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The late former Ohio 11th congressional district congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Cleveland Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   CLEVELAND, Ohio (Clevelandurbannews.com) - Patrick Henry school, a public elementary school at 11901 Durant Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side, will now be called Stephanie Tubbs Jones School as a ribbon cutting ceremony at the school was held at 2:30 p.m. on Tues, Aug 30. The open-to-the-public event drew a wealth of Cleveland's mainstream media and prominent Black elected officials such as Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Shontel M. Brown, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Council President Blaine Griffin, city council persons Joe Jones and Kevin Conwell, and Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Meredith Turner and Yvonne Conwell, Councilman Kevin Conwell's wife.  Also there were students, parents and school administrators, and schools CEO Dr. Eric Gordon, who organized the event. Tubbs Jones'

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Council President Blaine Griffin Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND,  Ohio— Cleveland City Council and leadership from the Center for   Economic   Recovery —the policy team tasked with carrying ou t   Mayor Justin Bibb's Rescue  &   Transformation   Plan — discussed  proposed initiatives  for strategic American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) spending at a meeting on Monday with the mayor and city council calling for $50 milion for housing grants and improvements citywide, $5 million for minority businesses, and $4.7 million to address rape and domestic violence in the city.     Other projects have also been proposed to round out the multi-million spending projections for the monies.  The  American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 , also called the  COVID-19 Stimulus Package  or  American Rescue Plan ,  is a  US$1.9 trillion   economic stimulus  bill passed by the  117th United States Congress  and signed into law by  Presid

   Author, orator, professor, and constitutional lawyer Justin Driver of Yale Law School to speak on Fri, Sept. 2 at the City Club of Cleveland in downtown Cleveland, Ohio Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Progessor  Justin Driver , author of " The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind"  and an award-winning Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law  and counselor to the dean at Yale Law School,  will speak at the City Club of Cleveland for a luncheon at 11:30am on Fri, Sept 2, 2022.  Professor Driver  teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law. He  comes to downtown Cleveland this week as part of the City Club's  Authors in Conversation series, a series held in cooperation with  Case Western Reserve University   and sponsored by the    John P. Murphy Foundation  through a public grant from  Cuyahoga Arts & Culture .  The speaking forum begins at noon after lunch

Pictured are NAACP President Derrick Johnson, Nina Turner and United States President Joe Biden    Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief (Coleman is a former biology teacher and a seasoned Black journalist, and an investigative, legal, scientific, and political reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio). WASHINGTON, D.C. – The NAACP, the nation's oldest Civil Rights organization for Blacks, criticized President Joe Biden's federal student loan debt forgiveness program saying Wednesday that it does not go far enough and that  it goes against what he promised Black people when he successfully campaigned for president in 2020 with overwhelming support from America's Black community. Now is the time more than ever for the president to step up and to do right by Black people, they say, a reference to the upcoming November midterm elections in which th

Democratic U.S. Representatives Shontel M. Brown of Ohio (OH-11), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson Jr. of Georgia (GA-4), and RitchieTorres of New York (NY-15) All three of them represent largely Black congressional districts in Congress. Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief (Coleman is a former biology teacher and a seasoned Black journalist, and an investigative, legal, scientific, and political reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio). WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democratic U.S. Reps. Shontel M. Brown of Ohio (OH-11), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. of Georgia (GA-4), and Ritchie Torres of New York (NY-15) on Tuesday led a group of 23 largely Democratic members of Congress in urging the Biden administration to strengthen efforts to address inequities in the nation's public healthcare system as it relates to the monkeypox vaccine and disenfranchised