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While Martin Luther King Jr. may be the name most people think of when they think of civil rights, there’s another seminal character in the story of equality in the U.S. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel learns about Roy Wilkins, who grew up in St. Paul and attended the University of Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]
When you’re in the middle of it, every blizzard seems like the worst blizzard. But the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940 really was one of Minnesota’s most lethal storms, primarily because there was so little warning. [Read Transcript...]
Muslims in Minnesota come from diverse cultural backgrounds. The majority of the approximately 150,000 Muslims in the state are from African and Arab countries and the Indian subcontinent. MN90 producer Marisa Helms discovers that no matter where followers of Islam immigrated from, they are all united by their faith, and the celebration of the Islamic holiday Eid Al-Adha, the festival of Abraham. [Read Transcript...]
Language is something most of us take for granted -- we just speak and the words come out. But tribal languages in Minnesota and around the world are in danger of extinction. MN90 producer Marisa Helms reports on the loss of the Ojibwe language and the efforts to reclaim it. [Read Transcript...]
