February 27, 1993 - MPR’s Elizabeth Stawicki profiles the Minnesota music group Sounds of Blackness. Report includes interviews with founder Russell Knighton and black students of Macalester College.
March 1, 1993 - American scientist and historian Jared Diamond details his book, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal.
March 1, 1993 - Minnesota author Gary Paulsen shares details on his research for book, Nightjohn. Paulsen, a writer of children's and young adult fiction, also comments on the importance of children in our culture.
March 2, 1993 - A Midmorning interview with local historian Peter Rachleff about his book, Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement.
March 3, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Mark Steil profiles the Zytec Corporation in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Steil interviews members of business about it’s non-traditional approach of worker self-management, an idea fostered by American business theorist W. Edwards Deming.
March 4, 1993 - MPR’s Paula Schroeder interviews recently elected Supreme Court Justice Alan Page, who discusses the importance for role models and need for focus on developing children. The Page Education Foundation is also discussed.
March 4, 1993 - MPR’s Mary Losure visits an “urban” farm on the outskirts of Cottage Grove as it and other farms try to figure out how to survive as development sprawl and assessments loom.
March 5, 1993 - On this First Friday program, MPR’s Beth Friend presents story and interview collection that includes: A look at Menstrual Wealth Catalogue; Isabell Mink reads from Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo; Bill Paternostro on sidewalk star making in Hollywood; Minnesota Orchestra labor dispute; filmmaker Kathleen Swann on a Minnesota murder; Jeff Hitt on artificial life; and Pulitzer prize winner Oscar Hijuelos discusses The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien.
March 5, 1993 - MPR’s Maja Beckstrom profiles Warm Wind in China, a Canadian AIDS play debuting in Rochester. Report includes interview with playwright Kent Stetson.
March 5, 1993 - This First Friday program segment presents an interview with American novelist Oscar Hijuelos about his book, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien.