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Updated: Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci ditches Black leaders, media at activists forum, says Sharpton, Rev Jesse Jackson, Mayor Jackson, Black leaders, elected officials get rich while Black community deteriorates, some disagree, some agree, Lanci donates to Black museum, Activist Amy Hurd says Black leaders, elected officials do some good and cannot be "all things to all people all of the time," Lanci donates $5,000 to Black museum in Cleveland, says Black leaders, elected officials would not help museum

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From left: Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, and Community Activist Art McKoy,  founder  of the community activist group Black on Black Crime Inc. 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-Cleveland Mayoral Candidate Ken Lanci took on Black elected officials and Black leaders, both  locally and nationally, and the local mainstream media, including the Plain Dealer, at a community forum held last night at Black on Black Crime headquarters in East Cleveland, a neighboring majority Black and impoverished suburb of Cleveland. And the 63-year-old Italian American multimillionaire and businessman who grew up in a housing project on the largely Black east side of Cleveland was at ea