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From The Newsroom: Teens In The Workforce; The Story Of Allen Brooks

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The top local stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom: North Texas teenagers starting their first jobs are finding that they're getting paid better than the federal minimum wage. Also, we'll revisit a dark moment in Dallas history: the public lynching of a man named Allen Brooks. 

You can listen to stories from North Texas weekdays at 8:20 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM. 

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.