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. Espy in high gear
2. Lynch Street Fest
3. Activists rally for safe working conditions
4. Development cuts into Peaches’ profit
5. Composer Benny Golson speaks jazz to Alcorn festival crowds
6. Beauvoir challenged
7. Civil rights pioneer’s widow buried in Vicksburg

NEWS

1. Aviation’s pioneer colorful women saluted in Chicago
2. Hooks honored for 50 years of service to Memphis’s Greater Middle Baptist Church
3. April 24-28: Administrative Professionals Week
4. Chastain looks alive to level five
5. Frank Melton attends illegal guns meeting
6. Nagin, Landrieu in May 20 runoff
7. Black farmers still awaiting promised funds
8. Jakes to visit Jackson May 4
9. Wilson Goode to bring message at mayor’s breakfast
10. Farish Street Church welcomes Talley back as Woman’s Day guest speaker

SPORTS

1. Robert Braddy’s name should adorn JSU’s new baseball stadium
2. Thad Young named MVP of Michael Jordan Classic
3. ASU/JSU series to decide East fate for JSU and Valley
4. Eddie Payton, JSU golfers – superior
5. $100,000 in grants to help rebuild soccer programs in Gulf states

ENTERTAINMENT

1. West Jackson CDC sponsors 14^th Annual Lynch Street Cultural Arts Festival, 4/28-29
2. Benefit concert features HCC Choir & Jubilee Singers
3. Jerry Clower celebrated with two CD ‘Best of’ collection, first DVD
4. Newcombe and de Passe to be honored
5. Da Minista, Euclid Gray makes history at Urban Network 2006
6. Alcorn hosts 2^nd Annual Multicultural Festival
7. Horizon Casino to host 3^rd annual Craw-Cat cookout
8. Spring concerts: Millsaps College Singers and Chamber Singers, MS Youth Symphony Orchestra

STATE/METRO

1. Family celebrates Nero-Lee’s birthday
2. Webb, Shadow Play Entertainment to host literary events in May
3. MEMA urges residents to develop a family disaster plan
4. MAC receives WARHOL Foundation grant to assist Gulf Coast visual artists
5. 38^th annual New Afrikan Nation Day holds a conference

EDITORIALS

1. Who’s excited about a stadium for Jackson State University?
2. Uplifting Families: We examine how men and women are to love one another in the marriage
3. Ask the twins
4. Not my will, but Thy will be done
5. Ode to Mrs. Coretta Scott King by Kathryn Warner-Stalling
6. Tisdale’s Topics: Mississippi segregation must end!

PERSPECTIVE

1. What does the Duke University travesty reveal?

EDUCATION

1. Peggy Carlisle to be inducted into National Teachers Hall of Fame
2. New officers elected to State Board for Community and Junior Colleges
3. Registration deadline is May 5 for next nationwide ACT test
4. Titus Ward takes first place at Hardy’s science fair and placed sixth in state competition

BOOKSHELF

1. 11-year-old author encourages abused children to speak out
2. Educational, fictional novel about HIV/AIDS launching the ‘Get it Done!’ campaign
3. Wiggle Your Toes

CITY FOCUS

1.  Quintin Jackson – A little R&R as records clerk and sports referee

CONSUMER

1. Soybeans growers have good reasons for optimism
2. Local minority firm has national ranking
3. Big shrimp await catch, but harvest faces obstacles

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET

HEALTH

1. Health Careers Awareness Camp
2. The American Heart Association to present Stomp Out Stroke Step Show
3. Walking for health and friendship
4. Differentiating gut feelings: IBS vs. IBD
5. The Lion Speaks: Is the South better now for black men?
6. National free screening for vascular disease
7. Keeping an eye on vision health