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  Hundreds attend Women's March Cleveland's sixth anniversary rally and march on Saturday Jan 21, 2023 at Market Square Park, which was also an event to commmerate the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade  clevelandurbannews.com  and    kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Hundreds attended Women's March Cleveland's sixth anniversary rally and march on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023  at Market Square Park in the city's Ohio City neighborhood, a sister march to marches in cities nationwide that day and an event that also celebrated the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade, which is today. "Thanks to all who heped to make Saturday's event in Cleveland a success," said Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, who added that "activists will picket if the doctors of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights are harassed by the media or people against reproductive freedoms for women for pushing an abortion ballot initiative." Medi

  City of Cleveland Director of Community Relations Board Angela-Shute Woodson, also senior advisor to Mayor Justin M. Bibb   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article CLEVELAND, Ohio Angela Shute-Woodson, director of the community relations board for the city of Cleveland and senior advisor to Mayor Justin M. Bibb, has been added as a speaker for Women's March Cleveland's sixth anniversary rally and march at Market Square Park across from the Westside Market on Saturday, Jan, 21, 2023, which is also the 50th anniversary weekend of Roe v Wade. A sister march to marches nationwide, Cleveland's event will begin with a 12:30 pm rally. A 1:30pm march will follow. For more information contact (216) 659-0473. "We are pleased to add Ms Woodson, a distinguished member of the mayor's cabinet and a former community activist who has been with activists in the trenches when we were fighting for the welfare of women and children in Cleve

Keynote speakers for Women's March Cleveland's Saturday, Jan 21, 2-23 12:30 pm rally and march at Market Square Park for its sixth anniversary and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade. Top row from left: State Sen Nickie Antonio, state Rep. Juanita Brent,  Dr Lauren Beene of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and  East Cleveland School Board President Dr. Mary Rice....Bottom row from left: Red, Wine & Blue CEO Katie Paris, Cleveland Councilman Joe Jones, Journey Center for Safety and Healing CEO  Melissa Graves and Cleveland activist Genevieve Mitchell    clevelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Women in Cleveland  and Northeast Ohio will take to the streets in Cleveland on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023  for Women's March Cleveland's sixth-year anniversary and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roe Wade, one of several sister marches nationwide the weekend of Jan 21. Keynote speakers are state Sen, Nickie

   Led by Women's March Cleveland, more than 2,500 people gathered at Market Square in Cleveland on Saturday afternoon, October 2, 2021 to protest laws aimed at women’s reproductive rights in Ohio, Texas, Mississipi and other states across the country.The march was similar to other marches taking place around the United States in more than 500 cities. After the rally at Market Square, the crowd then marched onto the Carnegie Bridge before returning to the square.  ( Photo by David Petkiewicz of cleveland.com). Women's March Cleveland will host its sixth anniversary and march that will also serve to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roe. v Wade on Saturday, Jan 21, 2023, also at Market Square Park across from the Westside Market near downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The rally will begin at 12:30 pm and a march will follow at 1:30 pm. clevelandurbannews.com  and  kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Women in Cleveland  and Northeast Ohio will take to the streets in Cle

  From left: Ralph David Abernathy III, his father, the late Ralph David Abernathy Sr., and the late Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr.   By the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: "I Have A Dream" Speech  By Marc R. Churchill, staff reporter, and Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief.  Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a seasoned Black political, legal and investigative reporter who trained as a reporter at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.     clevelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com THE BELOW ARTICLE INCLUDES ARCHIVES FROM OUR PREVIOUS ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH RAPLH DAVID ABERNATHY III CLEVELAND, Ohio- As Jan 16, 2023 approaches, a national holiday in observance of the late iconic Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. .Martin Luther King Jr. , we pause to remember the struggles that Blacks in America continue to face as a whole on almost a daily basis, struggles across the continuum that remain in spite of some