By Alexandria Leatherberry The Truth Reporter The 2026 Silent Soldier Awards Banquet filled the banquet room of the Premier Banquet Hall, Sunday, March 29. Attendees gathered in support of 14 honorees who were selected for […]
The Truth Staff “Are you registered to vote?” asked state Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson as she summed up the voter engagement an education event she organized on Tuesday evening, April 1, at the Kent Branch Library. […]
The Truth Staff Individuals returning home from incarceration had the opportunity last week to receive information from speakers and numerous community groups in an event hosted by the Reentry Coalition of Northwest Ohio last Wednesday, […]
By Amy Voigt, City of Toledo Special to The Truth Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz introduced the 2026 Kid Mayor, Jamie Howard, and the new Kid City Council during a press conference on April 1, 2026. Jamie, […]
The Truth Staff Organizers of the third No Kings rally estimated that world-wide about eight million people turned out for the protest on March 28 to announce “we don’t do kings in America.” In Toledo, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Kwanzaa Park Neighbors are pleased to welcome Deborah Barnett to the monthly Block Watch Meeting. Through her consulting company N-SYNC, LLC, Deborah Barnett has been instrumental in collaborating in a variety of programs with […]
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 […]
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 […]