Ampers

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Ampers is an association of 18 independent community radio stations in Minnesota.  Each station is locally managed and programmed by and for the local communities they serve.  Ampers is the largest network of community radio stations in the state of Minnesota and one of the largest of its kind in the United States. From Grand Marais, and Thief River Falls, to Mankato and Winona, and just about everywhere in between, we’ve got Minnesota covered. Our combined audience is about 250,000 devoted listeners.  Ampers has no affiliation with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and receives no financial support from MPR. 

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Short features documenting the impact of Minnesota's Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 23, 2014
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A Look at Legacy

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Apr 12, 2015
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40 Pieces

Bearing Witness with Anthony Galloway and Georgia Fort is a production of Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice, a journalism project created and supported by Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities, in partnership with KMOJ Radio and The Minnesota Humanities Center.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Mar 27, 2021
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First-hand experiences and advice about the challenges and rewards associated with caring for loved ones in the last stages of life. Allina Health helped fund this project.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Dec 29, 2016
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140 Pieces

We discuss race, identity, social justice and culture in a region grappling with demographic changes

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jan 14, 2021
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select Ampers programming related to COVID19

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Apr 20, 2020
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Sex Trafficking - Breaking Free Sex traffic. At KMOJ, we're not letting it hide. We are pleased to present two hours of programming about people in our community trying to end it. We are proud that last year's program on sex trafficking won a first place award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the special projects category.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 05, 2019
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Moments in the musical history of Minnesota

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 14, 2017
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Minnesota Music Notes celebrating noteworthy artists, people and moments that shaped the history of Minnesota's Mainroom First Avenue

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Sep 26, 2019
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Each week Minnesota Native News looks at social, economic, cultural, health issues and more facing Minnesota’s Native American communities. By informing and educating all Minnesotans about events, activities, and issues in Minnesota’s Native American communities this program interweaves the Native American culture into the rest of the communities of the state.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jan 29, 2014

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Today’s conversation is with Ashley Fairbanks, an Anishinaabe artist, organizer, designer, and digital strategist, and the Creative Director for th...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Minnesota Native News, a profile of a remarkable leader. Laurie Stern has the story of Terri Yellowhammer, who was just sworn in as a ...

Bought by WTIP, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WDSE, KMSU and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Early 1942, mechanics at Mid-Continent Airlines in the Twin Cities were asked to retrofit twenty-four B-25 bombers. They only found out what the pl...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, KRPR, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 11
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Mother and daughter were both award-winning crop artists. Lillian Colton’s creations earned her the nickname the Seed Queen. But daughter Linda Pet...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, KVSC, KRPR, KVSC and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
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Pearl S. Buck was devastated. The Mayo Clinic doctor said she should put her daughter, who had severe cognitive disabilities caused by a then unkno...

Bought by KVSC, KSRQ, WDSE, KSRQ, KRPR and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 12
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It didn’t get any bigger than this. Tippi Hedren, Minnesotan, model, single mother, had been cast in Alfred Hitchcock’s new film. But she soon disc...

Bought by KSRQ, KFAI Minneapolis, KVSC, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
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People remembered Melissa Gilbert as the freckle-faced Laura Ingalls on TV’s Little House on the Prairie. But in 2008, the Guthrie Theater announce...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, WDSE, KSRQ, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 16
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A state report released this summer found one third of all Minnesota counties are not complying with the federal and state laws aimed at keeping Na...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, KSRQ, WDSE, WTIP and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Today’s conversation is with Deanna StandingCloud (Red Lake Anishinaabe) who is a mom, playwright, organizer, artist, community leader, pow-wow emc...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Today’s conversation features Dalton Walker (Red Lake Anishinaabe) who is a National Correspondent, for Indian Country Today. Dalton Walker shares ...

Bought by KVSC and WTIP


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 2