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Nina Turner introduces Bernie Sanders at Black publishers convention in Cincinnati, Sanders saying President Trump is a racist bigot, the worst president in history, and a liability to Black America....Also a former Cleveland councilwoman, Turner is Black and his co-campaign chairperson....The Black vote fell 7 percent from 2012 to 2016, the year Hillary Clinton lost to Trump....Touching on institutional racism, Sanders told NNPA members that "every problem facing America is always worse in the African-American community"....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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U.S. senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders hugs his co-campaign chairperson, former Ohio senator Nina Turner, also a former Cleveland councilwoman who has taken a leave from leading "Our Revolution" to assist Sanders with his campaign, the federal lawmaker giving the keynote address at the annual convention of the National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA) on June 28 in Cincinnati, Ohio after Turner introduced him  Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. 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 presidenti
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Ohio's current congressional map to stand and its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of federal court ruling to redraw it to be dismissed after the Supreme Court rules it lacks jurisdiction over the issue on appeals from Maryland and North Carolina, the high court saying the states must fight it out....The ruling says federal courts should not meddle in the crafting of a state's partisan-based congressional map, even if it is unconstitutional....Writing the dissent for the four liberals on the court Associate Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, called the decision by the high court's majority on Maryland and North Carolina's gerrymandering cases "tragically wrong." Kagan said the majority gives gerrymandering a pass on judicial review....Ohio's congressional map yields 12 Republicans in congress and four Democrats, three of the four Democrats female and two of the four Democrats Black....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywlemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Coleman is an experienced Black legal and 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 and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  WASHINGTON, D.C.- In a divided 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in gerrymandering cases on appeal from Maryland and North Carolina that it lacks jurisdiction to intervene relative to partisan congressional maps drawn by state legislatures, even if they are unconstitutionally gerrymandered, such decision of which likely means that an appeal from a ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S.District Court for the Southern District of Ohio t hat deemed Ohio's current congressional map unconstitutional and ordered the state legislature to redraw it by June 14 will be dismissed. Tha
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Kamala Harris demands that Biden apologize for opposing busing in first Democratic debate, both she and Obama supporting it, Obama saying so in a previous one-on-one-interview with Cleveland journalist Kathy Wray Coleman.... The now defunct Cleveland schools desegregation case, which brought about crosstown busing, was dissolved in 1998, the Cleveland NAACP of which represented the plaintiffs in the deseg-case of Reed v Rhodes. The NAACP, via Cleveland Attorney James Hardiman, argued that the release from the deseg- order was premature as the vestiges of racial discrimination were never remedied to the extent practicable as mandated by the court order and that educational disparities between Black Cleveland schools children and their White counterparts still exist...Those disparities, said the NAACP, are the by-product of racial discrimination and not socioeconomic factors as the court, via the late federal judge George White, ruled in granting the state of Ohio and the school district release from such deseg-order ....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Democratic presidential candidates former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris spar during the first Democratic debate Thursday night, June 27, in Miami, Florida, Harris asking Biden to apologize for opposing busing  Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. 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   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com .   Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathy
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