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From The Newsroom: Solidarity Through Art, Imprisoned In North Vietnam

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Cuban artist Tania Bruguera at TEDGlobal 2013 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

All three museums in the Dallas Arts District staged a public, participatory artwork in front of the Nasher Sculpture Center in solidarity with an arrested Cuban artist.

And remembering the Vietnam War through the eyes of a man whose father was imprisoned for 13 years.

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 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.