Category: Editorial/Opinion

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor   Every teenager isn’t bad, every parent don’t raise their kids to go out and do what they did — but I just hope situations like these […]

By Hazel Trice Edney Guest Column Politicians give floor speeches. Civil rights leaders and activists march and protest for change. Lobbyists advocate on behalf of their clients. Those are just a few strategies by which […]

By Ben Jealous Guest Column On Juneteenth, I traveled to the Hermitage, President Andrew Jackson’s plantation outside Nashville, to celebrate Black music. Neither Juneteenth nor Black music had ever been celebrated there before. Lela Harris […]

By Kevin Harris Guest Column   Black women remain the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituency. That reality has been repeated so often it risks sounding cliché. Yet despite Black women’s contributions, many Democrats seem all […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor   Juneteenth gets co-opted or hollowed out — turned into a cookout without memory, stripped of its connection to slavery and resistance. – Jemar Tisby   The […]

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column   “To want to be someone else because that other person is everything that you are not…is a painful way to live.” Efal Revillot,  19th Century Mexican mystic.   […]

By Hazel Trice Edney Guest Column  Wake up, everybody, No more sleepin’ in bed                                        No more […]

We have always been at our best when we welcomed the stranger. It is time to be at our best again. By Ben Jealous Guest Column A friend said something to me once that I […]

Special to The Truth State Rep. Erika White (D-Springfield Township) today announced the passage of Senate Bill 450, the state’s biennial capital appropriations budget. The bill allocates nearly $4B for the maintenance, renovation, and construction […]

Special to The Truth State Rep. Elgin Rogers, Jr. (D-Toledo) continues to deliver transformative investments for Lucas County communities, securing support through Ohio’s 2026 Capital Budget for 16 of the 22 local projects located within […]