WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 2025--HOPE Toledo will hope a special service at 5 p.m. Sunday, November 16 at Indiana Avenue Missionary Baptist Church. The gathering is being called HOPE Toledo Sunday and is billed as a time for praise, prayer, and celebration. The event organizers released the following highlights: HOPE Toledo has been in existence for five years, and much work has...
By David Murray, TCC Web Editor MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2025 -- A Lead Safe Toledo Landlord-Tenant Education Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 at the Main Branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. This event is part of the National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week and supports the city of Toledo's #LeadSafeToledo initiative, which is working...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MONDAY, February 19, 2024--The YWCA of Northwest Ohio will hold its Community Advocacy Partners meeting at 1 p.m. today at the Y's headquarters on Jefferson Avenue in downtown Toledo or via Zoom. This month's CAP meeting will focus on the Fair Districts Petition to end political gerrymandering, with information about how to get involved, goals and deadlines, petition pick up ands...
