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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
In 1972, Helen and Russell Bryan received a tax bill in the amount of $147.95. They stubbornly refused to pay, setting off a chain of events that would land them in the US Supreme Court. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about a Minnesota case that helped Indian Nations determine their own economic future. [Read Transcript...]
For most of history, the human heart was off limits to medicine. The first closed heart surgery began in the 1940’s. In the 1950’s, a pair of physicians who worked in mobile surgical units of World War II discovered that open heart surgery could be an option. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about the first … [Read Transcript...]
Since the 1970’s intersections all over Minnesota use a special traffic management system developed by a local company by the name of-you guessed it-3M. Producer Allison Herrera tells us about the Opticom. [Read Transcript...]
When history tells the story of mob violence against African-Americans, the setting is usually the American South. But, three African-Americans were lynched right here in Duluth, Minnesota in 1920. Producer Allison Herrera has more on this painful chapter in Minnesota’s history. [Read Transcript...]
