CLEVELAND, Ohio-Hundreds of Cleveland women and their supporters braved the cold weather in Cleveland, Ohio on Sat, Jan 23, 2021 to participate in the fifth annual women's march with various local and national news venues covering the event, including Yahoo News, Cleveland.com and local Cleveland television channels , Fox 8 News, 19 Action News, Channel 3 News, and Channel 5 News.
The temperature in Cleveland the day of the rally and march was 25 degrees.
Issues ranged from violence against women, to racism, sexism, excessive force, immigration, abortion and reproductive rights, voting, public education, legal system reform and services in Ohio for raped and murdered women, which activists said should not be cut relative to the upcoming state budget.
The women demanded that newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland revisit the Tamir Rice case and bring charges against the two White Cleveland cops involved in the 2014 shooting death of the 12-year-old Black boy, U.S. Department of Justice officials announcing late last month that the case has been closed with no charges against the police officers, one of whom was fired, but for reasons unrelated to the Rice killing.
They celebrated the election of Vice President Kamala Harris as the first Black and first female vice president.
And they vowed to fight any cuts to rape and domestic violence services in Cleveland from the state budget
"If you cut one dollar from services for women when Black women are getting raped and murdered in Cleveland in droves we will vote you out of office Governor DeWine," said Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black Cleveland activist.
Keynote speakers for the event were activist and motivational speaker Genevieve Mitchell and state Rep. Stephanie House of Cleveland, who spoke on stand your ground legislation in Ohio that blacks leaders and activist oppose.
Brown is also chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, the first Black woman to hold the post.
On Jan 21, 2017, days after former President Trump's inauguration, hundreds of thousands of women in Cleveland and across the country, led by the national women's march out of Washington D.C., took to the streets for the first women's march to march against President Trump's racist and anti-female rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign and to fight for women's rights in general, the largest single day protest in American history.
Trump lost last year 's presidential election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who was sworn in as President on Jan. 20
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