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2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris was first mentioned by NPR in a 2003 Morning Edition broadcast. She had just defeated two-term San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, making her the first woman, African American and South Asian to serve as that county’s district attorney. She would later go on to serve as Attorney General of California, and then become a U.S. Senator.

“I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.” 

-Kamala Harris, from Morning Edition's Election 2020: Opening Arguments series.

Photo: Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Kamala Harris at the Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland, California on March 28, 1997. NPR first mentioned Harris in 2003.

Credit: Mary F. Calvert/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images

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When All Things Considered launched in 1971, NPR brought a "new and different" sound to radio. This new sound featured the creative energy and electrosonic compositions of Donald Voegeli, a musician and composer at the University of Wisconsin. The university received funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to compose music for both public television and radio. At the time, audio experimentation in electronic sound was on the rise, and Don took on this project with his synthesizer. Using a Putney, Don did some composing and the first iteration of the All Things Considered theme was born.

In this 1974 interview with Don, Susan Stamberg tells him, “You are really the man who has given us our sound.”

Image: Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives (ID S14739)

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Curious about the history of International Women’s Day?

NPR RAD found this Weekend Edition piece from 1992 in which Karen Nussbaum traces the holiday’s origins to the early 20th century women’s labor movement and reflects on the legacy of the horrific 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

Photo: Attendees commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire by holding up shirts with victims’ names attached on March 25, 2011. Credit: Eric Thayer/Stringer/Getty Images

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NPR is partnering with the Radio Preservation Task Force to save America’s radio heritage!

The RAD team is presenting at the RPTF conference with reps from Library of Congress, University of Maryland, Smithsonian, American Archives of Public Broadcasting and media scholars from all over the country. NPR RADsters will share gems from the archives of NPR and explain how our work helps to preserve NPR history and provide access for future generations.

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