Community Conversations

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Community Conversations on 103.3FM KUMD

KUMD hosts 3-4 guests from Northern Minnesota into our studios for a conversation on issues critical to our community, to move the conversation forward. The program works to connect academic research and personal experience to community action. Topics range from gun control to sustainability, from elder care to accessibility. This program airs monthly on the first Monday of each month.


50 Pieces

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Caption: "Proud" June 19, 2016 , Credit: Sheila Sund/Flickr
This month's Community Conversation, talking about local reactions to the mass shooting in Orlando, is as notable for who's NOT on the air as for w...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 31:29
Caption: Photo 1: Mathers Museum of World Cultures/Flickr Crow Woman and Child, Location: Crow Reservation, Montana Photo 2: elycefeliz/Flickr Photo 3: Raymund Flandez/Flickr A Jewish woman walks towards the gas chambers with three young children after going throu
The theory of historical trauma was developed in the 1980s by Native American social worker and mental health expert Maria Yellow Horse Braveheart ...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:27
Caption: Photo 1: Mathers Museum of World Cultures/Flickr Cheyenne woman Jennie Red Robe with her child.  Location: Crow Reservation, Montana Date: 1909 Photo 2: John Tewell A black family at the Hermitage Plantation, Savannah, Georgia, USA, about 1907 Photo 3: Ma
Last time on Community Conversations, we introduced the theory of historical trauma. It was developed in the 1980s by Native American social worker...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 31:04
Caption:  September 3, shortly before protestors clashed with private security. Reyna Crow writes " I took it as I was approaching the end of the wooden bridge there where the women linked arms a few minutes later.", Credit: Reyna Crow
Many environmentalists and tribes have been united in recent years and months over proposed mining or pipeline projects they’re concerned post a ha...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
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Veteran's Day honors the veterans among us ... but many veterans aren't comfortable with the stereotypes they face when they get home. What if the...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 32:01
Caption: Gaelyn Lea
As KUMD prepares to blow out 2017 with our 60th anniversary, we don't want to lose sight of all the things we did this year to get people talking. ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:01:14
Caption: Abe and Beth Al-Qudah share a meal with the mayor of Superior and his wife, Credit: Abe Al-Qudah
We’re taking a look back on what our community was talking about over the past year.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:12
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Last December, local television reporter and news anchor Michelle Lee retired after almost 40 years as a broadcaster. Within a few weeks, she boar...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Caption: Nathson Fields spent almost 20 years in prison (12 on death row) for a crime he didn't commit, Credit: Lisa Johnson
This time on Community Conversations, we'll hear the story of a man who spent almost 20 years in prison - over half of them on death row - wrongly ...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 30:15
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Caption: Jafra Said, Credit: Lisa Johnson
Jafra Said is a human rights activist who came to the US from Syria several years ago when she married an American. Jafra spoke recently at a Loav...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 25:05