Content Disclaimer

Potentially Harmful Language or Content Notice

The MPR Archives contains some content that may be harmful or difficult to listen to. Collection items across MPR's history are preserved and made available as a historical record. As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views due to pervasive systemic intolerance. In addition, some interviews and recordings relate to violent or graphic events which are preserved for their historical significance.

Our curatorial practice is to present original audio as it aired and was published. When we find outdated or offensive content, we do our best to provide a written disclaimer without editing the historical material.

We acknowledge that we are often describing communities of which we are not a part, and many of these communities are historically marginalized and underrepresented in archives. We recognize our responsibility to describe our collections respectfully and carefully and are committed to using inclusive, antiracist, non-derogatory language when describing our collections material. We also acknowledge that, despite our best efforts, we may make mistakes.

If you discover harmful or offensive language in content that is not noted as such, or if you find mistakes in our catalog record descriptions, please contact us at archive@mpr.org.

This statement has been adapted from that of the Digital Public Library of America.