Welcome to Stay Woke! Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Friday, June 27, 2025!
We’re made of stern stuff, still, this June’s been rough, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Our country’s in flux, the administration is nuts and SCOTUS isn’t helping a bit. Still, we stood up for Pride ‘cuz justice is on our side even as they make us wait longer. ‘Til then we’ve got our music – and don’t get me started on that kick – and the ways it’s made us stronger. So go hug the youth, and tell them the truth, that Black folks will soon have our win. Then when they get sad, or racists make them mad, be sure to tell them again. Have a blessed weekend fam!
Editor’s Top Pick
From Hiding to Healing: Coach Dee’s Journey to Self-Acceptance
Coach Dee, a mental health and social services professional, has turned her own experiences with mental health and trauma into a coaching business, helping others tell their stories and find their own liberation.
Politics
5 Takeaways from Health Insurers’ New Pledge to Improve Prior Authorization
The largest US health insurers have agreed to streamline their preapproval process, making fewer medical procedures subject to prior authorization and speeding up the review process, but the new commitments may not protect the sickest […]
Spiritual
Spreading the Good Word, Through Good Works
Mention the word “seminary,” and what might come to mind is a leafy green campus, anchored by a stately cathedral, with aspiring ministers poring over the Bible and gray-bearded professors teaching roomfuls of neophytes. What […]
Immigration
Faith Organizations Rally Behind Migrants Amid Nationwide ICE Crackdowns
Faith leaders are standing in solidarity with immigrants and advocating for a nationwide sanctuary movement to protect them from ICE raids and the federalization of the California National Guard to quell protests.
Travel
Americans Warned: You Could Be a Target
The U.S. State Department has issued a rare worldwide travel advisory, warning American citizens to exercise extreme caution abroad due to the potential for demonstrations and retaliatory attacks following President Trump’s airstrikes on Iranian nuclear […]
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Pride Month
‘We Need to Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize to Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding
HIV advocates are organizing to counter the Trump administration’s cuts to federal HIV funding, which has led to testing and outreach for HIV faltering in the South and could result in an additional 14,600 HIV-related deaths within the next five […]
Culture
Words that echo: The lasting impact of song lyrics on Black communities
No matter the genre- lyrics hold power. Whether the words to your favorite song praise God or celebrate life and love, there’s no denying that many times one of the strongest influences can be a […]
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Newsletter for Friday June 27, 2025