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Hattie "Mama" Porter and her son, activist Alfred Porter, president of Black on Black Crime Inc of greater Cleveland and a community organizer    Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   CLEVELAND. Ohio- Services will be held for community activist and advocate Hattie "Mama" Porter, who died on March 3 in hospice care, on Sun., March 27 at  Coventry Peace Campus Church, 2843 Washington Blvd. in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.  Visitation begins at 1pm and will be followed by a service at 2:30pm. Pastor Tamar Gray, who leads the church, will officiate and deliver the eulogy.  Porter was 85-years-old.  Services are entrusted to Gaines Funeral Home in Cleveland. "Mama Porter," as Porter was called by people who loved her and fondly knew her, was an icon among grassroots community activists in the Cleveland area  She was the mother of community activist Alfred Porter Jr. , president of Black on Black Crime Inc and a commu

  Former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright,   an American diplomat and civil and human rights advocate who served as the 64th   United States Secretary of State   from 1997 to 2001 under President   Bill Clinton  and the first female secretary of state in U.S. history, died Wednesday after a brave battle with cancer. She was 84. President Joe Biden called Albright, also a women's rights proponent, a legend and said that she was a fighter for liberty and justice, and that she spent her entire political lif e " defending freedom around the world and lifting up those who suffered under repression." Former president Clinton also commented and described Albright as one of the best in her role as secretary of state, and "a passionate force for freedom, democracy and human rights." A Democrat, Albright immigrated with her family to the United States in 1948 fro

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson,  the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court     Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com WASHINGTON, D.C. -Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson   has rejected frivolous GOP attacks on her record and said during testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing this week on her nomination that  "nothing could be further from the truth." Below is a   synopsis from U.S. Senate hearings, which are ongoing for now, on her nomination to the Supreme Court, Jackson Brown the first Black woman nominated to the nation's highest court -President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson answered senators’ questions about her record and judicial philosophy during the second day of her confirmation hearings. -Jackson told senators a day earlier that she looks at her cases “from a neutral posture” and applies the law “without fear or favor.” -The hearing marks the first time lawmakers will be able to directly cross-

Retired Ohio 8th District court of Appeals judge Patricia Ann Blackmon     Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Black Women's Political  Action Committee of greater Cleveland, which is led by Elaine Gohlstin, who succeeded retired East Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Una H.R. Keenon as president of the Black women's political organization, will honor retired Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Ann Blackmon during a special open-to-the-public ceremony on Thurs,. March 24, 2022 at Karamu House Theater on Cleveland's largely Black east side. Doors will open at 5:30pm and the ceremony will begin at 6pm. Judges who attend are asked to wear their robes. The event comes as Women's History Month, which is celebrated annually in March in the United States, comes to a close. A founding member of the Black Women's PAC like Judge Keenon, Judge Blackmon, al

  Pictured from left: 2020 International Women's Day March Cleveland keynote speakers  U.S. Senate candidate Morgan Ha rpe r, 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 activist Cheryl Lessin, and International Women's Day March Cleveland head organizer and activist Kathy Wray Coleman   Cleveland women and their supporters march on International Women's Day on March 8, 2022, the sixth annual march that was led by head organizer and Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman      Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by Cleveland activist and head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, who also leads Women's March Cleveland and the Imperial Women Coalition, greater Cleveland women and their supporters rallied and marched on Tues, March 8 to celebrate International Women Day, a 6th annual

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb       Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor CLEVELAND, Ohio  – The city of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday filed a joint request in federal district court seeking to incorporate voter adopted Issue 24 into the consent decree for police reforms.  Both entities, the city and the federal government, are parties to the consent decree, which was implemented in 2015 behind a series of questionable police killings of Black people since 2012 It is being monitored by Federal District Judge Solomon Oliver, a Black judge out of the Northern District of Ohio court in Cleveland who will determine whether to grant or deny the parties' joint motion to put voter approved Issue 24 in the hands of a federal district court prematurely.  Mayor Justin Bibb, whom voters elected last year to replace retiring four-term Black mayor Frank Jackson, said in a statement on Friday tha