The top stories this afternoon from KERA News: More than 150 Dallas school district employees had their blood tested for lead on Friday. The employees are currently or were previously assigned to work in the William H. Cotton building on South Lamar Street.
District spokesman Andre Riley says employees will have two more opportunities to get tested during the next couple of weeks.
‘All the Way,’ the Tony Award-winning drama about Lyndon Johnson, has naturally generated a lot of local interest at the Dallas Theater Center. But the political and racial echoes from 1964 are also impossible to ignore. Art&Seek's Jerome Weeks breaks down the presidential play.
Finally, President Barack Obama, who kicked off the SXSW Conference in Austin Friday afternoon, will be making a stop in North Texas on Saturday.
The President is scheduled to meet with 10 high school seniors and a counselor from Dallas ISD’s Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy. They’ll have private meet and greet at Gilley’s in Dallas. Here's a video profile of school principal Nakia Douglas.
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