Questions for City Council Contenders
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column As many of you may know, I own and manage a discreet employment counseling service known as, City Confidential, Inc. I have been doing this for some years and […]
Category: Editorial/Opinion
Former Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s Power Play
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato Everybody’s talking about Carty! And that was precisely former Mayor Finkbeiner’s goal as […]
The Difference a Day Makes
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor We must trust the people. – Faye Wattleton It has been a little over a month since Toledo’s political intelligentsia forecasted an unimpeded and surefire path […]
Bill Cosby: America’s Father or American Villain
By Rev. Benjamin Green Guest Column Well, I have not been one to shy away from a subject, and I don’t intend to start now. I know that there will be those who will disagree […]
More Police in Toledo Public Schools?
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor For too long our education system has been intertwined with the criminal legal system and the results have been tragic, particularly for our most vulnerable students. […]
Just Think About It!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column Reparations are needed now. I know, I know…white folks would rather wrestle with a 40-foot anaconda than sit down and have a rational conversation about the need for reparations, […]
Well, Is It Now Clear To You?
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column If you are one of those persons who still sings along with Judy Garland’s signature song, “Somewhere Over The Rainbow,” out of the famed movie, The Wizard of Oz, and […]
The Juneteenth Hypocrisy
By RaShya Ghee, Esq Guest Column Hypocrisy has long characterized America’s racial realities. In the 1770s, colonists demanded freedom from “enslavement” of the crown while simultaneously enslaving practically an entire race of people. In 1829, […]
Power to the People
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor This isn’t a revolution of black against white, this is a revolution of right against wrong. And right has never lost. – Dick Gregory On January […]
Juneteenth … Meet Your New America!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column A time traveler returning from viewing the celebrations of the newly freed slaves in Texas in June of 1865 and which joyous occasions morphed into the Texas holiday of Juneteenth, […]