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Memorial service announced for former Cleveland councilwoman Mamie Mitchell....Mayor Bibb, Council President Blaine Griffin and community activists comment on her passing.....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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CLEVELAND, Ohio— A memorial service for former Cleveland councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, who died on March 17 at 77-years-old, will be held on Saturday, April 1, 2023 at Calhoun Funeral Home on Cleveland's east side.


A former east side councilwoman and former mayor Frank Jackson ally who, as councilwoman, represented Ward 6 and the east side neighborhoods of Fairfax, Little Italy, University Circle, Slavic Village, and parts of Union-Miles and Woodland Hills, Mitchell served on city council for nine years before retiring in 2017. She was replaced by current councilman Blaine Griffin, now the council president and a former community relations board director under Jackson whom she recommended to succeed her.

"Ms. Mitchell was a dedicated public servant," said Griffin in a statement to

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders. "I know that all of Ward 6 is grieving. Her impact in the ward is still being felt. She championed expansions of the Cleveland Clinic, the construction of a new Cleveland Metropolitan School District's School of the Arts and was a strong backer of Opportunity Corridor."


Mayor Justin Bibb, 35 and who took office in 2022, tweeted that "I am saddened to hear about the loss of Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell. I did not know her well but I know her legacy and service to Ward 6 will always be with us."


As a councilwoman, Mamie Mitchell was an avid supporter of the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, and University Circle, as well as numerous other initiatives, including the $330 million Opportunity Corridor road expansion. She was an advocate for the poor and fought for fair housing, and she was the most visible of all members of council in fighting with community activists against violence against women and girls.


Grassroots community activists of Cleveland also offered condolences.


"Former Cleveland councilwoman Mamie Mitchell was the only councilperson who we could consistently rely on to join community activists at rallies relative to the Imperial Avenue Murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue, the East 93rd Street Serial Murders where the killers or killer remain at large, and when we rallied on Seymour Avenue where the late Ariel Castro kidnapped and held two innocent teens and a young woman hostage for a decade," said activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads Women's March Cleveland and Imperial Women Coalition. Coleman said that Mitchell "would show up for activists for missing and murdered women's rallies when some other elected officials were often times too busy to attend."


Mitchell worked for BP's American division and was a former assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor who was appointed to replace the current Clerk of Council Pat Britt in Ward 6 as councilwoman. She later won election and reelection to the seat, opting not to seek a third term due to illness.

 

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper 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

Last Updated on Friday, 24 March 2023 18:10

Biden-Harris administration commits to invest more in water security on World Water Day, says Adrienne Watson, a National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson

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As the country reflects on World Water Day, which is today, March 22,  and Ohio's own East Palestine community is being watched after a Feb 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and environmental safety and clean and safe water concerns, President Joe Biden's

administration says that water plurality and safety are of major concern. Projections reveal that half of the world's population will face scarcity to access to water by 2025 and the United States is pledging billions to help with the problem.


Statement by National Security Council (NSC) Spokesperson Adrienne Watson on the Biden Administration's actions to invest more in water security


WASHINGTON, D. C.-On this World Water Day, we reflect on the importance of water and recommit ourselves to pursuing a water-secure world. We are at a significant inflection point in world history.  The Biden-Harris Administration recognizes the critical role of sustainable and resilient water systems and the transformational power that safe and accessible water has in the life of each person on Earth.  Global water security is intrinsic to our own national security objectives and foreign policy investments. Our goal is to improve global health, prosperity, stability and resilience through sustainable and equitable water resource management coupled with access to safe drinking water, sanitation services, and hygiene practices.


At the UN Water Conference meeting in New York this week, the United States will unveil a series of commitments of up to $49 billion toward the Water Action Agenda that reflect President Biden's once-in-a-generation investment in equitable access as well as climate-resilient water and sanitation infrastructure at home and around the world. We will leverage learning from domestic investments and programs to improve and expand the success of our work abroad.

Thanks to historic investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. We are helping Americans weather stronger storms and longer droughts through sound investments in resilient infrastructure and new technology. The U.S. government will also deploy all of its available tools and resources to implement the Global Water Strategy.

We will leverage the president's Emergency Plan of Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) to bring together the diplomatic, development and technical expertise of the United States to accelerate financing for adaptation measures, with the goal of helping more than half a billion people in developing countries adapt and manage the impacts of climate change by 2030. In alignment with the Administration's Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment, the U.S. government will collaborate with G7+ partners to unlock public and private capital for quality infrastructure that is climate resilient in low- and middle-income countries to strengthen the resilience of communities, and support inclusive, sustainable development.

On the occasion of World Water Day, we take hope in the growing chorus of countries stepping forward to make water security a global priority. Alongside partners and allies, we will seek to leverage our investments, mobilize our expertise, and continue to commit ourselves to achieve water security for all.

 

The statement above was written by National Security Council (NSC) Spokesperson Adrienne Watson on the Biden Administration's actions to invest more in water security

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper 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


Last Updated on Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:41

Trump announces that he will be indicted and arrested this week....Will prominent Ohio Republicans still support him for president if he is indicted like U. S. Senator J.D. Vance and Governor Mike DeWine?....By Clevelandurbannews.com

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

NEW YORK, NEW, York-Following a visit on Feb 22 by former president Donald Trump to the East Palestine, Ohio town where on Feb 3 a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing a massive explosion and generating international news and calls for environmental reforms and more rail safety countrywide, the country embraces this week for a possible indictment and arrest of the controversial public figure and real estate mogul.

Trump publicly announced last week that he expects to be indicted by a New York grand jury on Tuesday and subsequently arrested for what prosecutors say was hush money handed in 2016 to American pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, whom the president is accused of carrying on an illicit affair at one time or another, an alleged affair that he outright denies. He had called for protests in response to the anticipated indictment but that call for action has largely fallen on death ears, raising questions about whether he still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did more than two years ago before the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. That unprecedented insurrection left several people injured and five people dead, including a Capitol police officer.

Convictions and long prison sentences of some of the Capitol rioters may have  scared off potential protesters, sources say, not to mention the fear of governmental reprisal. Nonetheless, the controversy continues and the former president's freedom is now at risk. Trump and his supporters say the potential indictment is politically motivated while his critics say it is long over due as are potential criminal charges in other legal venues involving the embattled former president. the star witness testifying before the grand jury relative to the New York case at issue was Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen.

Trump's visit in February to the train derailment site in East Palestine, one of two high profile train derailments in under two months in Ohio by Norfolk Southern, was somewhat political as he was joined by  East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway,  J.D. Vance, who is a U.S. senator from Ohio who won a hard fought campaign for his seat last November with the former president's support, Ohio state Sen. Michael Rulli and state Rep. Monica Robb Blasdel. But will prominent Ohio politicians like Vance, Gov Mike DeWine, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost endorse his candidacy for president if he is indicted?

Ohio was once a pivotal state for presidential elections that Barack Obama won in 2008 and again in 2012 when he was reelected. Trump, however, won Ohio in 2016 over then Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and in 2020 when  President Joe Biden a former vice president under Obama, ousted him from the White House. Republicans hold each and every statewide office in Ohio and all but three seats on the seven-member largely Republican Ohio Supreme Court.

When he spoke  last month to a small group of local leaders, first responders  and the media at the local fire station near East Palestine, a small village of some 4,700 working class residents, he was speaking in  large part to his political base, mainly those who supported him for president.

“We’re in East Palestine to show our love for our fellow Americans," Trump told the crowd as he criticized Biden for what he said was an an inept federal response to the train derailment disaster that has residents up in arms via fears of air intoxication that have caused evacuations. He added that "they were doing nothing for you. When they announced I was coming they changed their tune."

President Biden has yet to visit the Ohio town to calm residents fears, though he has promised to visit sometime soon. Trump says that his visit is a reason the White House is now responding to East Palestine residents regarding the train derailment catastrophe that the Environmental Protection Agency says poses no serious harm and that renowned environmental activists like Erin Brokovich, who also visited East Palestine, say is a problem environmentally and with respect to clean and safe drinking water

"Clean water my ass," said Brokovich to reporters.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com the most read Black digital newspaper and 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, 04 April 2023 19:16

Former Cleveland councilwoman Mamie Mitchell dies....Activists say Mitchell fought for the poor as a councilwoman and with them to seek to eradicate violence against women from the Imperial Avenue Murders of 11 Black women to the Ariel Castro rape victims

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CLEVELAND, Ohio— Former Cleveland councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, who struggled with dementia, died on Friday.


Funeral arrangements are pending. She was 77.


A former east side councilwoman and former mayor Frank Jackson ally who, as councilwoman, represented ward 6 and the east side neighborhoods of Fairfax, Little Italy, University Circle, Slavic Village, and parts of Union-Miles and Woodland Hills, Mitchell served on city council for nine years before retiring in 2017. She was replaced by current councilman Blaine Griffin, now the council president and a former community relations board director under Jackson whom she recommended to succeed her.

"Ms. Mitchell was a dedicated public servant," said Griffin in a statement on Friday. "I know that all of Ward 6 is grieving. Her impact in the ward is still being felt. She championed expansions of the Cleveland Clinic, the construction of a new Cleveland Metropolitan School District's School of the Arts and was a strong backer of Opportunity Corridor."


As a councilwoman, Mamie Mitchell was an avid supporter of the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, and University Circle, as well as numerous other initiatives, including the $330 million Opportunity Corridor road expansion. She was an advocate for the poor and fought for fair housing, and she was the most visible of all members of council in fighting with community activists against violence against women and girls.


Grassroots community activists of Cleveland also offered condolences.


"Former Cleveland councilwoman Mamie Mitchell was the only councilperson who we could consistently rely on to join community activists at rallies relative to the Imperial Avenue Murders of 11 Black women on Imperial Avenue, the East 93rd Street Serial Murders where the killers or killer remain at large, and when we rallied on Seymour Avenue where the late Ariel Castro kidnapped and held two innocent teens and a young woman hostage for a decade," said activist and organizer Kathy Wray Coleman, who leads Women's March Cleveland and Imperial Women Coalition. Coleman said that Mitchell "would show up for activists for missing and murdered women's rallies when some other elected officials were often times too busy to attend."


Mitchell worked for BP's American division and was a former assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor who was appointed to replace the current Clerk of Council Pat Britt in Ward 6 as councilwoman. She later won election and reelection to the seat, opting not to seek a third term due to illness.

 

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper 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

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 March 2023 19:07

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Women's March national to rally on March 15, 2023 in Amarillo, Texas relative to the abortion pill hearing as a judge there will ultimately decide whether to overturn the FDA approved pill, a decision that could have a nationwide impact

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AMARILLO, Texas-Women's March National will lead an action on Wednesday,

March 15, 2023 in Amarillo, Texas as to a hearing by Federal District
Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas. The judge
will ultimately rule on whether to overturn the Food and Drug Administration's
approval of the medication Mifepristone, the abortion pill.

Overview

What’s happening?

Anti-abortion extremists are attempting to ban medication abortion nationwide. Anti-abortion groups filed a lawsuit in federal court to challenge FDA approval of Mifepristone

What is Mifepristone?

Mifepristone is a life-saving medication. It is used in the most common abortion method in the U.S. today - medication abortion, when a patient takes pills to terminate a pregnancy. Mifepristone is also used to manage miscarriages and pregnancy complications. It’s been approved by the FDA for over 20 years, and it’s safer than Tylenol.


Why Amarillo?

These extremists filed their case in Amarillo, Texas on purpose. The Northern District of Texas is a division with just one judge, Judge KacsmarykAnti-abortion activists knew he had a 100% chance of being assigned the case and they believe he will rule in their favor.


Why is this important?

If the judge agrees with anti-abortion group’s arguments to overturn FDA approval of Mifepristone, it could lead to a nation wide ban of the most common abortion ban— even in states where voters have rejected abortion bans and where abortion rights are protected by state law.

On March 15th, 2023, at 9am and again at 5pm CT Women's March national will mobilize in Amarillo, Texas, to shine a spotlight on this case


The inaugural women's march took off in 2017, days after then President Donald Trump's inauguration, and Cleveland, a largely Black major American city, was among hundreds of cities that took part. More specifically some five million women in combined in cities 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 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.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper 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

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 March 2023 17:15

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