Category: Editorial/Opinion

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column If the recent polls are an accurate barometer of the sentiments of the voting population about who is going to win the House and the Senate, let me put […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor I choose to believe we’re still in a time of a meritocracy, where merit means something. – Judge Myron Duhart, Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. – Barbara Jordan   Ohio ended Golden Week in 2014, the one-week period when voters could register […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor A time comes when silence is betrayal. – Martin Luther King Jr.   Schuyler Beckwith could have said nothing about the new television ad from Marcy […]

By Ben Jealous Guest Column I woke up Monday thinking about Troy Davis. Fifteen years ago, Georgia executed him. He was innocent. I was outside the prison that night. As the old song goes, that’s […]

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column The story goes that when the Lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, were being fiercely attacked by a band of renegade Indians, The Lone Ranger, sensing the […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor It’s not that they don’t hear you. It’s that hearing you costs them nothing.   Toledo City Council spent three hours last week listening to folks […]

I have a tale to tell. I recently had an experience with identity theft that I thought was worth sharing because I discovered a hole in my own financial security that I did not know […]

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Guest Column   Unless you have lived through it, it is easy to dismiss as racial paranoia the wariness and discomfort felt by many successful business leaders of color […]

Most gun deaths in this country are suicides. We argue about guns as if they were all murders. By Ben Jealous Guest Column When I was a boy two brothers lived on our block and […]