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Boxing promoter Don King's annual Turkey giveaway tour to hit Cleveland December 17, 2018, and King, a Cleveland native, is slated to attend the event

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Legendary boxing promoter Don King, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, at a previous turkey giveaway event CLEVELAND, Ohio -Legendary boxing promoter and global icon Don King has sponsored his traditional Turkey Giveaway Tour for more than 50 years and this holiday season the tradition will return to Cleveland, Ohio on Monday Dec 17.  Stops in California, Las Vegas, Florida, New York,  and New Jersey  will precede the annual Cleveland leg.  The Cleveland event will take place on Monday, Dec. 17 beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Call & Post Newspaper that King publishes, which is located at 11800 Shaker Blvd on Cleveland's largely Black east side. Don King will personally be on hand to distribute turkeys to organizations and individuals in need, organizers said. Groups and individuals will be required to pick up their ticket or tickets at the Call & Post Newspaper, Monday-Friday prior to the event (11am – 4pm) to receive a ticket for a free turkey. For more informa

Remembering former Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Cleveland on the 10th anniversary of her death on August 20, 2008 and a reprint of the one-on-one interview by journalist Kathy Wray Coleman with Tubbs Jones, Ohio's first Black congresswoman, shortly before her untimely death, a cover story published by the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black print newspaper.....This was her last major interview before her death....Tubbs-Jones said in the interview that sexism is sometimes stronger than racism...."All you have to do is look at how many women there are in the senate, how many women there are in the house compared to the number of men, how many women governor's there are, women elected officials, women in the board rooms, and CEOs in large companies. We have come a long way, but we've got a long way to go," said Tubbs Jones....By 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@clevelandurbannews.com

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The late former U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (far left), a Cleveland Democrat, then U.S. senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a former first lady, former U.S. secretary of state, and the 2016 Democratic nominee for president who lost to now President Donald Trump, and former Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland at a campaign event in Ohio during Clinton's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America in 2008 against Barack Obama (Obama was elected president in 2008 and was the nation's first Black president. He was reelected for a second term in 2012) 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@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We in

Boxing promoter and publisher Don King names Kenneth Miller president of the Call and Post Newspaper, Miller replaces the late associate publisher and editor Constance "Connie" Harper, and is a former editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel....Harper was a loyal supporter of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson....George Forbes is the Call and Post general counsel....Both Forbes and Don King are allies to Ohio Governor John Kasich, a potential 2016 GOP presidential contender.... The Call and Post and King endorsed Obama for president in 2008....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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New Call and Post Newspaper President Kenneth Miller, a former editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper                                                                 Don King By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND Ohio– Former     Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper editor Kenneth   Miller    is the new president of the Call and Post Newspaper, Cleveland's 99-year-old African-American print newspaper that distributes a weekly paper in the Ohio cities of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, and that has been owned an

The Call and Post Newspaper, led by former Cleveland NAACP President George Forbes, attacks Cleveland NAACP President the Rev Hilton Smith and the local branch leadership team as sad in editorial, the editorial attack follows a racist verdict by Judge O'Donnell that cleared Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of gunning down two unarmed Blacks with 49 bullets, and racial unrest relative to Cleveland police murders of unarmed Blacks in general, including 12-year-old Tamir Rice,Tanisha Anderson, and Kenneth Smith...Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Sara Harper calls for unity, says the local branch will survive the crisis.... The national NAACP has stopped branch elections as local infighting continues....Forbes is also a former Cleveland City Council president.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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First row from left: National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks,  NAACP National Director of Unit Field Operations and Membership the Rev. Gill Ford, Cleveland  NAACP President the Rev. Hilton Smith Second row from top from left: Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Sara J. Harper, Cleveland NAACP Attorney Michael Nelson, and  Cleveland NAACP Attorney James Hardiman Third row from top from left:  Cleveland NAACP Secretary Arlene Anderson, Cleveland NAACP First Vice President the Rev Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness, and  former Cleveland NAACP president and current Call and Post Newspaper General Counsel George L. Forbes Bottom row: Local architect Kent Whitley, who says he will seek the presidency of the Cleveland NAACP when the national headquarters releases a hold on branch elections.   By   Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-047

Don King writes farewell letter on Connie Harper, King is an international boxing promoter and owner and publisher of the Call and Post Newspaper, where Harper was the executive editor and associate publisher, Harper died on October 24

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International boxing promoter and Call and Post publisher and owner Don King By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog   K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Call and Post owner and publisher Don King, a Cleveland native and renowned international boxing promoter, wrote a farewell letter dated Nov. 12 to the newspaper about associate publisher and executive editor Constance "Connie" Harper, 81, who died Oct 24 after a heart condition after falling ill a week earlier at the homecoming of Central State University, her Alma Mater. Harper was also a former vice president of Don King Productions and promoted fights for King, 83, across the world.