Posts

Showing posts with the label Women's March Cleveland Kathy Wray Coleman Reps Kaptur and Fudge. state Rep. Antonio

Women's march on Cleveland: Activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman among speakers at 15 thousand person women's march in Cleveland where Coleman also led the march from Public Square to City Hall and back, a gathering with speakers such as Congress persons Marcia Fudge and Marcy Kaptur, and state Representative Nickie Antonio.....Coleman said in her speech that no Black women on Trump's cabinet is inexcusable, that Black women are incarcerated at a rate 4 times higher than White women, and that they make only 63 cents on the dollar compared to White men....She also addressed violence against women as to the Imperial Avenue Murders in Cleveland, East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison, and Ariel Castro's rape and kidnapping victims of Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry........By www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

Image
Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition, who  also edits Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper, gets the crowd of some 15 thousand people energetic with chants after a rousing speech on Public Square in Cleveland on January 21, 2017 at a women's march held in solidarity with the national women's march in Washington, D.C.  (Plain Dealer photo at  CLeveland.com )   Also a local journalist and former 14-year Cleveland schools biology teacher, Coleman also led protesters in chants that day for the march from Public Square to City Hall, and back to Public Square. Plain Dealer photo at   CLeveland.com )  .  Activist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition, with her bull horn, takes a rest as she leads protesters in a march from Public Square to Cleveland City Hall on Saturday, January 21, 2017, a sister protest to the national women's march in Washi