Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
This week, independent journalists unite as we check in with KingDemetrius Pendleton and Louie Tran with Move for Justice News. They discuss the challenges and nuances of covering this movement and the increasing reliance on independent journalists from private security assaults on community to protests on the ground.
When Dave Mruz was three, his parents bought him a subscription to Donald Duck comics. Years later, he learned those same comics had been created by men who’d lived and worked in the same Twin Cities he called home. This was how a comics fan became the historian of Minnesota cartooning. Here’s Britt Aamodt with “The Toonsmith: Dave Mruz, Minnesota’s Cartooning Historian.”
James Garrett Jr. is an architect at 4RM+ULA architects. His family has deep ties to St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. During his childhood, James fell in love with buildings and the bustle of urban landscapes. Today, he builds those buildings, with an eye toward creating dense, lively, and inclusive urban spaces.
Nationwide, Black architects make up only 2% of the industry. In Minnesota, less than 1% of architects are Black. 4RM+ULA is one of the only Black-owned architecture firms in Minnesota. Reporter Katie Thornton speaks with James Garrett Jr. about his life, his passion for architecture, and how community-driven design can be a type of activism.
This week, Anthony and Georgia catch up on the weeks news and discuss the letter from Attorney General Ellison to the Judge in the Chauvin Trial asking for a correction of the record. We also checkin with Racial Reckoning reporters Tiffany Bui and Safiya Mohamed on how they are covering this moment
The plain, uninteresting Mary Fridley Price. Not the sort of girl anyone would notice—except now she’d gone and leapt over a cliff to save her poor dog. The dull—and very dead girl—was suddenly front-page headlines. No one was supposedly more grief-stricken than her charming husband Frederick Price, who found comfort in his wife’s inheritance—and in the arms of his mistress…
Are you suspicious? Mary’s father sure was.
KFAI’s Britt Aamodt shares the story of Minneapolis’ most notorious murder trial of 1916.
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