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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Zoe Carrasco was attending Girls State in St. Paul when Officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of killing Philando Castile. It changed her perspective and the trajectory of her life. She studies Criminal Justice at Bemidji State University where she’s also a member of the track and field team and President of the BSU Black Student Union. In this Area Voices, learn why she’s committed to police reform and how the Black Student Union serves students at Bemidji State.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Gabrielle Congrave Baggenstoss is a Regional Navigator for Support Within Reach, a sexual violence resource center. In this segment of Area Voices, she discusses the prevalence of sexual assault, what consent is, how to help children grow stronger in their ability to protect their bodies, and much more.
Historian Brenda Child has been on a mission since she read Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969) by Vine Deloria Jr. and Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970) as a child.
Even then it was plain to her, growing up on Red Lake, that the traditional history was missing a lot of the narrative.
Nellie Frances was another woman like a lot of women in Minnesota.
Quiet and self-effacing, but active in her community and her church, it’s not surprising that the story of a Black woman on the front lines of women’s suffrage and civil rights issue hasn’t been told until now.
The Bemidji Area Arts Endowment (BAAE) has been supporting arts projects thru grants and scholarships in the Bemidji area since 1997. May 7th is the next deadline for grant applications. Amanda Davenport is Vice President of the BAAE. She joined the morning show to discuss the BAAE, projects it supports, how Covid-19 has changed arts related projects and much more .
Mary Casanova knew that there was talent and artistry – and mental illness – in her gene pool.
So in her third Rainy Lake historical novel, she spent some time at the St. Peter State Hospital Museum, creating a character who was not only a talented painter – she’d been committed to an insane asylum by her family, a widespread practice at the time that pioneering journalist Nellie Bly wrote about first hand in 1887.
