Pictured are Ohio Senator Sandra Williams of Cleveland, (wearing red), Ohio Senator Nickie Antonio of Lakewood (wearing Black and eyeglasses), Cleveland City Councilman Kevin Kelley (wearing red tie), state Representative Juanita Brent of Cleveland (wearing Black with no eyeglasses) and Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Joes (wearing teal tie), all of whom will speak at Women's March Cleveland's Oct 17, 2020 rally and march. This article will be updated to include the pictures of community activists who will speak at the event. Stay tunedCLEVELAND, Ohio-Women's March Cleveland will host a rally and march on Sat, Oct 17, 2020 as part of a national march this day for justice and equality for women and Black lives, the event of which will be held in  Ward 1 outside at the Harvard Community Services Center at 18240 Harvard Avenue on the city's largely Black east side.

The Harvard Community Services Center is led by Elaine Gohlstin, its president and CEO, Gohlstin also the leader of the Black Women's Political Action Committee of greater Cleveland.

For more information call Kathy Wray Coleman at Women's March Cleveland at (216) 659-0473.

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The event will commence with a 1pm rally with speakers and entertainment, followed by a 2:15 pm march, one of several women's marches in respective cities throughout the country on Oct. 17, including in Washington D.C, the nation's capital.

Face masks are required per city ordinance.

Women in Cleveland and at marches across the country on Oct 17, led by Women's March, will also remember the late U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and take on the rush by the White House and Senate Republicans in scheduling confirmation hearings to replace Ginsburg before the inauguration in 2021 of a president, either President Trump, or his rival, Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

The president, who now has the coronavirus, has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee and is adamant, alongside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, about holding early confirmation hearings, which  are set to initiate on Oct. 12.

He has promised that Barrett will likely be confirmed by the Republican controlled Senate by the presidential election.

The lives of women, Black women in particular,  will be at the forefront too of Cleveland' Oct 17 march, from the shooting death by Louisville Metro police of Breonna Taylor, to disparities across the board of Black women in comparison to their White male and female counterparts.

Also to be addressed are voting rights, jobs, education, immigration rights, climate change and healthcare as they relate to women, and support of the LGBTQ community.

Typically held at Public Square or elsewhere in downtown Cleveland, Women’s March Cleveland will be taken to Ward 1 in the heart of the Black community, Cleveland a largely Black major American city of some 385,000 people that is led by four-term mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor.

A largely Black ward, Ward 1 is the largest voting bloc of Black voters in the city and the second largest voting bloc of all of the city's wards

Speakers include local activists, Black clergy and elected officials, including Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones, Rev Benjamin Gohlstin, state Rep Juanita Brent of Cleveland, state Sens. Sandra Williams of Cleveland and Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley, and activists Kimberly F. Brown, Cheryl Lessin of Refusefacism Ohio, Shae Maresco, Pam Mason, Ruth Gray of the National Congress of Women Greater Cleveland Chapter, Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Center Executive manager of inclusion, Carrie Joseph, Elizabeth Kravanya, Archbishop Dr. Christine Mercy Johnson of the Worldwide Anglican Church, and Avery McCauley of the Black Women's PAC of Greater Cleveland.

Musicians Bill Sanders and Jennifer Houghton will do performances.

In addition to Women's March Cleveland, which is led by Cleveland activist Kathy Wray Coleman, other affiliated community groups include  International Women's Day March Cleveland, Black Women's PAC of greater Cleveland, National Congress of Black Women Greater Cleveland Chapter, Imperial Women Coalition, Black on Black Crime Inc., CCDWC, Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network,  Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Imperial Women Coalition, Black Voters Matter Cleveland, Refusefacism Ohio, Peace Action, Peace in the Hood, Finding Our Children-The Missing-Ebony Alert, , and BEMAD

"We are pleased that community activists and prominent elected officials will be supporting women for our women's march event just weeks before a historic presidential election that will have far reaching implications for women, the Black community and others for decades to come," said Coleman

The upcoming women's march in Cleveland comes just weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election where President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, will square off against former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee.

Galvanized by President Trump's anti-female rhetoric leading up to the 2016 election in which he defeated his then opponent Hillary Clinton after publicly calling her a "nasty woman," Women's March Cleveland brought some 17,000 women to the streets of Cleveland when the first women's march was initiated in January of 2017 with rallies and marches nationwide, including in Washington, D.C.

That that saw millions of women protest for equal treatment and women's rights and was the largest single day march in American history.

The group's mission in Cleveland is to push for equality and public policy changes for women across the board, and regardless of races, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status.

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