KFAI 90.3 FMKFAI 90.3 FM

KFAI went on the air in 1978 as Fresh Air Radio, a volunteer project in Minneapolis that has never taken a commercial spot since. Its studios sit on Riverside Avenue in Cedar-Riverside, the West Bank neighborhood that holds the largest Somali population in the United States, and the programming reflects the blocks around it more directly than any format could. The signal runs at 90.3 in Minneapolis and 106.7 across Saint Paul, and it is volunteers who build and staff the schedule.

Dozens of programs share the week in Amharic, Dari, Oromo, Somali, Tigrinya, Spanish, Vietnamese, Filipino, French and English. Voices of Ethiopia, Eritrean Community Radio and Filipino-American News sit beside Bop Street's rockabilly and R&B, House Party, and the metal hours of Root of All Evil. Fresh Fruit, meanwhile, is the country's longest-running LGBTQIA+ radio program.