On With the Process
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor What do we want? INVESTMENT! When do we want it? NOW! – Grassroots Community Organizers’ Slogan The African American community looms as a potential winner, pending […]
Category: Editorial/Opinion
Sir…Have You No Shame!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column Jussie Smollett is a sad pathetic figure. A needy person who was seeking love in all the wrong places. In Jussie’s private alternative universe, populated by fantasies and make-believe […]
‘Twas the Night Before Appointments and Endorsements
by Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Life is dotted with these kinds of interruptions. A day starts out normally, and life’s just humming along. Then something happens that immediately erases your plans. […]
Watch, For You Know not the Hour
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column It is said that if you place a lobster in a cold bucket of water and turn on the gas jets, little by little, mind you…the lobster will remain […]
Misguided Assumptions
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor How poor they are that have not patience! What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? – William Shakespeare Last week’s Blade editorial chided Mayor Wade […]
From the Frying Pan into the Fire
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor In doing what is necessary you sometimes end up doing the impossible. – Matshona Dhliwayo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz responded to Toledo’s surging record-setting homicide rate last […]
“Do the Right Thing”
A conversation about Criminal Justice in America By Ralph Darrell Warren The Truth Contributor Everything must change. Nothing the stays the same. In 1640, the John Punch case was the first case which illustrated racial […]
An Open Letter to the National Public Radio Editor
The guy who killed with an assault-style rifle when threatened with a skate board and a fist “came off like a regular teenager” Infantilization of white perpetrators is our cultural flip side of adultification of black youth Dear […]
A City Fit for a Prince
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you [lift]. – Andy Stanley Rosalyn Clemens arrived in Toledo in October 2019 from Prince […]
Letter to the Editor: An Open Letter to My Community
The election is over; voters have made their decision. Congratulations to Mayor Wade and all twelve Toledo city council members. This is a new day. Your challenge to lead has never been greater. Toledo’s central […]