Thegrio.com
By Ethyln Harris
Posted March 2nd, 2010
Alysa Stanton, 45, is the first African-American woman to become a rabbi in any mainstream Jewish denomination, according to Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Ordained in June 2009, Stanton took over in August as rabbi of Bayt Shalom synagogue in Greenville, N.C. “I am thrilled to [...]

Birth Year : 1913
Jean Murrell Capers was born in Georgetown, KY. Her family moved to Cleveland, OH, when she was a child. Capers was a teacher in the Cleveland schools before becoming an attorney in 1945. She was assistant police prosecutor from 1946 until 1949, when she became the first African [...]

Sprite.com
By Casey Gane-McCalla
Posted February 26th 2010
After the National Finals Competition this past weekend in Atlanta wrapped, we got together to do our post-competition review and found a scoring discrepancy in the sorority results. After looking at it and looking at it AGAIN, we determined there isn’t a definitive resolution.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
By Joe Guillen, The Plain Dealer
Posted February 24th 2010
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohioans will pick from a list of 10 finalists revealed Tuesday to represent the state in a collection of historic statues at the U.S. Capitol.
The short list includes Olympic athlete Jesse Owens, Thomas Edison, one of [...]

New York Times

By IAN URBINA
Posted February 24th 2010
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Saturday announced the selection of its first new board leader in more than a decade.
Roslyn M. Brock, 44, the board’s current vice chairwoman, will become chairwoman of the board, taking the reins from Julian Bond, [...]

HOLLY, JOHN OLIVER, JR. (3 Dec. 1903-20 Dec. 1974)founded the FUTURE OUTLOOK LEAGUE in 1935 tohelp secure equal employment for AFRICAN AMERICANS in Cleveland; on 23 Oct. 1988, the General Mail Facility at 2400 Orange Ave. at Cleveland’s main post office, was named for him. Holly was born [...]

mxoenteratinment.com
Posted February 21st 2010

On February 21, 1965, in Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom, Malcolm X began to speak to a meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity when a disturbance broke out in the crowd of 400.[149] A man yelled, “Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!”[150][151] As Malcolm X and his bodyguards moved [...]

mxoentretainment.com
Posted February 19th 2010

Jane Edna Hunter (1882- 1971)The daughter of a sharecropper, she was born Jane Edna Harris at Woodburn Farm near Pendleton, SC.  She acquired her last name by a brief marriage. Hunter graduated in 1905 as a trained nurse from Hampton Institute, VA, and came to Cleveland, serving in [...]

Msn.com
BY Gayot.com for MSN Local Edition
Posted February 18th 2010
Dining out at a restaurant doesn’t mean you have to abandon your diet.

Savvy chefs know that they don’t have to drown a dish in butter to make it delicious — lean sashimi, inventive salads and low-carb creations are just a few satisfying meals that can [...]

mxoentertainment.com
Posted February 18th 2010
Cleveland Play House’s current run of “Ain’t Misbehavin’” is a Tony-award celebration of the music of Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller. In honor of Black History Month ‘Fats’ Waller was a legendary icon of the swing genre from 1922 to 1943. ‘Swing’ is the forefather of contemporary jazz!