MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds a fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.
MN90 is fun exploration of wide-ranging topics including sports, politics, environment, business, entertainment, pop culture, and more.
Roy Wilkins earned his professional chops as a Twin Cities journalist. But it was as an activist and director of the NAACP, says producer Britt Aamodt, that Wilkins helped change history with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Craig Wright was working at a St. Paul church when he got ones of those calls every writer dreams of. Eventually, says Britt Aamodt, that call led to Oprah and a chance for Wright to create his own TV series.
Kenneth H. Dahlberg was not a household name. But when the Minnesota native died in 2011, says Britt Aamodt, obituaries ran around the country. And every one of the mentioned Watergate.
The turn of the 20th century saw a surge in immigration from Eastern Europe. To the town of Bramble, says Britt Aamodt, that immigration wave brought a religion and a small beautiful church with a gold dome.
Joan Kroc was playing the organ at a Twin Cities restaurant when she met her future husband, McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc. That chance meeting would eventually lead the West St. Paul native, says Britt Aamodt, to a life devoted to philanthropy.
Nobody would ever remember the name Zacarias Moussaoui, if it weren’t for 9/11. But on the date that changed American history, Britt Aamodt reports, the student pilot was sitting in a Minnesota jail.
Before Don Fraser was mayor of Minneapolis, Britt Aamodt tells us, he was a congressman embroiled in a battle with the Unification Church and its charismatic leader.
