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CLEVELANDURBANEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, OHIO— The Cleveland African American Museum, as part of a month -long Black History Month series, will host Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones and local journalist and former Cleveland mayoral candidate Eric Brewer as event speakers, Brewer also the former mayor of East Cleveland, an impoverished largely Black suburb of Cleveland.
The free event, which will be held at the museum in Ward 7 on Crawford Road on the city's east side, is Sat, Feb 22. from 6:30-pm-8:30 pm
Brewer will discuss the legacy of Paul Roberson and Councilman Jones, whose majority Black east side Ward 1 is the second largest voting bloc in the city behind Ward 17, will discuss city government and necessary reforms.
A premier Black journalist and publisher who has launched a series of Cleveland area newspapers over the years, including Cleveland life, which he edited, and the Challenger, which he published, Brewer began his writing career as a young reporter at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most read Black print newspaper.
He is self-made and is considered a brilliant investigative by applicable standards, and he currently edits and publishes EJBNEWS.COM.
Other Black history month events at the museum include discussions on the Hough Riots of Cleveland, Black history from a local perspective, and a gala on Feb 29 at 6:30 pm, the only event that costs at $35 a ticket, that will recognize museum officials and board members with activist Genevieve Mitchell as the keynote speaker that evening.
The first 16 people to the gala on Feb. 29, which is also $50 per couple, get in for $15.
Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Wanda Jones, who is Black, was also a speaker this month at the museum, and spoke on procedural justice.
"All are welcome to the museum's Black history month series as we highlight the contributions of Black and African people and remember important people and events if the history of the African diaspora., said museum executive director Frances Caldwell.
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