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Hillary Clinton campaigns in Cleveland, Ohio, Congressman Fudge, former governor and U.S. Senate hopeful Ted Strickland, and Nina Turner also speak at event at CWRU....Clinton links the views and policies on women of the Republican Party and the GOP presidential candidates to terrorists, talks on poverty, voter suppression, abortion rights, and tougher gun control laws in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of two television journalists in Virginia.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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By Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com .   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Hillary Clinton (pictured) spoke to several hundred supporters Thursday morning, August 27, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, her first official campaign stop to the majority Black major American city and the pivotal state of Ohio since she announced her candidacy for president in April.  Afterwards she spearheaded a campaign meeting centered around voter registration, and later that day attended a $2,700 a person  fundraiser at the  Cleveland  home of a local supporter.  Her visit to the controversial Black city that will host the National Republican Convention in 2016 was timely, and comes a day after the 95th anniversary, specifically on August 26, of the

Former Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes is laid to rest, Vice President Joe Biden and Congresspersons Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel attend, Rev Moss delivers the eulogy and Congresswoman Fudge gets a standing ovation as the keynote speaker....Other greater Cleveland Black elected officials there include Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland council members, and state representatives.... Former Cleveland mayors Dennis Kucinich, Michael White and Jane Campbell also attend....White, State Rep Barnes, Marsha Mockabee, Dr Toby Cosgrove, Lillian Sharpley and Juanita Hewlett comment at funeral to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's Black digital news leader...Community activists, led by Art McKoy, stand ground at the funeral with red, black and green colored flags to salute Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio.....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Field Reporter Johnette Jernigan and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Greater Cleveland community activists stood ground at the funeral of former Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes as a salute to the longtime federal lawmaker and Ohio's first Black congressperson The flag-draped casket of the legendary Louis Stokes,  a World War II veteran and   the first Black in Congress from Ohio,  who served 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1968 to 1998. The longtime federal lawmaker died on  August 18 at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio after a brave battle with brain and lung cancer. Congressman Louis Stokes By Cleveland Urban News. Com Field Reporter Johnette Jernigan and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman. Cleveland Urban News.Com and its affiliated blog, the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, are  Ohio's most read Black newspaper and Black newspaper blog Blog. Coleman is a 22-year journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio  covering various topics,  including racial  di

Hillary Clinton to visit Cleveland, Ohio to speak at public voting rally at CWRU on Thursday, August 27, 2015, a day after the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment that gives women the right to vote, President Obama comments....Qualified Black women still lag behind White women as a whole relative to salaries and high paying jobs and otherwise, though they are the fasted growing voting bloc, data show......Black women are more likely to get murdered than any other ethic group....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, who will speak in Cleveland on August 27 at a voter registration rally on the campus of Case Western Reserve University President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at a press conference on August 26 to mark the 95th anniversary of the day in 1920 that women won the right to vote.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary   Rodham Clinton will speak in Cleveland, Ohio at 10 am on Thursday, August 27  at th

Congressman Stokes honored yesterday at Cleveland City Hall as he lies in state, funeral services are today, August 25, at 11 am at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Vice President Joe Biden will attend funeral....Among those on program at the City Hall ceremony were Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, former U.S. representatives Mary Rose Oakar and Lacy "Bill" Clay, Sam Miller, Attorney Fred Nance, the Rev E. Theophilus Caviness, and Eleanor Hayes...Congresswoman Kaptur, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, and the Rev Jesse Jackson were among those at the City Hall viewing....This is the third article of a three part series leading up to the funeral of the legendary Louis Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio, by Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper www.clevelandurbannews.com

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Pictured are the late Congressman Louis Stokes (wearing maroon tie) and Vice President Joe Biden, who will attend funeral services for Stokes, at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland on Tuesday, August 25 at 11 am. Stokes, 90, died on August 18 at his home in Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb, with his wife, Jay, by his bedside.  CLEVELAND, Ohio -Led by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and family members, with dignitaries such as former U.S representatives Mary Rose Oakar and Lacy &

Black greater Clevelanders remember Congressman Louis Stokes in one-on-one interviews with Cleveland Urban News.Com, interviewed were retired judge Sara Harper, Ohio Rep. John Barnes Jr., Charles Bibb Sr, Community Activist Art McKoy, and retired judge Una H.R. Keenon, who is the president of the Black Women Political Action Committee and president of the East Cleveland Board of Education....Stokes revived the Veterans Hospital from a second class medical facility says McKoy....Kennon said that Stokes helped other Blacks and women get elected to office....Harper said that Stokes fought all of his political life to protect the right to vote....Stokes was a member of the Old Black Political Guard....This is the second article of a three-part series on the legendary Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressman, by Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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Democratic Congressman Louis Stokes, the first Black  in Congress from Ohio who served 30 years in the U.S.  House of Representatives before retiring in 1998.  The longtime federal lawmaker died on August 18, 2015 at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. Pictured are retired Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals judge Sara J. Harper, also the third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP (wearing eyeglasses), retired East Cleveland Judge Una H.R. Kennon, the chairman of the Black Women Political Action Committee of greater Cleveland and president of the East Cleveland Board of Education (wearing turtle-neck sweater), state Rep. John Barnes Jr. (D-12), (wearing purple tie), Community Activist Art McKoy (wearing turban), and Charles E. Bibb Sr., a former East Cleveland councilman and current president of the Carnegie Roundtable of greater Cleveland (wearing grey-striped tie) By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Ur

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty denying Blacks, others due process by rushing criminal cases through the courts Common Pleas Judge John Sutula says, McGinty says that slow case dockets deny victims speedy redress and act to manipulate defendants' speedy trial rights....Blacks get harsher sentences by the majority White common pleas judges, a Cleveland NAACP commissioned study found..... Cuyahoga County includes the largely Black city of Cleveland....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John Sutula Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Administrative and Presiding Judge John Russo By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John Sutula has accused County Prosecutor Tim McGinty of picking up old criminal cases, some of them lingering for more than two decades,  and rushing them through the courts, and of simply rushing the cases through in general. And in  turn, says Sutula,