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The coalition tasked in the wake of George Floyd’s murder with alleviating the damaging effects of racism in Cleveland has hired a project manager and released a timeline of its work.
Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from Ohio newspapers: The unknown King The Toledo Blade Jan. 18 It may come as a shock to realize that, had he not been assassinated in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., could still be alive today. He would have turned 92 last week. He was a young man when he died. He was 26 when he led the successful Montgomery bus boycott following Rosa Parks’ famous arrest; 34 when he made his “I have a...
FILE - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28, 1963. A new documentary âMLK/FBI,â shows how FBI director J. Edgar Hoover used the full force of his federal law enforcement agency to attack King and his progressive, nonviolent cause. That included wiretaps, blackmail and informers, trying to find dirt on King. (AP Photo/File) There is still work to do in achieving the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of more than 50 years ago, Valley clergy and activists say, a...
rsmith@tribtoday.com Staff photo / R. Michael Semple Lea Dotson of Warren, one of the founders of IVote Black, a political organization formed in Warren in 2020 that focuses on making sure political leaders and organizations work on issues affecting black communities and their progress, stands by the gazebo at Courthouse Square. Work still needs to be done to achieve the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of more than 50 years ago, Valley clergy and activists say, as they view present-day upheaval in Washington and protests in American cities following violent police encounters with bl...
Staff report WARREN — Jacqueline Shannon, a certified cancer registrar with the Cleveland Clinic, has been selected to replace longtime Warren board of education member Robert “Bob” Faulkner, who resigned last month. Shannon was among six who applied to fill the unexpired term. “I am honored to begin my collaboration with this awesome team,” Shannon said Tuesday after being sworn in by Trumbull Probate Judge James Fredericka. Shannon is a longtime advocate of Warren City Schools. She and her late husband, Patrick, a Warren graduate, raised their children in Warren. Both were very a...