May 4, 1992 - Midmorning presents commentary from educator and journalist Ann Daly Goodwin on creative ways on utilizing technology for reading.
May 4, 1992 - April Backman, an 18-year-old and a senior at BOLD High School in Olivia, Minnesota, reads her First Vote essay.
May 4, 1992 - Michele Lammers, a senior at Southland High School in Adams, Minnesota, reads her First Vote essay.
May 4, 1992 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews Thomas Heffelfinger, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, about U.S. Justice Department probe into Los Angeles Police Department. Civil rights complaints locally are also discussed.
May 4, 1992 - Former Vice-President Walter Mondale shares his views on President Bush comments about the situation in Los Angeles following the verdict in the trial of four policemen. Mondale also discusses what he sees as failed social and economic U.S. policies affecting the country.
May 4, 1992 - MPR’s John Biewen reports on sermon by Rev. Richard Coleman at Saint Peter's African Methodist Episcopal Church following the acquittal of police officers in Rodney King trial and the subsequent unrest and rioting in Los Angeles. As part of report, Biewen interviews parishioners to get their thoughts.
May 5, 1992 - MPR’s Kitty Eisele interviews Alfred Depew, an American-born Canadian short story writer and journalist. Depew details the process and drama of his character development.
May 5, 1992 - Black poet Nikki Giovanni addressees a group of college students at the University of Minnesota on the subject of the violence in Los Angeles after the verdict of the Rodney King case.
May 6, 1992 - A panel discussion on the new international newspaper “We”, hosted at Minnesota Meeting. Panelists include Edward Hughes, publisher at Hearst in New York; Maxwell McCrohon, U.S. editor of We; and Sergei Dardykin, deputy international editor of Izvestia, who will also be the chief of We's Russian staff in Washington. Don Shelby of WCCO-TV is moderator. “We” is published for the Commonwealth of Independent States, a joint venture between Hearst Newspapers and Izvestia. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
May 6, 1992 - A Worldview interview with author and journalist Gloria Emerson about her book, Gaza: A Year in the Intifada: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land.