By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column Well, well…we have another incident in which two white Toledo Police Officers were caught with their race and cultural superiority pants down when they rudely addressed some minority teens […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. – Jean Toomer What happened at the Old West End Festival was not just gun violence. It […]
By Ben Jealous Guest Column The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right. I was 14 the first time I raised my […]
“We are heartbroken and hurting alongside our community in the aftermath of the senseless shooting at the Old West End Festival,” the Lucas County Commissioners said in a joint statement. “Our thoughts are immediately with […]
On Saturday night, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement following a shooting and gun violence at Toledo’s Old West End Festival: “Our community is in pain tonight as a result of senseless gun […]
By Fletcher Word The Truth Editor The question Democratic lawmakers are raising in Columbus is – why do we need a constitutional amendment to enshrine voter identification requirements, when current laws already do that and […]
The Truth Staff Toledo area elected officials, financial institution representatives and Lucas Metropolitan Housing staff celebrated the grand opening of a transformative $29 million Collingwood Green Living housing development on Thursday, May 28. The new […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. – Jackie Robinson I […]
Special to The Truth State Representative Elgin Rogers, Jr. (D-Toledo) last week provided sponsor testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on House Bill (HB) 501<https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/HB501>, legislation aimed at expanding restitution eligibility for wrongfully convicted Ohioans. […]
The ground at the Hermitage is sacred and stained, and the music made by enslaved people and their progeny is what still feeds this country’s hope. By Ben Jealous Guest Column This Juneteenth I will […]