Featured Articles for the February 28 - March 6, 2002 Issue

FRONT PAGE
1. NAACP Image Awards pays tribute to artists
2. Eminent domain abuse challenged
3. Gerald Reynolds nomination opposed
4. A black history salute to Annie Catherine Coleman
5. Bolton-Edwards Elementary school's Black History Month programs
6. Ms. Gibson's Barr Elementary School class


HOMELAND DEFENSE NEWS
1. Bush reallocates funds for national security
2. Work on military commission continues
3. Governors meet, discuss nation's homeland security
4. Rumsfeld praises war's anti-terror coalition
5. America salutes Rickett Edwards
6. New crusade: America's world war on terrorism
7. NAACP denounces Pickering nomination
8. Burrus gives U.S. postal worker anthrax update



STATE/METRO

1. Calendar
2. Metro Women Lawyers' Association hosts reception



EDITORIALS
1. Why democracy is not working today?
2. Black exodus
3. Letter to the editor from Lee A. Daniels, NUL
4. Tisdale's Topics: Farish Street is still a rocky road



SPORTS

1. Track meet set for Saturday
2. State Farm Insurance honors scholar athlete of the year
3. JSU's confidence up for SWAC tourney
4. SWAC players of the week
5. Bears win CIAA East title with win over VU
6. Lady Eagles perfect at home, beat Saint Paul's
7. Lady Braves fall to Southern
8. Morgan State selects new head football coach
9. CIAA selects men and women's basketball players of the year
10. Nuggets are yet to reap the reward of the trade deadline
11. Nash, Nowitski get help from newcomers to beat Kings
12. Miami Heat wins over Wizards, 97-95
13. Former NBA star turns himself in
14. Johnson thrilled Bucs "stepped up"



UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
This is a special column that chronicles the history of Jackson, Mississippi.



FOOD PAGE

1. Get in the pink healthy meals made easy with Alaska canned salmon
2. Vital health benefits of Omega-3 fatty acids
3. Alaska salmon tacos
4. Classic Alaska salmon macaroni salad
5. Alaska salmon teriyaki bowl




BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL EDITION

1. Efforts underway to save Carter G. Woodson's home
2. Spotlight on DA Faye Peterson
3. Black Butterfly by Charles Chapman
4. Black History Month calendar
5. Black history is made every day, every day, every month, every year
6. From Nubia to now: Annual black history month message
7. Cassandra Chandler first black woman to head an FBI division
8. Langston Hughes: Man of the people
9. Local school s celebrate black history with song and drama
10. Rowan Middle School honors grandmothers
11. Madam C.J. Walker: On her own ground
12. Tenderheaded...Comb-bending hair stories
13. A salute to Carter G. Woodson
14. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune
15. The annual Black History Month requiem prayer
16. Marcus Garvey
17. Harriet Tubman: "Moses" led the way on the Underground Railroad
18. Evolution of slave quarter chronicled
19. Genius: The show & tell African American inventions column
20. Black History Month confronts untruths, racism
21. Mississippi's first black author had Jackson roots
22. The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
23. Mack, Anderson honored by IHL Board
24. Tillman continues to make strides in education
25. Mississippi Project documents civil rights struggle
26. Freedom Summer volunteer recounts tense times
27. Sixty years ago
28. Birth of the Congressional Black caucus revisited
29. The legacy of Harry T. Moore: A civil rights leader to be remembered
30. Remembering the "bad" brothers and sisters they want us to forget


NATION
1. Dreams of freedom is here for you now
2. Faith in action increases African American grantees