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Special programming from MPR News.

Remembering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
A program to remember NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who died in 2020 at the age of 101. Margot Lee Shetterly speaks about her book, "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.”
A Brief History of Women in Bars: A Minnesota Story in Three Rounds
The 18th Amendment marked the start of Prohibition and the 19th Amendment granted many women the right to vote. In this new documentary, Katie Thornton looks at how the state’s temperance movement set the stage for its women’s suffrage movement.
'Aspen Ideas Now': The importance of music and the arts on our brains and health
From the “Aspen Ideas Now” series, renowned singer Renee Fleming and National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins speak about how music and the arts affect us.
The annual economy year-in-review with Chris Farrell and Louis Johnston
Economist Louis Johnston and MPR’s Chris Farrell size up the economy at year’s end and look to the future in the annual program hosted by MPR’s Gary Eichten.