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Race issue remains center-stage as Joe Biden apologizes to Black America for pro-segregationist remarks that have dogged his campaign, particularly since Kamala Harris called him out on it at the first Democratic debate in Florida, Biden initially refusing to apologize as his poll numbers dropped and Harris surged in the polls....Millions of Obama voters stayed home in 2016 when Hillary Clinton lost to President Trump, and the Black vote fell 7% from 2012 when Obama won reelection to 2016....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Democratic presidential candidates former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris spar during the first Democratic debate June 27, in Miami, Florida, Harris asking Biden to apologize for opposing busing and for his remarks  on his relationship with segregationist  senators while he was U.S. senator  By Kathy W ray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com .   As to the Obama interview  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former vice president Joe Biden, the front runner for the Democratic nomination for president in a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls, ap

Kamala Harris surges to second place in polls and just 5 percentage points behind Joe Biden after first Democratic debate, and Elizabeth Warren remains in third place as Bernie Sanders slips to fourth place for the Democratic nomination for president, a new CNN poll found..... The only Black woman in the race for president, Senator Harris challenged Biden on race during the debate, saying he fraternizes with segregationists and opposed busing.....Obama supported busing too, he said in a previous one-on-one interview with Cleveland journalist Kathy Wray Coleman...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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United States senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com .   Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ,  CLEVELAND, Ohio- U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has surged to second place and within five percentage points of front-runner Joe Biden following her spectacular performance Thursday night in Miami, Florida during the first Democratic debate, according to a  new CNN poll conducted by   SSRS According to such CNN poll,  22% of registered Democratic voters  want Biden for the party's presidential nomination, 17% Harris, 15%  Sen Elizabeth Warren, and 14% Sen. Bernie Sanders.  The others, among some 23 Democra

Kamala Harris demands that Biden apologize for opposing busing in first Democratic debate, both she and Obama supporting it, Obama saying so in a previous one-on-one-interview with Cleveland journalist Kathy Wray Coleman.... The now defunct Cleveland schools desegregation case, which brought about crosstown busing, was dissolved in 1998, the Cleveland NAACP of which represented the plaintiffs in the deseg-case of Reed v Rhodes. The NAACP, via Cleveland Attorney James Hardiman, argued that the release from the deseg- order was premature as the vestiges of racial discrimination were never remedied to the extent practicable as mandated by the court order and that educational disparities between Black Cleveland schools children and their White counterparts still exist...Those disparities, said the NAACP, are the by-product of racial discrimination and not socioeconomic factors as the court, via the late federal judge George White, ruled in granting the state of Ohio and the school district release from such deseg-order ....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Democratic presidential candidates former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris spar during the first Democratic debate Thursday night, June 27, in Miami, Florida, Harris asking Biden to apologize for opposing busing  Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief. Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at   Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com .   Clevelandurbannews .com and Kathy