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Obama sixth State of the Union addresses protests against police in Ferguson, and New York, equal pay for women, free community college tuition, voting rights, gay rights, tax cuts for middle class, foreign policy, Obamacare, Chalie Hebdo, vetoes, and immigration reform

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  WASHINGTON, D.C. -During his sixth State of the Union address Tuesday night before the two chambers of Congress, and for the first time before a Republican controlled Congress, President Barack Obama (pictured), among a host of other issues, called for free tuition for community college, decried racism, sexism, and religious and gay persecution, and spoke on the outcries out of Ferguson, Missouri. Those outcries have  spurred anti-police brutality protests across the country. "Man, woman, Black and White, Latino, Asian, immigrant,