FRONT PAGE

1. Fitting Farewells
2. Club new scapegoat in Jackson’s street crime?
3. Melton to be sworn in July 4th
4. Dems battle over parks
5. Conyers committee object of smear by Bush supporters
6. Momentum Mississippi not enough for some lawmaker
7. Register to vote

NATION/WORLD
1. Racism is alive at Ford
2. Nigeria challenges big oil companies
3. States are underreporting high school dropout rates
4. NABJ to hold convention at the Hyatt Regency, ATL

NEWS
1. Beauty gets down to business in Biloxi
2. Sandra Howard & Company : Christian playwright gives God the glory
3. Summer Madness Blues Show to be held July 2
4. Admission office offers tips on college search process
5. Home Inspector Seminar
6. DeAnna Tisdale presents books and school supplies to Tougaloo College Educational Talent Search program campers
7. Kappa’s celebrate 10th Kappa Kamp
8. Privacy skirmish clouds military rape case
9. Cade Chapel-Nate Ruffin Scholarship Golf Classic serves up lots of fun

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: Nothing to lose but your chains
2. TeleBuddy-TeleGram: A reading program for the summer
3. The Supreme Court’s eminent domain ruling: A threat to working class homeowners
4. Uplifting Families: What Kind of Husband Does GOD Desire Men to Become?

PERSPECTIVE
1. Patrice Lumumba and the 26th NBUF convention
2. Immigration law question and answer
3. Our children need to be fed here in the United States

EDUCATION
1. Bounds named State Superintendent of Education by MBE
2. JSUNAA to hold conference
3. Encourage children to read this summer
4. Pen and paper makes reading easier
5. Holmes became MSU’S first black student 40 years ago
6. Dr. Delores Hopkins recognized by the JPS School Board

STATE/METRO
1. Thompson announces summer interns: Robert Collier and James Baker III
2. $40K Robert M. Carrier scholarships awarded to two Jackson residents
3. North Delta cotton struggling for water
4. Students learn the fundamentals of cricket
5. Reginald Spears and George C. Washington to represent Aldersgate United Methodist Men at 2005 Men’s Gathering at Purdue University

CONSUMER/BUSINESS
1. The Foundation for the Mid South and Entergy partner to build assets for low income families
2. HUD introduces home ownership basics online
3. NAACP board selects Bruce S. Gordon next president, CEO
4. Steering Committee members of the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson meets to plan for the coming fiscal year

SPORTS
1. Stribling set for July 1 start at Tougaloo
2. Anthony Clark: World’s strongest man final lift
3. SWAC Hoops could benefit from new NBA agreement
4. Mississippi HWCU/HBCU coaches salary differential
5. Mississippi Fire AAU 13 and under girls basketball team to represent their state at the AAU Nationals in Dayton

BOOKSHELF
1. Book offers glimpse of African American quilters during slavery
2. Book on love, black relationships, and perspectives today
3. 275 photographs document the history of the timber industry in Mississippi
4. Waggers
5. Alexander’s Pretending Day
6. Luke Goes to Bat

UP & DOWN FARISH STREET
Billy Graham’s great sermon heard by a selected few. Landmarks off the beaten path. A birthday salute, and then we Move on Down the Line!

HEALTH
1. Wrong debate on “race drug”
2. THE LIONS SPEAK: Black men and white women
3. Zelma Carson tapped for national education award
4. Protect yourself from aggressive drivers

ENTERTAINMENT
1. Martin Lawrence is at home in ‘Rebound’
2. B.B. King Museum highlights bluesman’s 80th b’day
3. Baby Stone is ready to show MS he knows a ‘Better Way’
4. COMMON preparing new line of children’s books