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Native American Tribes Use Technology To Save Languages

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Michelle Rindels - Associated Press

Native American Tribes Use Technology To Save Languages

LAS VEGAS (AP) - In a conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of new apps.

But these are no Silicon Valley techies in town for one of the city's massive electronics shows. Many are from far-flung American Indian reservations, and their high-tech devices are serving a decidedly old-school purpose: trying to save their languages from the brink of extinction.

Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks On Plight Of Minority Communities

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Glenn Minnis

Justice Clarence Thomas speaks on plight of minority communities

Clarence Thomas doesn’t have any answers as to why such widespread levels of hopelessness and poverty continue to dog minority communities. All he can tell you for certain, is everyone was born equal and the need for affirmative action, if it ever existed, has long since run its course.

Thomas, whose do-as-I-say not as I do view as it relates to affirmative action are legendary, delivered the remainder of his mixed message philosophy earlier this week before a Duquesne Law School audience of more than 1,200.

Remember Martin Luther King Jr.

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Janice S. Ellis Ph.D.

One of the best ways to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. is to continue some aspect of the work for which he lived and died. But there is so much left to be done.

Forty-five years ago on April 4, 1968, an assassin’s bullet claimed the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was there in support of the garbage workers who were striking to get better wages.

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