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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 ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Watch parties relative to the Nov 6, 2012  election are as follows: (Reach the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Headquarters at 216-621-9750, 1466 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114). Victory Party for President Obama, Senator Sherrrod Brown other Democratic Party candidates in Ohio: Columbus Hilton in  downtown Columbus, 401 N. High St, Columbus, OH, 43215, Tel: 614-384-8600 Party for Obama for America Campaign volunteers (according to Cuyahoga County Democratic Party officials) Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in downtown Cleveland, 1111 Lakeside Ave, Cleveland, OH., 44114, Tel: 216-241-5100 Grassroots Victory Party for President Obama: Josephine's Lounge, 7902 Central Ave, Cleveland, OH., 44104, Tel: 216-361-3697, Dionne Thomas Carmichael, proprietor Cleveland Ward

The Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy III, an evangelist, Civil Rights leader, motivational speaker and a son of the late Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy Sr. His father, Abernathy Sr.,  was the partner of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during the Civil Rights movement who assumed the leadership role of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of King in 1968. The younger Abernathy visited Cleveland, Oh. on Sunday to stomp for the reelection of President Obama The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy Sr. (left) and The Rev.  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a press conference during the height of the Civil Rights Movement JACK E. CANTRELL, MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR: COURTESY MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COLLECTION / UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS  LIBRARIES By Marc R. Churchill and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Online Blog, Ohio’s Most Read Online Black Newspaper  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Rev. Dr

Hurricane Sandy By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-At least forty-eight people are dead, a third of them in New York alone, and over 7.5 million customers across the nation in 15 states and the District of Columbia are without power because of Hurricane Sandy. And as the  presidential campaign enters its final week, the country is taken by storm literally, and by virtue of a neck and neck race to the  White House  that has the Republican and Democratic parties fighting each other tooth and nail to the finish line.  A pivotal state, Ohio was hit by winds of 30 to 50 miles per hour Monday night and had no reported fatalities but did have  power outages in several of its 82 counties including Lorain, Lake, Geauga and Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland where one in three homes and businesses are without power. President Obama headed to Washington

By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- After coming off of a win where polls showed that he trampled Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romey during the third and final presidential debate, which was Monday night on foreign affairs at Lynn University in New York, President Barack Obama will speak to grassroots supporters Thursday night at Burke Lakefront Airport in downtown Cleveland, OH.  "The president was on his A game during the debate Monday night and Mitt Romney was all over the place with mumble jumble and cowboy diplomacy," said state Rep. John E. Barnes Jr (D-12), a Cleveland Democrat who said that he will be among a host of Democrats in Ohio, including Cleveland area Black elected officials, that will be out this evening to hear the first Black president of the United States of America speak to the American people.  The free tickets t

Ohio State Representative Nickie Antonio (D-13), a Cleveland Democrat By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Chapter NAACP will take nominations for branch offices and executive committee members at its meeting tonight Tues, Oct 16 and the Obama for America Campaign and state Rep. Nickie Antonio (D-13) will host a presidential debate watch party at a private home in  Lakewood, Oh., a suburb of Cleveland. (Editor's note: The debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney will begin at 9 pm at New York's Hofstra University and can be seen on CNN, MSNBC and C-Span) Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Arlene Anderson sent letters to Cleveland NAACP members urging them to attend tonight's meeting and to volunteer for the local chapter of the nations' most renowned Civil Rights organization. The data for the Cleveland NAACP

The late U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (far left), a Cleveland Democrat, then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, a former first lady who is now U.S. secretary of state, and former Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland at a campaign event in Ohio during Clinton's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America in 2008 By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (See the Tubbs Jones interview that was taken shortly before her death on Aug. 20, 2008 below this brief story. Thanks for taking the time to read what we write here at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black and urban newspaper). The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com remember the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones on her birthday of September 10.

Blaine Griffin B y Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman Cleveland Urban New.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Urban News.Com has snagged the exclusive below interview with Blaine Griffin, the highest ranking Black as the elected vice chairperson of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, and a ranking member of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's administrative cabinet as the director of the city's community relations board. ( Editor's note : The mayor announced last week that Griffin is on leave until after the November 6 election from his city job to lead the campaign for the 15 mill property tax levy for Cleveland schools that is on the November ballot. Under state law the city mayor controls the schools and appoints the Cleveland Board of Education).  A married father of three Cleveland schools students who lives in the city's Larchmere neighborhood sandwiched by street between

California Attorney General Kamala Harris By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycoleman onlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, the first Black to win a statewide election there, flew to Cleveland from San Francisco last week to thank Obama campaign volunteers, and to warn Blacks that Mitt Romney's proposed tax plan is what she dubs elitist and hostile to middle class Americans and the Black community, particularly in comparison to the tax platform the president offers. "The president has created jobs outside of the corporate tax policy and wants tax reform, and Mitt Romney wants to raise taxes on the middle class, cut taxes for the richest Americans, and eliminate cuts to college tuition." said Harris, who added that she is African American and proud of it, a comment that came

United States President Barack Obama From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online Newsblog.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-President Barack Obama weathered scathing hot temperatures that hit 94 degrees to speak to a capacity crowd at the James Day Park in the Cleveland suburb of Parma Oh. on Thursday afternoon, and went to Sandusky, Oh., and then on to a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, PA. Both Pennsylvania and Ohio are key battleground states for presidential elections . The president's visit to the Cleveland area was the second in under a month and followed a campaign gathering at the Cuyahoga Community College campus in Cleveland in June. Obama talked jobs, the economy, education, and green energy, among other issues, and ended this round of campaigning in Pittsburgh on Friday. And the president pushed his controversial health care plan to Ohioans and Pennsylvanians that the U.S. Supreme Court last month narrowly uphe