Fellow members of the council lifted Marsh to a pantheon of Black mayors — such as Cleveland’s Carl Stokes, Atlanta ... they grew up near each other in Church Hill. Marsh lived in the ...

and that would have never been true had it been inside the church.” Two years later, she backed Carl Stokes in his campaign to become Cleveland’s first Black mayor. She was ordained by three ...

Some members of Heights Christian Church, where she worshiped ... Ms. Campbell worked to elect Carl Stokes as Cleveland’s first Black mayor in 1967. But the time she devoted to activism strained ...

As a Black mayor on a shortlist of history makers himself, Bibb said he recognizes that he stands on the shoulders of history-making political giants like Carl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black ...

Cleveland mayor Justin Bibb looked out over the water and thought back to Carl Stokes, who was the city’s mayor when the river caught fire in 1969. “Fifty years ago, one of my predecessors — the first ...

The Black Shield formed in Cleveland nearly 80 years ago ... the city’s first Black mayor, Carl Stokes, makes use of an all-Black squad of officers (including several future Shield Club leaders ...

The Black Shield formed in Cleveland nearly 80 years ago. Initially, Black officers came together to support and protect each other from discrimination and retaliation in the mostly White police ...

CLEVELAND (WJW ... Al Sharpton, Carl, Lewis Stokes.” Pictures of their visits remain on the glass-encased church bulletin boards. Shiloh hopes to safeguard its legacy by launching a capital ...

CLEVELAND – In recognition of Black History Month ... Blake Bolden, Jesse Owens and Carl Stokes February 14 th vs. Chicago Bulls at 7:30 p.m. Love is in the air at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse ...

He is particularly known by Cleveland audiences for his performances in Karamu House’s Black Nativity by Langston ... in honoring the legacy of Carl Stokes, an important champion of social ...

“Carl Stokes, who wasn’t the ... John Wooten who was the president of the Black Economic Union and said: call the guys, we need to get together in Cleveland and to talk with Ali and see ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Historians know ... of three Ohio Historical Markers honoring the legacies of Carl Stokes, Cory United Methodist Church and the Ludlow Community Association.