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Activists to march in Cleveland on March 8, 2026 for International Women's Day, led by Women's March Cleveland...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, OHIO-  Speakers have been announced for the 10th Annual International Women's Day march in Cleveland, which is from 2-4pm at Market Square Park near downtown Cleveland, a sister march relative to a national day of action promoted by the National Women's March out of Washington, D.C.  The theme of the march is "Brave Women Free America Cleveland." Keynote speakers are State Senator Nickie Antonio, who is also the minority leader of the Ohio Senate, Maple Heights Mayor Annette Blackwell, and Cleveland Ward 8 Councilwoman Stephanie Howse Jones.   Women's March National has since called for marches to include opposition to President Trump's war on Iran, citing the killing of Iranian school children and lack of authorization from Congress. Organizers say that while women's rights are paramount, the major premise of Cleveland's march, and marches countrywide, is standing against the ...
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Ohio Congresswoman Emilia Sykes denounces President Trump for launching a military strike against Iran without congressional approval, says its unconstitutional and reckless, and Trump is acting like a dictator... By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Ohio 13th Congressional District Congresswoman Emilia Sykes Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher WASHINGTON, D.C.  —  Ohio 13th Congressional District Congresswoman Emilia Sykes (OH-13), an Akron Democrat and one of three Black women in congress from Ohio, is denouncing President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu's collaborative military attack and war on Iran, Trump promising during his State of the Union address Tuesday night that the U.S. will do anything posible to stop what he says is Iran's nuclear weapons program.  Sykes says Trump is acting like a dictator and must get congressional approval to launch a war against Iran. Over 200 casualties have been reported thus far, coupled with hundreds of injuries to others. "Once again, President Trump has launched illegal military strikes on a foreign country without congressional authorization. These attacks escalat...
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President Trump delivers 2026 State of the Union...Brags that he got rid of DEI as some Dems boycott speech and call him out for calling the Obamas' apes....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher WASHINGTON, D.C.-  President Donald Trump addressed a joint and sometimes hostile chamber of Congress Tuesday night, delivering his first State of the Union since taking office in January of 2025 for a second non-consecutive term.     The president's speech came on the heels of a stinging U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down many of his actions on tariffs and sent him reeling against the Justices who decided against him, whom he has since branded "dumb and stupid."  The Republican president, whose disapproval rating on the economy is at 57%, according to some polls, appeared relaxed at 79 years old and opened his hour and 48 min. speech by saying America is back as Republican lawmakers chanted "USA," "USA."  Fewer people were there, and the response was starkly different from his address to a joint chamber of Congress in January o...
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Feb 2026: A Black History Moment From ClevelandUrbanNews.Com: Barack Obama is the first Black President, and Michelle Obama the country's first Black first lady....Kamala Harris is the first Black vice president of America and Lloyd Austin, the first Black secretary of defense....Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black female U.S. Supreme Court justice....Crispus Attucks was the first Black man to die in a major American war, and Blacks still feel the vestiges of slavery through high unemployment and illegal incarceration rates, etc....Blacks were once deemed 3/5 of a person....Carl B. Stokes was the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city, and the late pop icon Michael Jackson remains a legendary figure....Blacks were first enslaved by their African ancestors before being brought to America in chains.... Other Black greats include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Nat King Cole, Maya Angelou, Garrett Morgan, former congresspersons the late Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressman, and the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio's first Black female congressperson ..By Clevelandurbannews.com

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Former United States President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama Former President Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America Black greats The late pop icon Michael Jackson The late former 11th congressional district Congressman Louis Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio The late Carl B. Stokes, the former mayor of Cleveland  and the first Black mayor of a major American city The late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the former congresswoman of the 11th Congressional District of Ohio and the first Black female congressperson from Ohio Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher. Coleman is a Black Cleveland activist, community organizer and digital and social media journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Clevelan...
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Rev Jesse Jackson Sr. dead at 84, Jackson a renowned civil rights leader who marched with MLK...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CHICAGO, Illinois- The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader who marched alongside the Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr., has died.  He was 84 and died peacefully and surrounded by family, his family said in a statement . Jackson was  hospitalized  for observation  in November  and diagnosed with supranuclear palsy. He had been  diagnosed with Parkinson's disease  in 2017.  Born in  Greenville, South Carolina , Jackson began his activism in the 1960s and founded the organizations that later merged to form the  Rainbow/PUSH  Coalition. Expanding his work into international affairs in the 1980s, he became a vocal critic of the  Reagan administration  and launched a presidential campaign in  1984 . Initially viewed as a fringe candidate, he finished third for the Democratic nomination behind former vice president  Walter Mondale  and...
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