Special to The Truth State Rep. Michele Grim (D-Toledo) 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 of […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass Toledo spent a year preparing for one weekend. Gun violence, […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. – Jackie Robinson I […]
By Paul Hubbard Guest Column This is the season of high school graduations and the activities that go with it. As students, parents and families enjoy the accomplishment; it is also time to think about […]
The ground at the Hermitage is sacred and stained, and the music made by enslaved people and their progeny is what still feeds this country’s hope. By Ben Jealous Guest Column This Juneteenth I will […]
By Ben Jealous Guest Column My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to 105. She carried the weight of what her family […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column Here is a question or a series of thoughts for my dear readers about your opinions regarding the recent arrest of a juvenile girl on three charges, with one […]
By Ben Jealous Guest Column Recently, I drove from my father’s birthplace in Biddeford, Maine, to my mother’s birthplace in Petersburg, Virginia. Two different towns. Two different states. Two different regions. And yet, oddly, just […]
By June Boyd Guest Column To give a lesson in black history, on June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers were abducted and murdered by the KKK, only for their attempt to register Black […]