Featured Articles for the February 27 - March 5, 2003 Issue Archives

Legal Notices, Classifieds, and Up and Down Farish Street (chronicles the history of Jackson, MS) are published in each issue of the Jackson Advocate

NATION/WORLD
1. Black fighter pilots defeated racism and the Nazi’s during World War II
2. Will Black History have a future?

STATE/METRO
1. In support of Attorney Chockwe Lumumba

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale's Topics: Lest we forget!
2. Thank you Al Rhodes
3. A theory to solve black on black crime in the community
4. Parks: She stood up by sitting down
5. Never, Never Give up

PERSPECTIVE
1. The struggle for equality and justice
2. The limits of integration
3. The need to uplift the Honorable Marcus Garvey

NEWS
1. A tribute to the Mississippi Valley State Students’ March of 1970
2. Many whites aided in the fight for freedom
3. The Ku Klux Klan: From fear, anger, poverty and disenfranchisement arose a terrorist group
4. The life of Bayard Rustin, “Brother Outsider”
5. Unchained Memories: Reading from the Slave Narratives
6. Black inventors created more than hope
7. Solidarity and stewardship: The history of black environmentalism
8. A few of those that braved the waters
9. Let us not forget Jacob Lawrence
10. Our greatest martyrs in the struggle for equality
11. Civil rights and NAACP legend Roy Wilkins
12. Hopes on the Horizons
13. Mississippi’s hidden legacy: Three impeachments in the Reconstruction Era
14. Rollin’ on the River: Black economic life along the Mississippi
15. Beyond face value: The currency of slavery
16. First nationwide moving firm continues 70-year battle for survival
17. The history of the Negro in America
18. Celebrate black history with a heritage tour in Jackson
19. Boxing record holder looks back to times of Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson
20. Annie Mae James leaves a rich legacy of service
21. Window Pain by Kehinde K. Gaynor

UP & DOWN FARISH STREET
As Negro History Month (February) winds down, we step up our coverage of African Americans who lived in Mississippi, and on occasion walked Farish Street. And then we broaden our salutatory flanks to include those of worthy contributions who lived in other areas of our nation. Let us not waste words on explanations, let’s Move on Down the Line!

BOOKSHELF
1. Separate, but Equal
2. Jubilee

ENTERTAINMENT
1. African American writers to explore
2. Near the End by Jennifer Bell-Quezaire
3. How Beautiful it is to be Black by Lydia Armstrong
4. Robert Starling Pritchard

HEALTH
1. The Glaucoma Research Foundation salutes Dr. Percy Lavon Julian
2. Heart disease and African American women
3. A salute to Mattie Singleton Rundles