Minnesota Now: June 25, 2024
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A state senate committee is trying to learn more about what it calls a pattern of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incidents at the University of Minnesota. Lawmakers invited professors, students and administration to speak at a committee hearing later Tuesday afternoon. The committee chair joined Minnesota Now.
40 years ago Tuesday, Prince released Purple Rain. We talked about the album with one of the people who helped make it — and learned about a Prince-themed musical coming to Minneapolis.
If you have kids in your life, you know they are some of the busiest people among us. We talked to a therapist who says summer break is a good time to focus on teen mental health.
We remembered an icon of the Minneapolis folk music scene, “Spider” John Koerner.
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Our Minnesota Music Minute was “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince and our Song of the Day was “Midnight Manifestos” by Them Coulee Boys.
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