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. A handful of support
2. Anti-war protests continue while Baghdad falls, casualties mount
3. Wisconsin family, community devastated by loss of activist
4. Family terrorized by bail bondsmen
5. Cochran initiates legal action on behalf of Jimmie Taylor
6. Francois D’Anjou qualifies for supervisor race in Claiborne County
7. Literary Luncheon

NATION/WORLD
1. Some interested facts about the Memphis Zoo
2. United Methodist witness life after war in Angola
3. Ethiopian Icons: Faith and science converge at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art

STATE/METRO
1. Hinds County drug court graduates tell success stories
2. FINAO Group announces grand opening of its Ridgeland office
3. Jackson Sears to get a new look
4. Gulf Coast attorneys file first of several suits expected in Moss Point chemical dumping case

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics “What’s going on?
2. What now for Iraq?, Where now for the American people?
3. Dear Stanley
4. Support the troop’s families

PERSPECTIVE
1. A Bush Administration budget war on poor children: Target—Medicaid
2. In support of Attorney Chokwe Lumumba: The demand for social justice is a reparations issue
3. A great thinker: Dr. Martin R. Delany

Continuation
1. Widow of murdered Rikers Island inmate seeks justice
2. Affirmative action challenge revives youth activism
3. Fleet Bank challenged over shuttered Muslim accounts

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Moore’s single warms hearts of Americans
2. Mississippi Museum of Art celebrates 100 years of art with special reception
3. Boo Da Boss Playa released blazin’ new double CD album Block 2 Block
4. Brian McKnight’s new release “U Turn” has the golden touch
5. The Ozell Tapes: The Official Bootleg “ Telarc and 3 Deuces Records release Marcus Miller’s live double album; the best of his 2002 tour
6. Ex-Factor by Lauryn Hill

BOOKSHELF
1. One Jackson One Book: New Program gets community exciting about reading
2. Dear World
3. Dawdle Duckling
4. Dodi’s Prince

EDUCATION
1. Hale House offers new childcare training program for disadvantaged women
2. Van Winkle to hold its sixth parent seminar April 12
3. Job Fair for Teachers
4. Harvard hosts Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Presidential Commission
5. Retired teacher leaves $1,133,968 gift to UNCF
6. Charley’s Aunt plays at Millsaps April 10-13
7. 7th Annual Steak and Burger Dinner
8. Galloway’s Math-a-thon

NEWS
1. Thompson to convene town hall meetings on Homeland Security
2. At 91, heroine of Selma still fights for justice
3. Harlem marches against war
4. State of Mississippi made a change in license plate for retired military veterans
5. Kehinde Gaynor speaks to students at Brown Elementary
6. 2003 Annual Blue and White Scholarship Gala
7. Eliza Pillars Registered Nurses’ Assn. show off their colors in grand style
8. Civic group honors 100 women
9. Firefighters Limited, Inc. pays tribute to local heroes
10. Mississippi catfish workers fight of rights
11. Just another Mississippi catfish day
12. Historic town obtains land for the first-ever park

SPORTS
1. Delta State Sports Hall of Fame banquet Saturday
2. Tevester Anderson to lead JSU’s basketball program
3. Heisman Trophy runner-up Brad Banks visits his former gridiron at Hinds Community College
4. Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel “ Phenomenon of Toughman Competitions
5. Black community urged to boycott copycat classic
6. BBAA presents James Bell with ammunition to win out over the competition at a reception

HBCU SPORTS
1. Michigan State Spartans win big against cross-town rival
2. Alcorn State promotes Samuel West
3. Morgan State climb the mount to victory
4. April is Norfolk State’s busiest month

NATIONAL SPORTS
1. Sacramento Kings stick it to Sixers
2. Giants off to best start since 1930
3. Syracuse Orangemen take NCAA crown

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET

HEALTH
1. Sudden cardiac arrest death
2. Hand hygiene curbs spread of infection
3. Division of Health Management Associates sponsor nursing instructor at Alcorn
4. Vision 101
5. African American men sought for prostate cancer research

FOOD
1. Kids Springtime Garden Party
2. Bird’s Nest Cookies
3. Flower Cupcakes
4. Bumble Bees
5. Bonnets