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. Crime in the city
2. Are hotel car burglaries an inside job?
3. Lowery says its time for black to move
4. West under fire over Pickering
5. Census Bureau releases black population figures
6. Chronic Pain Treatment Act advocated for Mississippi
7. Little Korea poses big problem for U.S. military giant

NATION/WORLD
1. Verizon executive named as a “distinguished black woman’
2. “The Flava of Dolls” Annual Black Doll Convention comes to Philly
3. It’s time for Bush to rebuild America, activists say
4. Black Education network files discrimination suit against AT&T
5. Minorities are number one victim to predatory lending
6. African zoologists barred from Iraq

STATE/METRO
1. Three wise Ridgeland businessmen put their heads together
2. President orders disaster aid for Mississippi storms
3. Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Pleasant Reed House groundbreaking slated
4. Jackson firm selected to help Mississippi Black Mayors deal with housing issues
5. Camera coverage allowed in Mississippi courts
6. Catfish industry vital to Mississippi’s economy

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: Advocate losses in helping elect Johnson
2. Letter to the editor from Renetta W. Howard of Port Gibson, MS
3. No more wars, no more militarism
4. Dear Stanley

PERSPECTIVE
1. Genius draws no color line
2. War against Iraq momentary triumph of might does not make it right

EDUCATION
1. Tougaloo prepares for Seventh Annual Art Colony Celebration
2. Andrew Young to speak at Xavier’s commencement May 10
3. High school foreign exchange program seeking host families
4. Delta Sigma Theta earns special designation from the United Nations
5. CBCF holds public recognition program for supporters of the Student Homeownership Opportunity Program
6. Software pioneer to speak at Millsaps commencement

NEWS
1. The struggle to save black-owned radio
2. The Pejuta Project: A time for Native Americans to document their story of the wounds of the boarding school experience
3. Judges discuss drug court programs
4. Harambee for reparations: Let My People Know the Truth
5. Entergy and JSU join hands to get Annette Tillis ready for new home
6. SCLC Awards Banquet Highlights
7. Provine High School honored
8. Christopher “DJ Finesse” Carr honored
9. 100 Black Women hold scholarships/awards reception
10. Stokes petitions to tear down the King Edward hotel

BOOKSHELF
1. The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
2. Trudier Harris comes to Jackson, MS
3. The Throwaway Kids
4. Joshua’s Bible: A Novel by Shelly Leanne
5. Conferencing in Black America must teach instead of preach
6. Mush’s Jazz Adventure
7. Sleep Little One, Sleep
8. Saving Lilly
9. Dear Zoo
10. Doris Roberts: Are You Hungry Dear?
11. Eric Jerome Dickey to visit Jackson in June

HBCU SPORTS
1. Trojans’ Dennis Champagne is toast of baseball tourney
2. JSU’s white team wins spring football defensive struggle
3. Tuskegee heavily represented in NFL draft
4. Southern University chooses Michael Grant
5. NFL dream comes true for Hampton football player

NATIONAL SPORTS
1. Spurs send Suns to verge of elimination
2. Darren Dreifort’s throwing error leads to Phillies’ win
3. Several April surprises
4. Philadelphia comes to terms with player
5. Cyclone coach in hot seat after incident

HEALTH
1. 4th Annual Workers’ Memorial Day Rally
2. Community health fair set for May 9
3. Free martial arts lessons and uniform for May blood donors
4. What does diaper rash have in common with asthma?
5. Stork’s Nest Prenatal program opens in Jackson Medical Mall
6. Good news about sickle cell disease
7. Cooking can be quick and healthy

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Queen Latifah to be named Entertainer of the Year at the 16th Anniversary Essence Awards
2. UPN’s Lalanya Masters aims high toward an acting career