The Sound of Silence
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor When nothing is said, a lot is being heard. – Toni Morrison Toledo’s streets have gone radio silent. You can almost hear crickets chirping as […]
Category: Editorial/Opinion
What Happens to a Promise Starved
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor A dream deferred is a dream denied. – Langston Hughes Like the dreams the late poet-activist-playwright Langston Hughes once wrote about, a promise starved doesn’t just […]
Are Any of Us Really Ready for Fire Season?
By Ben Jealous Guest Column The smoke has already arrived. This past week, thick plumes from wildfires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan have drifted into the US, triggering air quality alerts across the Midwest. Cities like […]
When Demagogues Blame the Vulnerable, We All Lose
By Ben Jealous Guest Column In hard times, people look for answers. The decimation of American manufacturing starting in the 1990s with trade agreements like NAFTA led to decades of downward economic mobility for working […]
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Cruelty is a National Scourge – And Would Be Made Worse by the MAGA Budget Bill
By Ben Jealous Guest Column “Our neighbors are living in fear. And that’s what the administration wants. They want people to be scared. So, we’re combatting that by bringing the neighborhood together and saying, ‘you’re […]
About One Half of Americans Said … Go Ahead!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column People can be quick to quote that aphorism, “elections have consequences!” No doubt about it. Based upon the recent presidential election, a micro-slim majority of voters chose the chaos president […]
The Great Campus Capitulation
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor There is no such thing as a neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom. Sit. Stay. Fetch. Roll over. […]
Be Careful What You Cut: The Glitter of Tax Relief
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor All that glisters is not gold. – William Shakespeare In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus provides a much-needed meal in the wilderness for approximately 20,000 individuals […]
Reclaiming “Woke”: A Call to Black Consciousness
By Carla Thomas The Truth Contributor I saw a T-shirt recently that read: “Woke is not the insult you think it is.” And I paused. Because somewhere along the way, “woke” went from being a […]
Old Lies, New Eyes: Rejecting the Myths about Black Families
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it […]