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Blaine Griffin chosen as Cleveland City Council's new president to replace outgoing council president Kevin Kelley, Kelley losing the mayor's race to Justin Bibb, the city's fourth Black mayor....Griffin is Black like Bibb

05 November 2021

Kathy

Cleveland Ward 6 Councilman Blaine Griffin, city council's new president, who will succeed outgoing president Kevin Kelley, who lost a nonpartisan runoff election on Tuesday to Justin Bibb, the city's mayor-elect and the fourth Black mayor of Cleveland, a largely Black major American city

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland City Council broke the tradition of selecting a White as council president when voters choose a Black as mayor and voted Friday for east side Ward 6 councilman Blaine Griffin, who is Black, to succeed outgoing Council President Kevin Kelley, a White west side councilman who lost the mayor's race on Tuesday to newcomer Justin Bibb, who is Black.

It is the first time in Cleveland's history that the city has had a Black as mayor and a Black as city council president at the same time. Current four-term mayor Frank Jackson, who is retiring at the end of the year, is Black, and Kelley has been city council president for the mayor's last two terms, partly because of the tradition that if the mayor is Black the city council president must be White, a tradition that activists and others began to question as a back door measure to ensure that Whites have a leadership role in the top spots of mayor or city council president no matter how it comes about.

The unofficial caucus vote in support of Griffin by 16 of the 17 council persons who won via Tuesday election who were present, including Griffin, who voted for himself, signifies how they will officially vote in January, which means that Griffin is city council's new president. West side Councilman Brian Kazy was not present for Friday's vote. Outgoing council members were not invited, and could not vote, which is the process or practice after an election for mayor and city council every four years.

A third of the city council members are new, after Tuesday's election.

Black Lives Matter Cleveland immediately objected to what the organization said was the selection of a council president less than 24 hours after an election and demanded that unit rule be abolished. A quasi-rule of procedure under which council members must vote for the candidate for council president who is preferred by the majority of city council or face ridicule, Griffin managed to win over a majority of city council and, in turn, he was unanimously selected as council president on Friday.

Even the new members of city council came aboard and supported Griffin, a suggestion, said Black Lives Matter Cleveland on

Bibb, 34 and a former Barack Obama intern and progressive who has never held office before and who will become the city's fourth Black mayor and second youngest behind former mayor Dennis Kucinich, beat Kelley, with 63 percent of the vote to his 37 percent.

The elections for mayor and city council are nonpartisan and Mayor-elect Bibb and all 17 city council members are Democrats, as are Jackson and Kelley, who had served 16 years on city council, and eight of those years as council president.

Speaking to his city council colleagues after he was named city council president on Friday, Griffin called Bibb's landslide mayoral election victory on Tuesday a mandate.

“The citizens of this community want to see change. They want to see change in a way they can touch, feel, and see in their communities and neighborhoods,” said Griffin, the majority leader for council under Kelley leading up to Friday's vote for him as city's council's new leader. “We’re really going to have to work together as a body.”

A former community relations board director under Jackson who was elected to council in 2017, Griffin is an establishment politician connected to the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party who knows the ropes, and Black people. And he is Jackson's protege.

Griffin and Mayor Jackson endorsed Kelley for mayor as did most but not all of city council, also including Black council persons Ward 2 Councilman Kevin Bishop, Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, and outgoing Ward 5 Councilwoman Delores Gray, who lost to precinct committee member and ward leader Richard Starr and was therefore not among those who voted for the new council president.

Armed with a progressive campaign team and endorsements from former Cleveland mayors Jane Campbell and Michael R. White and U.S. Sen Brown of Cleveland, Bibb ran a grassroots campaign with promises to increase public safety and transform the city's troubled police department that resonated with voters.

Cleveland is a Democratic stronghold and a largely Black city of some 372,000 people, and one of the poorest nationwide of major American cities. The city is currently a party to a court-monitored consent decree for police reform with the U.S. Department of Justice behind a host of unprecedented and celebrated police killings of Black people, including 12-year-old Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson in 2014, and the 137-shots shooting deaths of Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in 2012.

Also on Tuesday, Cleveland voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative that amends the city's charter to address police reform issues. Dubbed Issue 24, the ballot initiative that voters sanctioned makes changes to the Office of Community Standards and creates the Community Police Commission, which has the final say on police policies from recruitment to exams, officer training, and outreach efforts.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 November 2021 18:12

Baby Gorilla born at Cleveland Metro Parks Zoo in Ohio for the first time in its 139-year history....By Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

04 November 2021

Kathy

A baby gorilla has been born at the Cleveland Metro Parks Zoo in Cleveland, Ohio for the first time in the zoo's 139-year history

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Cleveland, Ohio —A baby gorilla has been born at the Cleveland Metro Parks Zoo in Cleveland, Ohio for the first time in the zoo's history.

A western lowland gorilla gave birth on Oct 26 , a first in the zoo’s 139-year history. The mothers is Neka, 23, and the father to the new baby gorilla is Mololo, 34.

“We’re thrilled to announce the birth of this gorilla, the first in our history, as we also look ahead toward the future at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo,” Metroparks CEO Brian Zimmerman said in a statement. Visitors can visit the infant gorilla from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily at the Primate, Cat & Aquatics building at the zoo.

Thanks to a partnership with CrossCountry Mortgage, there will be an exclusive video series featuring updates on the growth and development of the gorilla baby, the zoo officials said in the press release.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 04 November 2021 22:35

Ohio reports 4,503 new coronavirus cases, and has reported some 1.5 million total cases and 24, 763 deaths since the pandemic hit the U.S. with a vengeance in March of 2020....More than 750,000 people have died nationwide from the coronavirus,

04 November 2021

Kathy

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COLUMBUS, Ohio —As of Wed., Nov. 3 the Ohio Department of Health reports a total of 1,556,208 (+4,503) new cases since its last report, leading to 80,450 (+190) hospitalizations and 10,196 (+18) ICU admissions. A total of 6,491,459 people — or 55.53% of the state’s population — has at least started the vaccination process, an increase of 5,854 from the previous day.

The 28-day case average is at 3,700.

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. with a vengeance in March of 2020, ODH has reported some 1.5 million cases and 24, 763 deaths, including the 4,503 new cases reported on Wed.

Nationwide, some 46 million cases have been reported along with more than 750,000 deaths, compared to 2.1 million cases worldwide and some 4.5 million deaths.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 04 November 2021 20:58

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

03 November 2021

Kathy

Pictured is Cleveland Mayor-Elect Justin Bibb

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Newcomer Justin Bibb, a former Barack Obama intern and progressive who ran on the political platform of decreasing crime and reforming the city's troubled police department, won the Cleveland nonpartisan runoff election for mayor Tuesday night over veteran Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley to become the city's fourth Black mayor and its youngest behind former mayor Dennis Kucinich.

In spite of never holding public office before, Bibb, 34, won with a whopping 63 percent of the vote compared to Kelley's 37 percent, unofficial results of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections reveal. Both of them are Democrats.

"The work is just beginning," the mayor-elect said Tuesday night during an election night watch party at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, one of the city's most prominent Black churches. "Tonight we will celebrate, and tomorrow we are going to roll up our sleeves and do the hard work of moving our city forward, in a better direction."

Flanked mainly by Black people, including Black preachers who championed his bid for mayor, Bibb promised to revitalize Cleveland and said change is on its way.

He became the city's fourth Black mayor behind the election of Carl B Stokes in 1967, who was the city's first Black mayor, Michael R. White in 1989, and Mayor Frank Jackson in 2005, Jackson, 75, the city's four-term mayor who opted not to seek an unprecedented fifth term this year.

His victory on Tuesday over Kelley, 53 and a White councilman who has represented west side ward 13, was not all that surprising, though political pundits were torn on whom they believed would become the city's next mayor.

Kelley placed second in the seven-way primary race last month and Bibb, armed with an endorsement from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, and political heavyweights like U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown and former mayors Jane Campbell and White, placed first, winning with 27 percent of the vote to Kelley's 19 percent. And though Kelley had establishment support going into Tuesday's election, and the backing of Mayor Jackson and a handful of the 17 members of city council, including five of the eight Black east side council persons, including Ward 6 Councilman Blaine Griffin and Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell, he still lost. In fact, it was a political shake up by all accounts. It was, no doubt, the old guard vs the newcomers

In a well written editorial published at its online affiliate of Cleveland.com and as a cover story in its Sunday's printed edition, the Plain Dealer's endorsement of Bibb before the primary election in September said that though Bibb, who graces the cover, is young at 34 and has no political experience, he has the vision to lead the largely Black major American city of some 385,000 people. That message apparently resonated with voters as well.

"In this pivotal moment for Cleveland.....we believe the candidate with the vision for the successful city we wish to be is Justin Bibb," the editorial reads in part.

Kelly conceded at his watch party Tuesday night at the Harp restaurant on the city's near west side with his wife and daughters by his side and said he ran for mayor because he wanted to make Cleveland a better place to live for all Clevelanders.

"We believe in Cleveland," said Kelley, an 18-year councilman who has been council president for the last eight of those years, and an ally of Mayor Jackson.

A nonprofit executive and former banker with a law degree from Case Western Reserve University, Bibb is a product of Cleveland's public schools who went on to earn a law degree from Case Western Reserve University. When he was younger he interned for Obama when Obama was a junior senator from Chicago, Illinois.

The son of a social worker and Cleveland cop, Bibb ran a grassroots campaign with the support of young progressives across racial lines who embraced his ideas and political stances. He knocked on doors and met with small community groups across the city long before the primary election got underway, and it paid off in the end when he won the crowded primary over six other candidates.

East side voters, Black voters specifically, voted overwhelmingly for Bibb, an indication that Blacks continue to want a Black mayor of a majority Black city.

He endorsed Issue 24, a charter amendment that voters overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday that establishes a citizen-driven police commission to adopt police policies and to have the final say on issues ranging from recruitment to testing exams, police misconduct and excessive force, and outreach efforts. Kelly, however, opposed Issue 24 and campaigned against it as he was simultaneously running for mayor, a strategy that proved to be ineffective, particularly among Black voters.

A major American city, Cleveland is roughly 58 percent Black and most of its residents live in poverty. It is the most segregated city in the nation behind Boston and most Blacks reside on the city's east side and Whites on the west side, the two sides separated by the Cuyahoga River. Bibb is poised also to revamp the city's largely Black Cleveland Metropolitan School District, which the city mayor has controlled since 1998 per a state law that eliminated an elected school board and replaced it with appointees of the mayor.

Elections for mayor and city council are held simultaneously in the same year, which keeps most of the city legislators on the city council from giving up a relatively safe council seat for a possible, and often unlikely, mayoral win.

Two of the 17 city council members lost their seats relative to the November election with Ward 5 Councilman Delores Gray, a Black east side councilwoman, losing to Richard Starr and Ward 12 Councilman Anthony Brancatelli, a White west side councilman, getting outed by Rebecca Maurer. And state Rep Stephanie Howse won over former councilman T.J. Dow in Ward 7 to replace outgoing councilman Bashear Jones, who chose to run for mayor rather than for reelection to city council and lost in last month's mayoral primary.

Delores Gray's twin, Deborah Gray, won over Eric Walker in Ward 4, which was represented for decades by former councilman Ken Johnson, who is serving a six year prison sentence for public corruption and tax evasion. Johnson's successor, the controversial and outspoken Marion Anita Gardner, who was appointed to replace Johnson after he was indicted on criminal charges and suspended from office earlier this year by the Ohio Supreme Court, did not seek election to the Ward 4 council seat. And In Ward 13, community organizer and housing advocate Kris Harsh defeated Kate Warren to replace Kelley on city council

In short, Deborah Gray, Stephanie Howse, Richard Starr, Rebecca Maurer and Kris Harsh are the five new members of city council, and Kevin Kelley, Marion Anita Gardner, Delores Gray, Bashear Jones and Anthony Brancantelli are the five council persons who will leave office in January.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 December 2021 18:23

Cleveland voters overwhelmingly approve Issue 24, the police reform charter amendment pushed by Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, and by activists, and other family members of Blacks killed by Cleveland police.....By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor

03 November 2021

Kathy

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief-CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland voters approved Issue 24 on election night on Tuesday, a charter amendment put on the ballot by the progressive activist group dubbed Citizens For A Safer Cleveland that establishes an independent citizens review board to review and act upon excessive force and police misconduct cases independent of the collective bargaining agreement.

Issue 24 also makes changes to the Office of Community Standards and creates the Community Police Commission, which has the final say on police policies from recruitment to exams, officer training, and outreach efforts.

At press time and with 94 percent of the vote counted, the measure was winning 60 percent to 40 percent, unofficial results of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections reveal.

The two candidates for mayor were divided over Issue 24. Council President Kevin Kelley opposed it as what he says is the wrong vehicle to seek to increase police accountability, and non-profit executive Justin Bibb, who won the runoff election on Tuesday over Kelley to become the city's fourth Black mayor, supported it saying Issue 24 puts more community voices at the table relative to police accountability and public safety.

The measure won along racial lines with 78 percent of Cleveland's majority Black east side wards supporting it and 40 percent of the city's largely west side wards approving the initiative. The city is roughly 58 percent Black. Issue 24's strongest support came from east side ward 1, the city's largest Black voting bloc and the second greatest voting block of all 17 wards, 1 ward led by councilman Joe Jones, who overwhelming won reelection on Tuesday against activist and journalist Kimberly Brown.

The Cleveland NAACP and the Ohio ACLU were behind it as was nearly every activist group in Cleveland, and some Black elected officials and members of Cleveland City Council. But the main supporters of the controversial ballot initiative were community activists and grieving family members who say Cleveland police murdered their loved ones with impunity. "We're driving this initiative, the families," said Samaria Rice leading up to Tuesday's election.

Rice is the mother of slain 12-year -old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police gunned down in November of 2014 at a park and recreation center on Cleveland's west side. Founder of the Tamir Rice Foundation, she is also a founding member of Citizens For A Safer Cleveland along with others, including activists Brenda Bickerstaff, whose brother was killed by police nearly 20 years ago, Alicia Kirkman, whose son was killed by the cops some 14 years ago, and LaTonya Goldsby and Kareem Henton, co-founders of Black Lives Matter Cleveland.

Advocates of Issue 24 say there must be civilian oversight of police conduct investigations—a change to regain the trust of the public and improve transparency of the department. They say that Issue 24 will ensure real police accountability, independent investigations, and powerful civilian oversight in Cleveland.

Those against the proposed charter amendment, including the Cleveland Patrolmen's Association that represents the rank and file of Cleveland police, have raised concerns about placing power into the hands of non-elected civilians—which they say could steer officers away from the sector and undermine safety. Most of Cleveland's largely White police force, however, consists of police who live outside of the boundaries of Cleveland.

The city of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice are parties to a still pending consent decree for police reforms, which was adopted in 2015 behind the police killing of Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson in 2014, Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell in 2012, and so many other Blacks who have lost their lives at the hands of Cleveland police.

Learn more about Issue 24 here

Citizens For A Safer Cleveland represents a broad group of concerned organizations and individuals who are working together to strengthen community oversight of the police, deliver justice for our families, and ensure that our communities can feel safe and secure. The group is led by families who have lost a loved one to police violence, and supported by organizations like Stand Up For Ohio, Black Lives Matter Cleveland, NAACP Cleveland, Showing Up for Racial Justice-NEO, and the ACLU of Ohio.

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Last Updated on Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:33

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.

03 November 2021

Kathy

Pictured is Congresswoman-Elect Shontel Brown, a Democrat and the winner of the general election on Tues, Nov. 2 as to the open seat in Ohio's 11th congressional district, which includes most of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, a largely Black pocket of Akron, and staggering sections of Akron's Summit County suburbs

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND, OHIO – Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown, the Democratic nominee to replace Marcia Fudge in Congress representing Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, cruised to victory Tuesday night against Republican nominee Lavern Gore.

A Warrensville Heights Democrat, Brown won with 80 percent of the vote compared to Jones' 20 percent, unofficial results of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections reveal.

"I ran this race like I had nothing to lose and everything to win for the people," the congresswoman-elect told reporters at her election night watch party at the Marriott in Warrensville Heights, a primarily Black Cleveland suburb. "We've got a lot of work to do."

Brown also released the following statement as to her win on election night:

"Thank you to the voters for your confidence in electing me as your next congressperson. Today's victory would not have been possible without the help of so many allies and volunteers who care about our community. I am committed to going to Washington as a unifier, and will work with President Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress to lead a swift health and economic recovery from the pandemic for Ohioans. I am ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work. This has been an amazing journey— now the real work begins. Thank you Northeast Ohio."

Also chairwoman of the county Democratic party, Brown emerged as the winner among a crowded field of candidates competing in a special Democratic primary election held in August to replace Fudge, handily defeating her 12 opponents, including Nina Turner, the well-financed front-runner and a former Ohio senator who last year co-chaired the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Brown, 46, beat Turner, 53, 50 percent to Turner's 44 percent in the primary, a contentious battle and multi-million dollar congressional campaign that saw the more moderate wing of the Democratic party rallying behind Brown with the progressive faction of the party backing Turner.

She is one of two new congress persons from Ohio along with Mike Carey, who also won a special election Tuesday and will represent Ohio's 15th congressional district in Congress. Carey is a former Ohio coal industry lobbyist who also served as a vice president at the Murray Energy coal company. He is a Republican who replaces Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers, who left Congress in May to head the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.

Of the 16 members of the U.S. House of Representative 12 are Republican and four are Democrats. Brown and Reps Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, Tim Ryan of Niles, and Joyce Beatty a Columbus Democrat and president of the Congressional Black Caucus. Brown and Carey will be sworn in on Thursday on Washington D.C. by Rep Kaptur, the longest serving woman in the House of Representative, and whose ninth congressional district extends to Cleveland.

Brown is the men-tee of Fudge, who vacated the congressional seat in March to become U.S. secretary of housing and urban development and all but named Brown as her replacement. She must run for reelection next year via a recon-structured congressional district with Turner a probable candidate for the seat too, among others.

She is the fourth Black to lead the 11th congressional district behind Louis Stokes, Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Fudge, respectively, and the third Black woman to hold the powerful post.

One of two of Ohio's 16 congressional districts crafted under the redistricting provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, Ohio's 11th congressional district includes most of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County and a majority Black pocket of Akron and staggering sections of Akron's Summit County suburbs.

Both Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are Democratic strongholds.

By Kathy Wray Coleman. Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a Black political and investigative reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio

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Issue 24 also makes changes to the Office of Community Standards and creates the Community Police Commission, which has the final say on police policies from recruitment to exams, officer training, and outreach efforts.

At press time and with 94 percent of the vote counted, the measure was winning 60 percent to 40 percent, unofficial results of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections reveal.

Learn more about Issue 24 here

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.

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