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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Thousands attended the annual 11th Congressional District Community Caucus Labor Day Parade and Festival Monday on Cleveland's largely Black east side with Congresswoman Shontel Brown its Grand Marshal.

Elected officials, marching bands, Black fraternities and sororities, union groups, community activists and wannabe candidates were among those there as the Nov. 5 presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump nears.

Brown is one of three Black women in Congress from Ohio and is a member of Ohio's five-member Democratic Congressional Delegation. It is majority Black and majority female and also includes Reps. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, Joyce Beatty of Columbus and Emilia Sykes of Akron, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat.

Under the theme of promoting empowerment, the parade kicked off at 11 am and proceeded down Kinsman Ave. to Luke Easter Park as spectators lined the streets to watch and shake hands with politicians.

The most prominent Ohio Democrat there was Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is running for re-election against Republican nominee and businessman Bernie Moreno. He took to the stage at Luke Easter Park with Rep. Brown to promote voting, Harris, and the Democratic ticket in general.

Trump won Ohio in 2016 by some eight percentage points, and again in 2020 by about the same margin when he lost reelection to President Joe Biden, a Democrat.

A Warrensville Hts. Democrat, Shontel Brown's congressional district includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County. It is a Democratic stronghold that drew then Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to the caucus parade in 2016, Clinton losing the general election that year to Trump in a heated contest.

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