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.
February 19, 1992 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews Black journalist, novelist, and poet Thulani Davis. Davis details the autobiographical premise involved in book, 1959: A Novel.
February 19, 1992 - Julia Williams, Robert Boughton, Shirley Cain, David Pearce Demers, Bill Wilson, While a sergeant, Mike Sauro led the 1989 mistaken raid on the home of an elderly couple who were killed in a fire set off by the officers' use of a "flash bang" grenade - an incident that reinforced distrust of the police in the black community and led to the creation of the Civilian Police Review Authority (CRA).
February 20, 1992 -
February 21, 1992 - Duluth writer Barton Sutter reads an essay on surviving winter. The work is entitled Map Fishing.
February 21, 1992 - Black writer and educator Evelyn Fairbanks talks with MPR’s Paula Schroeder about researching rural Black Americans in Minnesota.
February 21, 1992 - Writer and critic Erin Hart comments on her thoughts of Theater Exchange’s production of Metamorphosis. Playwright Steven Berkoff whittles his script from Kafka's original novel.
February 21, 1992 - MPR’s Leif Enger reports on increased interest in dog sledding in the North Country…and the larger demand for traditional sled builders.
February 21, 1992 - Ted Riverso, St. Thomas women's basketball coach, talks about the 1992 team that could set record with game-winning streak during 1991-1992 period.
February 21, 1992 -
February 22, 1992 - American sociologist Kathleen Blee discusses her book, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s, with Weekend Edition host Jim Wishner.