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March 12th, 2013
Written by Lisa Cornwell - Associated Press in Cultural Uniqueness, race relation news, Latest News with 1 Comments
Miami University is revitalizing the language of the Miami Tribe, the university’s namesake. The project is directed by Daryl Baldwin, a member of the Miami Tribe.
Baldwin was born around the time that his Miami Tribe of Oklahoma was losing its last generation of fluent speakers and facing the possibility that its language would die with them.
Fifty years later, a project that Baldwin directs at...
March 11th, 2013
Written by Jeannie Nuss - Associated Press in Race & Politics, Feature Stories with 0 Comments
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas is among states that do not have Hispanics representatives in the state legislature.
Arkansas has a burgeoning Hispanic population, but without Latinos in the legislature issues targeting the newer Arkansans have come up rarely in the current legislative session.
Two Latinas ran for the Legislature last year and lost, leaving Arkansas as one of more than a dozen...
March 8th, 2013
Written by Frances D’Emilio - Associated Press in Race & Politics, race relation news, Latest News with 0 Comments
ROME (AP) - Comic Beppe Grillo's populist tirades were seen as a benign outlet for popular anger in the days his protest movement was a sideshow in Italian politics. Now that he's one of Italy's most powerful figures, his views are coming under greater scrutiny - and a history of anti-Semitic statements have started to raise concern outside the country.
Grillo's 5-Star Movement captured a quarter...
March 7th, 2013
Written by Brock Vergakis - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, race relation news, Latest News with 0 Comments
ATLANTA (AP) - Ariadne Partlow dreamed of graduating Spelman College and moving on to medical school, but instead of studying biology this semester, she worked at a fast-food Chinese restaurant.
The Jackson, Tenn., native was among thousands of students who unexpectedly either had to stay at home, transfer to a less expensive school or find new money when the U.S. Department of Education quietly...
March 7th, 2013
Written by Laura Olson - Associated Press in Race & Politics, race relation news, Latest News with 0 Comments
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - GOP strategist Karl Rove said Saturday that rebuilding the Republican brand in California will be a tough task that will require them to diversify and create a strategy to spread their message to a wider audience.
Referring to the state party's deep losses in recent years, Rove said, it needs to focus on larger themes of restoring jobs and reducing government spending....
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