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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

Michael Nelson Sr. wins Cleveland NAACP branch presidency over retired judge Sara Harper and calls for indictments by the grand jury hearing the case of the White Cleveland cops that gunned down 12-year-old Tamir Rice.... Some dues paying Cleveland NAACP members say that they were not even apprised of the branch election that only drew some 47 people and not enough candidates to fill elected seats on the executive board.... Nelson speaks to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news, on his win, and said that he will work to "rebuild our membership and reestablish our partnerships with the community"....By Editor Kathy Wray Coleman

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Newly elected Cleveland NAACP President Michael Nelson Sr.  Pictured are newly elected Cleveland NAACP first vice president James Hardiman (wearing turtleneck sweater), former C leveland NAACP president the  Rev. Hilton Smith (in red tie),  former Cleveland NAACP first vice president the  Rev. Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness  (in red bow-ti e) , former Cleveland NAACP Third Vice President Sara J. Harper, who lost a bid for branch president against Nelson on Oct 26,  and George Forbes, a former longtime Cleveland NAACP president and former Cleveland City Council president  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 six different editors, including Connie Harper,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch opposes request for changes in the consent decree on Cleveland police reforms made by the Cleveland NAACP amid a squabble between branch lawyers against Mayor Jackson and National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks....The disagreement could bring prolonged litigation that Lynch does not want....The controversy comes on the heels of Judge John O'Donnell's racist Brelo verdict, a verdict supported by County Prosecutor Tim McGinty....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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U.S.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch 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 NAACP Attorney James Hardiman CLEVELAND, Ohio- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which is led by Loretta Lynch, the country's first Black female attorney general, has filed a brief in federal district court opposing changes to a consent decree on police reforms in Cleveland requested last week in an amicus brief filed by the Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Collaborativ