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. Residents protest parking ordinance
2. Residents at public meeting concerning parking on their unpaved property
3. JSU Gibbs/Green confab April 21st
4. Farrakhan calls for leadership with character
5. Black mayors conference returns to its roots
6. Cincinnati accord ends year of division
7. USS Cole comes home April 19th
8. April 17 marks the one-year anniversary of the State of Mississippi legalizing the
state flag.

NATION
1. Eight steps to effectively controlling drug abuse and the drug market
2. U.S. Rep. Danny Davis discusses the rising number of African Americans in prison/
jails and former offenders

STATE/METRO
1. Itinerant vendors on Jackson streets
2. Benefit to help ailing Tommie Tate
3. Health care crisis: A major concern for MFEP
4. Green named Mississippi Police Corps' top 2002 graduate
5. Development workshop to attract Christina leaders

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale's Topics: Black officials just don't get it
2. Letter to the Editor from Harvey Warren
3. Where is justice in the Middle East?
4. Let's work for the people, not against them

PERSPECTIVE
1. From behind the walls: The legal lynching of black America
2. Black America's glass: Still half-full -- and half-empty

HOMELAND DEFENSE NEWS
1. Bush involvement urged
2. Four killed in explosion
3. Agreement signed
4. America salutes James Merriman
5. U.S. bioterrorism legislation delayed
6. Aid to Afghanistan
7. McKinney calls for Bush investigation
8. Black voices for peace speak out on war
9. Speaking out: What black leaders are saying about the war on terrorism

EDUCATION
1. JSU students place in every category at national theater conference
2. Ag Day at Alcorn State University
3. Junior Achievement awards scholarships to local youth
4. Improving financial literacy

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Blade is still strong at the box office
2. Jim Morris takes courageous steps towards his big dream
3. It's all about the benjamins baby
4. Jackson nightclubs offer just about it all
5. Things are starting to look up
6. Mother's day event with Jonathan B. Slocumb

SPORTS
1. State games of Mississippi 2002
2. MSH police and athletes to carry torch for Special Olympics
3. SWAC Spring championships headed to Shreveport, LA
4. Blacks showing more interest in organized softball than in past years of popular
sports
5. State's best student-athletes honored; most ranked first or second in 2002 class
6. Texas Southern drops two against Grambling
7. 2002 Black College Basketball standings
8. Bethune-Cookman names head men's basketball coach
9. Kentucky-State slapped with two-year probation
10. Tillman homers Braves past Arkansas-Pine Bluff
11. Pro Sports Scoreboard
12. San Antonio rolls past Grizzlies, 113-92
13. Bonds hits seventh homer of the year
14. Woods wins his third masters

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
1. Cornered in the Capitol
2. Racism wears a new face
3. A look back at history with a hope for tomorrow
4. The greatest bandleader makes historic Farish Street debut
5. Parking cars in the yard
6. Letter from Mrs. Mary Olive Redmon of Clinton, MS

BOOKSHELF
1. Sister Wit: Devotions for Women
2. Glory Girls

CALENDAR

HEALTH
1. State-of-the-art home theater takes center stage in the bath
2. MINDJAZZ
3. Hinds County beef producers offer women nutrition tips on pregnancy, stress relief
and childhood nutrition
4. Now's the time to give seniors prescription drug coverage
5. Treatments help soothe arthritis knees
6. Body positioning may prevent back pain
7. Surgery help women avoid hysterectomies
8. Communication, support critical for caregivers
9. Pet handling is no problem if kids wash hands frequently

FOOD
1. Wild mushroom beef stew
2. Afterwork beef pot roast dinner
3. Tips to perfection
4. Southwest beef wraps