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Above: Women's March Cleveland on Oct. 2, 2021 at a march from Market Square Park in Cleveland for reproductive rights that drew some 2,500 people. Photo by David Petkiewicz of Cleveland.com/Plain Dealer   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today is the fourth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on June 24, 2022, to overturn or strike down Roe v Wade, its landmark 1973 ruling that gave federal protection for abortion access to women nationwide. In turn, the nation's high court, in a decision titled Dobbs v. Mississippi Health Organization, handed authority over abortion and reproductive rights to the respective state legislatures. . “Roe v. Wade protected generations of women's right to make personal medical decisions for years," said Ohio Congresswoman Emilia Sykes in a previous statement. "When it was overturned in 2022, fundamental rights were stripped away." Although voters in Ohio, in Nove...

Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CHICAGO, Illinois -Former President Barack Obama, joined by former first lady Michelle Obama and three former presidents ( Bush, Clinton and Biden), celebrated the opening of his presidential library and museum in Chicago in an extraordinary event Thursday that brought together thousands, including politicians, A-list celebrities, athletes and other internationally known figures. Bono, John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Marc Anthony and Eddie Vedder took turns on the stage ahead of Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder. "I hope this center will serve as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is and remind us what we can achieve when we embrace our shared responsibilities as citizens," said Obama, a Chicago southside organizer-turned president, and the nation's first Black president who served two consecutive four-year terms in office beginning in 2009. Obama speaking at the grand op...

Former Cleveland councilman Basheer Jones Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor CLEVELAND, Ohio — Former Cleveland Councilman Basheer Jones, who is Black, has been released from prison ahead of his scheduled release date. After pleading guilty to wire fraud and honest services fraud, he was sentenced in April 2025 to 28 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge J. Phillip Calabrese, a Republican appointed to the federal bench in the Northern District of Ohio in 2020 by President Donald Trump during his first term in office. The judge also ordered the former councilman, a Democrat, to pay more than $148,000 in restitution and to serve three years' probation after completing his sentence. Jones' attorney, Fernando Mack, and some Greater Cleveland Black leaders, such as former congresswoman and former HUD secretary Marcia L. Fudge, as well as some Black community activists, sought leniency...

Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.co m WASHINGTON, D.C.-  President Donald Trump and Iranian officials have reached an initial agreement intended to end more than three months of war in Iran and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,  a narrow, strategically vital waterway connecting the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.  The US-Iran Deal to end the war, scheduled to be formally signed on Friday in Switzerland, marks a major breakthrough in the conflict that set the Middle East ablaze and shook the global economy. Many of the deal's provisions, including a promise not to develop or seek a nuclear weapon, are similar to those negotiated by President Barack Obama when he was in office, a deal that Trump quickly eliminated when he took office for his first term in 2017.  "The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!" Trump wrote on social media . Meeting with French President Emmanuel...

Ohio Democratic Congresswomen Emilia Sykes, Shontel Brown and Joyce Beatty Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Emilia Sykes (OH-13), an Akron Democrat and vice chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, joined DWC Executive Steering Committee Member Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Co-Vice Chair Hillary Scholten (MI-03), and Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03) in leading 128 members of the DWC and House Democratic Caucus in a letter sent Wednesday to House Speaker Mike Johnson urging him to remove a dangerous provision in the BUILD America 250 Act . That provision shields rideshare companies such as Uber and Lyft from liability when passengers are sexually assaulted, injured, or killed during rides. 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Shontel Brown, a Warrensville Heights Democrat, and Third Congressional District Congresswoman Joyce Beatty of Columbus, who are also Black like Sykes, and from Ohio, were among the lawma...

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