The Hard Call
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 […]
Category: Politics
Ohio Unity Coalition’s National Voter Registration Day Rally
By Dawn Scotland The Truth Reporter On Tuesday, September 15, the Ohio Unity Coalition hosted a National Voter Registration Day Rally and Grand Opening of their new location at 1565 S. Byrne Rd. from 10:00 […]
Troy Davis’s Ghost Still Speaks After All These Years
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 […]
The Lone Ranger Rides Again!…Alone
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 […]
Meetings Are Free
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 […]
Dear Family, Friends and Neighbors,
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 […]
City’s Prosecutor’s Office Launches Public Data Dashboard to Increase Transparency
Special to The Truth The City of Toledo Prosecutor’s Office has launched its new Prosecutor’s Office Dashboard (https://toledo.prosecutiondata.org/), offering greater transparency into nearly 90,000 criminal and traffic cases prosecuted in Toledo Municipal Court and highlighting […]
Two Systems of Justice: How Success Makes Leaders of Color Targets
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 […]
Two Civil Rights Men, Different Parties, One Bill of Rights
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 […]
Soldiers Without Swords
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. – Freedom’s Journal, March 16, 1827 The Toledo Blade might not exist […]