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Pictured are the late former congressman Louis Stokes (wearing eyeglasses and Black suit), current 11th congressional district Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, the late Carl B. Stokes, Louis Stokes' brother and the first Black mayor of Cleveland and of a major American city  (wearing Black suit and no eyeglass), and Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed (wearing eyeglasses and dark grey suit).   By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Former longtime congressman Louis Stokes, Ohio's first Black congressperson

11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH ) By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email:  editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 22-year political, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed  the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), a Republican pushed bill that eliminates a number of federal programs and replaces some of them with local academic grants,  and  a major piece of proposed education legislation   that annoys House Democrats, including  11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat and a ra

Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (left) makes a friendly  wager with California 13th Congressional District Congresswoman Barbara Lee on which team, either the Cleveland Cavaliers  of Cleveland, Ohio or the Golden State  Warriors  of Oakland,  California, will win the NBA championship  title this year. Game one of the NBA Finals, which is a best of seven championship series,  is Thursday, June 4 at 9 pm EPT.  Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge holds up a replica of the Number 23 jersey of Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James as the Cavaliers prepare to meet the Golden State Warriors on Thursday, June 4 at 9 pm for game one of the NBA finals.  LeBron James (right) of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Stephen Curry (left) of the Golden State Warriors, the team leaders for the NBA Finals showdown between the Cavs and the Warriors By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Mo

11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH) Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cleveland NAACP Attorney Michael Nelson Sr. speaks to about 30 people during a meeting held Thursday evening , March 19 on Cleveland's largely Black east side relative to a recall effort against Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson.  To the direct left of Nelson is Norm Edwards, and to his left is Ken Bender. Edwards and Bender lead the Black Contractors Group of greater Cleveland.  WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, whose largely Black 11th congressional district includes the city of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, issued a press statement on April 14 expressing opposition to efforts by a group of citizens, led by local criminal defense attorney Michael Nelson Sr. and Black contractors Group leaders Ken Bender and Norm Edwards, to recall Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson from office. "The campaign to recall Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackso

Tamir Rice Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio (D-11) Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty 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, who is Black, is a 22-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio – Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat whose majority Black 11th congressional district includes the city of Cleveland, is the honorary chair of a Tamir Rice petition, a petition signed also by some Cleveland city council members, members of Cuyahoga County Council,  two state senators, other elected officials, community activists, and members of the faith-based and lab

From left: 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat and also chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a Cleveland Democrat,  Central State University President Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, and Connie Harper, the greater Cleveland alumni chapter president for Central State University and associate publisher and senior editor at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black print press. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack By  Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. (Kathy Wray Coleman is a 20-year investigative and political journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years under five different editors at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's most prominent Black press)   ( www.