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Democrats, civic action groups rally in D.C. for impeachment of President Trump

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Demonstrators rally at the Washington Monument on Saturday, June 1, 2019 to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump (Photo by Getty Images) By  ABC Radio  |  @ABCRadio (WASHINGTON) — Demonstrators rallied at the Washington Monument on Saturday to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Members of the Need to Impeach movement partnered with the civic action group NextGen America to persuade Congress to start the impeachment process.  “We’ve actually trained people on how to meet with their member of Congress, how to speak to media and connect their story to issues of impeachment. There are 50 members of Congress now that support impeachment,” said Jeremiah Chapman National Director of Cultural Organizing, for NextGen America. A number of Democratic presidential candidates have also inched closer to supporting impeachment after special counsel Robert Mueller’s public statement last week in which he said he does not intend to testify in a Congression

Cleveland Foundation is among winners of HUD's award from U.S. HUD Secretary Dr Ben Carson and the Council on Foundations for its "Digital Inclusion for All Initiative"..... Led by Ronald B. Richard, its president and CEO, the Cleveland Foundation is the world's first community foundation and one of the largest today, with assets of $2.5 billion and annual grants of more than $100 million...“This year’s honorees embody the true spirit of philanthropy and the power of collaboration,” said Kathleen P. Enright, president and CEO of the Council on Foundations

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From left: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, Council on Foundations President and CEO Kathleen P. Enright, and Ronald B. Richard, president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation  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 CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Led  By HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Council on Foundations on Tuesday announced the ten 2019 winners of the Secretary’s Award for Public-Philanthropic Partnerships with the Cleveland Foundation among the award recipients for its work on the   " Digital Inclusion for All " initiative Led by  Ronald B. Richard, its president and CEO,   t he Cleveland Foundation is the world's first  community foundatio

Trump Pulls Back Obama-Era Protections For Women Workers

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Story and photo by nbcnews.com    CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT NBC NEWS.COM Archived article of April 2017- REMEMBERING THE TRUMP ERA By Mary Emily O'Hara- NBC News With little notice, President Donald Trump recently signed an  executive order  that advocates say rolls back hard-fought victories for women in the workplace. Tuesday's "Equal Pay Day" — which highlights the wage disparity between men and women — is the perfect time to draw more attention to the president's action, activists say. On March 27, Trump revoked the  2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order then-President Barack Obama put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws. The Fair Pay order was put in place after a  2010 Government Accountability Office  investigation showed that companies with rampant violations were being awarded millions in federal contracts. In an attempt to keep the worst violators from receiv

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris to speak in Cleveland April 28, editor Kathy Wray Coleman previously interviewing Harris, who would beat President Trump if the 2020 general election were held today, early polls show....Read her one-on-one interview with editor Kathy Wray Coleman here....Who will Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland endorse for president?....An Obama ally, find out what Harris, who is Black, stands for...Will Obama endorse Harris or his former vice president, Joe Biden, the front-runner expected to announce his bid for president next week, and who is ahead of Bernie Sanders, who is second in the polls for the Democratic nomination, with Harris third or fourth, polls show?.....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: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California, and former United States president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president. A candidate for the Democratic nomination  for president in 2020,  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 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 Ne

Deal to end shutdown reached by President Trump, congress

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United States President Donald Trump By  Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Yielding to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump and congressional leaders on Friday reached a short-term deal to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations continue over the president's demands for money to build his long-promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump announced the agreement to break the 35-day impasse as intensifying delays at the nation's airports and widespread disruptions brought new urgency to efforts to resolve the standoff. "I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government," he said from the Rose Garden. After saying for weeks that he would not reopen the government without border wall money, Trump said he would soon sign a bill to re-open the government through Feb. 15 without additional money for his signature campaign promise. He said tha