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Photo by Mark Kilpatrick of Cleveland.com Activists Nina McLellan, Brenda Bickerstaff and Alicia Kirkman leading our International Women's Day March and rally on March 8.  Photo by Hannah Drown of Cleveland.com UPDATE FROM INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH CLEVELAND ORGANIZER KATHY WRAY COLEMAN: Below is the   Cleveland.com article  on our International Women' s Day March and rally on March 8. Thanks to all Find the event on  Facebook . The below article is by Cleveland.com reporter Mary Kilpatrick. Click here  to view the speakers at the rally via the video by Cleveland.com reporter Hannah Drown, and also view Drown's  video  of the march. We also thank Cleveland Channel 5 News and 19 News television for the live coverage. Next year it will be on a Saturday when people are off work, and hopefully it will be warmer. Cleveland.com article by Mary Kilpatrick posted Friday, March 8, 2019 CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland women gathered on the steps of C

Clevelandurbannews.com  and  Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH CLEVELAND UPDATE FROM ORGANIZER KATHY WRAY COLEMAN Friday, Feb. 29, 2019 Maple Heights Mayor Annette Blackwell and peace, anti-war and Civil Rights activist Nina McLellan  will keynote International Women's Day March Cleveland, Friday, March 8, 2019, 4:45 pm-6:15 pm beginning with a rally at the Free Stamp at Willard Park outside of Cleveland City Hall, and followed by a march from the Free Stamp to Public Square. The  Facebook event page  has nearly 700 people interested to date. The upcoming event is a sister march to marches worldwide and is organized by International Women's Day March Cleveland/ Women's March Cleveland, which are both led by grassroots greater Cleveland community activists. I Issues include education, science,

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, will participate in festivities in Selma, Alabama on March 3, 2019, the 54th anniversary of the historical Civil Rights march across the Edmond Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on March 7, 1965 where Civil Rights protesters, led by the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,  were brutally beaten by angry White cops.The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed racial discrimination in voting, followed and was signed into law by then president Lyndon B. Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965.     Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for preside

President Donald Trump (left) and director Spike Lee HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA- Spike Lee’s  first competitive Oscar win  (for co-writing  BlacKkKlansman ) on Sunday night resulted in cheers, a standing ovation, and a jubilant leap into longtime friend and collaborator Samuel L. Jackson’s arms on stage at the Dolby Theatre. Inside the White House, though, his achievement led to the opposite reaction. On Monday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted that Lee’s speech was “a racist hit on your President.”  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT EW.COM Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaig

                 Former Ohio senator Nina Turner and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio –  Former Ohio senator Nina Turner announced Thursday she will serve as co-chair of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, Sanders, 77, a socialist Independent from Vermont who recently announced that he will make

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution’s prohibition on excessive fines applies to state and local governments, limiting their abilities to impose financial penalties and seize property. The decision delighted critics of civil asset forfeiture, who welcomed the ruling as a new weapon in their war against what has been labeled “policing for profit” — the practice of seizing cash, cars and other property from those convicted, or even suspected, of committing a crime. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on her second day back on the bench after undergoing cancer surgery in December,  announced the court’s decision , saying the Eighth Amendment’s excessive-fines clause protects against government retribution at all levels.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT WASHINGTON POST.COM Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Goo

Geronimo Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief TWINSBURG, Ohio –  Three days after finding a home, and ending a 1,145-day wait, beloved dog Geronimo got adopted, only to find himself back in the shelter three days later.  CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ONLI NE The Humane Society of Summit County, which neighbors Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, said the new owners