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    Ohio 11th Congresional District Congresswoman  Shontel M. Brown, a Warrensville Heights Democrat Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, OHIO –  Congresswoman Shontel M. Brown, a Warrensville Heights Democrat who leads Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, will serve as grand marshal for the 52nd annual 11th Congressional District Community Caucus Labor Day Parade & Festivities on Mon., Sept 5, 2022.  The parade will kick off at 11am from A.J. Rickoff school at East 147th Street and Kinsman Road on Cleveland's majority Black east side, organizers said. The parade will proceed down Kinsman Road to Luke Easter Park for festivities, which will include speeches, food and other vendors, and area marching bands. The celebrated and hi

    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). (CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania- President Joe Biden (pictured), a Democrat in office since January of 2021, took on Republicans and former president Donald Trump during a televised speech Thursday evening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the president obviously taking clear aim at the opposition for the Democrats as the November midterm elections near and the 2024 presidential election is hardly two years away. Billed as an official speech by the White House, Biden said that Trump and his fellow Republicans thrive on chaos and lies, and that freedom and liberty are at risk as Republicans seek to wre

The late former Ohio 11th congressional district congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Cleveland Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   CLEVELAND, Ohio (Clevelandurbannews.com) - Patrick Henry school, a public elementary school at 11901 Durant Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side, will now be called Stephanie Tubbs Jones School as a ribbon cutting ceremony at the school was held at 2:30 p.m. on Tues, Aug 30. The open-to-the-public event drew a wealth of Cleveland's mainstream media and prominent Black elected officials such as Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Shontel M. Brown, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Council President Blaine Griffin, city council persons Joe Jones and Kevin Conwell, and Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Meredith Turner and Yvonne Conwell, Councilman Kevin Conwell's wife.  Also there were students, parents and school administrators, and schools CEO Dr. Eric Gordon, who organized the event. Tubbs Jones'

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

   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