Hundreds expected for 2nd Annual 23 Speakers International Women's Day, an open-to-the public march beginning at 4:45 pm on March 8, 2018 from Cleveland City Hall to the Old Stone Church on Public Square for 5 pm speeches by 23 people inside of the church....The four keynote speakers are lieutenant governor candidate and Akron Councilwoman Tara Mosley Samples, activist Genevieve Mitchell, congressional candidate and Civil Rights attorney Betsy Rader, and Hathway Brown School Senate President Isha Lele... Other speakers are Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones, Yvonka Hall, Patricia Brown, Dionne Carmichael Thomas, Don Bryant, Kathy Wray Coleman, Alfred Porter Jr., Dicee Princess Moore, Dionne Thomas Carmichael, the Rev. Cynthia Smith, Khalid Samad, Marcia McCoy, Loretta Sharp Gray, South Euclid Councilwoman Ruth Gray, Elizabeth Jones, Cindy Demsey, Melissa Svigelj Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Queen Fatima Chui, and Elizabeth Kucinich, the wife of gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich....Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition and a key organizer of the event who was also the opening speaker at the annual women's march in Cleveland this year said that "we invite everybody to this momentous occasion because we have unfinished business as to women's rights, children's rights, Civil Rights, and public policies enacted via the state legislature in Ohio and in Washington D.C. that continue to disenfranchise these and other vulnerable groups".....By 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

Keynote speakers for the 2nd Annual International Women's Day March Cleveland event scheduled for Thursday March 8, 2018 in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, an event sponsored in solidarity with women and their supporters worldwide, are, from left, activist and former Cleveland school board vice president Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade and the Cleveland NAACP, 14 congressional district congressional candidate and Civil Rights attorney Betsy Rader, lieutenant governor candidate and Akron Councilwoman Tara Samples, and Isha Lele, student senate president of Hathaway Brown School, an all girls high school in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Activists will march from the Free Stamp at Willard Park at Cleveland City Hall at 4:45 pm on March 8 to the Old Stone Church on Public Square in downtown Cleveland where speeches will begin at 5 pm inide the church. The event is free and open- to- the- public.

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CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Hundreds are expected for the 2nd Annual International Women's Day March Cleveland event on March 8, 2018, a march beginning from the Free Stamp at Willard Park next to Cleveland City Hall at 4:45 pm and ending minutes away at the Old Stone Church on Public Square for speeches starting at 5 pm inide the church, some 23 speeches in fact, organizers said yesterday.  (Editor's note the original Facebook event page with some 900 interested and going was hacked on March 4, 2018 after organizers refused to remove targeted Black women running for office from the speaking panel. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE NEW FACEBOOK PAGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH CLEVELAND 2018 ).

The theme of the free and public event, a march in solidarity with women and their supporters worldwide,  is "Push for Progress."

The four keynote speakers at five minutes each at Old Stone Church beginning at 5 pm are 14th congressional district Democratic candidate and Civil Rights attorney Betsy Rader, Democratic lieutenant governor candidate and Akron Councilwoman Tara Mosley Samples, activist and former Cleveland school board vice president Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade and the Cleveland NAACP, and Isha Lele, a senior and student senate president at Hathaway Brown School, and an activist, debate scholar, honor student, and president of the student senate at the school in Shaker Heights, an all girls school. (Editor's note: Lele, 17, is also an honor student and a skilled debater recognized statewide)

The key organizing groups of the event are the Imperial Women Coalition, Women's March Cleveland and International Women's Day March Cleveland, such groups of which were also involved in helping to organize the 2nd annual women's march on Public Square in Cleveland on January 20, 2018 that drew some 7,000 people.

"We invite everybody to this momentous occasion because we have unfinished business as to women's rights, children's rights, Civil Rights, and public policies enacted via the state legislature in Ohio and in Washington D.C that continue to disenfranchise the most vulnerable groups in this country, including women, Black people, other minorities, children, and poor people" said Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads the Imperial Women Coalition and was the opening speaker at the women's march in Cleveland on Jan. 20.

Other co-organizers include the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus and Black on Black Crime Inc.

Other speakers (19 of them at two minutes each, including a Black elected official of Cleveland and numerous community activists) are affiliates with one or more of the following groups associated with the pertinent women's empowerment event. They are, specifically, Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones, Yvonka Hall, Patricia Brown, the Rev. Cynthia Smith, Kathy Wray Coleman, Alfred Porter Jr., Dicee Princess Moore, Khalid Samad, Don Bryant, Marcia McCoy, Loretta Sharp Gray, South Euclid Councilwoman Ruth Gray, Elizabeth Jones, Cindy Demsey, Mellisa Svigelj Smith, Anthony Gallagher, the Rev Cynthia Amith, who is an associate minister at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Queen Fatima Chui, Dionne Carmichael Thomas, and Elizabeth Kucinich, the wife of gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich.

Those endorsing the event include a diverse group of greater Cleveland community activists and community leaders with women at the helm, progressive women seeking public office, ImperialWomenCoalition.Com, International Women's Day March Cleveland, Women's March Cleveland, NE Ohio Black Health Coalition, 100 Black Women, National Council of Negro Women-Cuyahoga County Chapter, National Action Network-Cuyahoga County Chapter, Fairfax Business Association, National Congress of Black , Cleveland NAACP, Women, Clevelandurbannews.com, Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus, Greater Cleveland Independent Black Journalists, Carl Stokes Brigade, Finding The Missing -Ebony Alert, Peace Action, Badass Teachers Association, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, Black Empowerment Makes a Difference (BEMAD), Rebuilding Our Village and Protecting Our Children's Safety, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor,Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Clevelandurbannews.com, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Black on Black Crime Inc, Black Man's Army, Task Force for Community Mobilization, Organize Ohio, and the Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.

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.