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Hundreds expected for 2nd Annual 23 Speakers International Women's Day, an open-to-the public march beginning at 4:45 pm on March 8, 2018 from Cleveland City Hall to the Old Stone Church on Public Square for 5 pm speeches by 23 people inside of the church....The four keynote speakers are lieutenant governor candidate and Akron Councilwoman Tara Mosley Samples, activist Genevieve Mitchell, congressional candidate and Civil Rights attorney Betsy Rader, and Hathway Brown School Senate President Isha Lele... Other speakers are Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones, Yvonka Hall, Patricia Brown, Dionne Carmichael Thomas, Don Bryant, Kathy Wray Coleman, Alfred Porter Jr., Dicee Princess Moore, Dionne Thomas Carmichael, the Rev. Cynthia Smith, Khalid Samad, Marcia McCoy, Loretta Sharp Gray, South Euclid Councilwoman Ruth Gray, Elizabeth Jones, Cindy Demsey, Melissa Svigelj Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Queen Fatima Chui, and Elizabeth Kucinich, the wife of gubernatorial candidate Dennis Kucinich....Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition and a key organizer of the event who was also the opening speaker at the annual women's march in Cleveland this year said that "we invite everybody to this momentous occasion because we have unfinished business as to women's rights, children's rights, Civil Rights, and public policies enacted via the state legislature in Ohio and in Washington D.C. that continue to disenfranchise these and other vulnerable groups".....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Keynote speakers for the 2nd Annual International Women's Day March Cleveland event scheduled for Thursday March 8, 2018 in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, an event sponsored in solidarity with women and their supporters worldwide, are, from left, activist and former Cleveland school board vice president Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade and the Cleveland NAACP, 14 congressional district congressional candidate and Civil Rights attorney Betsy Rader, lieutenant governor candidate and Akron Councilwoman Tara Samples, and Isha Lele, student senate president of Hathaway Brown School, an all girls high school in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Activists will march from the Free Stamp at Willard Park at Cleveland City Hall at 4:45 pm on March 8 to the Old Stone Church on Public Square in downtown Cleveland where speeches will begin at 5 pm inide the church. The event is free and open- to- the- public. . Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most re