Leon Bibb

CLEVELAND — It was a time of celebration, high jubilation. The "hoorays" surely reached the sky. The celebration marked a freedom from slavery in the United States. Freedom came, and with it, a new word added to the language: "Juneteenth" -- as the day would be remembered in that word combination of June and nineteenth.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — For tens of millions of Americans, their faces are familiar from television. Marlo Thomas of "That Girl" fame and The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Phil Donahue, creator and host of the first TV talk show which featured audience participation. Married now for forty years. And authors...

The state of Ohio has seen a rise in the number of people getting vaccinated against COVID-19 since the program was announced. Leon Bibb shares his thoughts.

CLEVELAND — The annual American Red Cross Northeast Ohio hero awards took place Wednesday, May 12 and were hosted by 3News own, Leon Bibb. This year, the event honored community members who demonstrated acts of courage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Community members and organizations were honored for hosting blood drives,...

With 12 to 15 year olds now eligible, it's a shot in the arm, to get Ohio protected. But among older groups, hesitancy is still a hurdle to overcome.

CLEVELAND — Had you been there, you might have thought you were in a theater watching a couple of comedians throwing out humorous lines to whoever would listen. There were quick one-liners and longer stories, which called for double-takes on the guy laying down the comedy. It wasn’t a theater, but the inside of an RTA Rapid Transit car rolling through Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — There is something special about mothers. No matter when it was, each one of us entered life from mother’s body and then was placed on her belly. It was there we took our first looks around and drew our first breaths. Mom was the first thing we...

CLEVELAND — On Wednesday May 5, WKYC Studios’ Leon Bibb was honored with The Alan R. Schonberg Community Rescuer Award, which recognizes “unsung” heroes in our community who do good. The event was presented by Values-in-Action Foundation, an organization empowering individuals to build communities of kindness. The award was given to Bibb by his former co-worker Obie Shelton, who worked with Bibb at WKYC Studios in the late 80s.

CLEVELAND — Sighs of relief lifted into the air when guilty verdicts for Derek Chauvin were announced this week. Across the country, anxieties moved aside. Many in the nation took in a collective deep breath and then exhaled with renewed hope for justice. The breaths taken in are the ones George Floyd could not find as life was sapped out of his body under the heavy weight of a police officer's knee.

CLEVELAND — It has sent shock waves again. Another case of the sound of a gun's blast and a law enforcement officer's fatal bullet fired into black man's body in a controversial police roadside stop. ANOTHER controversial police officer killing of a Black person. This time it is Brooklyn Center,...

CLEVELAND — The scene is shocking, deeply distressing. Horrible by any account of it. Through the moving video of the death of George Floyd of Minneapolis, the world saw the man struggling and pleading for life, gasping for the breaths he could not take while under the knee of a police officer.

CLEVELAND — They are images from around the world. And through the ages. Each different from the next although a common thread of family is woven through them all. Family – the building block of culture, no matter where. For the last year, so many families have struggled. The pandemic...

CLEVELAND — Spring is working to get a foothold in Northeast Ohio. The new season is always slow in coming in this part of the world. Often, there is what I call an "artificial spring" the way winter can disguise itself as it is flirting with us, pretending to be the springtime lover who brings early flowers and soft touches for a day or two before showing it is really winter with a still-frosty hand.

CLEVELAND — We are twelve months into it, having gone through four seasons of the pandemic which still nags us. It changed us in that its touch was deadly and demanded so much of us in so many ways. So I ask if we have learned anything from a world-wide...

CLEVELAND — An anniversary card, and one of encouragement for having made it to one year. It's been that long since my lockdown began. Because of the pandemic, about a year ago, WKYC 3News said, "Leon, go home. Work from there." My year of the lockdown changed much. Many people...