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Councilman Richard Starr leads Cleveland Ward 5's 2nd annual parade and festival.....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Cleveland, Ohio (August 25, 2023) - With many young people having started or soon starting the new school year, Councilman Richard Starr (pictured)(Ward 5)  hosted the second annual Ward 5 Festival Resource Fair & Parade last weekend.


Dignitaries there included Council President Blaine Griffin, some other council persons, and Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Magistrate Jeff Johnson, a former councilman himself.

The parade kicked off on Sat. Aug 19 at 3:00 pm in the rear parking lot of Jane Addams High School on the city's east side  and will end at the Friendly Inn Settlement, the site of the Resource Fair.

The Resource Fair ran from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm and  included book-bag distributions, free haircuts and braiding for youth, free food, live entertainment, carnival rides and activities, and a DJ competition. The winner of the DJ competition won a year contract to be the official DJ for all Ward 5 events hosted by Councilman Starr.

The organizer of the Ward 5 Festival Resource Fair & Parade, Starr is an avid supporter of community and education.


"August is the time when young people get reacquainted with all their friend," said Starr. "It's a time for friendship, education, and growth. I remember the excitement I had when it was time to go back to East Tech every year. I wanted to show our youth that the community is excited for their return to learning and is here to support them."

The Resource Fair and parade were also sponsored by community partners, including Burten, Bell, Carr, Development Inc., Campus District, Care Alliance Health Center, Friendly Inn Settlement, Midtown Cleveland Inc., Next Generation Construction, Slavic Village Development, the Vernon Family Foundation, and the Word Church.


Trump announces he will skip the first presidential debate....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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CLEVELAND, Ohio- Though polls show he is the clear front- runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, former president Donald Trump confirmed this week that he will not participate in the first presidential debate on Wednesday in Milwaukee.

it will feature top candidates among the crowded GOP field of contenders hoping  to win Republican and other support.

More specifically, the real estate mogul, stating that the public already “knows who I am,” Trump wrote on social media Sunday that  “I will therefore not be doing the debates!”

A Trump adviser , however, has said  that the former president could still decide to participate in a later primary debate.

Wednesday’s primary debate is the first relative to the upcoming 2024 presidential election, and sources say the former president had been telling advisors and others that he will skip the debate, which comes on the heels of his latest indictment.

A grand jury in Georgia voted Aug 14 to indict  Trump and 18 affiliates in Fulton County District Attorney Fanie Willis' investigation into 2020 election interference.

The former president branded this latest indictment, a widespread 14-count indictment, another witch hunt to try to derail his candidacy for president as campaign donations continue to pile up after each indictment he faces.

Willis is Black, and this latest indictment marks the fourth time the former president has been indicted since last year announcing that he is making a third bid for the presidency, and in 2024 in a crowded field of GOP wannabees. The 18 co-defendants, charged collectively with 41 felony counts all together, include former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, also the former mayor of New York City, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark. Read the full 97-page indictment here.

Giuliani, charged with 13 counts, said in a statement that the indictments are an attempt to silence free speech and are "an affront to Democracy."

The former president, still a big wig with the Republican Party and his political base, was also charged in Florida with illegally hoarding classified files at his estate there, Mar-a-Lago, and refusing to hand them back when asked, among other charges.

Last Updated on Friday, 25 August 2023 22:21

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Former President Donald Trump, 18 others indicted in Georgia election probe, a 4th indictment for Trump since he announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election.... By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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  • FULTON, COUNTY, Georgia-A grand jury in Georgia  voted Monday  to indict  former President Donald Trump (pictured) and 18 others in Fulton County District Attorney Fanie Willis' investigation  into 2020 election interference.

  • The former president branded this latest indictment, a widespread 14-count indictment, another witch hunt to try to derail his candidacy for president as he remains the front runner for the Republican nomination and campaign donations from fellow Republicans continue to pile up after each indictment he faces.

    Willis is Black, and this latest indictment marks the fourth time the former president has been indicted since last year announcing that he is making a third bid for the presidency, and in 2024 in a crowded field of GOP wannabees. The 18 co-defendants, charged collectively with 41 felony counts all together. include former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, also the former mayor of New York City, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark. Read the full 97-page indictment here. Giuliani, charged with 13 counts, called the indictments an effort to silence free speech and "an affront to Democracy."

    Regarding  the former president’s three other criminal indictments, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to,  the first indictment came down  in March and accuses Mr Trump of false accounting to cover up payments he made to an adult film star Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence about an alleged affair. He will go on trial in New York.


    The former president, still popular with the Republican Party and his political base, was was also charged in Florida with illegally hoarding classified files at his estate there, Mar-a-Lago, and refusing to hand them back when asked, among other charges.
    Trump's third indictment was unveiled two weeks ago in Washington DC. where he is accused of crimes relative to his unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election that President Biden undoubtedly won

  • Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

Last Updated on Friday, 25 August 2023 22:22

Cleveland's annual Glenville Festival is Saturday, August 12, 2023.... By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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CLEVELAND, Ohio (August 11, 2023) - The historic annual Glenville Festival - a family-friendly end-of-summer event, returns to Sam Miller Park  in Cleveland on Saturday, August 12 on the city's east side.


The event, also billed as the "50th anniversary of Hip Hop,"takes place from 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Sam Miller Park at East 88th Street and Saint. Clair Avenue. city officials said in a pre  release on Friday.


The festival will include food vendors, a youth boxing championship, live music, and events celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop music. It will also include a Youth Village featuring 15 different play areas, two giant bounce houses, a mile-long inflatable obstacle course, giant Connect 4 Basketball, human foosball, and more!


Councilmembers Kevin Conwell (Ward 9) and Anthony Hairston (Ward 10) are key sponsors of the annual event.

 

"The Glenville Festival represents the best of Glenville. With so many family-friendly events, great food from small businesses, and amazing live music, this festival brings so many from Glenville and beyond to celebrate the community," Hairston said.


Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

 

 

Last Updated on Saturday, 12 August 2023 18:36

Ohio State Issue 1 headed for supreme defeat as Women's March Cleveland braces for a win as to defeating Issue 1....Women's March Cleveland, Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown comment.....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Above picture: Women's March Cleveland leads some 2,500 women and their supporters via a protest for reproductive rights and abortion access held on Oct. 2, 2021 at Market Square Park in Cleveland, Ohio, a sister march to marches held in cities across the country that day spearheaded by Women's March National out of Washington, D.C. ( Photo by David Petkiewicz of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper and Cleveland.com). Ohio's largest grassroots women's rights group, Women's March Cleveland and its supporters  rallied and marched again on June 24, 2023 outside of Cleveland City Hall, a year after the Supreme Court, on June 24, 2022,  overturned Roe v Wade.

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CLEVELAND,Ohio-Ohio State Issue 1, the ballot issue that would have increased the threshold for future amendments to the Ohio Constitution from the currently required simple majority to a 60 percent super-majority, is headed for supreme defeat, early election results on Tuesday reveal.


With 26 percent of the Ohio vote counted, unofficial results show that  Issue 1 is failing 61.6 percent to 38.7 percent. a likely win for pro-abortion advocates who say they will now turn their attention to November 2023 when a constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion in the Ohio Constitution will be determined by voters in the state of Ohio, which will again become a pivotal

state on Tuesday if voters across partisan lines defeat Issue 1.


While statewide results of the election are not expected until late into the night on Tuesday or early Wednesday Issue 1 opponents remain elated after CNN predicted an outright defeat of the controversial measure in its nightly news segments.


Led by county Democratic Party operatives, the heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland and is Ohio's second largest county, led the way for Democrats as usual as 74 percent of voters in the 29 percent Black county said no to Issue 1. The voter turnout in the county was at 37 percent, down three points from the 2022 turnout for the state's gubernatorial election, where countyvoters turned out at 40 percent.


"We united and overcame this hurdle," said Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, a longtime Black Cleveland activist and organizer who has spearheaded more than a dozen reproductive rights marches in Northeast Ohio and Cleveland since 2018. "It shows the power of the ballot box on public policy issues in Ohio and we shall utilize this momentum to carry us to victory in November as we continue our fight for abortion access for all women in Ohio."


i want to thank the voters and supporters in Ohio who showed up and showed out ," Rep Shontel Brown, a greater Cleveland Democrat and former chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, told CNN Tuesday night. She added that" this was about freedom," and she called Ohio "the pathway to victory when it comes to politics."


Democrats in general called Issue 1's defeat, "a major victory for democracy in Ohio."


Early last month, volunteers from across the state, led by a coalition of abortion advocates, processed petitions for the abortion ballot initiative  in Ohio's biggest cities like Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Toledo and in some suburban and rural areas. and the initiative made the ballot as organizers collected nearly double the more than 415,000 signatures needed. In turn, Republicans, led by Gov Mike DeWine and Secretary of State Frank LaRose, pushed the Republican-dominated state legislature to put Issue 1 on the ballot this summer in an attempt to derail the abortion issue on the November ballot. The strategy unnerved voters across partisan lines and could have implications for the 2024 presidential election id it fails badly, sources predict.


Polling shows that the reproductive rights amendment to enshrine abortion in the Ohio Constitution would likely pass with somewhere between 50 to 60% support but the win on Issue 1 for abortion supporters has heightened that standard, sources say.


Hundreds of women in greater Cleveland, led by Women's March Cleveland. Ohio's largest grassroots women's rights group that has been fighting for reproductive rights since 2017 when Donald Trump took office as president for a first term, rallied and marched outside of Cleveland City Hall on  Sat., June 24, the one-year anniversary of  the overturning of Roe v wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. These same women's advocates, and others, are the one's pushing for a constitutional amendment for abortion access in Ohio.


Last year, on June 24, 2022, the nation's high court, in Dobbs vs Mississippi Health Organization, ended access to abortion for women nationwide and gave individual states the authority to legislate abortion, including to restrict or outright outlaw the procedure all together, causing a firestorm of protests throughout the country.


More than 14 states have near-total abortion bans during any point in pregnancy in effect, and at least six states have implemented abortions bans with other limits from six to 20 weeks bans. Ohio has a six-week abortion ban dubbed "the heartbeat bill" that is on hold per a judge's ruling .

 

Ohio would become the seventh state in the country to vote on abortion rights behind Kansas, Michigan, Kentucky, Vermont, Montana and California. All those states had either proposals that enshrined the right to an abortion, or allowed the state to regulate abortion.


Ohio will become the seventh state in the country to vote on abortion rights behind Kansas, Michigan, Kentucky, Vermont, Montana and California. All those states had either proposals that enshrined the right to an abortion, or allowed the state to regulate abortion.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:48

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