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CLEVELAND, Ohio- This week, Mayor Justin Bibb and the City of Cleveland Department of Public Works team kicked off the inaugural summer speed table program with a commitment to install 100 asphalt speed tables to slow traffic and increase pedestrian safety.     The speed table program is made possible through the Back to Basics Capital Fund, the city's $30 million American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) investment in city street upgrades, traffic calming initiatives, and playground and park improvements.  ARPA is part of President Joe Biden's investment in American cities initiative. Cleveland is a largely Black major American city. Data show that the population motor-vehicle death rate in the country reached its peak in 1937 with 30.8 deaths per 100,000. The current rate is 13.8 per 100,000, representing a 55% improvement. "This project is critical because we know that lower speeds save lives," said Bibb in a statement. "There are studies that show a one mile...

                                                    President Joe Biden Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor -in-chief, and a political and investigative reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio WASHINGTON, D,C. – Today, President Joe Biden announced his support for the Right to Contraception Act (Sen. Markey, D-MA, and 49 cosponsors)  via a press release to  Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's Black digital news leader. "The administration [The Biden administration] strongly supports Senate passage of S. 4381, the Right to Contraception Act, which would protect the fundamental right to access contraception and help ensure that women can make decisions about their health, lives, and famil...

                              Cleveland City Council President Blaine Griffin   By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher CLEVELAND, Ohio  - Cleveland City Council has selected Triad Research Group as the external group to lead and determine recommendations for its upcoming redistricting process, Council President Blaine Griffin announced via a press release Thursday to Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's Black digital news leader. City council will lose two council seats, dropping it from 17 members to 15, Griffin said. The redistricting process has proved to be controversial in the past as council members at issue were forced to run against council colleagues. "Two of our primary goals are to have natural boundaries and to keep neighborhoods together," said Griffin, councilman for Ward 6, which includes  Fairfax, Larchmere, Little Italy, Woodlan...

                                         U.S.Rep Shontel Brown (D-OH)   Staff article: Washington, D.C. –  Ohio  Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11)  and Michigan  Congresswoman Haley Stevens   (MI-11) have   introduced the Diverse Cybersecurity Workforce Act (H.R.8469) in an effort to establish a program at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to promote the cybersecurity field to underrepresented and disadvantaged communities. The proposed legislation requires CISA, a federal government agency, to expand existing education and outreach activities and promote cybersecurity careers to a diverse audience. It  was introduced with 32 other cosponsors. Workforce diversity is essential to a strong, secure, shining nation that can protect us from a range of threats now and into the future," said Rep. Brown, a Black Warren...

Presidential nominees President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump Staff article: CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-ATLANTA, Georgia -President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have accepted an invitation from CNN to debate on June 27, 2024,  a historically early showdown  that CNN says will set the tone for the final months of the 2024 campaign. The presidential election is Nov. 5 as the two nominees, Biden a Republican and Trump, a Democrat, fight to the end. The debate will be held at CNN's Atlanta studios with no audience present — an anomaly in debates between presidential candidates.  Republicans have for months been piling the  pressure on Biden to debate Trump  after the president offered non-committal answers on whether the face-offs would take place. But according to CNN, several sources say that the debate had actually been in the works for weeks, as the campaigns separately came to the conclusion that debates over the summer would  ben...

 By   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by head coach J.B. Bickerstaff, the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs series on Wednesday night in Boston to the Boston Celtics 113-98 in Game 5 of the best of seven series, bringing an end to their 2023-2024 season. Cavs stars Donovan Mitchell and Jarrett Allen remained injured and unable to play Wednesday as did Caris LeVert, the team's star player off the bench. Darius Garland and Evan Mobley carried the Cavs throughout the series. All of them are Black, and so is coach Bickerstaff. The series final was 4-1 with the Cavs unable to mount a comeback from a Game 4 loss last week against the No 1 seed. The Celtics will now face the winner of the series between the  Knicks and the Pacers , which New York leads 3-2. Game 6 will be played Friday in Indiana.   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog...