Juneteenth Forever
By June Boyd Guest Column Recently, we celebrated Juneteenth. In February we welcomed Black History Month, and in December, 2023 we lit the candles for Kwanzaa. Has anything changed?? Our people are still dying at […]
Category: Editorial/Opinion
Yeah, It Was That Bad!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column After watching the Thursday night debacle billed as the first presidential debate, (I doubt there will be another one!), these are the only grim choices for the now aghast Democratic […]
From Enslavement to Freedom, Black Music Has Been a Constant Comforter and Guide
By Hazel Trice Edney Every Sunday, millions of African-American people across the nation make their way to church anticipating relief from lives of financial woes, pressures at work, health concerns, family matters, race discrimination and […]
From Setback to Progress: Leveraging Lessons from Toledo’s Canceled Juneteenth Celebration
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory or an acceptance of the way things are. It’s a celebration of progress. It’s an affirmation that […]
Pioneering Second Chances: Anita Lopez’s Bold Vision for a Fairer Community
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor Redemption is not just a personal journey but a societal imperative. Our systems must be designed to allow for second chances, reflecting our belief in […]
On Juneteenth Let Us Remember, Racial Terror Did Not End with Slavery
By Ben Jealous Guest Column When Terence Crutcher, a father of four who sang in his church choir, was shot and killed by the police in 2016 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his twin sister Dr. Tiffany […]
I Am Not Making This Up!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column One of the greatest challenges and thrills of my life occurred when I graduated from Kent State University and was contacted by the State Department regarding possible employment in […]
A System Under Siege: How Toledo’s Patterns of Misconduct Have Reached a Tipping Point
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor …History brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps. – Alan Kesselheim A series of alarming incidents involving the Toledo Police Department (TPD) and the […]
And You Are Listening to Rappers About Trump!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column There is nothing worse in being a traffic cop than engaging in crowd control. It is a specter that always has you on edge because the large milling crowd […]
The Death of America As We Know It
By John E Warren, Publisher San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper By now most Americans, but not all, have either heard of Project 2025 or seen some reference to it. But too many still don’t […]