Congresswoman Fudge to lead annual 11th Congressional District Caucus Labor Day parade and festival in Cleveland on September 4, 2017 where the late former congresspersons Louis Stokes and Stephanie Tubbs Jones will be remembered, Stokes the first Black congressperson from Ohio and Tubbs Jones the first Black female congressperson from Ohio....State Representative and mayoral candidate Bill Patmon comments on the annual Labor Day event initiated by Louis Stokes 46-years ago to Clevelandurbannews.com editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman.....Fudge is one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio along with Congresswoman Joyce Beatty of Columbus......... The late congressman Stokes was a Civil Rights attorney and the brother and only sibling of the late Carl B. Stokes, a former judge, New York anchorman, and the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, and Imperialwomencoalition.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders
The late former congressman Louis Stokes (left), the first Black congressperson from Ohio, and his late brother Carl B. Stokes, the first Black mayor of the largely black city of Cleveland and of a major American city Pictured are Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (wearing blue-green suit jacket) as well as the late former congresspersons of the 11th congressional district, Louis Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio, and Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first Black female congressperson from Ohio. Both Stokes and Tubbs Jones will be remembered at the 11th Congressional District Caucus 46th Annual Labor Day Parade and Festival on Monday, Sept 4, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio, an event that Fudge, a Warrenville Heights Democrat and one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio, will lead ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone
