Category: Editorial/Opinion

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Dictators know an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule, thus the history of reading is replete with book bannings and burnings.         […]

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column “When you face possible political losses, always remember that an appeal to a person’s racial fears are a surefire winning strategy in a close contest.” Efal Revillot, essayist. Well, […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.                       […]

Dear Editor, A rather tedious story appeared recently in The Blade.  Friends of UT athletic director Mike O’Brien attacked University President Greg Postel, and Board Chairman Al  Baker for allegedly orchestrating the retirement of Mr. […]

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column The headline for this column is my exclamation at the agonizing time that the prosecutor and defense counsel are having in getting a jury selected for the soon-to-be sensational jury […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. and Reem Subei of Advocates for Basic Legal Equality The Truth Contributors Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates What happens when a specific […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.  – Matthew Desmond Cherry Street in Downtown Toledo reveals a troubling boundary between glistening prosperity and pathetic poverty. On […]

By Anthony Bouyer, PhD Guest Column A name does not reflect the essential qualities of something or someone; the cliché is a direct quotation from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet says, “What’s in a […]

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column Remember in high school when you had to leave your class and go to another room or leave the building or even go to the principal’s office, that you had to […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor   It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at […]