MPR News Presents

Special programming from MPR News.

Listen: Jill Biden and other notable speeches at day 2 of the DNC
Speech highlights from Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention, including Jill Biden’s keynote address.
Listen: Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders headline opening night of DNC
Speeches from the opening night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, including former first day Michelle Obama and US Senator Bernie Sanders and many others.
APM Marketplace special: Reset the economy to end systemic racism
Reset the economy to end systemic racism: Kai Ryssdal speaks with experts about what it will take to begin to end the systemic racism that has defined our society and our economy for the last 400 years.
Climate change, the environmental movement and racism
Air pollution, severe weather and the economic upheaval brought on by climate change has a serious impact on people of color and their communities, yet their voices are often left out of policy responses and market solutions. Can there be a green movement that is inclusive and actively anti-racist?
APM Marketplace special: Reimagining the Economy
David Brancaccio and Kimberly Adams of Marketplace host this special report, “Reimagining the Economy,” exploring what a new reimagined economy might look like and how we might get there.
COVID-19 crisis as a catalyst for innovation and equity in health care
Will the COVID-19 pandemic prove to be a catalyst for innovation and greater equity in health care? U of M professor Larry Jacobs of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs moderates a discussion with three guests.
APM Reports documentary, 'What the Words Say: Why so many kids don't understand what they read'
Everyone agrees the goal of reading instruction is for children to understand what they read. The question is: How do they get there? APM Reports tackles that question in their documentary: “What the words say: why so many kids don’t understand what they read.”
President Lyndon B. Johnson's 'We shall overcome' speech for passage of Voting Rights Act
To mark the 55th anniversary of the day President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, hear a personal and impassioned televised speech he gave to Congress, often remembered as his "We shall overcome" speech.
Humankind documentary: Judicial Independence
Have our courts – intended by America’s founders to be an independent arbiter of justice – turned into another political battlefield? Are today’s judges mere “politicians in robes?” The appointment of judges looms large as we head toward Election Day. This program reconstructs the wild history of how we got into this dilemma, which has left bitter feelings on all sides.
APM Marketplace special, Technology: The Pivot Point
Marketplace Tech’s Molly Wood shares how current innovations might help us transition to our post-pandemic future and how the crisis has underscored the inequity in internet access.