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 There is an Organized Effort to  Block the Vote  in Ohio and elsewhere in America Come Rally For Fair Voter Rights (Contacts for the rally are Larry Bresler at 216-651-2606, Debbie Kline at 216-310-7657, Kathy Wray Coleman at 216-932-3114 and Art McKoy at 217-253-4070) Monday May 7, 2012 8:30 A.M Carl Stokes Federal Courthouse Corner of Huron and Superior Ave.  (801 West Superior Ave., near Detroit Superior Bridge) Senator Dick Durbin (IL) and Sherrod Brown (OH)  will be holding a hearing as part of the judiciary committee examination of voting changes throughout the United States beginning at 9:30 am inside the courthouse with testimony by Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge and others on House Bill 194, the state law that suppresses our right to vote by slashing the time for early voting, requiring id., etc., anything to interfere with the November and other elections. HB 194 is on the November ballot to be repealed . We will rally  outside  from 8:40 am-9:2

United States of America President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C.-President Barack Obama will officially kick off his reelection campaign with First Lady Michelle Obama by his side at a public rally on Saturday morning May 5 at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Oh., his campaign team told Cleveland Urban News.Com in a conference call with reporters Wednesday evening. The Democratic president will then go to Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond,VA that same day for an afternoon rally. And Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is campaigning in Ohio today, touring with Gov. John Kasich, also a Republican , Asked by Cleveland Urban News.Com if the Obama campaign is threatened in anyway with the prospect that U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio will be Romney's vice preside

U.S. Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) Ohio State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio-Cleveland area Black leaders like U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11), a Warrensville Hts. Democrat, and state Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), a Cleveland Democrat, say that a bill dubbed Senate Bill 295 that passed the Ohio Senate last week that repeals or replaces House Bill 194, the voter suppression bill, will work to silence the Black vote in Ohio in November and is designed to circumvent a voter's referendum on HB 194. "The rush by the Republican led Ohio Senate to repeal H.B. 194 will most certainly lead to voter confusion," said Fudge, whose 11th Congressional District includes Cleveland's east side and Black pockets of Akron, a city s

C levand Criminal Defense Attorney Edward Wade, who filed petitions last week to run as an Independent for Cuyahoga County prosecutor against Tim McGinty, who won the Democratic primary on Tues. in a five way race. CLEVELAND, Ohio-Editorial by Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Cleveland Criminal Defense Attorney Edward Wade (pictured) has given the Black community another shot at keeping former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Tim McGinty from taking office as county prosecutor to further promote his racist, sexist and unjust policies. He is running as an Independent candidate against McGinty, who won a five way Democratic primary on Tues. No Republican sought the office. (Editor's Note: Wade has turned in petition signatures to run to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections and absent a dearth of signatures, his name

Tim McGinty, who won Tuesday's Democratic primary for Cuyahoga County prosecutor, greets supporters at a recent fundraiser for his candidacy . Stephanie Hall, the only Black and woman in the race for Cuyahoga County prosecutor who out did three men, two with greater name recognition than she before the celebrated contest for the county's most powerful office Robert Triozzi, a former law director under Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who was endorsed by the mayor and came in fourth in the race for Cuyahoga County prosecutor. He allegedly got punched in the face at a poll location on Tues. James McDonnell came in fifth place for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's seat in spite of television commercials and endorsements from some suburban mayors and municipal prosecutors Subodh Chandra, a candidate for Cuyahoga County prosecutor pushed by a cadre of community activists and U.S. Rep. Marcia L, Fudge (D-OH), made a third place finish Edward Wade, a Cleveland criminal

Demetrius Hewlin By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CHARDON, Ohio-In spite of a Black population of roughly a half of a percent in the once obscure city of Chardon, Oh., a small town in Geauga County of some 5, 000 people that lies 35 miles east of the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, a Black teen is the third of three students to die among five students shot during a shooting rampage by gunman Thomas "TJ" Lane, 16, who let loose in the school cafeteria Mon. morning. Demetrius Hewlin, 17, died at Metro-Health Hospital in Cleveland Tues. afternoon, police said. His family donated his organs to Lifebanc, saying that that was what he wanted. The other two fatally injured victims, Daniel Parmertor, 16, and Russell King, 17, died Mon. A fourth and fifth student remain hospitalized. Meanwhile, Lane, who was also a student at the school, and a kid that his classmates say was bullied and deemed an outcast, rem

Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, whom community activists will picket on Fri., March 2 for his support of Tim McGinty for county prosecutor and what they say is Forbes harassment of Blacks and women to accommodate racist Whites like McGinty that have infringed upon their constitutional and statutory rights From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Grassroots activists will picket Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes at the organization's headquarters at 2131 Stokes Blvd. in Cleveland on Fri., March 2 at 4:30 pm. They say that Forbes will not stand up for Blacks and women on crucial matters and that he is supporting Tim McGinty for Cuyahoga County prosecutor in spite of McGinty's record as a former assistant county prosecutor and prior common pleas judge who had Black men maliciously prosecuted on rape charges relative