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Remembering the late former congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs- Jones on her September 10 birthday, read the last major interview by Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman with Tubbs -Jones on her views of sexism in presidential races, including against Hillary Clinton in 2008, that was published in the Call and Post Newspaper....Tubbs-Jones tells Coleman in the 2008 one-on-one-interview shortly before her death that sometimes sexism in America is stronger than racism....Coleman now edits Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper

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    The late U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs- Jones (far left), a Cleveland Democrat, then U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who is now the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination for president, and former Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, now a U.S. senatorial candidate. The trio rallies supporters at a campaign event in Ohio during Clinton's unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 (Read below, and after a brief synopsis, the one-on-one interview by Reporter Kathy Wray Coleman with the late former congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs- Jones that was published in the Call and Post Newspaper on Sept 24, 2008 and  was taken shortly before the former federal lawmaker's death on Aug. 20, 2008. It was Tubbs- Jones' last major interview and it addresses her views on sexism against women in politics, and otherwise.  Tubbs -Jones served as the 2008 co-chair of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful  bid for presi