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
Concerned locals turn out on rainy Mother’s Day to protest skeet shooting at Kirtland Country Club
Updated May 09, 2021;
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WILLOUGHBY, Ohio – On a wet, cold Sunday in May, dozens of protesters lined Kirtland Road or passed by in cars, working to raise awareness about what many call a “complete nuisance” – skeet shooting by Kirtland Country Club members.
The shooting at the club, which resumed after a 35-year hiatus about three years ago, only takes place on weekends during the club’s “off season,” from Nov. 1 through March 31, a press release sent by protest organizers says. The country club does not allow shooting during the summer months, as to not disturb its golfers, tennis players, pool-goers and other members.