December 10, 1984 -
December 16, 1984 - MPR’s Doug Hamilton interviews former U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy about the War Powers Act. McCarthy is in the Twin Cities for a Hamline University Forum on U.S. involvement in Granada.
December 20, 1984 - A Midday broadcast of author Madeleine L'Engle at Chautauqua Lecture Series in New York. In address, L'Engle tells her personal story of rebellion and individualism as she worked her way up the literary ladder.
December 20, 1984 - Robert Collins reviews August Wilson’s play, Jitney. The work is being staged at the Penumbra Theatre.
December 21, 1984 - Angela Davis, black activist and teacher, speaking at the Sabathani Community Center in Minneapolis, and by the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women. Davis’s address was titled "Women and the Fight Against Racism.” She talks about women, race, and poverty and the effects of the Reagan administration policies on female heads of households.
December 26, 1984 - Cicero Wilson, director of the neighborhood revitalization program at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, provided the keynote speech at the 1984 Itasca Seminar. The theme of the seminar was "Competition and Cooperation - Power and Sharing: Finding the Balances". Wilson spoke about the forces of competition and cooperation in revitalizing distressed neighborhoods. After his presentation, Wilson took several questions and comments from conference participants. Cicero Wilson was educated at Harvard and Columbia and was president of the "Students' Afro-American Society" at Columbia during the student protests of 1968. The Itasca Seminar is organized and sponsored by the Minneapolis Foundation. This year's seminar was also co-sponsored by 17 different corporations, foundations and other organizations in the Twin Cities.
December 26, 1984 - MPR’s Dennis Hamilton interviews Paul Durand, author of the book Where the Waters Gather and the Rivers Meet: An Atlas of the Eastern Sioux.
December 26, 1984 - MPR’s Stephen Smith profiles Prince Rogers Nelson. Segment includes interview with critic Jon Bream, author of the book "Prince: Inside the Purple Reign" and commentary from local evangelists who find Prince’s music offensive.
December 26, 1984 -
December 27, 1984 - Virginia Corsi, consultant, speaking at the Itasca Seminar "Competition and Cooperation - Power and Sharing: Finding the Balances,” organized and sponsored by the Minneapolis Foundation. Corsi’s address was on the topic "Risk-Taking as a Means to Personal and Professional Growth." Virginia Corsi heads a 20-member institutional investors council in New York City. Before that she worked in the Agency for International Development in the U.S. State Department, and earlier was associated with the Aspen Institute of Colorado and New York City. Corsi is a graduate of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.