By Carla Thomas The Truth Contributor There was a time when it was illegal for Black people to read. When we couldn’t own anything because we were owned. When we couldn’t eat in the same […]
Special to The Truth National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s comments about Somali Americans: “The President’s abhorrent slurs against Soma-li Americans are not […]
By Ben Jealous News of the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s health struggles has stirred many. It has me praying. And it has me remembering the hard lessons he taught, shaped in the trenches of our people’s […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column For the historically challenged readers who are not versed with the concept of Jim Crow, suffice it to know that this intentionally-created dim-witted buffoon was the product of a […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor All signs point to Vanice Williams as Toledo City Council’s next president, shedding her interim label when the body reorganizes in January. Despite speculation about challenges, […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor We now find that it is not only right to strike while the iron is hot, but that it is very practicable to heat it by […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Politics is choosing.— Paul Valéry I, for one, am not convinced that the redistricting deal the Democrats accepted— one which grants Republicans a nine percent structural […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column “A nation that allows or fails to protect their youth from the sexual predations by older men is a nation that deserves to fall underneath its own moral rot.” Efal Revillot… […]
By Paul L. Hubbard, Board Chair of Maritime Academy Guest Column The 45th annual Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation Gala was held on November 1 at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit with 350 guests in […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor The next generation doesn’t just want to vote —they want to see leaders who reflect their communities and their realities. – John Della Volpe Brittany […]