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Former Cleveland Ward 2 councilman Zack Reed (left) also an unsuccessful candidate for mayor in 2017, and newly appointed interim Greater Cleveland RTA general manager Floun'say "Doc" Caver  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, editor-in-chief By CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by RTA board members Valerie McCall, a Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson board appointee, and Newburgh Heights Mayor

Current Cleveland Ward 7 Councilman Basheer Jones (left), the first Muslim elected to Cleveland City Council, and former Ward 7 councilman TJ Dow, who lost a reelection bid to Jones in 2017 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 editor Kathy Wray Coleman CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- The recall effort against Cleveland Ward 7 Councilman Basheer Jones, an east side councilman and the first Muslim elected to Cleveland Coty Council,

Cuyahoga County Councilwoman and Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairwoman Shontel Brown, the first Black and first female to hold the powerful post, and of whom executive committee members of the county Democratic party voted to retain as chair via an election on June 9, 2018 C. Ellen Connally,  a retired Cleveland judge and former Cuyahoga County Council president who lost an election on Saturday, June 9, 2018 in her bid to unseat Shontel Brown as chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party   ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. 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 Bar

Newly elected Cleveland councilmen Basheer Jones (left0 and Joe Jones 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 CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio - New elected Cleveland councilmen Joe Jones and Basheer Jones survived recounts by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, election officials announced this week. Joe Jones defeated Ward 1 Councilman Terrell Pruitt and Activist Basheer Jones won over Ward 7 Councilman TJ Dow via the November runoff election for their seats among all 17 Cleveland City Council seats up for grabs, and  three-term  Black Mayor Frank Jackson retained his seat, defeating outgoing councilman Zack Reed. All of the aforementioned are Black Democrats. A former assistant county prosecutor, Dow lost by 13 votes and Pruitt, by

Cleveland police, in hot pursuit, chase the car driven by Timothy Russell, 43, with Malissa Williams, 30, as a passenger, in 2012, a chase that began in downtown Cleveland and ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in neighboring East Cleveland. Both Black and both unarmed, and neither of them wanted by the law, Williams and Russell were ceremoniously gunned down by 13 non-Black Cleveland cops slinging 137 bullets, officer Michael Brelo of whom fired 49 of the 137 shots Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell, who, per an orchestrated bench trial, acquitted since fired Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo of two counts of manslaughter Pictured are Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson (wearing beard and eye glasses), Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge John P. O'Donnell (in sky blue tie),  since fired Cleveland police patrolman Michael Brelo (in blue shirt), former Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty (in red-pink tie

The Reverend Grady Stevenson, the new interim director of the Community Relations Board for the city of Cleveland whom Mayor Frank Jackson named to replace Blaine Griffin, who, on May 15, replaced the retiring Mamie Mitchell on city council Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed                                      Former Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, who retired from city council on May 15 and recommended her replacement, Blaine Griffin, formerly the director of the Community Relations Board for the city  ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com  Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- Cleveland, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has named the Rev. Grady Stevenson, pastor of Damascus Road Ministries in Cleveland, as interim director of the city