Alex Chadwick
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- Nation's first Hmong legislator - Mee Moua to be sworn in
Mee Moua, a Hmong woman in St. Paul, makes history when she's sworn in as the nation's first Hmong legislator. The Southeast Asian hill tribe people started arriving in the U.S. more than 20 years ago. Yet, for many Hmong, their true date of arrival in this country starts with this political moment.
- Pledge drive with rebroadcast of "Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing"
On this pledge drive Midday program, a rebroadcast of MPR documentary Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing. Frances Densmore was a Red Wing woman who recorded the songs of Native Americans around the turn of the century.
- Carl Sagan - Education: Strategies for Change
Midday broadcasts a 1989 NPR recording of Carl Sagan, author and astrophysicist, speaking at a Washington D.C. conference co-sponsored by the AMA National Initiative for Science and Technology. Sagan’s address, entitled "Education: Strategies for Change," deals with the dangers of a scientifically illiterate population.
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