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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
A 3M engineer perfected a unique technology to put Minnesota on the high end audio technology map. Jim Whiney blazed a trail in the 1960s, creating an impossibly thin and critically lauded stereo speaker that is still manufactured in Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]
Author, poet, activist, and feminist Meridel Le Sueur was an inspiration to many young women who came of age during the women’s movement in the 1970’s and beyond. [Read Transcript...]
This small collection of random words glued to magnets and stuck to refrigerators and office cubicles world wide got their start right here in Minnesota. After suffering from writers block, creator Dave Kapell cut words out of his journal and spread them out on his desk. Leftover magnets from a local pizza joint and a … [Read Transcript...]
To say that Frederick McGhee had a remarkable life would be an understatement. Born into slavery, he became the first African American attorney to practice in MN. He was among the founders of the NAACP. He argued against separate but equal laws in 1910, nearly forty years before Plessy vs. Ferguson. MN90 producer Allison Herrera … [Read Transcript...]
