A Black History Moment From ClevelandUrbanNews.Com: Barack Obama became America's first Black president when he was first elected in 2008, and Michelle Obama the country's first Black first lady....Kamala Harris is the first Black vice president of America and Lloyd Austin, the first Black secretary of defense....Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black female U.S. Supreme Court justice....Crispus Attucks was the first Black man to die in a major American war, and Blacks still feel the vestiges of slavery through high unemployment and illegal incarceration rates, etc....Blacks were once deemed 3/5 of a person....Carl B. Stokes was the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city, and the late pop icon Michael Jackson remains a legendary figure....Blacks were first enslaved by their African ancestors before being brought to America in chains.... Other Black greats include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Nat King Cole, Maya Angelou, Garrett Morgan, former congresspersons the late Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressman, and the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio's first Black female congressperson ..By clevelandurbannews.com and kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black newspaper and Black blog
Vice President Kamala Harris U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Former United States president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama Former president Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America The late pop icon Michael Jackson The late former 11th congressional district congressman Louis Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio The late Carl B. Stokes, the former mayor of Cleveland and the first Black mayor of a major American city The late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the former congresswoman of the 11th congressional district of Ohio Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher, Coleman is a Black Cleveland activist and journalist who trained at the Call and Post newspaper for 17 years. Tel: (216) 659-0473 Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- It’s Black history mont...
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