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Cleveland City Council, Mayor Bibb introduce equal pay ordinance for Cleveland businesses..."Pay equity is not just a woman's issue but a family issue," said Councilwoman Howse Jones... By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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By Kathy Wray  Coleman, associate publisher, editor CLEVELAND, Ohio -Cleveland City Council and Mayor Justin Bibb introduced a proposed ordinance at the council meeting on Monday that prohibits Cleveland businesses with 15 or more employees from inquiring, screening or relying on an applicant's salary history in deciding potential employment. The legislation would also require that prospective employers provide the salary range of the position. Any person may file a complaint alleging that a violation has occurred with the Fair Employment Wage Board within 180 days of the alleged violation.  The proposed equal pay ordinance comes as newly elected President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking down DEI programs and tampering with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which has angered progressive Democrats and prominent Civil Rights groups, including the National NAACP and its president and CEO Derrick Johnson. He has promised a vigoro...

Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown responds to Trump's inauguration events, saying Democrats conducted a peaceful transfer of power, unlike Trump in 2020...Talks about Civil and voting rights under a Trump administration...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown (D-11), a Warrensville Hts. Democrat clevelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher Washington, DC – A Warrensville Hts Democrat whose 11th congressional district includes Cleveland and most of the eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown on Monday responded to the Jan. 20 inauguration events in Washington, D.C. The events coincided with the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday, a federal holiday observed on the third Monday in January of each year. President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican and real estate mogul who served a controversial first term but lost reelection in 2020 to President Joe Biden, took the oath of office for a second term Monday, after defeating Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the November general election where he won both the popular vote and the electoral college. As the Dems seek to regro...

MLK Day 2025-Our exclusive interview with Ralph Abernathy III on MLK, a reprint...Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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From left: Ralph David Abernathy III, his father, the late Ralph David Abernathy Sr., and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. THE BELOW ARTICLE INCLUDES ARCHIVES FROM OUR PREVIOUS ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY III CLEVELAND, Ohio- Jan 20, 2025 is here, a national holiday in observance of the late iconic Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. W e pause to remember the struggles that Blacks in America continue to face as a whole on almost a daily basis, struggles across the continuum that remain in spite of some gains during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Had Dr King not been assassinated, it would be his 96th birthday on Jan 15. The late Ralph David Abernathy III (pictured), whose famed father, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy Sr., marched alongside Dr. King during the Civil Rights Movement and led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after King was assassinated, visited Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 4, 2012 to stomp for Barack O...

Cleveland's Jan 18, 2025 noon women's rally and march are at Market Square Park, a sister march to marches nationwide...Women's March Cleveland comments...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article CLEVELAND, Ohio -Cleveland will provide the ambience for a rally and march for women's rights and Civil Rights on Sat, Jan. 18, 2025 at noon at Market Square Park in the Ohio City neighbourhood near downtown Cleveland. Elected officials and women's rights activists will rally and march with greater Cleveland women on this date against an anticipated national abortion ban and for abortion access and women's reproductive and other rights across the board.  City officials have approved permits for the gathering and organizers include activists Kathy Wray Coleman, Alysa Cooper Moskey, Siera Mason, Alfred Porter Jr., Elaine Gohlstin, and Cindy Demsey of the Cuyahoga Democratic Women's Caucus.  The event is part of a national day of action in cities across the country promoted by Women's March National and comes some two and a half years after the U.S. Supreme Court's June 24, 2022 historic Dobbs decision that overturne...

Happy New Year 2025 from Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Our top 15 articles of 2024. Click on the following links to read each article: VP Kamala Harris accepts Democratic nomination for president at last night of Democratic convention.....By Clevelandurbannews.com Biden quits 2024 presidential race and endorses VP Kamala Harris as the nominee in his place, Harris the country's first Black and first female vice president....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader US House passes funding bill to avert a government shutdown...Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown comments...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader   3 dead, including shooter, and 6 injured in school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin...Shooting  comes on the heels of the 12th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting...President Biden comments...Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader   Mystik Dan wins the 150th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, the...