By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a Black political, legal and investigative reporter who trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio wishes you a new year full of happiness and joy. Stay safe and healthy during this coronavirus pandemic and the surge in the Omicron Variant as we look forward to a prosperous new year that will bring us peace, joy, good health, and prosperity. Stay in the struggle for equal opportunity and fair play across the board, including relative to women, Black people, poor people, and children.
Thanks for reading us. Our 32 most popular articles of 2021 at Clevelandurbannews.com are as follows:
- Family members of Cleveland, CMHA police excessive force victims to speak at '137 shots' anniversary vigil and rally of the '137 shots' Cleveland police shooting deaths of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell
- Grandson of Democratic Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Frank Q. Jackson, shot and killed....This article is by editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
- Body of murdered East Cleveland Black woman identified as her alleged assailant is charged with murder.... Activists remain upset....Activist Kathy Wray Coleman of Imperial Women Coalition comments
- Ohio's attorney general joins lawsuit challenging President Biden's vaccine mandate for workers....Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley supports the Biden administration on the issue, Whaley a Democrat hoping to unseat current Republican Governor Mike DeWine
- U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland announces $40 million by Congress with his help for HBCU's, including for Central State and Wilberforce universities in Ohio
- Vice President Kamala Harris comments on the Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty verdict during her trip to Columbus, Ohio, a visit where she spoke on President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal before a crowd of plumbers and pipe-fitters
- Former judge Wanda Jones is chosen by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to fill vacant common pleas judge seat as DeWine fills 3 vacant common pleas judge seats in Cuyahoga County, one appellate court seat, and one vacant municipal court seat in Garfield Heights
- Cuyahoga County's former jail director gets nine-months jail sentence for deplorable jail conditions....The jail sits in Cleveland, Ohio and at least 10 inmates have died in the jail since 2018....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com
- Ohio's GOP governor signs anti-abortion bill Senate Bill 57 into law, a law that criminalizes abortion providers that fail to perform life saving care on a fetus when the fetus is what Republicans say is "born alive"
- Led by activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, thousands march in Cleveland, Ohio on October 2 to protest abortion restrictions, Cleveland's march of which was one of more than 600 sister marches nationwide under the umbrella of Women's March National
- Shontel Brown, Nina Turner among 6 keynote speakers for Cleveland's October 2, 2021 women's march for reproductive and civil rights, one of 560 marches nationwide, including in practically all of Ohio's major cities.
- Jeanette 'Jay' Stokes, wife of former Ohio congressman Louis Stokes, dies at 83....Louis Stokes represented Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes Cleveland, and was the first Black congressperson from Ohio
- Meredith Turner to fill Shontel Brown's county council seat, Brown elected in November to replace former 11th congressional district congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who is now secretary of HUD with the Biden administration....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman
- Merry Christmas from Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader.....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest
- Cleveland 19 TV news coverage of November 2021 Imperial Avenue Murders anniversary rally by Imperial Women Coalition that was led by organizer and activist Kathy Wray Coleman, who called for an end to rape and murder of Black women and accountability
- Democrat Shontel Brown is Ohio's new congresswoman to replace former congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who vacated the post in March to become HUD secretary with the Biden administration....Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district includes Cleveland.
- Daughter of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson found dead 2 months after the mayor's grandson is murdered....The grandson, Frank Q. Jackson, was her son....No arrests have been made in the shooting death of the mayor's 24-year-old grandson
- Fifth Third Bank announces $20 million to transform Cleveland's largely Black Buckeye neighborhood as part of Mayor Frank Jackson's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
- Justin Bibb to take office as Cleveland's 4th Black mayor next week as city council welcome's 5 new members in 2022...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
- Vigil: Cleveland activists, Imperial Women Coalition to host 5 pm Nov. 11, 2021 12th anniversary rally and vigil at Imperial Avenue Murders monument just erected on Imperial Avenue where the late serial killer Anthony Sowell murdered 11 Black women.
- Former Cleveland mayor Jane Campbell endorses Justin Bibb for mayor for the November 2 nonpartisan general election....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
- Ohio Mayors Alliance joins President Biden in calling on Congress to raise the debt limit as a government shutdown looms, the White House said in a press release to Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
- Cleveland's race for mayor: Led by the Imperial Women Coalition, Black Cleveland activists host mayoral runoff candidates debate at the Cleveland African-American Museum
- The first Black U.S secretary of state, Colin Powell was a Republican who backed Democrat Barack Obama for president, and he later joined Obama in supporting same sex marriage, which is now legal nationwide.....Obama comments on Powell's passing
- Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy McDonnell has died...A Democrat, McDonnell was the first female administrative and presiding judge on that common pleas court, which sits in Cleveland, and the recipient of a transplanted double-lung
- Daily coronavirus cases decline in Ohio, nationwide....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
- Ohio Public Employees Retirement System sues Facebook after stock value declines, OPERS the largest public pension system in Ohio....The lawsuit seeks class action status....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com
- Justin Bibb wins the race for Cleveland mayor by a landslide and becomes the city's fourth Black mayor as two city council members are ousted by voters....By editor and associate publisher Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com
- Our interview with Women's March National Organizing Director Kate Shapiro, who says that 560 women's marches for reproductive freedoms and other rights are set for cities nationwide on October 2, including cities in Texas, and major cities like Cleveland
- Cleveland's race for mayor: Cleveland activists to host in-person mayoral candidates inner city debate at the African American Museum as the November 2 general election nears
- Vice President Kamala Harris says European explorers violently stole land from Indians in America during her speech relative to the National Congress of American Indians 78th Convention that she made a day after Columbus Day
- NAACP, Ohio ACLU endorse Issue 24, a Cleveland police reform ballot initiative pushed by Tamir Rice's mother, Samaria Rice, and other Black women whose loved one's were killed by Cleveland police, and by Black Lives Matter Cleveland, among others
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