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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com RALLY TODAY, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2022- FREE STAMP AT WILLARD PARK NEXT TO AT CLEVELAND CITY HALL IN DOWNTOEN CLEVELAND THE . U.S. SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED ROE V WADE TODAY Cleveland, Ohio:  https://www.facebook.com/event... CLEVELAND, Ohio Women's March Cleveland's Roe v Wade Decision Day Action, a rally in fact, isset for June 24, 2022 at the Free Stamp at Willard Park in downtown Cleveland next to Ciy Hall since the U.S. Supreme Court's anticipated decision in a celebrated case out of Jackson, Mississippi that will serve to overturn Roe v Wade has been issued. The event contact telephone number is Women's March Cleveland at (216) 659-0473. We will gather at 5pm, give speeches y 5:30 pm and then march in the streets at 6pm. According to a Supreme Court leak, the high court was expected tp release its opinion in late June of 2022 in a Mississippi case that threatens Roe v Wade, the 1973 landmark U.S. Supreme...

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Joan Synenberg and former Newburgh Hts. mayor Trevor Elkins Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- CLEVELAND, Ohio- A Republican Cuyahoga County common pleas judge in Cleveland, Ohio ignored a plea agreement between prosecutors and former Newburgh Hts. mayor Trevor Elkins, a Democrat, and handed the former suburban mayor jail time anyway, an option the judge could exercise under Ohio law. In rejecting the  plea agreement that included no jail time, five years probation, and a fine, the judge issued a minimal fine and sentenced Elkins to six months in jail, with 150 days of that suspended, coupled with one year of community control and  200 hours of community service. If he completes the 200 hours of community service, the judge  said she would consider early termination of his probation. Some sources say the judge's actions were ...

New Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairman David Brock and 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Shontel M. Brown (D-OH), a Warrensville Heights Democrat and the former chair of the county Democratic party, its first woman and first Black party chair By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- EUCLID, Ohio- Executive committee members of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party chose Cleveland west side organizer David Brock during a meeting on Saturday to lead the county Democratic party as the midterm elections near, an election for party chair that saw Blacks lose their grip on the powerful party once led by 11th Congressional District Congressman Shontel M. Brown  A former county councilwoman, Brown succeeded Marcia L Fudge in Congress, Fudge her political mentor and a 12-year congresswoman who vacated her congressional seat in March of 2021 to serve as secretary of housing and urban development with President Joe Biden's administrat...

    From left:  U.S.  Representatives Dave Joyce (R-OH), Shontel M. Brown (D-OH), a Warrensville Hts Democrat whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, Mike Turner (R-OH) and Deborah Ross (D-NC) Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S.  Rep. Shontel M. Brown (D-OH), a Warrensville Hts Democrat whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, last week joined Reps. Dave Joyce (R-OH), Mike Turner (R-OH) and Deborah Ross (D-NC) in introducing the Fighting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Act of 2022, a first responders'bill pending in Congress. “While serving on the frontlines protecting our communities, our police officers and first responders often face traumatic situations that can leave them with invisible wounds,” said Rep. Brown. The congresswoman said that a gr...

WASHINGTON, D.C.- In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. organized low-income Americans of different backgrounds in a march on Washington known as the "Poor People's Campaign." Over 50 years later, thousands of protesters gathered Saturday to deliver that same message at the Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. The rally urged low-income voters to participate in the upcoming midterm elections and featured religious organizations, pro-democracy groups, labor unions and climate activists from across the country. "As long as there are 140 million poor and low-income people in this country, and we know it doesn't have to be this way, we won't be silent anymore," said the Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT NPR.COM Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in O...

  Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, the city's fourth Black mayor Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – Following the lead of Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Dr. Eric Gordon and Mayor Justin Bibb, the Cleveland school board at a special board meeting Tuesday night voted unanimously to ban teachers and non-security personnel employed by the city's largely Black public school district, which the city mayor controls pursuant to a state law, from carrying firearms on school grounds. "We know this is the right thing to do," CMSD Board Chair Anne Bingham said. "I can't imagine what the  legislature is thinking." The measure taken by the district's s chool board members, all of whom are appointed by the city mayor per state law, comes just a day after GOP Gov Mike DeWine signed a bill into law that allows Ohio's school district employees to carry fire arms in schools with limited training. Flanked ...