Call and Post Associate Publisher and Executive Editor Connie Harper dies at 81, Harper was a supporter of President Obama and a staunch advocate of civil and human rights, is to be inducted into the Press Club's Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame next month, was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and was recently honored by the Cleveland Chapter of 100 Black Men, Harper was member of the Old Black Political Guard that help to elect the first Black mayor of a major American city
Connie Harper By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years under five different editors at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black press) ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) / ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) (Editor's note: Cleveland Urban News.Com led all media in breaking the story on the death of Connie Harper. Cleveland Urban News.Com salutes Cleveland journalism legend Constance "Connie" Harper) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Civil Rights advocate and longtime Call and Post Newspaper Assoc. Publisher and Exec. Editor Constance "Connie" Harper died Friday at a Dayton, Ohio hospital where she was on life support after suffering a heart attack. She was 81. Funeral ar