Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Monday, August 25th, 2025!
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers
By Stacy M. Brown
August 25, 2025
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was a defining migration that shaped the African Diaspora, resulting in the development of racism and the emergence of an African American community, and its legacy continues to echo in society today.
Texas Boosts Community Colleges to Fuel Skilled Workforce Development
By editorial
August 25, 2025
Texas is investing in its community colleges and workforce education system to better prepare its citizens for the future, with the help of legislation, partnerships, and investments from companies like JPMorgan Chase.
Lab-grown meat isn’t being sold in Texas. Lawmakers banned it anyway.
By Jessica Shuran Yu, The Texas Tribune
August 25, 2025
Texas lawmakers have passed a law banning the sale of lab-grown meat for the next two years, starting September 1, due to concerns about its potential disruption of traditional livestock markets and family farms, as well as product labelling.
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Ohio Is the New Texas — And That Should Scare Us All
By ASHLEY BRYANT BAILEY
August 22, 2025
Texas and Ohio are testing authoritarian democracy, with Ohio being the upgraded version of Texas, while California is experimenting with an open-source democracy to resist the authoritarian model.
Texas Senate takes up GOP congressional map, last stop before Abbott’s desk
By Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune
August 22, 2025
Texas lawmakers are poised to pass a new congressional map that would hand up to five additional U.S. House seats to Republicans, despite fierce Democratic opposition and accusations of racial voter suppression.
Deep Ellum at a Crossroads
By Reagan Elam and
August 21, 2025
Deep Ellum, a cultural hotspot in Dallas, is facing rising crime, disruptive construction, and a wave of closures, prompting the City of Dallas to impose a weekend curfew that has been met with pushback from business owners, while residents are also feeling the effects of the changes.
When a President Tries to Whitewash Slavery
By Mustafa Ali, Word In Black
August 21, 2025
Whitewashing slavery is a dangerous and calculated erasure of the truth, and if we are to move forward, we must remember it for what it was and call it by its true name.
Innovation With Intention: The Power and Diversity of Black-Owned Ventures
By The Afro, Word In Black
August 22, 2025
Black entrepreneurs are redefining entrepreneurship with their holistic health ventures, tech startups, and education tech solutions, creating a legacy of innovation and impact in their communities.
No, It’s Not SciFi: Radioactive Shrimp Recalled From Walmart
By Jennifer Porter Gore
August 22, 2025
The federal government has issued a recall of frozen, raw shrimp sold at Walmart in 13 states due to potential exposure to Cesium-137, a radioactive contaminant.
Industrial Heat Pumps Could Clear the Air in Black Neighborhoods
By Willy Blackmore, Word In Black
August 21, 2025
A new report from the American Lung Association finds that replacing 33,500 fossil fuel boilers with zero-emission heat-pump boilers could significantly reduce emissions and pollution, prevent 33 million asthma attacks, and save $1.1 trillion in health care costs by 2050.
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