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The Reverend Grady Stevenson, the new interim director of the Community Relations Board for the city of Cleveland whom Mayor Frank Jackson named to replace Blaine Griffin, who, on May 15, replaced the retiring Mamie Mitchell on city council Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed                                      Former Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell, who retired from city council on May 15 and recommended her replacement, Blaine Griffin, formerly the director of the Community Relations Board for the city  ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com  Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- Cleveland, Ohio- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has named the Rev. Grady Stevenson, pastor of Damascus Road Ministries in Cleveland, as interim director of the city

Cleveland Ward 10 councilman and mayoral candidate Jeff Johnson   Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley  ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com  Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio - Cleveland Ward 10 Councilman Jeff Johnson was cleared to continue his bid for mayor after Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh, acting as a special prosecutor in place of Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley, this week issued a legal assessment in Johnson's favor relative to a complaint pending with the county board of elections. The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, upon Walsh's recommendation, on Tuesday voted unanimously to reject the challenge brought by  Ed Davila, a suspended and former Stark County attorney.

East Cleveland community activist Devin Branch (left) and former East Cleveland mayor Gary Norton ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com  Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio-  East Cleveland community activist Devin Branch, who led the successful recall election last year of former East Cleveland mayor Gary Norton, and who briefly served on city council after Norton's ouster, was found not guilty on Friday of an alleged misdemeanor assault on the former mayor. The jury deliberated for less than a half hour before returning an acquittal verdict on what Branch called a malicious prosecution that he says was "politically motivated."  Norton summoned police last year on the day of the recall election, claiming Branch assaulted him, Branch saying he only knocked a clipboard

Cast members of the stage play "Children of the Night" ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com  Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com Playwright and director Pamelia Tyree-Carr CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland’s own playwright and director, Pamelia Tyree-Carr, takes the city by storm with her seventh stage production, 'Children of the Night,'  featuring Royce Ruffin, Nae Black, Robert Johnson Jr., R. Monica Black, Bernita Ewing and other locally talented actors and actresses. 'Children of the Night' will premiere Saturday, May 27, 2017 at the Breen Center for Performing Arts, which is located on the campus of Saint Ignatius High School at 2008 W. 30th and Lorain Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. There are two performances at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 for both shows and after the evening performance there is the option of att

Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell (pictured), who retired from city council on May 15, 2017 and recommended her replacement, Blaine Griffin (pictured), the director of the Community Relations Board for the city and a member of Mayor Frank Jackson's cabinet ClevelandUrbanNews.Com  and the    KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com  Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- CLEVELAND, Ohio -  Cleveland Ward 6 Councilwoman Mamie Mitchell announced publicly on Monday that she was retiring. Hours later she named Blaine Griffin, the director of the Community Relations Board for the city and a member of the mayor's cabinet, as her replacement on the 17-member, all Democratic Cleveland City Council. Mitchell was initially appointed in 2008 to the unexpired term of then councilwoman Patricia Britt when Britt became clerk of council.  She ran for a full term in 2009 in a crowded

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (left) and Columbus Councilwoman Elizabeth Brown, both of whom spoke at the annual brunch of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus (CDWC) at the Cleveland Botanical Garden on May 6, Waters the keynote speaker. A Democrat like Waters, Brown is a daughter of Democratic U.S. senator Sherrod Brown (Photo by   Anastacia Pantsios ) Congresswoman Maxine Waters (center) with her husband, Sydney Williams (far left), and Meredith Turner (far right) at the Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus brunch on May 6 at the Cleveland Botanical Garden.    (Photo by   Anastacia Pantsios ) Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's  Caucus (CDWC)  Chairwoman Cindy Demsey compliments Congresswoman Maxine Waters after presenting her with the organization's  courage award at a brunch at the Cleveland Boatanical Garden on May 6  (Photo by   Anastacia Pantsios ) Congresswoman Maxine Waters (2nd from left), her husband Sydney Williams (fa