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 PAGE
1. Heated debate over Job Corps
2. Mississippi’s budget woes less severe than most states
3. Evelyn Marshall “Mother” teaches Sunday School at Liberal Trinity Church of God in Jackson, MS.
4. MLK III to speak at Excel banquet
5. Vinson Parnell is the citywide winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Contest.
6. Brazil salutes American cinema, literature
7. Oldest black fraternity to convene in Jackson

NATION / WORLD
1. Brooklyn’s “walking history book” dies at 100
2. MBC chairman and CEO Willis Gary receives Cosby Philanthropic Award

STATE / METRO
1. The real war on drugs, cleaning up the church and community
2. Jackson Fire Chief Raymond J. McNulty hosts Black Chiefs Officers’ Committee
3. Who’s Who and Black History Everyday encourage and motivate the staff and management of WMPR to push on .

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale Topics: Memories
2. Observe the ironies of Black History
3. Cruising into history: Crusading to uplift Haiti
4. Dear Stanley

PERSPECTIVE
1. “Minority but not black”
2. Repaying our debt to Haiti
3. The code language against affirmative action
4. Revisiting the crisis of the Negro intellectual

NEWS
1. Majesty Awards celebrates Black History
2. Cuba AIDS Project: From vigilant quarantine to vaccine quest
3. Pastor opens Christian based long distance and internet company
4. Eighth Annual Mardi Gras Ball
5. The Christian Care Network of Capital Street Church of Christ collected pens and pencils for needy children of Zimbabwe.
6. A Groundbreaking Ceremony for Phase 1 of a new construction project was held February 26 at Perkins Plaza Apartments, 1017 Central Street
7. Freedom fest set to commemorate life of African prince held as Natchez slave
8. Delay in HWY 61 expansion worries property owners between Port Gibson and Natchez
9. Tommy Ramey Foundation announces scholarship recipients
10. Soup is good food
11. A celebration of heritage
12. Entergy Mississippi sends a message to help low-income customers

JACKSON STATE NEWS
1. Professor discovers plant extract that may benefit breast cancer patients
2. Professor receives Regional Physical Education Award
3. Summer institutes through “No Teacher Left Behind” grant

EDUCATION
1. TV remarks sound false alarm for two black colleges
2. Boys & Girls of Central Mississippi Youth of the Year
3. Adam and Margaree Jenkins endow scholarship at HCC
4. Hinds County residents named to honor roll at Alcorn
5. Writing tips for high school students
6. Fields and Weathers serves as a page
7. Mississippi Legislature recognized HEADWAE honorees

SPORTS
1. Lindsey Hunter returns to Jackson State
2. Jackson State breaks four game win streak
3. Tua vs. Rahman and Hopkins vs. Hakkar March 29
4. A three-part strategy to cast a light on the SWAC
5. AURN SBN Sports Networks’ Black College All American Awards Weekend brought out the stars
6. Klitschko vs. Sanders March 8
7. Bulldogs take 2003 CIAA crown
8. SCSU’s Thurman Zimmerman honored
9. MEAC’s top players for 2003 announced
10. McGrady, Magic bully Chicago Bulls
11. Celtics edge Grizzlies, 111-110
12. One team’s trash is another team’s treasure
13. Brian Mitchell set to sign four year deal
14. Clippers fire Gentry
15. Pitcher may have used steroids

HEALTH
1.Mississippi receives first two fully designated level IV trauma centers
3. Atrial Fibrillation: What everyone should know
4. Is it really an emergency?
5. Parents shouldn’t ignore their children who snore
6. Most adults lack the protection against tetanus and diphtheria

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Byron Cage to release long awaited solo project
2. Darwin Hobbs turns heads as well as lives with release of new album “Broken”