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

MARCH 11-17, 2004
FRONT
1. Here comes the judge
2. Kerry report targets dope trafficking in Jackson
3. No surprises in outcome of Tuesday’s primaries
4. City prays for AIDS sufferers
5. Entergy pulls meters from Valley Apartments tenants
6. James Reed IV, Dwayne Wooten, and Adriene Wooten celebrates birthday at Freelon’s
7. Haiti has new prime minister
8. Date set for sniper to die
9. Eight million out of work
10. NAACP applauds Senate gun vote

NATION/WORLD
1. Six ambassadors travel to Israel; for five first visit
2. Baltimore City Witness Protection Program in need of crucial change
3. Trade delegation to Ghana set for April
4. Virginia judge quits after racist comments
5. Extraordinary times, extraordinary stories: AARP and LCCR honor Civil Rights Era journalists
6. Black banks unite to make positive impact

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: Just plain bad
2. Who is at fault?
3. Why is anybody surprised?
4. Mississippi politics: I’ve just been thinking
5. Ayers case settlement: What is in it for faculty and staff?

PERSPECTIVE
1. Giambra’s merger plan: A slick way of taking away black and minority voting power in Buffalo

EDUCATION
1. HPSD band and director receive high recognition
2. Walton’s four winners in the MLK district wide contest
3. Symone Stamps win Amsouth’s Annual Black History contest
4. High Museum of Art presents Akan Gold and Regalia from Ghana, West Africa
5. Judges needed for MS Region II Science Engineering Fair at JSU
6. Job Fair for teachers
7. Anheuser-Busch donation to Tom Joyner Foundation surpasses $1M for scholarships

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. Home décor market overlooks the ethnic consumer
2. Financing your business start-up
3. Horhn, Harden, Calhoun, and Banks visit MESC
4. JSU/Small Business Development Center seminars

STATE/METRO
1. John Kerry talks with MS voters about job security
2. Justice Bill Waller, Jr., announces for re-election to State Supreme Court
3. GCFHC finds illegal housing discrimination in rental investigation
4. Updated analysis of impediments to Fair Housing for the City of Jackson
5. Inmate graduation ceremony held at CMCF
6. “Strange Fruit” comes to Jackson

NEWS
1. Vigil held for Marcus Dixon
2. Kerry visits West Jackson church
3. Jack & Jill Sweetheart Ball 2004
4. Jackson: “Paris Moderne” Mississippi Museum of Art
5. “Kiss Me Kate” blends Shakespeare and Slapstick
6. Hydrogen fuel cars in the classroom
7. Clark blasts casino-backed tidelands bill in Senate
8. Uganda accepts genetically modified food
9. New company helps African Americans build real wealth
10. Paul Winfield succumbs
11. Farish St. holds second “Nigh Out”
12. Why African Americans should pursue careers in the Agricultural and Engineering Sciences, Technologies
13. Golden Key Community Center aerobics
14. MS Dept. of Health, Mississippi Chronic Illness Coalition held Capitol Day 2004
15. Black farmers finally reap from USDA in federal court
16. Gathering Knowledge
17. Harvard announces their low-income undergraduate students will pay no tuition
18. Congressman Thompson speaks at Galloway
19. 12th Annual Friendship Ball

SPORTS
1. Nolan Richardson, Jr. keynote speaker at SWAC basketball awards dinner
2. Holiday Collegiate Bowling Classic Mar. 12-13
3. Eathan O’Bryant of the Harlem Globetrotters visits Galloway Elementary
4. Grambling uses double OT to stop Alcorn
5. Tournament to raise funds to help St. Judge
6. Valley’s Norwood, Mack lead men’s All-SWAC team; Stribling earns top coach
7. Amie Williams and Crystal Kitt lead All-SWAC team
8. Southern Heritage Classic signs JSU to five years

HEALTH
1. Getting the heart of diabetes: Detecting and managing diabetes and cardiovascular disease March 24
2. The Lions Speak: Revising our lifestyle for healthy living
3. Hernias don’t have to hurt for long
4. Children with fevers, an ongoing study
5. Cancer patients need not suffer from fatigue and anemia
6. Babies need TLC

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
How soon we forget where it all started. History strikes hard at our hypocrisy. We talk at some length about Mississippi’s Percy Greene. Then we touch on some events of March, answer a question or two, glance at another subject or two, and Move on Down the Line!

BOOKSHELF
1. A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture
2. Author explores her life through poetry
3. Human Relations and Problem Solving (To You With Love)
4. Slavery in frontier MS differed from standard plantation image
5. Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany
6. Five Years to Life
7. Choo Choo Charlie Saves the Carnival
8. The Little Old Woman’s Shoe
9. Say Yes
10. Will Moses Mother Goose

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Monie Love to shift back to Hip-Hop
2. Lil’ Flip: Signed. Sealed. Delivered.
3. Mahalia Jackson new CD available
4. Eve: Taking no prisoners
5. Essence celebrates ten years of music and motivation on July 2-4