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Pictured are Dr. Charles Modlin, Cleveland NAACP President The Reverend Hilton Smith (in red tie),  Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright, 100 Black Men of Greater Cleveland President Terry Maynard (in gray tie), and United States President Barack Obama (in blue tie). Obama will speak in Cleveland on Thursday at Arcelor Mittal, one of the world's leading manufacturing and steel companies. By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Chapter NAACP, in partnership with Black Clergy, the Greater Cleveland Chapter of  100 Black Men of America Inc. , and the Cleveland Department of Health, will host a health care enrollment forum under the Affordable Care Act at 6 pm on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at the University Circle United Methodist Church, 1919 East 107th Street and Chester Avenue in Cleveland. (For more information on the community forum that organizers say is to help people without health  care sign up  contact the Cleveland

By  Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,    Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com .  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper . CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Chapter NAACP will host a testimony forum on excessive force by Cleveland and greater Cleveland police on Thursday, September 9, 2013 beginning at 5:30 pm at the Cuyahoga County Housing Authority at 8120 Kinsman Avenue in Cleveland, according to a press release from Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright. A U.S. Department of Justice representative will serve as the stenographer to record the data, Wright said. Among those testifying is Community Activist Kathy W

  Protesters in Cleveland, Ohio rally for justice for slain Black teen Trayvon Martin Community activists from across the country rally for justice for Trayvon Martin By CD Newton,      General  Assignment  Reporter  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Reach CD Newton at newton@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-“No Justice, No Peace!” That familiar chant rose in crescendo in the courtyard of the Carl B. Stokes U.S. District Courthouse in Cleveland, Oh. on Saturday at noon as Civil Rights leaders, Black clergy , c ommunity activists and a host of others gathered as part of a 100 cities rally and vigil for "Justice for Trayvon Martin," a nationwide event sponsored by the Rev Al Sharpton (pictured), his National Action Network (NAN), and Sharpton's local chapter group.  The chants   loomed large as a back drop for some 300 spirited

Cleveland Urban News.Com Update ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ): Community activists leaders or their representatives will meet today, July 10 at 5:30 pm at the Chateau Mansion, 13124 Euclid Ave, with Judge Sara J. Harper, the third vice president of the Cleveland NAACP, to develop strategy around the issues below we want addressed by the Cleveland NAACP and other community groups, and elected officials of consequence.  Judge Sara J. Harper The meeting yesterday, July 9, with Cleveland NAACP President The Rev. Hilton Smith and Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright with community activists and family members of victims of rape, murder and police killings went well and drew some 150 people. Speakers at the gathering include Rev. Smith, Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci, East Cleveland Council persons Barbara Thomas and Nate Martin, Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, activists and victims family members.  The mother of Kenneth Smith (AKA

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 .  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist with more than a decade of those years under current Call and Post Associate Publisher and Editor Constance Harper, with nationally known boxing promoter Don King as the print newspaper's publisher. CLEVELAND, Ohio-Grassroots groups, including Imperial Women, the Fairfax Business Association, the Carl Stokes Brigade, Ohio Family Rights, Black on Black Crime and the Oppressed People's nation, will rally at 5 pm on July 9, 2013 at the Chateau at 13124 Euclid Ave. along with activists and families members of victims of fatal excessive force by Cleveland police and the families of wo