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      Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Eliza Bryant Village Board of Trustees has made the difficult decision to close its skilled nursing facility, effective Wed., June 8, according to a statement from trustees. Formerly named the  Cleveland Home For Aged Colored People,   Eliza Bryant Village is located at 7201 Wade Park Avenue on the city's largely Black east side in the historic Hough neighborhood in Ward 7, which is now led by Councilwoman Stephanie Howse, a former state legislator whom voters elected in November. The center for the Black elderly in Cleveland  was once located at 4807 Cedar Avenue , an historic building built in the early 1900s as a residential facility for older black people.  Eliza Bryant trustee members released the following statement as to the upcoming closure of its skilled nursing facility in Hough:  We will continue to operate our affordable senior housing, home care, senior outreach, adult day se

Pictured from left: 2020 International Women's Day March Cleveland keynote speakers  U.S. Senate candidate Morgan Ha rpe r, a Columbus-based attorney and progressive activist who worked under then D.C. consumer watch dog Richard Cordray when Barack Obama was president, and Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Cheryl Stephens, a former Cleveland Heights mayor and the lieutenant governor candidate on the gubernatorial ticket of former Democratic Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, and longtime grassroots activist Cheryl Lessin Women's rights activists wrapped themselves in symbolic chains to call for the oppression of women to cease worldwide during the fifth annual International Women's Day rally and march on Market Square in Cleveland on March 8, 2021 The women will march against on March 8, 2022 for the annual event. Keynote speaker, then Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, (third from left in front row), poses with  some of the other   speakers of the fifth annual International Women's festivities

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Cleveland, OH  –  Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb   on Friday announced proposed legislation to authorize the removal of long-term temporary concrete road barriers from Public Square in downtown Cleveland and replace them with  modern and less intrusive removable bollards.  The  proposed project provides up to $1.5 million in funding from the capital budget for removal, repair and redesign work. Installed some five years ago when Bibb's predecessor, former Mayor Frank Jackson, was in officer, the barriers  lie along the side of the road for separation purposes. including along Superior Avenue near Public Square. The new mayor says he is simply attempting to complete unfinished business left by the previous administration in an effort to better the city.  “Public Square should be the people’s park but for too long, jersey barriers have got in the way. Today, my administration is taking the first step towards removing the

  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com  WASHINGTON, D.C. —     President Biden delivered   his first State of the Union address   tonight where he touched on a multitude of issues the US is facing on both the domestic and foreign fronts, while also reaffirming to Americans that the country and its people are "strong." Here are some key moments from his remarks:  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT CNN.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 campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'

Ohio GOP Governor Mike DeWine Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican seeking reelection this year,  has ordered the state Commerce Department to stop the purchase and sale of all vodka made by a Russian-owned company following Russia's attack on Ukraine earlier this week.  The order is applicable to products  sold under the names Green Mark Vodka and Russian Standard Vodka and  made by Russian Standard, the only Russian-owned vodka sold in the state, DeWine said in a news release.    Exactly  what penalty the governor or state officials plan to legally impose for liquor venues and buyers in Ohio who violate the unprecedented order remains to be seen, though it is clear that Ohio's governor , also a former  U.S. senator and state attorney general, has sided  with Ukraine relative to heightened   conflict  between Ukraine and Russia. The  Russo-Ukrainian War   is an ongoing war primarily involving  Rus

From left: U.S. Supreme Court nominee    U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson  and members of Ohio's Democratic Congressional Delegation, namely U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland, and U.S. Representatives Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, Joyce Beatty of Columbus, Shontel Brown of greater Cleveland , and Tim Ryan, a Niles Democrat who is currently running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. senate  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   WASHINGTON, D.C.- Democratic President Joe Biden, who ousted incumbent Republican president Donald Trump to take the White House in 2020, has fulfilled his campaign promise of nominating a Black woman for the U.S. Supreme Court, the president on Friday publicly announcing that he has chosen U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to possibly replace the retiring Justice Stephen Bryer on the nine-member court. The president said in a White House press statement that Jackson is “one of the nation’s brightest legal mi