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From The Newsroom: Keynote Of Facing Race, Viral Buzz And Backlash

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published November 14, 2014 at 6:45 PM CST

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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Civil rights activist and singer Bernice Johnson Reagon was the key-note speaker Friday Night at Facing Race, a conference of inter-generational activists, students, and teachers working towards racial justice in the U.S.

And a look at the curious case of Alex from Target.

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.

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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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