From The Newsroom: Book Battles, Facing Race

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published November 13, 2014 at 6:43 PM CST

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Before paging through Huck Finn, A Farewell to Arms and The Scarlet Letter at Highland Park High School, several 11th graders handed their parents a permission slip.

And national conference on race started Thursday in Dallas, and with it came a new poll and some optimism on race relations in North Texas.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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