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: Editorial/Opinion
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 […]
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 […]
The City of Toledo, Institutional Racism and the Exclusion of Black Urban Farmers
By Carla Thomas Truth Contributor The controversy surrounding the Al Peake & Sons pop-up market is bigger than carrots and collard greens. It exposes how the City of Toledo repeatedly makes decisions for Black communities […]
Build a Bridge Not a Bypass
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Sometimes ‘they’ forget about us, but ‘WE’ will lift us up. – SONIA Organics, Produce Party flyer, September 2026 Swayne Field re-opened Friday in Toledo’s […]