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Cleveland's Black activists, others to protest and sleepover at Cleveland City Hall against lead poisoning in housing with a press conference led by activist Art McKoy scheduled for 9 pm Sunday, June 2, 2019, an hour after the 8 pm sleepover begins....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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Pictured is Cleveland community activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime Inc. Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. 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, investigative and legal reporter, editor-in-chief Clevelandurbannews.com - CLEVELAND, Ohio -Cleveland activists, led by seasoned activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime Inc, will protest lead poisoning in Cleveland housing at Cleveland City Hall on Sunday, June 2, 2019 beginning with a sleepover

Lawyers for CLASH ask Cleveland's law director to order council clerk to accept petition signatures for its lead-safe proposed ordinance and to submit the issue for city council to vote on, CLASH attorney Marc Dann, a former Ohio attorney general, saying that if Britt refuses to accept the signatures he will seek intervention by either the 8th District Court of Appeals or the Ohio Supreme Court by filing a petition for a writ of mandamus.....Cleveland activist and CLASH member Yvonka Hall also comments, Hall saying the fight for lead safe housing for Cleveland's children and others continues....Cleveland activist Donna Walker-Brown says she opposes the proposed legislation due to privacy issues, the lack of safeguards for Cleveland landlords, and not enough input from Black Cleveland activists and the Black community..... 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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From left: Attorney Marc Dann, the lead attorney for the Cleveland Lead Advocates for Safe Housing (CLASH) and a former Democratic Ohio attorney general, Cleveland City Law Director Barbara Langhenry, Cleveland City Council Clerk Patricia Britt, CLASH member and Cleveland activist Yvonka Hall, who is executive director of the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition, and Cleveland activist Donna Walker- Brown, a member of Black on Black Crime Inc. who leads the Inner City Republican Movement of Cleveland  Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbanne ws.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HE

Former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann gets six months suspension of law licence by Ohio Supreme Court justices

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) COLUMBUS, Ohio- Former Democratic Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who beat Republican incumbent attorney general Betty Montgomery in a heated fight to win the seat in  2006 only to resign amid a sexual scandal in May of 2008 where he admitted having sex with a female employee, was issued a six month suspension by the Ohio Supreme Court of his law license last week.  It did not help that Ohio's high court has six Republicans out of seven, a venue considered a stronghold for the Ohio Republican Party.  Dann pleaded guilty in 2010 to misdemeanor charges of misuse of campaign funds for rent and utilities on a condominium and a $5,000 gift loan. A second charge accused him of knowingly filing a false financial disclosure form. In a scathing rebuke the seven justices said that Dann must be he