September 19, 1974 - Poet Nikki Giovanni, one of the leading voices in the black artist movement, talks about current affairs on the third anniversary of the Attica uprising. She was in Moorhead for a poetry reading on the Concordia College campus.
September 19, 1974 - An Amnesty mother speaks out on President Ford's new policy for returning "draft dodgers."
September 19, 1974 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston interviews member of The Coalition of Labor Union Women, who states group wants childcare facilities, maternity benefits, equal pay and apprenticeship opportunities for its female members.
October 4, 1974 - Mulford Q. Sibley, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, speaks on the immense political, social, economic, religious, and physical toll of Vietnam war. Discussion not limited to South or North division, but all parties involved, including the United States.
October 5, 1974 - Actor and anti-war activist Jane Fonda speaking at anti-war rally held at Augsburg University.
October 5, 1974 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots", speaks at Macalester College in St. Paul about his experience in a foreign crowd.
November 4, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on civil rights & political activist Jesse Jackson’s visit to the Twin Cities for a groundbreaking on an inner city shopping complex, one of first in country conceived and developed by minorities. Jackson is president of group called PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), which encourages minority business ownership.
November 4, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on Reverend Jesse Jackson’s visit to the Twin Cities. In a speech, Jackson says local inner city shopping complex project is evidence of what can be done when people want something bad enough.
November 8, 1974 - Connie Goldman attended a workshop of welfare workers, social service agencies and law enforcement personnel on the topic of incest. Goldman collected interviews from various members of workshop, and a speech from Dr. John Brantner of the Division of Health Care Psychology at the University of Minnesota Hospitals.
November 8, 1974 - Black activist Angela Davis speaks at St. John's University about racism as a disease and political oppression.