Ohio’s only majority African-American congressional district may disappear with redistricting: The Wake Up for Monday, May 10, 2021
Posted May 10, 2021
The congressional district that was formerly represented by Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Louis Stokes is likely to no longer be majority minority after it s remapped.
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11th District: In the 1960s, Louis Stokes asked the nation’s highest court to declare that Cleveland’s congressional districts unfairly divided its African American community to dilute Black political power. So the Ohio legislature created the state’s only majority minority congressional district. When Ohio redraws its congressional maps this year to divide the state among 15 districts, the original district will likely lose its African American majority for the first time, Sab
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Cleveland City Council taps Central neighborhood activist to fill Ward 5 council seat (Source: 19 News) By Stephanie Czekalinski | May 3, 2021 at 6:03 PM EDT - Updated May 3 at 6:23 PM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A neighborhood activist in Clevelandâs Central neighborhood was appointed to fill the Ward 5 council seat left vacant by Phyllis Clevelandâs resignation announced last week.
Delores Gray will fill the seat, which represents the Central and Kinsman neighborhoods as well as part of Midtown, Downtown, and the North Broadway and Slavic Village neighborhoods until January 1, 2022, according to a media release from the city.
In November, Gray will have to run for reelection for the next full term of four years, the release said.
WCPN Cleveland City Council appointed Delores Gray to serve out Phyllis Cleveland s term representing Ward 5.
Cleveland City Council on Monday appointed Delores Gray, a community advocate in the city’s Central neighborhood, to fill Phyllis Cleveland’s seat representing Ward 5.
Cleveland recommended Gray as her replacement, following an often-invoked council tradition in which an outgoing member recommends a successor to serve out his or her term. Cleveland announced her resignation last week, citing health issues.
Gray is a community engagement coordinator for Care Alliance Health Center, a medical provider with offices in Central and Downtown Cleveland, she said. She serves on the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s Progressive Action Council, a resident advocacy organization. She also has served on the board of Burten, Bell, Carr, the community development corporation for the Central and Kinsman neighborhoods.
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