Welcome to the Minnesota Public Radio Archives. The Archives collects and preserves current and historical content produced by MPR and select content from American Public Media. This content includes audio broadcasts, institutional records, photographs, and ephemera. The digital collections available on this site represent an ever-evolving selection of material curated for our audience members to discover and explore decades of content that informs, includes, and inspires.
Content Availability Note
MPR and APM do not own the rights to all content it broadcasts or distributes. Only content that has been cleared for public use or rebroadcast will be made available on this site. If the license to use the content does not belong to MPR, or it if it was originally broadcast as part of our national parternships, it will not be available in these digital collections. Most of the more recent digital content from MPR or any of its affiliated brands can be accessed from their individual sites if the content is still available for streaming or viewing.
Potentially Harmful Language or Content Notice
The MPR Archives contains some content that may be harmful or difficult to listen to. Collection items across MPR's history are preserved and made available as a historical record. As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views due to pervasive systemic intolerance. In addition, some interviews and recordings relate to violent or graphic events which are preserved for their historical significance.
Our curatorial practice is to present original audio as it aired and was published. When we find outdated or offensive content, we do our best to provide a written disclaimer without editing the historical material.
We acknowledge that we are often describing communities of which we are not a part, and many of these communities are historically marginalized and underrepresented in archives. We recognize our responsibility to describe our collections respectfully and carefully and are committed to using inclusive, antiracist, non-derogatory language when describing our collections material. We also acknowledge that, despite our best efforts, we may make mistakes.
If you discover harmful or offensive language in content that is not noted as such, or if you find mistakes in our catalog record descriptions, please contact us at archive@mpr.org.
This statement has been adapted from that of the Digital Public Library of America.
FUNDING & SUPPORT
Follow link to access information on those that have helped provide for this site:
https://archive.mpr.org/funding-support
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