Bekah Morr is KERA's Morning Edition producer. She came to KERA from NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a news assistant at Weekend All Things Considered. While there, she produced stories and segments for a national audience, covering everything from rising suicide rates among police officers, to abuse allegations against Nike coaches and everything in between. Before that, she interned for a year on Think with Krys Boyd, helping to research, write and produce the daily talk-show. A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington, Bekah spent her formative journalism years working at the student news organization The Shorthorn. As editor in chief, she helped create the publication’s first, full-color magazine.
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KERA News Tents are set up steps away from City Hall, at Pioneer Plaza, in downtown Dallas, as a way to protest the city’s treatment of the homeless community.
Dallas city officials began shutting down the homeless encampment known as Camp Rhonda last month, but organizers reopened the temporary site downtown in hopes of getting city leaders to find solutions to the housing problems. Now, it s closed again.
Earlier this week, a group of people experiencing homelessness ventured to downtown Dallas and began to set up an encampment one block away from City Hall. They called it Camp Rhonda.
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A group of young women from Dallas are among the first young women in the country to earn the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America.
Bekah Morr from member station KERA has their story.
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