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. Ebony auction
2. Mystery surrounds late-night shooting of Issaquena mother
3. Sharpton throws support to Kerry
4. Melton’s bid for mayor official
5. Opponents remark “Right to Work Act” hurts rank-and-file
6. Advocates mislead public on statistics
7. The Royal Court
8. Sharpsville Massacre to be observed Sunday
9. Reparations confab in Houston this week
10. Pryor signs on with PETA against KFC
11. Mississippi History 101

NATION/WORLD
1. Coroner disputes sheriff’s claim of alleged cop killer’s suicide
2. Suburban youths are no better behaved
3. Bohnett Foundation adds more support to human rights
4. Congressional Black Caucus Foundation spotlights Tuskegee Airman, highest ranking military woman
5. Haiti could spell trouble for African countries
6. Brigadier General Robert Crear receives Black Engineer of the Year Award

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: Without mercy!
2. Letter to the editor from voices of CMCF
3. Pleading for retesting
4. Real men (and women) love history
5. Dear Stanley

PERSPECTIVE
1. Creating stability and peace in Haiti: Africans in America must lend a helping hand
2. Understanding the complexity of the reparations movement
3. Immigration law question and answer

EDUCATION
1. Dawson students demonstrate the “Humpty Dumpty dance”
2. Free ACT preparation workshop
3. MS career fair for educators to be held
4. 20 Hinds County residents named to honor roll at ASU
5. Scholarship applications available
6. Never too early to start a college savings plan
7. Local high school student to examine law, justice at presidential classroom in D.C.
8. Two Jackson students selected for senate program
9. Student learn about farming during summer camp in Africa

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. America needs diversity to survive
2. Hidden energy users rack up the costs
3. Make time managing a priority
4. Brining the housing boom to under-served communities

NEWS
1. Black Press Week 2004 – March 21-27 “We wish to plead our own cause!”
2. National leaders unite with state lawmakers against “Jim Crow” laws
3. HIV study is chilling to black college campuses
4. For a healthy planet know what you’re buying
5. Celebrating Earth Day every day
6. Build your kids a playground without spending a fortune
7. Black men are dying earlier and more often than everybody else
8. Jackson State School of Social Work to host annual banquet
9. JSU MURC’s SOFI presented “Kuna Hali Ya Hatari” (Swahili for This Is An Emergency)
10. Beaus: More than just handsome devils
11. Hebrew Israelites tout progress in Holy Land after 30-year struggle
12. Metropolitan Atlanta Community Band to perform at Jackson State
13. City of Jackson to mark the completion of the Farish Street Entertainment District infrastructure upgrades
14. AARP Mississippi pitches its Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
15. Jackson to Russia: Downtown Jackson CDC Partnership
16. Plight of women in the MS Delta to be highlighted during third annual conference Mar. 25
17. Gov. Barbour to speak at PRAM statewide conference Mar. 25-26
18. Greater Mt. Calvary Christian Women’s Fellowship to present the play Salvation
19. Dr. Audwin Bernard Fletcher receives Charles W. Green Award of Merit
20. Marietta Reading Center, Inc.
21. Funding available through Delta States Rural Development Network Program

STATE/METRO
1. Hinds County District Attorney Faye Peterson receives applause from Jackson Firefighters Limited
2. Jackson’s Planning Director resigns
3. Photographs of Freedom Summer 1964 exhibition at Smith Robertson Museum
4. Bellsouth pioneers donate children’s book to Jackson Parks and Recreation
5. Judge Mablean Ephriam to tour hometown of Hazlehurst, Miss.
6. MWA Research Center to host Ebony Auction to help fund exhibit
7. 275,000 free gun locks distributed in Mississippi
8. “Benji Returns” premiere to benefit animals and children in Mississippi

SPORTS
1. Harlem Globetrotters: The magicians of basketball
2. Jackson Rage host tryouts in three states
3. Mississippian tackles world’s toughest footrace to end cancer
4. Kids and adults compete for prizes at the Gridiron Video Game Day Challenge
5. “Big House” no stranger to McAdams
6. ASU to face Duke, Jags take on UTA
7. BCA to conduct seminar for high school coaches and administrators

HEALTH
1. Reduced scarring helps nerves grow through spinal injuries
2. NFP praised for success in preventing abuse, and promoting healthy living
3. Is it really just heartburn? Take this simple self-test
4. Eating less and feeling full
5. New treatment available for Alzheimer’s disease
6. Are all herbal supplements created equal?

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
Last week we chastised you (some of you) because of your negative attitude regarding the contributions of Mr. Percy Greene (Advocate founder and first editor) … This week, after ploughing through acres and acres, and row upon row of first hand data and surprising information, including personal interviews and days in the Department of Archives and History, along with trips to various colleges and universities, I have, on occasion, been amazed, even shocked, at what I found. But you know me, I tell it like it is or in this case like it was. We’ll begin here as we Move on Down the Line!

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Jesse Powell: Believe it, he’s for real
2. Wynton Marsalis: “The Magic Hour”
3. NYPD training other cities how to spy on rap artists
4. The Beautiful Hustle: Talib Kweli on touring, business, writing and being

BOOKSHELF
1. Jackson native returns home to launch new novel
2. Do YOU want to be a millionaire?
3. Degree of Risk
4. Author Millicent Hodge releases four-book suspense thriller series
5. The Angry Black Woman’s Guide to Life
6. New book collects colorful sayings of the rural South
7. Help Me, I’ve Fallen & I Can’t Get Up
8. A Flower Fairies Postcard Book
9. The Tallest, Longest, Greenest Animal in the Jungle
10. The Tale of Wagmore Gently
11. Five Little Monkeys