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Cleveland 's mayor, city council propose how millions more of ARPA COVID-relief monies will be spent with $50 million slated for housing grants and improvements, $5 million for minority businesses, and $4.7 million to address rape and domestic violence...Other projects have also been proposed as to the COVID-19 relief funding from the federal government under the American Rescue Plan Act....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathyuwraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Council President Blaine Griffin Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND,  Ohio— Cleveland City Council and leadership from the Center for   Economic   Recovery —the policy team tasked with carrying ou t   Mayor Justin Bibb's Rescue  &   Transformation   Plan — discussed  proposed initiatives  for strategic American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) spending at a meeting on Monday with the mayor and city council calling for $50 milion for housing grants and improvements citywide, $5 million for minority businesses, and $4.7 million to address rape and domestic violence in the city.     Other projects have also been proposed to round out the multi-million spending projections for the monies.  The  American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 , also called the  COVID-19 Stimulus Package  or  American Rescue Plan ,  is a  US$1.9 trillion   economic stimulus  bill passed by the  117th United States Congress  and signed into law by  Presid
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City Club of Cleveland to host author and attorney Justin Driver of Yale Law School for a forum on public education and U.S. Supreme Court rulings since Brown vs Board of Education and Tinker vs Des Moines....What are the constitutional rights of public school students and classroom teachers in the U.S. in today's society in the midst of a pandemic and heightened mass school shootings?....The City Club of Cleveland is one of the oldest debate and free speech forums in America and speakers there include former president Bill Clinton and the late Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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   Author, orator, professor, and constitutional lawyer Justin Driver of Yale Law School to speak on Fri, Sept. 2 at the City Club of Cleveland in downtown Cleveland, Ohio Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- Progessor  Justin Driver , author of " The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind"  and an award-winning Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law  and counselor to the dean at Yale Law School,  will speak at the City Club of Cleveland for a luncheon at 11:30am on Fri, Sept 2, 2022.  Professor Driver  teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law. He  comes to downtown Cleveland this week as part of the City Club's  Authors in Conversation series, a series held in cooperation with  Case Western Reserve University   and sponsored by the    John P. Murphy Foundation  through a public grant from  Cuyahoga Arts & Culture .  The speaking forum begins at noon after lunch
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NAACP, Nina Turner (of Cleveland) say Biden's $10,000 student loan debt bailout is not enough and that Blacks and women are getting done in..... A former Ohio senator, Turner called it "structual racism"....Millennials are strapped with debt due to federal student loans too, Turner said....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Pictured are NAACP President Derrick Johnson, Nina Turner and United States President Joe Biden    Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief (Coleman is a former biology teacher and a seasoned Black journalist, and an investigative, legal, scientific, and political reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio). WASHINGTON, D.C. – The NAACP, the nation's oldest Civil Rights organization for Blacks, criticized President Joe Biden's federal student loan debt forgiveness program saying Wednesday that it does not go far enough and that  it goes against what he promised Black people when he successfully campaigned for president in 2020 with overwhelming support from America's Black community. Now is the time more than ever for the president to step up and to do right by Black people, they say, a reference to the upcoming November midterm elections in which th
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Monkeypox vaccine disparities: Democratic U.S. Reps Shontel Brown of Ohio, Hank Johnson of Georgia, and Ritchie Torres of New York, and 20 other representatives, including Congresswomen Eleanor Holmes Norton, Marcy Kaptur, Debbie Dingell, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, take on the Biden administration over monkeypox vaccine disparities that they say target Blacks, Latinos, poor people, and the LGBTQ community....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of clevelandurbannews.com and kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader....Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Democratic U.S. Representatives Shontel M. Brown of Ohio (OH-11), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson Jr. of Georgia (GA-4), and RitchieTorres of New York (NY-15) All three of them represent largely Black congressional districts in Congress. Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief (Coleman is a former biology teacher and a seasoned Black journalist, and an investigative, legal, scientific, and political reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio). WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democratic U.S. Reps. Shontel M. Brown of Ohio (OH-11), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. of Georgia (GA-4), and Ritchie Torres of New York (NY-15) on Tuesday led a group of 23 largely Democratic members of Congress in urging the Biden administration to strengthen efforts to address inequities in the nation's public healthcare system as it relates to the monkeypox vaccine and disenfranchised
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CNN reports that Liz Cheney vows to carry on fight against Trump after conceding defeat in Wyoming primary and losing her U.S. House of Representatives seat to a Trump-backed Republican

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  Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (CNN) Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney , the most ardent Republican critic of   Donald Trump   in Congress, vowed to carry on her fight against the former President and the election-denying movement he leads in a speech Tuesday night after conceding   defeat in her primary . She'll lose to Trump-backed attorney  Harriet Hageman ,  CNN reported. "This primary election is over," Cheney said in her speech. "But now the real work begins."  CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT CNN.COM Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   the most read Black digital newspaper and blog in Ohio and in the Midwest T el: (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 CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS .
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