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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

Cleveland Glenville High School Graduate Terrell Gausha advances to 2nd round in Olympic Games boxing after knocking out opponent in third round

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Terrell Gausha By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www.clevelandur bannews.com 0 LONDON, England-Glenville High School Graduate Terrell Gausha got closer to a gold metal and made the Cleveland schools and America proud with a third round knockout at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games on Saturday of his opponent, Armenia's Andranik Hakobvan. A middleweight division fighter, Gausha, 24, is among the 16 remaining amateur boxers out of the original 32 to advance to the quarter finals and will box again at 9:30 am on Thursday against Indian matinee idol Vijender. "He knocked him out and you don't see that much in Olympic boxing," said Michael Nelson, an entrepreneur who owns the restaurant The Kitchen, and Lil Africa, a party and versatility building at 69th St and Superior Ave in Cleveland where Gausha had sparred in practice and regular boxing matches. "He is just another examp

Cleveland NAACP Executive Board unanimously accepts the resignation of its president George Forbes, Cleveland Attorney James Hardiman is president until November general election

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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