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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 Sunday, March 8, 2026, from 2-4pm at Market Square Park near downtown Cleveland, a sister march to a national day of action promoted by the National Women's March in Washington, D.C.  The theme of the march is "Brave Women Free America Cleveland", and it will be led by Women's March Cleveland, which has organized the International Women's Day march in Cleveland since the first march in 2017. Speakers include state Senator Nickie Antonio, who is also the minority leader of the Ohio Senate, Maple Heights Mayor Annette Blackwell, Cleveland Ward 8 Councilwoman Stephanie Howse Jones, Ohio State School Board of Education member Delores Gray Ford (all four pictured above), Eugene Miller, Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairman David Brock, activists Lee Thompson of Refuse Fascism a...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...