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
Purple Heart belonging to WWII soldier reunited with surviving family members in Strongsville
Purple Heart belonging to WWII soldier reunited with surviving family members in Strongsville By Steven Hernandez | May 7, 2021 at 9:49 PM EDT - Updated May 7 at 9:49 PM
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (WOIO) - Susan Watson never got the chance to meet her uncle, WWII soldier John Maruscok, who lost his life in France in 1944.
âI remember my one uncle saying how when John walked into a room, it lit up,â she said.
But now, thanks to her and the organization Purple Hearts Reunited, Maruscokâs invaluable medal is back in the hands of her family.