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By Kathy Wray Coleman, publisher, editor-n-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) Cleveland, Ohio-The North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor, which is led by executive secretary Harriet Applegate, will rally today,  Wednesday Jan 30,  from 4 pm to 5 pm on Public Square in Cleveland  to fight against proposed cuts to federal programs  to social security, medicare and medicaid and against tax loopholes for the top 2 percent of Americans. "This action is part of a nation-wide d ay of action  to focus attention on the fact that  We the People  need these critical programs that are not  ‘entitlements’  –as the media likes to describe them- but actually  ‘earned benefits," said Applegate. " This is an ongoing campaign. The next activity is a  call-in  to senators and congress-members on  Feb. 12 th .  Look out for details in the coming days." Some

Malissa Williams, left, and Timothy Ray Russell By Kathy Wray Coleman, publisher, editor-n-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Community activists will protest today, Jan 28, at 6 pm behind Heritage Middle School in East Cle veland at Lee Road and Terrace Ave. over published comments  to the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper last week by Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Jerry Follmer. A veteran cop, Follmer told the Plain Dealer that the recent public announcement that the Cuyahoga County examiner allegedly found drugs in the system of shooting victims Malissa Williams and Timothy Ray Russell justifies the deadly shooting, though an investigation by the City of East Cleveland and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, and an internal investigation by Cleveland officials are underway.  Family members of Wil

James W. Oliver Jr. By Johnette E. Jernigan, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper CLEVELAND, Ohio - James W. Oliver Jr., via a unanimous vote, was recently re-elected to his second consecutive term as president of the Enrolled Agents of Greater Cleveland, a networking Organization of Cleveland area enrolled agents . He is the first Black to hold the position. An enrolled agent is a person who is a federally authorized tax practitioner in the field of taxation and is empowered by the U.S. Department of Treasury to represent taxpayers before all administrative levels of the IRS for audits, collections and appeals. Oliver is the principal owner and founder of J. C. and Associates Tax & Financial., a full service firm that provides everything from accounting to bookkeeping tax preparation and representation of clients in front of IRS auditors . He was born

 Fifty year-old Miami Heat Fan Michael Drysch, left, and Miami Heat mega star LeBon James. Below James hugs Drysch after running onto the basketball court in between quarters Friday night  at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami Florida  to congratulate Drysch after he won $75,000 by making a half court hook shot. The Miami Heat defeated the Detroit Pistons 110-88 Click below to watch the video of NBA mega star LeBron James bear hugging fan Michael Drysch after Drysch  after  won  $75,000 in an in between-quarters basketball hoop contest at American-Airlines Arena Friday night. The winning monies help the Boys & Girls Club of America, a group that James supports also.  MIAMI, Florida- Michael Drysch, a fifty-year-old computer technician from McHenry, Il. tossed a hook shot from half court to win $75,000 and a bear hug from NBA mega star LeBron James. An Akron, Oh. native, James, 28,  left the Cleveland Cavaliers amid controversy  in 2010 to join the Miami Heat,

United States Senator for Ohio Sherrod Brown, a Democrat. (Editor's Note: Brown is the husband  of popular Cleveland Plain Dealer Reporter Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist). Helping Cuyahoga County Homeowners Hurt by the Mortgage Crisis Cleveland.com About 14,000 homeowners in Cuyahoga Standing next to a foreclosed home in Ohio, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown speaks on the foreclosure crisis impacting Ohio and Cuyahoga County, which includes the majority Black city of Cleveland. More than 14,000 Ohioans from Cuyahoga County might be eligible for part of a recently announced $8.5 billion national mortgage settlement involving 10 big banks including Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase Bank. The announcement of the settlement comes on the heels of a separate $1.5 billion national mortgage settlement negotiated by the attorneys general of 49 states, including Ohio, with five top mortgage banks that service mortgages, including J.P. Morgan Cha

United States President Barack Obama takes the oath of office for a second term as president next to First Lady Michelle Obama at a swearing in ceremony on Jan 21, the day that Americans also celebrated the national holiday of slain Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.     By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C.- Before over a half a million people that took to the nation's capital for inaugural activities on the holiday commemorating the birthday of slain Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic President Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America, took the oath of office for a second term yesterday with First Lady Michelle Obama by his side and daughters Malia and Sasha a stone's throw away. The late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King J

Cleveland Channel 3- WKYC TV Assignment News Editor Danielle Fink, who died early yesterday morning when she crashed her car into a tree near Bradley Road in North Olmsted, Ohio. Fink was known in journalism circles and responsible for assigning coverage on breaking and other news impacting national, state and local areas . She assigned coverage on pertinent  news events affecting the greater Cleveland Black community, including last year's presidential campaign in Ohio,  and the Imperial Avenue Murders of 11 Black women by serial killer Anthony Sowell, a story that broke in 2009. Fink also assigned coverage of  a host of other news stories such as but not limited to the Cleveland schools levy campaign that voters agreed with and sanctioned in November,  and the shooting deaths late  last year by a group of White Cleveland police officers of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43.  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio&

Fired former Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Cuyahoga County current and former residents whose homes were foreclosed on between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011 by Bank of America or Ally/GMAC, Citi, Wells Fargo or J.P. Morgan Chase banks had until Fri., Jan 18 to file a claim for part of a $1.5 billion national mortgage settlement. The money is all but guaranteed, the office of the Ohio attorney general said last month. And it still might not be too late to file a claim, data show.  The settlement deadline, though previously established, comes on the heels of the public firing two weeks ago of former Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid by Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald. Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald County executive since 2011, FitzGerald, a former Lakewood, Oh. mayor and prior FBI agent who a

United States President Barack Obama (right) and Vice President Joe Biden Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C.- With Vice President Joe Biden by his side President Barack Obama on Wednesday offered strict measures to curb gun violence across the nation in the wake of the unprecedented shootings last month that left 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. dead. Also killed in that rampage was the mother of suspected shooter Adam Lanza, 20, who then turned the gun on himself.  The president's proposal calls for extensive background checks for the sale of guns across the nation and bans on high-capacity magazines and military type assault weapons, among other proposed provisions. Some of the proposal became effective through executive orders signed Wednesday by the president, such as more extensive background che