City of Cleveland, Peace in the Hood to host 46th annual Black flag raising event for Black History Month on February 1, 2020 at noon at City Hall, Mayor Jackson, city council members expected to attend...Peace in the hood leader Khalid Samad said everybody is invited and that there will be food, good music and a salute to community advocates....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659 0473.
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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher
Led by longtime Cleveland activist Khalid Samad and his grassroots group Peace in the Hood, and also sponsored by the city of Cleveland Community Relations Board, and held also in cooperation with the Underground Railroad Society, activists, elected officials and other community members will gather for the 46th Annual Flag Raising Ceremony, which will begin with a noon flag raising today, Sat, Feb. 1 pm at Cleveland City Hall.
Organizers said community advocates will also be recognized.
Samad said that Mayor Frank Jackson, Community Relations Board Director Grady Stephenson, and members of city council will be among those attending
"We invite everybody to come down to the flag raising and to enjoy good music, food and dialogue on the significance of today as it relates to the Black community and our struggles," said Samad, the head organizer.
The annual flag raising was initiated by the late Carl B. Stokes, the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American City, Stokes, the brother of the late Ohio congressman Louis B. Stokes, elected in 1967 when Cleveland, now a majority Black city of some 385,000 people, was largely White.
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