Women's March Cleveland 2018: Activist and Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman of Imperial Women Coalition is invited to speak at the Women's March Ohio annual event on January 20, 2018 at 10:30 am on Public Square in Cleveland by organizers, as well as 5 other Black Cleveland activists, the Imperial Women Coalition of which is also an organizer of the annual event....They are invited to speak by Women's March Ohio Director Rhiannon Childs of Columbus and Northeast Ohio Director Kenyona Sunny Matthews of Akron.....Also there will be representatives of SCLC, the National Action Network, and the Cleveland NAACP....The Imperial Women Coalition, which Coleman leads, is the only Black female grassroots activist group in greater Cleveland that has been in the trenches for nearly a decade on public policy matters, including as to women's rights issues pertaining to Black and other women and girls, education, excessive force by police, voting rights, violence against women, the legal system, reproductive rights, poverty, taxes and healthcare....Black Cleveland activist speakers, in addition to Coleman, include Brenda Bickerstaff, Alfred Porter Jr of Black on Black Crime Inc., and Diccie Princess Moore and Frederica Mayes-Gates of BEMAD, Find the Missing and Rebuilding Our Village and Protecting Our Children....No Justice. No Peace....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com. Tel (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
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| Women' March Cleveland on January 21, 2017 with activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman (far right) of Imperial Women Coaition and |
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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A MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST AND JOURNALIST KATHY WRAY COLEMAN, EDITOR-IN- CHIEF AT Clevelandurbannews.co and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog, AND LEADER OF THE CLEVELAND-BASED ACTIVIST GROUP IMPERIAL WOMEN COALITION. COLEMAN IS ALSO A FORMER BIOLOGY TEACHER AND THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FACEBOOK PAGES OF GREATER CLEVELAND INDEPENDENT BLACK JOURNALIST, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH CLEVELAND, AND WOMEN'S MARCH CLEVELAND, THE LATTER FACEBOOK PAGE OF WHICH IS APPROVED BY WOMEN'S MARCH WASHINGTON'S OHIO STATE DIRECTOR RHIANNON CHILDS OF COLUMBUS, OHIO |
I have been invited by Women's March Northeast Ohio to speak on behalf of the Imperial Women Coalition at the second annual event on Public Square in downtown Cleveland at 10:30 am on Saturday, Jan 20, 2018, which shall occur in cooperation with marches across the nation that day, including in the capital city of Washington, D.C. (Reach the Imperial Women Coalition by phone at (216) 659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com)
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF THE WOMEN'S MARCH 2018 EVENT ON CLEVELAND PUBLIC SQUARE AT 11 AM ON JANUARY 20
Last year's march drew some 15,000 people to Public Square in downtown Cleveland, but had only one Black speaker other than 11 Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge. It was me.
I thank the organizers for the invitation and I accept the challenge, though Imperial Women Coalition is also an organizing group for this year's event.
However, I did request that other Cleveland Black women activists and one man be allowed to speak and got clearance. They are the Rev Cynthia Smith, associate minister at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Black on Black Crime Inc. President Alfred Porter Jr., and Diccie Princess Moore and Frederica Mayes-Gates of Rebuilding Our Village and Protecting Our Children, Black Empowerment Makes a Difference (BEMAD) and Finding the Missing. Also speaking, though briefly, is the family of 14-year-old murder victim Alianna DeFreeze, whose body was discovered last year in an abandoned home on Cleveland's largely Black east side.
We were invited to speak by Women's March Ohio Director Rhiannon Childs of Columbus and Women's March Northeast Ohio Director Kenyona Sunny Matthews of Akron.
Both Childs and Mathews, who are Black, want Black women of Cleveland effectively involved in the women's march in Cleveland this year and Imperial Women Coalition is the only Black women's activist groups in this region. And we have been in the trenches with other greater Cleveland activists on women's issues, including rape and murder from the murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland by convicted serial killer and death row inmate Anthony Sowell to the murders of three Black women in East Cleveland by convicted serial killer Michael Madison to the decade long kidnapping and rape on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland of Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry by convicted and now deceased child rapist Ariel Castro.
We shall address, among other matters, politics and voting as they relate to public policy matters, consent decrees for police reforms nationally and locally and what is happening since President Obama is no longer in office, the Violence Against Women's Act, education, voting, jobs, reproductive rights, healthcare, mental health, and the legal system.
The Black women activists will also highlight the accomplishents of Black women in American history at the rally and march on Jan 20.
Al Porter Jr will do a salute to the murdered and raped women, including Black women as to the Imperial Avenue Murders, Malissa Williams of Cleveland, and Sandra Bland, Williams killed unarmed by Cleveland police anxiously slinging 137 bullets, and Bland erroneously killed by police in a Texas suburb after a questionable traffic stop arrest.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF THE WOMEN'S MARCH 2018 EVENT ON CLEVELAND PUBLIC SQUARE AT 11 AM ON JANUARY 20
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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