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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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Americans are encouraged to volunteer and help serve their communities — and North Texans are no exception. Here's a round up of events happening Monday around the area. -
The Dallas Police Department launches a new training program next month to try and prevent police misconduct.
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COVID-19 meant Scouts couldn't gather in groups, go camping, or help each other with projects. It also changed recruiting. But it didn't deter the first batch of girls who will receive their Eagle Scout rank in February.
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KERA's Rebekah Morr spoke with Lawrence "Ty" Washington Jr., the director of ScoutReach in North Texas, about eliminating barriers for communities of color and disadvantaged young people who want to engage in scouting.
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The gender pay gap is bigger in Texas, where woman earn 79.4% of what men earn on average.
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Instead of having over 1,000 volunteers take the the street on one night in January, local homeless response teams will spend two weeks in February canvassing Dallas and Collin Counties to try and get an accurate count.
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Friday was Transgender Day of Remembrance — a day to honor the lives lost to anti-trans violence.
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AAA Texas says 4 million Texans will still travel for Thanksgiving this year, down 5% from last year. Those who are traveling are hitting the road this year instead of flying.
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Veterans Day in North Texas will look a bit different this year. Organizations have made changes to Wednesday's ceremonies honoring U.S. service members and created virtual events in light of COVID-19.
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A group of Dallas girls are on the cusp of becoming Eagle Scouts. They are among some of the first girls in the country to earn the highest rank in the Scouts BSA — formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America.
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Intimate partner homicides had been declining in Tarrant County in the last four years, but 2020 is already the worst year on record.
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A number of pharmaceutical companies have entered the home stretch in the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine: human trials. One of those trials is being conducted at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas.
