Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, August 13, 2025!
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LMA announces newsrooms in the 2025 national cohort of the Lab for Journalism Funding
By editorial
August 12, 2025
The 2025 national cohort of the LMA Lab for Journalism Funding has selected 20 news organizations to participate in a six-month program to develop strategies to fund essential local journalism via philanthropy.
From Forest Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
By Jerry L. Hawkins
August 12, 2025
Originally published with our media partner, Dallas Free Press The election of Elsie Faye Heggins to the Dallas City Council in 1980 signaled a massive change to Dallas’ political environment, and she and her community knew it. Heggins and her fellow South Dallas residents commenced giant-sized plans to terraform South Dallas. In his document, […]
In redistricting clash, Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats’ last tool of resistance
By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune
August 12, 2025
Texas Republicans have used their control of the state government to push a partisan agenda, culminating in a long-shot legal bid to expel House Democrats and a push to deliver five additional congressional seats to President Trump.
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Five years after shedding Confederate moniker, a West Texas high school may be Lee High again
By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune
August 11, 2025
The Midland Independent School District board of trustees is set to consider reverting the name of Legacy High School to Midland Lee, sparking a debate over honoring Confederate leaders and the legacy of the school’s football team.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. : A clear and present danger to American health
By Congressman Kweisi Mfume, D, MD, The Afro
August 8, 2025
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been criticized for slashing programs, undermining trust in vaccines, and mishandling health crises, leading to a measles outbreak and rising drowning deaths.
How Ancient Practices at UMBC Heal Old Wounds
By Mekhi Abbott, Word In Black
August 10, 2025
Studies have made it clear: Black college students are more likely to observe and experience overt racism and experience microaggressions that communicate that they are intellectually inferior or don’t belong. While those problems are complex, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County has adopted a basic but deceptively challenging way to address them with an ancient practice: people sitting in a circle, having a conversation. LEARN MORE: In Adopting Racial Healing, Shriver Center Embraces its Legacy “The problems and conflicts we’ve created in the modern world are complex, but the solution is actually pretty simple: we need to turn towards one another and talk,” said Jeff […]
40 LOVE Legacy Builder Ceremony Serves Culture, Community, and Celebration in Dallas
By editorial
August 9, 2025
The inaugural 40 LOVE Legacy Builder Ceremony celebrated Black excellence and honored the contributions of individuals committed to preserving Black stories and legacy for future generations, while also showcasing the next generation of leaders.
How’s Your Brain? It Might Be Paying the ‘Black Tax’
By Jennifer Porter Gore
August 12, 2025
Black Americans are 20% more likely to face serious mental health challenges than the overall population, and the combination of mental illness and chronic stress from racism puts them at increased risk of accelerated brain aging and cognitive decline.
Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos
By KFF Health News
August 11, 2025
The Affordable Care Act has created an “insurance cliff” for young adults turning 26, leaving many without insurance due to the complexity of choosing a plan and the rising costs of coverage.
Dads to Doulas: Empowering Fathers to Advocate Amid Maternal Health Crisis
By Megan Sayles, The Afro, Word In Black
August 11, 2025
Dads to Doulas is a new program launched by Dear Fathers, a St. Louis-based platform, to provide education and training to Black men and expectant fathers to advocate for their families from pregnancy to infancy, in an effort to reduce disparities in Black maternal and infant health outcomes.
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