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MPR News Presents

Speeches, documentaries and debates.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on urban issues in '16 campaign

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on urban issues in '16 campaign

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake tells the National Press Club that the 2016 presidential candidates must address a wide range of urban issues. She talked about guns, violence, and more, on Wednesday, October 7th.

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Dr. Atul Gawande on 'Being Mortal'

Dr. Atul Gawande on 'Being Mortal'

The Boston surgeon is the author of "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End."

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Dan Buettner on lifestyle and longevity: The Blue Zones

Dan Buettner on lifestyle and longevity: The Blue Zones

Dan Buettner shares the research from his best-selling books about the "Blue Zones." Why do some people live measurably longer and better lives than others? He spoke at the Westminster Town Hall Forum October 2, 2015 as part of the Minneapolis Idea Exchange.

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Historian Harold Holzer on Abraham Lincoln

Historian Harold Holzer on Abraham Lincoln

Historian Harold Holzer gives the 2015 Lincoln Lecture at the Minnesota History Center, "Lincoln and the Press in 1865: Mayhem, Manhunts and Martyrdom." He spoke August 19, 2015 in St. Paul.

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Education Sec'y Arne Duncan on ways to stop 'school-to-prison pipeline'

Education Sec'y Arne Duncan on ways to stop 'school-to-prison pipeline'

US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told the National Press Club audience today that institutional racism and class inequality is one of the "hardest conversations to have in education," but it's the most important.

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Pixar's Pete Docter: Art is essential

Pixar's Pete Docter: Art is essential

The Minnesota native talks about the role of movies and storytelling in today's society.

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Intelligence Squared debate: do college rape cases belong in the courts?

Intelligence Squared debate: do college rape cases belong in the courts?

Can colleges provide due process for defendants accused of rape, and adequate justice for the victims? Or do these cases belong in the criminal courts? An Intelligence Squared debate featuring law professors from Harvard, Yale, CUNY and NYU.

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Dan Olson's 'Minnesota Sounds and Voices' special

Dan Olson's 'Minnesota Sounds and Voices' special

Highlights from Dan Olson's "Minnesota Sounds and Voices" series, including forest ecologist AmberBeth Van Ningen, dancer Nancy Raddatz, Kathy Dummer of Blue Mounds State Park, educator Jamal Abdur Salaam, Dakota educator Sisoka Duta, jazz man Butch Thompson, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes and piper Dick Hensold with members of Messiah's Men.

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Penumbra Theater 'On The Front Lines' discussion about race

Penumbra Theater 'On The Front Lines' discussion about race

Penumbra Theater co-artistic director Sarah Bellamy moderated the discussion, featuring the president of the Minneapolis Chapter of the NAACP Nekima Levy-Pounds, Metro Transit Police chief John Harrington, artist and activist Signe Harriday and consultant Dave Ellis.

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