Judge Jean Murrell Capers was Cleveland’s first Black woman to sit on the city council, WEWS, March 29, 2026

Judge Jean Murrell Capers was Cleveland’s first Black woman to sit on the city council

Her ‘godson’, James Lamb, shares her story during Women’s History Month

by Mercy Sackor, WEWS,

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