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Angelo Santana    (14-1, 11 KOs)   (pictured f ourth from left) and Hank Lundy  (23-3-1, 11 KOs)  ( second from left) will square off on Friday, Feb. 21 at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio for a 10-round lightweight main event for what Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson ( fifth from left) says will be a series of fights promoted in the major American city  by internationally renowned boxing promoter Don King (third from left).  Doors open at 7 pm. The nationally televised boxing extravaganza will be featured live on Showtime cable television.    (Showtime's ShoBox Series, 10:45 p.m. ET/PT) . Opening the telecast is a 10-round super lightweight bout between  Amir "Young Master' Imam (12-0, 11 KOs) (sixth from left), and Jared “The Quiet Storm” Robinson (14-0, 6 KOs) (first from left) By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspape

The Reverend Dr. Otis Moss Jr. Why racism is so omnipotent (powerful) (The article below is reprinted here at  Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  with the expressed permission from Call and Post Newspaper Associate Publisher and Editor Connie Harper). By the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr. (Editors note: The Rev Dr. Otis Moss Jr., a retired former senior pastor of the prominent Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland and also a Civil Rights icon who marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the height of the Civil Rights movement   Moss' comments below come on the heels of the anniversary last week of the 137 shots tragedy where unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell were killed by 13 White Cleveland police officers shooting 137 bullets on Nov 29, 2012 following a police car chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in neighboring East Cleveland, Ohio. Community activists, family members of the victims and o

Connie Harper By Call and Post reporters CLEVELAND, Ohio –  Nationally recognized associate publisher and editor of the Cleveland based Call & Post Newspaper, Constance D. Harper, has received the   Business Trailblazer Tribute, which was recently  presented by the Christian Business League at the “Faith and Finance” breakfast  at the Greenmont Party Center in greater Cleveland.  The  Business Trailblazer Tribute  recognizes individuals who are senior in their career for their outstanding and unique business contributions.   Harper is a graduate of Central State University and began her professional career as an elementary school teacher in the Cleveland Public School District, now the Cleveland Municipal School District Later she became the women’s editor and city editor for the Call & Post. She was once selected as one of two journalists to complete a fellowship in urban studies at the University of Chicago. Additional career highlights took her to New York Ci

Democratic Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed Republican Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor  Judge Kathleen Ann Keough, a former Cleveland Municipal Court judge who now sits on the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals . Keough  allegedly won her appellate seat with an endorsement from Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and is accused of fixing cases against Blacks and women in return Cleveland Municpal Court Chief Judge Ron Adrine who handpicks judges for assignments of cases in the court  to allegedly influence case outcomes based upon the judges he selects like Judge Keough, whom he allegedly would handpick for cases to manipulate case outcomes for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and others International Boxing Promoter Don King, a native of Cleveland, Ohio who publishes the Call and Post Newspaper, a Black weekly distributed in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio Kathy Wray Coleman, a community activist and former Call and Post rep

California Attorney General Kamala Harris By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycoleman onlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, the first Black to win a statewide election there, flew to Cleveland from San Francisco last week to thank Obama campaign volunteers, and to warn Blacks that Mitt Romney's proposed tax plan is what she dubs elitist and hostile to middle class Americans and the Black community, particularly in comparison to the tax platform the president offers. "The president has created jobs outside of the corporate tax policy and wants tax reform, and Mitt Romney wants to raise taxes on the middle class, cut taxes for the richest Americans, and eliminate cuts to college tuition." said Harris, who added that she is African American and proud of it, a comment that came

George Forbes By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   CLEVELAND, Ohio-The  executive board of the Cleveland Chapter of the NAACP unanimously accepted the resignation of its president, George Forbes, at its monthly meeting on Tues. evening, putting to rest controversy over who was leading the Civil Rights organization while the 81-year-old Forbes has been in Florida with his wife in recent months or years. James Hardiman, the Cleveland attorney who represented the NAACP in the now defunct Cleveland schools desegregation case and the first vice president, will, by organization charter, take the helm until the November general election, one that is expected to draw a cross section of candidates including the Rev. Tony Minor,  executive director of the United Pastor's in Mission, Mount Olive Baptist Church Pastor Larry Harris, and Dr. E