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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland to attend Selma bridge crossing anniversary events in Selma, Alabama on March 3, 2019, the 54th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" where peaceful Black Civil Rights protesters, in March 1965, were brutally attacked by angry White cops for a peaceful crossing on the Edmond Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, a protest to seek voting and other constitutional rights for Blacks that was led by MLK...The Voting Rights Act of 1965 followed

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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, will participate in festivities in Selma, Alabama on March 3, 2019, the 54th anniversary of the historical Civil Rights march across the Edmond Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on March 7, 1965 where Civil Rights protesters, led by the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,  were brutally beaten by angry White cops.The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed racial discrimination in voting, followed and was signed into law by then president Lyndon B. Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965.     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 preside

President Obama gives historic speech in Selma on 50th anniversary of the 1965 voting rights march there, said that he hears cries for help from Ferguson, and Cleveland, that Black lives matter, and that racism still exists, Ohio Congresswoman Fudge and Ohio U.S. Senators Portman and Sherrod Brown attend .... By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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President Barack Obama, the first Black President of the United States of America, speaks to thousands on Saturday,  March 7, 2015 beside the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 'Bloody Sunday' voting rights march on the now historic bridge that occurred on March 7, 1965. Obama's 40-minute speech covered a broad agenda on Civil Rights, including voting rights, and the racial unrest around the country of police killings of Black men and boys, including in Cleveland, Ohio where late last year a rookie White cop gunned down 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was Black. (Photo compliments of Getty Images) Some 80, 000 people (above) cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Sunday, March 8, 2015 to commemorate  the 50th anniversary of the 'Bloody Sunday' voting rights march that occurred on the now historic bridge on Sunday, March 7, 1965. A day before, which was the official day of the 50th anniversary mar

Oscars 2015: The full list of winners, John Legend talks incarceration of Black men and voting rights during his Oscar acceptance speech, Legend also talked voting rights in a one-on-one- interview with Cleveland Urban News.Com in 2012 as he campaigned in Ohio for the reelection of President Obama....Watch the moving Oscar performance of 'Glory' by Legend and Common here at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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John Stephens (John Legend) (right) and Lonnie Lynn (Common) won the Oscar for best original song for 'Glory,' from the film Selma. During his acceptance speech, Legend spoke on voting rights and the high rate of incarceration of Black men in America. Selma lost in the category of best picture to Birdman. (Photo by Getty Images). Watch the 2015 Oscars performance of 'Glory' by Legend and Common in the video below, a moving performance that drew a standing ovation . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473.  Coleman is a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  LOS ANGELES, California- Ohio native John Legend and hip hop artist Com