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The Toledo Public Schools Are in a World of Hurt — And What Comes Next?

April 16, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Steven Flagg Guest Column The Toledo Board of Education has its hands full, and the community is asking a fair question: are they up to the task of stabilizing — and ultimately rejuvenating — […]

Editorial/Opinion, Education, Politics

The Faithful and the Frustrated

April 16, 2026April 16, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor   Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.  – Mark Twain Ohio gubernatorial candidate Dr. Amy Acton, a Democrat, […]

Editorial/Opinion, Politics

When Freedom Becomes a Private Club

April 9, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor   If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then […]

Editorial/Opinion, Politics

The Tipped Wage Is a Legacy of Slavery; Chicago Is Right to End it

April 9, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Ben Jealous Guest Column The subminimum wage for tipped workers is a legacy of slavery. After the Civil War, many employers in hospitality and rail service hired newly freed Black workers into jobs where […]

Editorial/Opinion, Politics

Captain Bone Spurs…Lost In Space!

April 9, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column If you have not heard by now, Donald Trump is also contemptuously known as, “Captain Bone Spurs” allegedly due to his rich father getting a favor from a doctor […]

Editorial/Opinion, Politics

We Don’t Lack Unity: We’re Solving Different Problems

April 9, 2026April 9, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Carla Thomas The Truth Contributor We keep asking the same question: Why can’t Black people unify? Why are we so divided on politics, strategy or even on what progress looks like? But that question […]

Editorial/Opinion, Politics

To The Editor,

April 2, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

Arlington Avenue has already been shut down since 2024 and now we’re being told it will remain closed through 2028. Let that sink in. That’s four years of disruption in a residential neighborhood. This is […]

Editorial/Opinion, Local News

The Belonging Gap

April 2, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor   I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – […]

Editorial/Opinion, Politics

Reparative Justice is the Only Way Forward After UN Resolution

April 2, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

The international body United Nations officially affirmed with Black people and our allies what we already know: that the descendants of slavery suffered an atrocious, violation of humanity, demanding of reparations. In response to the […]

Editorial/Opinion, Politics

Don the Con Is in Deep Trouble

April 2, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq’ Guest Column If you have been watching just a smidgen of the news these past few days, you will come to the easy conclusion that Donald Trump, the self-professed “stable genius” […]

Editorial/Opinion, Politics

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