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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Community Conversations: Whose Job is it Anyway? Educating Muslims and Non-Muslims Alike
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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Whose job is it to educate people - those who are misunderstanding or those who are misunderstood?

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
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Creativity: In Context
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
Caption: Day 11 of "Swimming Together." First firing results. Nora Naranjo Morse led the "Swimming Together" workshop, a project with The Longhouse at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, Credit: Nora Naranjo Morse
UMD’s 2nd Annual Creativity Conference was organized around the ideas of creativity across disciplines and cultures this year. But as our free-ran...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
Community Conversations: Campus Safety
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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Since 1990, colleges and universities have been required by law to disclose campus safety information and also to take steps to keep students safe ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 28:52
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Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, and Why it Matters
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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We’re talking about free speech, freedom of the press and why it matters here at home. Our guests in the studio are Don Shelby, veteran broadcast ...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 2
Communities and Police
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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“Black lives matter.” “Blue lives (meaning police officers) matter.” Here in Duluth, we like to think all lives matter and in our comparatively sm...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Best of Duluth 2014
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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There will be plenty of time in 2015 to talk about the challenges in our community, but first, let's take some time to look at what went right in 2...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 31:45
Fact, Fiction and Ebola
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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Readers know that Ebola makes for a terrifying threat in novels. Once Ebola stepped off the page, though, and became a global concern – or panic.

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 27:07
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Domestic Violence in the Public Eye
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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The spate of NFL players under fire for domestic abuse - and the release of a video showing it - has people talking about NFL policies, sports cult...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 1
Depression and Identity
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
Caption: actor Robin Williams, Credit: Sam Taylor Wood
The death of actor and comedian Robin Williams has opened up a conversation about depression ... and how our identity is wrapped up in what we do a...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Companion Animals and the Puppy and Kitten Mill Bill
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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A panel discussion on companion animals and the part they play in our lives, plus the changes coming up thanks to the Dog and Cat Breeder Regulatio...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:25
  • Purchases: 1
Minnesota: Women's Economic Security Act
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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Following Governor Mark Dayton signing in to law bills pertaining to workplace protections for women and their families, Duluth City Councilors an...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 1
Minnesota's Proposed Anti-Bullying Legislation
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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Volunteer for OutFront Minnesota Gary Anderson, Autumn Leva with the Minnesota Family Council, and William Gronseth, Duluth Superintendent of Schoo...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Face of Mental Illness
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
Caption: Julia Schliesing, Miss Minneapolis 2014, Credit: Lola Visuals
Even though one out of four people suffer from some form of mental illness, the stigma persists. Find out what a pair of UMD alums (and documentary...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 2
Homeless Bill of Rights
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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What are the root causes of homelessness ... and why do some call it "a spiritual failing of our country"?

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 1
Addiction in Our Community
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
Caption: Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment, Duluth, MN
For months, the publicity surrounding synthetic drugs in Duluth took the spotlight off an even more pervasive trend: the abuse of prescription medi...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 2
Holocaust Education & Commemoration
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
Caption: Nuremberg trial filming
This episode of Community Conversations is dedicated to Holocaust education and commemoration. 75 years after Kristalnacht, there are still so man...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 2
Voting in Minnesota
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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We went to the polls for what is called an “off year election,” a ballot full of local elections and tax referendums. How important are these elect...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
Domestic Violence: Other Voices
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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Domestic Violence: Other Voices: What makes a man batter a woman and how are we contributing to the spread of domestic violence in the way we raise...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 30:28
  • Purchases: 1
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math!
From: WDSE
Series: Community Conversations
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You may have heard about the push for STEM learning in the schools - STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math, and no wonder, sinc...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2013
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 2