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Boyz in the Hood Director John Singleton is dead at 51

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Director John Singleton By  Associated Press entertainment staff NEW YORK (AP) — The family for John Singleton says the Oscar-nominated filmmaker will be taken off life support Monday after suffering a stroke almost two weeks ago. In a statement Monday, Singleton's family said it was "an agonizing decision, one that our family made over a number of days with the careful counsel of John's doctors." Reports earlier in the day had said Singleton died Monday morning. But a representative for Singleton said those reports were inaccurate and that Singleton remained on life support. The director of “Boyz in the Hood,” ''Poetic Justice" and other films has been in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital. A court filing last week by his mother, Shelia Ward, requested that she be appointed Singleton’s temporary conservator in order to make medical and financial decisions while he is incapacitated.  CLICK HERE TO READ THIS FULL AP ARTICLE Cle

Trump Pulls Back Obama-Era Protections For Women Workers

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Story and photo by nbcnews.com    CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT NBC NEWS.COM Archived article of April 2017- REMEMBERING THE TRUMP ERA By Mary Emily O'Hara- NBC News With little notice, President Donald Trump recently signed an  executive order  that advocates say rolls back hard-fought victories for women in the workplace. Tuesday's "Equal Pay Day" — which highlights the wage disparity between men and women — is the perfect time to draw more attention to the president's action, activists say. On March 27, Trump revoked the  2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order then-President Barack Obama put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws. The Fair Pay order was put in place after a  2010 Government Accountability Office  investigation showed that companies with rampant violations were being awarded millions in federal contracts. In an attempt to keep the worst violators from receiv

City of Cleveland sues Judge Nancy Margaret Russo over firefighters' work starting time dispute after Russo restricted it from changing the starting times of firefighters via a temporary restraining order and told the city that if it objects to her ruling to "file a writ," the city subsequently seeking a writ from the Ohio Supreme Court for it to dismiss the case, and arguing that SERB, and not Russo or the court of common pleas, has sole jurisdiction or authority to originally determine the dispute per the union agreement and state law....The union disagrees....By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor and legal reporter for Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbanne ws.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 LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Coleman is a legal journalist and an investigative reporter Clevelandurbannews.com , CLEVELAND, Ohio -The City of Cleveland has sued Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo in the Ohio Supreme Court, seeking a writ of prohibition that compels or orders the judge to refrain fr

Former Democratic vice president Joe Biden officially launches his campaign for president with President Trump saying he will see Biden at the starting gate if Biden wins the Democratic nomination.... By editor Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Former vice president Joe Biden, now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Clevelandurbannews.com , CLEVELAND, Ohio -Former vice president Joe Biden officially launched his bid for president on Thursday, joining a crowded field of hopefuls for the Democratic nomination in 2020. A liberal Democrat, Biden, 76, said, via his video announcement on Thursday, that the "core values of the nation... our very democracy, everything that has made America America, is at stake" He added that "that's why today, I'm announcing my candidacy of president of the United States." President Trump, 72, shot back, saying on Twitter, "welc

Congresswoman Fudge to chair public congressional field hearing in Cleveland this week on voting rights in Ohio and the purging of voter rolls, an event at Tri-C that will include 4 out-of-the state congresspersons...One of two Blacks in congress from Ohio, Rep Fudge, whose largely Black congressional district includes Cleveland, chairs the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration....U.S. Reps G.K Butterfield, a North Carolina Democrat and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus like Fudge, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Jamie Raskin of Marilyn and Terri Sewell of Alabama will also participate in the hearing, which will include a panel of witnesses, including NAACP and Cuyahoga County Board of Elections officials.... Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Ohio 11th Congressional District  Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH),  a Warrensville Heights Democrat  whose largely Black congressional district includes Cleveland  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbanne ws.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 LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at  an