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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year Edwards has done both. When members of the Carl Stokes Brigade told him that tradesmen from Joe Jones's East Side ward were not being employed on a $26 million renovation project ...