran to meet with Hattiesburg citizens
5. Aristide says he won’t step down
6. John Kerry momentum continues in primary race
7. Port Gibson restructures top city offices

NATION/WORLD
1. Bush budget leaves manufacturers out in the cold
2. Ron O’Neal “Superfly” dead at 66
3. History makers in the making
4. NAACP testifies before Maryland State Senate in support of ex-felon voting bill
5. Black and brown juveniles sentenced to death three times more than whites
6. Inspiring a community through positive protest

STATE/METRO
1. VITA sites open for those who qualify for the EITC
2. Mississippi Optional Sales Tax (MOST) granted hearing before House Ways and Means Committee
3. Welfare recipients face race, transitional challenges
4. SAMSHA awards $100,000 grant to the Nominal Group
5. Cattle market braces for long-term project
6. Miss. PERS launches recruitment campaign

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: Educated for whom?
2. Letters to the editor from Renetta W. Howard and Jo Gregory
3. Ayers needs to go the Supreme Court, Part 2

PERSPECTIVE
1. The test of our real and lasting greatness
2. Reparations and the African centered curriculum
3. Immigration law question and answer

EDUCATION
1. LHS teacher, youth receive top service awards
2. Applications now being accepted for Harvard Divinity School’s 7th Annual Summer Leadership Institute
3. HPSD administrator and teachers of the year
4. Living on principles
5. Walton’s 21st Century students honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
6. MVSU hires new vice president for academics

NEWS
1. 16th Annual “A Candle in the Dark” gala Feb. 19-22
2. Chocolate, Coffee, Tea exhibition on view through July 11 in New York
3. Height, Collis to be honored by Freedom Forum
4. Summers-O’Neal calls on LeSueur to remove false endorsements
5. Dr. Jimmie James Jr. honored by the Pinebelt Association for Community Enhancement
6. Winter Joy Williams and Mario Levon Gibson weds
7. Jackson observes National African American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
8. Forward Lookers Club holds 18th Annual Heritage Luncheon
9. James E. Graves, Jr. to speak at Black History Month programs
10. NAATPN celebrates tobacco control efforts in the Jackson community
11. Ghanaian women call for tougher female genital mutilation laws
12. Lisa Beckley, harpist in concert Feb. 20 at Rowan Middle School
13. Study: Blacks stay unemployed longer
14. Ebony Fashion Fair presents Color Splash
15. Black youths likelier to quit smoking
16. Carrie E. Montgomery succumbs

BOOKSHELF
1. Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
2. Charles Johnson comes to Lemuria Books Feb. 14
3. Talk to Me: Guide for dialogue between parents and teens
4. Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today
5. Book empowers, entertains and celebrates women
6. Kiss Kiss
7. My Good Night Book
8. Bumposaurus
9. Ellington is not a Street

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. Get cash back from your online purchases
2. Quality collision repair is not accident
3. Marriot selects Burrell to handle marketing

SPORTS
1. Erik Morales, Jesus Chavez throw down in Las Vegas Feb. 28 on HBO
2. JSU signs 19 players
3. MVSU’s basketball facility, a disgrace
4. JSU Tigers sprint past Southern Jags 81-73
5. Sports Power Brokers: What you thought you knew

HEALTH
1. Savor a bite of chocolate – it’s good for you
2. Hope for patients with “the other high blood pressure”
3. New connection between weight and calcium in your diet
4. Blacks struggle with losing weight – and keeping it off
5. Send messages of love to your family for Valentine’s Day
6. MLPNA to hold its annual state convention in Hattiesburg, MS

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
As we enter the heart of February, this month that heralds the celebration of Black History, we look mainly this week at the birthday of a civil rights legend and a near-legendary teenager who followed her lead and now resides in the Congress of the United States. Then we will look at the birthday of another great black Mississippian and at other things before we Move on Down the Line!

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Beyonce Knowles named Entertainer of the Year for 35th NAACP Image Awards
2. Sesame Street Live is “Out of This World”
3. DMX, Hip Hop mogul, stars in film of Goines’ “Never Die Alone”
4. B.B. King to perform at MVSU Feb. 29th
5. Get that look: Janet’s nipple shield
6. Sweet Honey in the Rock here Feb. 24th
7. Feel the Soul, Midnight Soul

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
1. Ten tips for a romantic and memorable Valentine’s Day
2. Giving great gifts the easy way
3. Keep the beauty of Valentine’s Day all year long
4. Keep your Valentine warm this winter
5. Valentine’s gift guide for nursing home patients
6. Being single on Valentine’s Day: A survival guide

FOOD
1. Sweet on You