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Cliff Pinkney named first Black Cuyahoga County sheriff by County Executive Armond Budish, Budish also named Nailah Byrd as the first Black county clerk of courts, Pinkney's predecessors, namely former county sheriffs Bova, Reid and McFaul, stole residents' homes, data show, via illegal foreclosures, and for big mortgage companies and banks like JPMorgan Chase Bank, and with the help of common pleas judges like John O'Donnell and Carolyn Friedland

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New Cuyahoga County Sheriff Clifford Pinkney, the county's first Black sheriff, and the only Black sheriff  of 88 counties in Ohio Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts Nailah Byrd, Cuyahoga County's first Black clerk of courts Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish, a former state lawmaker and former Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives who, as the new county executive, recently named Cuyahoga County's first Black sheriff and first Black clerk of courts in selecting Clifford Pinkney and Nailah Byrd respectively for the posts By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Ur ban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog.  Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community activist, political journalist and 21-year investigative reporter who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanon

Updated: Democratic Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson shines as city will host 2016 Republican National Convention under his leadership, County Executive Ed FitzGerald comments, the convention win kicks Cleveland out of consideration for the Dems' national convention, Jackson is the third Black mayor of Cleveland

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, whose leadership served to land the 2016 Republican National Convention in the majority Black major American city of Cleveland. The third term mayor is the city's third Black mayor behind Carl B. Stokes in 1967, the first Black mayor of a major American city, and Michael R. White in the early 1990s.  All three, the late Carl B. Stokes, White, and Jackson, are Democrats 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) 659-0473  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor behind Carl B. Stokes, who was elected in 1967, and Michael R. White i

Cuyahoga County Council to vote today on whether to put sin tax renewal measure on May ballot inspite of wind chill warning, below zero temperatures, and though public schools, county courts and offices are closed, and most of the city of Cleveland is nearly shut down, sin tax funds sports stadiums upkeep with a tax on alcohol, cigarettes, community activists suspect about why meeting has not been canceled, say county council does not want community input, Black community disproportionately impacted by the sin tax

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By  Kathy Wray Coleman,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-In spite of a wind chill warning in effect across Northeast Ohio  until noon Wednesday ,  and the closings of public schools, businesses, and county offices and courts  ,  Cuyahoga County Council will go forward with scheduled meetings today at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in downtown Cleveland, including its 5 pm regular meeting to vote on whether to put the 20-year extension of the sin tax on alcohol and cigarettes that would fund city sports stadiums upkeep on the May ballot. The regular meeting will follow scheduled meetings earlier in the day, co

By Kathy Wray Coleman: Ohio governor’s race nearly tied, polls show, Democratic Candidate Ed FitzGerald gaining ground against Governor Kasich, Ohio Democratic Party Chair Chris Redfern comments

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 ) and  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at   editor@clevelandurbannews.com COLUMBUS, Ohio – Last week, in a poll commissioned by Freedom to Marry Ohio, Democratic Ohio Governor Candidate Ed FitzGerald and Republican Gov. John Kasich continue to be locked in a near dead heat going into 2014. The survey, conducted between December 6 and 8 of 1,011 of Ohio voters by Public Policy Polling (PPP), one of the most accurate pollsters in America, found that if the election were held today, Kasich would carry 40 percent of the vote, followed by FitzGerald at 38 percent, and Libertarian Charlie Earl at six percent. In the poll, FitzGerald held a 13 percent lead over Kasich with Independent voters. In a separate memo released on the poll, Tom Jensen, director of PPP, stated that

By Kathy Wray Coleman: Ohio governor hopeful Ed FitzGerald chooses State Senator Eric Kearney, who is Black, to run on Democratic ticket for lieutenant governor, Kearney is Minority Leader in Ohio Senate, publishes Black newspapers in Ohio, the duo hope to unseat Kasich in 2014

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Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, (left), a Democrat who hopes to unseat Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich in next year's  gubernatorial race, and his lieutenant governor running mate State Senator Eric Kearney, a Cincinnati Democrat. FitzGerald announced last week his selection of Kearney to run with him on the Democratic ticket. 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 ) and  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  Reach us by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at   editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-Governor hopeful Ed FitzGerald, a Democrat who will likely resign from his Cuyahoga County Executive job by the end of this year or early next year, has chosen a Black state senator from Cincinnati, Ohio for his lieutenant governor running mate in hopes of unseating Republican Gov. John Kasich in n

U.S. Supreme Court upholds same-sex marriage in two cases, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in one case and upholding same-sex marriage in California in the other case, gay rights activists, President Obama , Senator Sherrod Brown, Congresswomen Fudge, Beatty, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald applaud landmark decisions,.... decisions come on heels of support of gay marriage by Obama, Cleveland NAACP, 5-4 split decisions in high profile U.S. Supreme Court cases are becoming routine

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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 WASHINGTON, D.C-The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday issued two celebrated rulings to bolster the gay rights movement, historical decisions that come on the heels last year of President Obama's announcement of his support of gay marriage, and the echoing of that posture by the NAACP, the nations' oldest and most respected Civil Rights organization. One case gives federal benefits to spouses of same-sex marriage and the other in essence struck down Proposition 8   through the court's refusal to hear the appeal of a lower court ruling that invalidated it.  Adopted by California voters in 2008 that outlawed gay marriage, the defeat of Proposition 8 became a baby of the gay rig

Obama, Rep. Fudge, Congressional Black Caucus members say U.S. Supreme Court decision to weaken Voting Rights Act hurts Blacks, poor people, is egregious, ..Ohio state Rep. Barnes Jr, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald comment against it too,.... a state lawmaker calls Justice Clarence Thomas an "Uncle Tom" around 5-4 ruling that strikes down provisional requirement under the Voting Rights Act for 15 states, including Ohio, to get federal approval to change state voting laws,... Fudge targets Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted as reason for needing the provision,.... Ohio Gov. John Kasich is quiet on controversial issue

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Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio (D-11), a Warrensville Hts.  Democrat  who also chairs the  Congressional  Black Caucus, speaks during a press conference with CBC members following the U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down on Tuesday  that   weakens  the Voting Rights Act, a federal law  enacted  in the 1960s to address   egregious  racial discrimination in voting. Pictured  behind  Fudge is seasoned Rep. John Conyers of Michigan. 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 President Barack Obama WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a 5-4 ruling that President Obama and congressional Black Democrats, including U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-11