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2025 in review-Happy New Year 2026 !!! Our top articles of 2025: By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Our Most Popular Articles Of 2025 HERE  At Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's Black Digital News Leader...Click Below - Cleveland Browns lose to Pittsburgh Steelers - Report on Cleveland's Consent decree for police reforms shows progress, Mayor Bibb, Judge Oliver say...But ongoing work is needed before it will end, Judge Oliver said...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader - Ohio state Sen. Nickie Antonio, Democrats call for fair congressional districts map...Democrats say Republicans are bowing to President Trump and are purposely running out the clock as the deadline for submitting the map nears...By Clevelandurbannews.com - Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown calls out President Trump's SNAP benefits shutdown as cruel, callous, careless, immoral and illegal at press conference with other congressional Dems...SNAP benefits to stop Nov 1 nationwide...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Oh - Former President Joe Biden begins prostate cancer radiation treatments a...

Quarterback Shedeur Sanders, Cleveland Browns upset Pittsburgh Steelers in post-Christmas win...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Cleveland  Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders (No. 12) Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by quarterback Shedeur Sanders (pictured), who is Black, the Cleveland Browns upset the Pittsburgh Steelers 13-10 on Sun., Dec. 28 at Huntington Bank Field Stadium in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and in rainy weather. It was a Christmas Holiday win for Sanders, Browns fans, and Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski.  Sanders completed 17  of 23 passes for 186 yards, and he threw one touchdown and two interceptions, while also leading the team's rushing with 27 yards on 11 carries.    After serving as a backup for the first nine games of the season, Sanders, 23, made his debut in Week 11 against the Baltimore Ravens after Dillon Gabriel  suffered a concussion.  In the Browns' win on Sun., Nov. 23, against the Las Vegas Raiders, he made his starting debut and went 11 of 20 passing for 209 yards, 1 touchd...

Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze resigns from bench after being charged with felony tampering with records with activists saying County Prosecutor Mike O'Malley targets Blacks, activists, and now women in his pursuit of Judge Celebreeze...Activists demand court reforms and want O'Malley investigated and indicted...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze (pictured) , a Democrat on the bench since 2009 and a former administrative judge of the court, resigned from the bench on Monday after being charged in Common Pleas court with t ampering with records , a third-degree felony that came not as an indictment but an information filing by Democratic County Prosecutor Mike O' Malley, who has since bragged about the prosecution to Cleveland's mainstream media. The case has been assigned to Common Pleas Judge Lauren Moore, who is Black. At her arraignment on Tuesday, Celebrezze pleaded not guilty and was issued a $5,000 bond. Her defense attorney, Ian Friedman, is a prominent defense attorney and former president of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Cuyahoga County is a Democratic stronghold by all accounts. Under Ohio law, a judge is  automatically disqualified  from act...

President Trump signs executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug as Ohio GOP state lawmakers pass a restrictive bill (SB 56) to undermine Ohio State Issue 2 that made recreational marijuana legal statewide...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump (pictured) on Thursday signed an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, putting it in the same group as common, over-the-counter pain relievers like Tylenol and Ibuprofen. Marijuana is now a Schedule I drug, down from a Schedule III drug, the most restrictive federal category that includes heroin and LSD. And the new change will have the most impact in states that outlaw marijuana. Ohio, which includes the majority Black city of Cleveland, is not one of them since voters sanctioned marijuana use at the ballot box in 2023.     Pushed by Northeast Ohio community activists, Ohio voters approved the Issue 2 referendum that made recreational marijuana legal in November 2023, alongside the Issue 1 referendum that made access to abortion legal. But Republican state lawmakers have worked hard ...

Ohio Congresswomen Shontel Brown and Marcy Kaptur lead Dems letter to Trump administration demanding answers for freezing Ohio's manufacturing funds...All of Ohio's Congressional Democrats joined in signing the letter...By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader

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The women of Ohio's largely Black Five-Member Democratic Congressional Delegation- Top row: U.S. Reps. Emilia Sykes and  Shontel Brown-Bottom row: U.S. Reps. Joyce Beatty and Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in Congress   Brown, Kaptur Lead Ohio House Democrats in Letter to Trump administration demanding answers on frozen manufacturing funds All Ohio House Democrats join letter seeking information on the status of funding for Ohio's Manufacturing Extension Partnership     Clevelandurbannews.com   and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article by Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher Washington, DC –  Ohio   Congresswomen Shontel M. Brown (OH-11), a Warrensville Hts. Democrat,   and  Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat (OH-09),  have  led a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick   expressing concern regarding the abrupt withholding of all federal funding supporting Ohio's Manufacturing Exte...