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Toledo NAACP Chapter Creates ‘Trump Watch’

By DAVID MURRAY TCC WEB EDITOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2025, TOLEDO, OHIO—The Toledo Chapter of the NAACP, at its general membership meeting last night, announced it was creating a ‘Trump Watch’ to keep a local tally of the damage the Trump Administration is doing to the Toledo community, especially to local Black people and people of color. Darlene Sweeney-Newbern, Toledo chapter president, told...

Getting Your Affairs in Order

By Dave Murray TCC Web Editor WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025--Back by popular demand, the free Getting Your Affairs in Order workshop will be held again this year from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 5, at the McMaster Center at the Main Branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, downtown at 325 N. Michigan St., Toledo. To attend you must register by...

Bishop Culp inducted into Lucas County Wall of Friends

BY DAVE MURRAY, TCC Web Editor MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 -- Bishop James Robert Alan Culp, emeritus pastor of First Church of God in Toledo, will be inducted into the Lucas County Wall of Friends at 11 a.m. tomorrow by the Lucas County Board of Commissioners in their meeting room off the lobby on the first floor of One Government Center...

TCC’s Erika White sworn in today as State Representative

Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025-- Toledo Community Coalition member Erika White will be sworn in today as House District 41 Representative in the Ohio House of Representatives. The ceremony, which is open to the public, is at 11:30 a.m. at Communications Workers of America Local 4319 headquarters, 705 Lime City Road, in Rossford, Ohio, where she has been president. Ms. White, a...

Stand Against Racism conference to feature freed death row prisoner Anthony Ray Hinton

FRIDAY, May 3, 2024--The YWCA of Northwest Ohio will sponsor the 2024 Stand Against Racism conference on May 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at One Seagate in downtown Toledo. Titled, "Until Justice Just Is: Building Bridges To Equity," the keynote speaker will be Anthony Ray Hinton, who was released from prison in 2015 after spending 30 years on death...

2024 YWCA Racial Justice Challenge

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024--This year's YWCA Racial Justice Challenge will focus on Bodily Autonomy, Women's Financial Empowerment/Caregiving, Gun Violence, and Transportation. To register go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhsidLIfwaBLwF66IV1Nj3sOvkUIB1EdOtsblkMNRdG4RPYQ/viewform The Racial Justice Challenge is the action component for the Until Justice Just Is campaign, which is designed to raise awareness of systemic racism and how each of us can take action to advance...

TCC founder Bishop Robert Culp remembers March on Washington at MLK Day event at TMA

  FRIDAY, January 12, 2024--Bishop Robert A. Culp, senior advisor, counselor, and retired pastor of Toledo's First Church of God, will headline Martin Luther King Jr. Day events at a special day-long program at the Toledo Museum of Art on Monday, January 15. Bishop Culp, a founder of the Toledo Community Coalition and an anti-racism crusader, will talk about his trek to...

MultiFaith Council of NW Ohio to hold Peace Gathering

Monday, October 23, 2023--The MultiFaith Council of Northwest Ohio will hold a Peace Gathering at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 24, at the First Unitarian Church of Toledo, 3205 Glendale Ave. The mission of the MultiFaith Council is to provide community leadership and facilitate programs that draw together diverse faiths and foster mutual respect, friendship, and cooperation in service to the region. People...