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Led by Women's March Cleveland, the largest grassroots women's rights group in Northeast, Ohio, more that 3,000 protesters take to the streets in downtown Cleveland, Ohio for the group's anniversary march on Jan 19, 2019. ( Photo by Cleveland.com)  Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Women's March Cleveland, as a sister march to several marches slated in cities nationwide for Saturday, April 15, 2003 under the leadership of Women's March National, will rally for reproductive rights and against a decision last week by an Amarillo,Texas judge that outlawed the Food and Drug Administrations's longstanding abortion pill, which is officially dubbed mifepristone. The event is from noon-2 pm at 10001 Chester Avenue on Cleveland's east side near Walgreens, which is under fire for refusing to sell the abortion pill in Ohio and some 19 other states where GOP officials have threatened litigation. (For more in

  Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Five people are dead and at least eight others are wounded after a shooting Monday morning at a downtown Louisville bank. The shooter, a disgruntled employee allegedly slated to be terminated, is also dead. The shooter has been identified by police as Connor Sturgeon, 25. It is the 146th mass shooting in the United States and Kentucky governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, was livid, and upset over the tragic incident that has garnered national news.  "This is awful," Beshear said at the news conference. "I have a very close friend that didn't make it today, and I have another close friend that didn't either and one who's at the hospital that I hope is going to make it through." Police officers arrived at the scene within three minutes around 8:30 a.m. at Old National Bank on Main Street where an active shooter was inside with a rifle. The gunman was shot

  Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article LOUISVILLE,  Kentucky- Tornadoes officially ranked as EF1's with as high as 110 winds ripped through parts of Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday, the National Weather Service confirmed Thursday, with at least one death reported from the Derby City.  At least three tornadoes were reported, one tearing off the roof of apartment buildings in suburban Pleasure Ridge Park and driving some 50 people from their homes. Two others hit the Newburg area, one touching down south of the Newburg post office near Kroger and ending at the Jefferson County public schools Van Hoose Education Center at the intersection of Newburg Road and Bishop Lane. It was 100 yards wide with a peak wind of 90 mph. The  third hit a few miles away, east of the post office at the Yum! Headquarters on Gardiner Lane, also in suburban Louisville. It was 75 yards wide with a peak wind of 95 mph. An EF1 with 110mph winds also touched down in n

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb United-Way of Greater Cleveland President and CEO Sharon Sobol Jordan Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio– Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb announced this week in a statement that United Way of Greater Cleveland (United Way) has been chosen to spearhead the city's 311 call center in serving as the non-emergency answering service after normal business hours (Monday - Friday before 7:30 am and after 5:30 p.m.), on weekends, holidays and during surge periods. The city's 311 system allows residents to call 311 to file non-emergency complaints such as reporting potholes and housing code violations and to request information on public services It was created to minimize such a burden on Cleveland City Council, a 17-member city governance body led by Blaine Griffin, a Black east side councilman who was elected council president by his city council peers in 2022 when Bibb, 35 and the city's fourth Black and secon

  Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Foundation on Monday announced the winners of the 88 th  Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2023 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity are as follows: Geraldine Brooks , “Horse,” Fiction   (Viking) Lan Samantha Chang ,   “The Family Chao,” Fiction (W.W. Norton) Matthew F. Delmont ,   “ Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad ,”   Nonfiction (Viking) Charlayne Hunter-Gault , Lifetime Achievement Saeed Jones ,   “Alive at the End of the World,”  Poetry   (Coffee House Press) The Anisfield-Wolf winners will be honored Thursday, Sept. 28 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center at Case Western Reserve University, marking the second consecutive year at the venue. The awards will anchor the eighth annual Cleveland Book Week. For additional information, a complete list of the re

www.clevelandurbannews.com  and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's Black digital news leaders, with national political news and local and state news from Cleveland, Ohio USA, pause to remember the legacy of the last Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination, which was April 4, 1968 on a hotel balcony in Memphis,Tennessee  The late Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  CLICK BELOW TO VIEW AND LISTEN TO THE REV.  DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH OF 1963. THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER WAS ASSASSINATED IN 1968 ON A BALCONY IN MEMPHIS TENNESSEE Martin Luther King, Jr.   (born   Michael King, Jr. ; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)   was an   American   pastor ,   activist ,   humanitarian , and leader in the   Civil Rights Movement . He was best known for improving   civil rights   by using   nonviolent   civil disobedience , based on his   Christian   beliefs. Because he was both a   Ph.D.   and a pastor, King is som