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International Women's Day March Cleveland 2018 draws support from National Council of Negro Women, National Organization for Women, Cleveland Chapter, 100 Black Women, National Congress of Black Women, and the North East Ohio Black Health Coalition

06 March 2018

Kathy

.Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- The National Organization for Women, Cleveland Chapter as well a an array of women organizations led by Black women, including the National Council of Negro Women, Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition, 100 Black Women, National Congress of Black Women, Imperial Women Coalition and the National Action Network-Cuyahoga County Chapter, have signed on as hundreds are expected for the 2nd Annual International Women's Day March Cleveland event on March 8, 2018 in downtown Cleveland.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE NEW FACEBOOK PAGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH CLEVELAND 2018 ).

Representatives from each of the aforementioned organizations are among the 23 speakers at Old Stone Church and will address various issues, including women's rights, racism, sexism, reproductive rights, voting rights and the MeTo movement that has plagued the presidency of President Donald Trump, who took office last year behind former president Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America.

The march Will begin from the Free Stamp at Willard Park next to Cleveland City Hall at 4:45 pm and ending minutes away at the Old Stone Church on Public Square for speeches starting at 5 pm inside the church, some 23 speeches in fact, organizers said yesterday. (Editor's note the original Facebook event page with some 900 interested and going was hacked on March 4, 2018 after organizers refused to remove targeted Black women running for office from the speaking panel. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE NEW FACEBOOK PAGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH CLEVELAND 2018 ).

The theme of the free and public event, a march in solidarity with women and their supporters worldwide, is "Push for Progress."

The four keynote speakers at five minutes each at Old Stone Church beginning at 5 pm are 14th congressional district Democratic candidate and Civil Rights attorney Betsy Rader, Democratic lieutenant governor candidate and Akron Councilwoman Tara Mosley Samples, activist and former Cleveland school board vice president Genevieve Mitchell of the Carl Stokes Brigade and the Cleveland NAACP, and Isha Lele, a senior and student senate president at Hathaway Brown School, and an activist, debate scholar, honor student, and president of the student senate at the school in Shaker Heights, an all girls school. (Editor's note: Lele, 17, is also an honor student and a skilled debater recognized statewide)

Those endorsing the event include a diverse group of greater Cleveland community activists and community leaders with women at the helm, progressive women seeking public office, ImperialWomenCoalition.Com, National Organization for Women, Cleveland Chapter, International Women's Day March Cleveland, Women's March Cleveland, NE Ohio Black Health Coalition, 100 Black Women, National Council of Negro Women-Cuyahoga County Chapter, National Action Network-Cuyahoga County Chapter, Fairfax Business Association, National Congress of Black , Cleveland NAACP, Women, Clevelandurbannews.com, Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus, Greater Cleveland Independent Black Journalists, Carl Stokes Brigade, Finding The Missing -Ebony Alert, Peace Action, Badass Teachers Association, Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, Black Empowerment Makes a Difference (BEMAD), Rebuilding Our Village and Protecting Our Children's Safety, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor,Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Clevelandurbannews.com, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Black on Black Crime Inc, Black Man's Army, Task Force for Community Mobilization, Organize Ohio, and the Northeast Ohio Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 March 2018 22:11

Greater Cleveland Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation names Attorney Robyn Minter Smyers its 2018 Black professional of the year....Smyers is a partner with the Thompson-Hine law firm

03 March 2018

Kathy

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Robyn Minter Smyers (pictured), an attorney and partner with the Thompson Hine law firm in Cleveland, was named Tuesday as the 2018 Black Professional of the Year of the Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation.

The organization of Black professionals made the announcment at its meeting at Karamu Theatre House in Cleveland.

Smyers is a partner in the firm's real estate, construction and corporate transactions and securities practice groups.

Led by Ronald V. Johnson of Key Bank, a prior honoree himself, BPA's mission is to provide a forum for networking among professionals, to enhance opportunities for young scholars in the greater Cleveland area, and, to highlight accomplished Black professionals from across the spectrum.

A daughter of former Cleveland Foundation president and CEO Steven Mintor and his late wife Dolly, who died last year, Smyers, 48, is a 1991 cum laude graduate of Harvard University and a Yale Law School graduate.

Previous honorees also include Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, former congress persons the late Louis Stokes and the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the Rev. Dr Otis Moss Jr., and former Cuyahoga County Community College presidents Drs. Nolen Ellison, Jerry Sue Thornton, and Alex Johnson.

Last Updated on Monday, 05 March 2018 11:00

Gladys Harrison Dunbar dies at 68, the wife of the late Lang Dunbar Jr. and a former Cuyahoga County Board of Elections employee and trained lawyer and former common pleas court judicial clerk

03 March 2018

Kathy

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- CLEVELAND, Ohio-Gladys Harrison Dunbar, 68, the wife of the late Lang Dunbar Jr., a member of the county Democratic party's executive committee and a long time union advocate, and herself, a former Cuyahoga County Board of Elections employee, trained lawyer and former common pleas court judicial clerk, died Feb. 27.

A homegoing service is Thursday, March 8 at 5:30 pm at Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland

A Cleveland resident, Gladys Dunbar was a member of the Cleveland NAACP and the Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus, among other organizations, and a Civil Rights and voting rights advocate known in political circles.She was a Democrat active with the now defunct 11th congressional district caucus under the late former congressman Louis Stokes, also of Shaker Hts and Ohio's first Black congress person.

Like her late husband, who dIed last year, Gladys loved politics, and Antioch Baptist Church.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 March 2018 21:47

Supporters of Andrea Nelson Moore for judge of Cuyahoga County to host fundraising prayer breakfast on March 10, 2018 from 9am to noon at Holy Trinity Cultural Arts Center in Cleveland, 7209 Woodland Avenue....Moore is a Black Democrat

01 March 2018

Kathy

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Supporters of Cuyahoga County Court of common pleas judicial candidate Andrea Nelson Moore, who is Black and endorsed by the county Democratic party, among others, will host a fundraising prayer breakfast for Moore on Saturday, March 10, 2018 from 9 am to noon at the Holy Trinity Cultural Arts Center in Cleveland, 7209 Woodland Avenue.

The keynote speaker is Dr. Sabrina J. Ellis.

If elected to the general division common pleas court of Cuyahoga County, which hears felony cases and civil lawsuits with damages sought above $15,0000, among other legal matters, Moore will be among 34 largely White judges, only two of them currently on the bench of whom are Black (Judges Shirley Strickland Saffold and Cassandra Collier- Williams).

Moore is running in a two-way race relative to the Democratic primary. She lost to Common Pleas Judge Joan Synenberg, a Republican, as a Democratic candidate in a close general election in 2016.

The winner of the Democratic primary election, which is May 8, faces lawyer Bradley Hull IV, a Repulican, in the upcoming general election Nov 6.

Cuyahoga County, which includes the city of Cleveland and is roughly 29 percent Black, is Ohio's second largest of 88 counties statewide, behind Franklin County, which includes Columbus.

Data show that Blacks are disproportionately indicted, prosecuted, convicted and sent to prison in large numbers in Cuyahoga County, many of them poor and without adequate legal representation.

Last Updated on Sunday, 04 March 2018 07:46

A Black History Moment From Cleveland Urban News.Com: Barack Obama is America's first Black president, Crispus Attucks was the first Black man to die in a major American war, and Blacks still feel the vestiges of slavery

28 February 2018

Kathy

CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-It’s Black history month, so let's talk a little bit about Black history. Do we really know the true history of the plight of African-Americans and their African ancestors?

We know without reservation that former president Barack Obama is the first Black president of the United States of America and Michelle Obama is the first Black first lady. And we recognize and remember some the true greats that have touched the lives of Clevelanders. They include the late Carl B. Stokes, the first Black mayor of a major American city, whom Cleveland voters elected in 1967.

Stokes later held the post under former president Bill Clinton of U.S. Ambassador to Seychelles and was a Cleveland Municipal Court judge. His older brother, the late Louis Stokes, was the first Black congressman from Ohio and led the 11th congressional district until his retirement in 1998.

The late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, of Cleveland, was the first Black Cuyahoga County prosecutor. She followed Stokes to congress and was the first Black woman in congress from Ohio. Her successor is Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, who is also Black, and who currently leads the predominantly Black 11th congressional district, which includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs.

But how much do we really know about Black history, particularly since eurocentric curricula dominate teaching in elementary and secondary schools across the country, and in our institutions of higher learning?

History reveals that Black people were enslaved initially by Black people in Africa and then sold to be brought to America for further slavery to work our fields and to perform other subservient measures. But remember that it was White men that brought our ancestors to America in chains. The aftermath of those chains still plagues the Black community in various ways, including through high unemployment, disproportionate incarcerations of Black men and women, and underfunded public school districts that serve majority Black and poor children, among other systemic problems.

Blacks have long contributed to the greatness of America.

The very first Black killed in a major American war was a Black man named Crispus Attucks, who died in the Revolutionary War. Hundreds of Black soldiers were among the casualties at Bunker Hill.

Blacks were at one time, if not even now in some situations, counted as 3/5 of a person. And while the slavery of Blacks is not mentioned in the constitution, it is implicated under the 14th Amendment, which demands equal protection under the law for members of a protected class like Black people, and women.

President Abraham Lincoln’s executive order of the Emancipation Proclamation did not start the American Civil War, but it help to end it. President Lincoln was a Republican, as was Civil Rights activist and historian Frederick Douglas.

Jim Crow laws kept Blacks traditionally enslaved and the Ku Klux Klan was started in part because racist Whites wanted to keep former slaves in line and were angry that slavery had ended in the official sense.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s served to stop the Jim Crow laws. King gave his life to better America, and the official holiday named in his honor is well deserved.

The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was signed by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, with some saying he did so solely under threat of an override veto. Still, Johnson pushed the federal act through Congress, along with Dr. King, and a host of others.

What will children in our schools be taught this month about Black history? Will it be that Michael Jackson was a great man? How do we define greatness? Do we forgive major flaws? Yes we can. Pop singer Michael Jackson knew his craft, and was truly a great musician and songwriter of all time.

Legendary singer Nat King Cole, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, poet Maya Angelou, Malcolm X , pop icon Michael Jackson, the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are also among Black notables, as are the following:

-Native Clevelander Garrett A. Morgan invented the traffic light and gas mask

-George Crum was inventor of the potato chip

-Frederick McKinley Jones invented the refrigeration unit for trucks

-Dr. Patricia Bath invented laser eye surgery for cataract removal

-Thomas L. Jennings invented dry-cleaning products

-Hiram Revels (R-MS) was the first Black in Congress as a U.S. senator

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:04

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland endorses Kathleen Clyde for Ohio secretary of state, Clyde the only Democrat in the race...Senator Brown said that "Kathleen Clyde is a leader who will fight back against extreme gerrymandering"

26 February 2018

Kathy

Pictured are United States Senator
Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat,
and state Representative Kathleen Clyde,
whom Brown endorsed Monday relative to
her bid for Ohio secretary of state
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com,
Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS

CLEVELANDURBANNEW.COM-COLUMBUS, Ohio-Today, Ohio’s senior U.S. senator and former Ohio secretary of state Sherrod Brown announced his endorsement of state Rep. Kathleen Clyde (D-Kent) relative to her campaign this year for Ohio secretary of state.

Clyde currently represents the 75th Ohio House district in Portage County and is the only Democrat running for secretary of state.

“As a former Secretary of State of Ohio, I’m proud to endorse Kathleen Clyde,” said Brown. “Kathleen Clyde is a leader who will fight back against extreme gerrymandering, foreign cybersecurity threats, and illegal voter purging."
A Cleveland Democrat, Brown added that "I’ve never met someone more committed to ensuring that Ohio’s democracy remains strong in the face of so many obstacles. We need Kathleen as our next secretary of state.”

Clyde said she is elated by the endorsement from such a distinguished United States senator who, throughout his career, and particularly in Washington, has fought for the nation's most vulnerable.
“Sherrod Brown is a voting rights champion and his commitment to fighting for Ohio’s working families is unparalleled," said state Rep. Clyde. “I’m thrilled to earn Sherrod’s endorsement and look forward to working with him as Ohio’s next secretary of state to strengthen Ohio’s middle class and safeguard our elections.”.
While serving in the state legislature and throughout her career, Clyde has been a strong
advocate for redistricting reform and voting rights.
The state lawmaker has also fought against Senate Bill 5 and other attacks on working families.
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS

Last Updated on Monday, 26 February 2018 21:36

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Greater Cleveland Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation names Attorney Robyn Minter Smyers its 2018 Black professional of the year....Smyers is a partner with the Thompson-Hine law firm

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