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By Kathy Wray Coleman: Remembering Sandy Hook on the first anniversary of the massacre, President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama light candles at White House for the 26 victims, 20 of them elementary school children, Obama for Action group holds gathering in Cleveland at Dewey's Coffee Shop in Shaker Square to remember Sandy Hook victims, denounce gun violence, Church of Covenant in Cleveland also holds remembrance and stop-the-gun-violence ceremony

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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 ) CLE VELAND, Ohio-Newtown, Connecticut became a household name on Friday, December 14, 2012 when the heavily armed Adam Lanza (pictured), 20, shot his divorcee mother in the face multiple times, killing her, and then starred in a massacre, gunning down 20 first -graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School where his mother Nancy  worked  as a teacher.  Among  the dead adults were a  school principal, a psychiatrist, teachers, and a school guidance  counselor . The troubled Lanza then turned the gun on himself with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He left behind a slew of unanswered questions and re-ignited a ferocious debate on gun violence and gun control. Saturday, December 14, 2013 marked the first anniversary of the brutal tragedy, the first of its kind in Ame

Greater Cleveland community activists to hold vigil this evening, December 16, 7pm to remember 20 school Connecticut children, 6 adults, gunned down by 20-year-old suspected shooter Adama Lanza, vigil is in Cleveland at 2510 St. Clair Ave., WERE AM 1490 Radio Station where WZAK 93.1 FM and Radio One are housed

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Suspected shooter Adam Lanza, who is accused of shooting his mother in the face multiple times and killing her and then starring in a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn on Friday, Dec. 14 that left 20 first graders at the  school and six adults dead, including the school principal, teachers, a psychiatrist, and a school guidance counselor. Lanza then turned the gun on himself a died with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head, leaving a slew of unanswered questions and a ferocious debate on gun violence and gun control that promises to linger into the new year.   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-Greater Cleveland community activists will hold a vigil to remember the Connecticut shooting victims of 20 elementary school children and six adults on Sunday, Dec 16 at 7 pm in the parking l