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Photostream article: Cleveland's 2022 March For Our Lives and Save Roe march draws hundreds, including Mayor Bibb, Nina Turner, activists, state Senator Nickie Antonio, Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Democratic Lt Governor Candidate Cheryl Stephens, Democratic Ohio Attorney General Candidate State Representative Jeff Crossman, students, gun control advocates, educators, Cleveland mothers who have lost sons and daughters to gun violence, and more....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Hundreds of protesters march from the steps of Cleveland City Hall to Public Square and around downtown Cleveland, Ohio on  Sat, June 11, 2022, an event organized by Cleveland activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman of Women's March Cleveland and Imperial Women Coalition and hosted by Women's March Cleveland and March For Our Lives National against gun violence and for reproductive rights for women. Cleveland's march, which was the largest march in Ohio, was one of nearly 500 sister marches held that day and sponsored by March For Our Lives National Hundreds came out for the Saturday, June 11, 2022 march and rally hosted by Women's March Cleveland and March For Our Lives National against gun violence and for reproductive rights for women Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb was among the speakers at the Sat, June 11, 2022 march and rally hosted by Women's March Cleveland and March For Our Lives National against gun violence and for reproductive rights for women The you

Intersections near Supreme Court blocked by pro-choice protesters as Roe decision closes in, Fox News reports

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Activists hold up a "SHUT DOWN SCOTUS" sign near the Supreme Court.  (Fox News Digital/Lisa Bennatan) WASHINGTON, D.C . –  Pro-choice demonstrators blocked several intersections surrounding the Supreme Court on Monday morning as part of the "Shut Down SCOTUS" protest organized as the Roe v. Wade decision nears. Politico published a leaked draft opinion in May indicating that the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that established a federal  right to an abortion . Protesters gathered at a park around 7 a.m. and marched about half a mile to the Supreme Court before blocking off several intersections. "My body, my choice," protesters chanted on their way to  the Supreme Court . Read the full story at  CLICK HERE TO GO TO READ THE FULL STORY AT FOXNEWS.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: edi

Cleveland and all of Ohio's major cities will host March For Our Lives protests on June 11, 2022 against gun violence as part of a nationwide event, Cleveland's rally and march also to address women's reproductive rights as the Supreme Court prerpares to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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  Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- March For Our Lives National, a gun control group founded behind the mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida in 2018 that left 17 dead and 17 injured is returning to Washington D.C. on Sat., June 11 for its second major march on gun control since 2018, the first march of which drew over a million people to the streets nationwide in protest. The event, which will also include nearly 500 sister marches in major cities nationwide like Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit, New York, Louisville and Las Vegas, comes in the wake of the mass school shooting last month in Uvalde, Texas of two teachers and 19 school children at Robb Elementary School, and the mass murders of 10 Black people in a grocery store supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Following the mass shooting in Buffalo, March For Our Lives National tweeted that "o ur country should have done everything in its power long before today to pre

March For Our Lives Cleveland and Women's March Cleveland to march June 11, 2022 for our lives and for reproductive rights with a noon rally on the steps of Cleveland City Hall....Speakers include student activist Arthur McKoy Jr., Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Ohio Senator Nickie Antonio, former Ohio Senator Nina Turner, Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones, Cuyahoga County Poet Laureate Honey Bell Bey, Democratic Ohio Attorney General Nominee State Rep. Jeff Crossman, Democratic Lt Governor Candidate and Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Cheryl Stephens, educators, community activists Elaine Gohlstin, Delores Gray, Art McKoy and Alfred Porter Jr., other community activists, public school students, Cleveland victims of gun violence and other crimes or their family members, Black clergy, Black greater Cleveland educators, and voting and Civil Rights advocates.... By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- 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. The upcoming event is a local march to some 500 marches for our lives protests hosted  to end gun violence planned by March For Our Lives National for June 11. This group was founded in 2018 by student survivors of a mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida that left 17 dead and 17 injured. ( Click   here  to register on Facebook for the open-to-the-public Save Roe rally and march for our lives on June11 at noon on the steps of Cleveland City Hall. Click   here  to register for the event at mobilize us. Registration is optional). Also at issue is unprecedented gun violence as to the recent murders of 11 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo New

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb announces that teachers will not be armed with guns in Cleveland's public schools and will speak, among others, at the March For Our Lives and Women's March Cleveland's June 11, 2022 noon City Hall steps rally and march to end gun violence and for reproductive rights....Per state law, the city mayor controls Cleveland's public schools....Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, the city's fourth Black mayor Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland's fourth Black mayor, who took office in January, said during a press conference on Tuesday that 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, are banned from carrying firearms in schools. Mayor Justin Bibb said Tuesday that arming teachers with guns in the city's public schools is not the answer to escalating crime in the city and its schools and that he is admantaly against permitting "teachers to bring weapons into our schools."   Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as the start of the 2022-2023 academic school year under legislation approved last week by Republican lawmakers and set to be signed into law momentarily by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine. Democrats oppose the legislation, House