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Day: April 16, 2026

Black Wall Street Community Development Hosts Business Networking Event

April 16, 2026April 17, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

The Truth Staff The Black Wall Street Community Development, a collaboration of The Juice 107.3 radio, The Sojourner’s Truth newspaper, Pursuit magazine and KpK Unlimited, has over the past two and a half years, brought […]

Business, Top Stories

Candidate Acton Impresses Her Toledo Audience

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

By Fletcher Word The Truth Editor “We’ve gone backwards in every single measure in this state,” said Dr. Amy Acton last week during a conversation at NHA’s Nexus with about 40 of Toledo’s most prominent […]

Local News, Politics, Top Stories

ACES International Day – Students from Around the World

April 16, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

The Truth Staff Eleven students are part of the ACES Exchange Program this year, a number short of past exchange classes. That is one of the tangible effects of the Trump administrations efforts to close […]

Education

Wisdom on Financial Affairs Is Readily Available

April 16, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

By Fletcher Word The Truth Editor If you care about your financial well-being, your family’s financial well-being, you had an opportunity on Saturday, April 11, to gain a wealth of knowledge about how to handle […]

Business, Top Stories

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 Ohio Minority Supplier Diversity Council Holds NW Ohio Quarterly Forum

April 16, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

The Truth Staff The Ohio Minority Supplier Diversity Council (OMSDC) hosted a North West Ohio Quarterly Forum on Thursday, April 9, at the Metroparks Toledo Enrichment Center and brought together a number of Black business […]

Business

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

Take Note before you Vote! Levy Estimator for May 5 Primary

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

Special to The Truth Lucas County Auditor Katie Moline urges Lucas County voters to “take note before you vote” with the updated online Levy Estimator that calculates property owners’ estimated tax levies for the May […]

Politics

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Toledo Branch 3204 on the Detention of a 15-year-old Child

April 16, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

The NAACP is deeply disturbed by reports of an incident involving a 15 year-old girl who was forcefully detained by police while walking with peers in her neighborhood. According to multiple eyewitness accounts, the young […]

Local News

46 Toledo Groups Break Silence on Violence at Annual MLK Event

April 16, 2026 Sojourner’s Truth

The Ninth Annual Our Time to Break Silence: A Community Reading of Dr. Martin Luther King’s A Time to Break Silence convenes on Sunday, April 19, with doors opening at 2:30 and program at 3:00. […]

Local News

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