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The Rev Al Sharpton   By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog, Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.     ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  CLEVELAND, Ohio-  Renowned Civil Rights activist the Rev Al Sharpron, president of the National Action Network, which is headquartered in New York City, will give the keynote address on legal system issues impacting the city of Cleveland and Black America at a community rally in Cleveland at 7:30 pm on Friday, May 29 on Quincy Avenue at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr. Jawanza Colvin Organizers told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news, that over a thous

Loretta Lynch By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog   K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) United States President Barack Obama WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Barack Obama, America's first Black president, is poised to nominate the first Black woman United States attorney general, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said late Friday in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news. "Ms. Lynch [Loretta Lynch]   is a strong, independent prosecutor who has twice led one of the most important U.S. Attorney’s offices in the country," said Earnest. "She will succeed Eric Holder, whose tenure has been marke

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) The casket of slain Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown Slain Missouri teen Michael Brown ST LOUIS, Missouri - Funeral services were held on Monday for Michael Brown, the  Black teen slain two and a half weeks ago in Ferguson, Missouri by police officer Darren Wilson, whom witnesses say gunned him down when he was surrendering with his hands up. The case is currently before a county grand jury on whether to charge Wilson, who is White, with crimes relative to the unprecedented shooting. Some 4,500 people packed Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St

Source:  John Bacon / USA Today The Rev. Al Sharpton is denying claims made by The Smoking Gun  website that he worked as an FBI mob informant in the 1980s. The website, in a voluminous  story  published Monday, said eight federal judges signed wiretap directives based at least in part on information provided by the civil rights leader and MSNBC talk show host. One Genovese crime family member admitted speaking openly to Sharpton about extortion, death threats and other crimes while Sharpton’s FBI-provided briefcase secretly recorded the conversation, the story says. RELATED:  WASHINGTON WATCH: Rev. Al Sharpton Discusses His Weight Loss & Reinvention (VIDEO) The website says its account of Sharpton’s secret life as “CI-7″ — confidential informant number 7 — was based on hundreds of pages of confidential FBI affidavits, documents released by the bureau in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, court records, and extensive interviews with six members of an FBI/N

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black news venues  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )   Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473 CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Rev. Al Sharpton, an MSNBC news host and president of the National Action Network (NAN), will do a book signing for his new book titled "The Rejected Stone" at 4 pm tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct 8, 2013 at the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church, 1161 East 105th St. in Cleveland. Organizers said that a reception will also be held at 4 pm and that interested persons can also purchase a copy of the book at the signing. For more information contact the Cleveland NAACP at 216-231-6260 or Greater Abyssinia at 216-795-4028. Sharpton is the host of PoliticsNation, a popular MSNBC hour-long political show that runs weeknights.  NAN is headquartered in New York City wit

  Protesters in Cleveland, Ohio rally for justice for slain Black teen Trayvon Martin Community activists from across the country rally for justice for Trayvon Martin By CD Newton,      General  Assignment  Reporter  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Reach CD Newton at newton@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-“No Justice, No Peace!” That familiar chant rose in crescendo in the courtyard of the Carl B. Stokes U.S. District Courthouse in Cleveland, Oh. on Saturday at noon as Civil Rights leaders, Black clergy , c ommunity activists and a host of others gathered as part of a 100 cities rally and vigil for "Justice for Trayvon Martin," a nationwide event sponsored by the Rev Al Sharpton (pictured), his National Action Network (NAN), and Sharpton's local chapter group.  The chants   loomed large as a back drop for some 300 spirited

Greater Cleveland National Action Network President Marcia McCoy ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com    CLEVELAND, Ohio- The mainstream majority White media in Cleveland, Oh virtually ignored the call by  the Greater Cleveland National Action Network, a local chapter of the national group founded by Civil Rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, for a national boycott of Florida businesses and for federal Civil Rights charges against George Zimmerman during a 300-persons rally and vigil held Saturday at the federal court house in downtown Cleveland, though both issues were the focus of the event, and of national rallies held across the country the same day.   And aside from Cleveland Municipal Court Judg

The Rev. Al Sharpton From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Rev. Al Sharpton was in Cleveland, Oh. today to push voter registration at a prominent Black church, to stomp for President Obama, and to talk on voter suppression and other Civil Rights matters during a key presidential election year. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio,  Cleveland  Mayor Frank Jackson, state Sen Nina Turner (D-25), state Rep. Sandra Williams (D-11), and Cuyahoga County Councilman Julian Rogers (D-10) were am ong the host of dignitaries that attended. The luncheon event, held at Greater Abyssina Baptist Church in Cleveland, was sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Chapter of the National Action Network, which is led by Marcia McCoy as its president and the Rev. E. Theophilus Caviness, the executive director organization and senior past

Trayvon Martin NAACP President Ben Jealous The Rev. Al Sharpton By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (Editor's note: The capitalized typing in parts of this article is beyond are technical control and is only occurring as to this controversial article) CLEVELAND,Ohio-Community activist groups and area high school and college students will gather on Fri., March 23, at 4 pm at Tower City in downtown Cleveland to rally and then march to the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, 1200 Ontario St, to express outrage over the handling of the the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin by a White neighborhood watchmen in the gated community where his father lives. Anger over the killing of the Black teen as generated nationwide protests with the U.S. Department of Justice launching an investigation around th