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Articles in Feb 16, 1998 issue of Jet

• Seattle public schools chief John Stanford refuses $500,000 incentive bonus
• Halle Berry must choose between a black man and white man in TV movie 'The Wedding.'
• Lani Guinier takes post at Harvard Law School
• Virginia to get new state song to replace 'Carry Me Back to Old Virginia.'
• Frederick McKinley Jones: February 12, 1957
• Babyface, Erykah Badu and Boys II Men among winners at American Music Awards
• 1998 Ad
• Songstress Toni Braxton files bankruptcy in Los Angeles
• Earl Graves Jr. is named president of Earl G. Graves Publishing Company
• Bobby Brown found guilty of drunk driving; gets five days in jail and drug treatment
• Florida State House Dems' move to replace black leader with white angers constituents
• James Brown arrested on marijuana and gun possession charges after search of his home
• Clinton cites strong economy during State of the Union speech
• Jackson Advocate, black weekly newspaper in Jackson, MS, firebombed
• New York Stock Exchange shuts down in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday
• Youth stabbed to death over Eddie Bauer coat
• Gregory M. Sleet tapped for Delaware federal judgeship
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ordered to obtain anger management counseling in traffic dispute case
• Why jazz music will never die
• Lionel Wilson, 1st black mayor of Oakland, CA, dies