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Almost 40 athletes who are heading to the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic and Paralympic games have connections to Minnesota. Whether they call this state home or just train or play sports here, here’s your chance to learn about the Minnesota ties at the Milano Cortina Games.
Minnesota is at the center of a federal ICE operation and some people are responding as protesters, volunteers or legal observers. Coming up at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, MPR News host Catharine Richert and her guests talk about what the tactics reveal about the future of protests.
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2024 Minneapolis Poet Laureate Heid E. Erdrich and various snow sculptors hosted a ceremony and vigil Saturday evening for “victims of ICE,” including the debut of a poem by Erdrich honoring Renee Macklin Good. The Luminary Loppet took place the same evening nearby on Lake of the Isles, bringing the beauty of this seasonal tradition during ugly times in the Twin Cities.
Gil Scott-Heron was a self-described ‘bluesologist’ and a bold voice of social activism in music in the 1970s and ‘80s. Find out more in the ‘Rhapsody in Black’ podcast.
Outkast won Album of the Year; 'TCB' by The Supremes with Temptations went to No. 1 on the U.S. album chart, Keith Knudsen, drummer for The Doobie Brothers died of chronic pneumonia, Queen released "Killer Queen", and R.E.M. held their first recording sessions, Today in Music History.