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Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Jan. 23, 2026  - According to a Cleveland City Hall press release, the Cleveland City Council has cancelled its regular meeting on Mon., Jan 26, 2026, due to adverse weather conditions. It will meet at its regularly scheduled time on Mon. Feb. 2, 2026. City hall is also closed. Weather predictions show temperatures in the teens on Monday and much of next week.  Those individuals who held public comment slots at the Jan. 26 meeting will retain the speaking spots for the Feb. 2 meeting.  Several recreation centers will serve as warming centers during the inclement weather event. They will be activated through Wed., Jan. 28.  Recreation centers serving as warming centers Michael Zone Recreation Center (West side) 6301 Lorain Ave. (216) 664-3373   EJ Kovacic Recreation Center (Near downtown) 6250 St. Clair Avenue (216) 664-4140 Zelma George Recreation Center (Southeast) 3155...

Ohio 13th Congressional District Congresswoman Emilia Sykes (D-13), an Akron Democrat Above: Women's March Cleveland on Oct. 2, 2021 at a march from Market Square Park in Cleveland that drew some 2,500 people. Photo by David Petkiewicz of Cleveland.com U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes reaffirms her fight for  re productive freedom on the Roe v. Wade anniversary  date, and so do community activist women of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes (OH-13), an Akron Democrat and one of three Black women in Congress from Ohio, released a statement on the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, highlighting ongoing threats to reproductive rights in Ohio and across the nation. “Roe v. Wade protected generations of women's right to make personal medical decisions for years," said Congresswoman Sykes. "When it was overturned in 2022, fundamental rights were stripped away, and nearly ...

Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, OHIO- Led by Women's March Cleveland, greater Cleveland activist women and their supporters will take to the streets in mass on Sun., March 8, 2026 to march on International Women's Day as part of a national day of action. It is the tenth year following Cleveland's first International Women's Day march in 2017. Speakers will be announced in the coming month. The event will begin at Market Square Park near downtown Cleveland at 2pm with a rally and speeches, followed by a 30-minute march before marchers return to Market Square.  Organizers say that while women's rights are paramount, the major premise of Cleveland's march, and marches countrywide, is standing against the divisive, illegal, and unconstitutional policies of President Donald Trump and his administration.  Also at issue, activists say, are attempts by Republican elected officials in Ohio to roll back a win on Issue 1, which O...

From left: Ralph David Abernathy III, his father, the late Ralph David Abernathy Sr., and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. THE BELOW ARTICLE INCLUDES ARCHIVES FROM OUR PREVIOUS ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY III CLEVELAND, Ohio- Jan. 19, 2026 is here, a national holiday in observance of the late iconic Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. W e pause to remember the struggles that Blacks in America continue to face as a whole on almost a daily basis, struggles across the continuum that remain in spite of some gains during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Had Dr King not been assassinated as he was in 1968 on a Tennessee hotel balcony, it would have been his 97th birthday on Jan 15. The late Ralph David Abernathy III (pictured), whose famed father, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy Sr., marched alongside Dr. King during the Civil Rights Movement and led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after King was assassinated, visite...

                      ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article CLEVELAND, Ohio – Community activists, led by groups like the Cuyahoga Democratic Women's Caucus, Mobilize the Vote and Women's March Cleveland, gathered for a rally and march Friday evening at Market Square Park in the Ohio City neighborhood in response to  the tragic shooting death on Wednesday by ICE agents of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, MN. The speakers and organizers of the event were mainly activist women of Greater Cleveland, and several of them called for President Trump and Vice President JD Vance to resign, as well as the Trump administration. "Hey, hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go, " was among the chants levelled by protesters, some holding homemade anti-Trump and anti-ICE signs.  Good, 37 at her death, was a mother of three and was gunned down by ICE ...

                      ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes (OH-13), an Akron Democrat and one of three Black women in Congress from Ohio, released a statement urging a full investigation and accountability after the tragic shooting death by ICE agents of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, MN. Good, 37 at her death, was a mother of three and was gunned down by ICE on Jan 7, with ICE claiming she tried to run over the agent with her car, a lie by all standards, sources have said. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, both Republicans, defended the ICE agent at issue and have told national mainstream media that Good was the alleged perpetrator and not a victim, while Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, expressed outrage. Meanwhile, protests have erupted in Minneapolis and are spreadin...

Ohio 13th Congressional District Congresswoman Emilia Sykes (D-13), an Akron Democrat Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ohio Congresswoman  Emilia Sykes (OH-13), an Akron Democrat and one of three Black women in Congress from Ohio, has issued  a statement questioning President Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela: Trump on Saturday announced that the United States had successfully captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during a large-scale military operation. The president said that there were no civilian casualties and that the U.S. will govern Venezuela for now.      "Nicolas Maduro is an authoritarian who has caused real suffering for the Venezuelan people, and they deserve a democratic future,  " said Rep. Sykes.  "But that does not give President Trump the right to launch military action without Congress, without clear goals, and without explainin...