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CLEVELAND, Ohio-   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com   offer a look at our top 10 stories of 2023 as the 2024 new year approaches. They are as follows: (Click on the following articles to read each article) . Ohio voters approve Issues 1 and 2, making abortion and recreational marijuana legal....Women's March Cleveland comments Women's March Cleveland calls felony charge against Black Warren, Ohio woman who miscarried racist and wants it dismissed....Activists say she is also being mistreated because Ohio women won the legal right to abortion at the ballot box Hakeem Jeffries makes history as first Black U.S. House Minority Leader and the first Black to lead a political party in Congress....All four of Ohio's Democratic U.S. House of Representatives members supported him          Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder gets huge sentence for $60 million GOP bribery scheme   Cuyahoga County Public Defender Cullen Sweeney is conspiri

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Senate on Wednesday overruled Gov. Mike DeWine's  veto  of House Bill 68, paving the way for a  transgender ban against minors seeking health care and transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports in K-12 schools and colleges and universities in Ohio. The state Senate voted 24-8, largely   along party lines,  and after the House voted to override the veto on Jan 10.  A two-term governor and former US senator,  DeWine bucked his party to veto the bill, prompting former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president, to chastise him publicly. What happens  next r emains  to be seen, including possible long-term litigation relative to the controversial issue from pro-transgender advocates who say the bill is  government overreach, a violation of privacy rights, and an unconstitutional attack on the LGBTQ community.  c levelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com the most read Black di

Mayor Bibb Administration Steps Up to Fill Seasonal Shelter Funding Gap for the Un-housed Community  City Council Passed the Emergency Ordinance at Monday's Council Meeting  Cleveland, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb, the city's fourth Black mayor, announced Tuesday funding for two local nonprofit groups to support emergency seasonal shelters and related services for the city's un-housed, homeless community.   The administration's emergency ordinance, passed by city council at its regular meeting on Monday, will  provide financial assistance from the city to the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH) and the Metanoia Project.  "We were made aware that some funding for seasonal shelters was running out and my team quickly worked to identify a way that we can step up here at the City-level," said Mayor Bibb in a statement.  " We appreciate council's advocacy and quick action in passing this to help bridge the funding gap while we work to

Dexter Scott King ATLANTA, Georgia- Dexter Scott King, the third child of the late, iconic Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died of pancreatic cancer at his home in California. He was 62 and died just eight days shy of his 63rd birthday and seven days after his father's 95th birthday on Jan 15, a national holiday. King was  just seven-years-old when his father was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Tennessee in 1968 while in town for a protest. He was an American  civil  and  animal rights  activist, attorney, and author.  He is the author of  Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir . His  parents, Dr King and Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, and an older sister, Yolanda King, who died of a heart attack in 2007, preceded him in death.  We ask for your prayers at this time for the entire King family," his sister, the Rev. Bernice King, who is the CEO of The King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, said in a statement. King is also survived by his wife, Leah

Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Roynane CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Justin M. Bibb and Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne have announced awardees of multiple grant programs who will utilize the funding for outreach and engagement, emergency shelters, support services, and prevention tactics. The efforts, they say, are aimed at improving conditions for the local un-housed community in the city and county, a 29 percent Black county that is a Democratic stronghold. In total, seven local agencies will receive more than $3 million for an array of programming designed to support youth, families, and older adults in un-housed situations.  The announcement comes as poor families and the homeless seek shelter following a snow storm Thursday and Friday that brought some 12 inches of snow and freezing temperatures that hit Northeast Ohio with a vengeance. “Tackling an issue as large and systemic as this requires a more concerted effort from us here at Ci

From left: Ralph David Abernathy III, his father, the late Ralph David Abernathy THE BELOW ARTICLE INCLUDES ARCHIVES FROM OUR PREVIOUS ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH RAPLH DAVID ABERNATHY III CLEVELAND, Ohio- Jan 15, 2024 is here, a national holiday in observance of the late iconic Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. .Martin Luther King Jr.. W e 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 gains during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Had Dr King not been assassinated, it would be his 95th birthday on Jan 15. The late Ralph David Abernathy III (pictured), whose famed father, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy Sr., marched along side of the Dr. King during the Civil Rights Movement and led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after King was assassinated, visited Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 4, 2012 to stomp for Barack Obama's  reelection  to the presiden