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Basheer Jones and Soul Science Lab hip hop duo among performers in Cleveland for the Carl and Louis Stokes commemorative event, a free concert and stage production on the Civil Rights Movement and the legacy of the Stokes brothers at Tri-C metro auditorium on September 15, 2017 at 7:30 pm that is sponsored by University Hospitals, among others, and will also include performances by a host of local artists like Lucretia Bolden.... The late Carl B Stokes was the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city, and his older brother, the late Louis Stokes, was the first Black congressperson from Ohio....This year marks the 50th anniversary of Carl B. Stokes' historic election in 1967 as the nation's first Black mayor of a major city... By ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog....Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email us news at: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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The  hip hop musical duo Chen Lo (left) and Asante Amin, who make up the  Brooklyn-based  hip hop group the Soul Science Lab, will perform in Cleveland on Sept 15, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. on Tri-C's main campus, a free and open-to-the public concert and stage production sponsored by  University Hospitals in partnership with the  initiative  “Stokes: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future" Cleveland's Basheer Jones, a Morehouse graduate and community activist who is among the performers at the commemorative event on the legacy of Carl and Louis Stokes in Cleveland on Sept 15 Cleveland songster Lucretia Bolden is also among the performers at the commemorative event on the legacy of Carl and Louis Stokes in Cleveland on Sept 15 at Tri C, a local community college The Stokes brothers. The late Louis Stokes (left), a Civil Rights attorney and the first Black congressperson from Ohio, and the late Carl B. Stokes, a former Cleveland judge a