Many notable women have made an impact in Northeast Ohio and beyond, including Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and Dorothy Fuldheim, who blazed trails as a television journalist at News 5.
There are scores more.
As we celebrate Women’s History Month, here’s another name some Clevelanders may remember. The Honorable Judge Jean Murrell Capers was the first Black woman to be elected to the Cleveland City Council.
Although she died in 2017 at the age of 104, her story is still being told through others — like Cleveland activist James Lamb, who said he worked closely with Cleveland City Council in the 1970s and remembers Capers fondly…