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Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur to kick-off 'Read to Succeed' initiative on March 31, 2017 by reading with preschoolers in Toledo, Lorain and Cleveland, Ohio....Congresswoman Kaptur says that the reading initiative 'encourages children and adults to read together' and that by kindergarten a child should 'be well on his or her way to knowing 4,000 words"....Kaptur is the longest serving woman in congress....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Democratic Ohio 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (second from left) with Democratic congress persons Joyce Beatty of Columbus (far left), Tim Ryan of Niles (third from left), and Marcia L. Fudge of Warrensville Heights, Ohio (far right) ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNnewsBlog.Com  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com   Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one  when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview,   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS .  Ohio 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-TOLEDO, Ohio - Ohio 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9), a Toledo Democrat whose congressional district extends to Lorain and Cleveland,
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Community activists to hold vigil and rally, today, March 28, 2017, as to the 4th Anniversary of the Cleveland East 93rd Street Serial Murders of Jasmine Trotter, Ashley Leszyeski, Christine Malone and Jameela Hasan, and will also remember murder victim Aliza Sherman of Beachwood, and recent 14-year-old murder victim Alianna DeFreeze of Cleveland....4:45 pm at the intersection of East 93rd Street and Bessemer Avenue in Cleveland....Hosting groups include the Imperial Women Coalition, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor, and Protecting Our Children and No More Violence Against Women....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.imperialwomencoalition.com, www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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14-year-old murder victim Alianna DeFreeze of Cleveland 53-year-old murder victim Aliza Sherman of Beachwood, Ohio ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNnewsBlog.Com  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com   Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one  when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview,   CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS .  CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -Cleveland grassroots community activists, led by the Cleveland-based Imperial Women Coalition and the family of murder victim Christine Malone, will host the 4th Anniversary of the Cleveland East 93rd Street Murders, the annual vigil and rally relative to the unsolved murders of four women on the city's east side, which will be held
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Obamacare wins: The Black community, poor people win as Obama's heath care law survives attempt by congressional House Republicans to repeal the measure via a now defunct GOP bill....Democratic congresspersons Lewis, Fudge, Pelosi and Kaptur comment, as does Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper...President Trump blames the Democrats for his loss....Cleveland activists rallied for Obamacare, including on International Women's Day of 2017, a 15-speaker, 400-person rally and march led by Cleveland activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman of the Imperial Women Coalition....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

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Former United States president Barack Obama, the nation's  first Black president Georgia Congressman John Lewis and Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, both Democrats  From left: Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat, Democratic U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, and Ohio 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur,  a Toledo Democrat. Both Kaptur and Fudge's congressional districts include parts of the largely Black  major metropolitan city of Cleveland Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNnewsBlog.Com  Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com   Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one  when he was campaigning for president. As to
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, a Black intellectual and Obama ally, to speak in Cleveland on ancestry and immigration at 6 pm on March 23, 2017 at CWRU at free and open-to-the-public event....Also editor-in-chief of theroot.com and an Emmy-award-winning film maker, Dr Gates made national headlines when Cambridge police arrested him in 2009 for breaking into his home, though the charge was dropped and he and the arresting White officer later had a beer with then president Obama at the White House....The CWRU speaking event is sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation and presented by the F. Joseph Callahan Distinguished Lecture....By www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Dr Henry Louis Gates Jr. CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Dr Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a Harvard University African-American studies professor and ally of former president Barack Obama who gained notoriety when he was arrested by Cambridge police and charged with disorderly conduct for breaking into his own home on the Harvard University campus, a misdemeanor charge that was later dropped, is the guest speaker at a free open-to-the-public event on ancestry and immigration in Cleveland at 6 pm on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center at the Temple-Tifereth Israel at Case Western Reserve University. (Editor's note: Secure free tickets for the event at  case.edu/events/thinkforum  or by calling the Maltz Performing Arts Center box office at 216.368.6062). The Cambridge police altercation spurred a politically charged exchange of views about  race relations  and  law enforcement  nationwide and caused Obama, the nation's first Black presiden
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Cleveland Hough area Councilman TJ Dow is pushing neighborhood renovation over the $5 million League Park project with a community meeting scheduled for 6 pm on March 21 at the Fatima Family Center as Mayor Frank Jackson and his allies push the project and as the mayor and Cuyahoga County officials fight off opposition for a $140 million plan to revitalize the Cavaliers' Quicken Loans Arena over greater Cleveland neighborhoods....Underdog mayoral candidate and Ward 10 Councilman Jeff Johnson, who is Black like Dow and Jackson, is now running campaign television ads vowing to revitalize city neighborhoods if elected mayor....Mayor Jackson seeks to balance the interest of the business community and residents that he says benefit from commercial development, his supporters saying he is a good mayor and his critics saying the mayor must put communities first....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Cleveland Ward 7 Councilman TJ  Dow whose ward includes the historic and impoverished Hough District, home of the Hough Riots and where a $5 million League Park District renovation project to redevelop the ball park where the Cleveland Indians once played as well as the Negro Baseball League is at issue. A former community activist and former assistant county prosecutor, Dow is torn between the multi-million dollar project favored by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and some city residents that will bring upscale commercial resources and his commitment to residents that call it elitist and secondary to revitalizing area neighborhoods Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson,  a three-term Black mayor of the majority Black major American city of Cleveland who this year is seeking reelection to a historic fourth term Cleveland Ward 10 Councilman Jeff Johnson, also a mayoral candidate seeking to unseat Mayor Jackson in this year's election by touting in part a return to the revitalization
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