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Activists, community to remember 6-year-old Cleveland murder victim Lyric Lawson today, October 7, 2019, at a vigil and anti- gun violence march, Lawson dying from a gunshot wound to the head while sleeping, and following a drive-by shooting....Activist Art McKoy said that "if you are truly tired of our children being murdered unmercifully, please join us for this necessary gathering" ....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Six-year-old Lyric Melodi Lawson Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chi ef CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists, community members and family and friends of 6-year-old Lyric Melodi Lawson, who died from a gunshot wound to the head Saturday morning while sleeping in her bed at 1388 E. 71st Street and St Clair Ave in the South Collinwood Neighborhood on Cleveland's largely Black east side, will hold a vigil and anti- gun violence march today, Oct 7, 2019 at 5pm beginning at Cleveland Metropolitan School District's Hannah Gibbons-STEM School where the Black girl attended. "We urge everybody to attend this vigil and march today," said longtime Cleveland activist Art McKoy of Black on Black Crime. "If you are truly tired of our children being m

Imperial Women Coalition activist Kathy Wray Coleman demands apprehension of the Cleveland serial killer of four people found dead in an abandoned home, two of them young Black women, the murders occurring blocks from Imperial Avenue where serial killer Anthony Sowell murdered 11 Black women and raped three others....Black on Black Crime activist Alfred Porter Jr. said there has been "no progress since the Imperial Avenue Murders"....Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog

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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also top in Black digital news in the Midwest. We are also the most read women's rights digital newspaper and blog in Ohio, and in the Midwest Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.       CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, CLEVELAND,Ohio— Two  young Black women, 18 and 19-years-old, were among four decomposing bodies identified by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner and found Saturday in an abandoned home on the block of East 144th Street and Kinsman Avenue on Cleveland's largely Black east side, the other two bodies those of two young Black men.  The medical examiner ruled the deaths homicides by multiple gunshot wounds.  Dead are Jazmyne Lawson, 18, of Cleveland,  Dejuan Wills, 20, and Christopher Monroe, 23, both of Cleveland, and Aiyanna Quitman, 19, of Euclid. Police have no suspects and community activists are cal

NASA Glenn in suburban Cleveland names Dr. Maria Perez-Davis its acting director to replace the retiring Dr. Janet Kavandi, a retired astronaut, Perez-Davis a native of Puerto Rico and a current resident of Strongsville, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital women's rights and Black newspaper and Black blog

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Dr. Maria Perez-Davis Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also top in Black digital news in the Midwest. We are also the most read women's rights digital newspaper and blog in Ohio, and in the Midwest Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.       By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief who interviewed Barck Obama one-on-one. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio -NASA Glenn Research Center in Brookpark, Ohio in suburban Cleveland has named acting deputy director Dr. Maria Perez-Davis, a Strongsville, Ohio resident and native of Puerto Rico, as its acting director who will take over Tuesday in place of Dr. Janet Kavandi, the current director and former astronaut who will retire, effective Sept 30. 

NASA Glenn's Cleveland director Dr. Janet Kavandi to retire, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur commenting on the retired astronaut who made 3 space shuttle missions...."It is with absolute admiration and gratitude that I thank her for her service and tenure as director at NASA Glenn and also as a decorated astronaut," said Kaptur of Kavandi....Kavandi said her decision to retire was difficult "at a time when the agency is preparing to send the first woman and the next man to the moon"....Dr. Mae Jemison is the first Black woman astronaut to travel to space and the late Dr. Sally Ride was the first American woman to do so....The late astronaut Dr. Judith Resnik, an Akron, Ohio native, was among the seven astronauts who perished in 1986 on the space shuttle Endeavor...By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog.... Coleman holds a bachelor's degree in biological science

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From left: Ohio 9th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat and the longest serving woman in Congress, former astronaut and retiring NASA Glenn Cleveland agency director Dr. Janet Kavandi, the late former astronaut Dr. Sally Ride,  who was the first American woman in space, former astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space, and the late astronaut Dr. Judith Resnik, an Akron, Ohio native who was among the seven astronauts who perished when the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986 killing all on board, also including school teacher Christa McAuliffe, and the late astronaut Ronald McNair, who was Black The NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park in suburban Cleveland, Ohio Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog, both also top in Black digital news in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Cole

Former judge Lance Mason sentenced for stabbing ex-wife Aisha Fraser to death and nobody spoke in support of him at sentencing but his attorneys, Mason Black and a former Ohio senator who stabbed Aisha to death in front of their two young children.....At sentencing the disbarred former judge said he wanted his ex-wife to have no men around his daughters unless he was there....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge Lance Mason  Disgraced former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge Lance Mason, and his ex-wife Aisha Fraser, whom he stabbed to death on Nov. 17  after he stalked her 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 president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, Ohio - Former Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge Lance Mason, also a former Ohio senator who s

U.S. Rep Marcia Fudge to lead annual Labor Day Parade in Cleveland, a tradition of the largely Black 11th congressional district community started by former congressman Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressman.....A former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Fudge is one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio....By associate publisher and editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog

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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 president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus who is also a past national president of Delta Sigma  Theta  Sorority  Inc. By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Led by Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge as its grand marshal, the annual 11th Con