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The Minneapolis Public School District is looking to its alumni for support.  The goal is to encourage a direct and personal kind of involvement with today's students and the district as a whole.   Towards that end, the nonprofit organization Achieve Minneapolis has established the Minneapolis Alumni Connection.   

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The annual May Day Parade and Festival in Minneapolis needs financial support. Heart of The Beast Puppet and Mask Theater Executive Director Loren Neimi came to KFAI to talk about the problem and some possible solutions.

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Representative Melissa Hortman is the House author of a bill to increase and stabilize transit funding in the Minnesota Legislature.

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Set your radio dial, computer, or intergalatic beamer to the  KFAI's Collective Eye, this Saturday from Noon- 1:30 pm, for a final celebration of International Women's Day. "and the ebb but reveals ME again" is an excerpt of a work from Zora Neale Hurston and seven illustrious women – Debra J. Stone, Lori-Young Williams, Amoke Kubat, Sha' Cage, Genesia Williams, Tish Jones and Beverly Cottman – will perform/read/create their individual interpretations of Hurston's work.

Set your radio dial, computer, or intergalatic beamer to the  KFAI's Collective Eye, this Saturday from Noon- 1:30 pm, for a final celebration of International Women's Day. "and the ebb but reveals ME again" is an excerpt of a work from Zora Neale Hurston and seven illustrious women – Debra J. Stone, Lori-Young Williams, Amoke Kubat, Sha' Cage, Genesia Williams, Tish Jones and Beverly Cottman – will perform/read/create their individual interpretations of Hurston's work.

Join us on March 26th at noon for Corazon Latino’s homage to Cuban pianist, arranger, and bandleader Bebo Valdés, who died Friday in Sweden at age 94. We will feature Bebo’s music from the 1940’s at the Tropicana in Havana through his most recent work. Un verdadero maestro nos ha dejado………

Author Bruce Rubenstein talks about his new book, “The Rockwell Heist”.

The Thyroid Solution: A Revolutionary Mind-Body Program for Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health

Its sometimes called a hidden epidemic: One in ten Americans—more than twenty million people, most of them women—has a thyroid disorder. At any given time, millions of people have an undiagnosed thyroid disorder and experience a chronic mental anguish that almost certainly arises from the very same source. Yet many primary-care doctors still don’t recognize the importance of the thyroid in mind-body health—and its especially crucial role in women’s well-being.

The April 2nd show of Conversations with Al McFarlane, will be recorded live from the Minneapolis Urban League at 2100 Plymouth Ave N in North Minneapolis.  The guest speaker will be Rep. 5th District Keith Ellison, who will discuss the economy, the sequester and what it means for families in the community. 

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Jim Tittle’s documentary, “The Price of Sand”, presents a story for Minnesotans currently debating the issue of mining of sand for fracking in the state.

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