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.
June 29, 1976 - MPR’s Debbie Gare interviews W. Harry Davis, Minneapolis school board member and local civil rights activist, about desegregation of Minneapolis public schools. He believes it is the responsibility of districts in the country to figure out how to overcome segregated schools.
July 16, 1976 - MPR’s Dennis Hamilton reports on speech made by author and historian Hiram Drache at Crookston Rural America Conference. Hamilton also presents a short interview with Drache after the completed remarks.
July 23, 1976 - MPR’s Kate Williams talks with Black residents in St. Paul’s Selby-Dale community about their views of the Jimmy Carter-Walter Mondale presiditional ticket.
August 26, 1976 - MPR’s Kate Williams interviews numerous fairgoers, exhibitors, and Minnesota State Fair manager John Libby about the experience and costs of fair.
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December 9, 1976 - Spencer LoneTree proposes a new local Native American training program with a strong emphasis on teaching character development building confidence self-esteem and assertiveness.
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March 4, 1977 - MPR’s Kate Williams reports on a Women’s Rights Coalition press conference in response to a fire at a Highland Park Planned Parenthood facility.