MPR News Presents

Speeches, documentaries and debates.

Is the U.S. Department of Justice being 'weaponized?'
Washington Post reporter Tom Hamburger and former Vice President Walter Mondale discuss the politics of the Department of Justice at a University of Minnesota Humphrey School event.
Intelligence Squared debate: Washington should break up Big Tech
As the internet giants face more probes from the FCC, DOJ, and a host of state attorneys general, some are calling this Big Tech’s “big tobacco moment.” But are these companies really too large?
NPR Special Report: "The Summer of Racial Reckoning: Part 3"
Since the killing of George Floyd in an arrest by Minneapolis Police on May 25th, the summer has unfolded with an outpouring of grief, anger and calls to action. This is the third of three one-hour specials produced by NPR.
Labor Day special: MPR documentary, 'The Strike is On'
The MPR documentary, “The Strike is On,” an oral history of the early labor movement in Minnesota, with emphasis on the struggle to organize Iron Range workers, the Minneapolis truckers strike of 1934, and more.
APM Reports documentary: Black at Mizzou — Confronting race on campus
In 2015, Lauren Brown left her mostly Black neighborhood in Chicago for the University of Missouri. Moving to a predominantly white college was a huge shock, made even more difficult by the racial harassment she faced that fall. That same semester, the campus erupted in protests that made international news. Brown is the host of this APM Reports documentary, “Black at Mizzou: Confronting race on campus.”
Remembering civil rights activist Anna Arnold Hedgeman of Anoka
Most Minnesotans don't know that a Black woman who grew up in Anoka — Anna Arnold Hedgeman — was the only woman on the organizing committee for the 1963 March on Washington. She was a longtime activist for civil rights and social justice — but has been mostly forgotten. 2018 History Forum lecture by Thomas Sugrue of NYU about her and other civil rights activists in the north.