Welcome to Stay Woke! Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Monday, June 16, 2025! In today’s newsletter, DISD and Dallas College are doing enrollment shout outs, while the No Kings protests […]
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Posted inSports
Post-Race Celebration Leads to Shocking Disqualification
Clara Adams, a 16-year-old track and field athlete from California, was disqualified from the CIF State Championship for an unsportsmanlike celebration, sparking a national conversation about sportsmanship and culture, and drawing support from her father, civil rights attorneys, the NAACP, and political leaders.
Posted inEducation
School Choice: From Black Student Support to Middle-Class Perk
School voucher programs have a history of excluding Black students and negatively impacting public schools serving Black students, and policymakers should focus on addressing systemic inequities in education rather than promoting school choice and voucher programs.
Posted inSports
Report Sheds Light on Lack of Inclusion of Black Girls in Sports
Women in Sport has published a report titled “Black Girls and Sport: A Break Up Story” highlighting the lack of inclusion of Black girls in sports and is calling on sports leaders to address misogyny and racism and make sports more joyful.
Posted inEducation
Why School Has More Black Kids Thinking About Suicide
Black students are experiencing a growing mental health crisis due to systemic racism in schools, with over 40% of Black youth ages 13-17 seriously considering suicide and nearly 1 in 3 not receiving mental health care.
Posted inNewsletters
Stay Woke! Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Friday, June 13, 2025
Happy Friday DW fam! So, you like the corny rhymes I slay? They’re almost Dad jokes, and Sunday is Father’s Day. Tomorrow “No Kings” will cross the land, and Cardi […]
Posted inThis Week
Newsletter for Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Happy Hump Day DW fam and welcome to Stay Woke! Your Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, June 11, 2025! In today’s newsletter, the White House is still a mess, our […]
Posted inEducation
Should Black Students Choose College or Trades?
Black students are increasingly choosing trade schools over traditional four-year colleges due to rising college costs and stagnant wages for degree-holders, but educators recommend that students should be exposed to both options and not feel forced into one pathway.
Posted inFinance
A Father’s Most Important Financial Legacy: Inner Alignment
Inner alignment is the key to true wealth, as it leads to better choices, more wealth, and a spirit of wealth building that will attract wealth back, even if it is taken.
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Stay Woke! Dallas Weekly Newsletter for Monday, June 9, 2025
Happy Monday DW fam! Time to look forward and keep the faith. Coco won, Lil Wayne’s album is done, Sinners is streaming, folks all over are screaming, and this newsletter […]