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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Nina Turner CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio –On the heels of the second Democratic presidential debate, which was held in Iowa on Saturday night, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will join supporters, including former Ohio senator Nina Turner,  who will introduce him at a campaign rally at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University on Monday, Nov. 16. Doors open at 6 p.m, and the program starts at 7 p.m.  (The address of the CSU Wolstein Center is 2000 Prosp

Nina Turner By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont CLEVELAND, Ohio – Former state senator Nina Turner, a Cleveland Democrat who was until this week the director of political engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party, announced Thursday that she is switching her support of Hillary Clinton to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a socialist Democrat and Clinton's most threatening rival for the Democratic nomination for president. A former first lady and prior secretary of sta

Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ed Wade, who ousted Cleveland Judge Pauline Tarver in a close race Tuesday night Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pauline Tarver , a former executive director of the Cleveland NAACP who has said that she was a target of the establishment for standing up against the purported mistreatment of select Black judges on the largely Black 13-member Cleveland Municipal Court.  Annette Blackwell, who won over councilman Bill Brownlee by a  landslide Tuesday night for mayor of Maple Heights,  a Cleveland suburb that is 68 percent Black. Blackwell is the city's first Black mayor. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, including Co

President Barack Obama (left) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).     U.S Representative Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat who leads Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes the majority Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, and several of its eastern suburbs  WASHINGTON, D.C.- Led by Congressional Democrats, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday blocked a disapproval resolution pushed by Senate Republicans that would have scrappe

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, who    is the leader of the political and religious organization called the  Nation of Islam , and is  famous internationally for organizing the  Million Man March  in  Washington DC  in  1995   will speak in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, Sept. 3 at a free and open-to-the public event at  7 pm at Second Ebenezer Baptist Church on the city's largely Black east side at 1881 East  71st Street.  Doors open at 6 pm. Call (216) 772-7969 for mor

Greater Cleveland community activists stood ground at the funeral of former Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes as a salute to the longtime federal lawmaker and Ohio's first Black congressperson The flag-draped casket of the legendary Louis Stokes,  a World War II veteran and   the first Black in Congress from Ohio,  who served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1968 to 1998. The longtime federal lawmaker died on  August 18 at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio after a brave battle with brain and lung cancer. Congressman Louis Stokes By Cleveland Urban News. Com Field Reporter Johnette Jernigan and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman. Cleveland Urban News.Com and its affiliated blog, the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, are  Ohio's most read Black newspaper and Black newspaper blog Blog. Coleman is a 22-year journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio  covering various topics,  including racial  di

Retired 11th congressional district congressman Louis Stokes, and his wife, Jay Stokes. Louis Stokes died on Tuesday, August 18 at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a prominent Cleveland suburb. He was 90-years-old. The former federal lawmaker, who was the first Black to serve in Congress from Ohio, announced publicly in July that he had been diagnosed with brain and lung cancer.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio - Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressman, who served in the U.S. House of Representativ