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The Cavaliers NBA season ends without a playoff's' spot and not as Coach Brown expected, so what's next? Loss to Atlanta Hawks shuts Cleveland out of the playoffs

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Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach Mike Brown By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Leaders In Black Digital News . Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio-Now that the Cleveland Cavaliers' 2013-2014 season has come to an end and once again with them out of the playoffs everyone, including the players and Cavalier management, must be wondering where do we go from here? Before the season began then new head Coach Mike Brown said on a number of occasions that he felt his team would be in the playoffs this year. But after concluding the season, Brown admitted that he under estimated how much his team needed to grow to be a playoff team. As he made that statement Brown could have been thinking ab

Remembering our African culture and still fighting for equal educational and other opportunities for African and African-American children

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An anthropologist thought he would test these  African children  (See picture above). He placed a bowl of fruit underneath a tree and told them that the first one to reach the tree could have the fruit. When he told the children to run, they all took each others' hands and ran together. They all enjoyed the fruit together. This is the African concept of Ubuntu. It is also why Africa is preyed upon b y the vultures untamed and let loose by other cultures, some say.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )

Ohio Supreme Court rules that former Akron cop and murderer Douglas Prade can remain free while it decides whether to hear a reversal by a state appellate court of a trial court ruling that set him free from a life sentence for murdering ex wife Dr. Margo Prade, Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh tells Cleveland Urban News.Com that she will continue the fight for justice for Margo Prade, says claims by defense lawyers that Prade is innocent are "meaningless"

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Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Douglas Prade AKRON, Ohio- The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former Akron police capt. Douglas Prade can remain free until it decides whether it will hear his appeal of a 9th  District Court of Appeals decision issued last month that reversed a Summit County trial court ruling that in 2013 freed him from prison as he served 15 years of a life sentence for the murder of ex-wife Margo Prade, a popular Akron medical doctor.   Dr. Margo Prade Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh, who fought  against  the high co

Joan Rivers refuses to apologize for joke about Ariel Castro victims

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Famed Comedian Joan Rivers From left, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, 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  K athy Wray Coleman is a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-Famed Hollywood comedian Joan Rivers has refused to apologize for a joke she made on Twitter and the Today Show on Tuesday where the 80-year-old compared living in the guestroom of her  daughter Melissa as part of their reality show  WEtv series “Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best?’’     to the captivity and small rooms that serial rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro held victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in for a decade.  "Those women in the basemen

Archived Article of December 2013 re-published: Ohio Supreme Court disqualifies Pimp Republican Judge Harry Jacob, who was indicted for allegedly operating a prostitution ring out of the Bedford Municipal Court where Blacks are disproportionately prosecuted and jailed

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Pimp former judge Harry Jacob, a Republican ON THE BENCH Bedford Judge Disqualified Pending Outcome of Felony Indictment  Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print By   Bret Crow   | December 20, 2013 The Ohio Supreme Court issued an order today that Bedford Municipal Court Judge Harry J. Jacob III is disqualified from acting as a judge because of his felony indictment. Judge Jacob was indicted by a grand jury Thursday for one third-degree felony count of bribery, three fourth-degree felony counts of promoting prostitution, six third-degree misdemeanor counts of soliciting, and one second-degree misdemeanor count of dereliction of duty. Gov. Jud.R. III (6)(A) of the Supreme Court Rules for the Government of the Judiciary in Ohio states: “A Justice or judge is disqualified from acting as a Justice or judge while there is pending an indictment or an information charging the Justice or judge with a crime punishable as a felony under sta

Today marks the anniversary of the kidnapping of Ariel Castro victim Amanda Berry, community activists women, including the Imperial Women Coalition, applaud her courage and that of Ariel Castro victims Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, say they hope Castro, who hanged himself in prison, rots in hell, rescue of Berry, Knight and DeJesus came some 3 and a half years after the discovery of Imperial Avenue murder victims in Cleveland

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Ariel Castro victim Amanda Berry Ariel Castro, 53,  at sentencing on August 1, 2013 at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Next to him is one of Castro's court appointed attorney's, though demolition  crews found $22,000 when his home on the city's west side  was demolished about a week after sentencing. Castro was found dead in his prison cell in September just over a month into his sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole .        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    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) "We recognize this anniversary of the day of the kidnapping of innocent teen Amanda Berry by monster Ariel Castro less than a mile from her home as a reminder that rape and other violence against women and girls nationa

Cuyahoga County Council passes new voting rights law introduced by Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald to counter state law designed to suppress Black vote, FitzGerald and Governor Kasich are tied for governor, polls show, new county law was passed along partisan lines, all Blacks on Cuyahoga County Council of President C. Ellen Connally and county council members Yvonne Conwell, Pernel Jones Jr. and Anthony Hairston voted for the law

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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald,  the Democratic front -runner for Ohio governor By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, 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  K athy Wray Coleman is a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Pictured from left: Cuyahoga County Council President C. Ellen Connally and county council members Yvonne Conwell, Pernel Jones Jr. and Anthony Hairston CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County Council recently voted along partisan lines and adopted a voting rights law introduced by Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald to counter a discriminatory state legislative law that passed earlier this year that Democrats say is designed to suppress voter participation in Ohio, particularly among poor,