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.
NAACP pushing Congress to look out for the poor 2. Jury frees man accused of bulldozing black church 3. Tougaloo receives $200,000 4. African Americans still dissatisfied with post-hurricane Katrina efforts six months later 1. Tobacco related diseases affecting African Americans disproportionately 2. W.E.B. Dubois Award

NATION/WORLD
1. King’s four children near end of dispute 2. WCBPA group elects Kimber president 3. Artpeace Gallery opens in Burbank

STATE/METRO
1. Charles Tisdale honored 2. Metro Jackson Chamber president to speak at Jackson 2000 March meeting 3. Essay contest underway 4. Dr. Ivye Allen named president of Foundation for the Mid South 5. JPD sponsors Citizen’s Police Academy 6. Blacks get July 10 date to argue Tupelo’s at-large council posts

EDITORIALS
1. Scrutinizing Mardi Gras, its aftermath and the continuing needs of New Orleans and Gulf Coast 2. Looking for a good leader 3. Tisdale’s Topics: The new civil war 4. Ask the twins 5. Uplifting Families: Six steps to becoming free from debt

PERSPECTIVE
1. FEED helps to nurture children 2. Correcting white supremacy distortions

EDUCATON
1. Computer classes 2. Kaneisha Thompson: Funds needed to represent Mississippi at the National Youth Leadership Forum of Medicine in Atlanta 3. Bumpers Drive-In & Western Sizzlin college scholarships 4. Minne Finley presents $500 to Marie Denise McDonald and Gwendolyn Johnson presented $500 to Lakeisha Diane Macklin 5. Chastain announces Special Honors students 6. Chastain holds Showcase Night

NEWS
1. JSU public safety closer to crime-free mission 2. State Farm Foundation donates $50,000, computers to J’State 3. Hind Community College March Calendar 4. Parents can transform schools 5. Ebony Fashion Show ‘Fit to be Fabulous’ 6. Bill Sheffield goes national with ‘Journal On A Shelf’ 7. USA IBC selects national honorary committee chairs 8. Ora Reed performs magnificently at a benefit concert for NEIGHBORS 9. Rhonda Richmond performs at Alamo Theater 10. Free session to help complete the FAFSA 11. ABC is looking for the ultimate family for Wife Swap 12. Scholarship concert featuring Willie Brown and Carolyn Coleman 13. Links Day at the Capitol to promote platform affecting African American neighborhoods 14. African Children’s Choir to perform in Tupelo 15. Over $400,000 in donations given to first responders 16. FCC panel to meet at JSU 17. Smith Robertson seniors celebrate black history 18. Sam Myers receives Blues Ambassador award from Haley Barbour 19. Cynthia Goodloe Palmer elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Opera Association for a three-year term

BOOKSHELF
1. Sykes Elementary teacher to release book: ‘Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap’ 2. Framed: Women in Law and Film 3. Laurent Dubois receives $25,000 Frederick Douglass book prize 4. New author blazes the Christian fiction trail with ‘He’s Fine … But Is He Saved?’ 5. The irreversible danger of using improper braiding techniques 6. Five Little Chicks 7. Jackie Robinson and the Big Game 8. There is a reason we are here – to love

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. OneUnited Bank becomes the first black-owned internet bank in America 2. Work Opportunity Tax Credit [WOTC] target group 3. Roberts Broadcasting launches UPN television affiliate in Jackson, MS 4. State Bank & Trust Company announces merger with Consumer National Bank 5. Small Farmers and Women in Business confab March 27 6. Why do animals migrate?

SPORTS
1. JSU indoor track champions 2. MVSU Devilettes 69, Lady Tiger 68 3. JSU slips past UAPB Golden Lions 73-68 4. Liddell J-State Lady Tigers blow by UAPB 60-58 5. JSU Tigers defeated feisty MVSU 67-61 6. Adult softball participants preparing for 2006 season 7. Five Mississippians defy odds with leap to NBA 8. Chavez-Barrera off!

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET

HEALTH
1. A recipe for healthy skin 2. The Lion Speaks: An African American man tied to the land 3. Doctors don’t ask, patients don’t tell: Some surprising side effects of treating depression 4. Milk: It does a body (and waistline) good 5. Expert advice: Staying healthy this flu season 6. Don’t be rattled by rodents 7. Nutritious meals for seniors