A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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May 9, 2014 - MPR’s David Cazares talks with Nelson Devereaux, member of the Twin Cities jazz group Courageous Endeavors. Devereaux discusses group’s focus on the tradition of improvisation.
May 30, 2014 - All Things Considered’s Tom Cramm talks with DFL Congressman Tim Walz about his perspective on the resignation of Eric Shinseki as the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs and on the larger VA investigations. Walz had called for Shinseki’s resignation after a VA scandal in Phoenix, Arizona.
June 20, 2014 - MPR’s Euan Kerr profiles Pooja Goswami Pavan, a Minneapolis-based, north Indian classical singer. A collection of ancient Sufi love songs re-imagined for a modern audience are highlighted.
June 23, 2014 - When construction crews bulldozed St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood to make way for Interstate 94 in the 1960s, they destroyed the center of the city's African American life, forcing many of the community's residents to move. But the spirit of Rondo lives on among its former residents and their descendants. Among them is Daina Stanley, a University of Tampa junior. When she spoke with members of her family about the Rondo they knew and loved, that helped her find home.
July 9, 2014 - As part of a series that explores health disparities among certain groups of Minnesotans and the growing importance of data to understand the causes, MPR’s Lorna Benson looks into the struggles of some in the LGBTQ community.
July 15, 2014 - On this Appetites segment, Tom Crann interviews Minnesota author Beth Dooley about the various food offerings of Hmong growers at farmers markets in the Twin Cities.
July 16, 2014 - MPR’s Brandt Williams reports on the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, played at Target Field for the first time. The American League All-Stars beat the National League last night 5-3, with a little help from Twins Glen Perkins and Kurt Suzuki.
July 30, 2014 - MPR’s Tim Nelson provides details on Mendota Heights police Officer Scott Patrick being shot and killed Wednesday in West St. Paul during what police termed a routine traffic stop. By nightfall, authorities had captured a suspect they sought in the killing.
July 31, 2014 - On this episode of Minnesota Sounds and Voices, MPR’s Dan Olson talks with Chue Vang about his family’s experience fleeing Laos and coming to the U.S. as refugees. Today, he aims to honor the opportunities found in his adopted home and a late brother with a new scholarship for Hmong students.
August 1, 2014 - MPR’s Laura Yuen shares details on first-degree murder charges handed down by the Dakota County Attorney's Office against Brian Fitch, the suspect in killing of Mendota Heights Police Officer Scott Patrick.