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From left: Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Ward 7 Councilwoman Stephanie Howse, and Ward 4 Councilwoman Deborah Gray New Cleveland Commission on Black Women and Girls Seeks Social, Health and Economic Equality Estabished ByCleveland City Council The legislation was sponsored by Mayor Bibb and co-sponsored by Councilwomen Stephanie  Howse  and  Deborah Gray and is designed to address systemic issues facing Cleveland, a largely Black major American city, and a city deemed one of the worst places tolive for Black women    Monday, June 6, 2022 – Cleveland, OH —  Cleveland Ci ty Council  at its regular meeting on Monday  unanimously passed  legislation ( ORD 373-2022 ) to create the Cleveland Commission on Black Women and Girls.    Mayor Justin Bibb announced the new city ordinance that he sponsored alongside Ward 4 Councilwoman Deborah Gray and Ward 7 Councilwoman Stephanie Howse, east side council persons and the ony two Black women among 17 councilpersons. The mayor said that the commission

United States Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation's first Black and first woman vice president WASHINGTON, D.C.- With the Supreme Court expected to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision later this month, Vice President Kamala Harris , the nation's first Black and first woman vice president and a former U.S. senator from California, is warning about the loss of privacy that could come. (Editor's note: March For Our Lives Cleveland and Women's March Cleveland will host a June 11, 2022 noon rally and march on the steps of Cleveland City Hall in Cleveland Ohio at 601 Lakeside Ave at Willard Park to march for our lives and for reproductive rights This is a local march to some 500 marches for our lives protests hosted  to end gun violence by March For Our Lives National for June 11. This group was founded in 2018 by student survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting that left 17 dead and 17 injured. Click   here   to respond to Cleveland's June 11 mar

COLUMBUS, Ohio -Ohio Republicans have ignored an Ohio Supreme Court order to approve a new state legislative district map, with a court-ordered Friday morning deadline passing without any official action from the GOP-controlled redistricting commission. The move makes clear that   with a federal court ruling   securing their preferred maps for this year’s elections, Republicans plan to ignore the state judiciary’s attempts to enforce the language of redistricting reforms -- while waiting for a more favorable Supreme Court makeup following the November election.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND.COM Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. 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 CL

   Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb    Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   Tel: 216) 659-0473 Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb, a former Barack Obama intern and banker who won the nonpartisan runoff election for mayor last November over then city council president Kevin Kelley to become the city's fourth Black mayor and its second youngest behind former mayor Dennis Kucinich, is the special guest speaker for the annual fundraising dinner for the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party. For more information call 216-534-3343. The event is Sun., June 5, 2022 at the InterContinental Hotel in Cleveland at 9801 Carnegie Ave. beginning at 4pm. Tickets are $200 per person for the dinner and open reception and $1,000 for dinner and a private reception. Sponsorships range from $3,000-$10,000. Led by 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Shontel Brown, who i