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KOSU • June 6 2025

Oklahoma Job Corps Centers get temporary reprieve from federal shutdown order

Job Corps Centers across the country are scrambling after a district judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s order to close them. That includes a trio of centers in Oklahoma.

Johnathan Johnson

KERA • August 18 2023

Dallas gets its first cat café. Here's a look

It’s Tuesday afternoon, around 1 o’clock, and the main room at Whiskers and Soda cat cafe is buzzing with a low din of 30 cat-happy customers, many of them children.

Aly Of Lucky Button Photography

KERA • July 31 2023

Hip-hop is 50! Dallas celebrates music and culture

When Andrea Tosten was hired at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center at the beginning of the year, she brought a big idea with her: promoting the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.

August 11 is the official birthday of the music and subculture that started in 1973, and Dallas is ready to party.

Sally Verrando

TCU 360 • January 29 2023

‘An African American Requiem’ debuts in Texas at TCU

Maestro Damien Geter rehearses with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for “An African American Requiem” Jan. 26, 2023, at the TCU Music Hall. Geter said he composed the piece in 2016 as a response to racial violence. The day before the TCU performance, body cam footage was released showing five police officers beating Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in Memphis.

“An African American Requiem,” a statement to multiple killings of Black Americans, was presented by the Fort Worth Opera on Saturday

Sally Verrando

TCU 360 • November 10 2022

Fort Worth Zoo to celebrate 30th Anniversary Festival

When it comes to a zoo outing, some TCU students may hearken back to those chaotic family times with kids running, parents shouting and someone ending up crying.

Sally Verrando

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