Bernie Sanders and Nina Turner news, an archived Nov. 17, 2015 article: Thousands attend Bernie Sanders' campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio where Nina Turner, dressed to the nines, introduces him....Sanders says that the Black community remains disenfranchised....He talks on ISIS, voter suppression, the teamsters, universal healthcare, education over prisons, and same sex marriage and the economy....By www.clevelandurbannews.com reporter Johnette Jernigan and editor-in-chief Kathy Wray Coleman

REPRINT ARCHIVED ARTICLE OF NOVEMBER 17, 2015: PHOTOGRAPHS: Dressed to the nines, former Ohio senator Nina Turner (above), the national surrogate for the Bernie Sanders for president campaign, takes to the stage to introduce Sanders at a campaign rally on Nov 16 at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Kyle Earley

REPRINT ARCHIVED ARTICLE OF NOVEMBER 17, 2015: The crowd of thousands at the Bernie Sanders campaign rally at Cleveland State University in  in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov 16. Photo by Kyle Earley

REPRINT ARCHIVED ARTICLE OF NOVEMBER 17, 2015: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president and Hillary Clinton's most threatening rival, speaks at a campaign rally at Cleveland Sate University in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov 16

REPRINT ARCHIVED ARTICLE OF NOVEMBER 17, 2015: Tammy Kennedy (left) and the Rev Leah C.K. Lewis were among supporters at the campaign  rally for Bernie Sanders in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov 16.

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U.S Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Ohio Sen. Nina Turner,
the national surrogate for the Bernie Sanders for
president campaign

By Cleveland Urban News.Com Staff and Field Reporter Johnette Jernigan and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Turner has been a reporter with Cleveland Urban News.Com since 2012 and Coleman is a 23-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio  (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders  of Vermont, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president and Hillary Clinton's most serious rival, spoke to an energetic audience of more than 6,000 people at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University on Monday evening.

Former Ohio senator Nina Turner, a Black Cleveland Democrat and the national surrogate for the Sanders campaign, introduced him to thundering applause.

"Senator Sanders can win this race, don't listen to the pundits," said Turner. "I am feeling the Bern,"

Turner spoke on voter suppression, among a host of other issues,  and told the crowd, many of them millennial's of the post Generation X era, and a large number of them Democrats, that they can all be part of a political revolution, and that Sanders wants to give all Americans access to "the American dream."

"Nina's speech was off the chain and  nearly every issue  that impacts African -Americans Bernie Sanders spoke on," said Charles E. Bibb Sr., a  Black Democrat and former East Cleveland councilman who heads the greater Cleveland Carnegie Roundtable

Before giving his speech, Sanders hugged Turner, and thanked his supporters. And he acknowledged Ohio Sen. Michael Skindel, former state representative Mike Foley, former Cuyahoga County commissioner Tim Hagan, former state senator  C.J. Prentiss, and the Rev Dr, Jawanza Colvin, senior pastor at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland and a key participant in the Blacks Lives Matters Movement.

The longtime U.S. senator said  that if he is elected president that he and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat with Cleveland constituents and the nation's longest serving  female in the U.S.. House of Representatives, would push to protect pensions of the teamsters, who were among organized labor there, including nurses, public school teachers, state, county and city employees, and factory workers                                                                                                                                              

"We will not submit to racism, not be divided, and not succumb to "islamophobia," said Sanders, the latter pertaining to heightened fear surrounding last week's  Paris attacks by ISIS that claimed the lives of at least 129 people and left some 352 others injured. 

The presidential hopeful said that the rush to judgement  by some GOP nominees for president and Republican members of Congress relative to increased aggression by Islamic militants is reckless and "stupid."

Sanders covered an array of issues and pushed his political campaign platform, including support for an increase in the minimum wage, universal health care, free college tuition over prisons that house a disproportionate number of Black people, and Planned Parenthood. He also spoke on same sex marriage, voter suppression, and the history of the disenfranchisement of Black America.

Ohioans, he said,  need relief too, as do others nationwide, and from what he says is a crippled and capitalistic system of government that caters to the rich and undermines middle and working class Americans.

" In Ohio you see people working two jobs, including spouses and their children," said Sanders. "Fifty-eight percent of new income is going to the top one percent."

Sanders said that his campaign is about "creating an economy that works for all of us, not just for the millionaires and billionaires." (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com).