Women's March Cleveland 2020: 4th Annual Women's March Cleveland/Northeast Ohio set for January 18, 2020 with keynote speakers Cleveland Rape Crisis Center president and CEO Sondra Miller, state Rep. Juanita Brent and the Rev Tony Minor, and state Senator Nickie Antonio is set to give opening remarks.....Some 20 activist groups will also participate and activists are among the speakers, the 10:30 am rally of which will be held on the outside steps of Cleveland City Hall followed by a noon march....By Women's March Cleveland organizer Kathy Wray Coleman and Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

From left: Women's March Cleveland 2020 keynote speakers Cleveland Rape Crisis Center President and CEO Sondra Miller, state Representative Juanita Brent of Cleveland (D-12) and the Rev Tony Minor

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Sondra Miller, president and CEO of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, is one of three keynote speakers and will share strategies to prevent sexual violence and discuss the Violence Against Women Act as well as necessary resources to seek to eradicate violence against women in greater Cleveland at the Fourth Annual Women's March Cleveland/Northeast Ohio 2020 event, which will be held Sat., Jan 18, 2020,  beginning at 10:30 am on the outside steps of Cleveland City Hall in downtown Cleveland.

Cleveland's march is a sister march to marches in cities nationwide, the third year anniversary of the first march in January of 2017 that followed the inauguration of President Donald Trump that brought millions of women to the streets in opposition to his anti-female campaign rhetoric.

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Speeches are at 10:45 am, and will be followed by a noon march to Public Square.

"I am pleased to accept the invitation to speak," said Miller, who said she will discuss rape and other violence against women as well as the Violence Against Women Act.

The non-partisan anniversary event will also feature state Rep Juanita Brent of Cleveland and the Rev Tony Minor as keynote speakers, and state Sen Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, a women's rights advocate who pushes for public policy changes in the state legislature for the betterment of women and others, is the opening speaker.

Brent, the daughter of the late former state representative Vermel Whalen, and Minor are also women's advocates, Minor among a minority group of Black preachers who are pro-abortion. 

Some 20 greater Cleveland activist groups participating and activists will also be among the speakers. Those groups, or group members, include Black on Black Crime Inc., Imperial Women Coalition, National Congress of Black Women Cleveland Chapter, Black Lives Matter, Greater Cleveland Independent Black Journalist, International Women's Day March Cleveland,  League of Women Voters, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Move to Amend, Peace Action, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Carl Stokes Brigade, National Congress of Black Women, BEMAD, Protecting Our Children's Safety, Refuse Fascism Ohio, Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, Organize Ohio, Badass Teachers, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio,  Black Man's Army, Action Together Lakewood, the Coalition to Stop the Inhumanity in the Cuyahoga County Jail, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, and the Black Women's PAC of Greater Cleveland. 

The issues range from the policies out of Washington, D.C. and civil, voting and reproductive rights to education, racism, sexism, climate change, equal pay, jobs, taxes, immigration and religious and other bigotry. 

Also at issue, said organizers are healthcare, violence against women, criminal justice reform, excessive force, science and technology, and the LGBTQ community, among a host of other concerns.

State Senator Nickie Antonio (D-23), a Lakewood, Ohio Democrat

"Women's March Cleveland is pleased to welcome high quality keynote speakers and an array of respected greater Cleveland activist groups who have been in the trenches for women to our fourth annual march in Cleveland," said Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, a key organizer of Women's March Cleveland annual anniversary events since 2018. " This event is non-partisan and is open to all women across the board and their supporters."

Coleman is a longtime Black Cleveland activist and said that the rally is being held on the steps of Cleveland City Hall because Cleveland is the hub of the northeast Ohio region and that "Cleveland women in particular want to know what is being done at both the state and federal levels about heightened violence against women and girls and to assist women and their families who reside in largely Black and struggling major American cities."

Greater Cleveland Black Women's PAC President Elaine Gohlstin and writer, community organizer and reproductive rights activist Mallory McMaster

The mistresses of ceremonies are greater Cleveland Black Women's Political Action President Elaine Gohlstin and writer, community organizer and reproductive rights activist Mallory McMaster, a Cleveland Heights resident.

From the rise of the #MeToo movement to allegations against high-profile celebrities, public officials, priests and powerful business executives, sexual violence has never been more prominent in our national headlines.

In the midst of recent news stories, an unprecedented volume of local and greater Cleveland survivors of rape and sexual abuse have been speaking out, sharing their experiences and asking for help. Stand with women in greater Cleveland and their supporters, and women across the globe, as we demand equal opportunity and fair play for women on Jan 18, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio, a largely Black major American city.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also at the top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 As to the one-on-one interview by Coleman with Obama  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.