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Hundreds of Cleveland women and their supporters brave the cold weather in Cleveland, Ohio on Sat, Jan 23, 2021 to participate in the fifth annual women's march. Photo by David Petkiewicz of  Cleveland.com

Photo by 19 Action News

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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Hundreds of Cleveland women and their supporters braved the cold weather in Cleveland, Ohio on Sat, Jan 23, 2021 to participate in the fifth annual women's march with various local and national news venues covering the event, including Yahoo News, Cleveland.com and local Cleveland television channels , Fox 8 News, 19 Action News, Channel 3 News, and Channel 5 News.

Click here to watch the channel 5 television news video of its special TV coverage of the march by reporter Jade Jarvis, or watch the above video of the coverage.

The temperature in Cleveland the day of the rally and march was 25 degrees.

Issues ranged from violence against women, to racism, sexism, excessive force, immigration, abortion and reproductive rights, voting, public education, legal system reform and services in Ohio for raped and murdered women, which activists said should not be cut relative to the upcoming state budget.

The women demanded that newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland revisit the Tamir Rice case and bring charges against the two White Cleveland cops involved in the 2014 shooting death of the 12-year-old Black boy, U.S. Department of Justice officials announcing late last month that the case has been closed with no charges against the police officers, one of whom was fired, but for reasons unrelated to the Rice killing.

They celebrated the election of Vice President Kamala Harris as the first Black and first female vice president.

And they vowed to fight any cuts to rape and domestic violence services in Cleveland from the state budget.

"If you cut one dollar form services for women when Black women are getting raped and murdered in droves in Cleveland we will vote you out of office Governor DeWine," said Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black Cleveland activist.

Keynote speakers for the event were activist and motivational speaker Genevieve Mitchell and state Rep. Stephanie House of Cleveland, who spoke on stand your ground legislation in Ohio that blacks leaders and activist oppose.

Four of the publicly announced candidates for the 11th Congressional District congressional seat soon to be vacated by future HUD secretary Rep Marcia L Fudge, who has been nominated for the post by President-elect Joe Biden, will there, namely County Councilwoman Shontel Brown, former state Rep John Barnes Jr. former state senator Nina Turner,  and Lavern Jones Gore.

Brown, Barnes Jr, and Turner,  a co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign and a Sanders surrogate, are Democrats, and Jones Gore is a Republican.

Brown is also chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, the first Black woman to hold the post.

Other speakers were Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones, state Rep Juanita Brent of Cleveland, area clergy, Dr. Mary Rice of the Metro Cleveland Alliance of Black School Educators, who is also an East Cleveland School Board member, Dr. Bennanaye Brooks of the League of Women Voters Greater Cleveland Chapter, and community activists Lee Thompson of Refusefacism. org, Don Bryant of the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network and Peace Action, and Alfred Porter Jr. of Black on Black Crime. 

The mother of 22-year-old Britany Hardwick, who was murdered on Dec 10 with the killer still at large, also spoke and demanded that violence against young Black women, which is on the rise, cease.

Black Women's PAC President Elaine Gohlstin was the mistress of ceremonies.

On Jan 21,  2017, days after former President Trump's inauguration, hundreds of thousands of  women in Cleveland and across the country, led by the national women's march out of Washington D.C., took to the streets for the first women's march to march against President Trump's racist and anti-female rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign and to fight for women's rights in general, the largest single day protest in American history.  

Trump lost last year 's presidential election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who was sworn in as President on Jan. 20

Though annual women's marches in other major cities across the nation have died down since the first march in 2017 where millions of women marched nationwide, Women's March Cleveland has been consistent in hosting an anniversary women's march each January, the first march in 2017 drawing some 15,000 women across Northeast Ohio as participants.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. 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.