MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2026--The Toledo Lead Resource Center will host a free community event to kick off National Minority Health Month on Wednesday, April 1 from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Glass City Enrichment Center in Toledo, 815 Front St., Toledo. The afternoon will focus on empowering families with practical knowledge about preventing lead exposure while connecting families to...
Redlining Workshop Flyer 2026-04-14 SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2026--For decades the legacy of racist redlining in home sales and home financing has plagued Toledo and other American cities placing people of color and their descendants at an economic disadvantage compared to white residents and their children and grandchildren. On April 14 a Redlining Workshop will be presented from 1 p.m....
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...
