Women's March Cleveland 2021 to observe Roe v Wade's anniversary at annual march on January 23, 2021 at 1pm on Market Square and Ohio Senator Sandra Williams of Cleveland will speak on it as she joins a speaking line up of elected officials, activists, women's advocates and women victims of violence and their family members...."We will use every means at our disposal as we continue the ongoing fight to protect Roe v. Wade and its legacy," said Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

 

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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Women's March Cleveland will highlight that it has been 48 years since the U.S. Supreme Court, on Jan 22, 1973, issued a landmark decision that made abortion legal nationwide in Roe v, Wade at its fifth annual rally and women's march beginning at 1 pm. on Sat. Jan. 23, 2021 at Market Square on the city's near west side across from the Westside Market with a 2:30 pm anniversary march and caravan across the Carnegie Bridge.The contact phone number for the nonpartisan event is Women's March Cleveland at  (216) 659-0473 CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE FOR THIS EVENT

Ohio state Sen. Sandra Williams (pictured above) of Cleveland is among the rally speakers and will speak specifically on Roe v Wade and its impact on women as well as state legislative measures in Ohio that seek to interfere with the reproductive rights of women.

"We will use every means at our disposal as we continue the ongoing fight to protect Roe v. Wade and its legacy," said Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black Cleveland activist.

Exactly what is Roe v. Wade?

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in favor of Norma McCorvey ("Jane Roe") that held that women in the United States have a fundamental right to choose whether or not to have abortions without excessive government restriction, and struck down Texas's abortion ban as unconstitutional.

The case affirmed that women had a constitutional right to access safe & legal abortion.

Since that time efforts have been underway, led by Congressional Republicans and White men, to overturn the decision, the U.S. Supreme Court of which has a 6-3 conservative majority since the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a President Donald Trump appointee,  to the high court's bench late last year. 

Women will also salute the election of Kamala Harris as the country's first Black and first female vice president at the event and will denounce the failure by the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute the two White Cleveland cops involved in the 2014 deadly shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. 

Other event issues include public education, reproductive rights, immigration and legal system reform, Blacks lives, equal pay, climate change, the Violence Against Women's Act, voting rights, opposition to pro-"Stand Your Ground" legislation in Ohio and elsewhere, racism, sexism, homophobia, excessive force against Black women, and disparities regarding to Black and Latino as to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Organizers said  they will also push for more women to be represented in science and technology fields at the upcoming rally and march. 

Event  speakers will also include family members of Cleveland women killed by domestic and other violence, state Rep. Stephanie Howse of Cleveland, whose speech will include a discussion on the dangers of "Stand Your Ground" legislation in Ohio and elsewhere as it relates to Black women and Black people, activist and motivational speaker Genevieve Mitchell of Cleveland, and Cleveland Ward 14 Councilwoman Jasmin Santana. 

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 speak, 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 include state Rep Juanita Brent of Cleveland, state Sen Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, Akron City Council President Tara Samples, area clergy,  educators Dr. Robin Simmons and 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 Delores Gray of the Brickhouse Wellness Empowerment Center, 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. 

Coronavirus safety precautions are required, including face-masks and social distancing, organizers said.   

On Jan 21,  2017, days after 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.  

Women's March Cleveland has been consistent in hosting an anniversary women's march each January since the first women's march in January of  2017 where 15,000 women across Northeast Ohio took to the streets of downtown Cleveland to march for equality. 

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.