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Cleveland celebrates opening of Louise Stokes Scholar House
The building is named for the mother of former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes and former Congressman Louis Stokes, officials say. Services like daycare, rental subsidy and on-site coaching and ...
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Mayor Bibb says irony of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade is that racial equity was mandated by Republican president
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 ...
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STOKES, LOUIS
who would become the first African-American mayor of a major city when he was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967 (see CARL B. STOKES; MAYORAL ADMINISTRATION OF CARL B. STOKES).Their father, a laundry ...