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.
May 30, 1996 -
May 31, 1996 - The 1950s are generally regarded as the sleepy years in our history; the age of Ike Eisenhower, and the elevation of the ideals of the "American Dream". While many Americans were comfortably conforming in the post-war boom years, a group of writers and artists who called themselves "the beat generation" were rebelling. They produced some of the grittiest, ground-breaking work of the 20th-century. A new exhibition at the Walker Art Center, called "Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965," seeks to capture the beat movement in all its complexity.
May 31, 1996 -
June 4, 1996 - At around 6:15 p.m. on June 2, 1996, 11-year-old Byron Phillips was playing with his cousin and a friend on the front porch of the friend's North Minneapolis home. While Phillips was playing, a bullet fired from a passing car hit him in the chest. Phillips died at the scene as a result of the shooting.
June 4, 1996 - At around 6:15 p.m. on June 2, 1996, 11-year-old Byron Phillips was playing with his cousin and a friend on the front porch of the friend's North Minneapolis home. While Phillips was playing, a bullet fired from a passing car hit him in the chest. Phillips died at the scene as a result of the shooting.
June 4, 1996 - At around 6:15 p.m. on June 2, 1996, 11-year-old Byron Phillips was playing with his cousin and a friend on the front porch of the friend's North Minneapolis home. While Phillips was playing, a bullet fired from a passing car hit him in the chest. Phillips died at the scene as a result of the shooting.
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June 5, 1996 -
June 5, 1996 -