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  Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Cassandra Collier-Williams Omnisun Azali ,  36, the son of a Cuyahoga County Common Please Judge Cassandra Collier Williams . A common pleas  jury, in December of 2022, found him guilty of murdering his wife    Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief. Coleman is a Black political and investigative reporter out of Cleveland, Ohio who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post newspaper. Comprehensive/Investigative article CLEVELAND, Ohio - A Black Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge whose son was convicted of murdering his wife in December of 2022 in a case that has drawn national attention is now fighting the county department of children and family services and the two children's aunt from Africa for custody of her grandchildren via a custody trial that got underway this week in downtown Cleveland, Ohio at the county juven...

Democratic President Joe Biden (right) and Vice President-Kamala Harris after winning election in 2020. The president announced on Tuesday that both he and Vice President Harris will seek reelection in 2024. A former California attorney general and U.S. senator, Harris is the nation's first Black and first Black female vice president Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief WASHINGTON, D.C.- After much anticipation around his decision whether to seek a second term in office, Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, who captured the White House by defeating former Republican president Donald Trump in 2020 in a heated election, officially announced on Tuesday that both he and Vice President Kamala Harris will run for reelection in 2024, a possible rematch of 2020 election since Trump is already the staunch front-runner for the Republican nomination. The president joins political neophyte Robert F. Kenned...

Ohio 13th Congressional district Congresswoman Emilia Sykes, an Akron Democrat Jayland Walker   U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Staff article WASHINGTON, D.C.- Ohio 13th Congressional District Congresswoman Emilia Sykes, an Akron Democrat and one of three Black women in the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, has officially requested a Department of Justice investigation into the patterns and practices of the Akron Police Department. The request from the federal lawmaker comes hardly a week after a Summit County grand jury refused to indict eight Akron cops who gunned down 25-year old Jayland Walker shooting 94 bullets as he ran away from police on foot.  “I write today on behalf of the people of Ohio’s 13 th  congressional district urging the United States Department of Justice to investigate the death of Mr. Jayland Walker, a young Black man killed by eight officers employed by...

Women's March Cleveland at one of its marches in Cleveland, led by Black women. Photo by Cleveland Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com Photojournalist David  Petkiewicz Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Staff article WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case that reached the country's highest court that could end the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) longtime approval of mifepristone, the nation's most widely used abortion bill. Primarily at issue is whether the FDA's two-decades approval of the pill is safe with justices seemingly skeptical of such assertion during Tuesday's proceedings in Washington, D.C., pundits said afterwards. And whether the justices can step in for federal agencies to determine the safety of the pill is at issue too, lawyers for proponents of the pill argued to the nine-member , 6-3 conservative-leaning court comprised of three former President Donald Trump appointees. The ...