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From left: Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb, Council President Blaine Griffin, and Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell clevelandurbannews.com  and    kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and City Council President Blaine Griffin are publicly butting heads for the first time since Bibb took office a year ago in January and since Griffin, an east side Ward 6 councilman who supported Bibb's opponent for mayor, was chosen last January by his peers to lead the 17-member all Democratic city council. Both Bibb, 35,  and Griffin, a former community relations director under Bibbs' predecessor, former longtime retired mayor Frank Jackson, are Black, and so is Jackson, who served four terms and is the city's longest serving mayor, and a former city council president himself. The second largest city in Ohio, behind Columbus, Cleveland is a majority Black city of some 372,000 people, and most of its residents live below the poverty line. It is the

  clevelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Community Police Commission will meet on Wednesday, Jan. 25 and for the first time since commission members were sworn-in late last year. The 13 member comission was establshed by Cleveland voters via a ballot initiative for police reforms with Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb having authority under the city charter to appoint 10 comssion members with the approval of city council and city council, under the leadership of Council President Blaine Griffin, who is Black like Mayor Bibb, three members.  The city and the U.S. Department of Justice are parties to a court-monitored conscent decree for police reforms implemented in 2015 following heigntened complaints of police misconduct and several questionable police killings of Blacks, including Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Malissa Williams, Timothy Russell, rapper Kenneth "Ball" Smith, Brandon Jones, and more. The CPC was initiall

  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