Contributing Writer Brenda Cochran challenges us to reflect: Do our actions match our beliefs, or are we simply following what we see around us? Drawing on scripture and timeless wisdom, her column urges readers to examine how faith, choices, and integrity shape our daily lives.

Dayton City Commission candidate, Jacob Davis, writes about courage and leadership to revitalize neighborhoods.

By: Ben Jealous With the holiday season approaching, it seems that our country could not be more divided. That division has been perhaps...

Embracing the Future: Why the Black Community Should Get Ready for a World of AI

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Could ChatGPT erase a legacy of Black excellence? Here's how this powerful tech can become more accurate and inclusive.

America is exceptional with more guns than people. It's not enough to send up a prayer for the dead; send out a policy change for the living

NAACP Statement on East Palestine and Surrounding Communities

The following Charity’s Children Project, Inc. press statement was issued today by Founder Patricia Smith Griffin: In 1976, Black History...

Patience does not come easily and is probably harder now to develop than it has ever been.

The number of losses hundreds of people have endured during the past two months includes not only loved ones, but homes and cars along...

The traffic stop began with the same cruel banality so many traffic stops in Black communities do: with a pretense. In this case the...

Don Black Memorialized last Saturday Don Black, Editor and Publisher of the Dayton Weekly News was memorialized on Saturday September...

by Jason Harrison @presenttensefit Photo: Jason Reynolds /WYSO Who keep it a hundred when everything's partial? Dignity and sanity is...

The celebration of Juneteenth is a Black American Tradition. On June 19, 1865—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation...

We are in a fight for our lives and those of our futures. What really makes West Dayton, “West Dayton?” I struggle to answer this...

Did you vote in the most recent primary election? At a meager 8% of total voter turnout, the chances are that you didn’t. There are...

To think voter suppression isn’t happening is foolish! Are you voting next election? If so, you will cast your ballot one of two ways: by...

"Heavy on the promotion and low on participation."

By Darryl Fairchild, Dayton City Commissioner From an early age, I learned the teachings of Jesus, especially his command to love my...