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November 20th, 2012
Written by Michael Biesecker - AP Staff Writer in All About Family, Latest News with 0 Comments
ATLANTA (AP) - The father of Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as a prominent Atlanta preacher and civil rights leader. But as a young man from a poor sharecropping family in rural Georgia, he is said to have walked north to Atlanta barefoot so he didn't wear out his only pair of shoes.
His legacy is now being honored through a community center built to help other low-income people find a path...
November 20th, 2012
Written by Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press in Religion's Mighty Rivers, Latest News with 0 Comments
MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt (AP) - There was no mention of churches torched or Christians killed, but the prayer neatly written on a tiny piece of paper and placed atop an icon of St. George in the chapel of a desert monastery left no doubt about the growing fear and despair of Egypt's Coptic Christians.
"Oh Lord, for the sake of all the saints of the church, raise high the banner of the cross...
November 19th, 2012
Written by Kathy Matheson - Associated Press in Education, the Great Equalizer, Latest News with 0 Comments
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A commission charged with improving higher education in Pennsylvania has recommended that colleges and universities be able to earn additional state funding by meeting certain performance targets.
The proposal by the governor's Advisory Commission on Postsecondary Education is among nearly 20 ideas designed to address the state's need for lifelong learners, better...
November 19th, 2012
Written by Kristi Eaton - Associated Press in Cultural Uniqueness, Latest News with 0 Comments
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the Lakota language says the alcoholism, high suicide rates and rampant drug use plaguing young people on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation stem from a lack of identity and a loss of culture.
Those troubling issues are what inspired Mike Carlow to create Tusweca Tiospaye, which hosts an annual...
November 16th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
In 2010, Alaska entered a settlement agreement with voters in the Bethel area - and their attorneys - who had sued to make governments in the state provide better election information in the Yup'ik language. Under the settlement, the list of actions the state must take is comprehensive; the agreement comprises a major commitment to ensuring that every Yup'ik-speaking voter in the Bethel census...
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