Featured Articles for the April 5th - 11th, 2007 Issue Archives

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. Pied Piper Academy among participants at observance of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
  2.  Learning to celebrate Easter every day
  3. Claiborne County small farm gets attention of NRCS
  4. Coaching legend Eddie Robinson dead at age 88
  5. George Ross named ASU’s 17th president
  6. Thompson calls for attention to pensions by major airlines
  7. COGIC celebrates life of longtime bishop
  8. Andrew Young promises smart boards to Piney Woods School

NATION/WORLD

  1. NOBLE pledged $100,000 to build National Law Enforcement Museum
  2. Washington Informer and Data Weekly named 2007 DaimlerChrysler Financial Services/NNPA Foundation Entrepreneurial award winners
  3. African American Experience Fund of the National Park Foundation celebrates Little Rock Nine

NEWS

      1. Six Mississippi civil rights legends lecture at Miami University
2. Literary club luncheon 4/14
3. From the Advocate files: Dr. Jessie Mosley and DeAnna Tisdale
4. Dedication ceremony held for PFC Milton Lee Olive III
5. Sean Perkins welcomed home by Dr. James Perkins with a campaign fundraiser
6. AHBAI accepting scholarship applications
7. J’State hosting chemistry and science event
8. Nominations sought for Mississippi history teacher of the year
9. Substance abuse cracks danger zone in college ranks
10.  Embry-Riddle edges forward with 10 Diamond DA42 Aircraft
11.  Delta State names Dr. Billy Moore interim provost
12.  JPS to hold job fair for teachers 4/21
13.  Catholic school has major impact on students in science
14.  Southern Breeze Gallery holds artist reception
15.  JSU exhibit challenges stereotypes and raises scholarship dollars
16.  Webb hosts youth poetry workshops
17.  April 11 calendar change in JPS
18.  College Hill celebrates a century

CONSUMER/BUSINESS

  1. Miss. State Hospital Job Fair set for April 18
  2. AT&T earns record in diversity ranking
  3. Winter wheat enters pivotal growth period

ENTERTAINMENT

  1. MS Opera to stage Carmen
  2. NEA jazz master Donald Byrd to appear at JSU
  3. Lawrence Goldman to present faculty recital at MVSU April 10
  4. A Round World Music brings African hip hop to America
  5. Celebrity profiles by Sandra Varner: ‘Reign Over Me’; ‘The Reaping’

SPORTS

  1. Double talk hurts stadium acquisition for Jackson State
  2. Serena Williams wins fourth Sony Ericsson Open title
  3. Adalius Thomas football camp
  4. Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather May 5
  5. Mississippi grads on fast track
  6. Florida Gators’ repeat
  7. Mobile, Memphis to serve as softball hotbeds next weekend
  8. Jackson State’s Bobby Colvin to play in football All-Star game

HEALTH

  1. Get your toes ready
  2. The wet skin way to lock in up to ten times more moisture
  3. Moms help your children fight acne
  4. The Lion Speaks: Unevenly yoked
  5. Health skin in a high-tech world
  6. Life-restoring solution for postsurgical patients
  7. Healthy start; Get your kids to walk or bike to school

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET

CITY FOCUS

Lillian Lackey: A teacher students and parents could count on

BOOKSHELF

  1. A New World
  2. Rhines reveals the financial influence behind black films
  3. Recommended Reads

EDITORIALS

  1. Tisdale’s Topics: Tisdale at home
  2. Letter to the editor from Anthony P. Jones
  3. In the world we live in everyone is a neighbor
  4. Ask the twins
  5. Uplifting Families: Uplifting the value of women

PERSPECTIVE

  1. Why I stand with Alderwoman Tillman
  2. Ice on Immigration