January 5, 1993 - Corazones Valiente, a women's folk-art cooperative from Costa Rica.
January 5, 1993 -
January 5, 1993 -
January 6, 1993 - Bernard Brommer, president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations), discusses issues of concern to organized labor…including contract concessions, apprenticeship programs, and state budget problems.
January 9, 1993 - Pamela Fletcher, Margaret Carlson and Chen Lee Barksdale. All authors read excerpts, Margaret Carlson reads from her book The Canning Season.
January 11, 1993 - MPR’s Gary Eichten interviews John Marty, state senator from District 54, about his ethics bill he is proposing at the State Capitol.
January 13, 1993 -
January 14, 1993 - MPR’s John Biewen reports that Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (Corporation) has pulled MECC software program “Freedom!” video game after criticism from students and schools, finding it racially inappropriate. The program simulates the attempt by African slaves to escape from an 1830s southern plantation via the Underground Railroad.
January 14, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Maus interviews Asian American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee. The Hibbing writer talks about her book “Finding My Voice.” Lee also discusses dealing with racism.
January 15, 1993 - MPR’s Catherine Winter interviews Anthony Signorelli and Paul Macadam, editors of “Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War,” published by Inroads Press (Minneapolis, MN). Poet Thomas R. Smith from River Falls, WI. also takes part in conversation.