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• Cuyahoga County's crooked sheriff Steven Hammett resigns as Cleveland activists applaud the move and as new County Executive Chris Ronayne begins to craft his administrative team/Hammett is accused of helping Chase Bank steal residents' homes
• Cuyahoga County judge's son sentenced in Cleveland for murdering his wife...The judge spoke at sentencing and told her son that 'I am proud of everything that you have done'....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
• Women's March Cleveland, Black activists say Black Cleveland women were left out of discussions on abortion ballot initiative in Ohio by groups like Planned-Parenthood out of Columbus and Pro Choice Ohio that routinely subordinate activists and Blacks
• Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb announces extended recreation and warming center hours as a snow blizzard approaches for Christmas in Cleveland and the city's homeless and the poor are at risk....The mayor says the city is ready for the winter
• Wall Street Journal reporter Zusha Elinson meets with Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, others over murdered Black women and later reports that there is an 89 percent increase as to unsolved murders of Black women in Cleveland and nationwide
• Republican Cuyahoga County Judges Synenberg and Jones both lost election with Synenberg getting appointed back to the bench by Governor DeWine this week....How did the GOP governor decide which ousted judge would be appointed back to the bench?
• Cleveland Department of Public Health confirms city's first flu-related pediatric death as city officials urge vaccinations for the flu and COVID- 19
• Lisa Marie Presley is dead at 54, Presley the only daughter of rock and roll pioneer Elvis Presley and an ex-wife of Michael Jackson, the late pop music icon
• Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and Council President Blaine Griffin butt heads over the mayor's shared community governance proposal for city council that council voted down...Councilman Conwell called it an attempt to strip Black elected officials of power
• Cleveland's Director of Community Relations Board Angela Shute-Woodson to speak at Cleveland's women's march on January 21, 2023 on behalf of Mayor Bibb, a march to celebrate the 6th anniversary of Women's March Cleveland and the 50th anniversary of Roe
• 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 supported him
• New U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hands gavel to new speaker Kevin McCarthy and vows to fight for reproductive freedoms, and against racism and sexism, and for the disenfranchised, the lawmakers giving vastly different acceptance speeches
• Racist Planned Parenthood Ohio's abortion ballot initiative excludes Black Cleveland women's groups
• Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne names Joseph Griener sheriff to replace crooked Steven Hammett, who resigned and who stalked Black women and stole residents' homes via illegal foreclosures for JPMorgan Chase Bank, data show.
• The Browns win over the Ravens in Deshaun Watson's debut home game as Women's March Cleveland decides against a protest in spite of pressure, though the group says it reserves the right to picket the Browns and the NFL over women's issues
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• New Cleveland Community Police Commissioners to meet January 25 and for the first time since being sworn-in late last year....Media are invited, say city officials.... By Clevelandurbannews.com
• International Women's Day March Cleveland 2023 is March 8, with a 5pm City Hall steps rally and a 6 pm march, the 7th annual march.... The first Cleveland march in 2017 drew 400 people
• Biden joins Al Sharpton, others to march in Selma, marking 58 years since 'Bloody Sunday,' which led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965....Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio' Black digital news leader
• President Biden introduces Tyre Nichols' parents during State of the Union, Nichols Black and beat to death by 5 since fired and indicted Memphis cops...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
• City of Cleveland files federal lawsuit against Kia and Hyundai for failure to install industry standard anti-theft technology....Mayor Justin M. Bibb says the city will use the full weight of the law to hold these manufacturers accountable
• Keynote speakers announced for Cleveland's January 21, 2023 march, a six-year anniversary of Women's March Cleveland and the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade
• Appeals brief filed for young Black woman who killed Cleveland cop....Tamara McLoyd was convicted of shooting and killing officer Shane Bartek on New Year's Eve in 2021....Her appeals court lawyers say that she did not get a fair trial
• FBI agent testifies in bribery trial of former GOP Ohio House speaker Larry Householder and says Householder pocketed some $500, 000 relative to the $60 million bribery scheme at the heart of the trial....Black elected officials are stunned
• MLK Holiday: Our exclusive interview with Ralph David Abernathy III, a former Georgia state senator and son of the late Ralph David Abernathy Sr.....His father founded SCLC along with Dr. King
• Cleveland's Tyre Nichols vigil draws about 50 people, far less than the George Floyd riot crowd in Cleveland in May of 2020....Some people say that Cleveland activists should be focusing on how Blacks in Cleveland are treated, like in the county jail
• African American Burial Grounds Act sponsored by U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown of Cleveland to become law and awaits President Biden's signature....It provides for grants and related research on the identification and preservation of Black burial grounds
• Ohio Senator Nickie Antonio sworn in by Ohio Supreme Court Justice Melody Stewart for another term, Stewart the first and only Black ever elected to the Ohio Supreme Court....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader
• Women's March Cleveland, Black activists say Black Cleveland women were left out of discussions on abortion ballot initiative in Ohio by groups like Planned-Parenthood out of Columbus and Pro Choice Ohio that routinely subordinate Black women of Cleveland
• As racial tensions with the police union mount Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb responds to the union's no confidence vote of Safety Director Karrie Howard, the mayor ultimately backing his safety director