Rebekah Morr
Assistant ProducerBekah 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.
Bekah was born and raised in rural Central Illinois, but North Texas became her home in 2016. She loves movies with strong female leads, veganizing her favorite recipes and if she’s not listening to a podcast, she can usually be found hanging out with her pup, Ava.
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COVID-19 case numbers in Dallas County have plateaued in recent weeks, but PolicyLab researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia say another wave could be on the horizon. -
To help combat food insecurity among the homeless population in Dallas, volunteers came together over the weekend to build a community garden for Camp Rhonda. But not all of the encampment's residents are happy about the project.
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Texas Republican governor cited Major League Baseball's decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta over the passage of Georgia's Election Integrity Act, saying MLB has adopted "a false narrative about the election law reforms in Georgia."
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For a number of K-12 students, being away from the classroom and learning virtually over the past year has caused them to slip academically and fall behind with their social and emotional skills. In a virtual panel, experts talked about ways to address these challenges.
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The city of Dallas has renamed a stretch of South Lamar Street in honor of Botham Jean, a Black man killed by a white off-duty Dallas police officer in 2018.
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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.
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Summer Smith says her son was physically assaulted, forced to drink urine and called racial slurs by white classmates during a sleepover. Plano police and the school district are investigating.
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Residents of a Dallas homeless encampment known as Camp Rhonda are being forced to relocate again. The property they’re staying on is industrially zoned, and the city gave the property owner until the end of February to bring the lot into compliance.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are among those who have donated money to Genesis Women’s Shelter and Support in Dallas after the organization suffered roof damage during last week’s winter storm.
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Problems with water service are mounting in across the state as utilities struggle to maintain water pressure. Power outages are affecting delivery, as is high demand and sub-freezing temperatures.
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What used to be a vacant lot near Deep Ellum is now an encampment where about 30 people facing homelessness reside. The city of Dallas wants them to move out.
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Since 2010, Paul Quinn College's "We Over Me Farm" has grown more than 30,000 pounds of food for the community. It has also stepped up its efforts to help during the COVID-19 pandemic.
