MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
March 25, 1976 - Audio excerpt providing an introduction to the Beat poetry scene, an American style of poetry.
March 25, 1976 - MPR’s Connie Goldman reports on speech given by Letty Cottin Pogrebin to the Minnesota chapter of National Professional Society for Women in Journalism and Communications.
March 27, 1976 - Governor Rudy Perpich discusses the debate on cyclone fencing.
April 7, 1976 - MPR’s Kate Williams profiles Sutton’s, a gay bar in downtown Minneapolis that relocated to a more prominent location. Sutton’s has been around for over a decade but it officially came out of the closet last week when it opened its doors to over 800 people at a new location…the old Elk’s Club on 5th street in downtown Minneapolis.
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May 10, 1976 - Author of “Our Two Lives,” Madame Halina Rodzinski talks about her love and marriage to her husband, the conductor Artur Rodzinksi.
May 20, 1976 - Criticism of the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU). Includes Terrence Aronson, staff attorney for the Urban Coalition.
June 2, 1976 - Two poems read by David R. Solheim, North Dakota's Poet in the Schools.
June 2, 1976 -
June 3, 1976 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston reports on formation of group called Friends of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Hampston interviews two members of group on it’s purpose in preserving the wilderness designation of BWCA.