Welcome to Stay Woke! Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Friday, June 20, 2025!
Hey fam! While we celebrated the end of slavery in the US, the laziest POTUS ever said we didn’t deserve the rest. The fact that we didn’t even take time to get mad is making this administration increasingly sad. Our refusal to protest in public makes them so angry that even Ted Cruz posted film from 2020. Keep up the pressure, it’s ratting them all. Which is why even Texas defunded the wall. Now of course I have more corny rhymes on the way, so won’t you help a newsletter out and make a donation today?
Top Stories for Friday, June 20th, 2025
Editor’s Top Pick
Anthony Bowens Is the Pride of Pro Wrestling — In and Out of the Ring
Anthony Bowens, an AEW superstar and one of the first openly gay champions in AEW history, is using his platform to inspire and open doors for other LGBTQ+ athletes in professional wrestling.
Juneteenth 2025
They Tried to Erase Us, We Told the Story Anyway
Juneteenth, a holiday that was kept alive by Black families and communities through oral history, is a powerful reminder of the importance of remembering and telling our stories in order to resist invisibility and promote […]
‘Bama Joins the Juneteenth Party — Thanks to Republicans??
Alabama has officially designated Juneteenth as a state holiday, thanks to the efforts of Republican Rep. Rick Rehm and the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation of Alabama, despite previous attempts by Black Democrats to pass the […]
Healing Through History: The Power of Juneteenth
Juneteenth offers a culturally sanctioned space for Black Americans to acknowledge generational trauma and celebrate survival and resilience, centering Black agency and self-determination and restoring dignity to ancestors who fought for freedom.
Juneteenth: The Freedom We Knew, the Truth They Couldn’t Handle
Juneteenth is an act of resistance that reflects our progress and failures, and challenges us to choose whether we want to keep waiting for someone else to read our freedom out loud, or whether we speak it ourselves and enforce […]
Newsletter for Friday June 20, 2025