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  Ohio 13th Congressional District Congresswoman Emilia Sykes, an Akron Democrat Then Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley at International Women's Day March Cleveland in Cleveland on March 8, 2021  (fourth from left holding banner and wearing blue face mask) , who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022 marches in Cleveland on International Women's Day. Also pictured are  now 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Shontel Brown, then County Democratic Party chairwoman and a county councilwomen  (third from left) ,   and 13 Congressional District Congresswoman Emilia Sykes, then Ohio House Minority Leader Rep Emilia Sykes  (fifth from left)   Ohio's five-member Democratic Congressional Delegation is majority Black as of the Nov 8, 2022 midterm elections and includes U.S. Rep Emilia Sykes of Akron (top left), U. S. Reps Shontel Brown of Warrensville Hts. (top right), Joyce Beatty of Columbus (bottom left), and Marcy Kaptur of Toledo (bottom right), and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Clev

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