June 29, 1992 - Donald Katz, author of Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America, details researching his book and reactions to the topic.
July 1, 1992 - MPR’s Dan Olson talks with Gleason Glover, retiring president of Minneapolis Urban League, about his tenure and decades long efforts in civil rights movement. Other topics include housing, cultural impacts, mentoring, education, and a developing diversity of population.
July 4, 1992 - A Weekend Edition interview with Karen Nussbaum, co-author of Solutions for the New Work Force: Policies for a New Social Contract and contributor to The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment: Candid Advice from 9 to 5, The National Association of Working Women by Ellen Bravo and Ellen Cassedy.
July 6, 1992 - Robert Astrup, president of the Minnesota Education Association (MEA), provides his thoughts on hiring men and minorities into lower grade teaching roles and about the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
July 6, 1992 - MPR’s Gary Eichten talks with a researcher about a Sunday Star Tribune article regarding AIDS. Interviewee points out concerns on how the disease and those at risk is defined.
July 14, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder interviews UK researchers Anne Robinson and Nigel Hall about whole language curriculum.
July 14, 1992 - MPR’s Kate Smith interviews Ellen Chesler, author of the book, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. Chesler comments on a variety of women’s issues and the efforts of Margaret Sanger.
July 14, 1992 - A Midday interview with Dr. Stuart Yudofsky, who talks about medication avenues for those affected by mental conditions and illness. Dr. Yudofsky is co-author of the book, What You Need to Know About Psychiatric Drugs.
July 15, 1992 - Midmorning’s Paula Schroeder talks with Minnesota Black actor and playwright Kim Hines about her revival of Who Was I The Last Time I Saw You?, which is being staged at The Southern Theater. The play is a one-woman performance highlighting four different lives of Black women/girls. Segment includes a powerful reading by Hines.
July 29, 1992 - A discussion on building more diversity in business world and those efforts, including the Glass Ceiling Initiative and the Minnesota 100, a program that links middle-management professional women with executives from other companies.