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. Dorothy Moore sues Malaco
2. Pressure mounts to expel Eiland
3. Brinkley Alumni
4. William Allen loved life and those he knew
5. Amtrak rallies to avoid bankruptcy
6. CBC members pay tribute to Shirley Chisholm
7. NAACP outraged by death of 13-year-old at hands of LAPD

NATION/WORLD
1. Sen. Barack Obama to receive special NAACP Image Award
2. Landmark anti-slavery convention to be recreated on Juneteenth in Sugar Cove
3. Organizers who monitor police activities arrested
4. Black Better Business Bureau launched in conjunction with Black History Month

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: The end of the road!
2. Help Power APAC
3. A community effort
4. “Fast money” tax refund loans very bad business
5. Learn to respect others
6. Uplifting Families: My Way People are In the Way

PERSPECTIVE
1. AIDS is a fight blacks cannot ignore
2. Slavery defines the human saga

EDUCATION
1. Help your children become better readers
2. Nationwide ACT test is Apr. 9 for college-bound students
3. Woodville Knights placed 6th and 8th in the State Scholastic Chess Tournament
4. Wee Care activities
5. Smith Elementary holds Annual Spelling Bee

STATE/METRO
1. Melissa Cole competes for Hinds County Junior Miss
2. Choctaws launch Indian education campaign
3. Tax credits benefit low-income families
4. Bennie Thompson opens district office in Jackson

BLACK HISTORY EVERY MONTH
1. Selma to Montgomery: 2005 marks 40th anniversary

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. Bush Administration proposes $28.5 billion HUD budget
2. Tax refund loans cost low income workers $690 million in unnecessary, unjust fees
3. BlackMississippi.com features 50 of MS’s influential African Americans

HEALTH
1. Severe injuries often accompany ATV accidents
2. The Lions Speak: Future issues of African American men
3. Poverty fuels AIDS among black women
4. AIDS drugs advised for rape victims
5. Bull rider takes prostate cancer by the horns
6. Female physicians face higher suicide risk

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
We celebrate and, on occasion, sadly applaud the life of what may well be the last of the famed Farish Street pioneers as another giant tree falls, and our forest of memories say thank you to Frank Conic, a name I shall not let you forget. And then there was Dr. Redmond, a brilliant man who deserves our plaudits during this month of remembrance. But most of us don’t know the man, so we talk about him and other things, then Move on Down the Line!

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Ora Reed: Mississippi’s own is loved the world over
2. MS Mass Choir releases recording just in time for Black History Month
3. B.B. King Day at the Capitol honors Indianola native

NEWS
1. Bush’s budget cuts will trigger more slashes at the state level
2. Keys has the answer for those in search of salvation
3. James Meredith poster available
4. BAL urges blacks to stop abortion

BOOKSHELF
1. Author exalts God through biblically inspired poetry
2. Borders to offer customers “discount weekend” and donate proceeds to TMSF
3. Waldenbooks book signings
4. Explore African American history in books from the U.S. gov’t

SPORTS
1. MS Stingers celebrate at Gabe’s restaurant after 130-119 victory
2. Monta Ellis to compete in Roundball Classic 3/22
3. Spring break enhancement programs
4. JSU releases 2005 football schedule
5. JSU hands Prairie View a tough loss 81-71