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Former vice president Joe Biden endorses Democrat Kathleen Clyde for Ohio secretary of state.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Democratic candidate for Ohio secretary of state  state Representative Kathleen Clyde (D-75), a Kent Democrat and strong advocate for redistricting reform and Civil Rights, and former vice president Joe Biden, also a Democrat ClevelandUrbanNews.Com   and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. 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 LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief This article was originally published here on June 24, 2018. It is a reprint as Ohio's Nov. 6 general election nears CLEVELANDURBANNEW.COM-C

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell joins NAACP and announces support of President Obama's endorsement of same sex marriage, but Powell stops short of endorsing Obama for president

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Colin Powell (left) and President Barack Obama By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State under former president George W. Bush, and the first Black in those roles, last week announced his support of Democratic President Barack Obama's endorsement of same sex marriage, a rare position taken by a prominent Republican operative such as Powell, who had previously opposed same sex marriage. But Powell would not endorse the president as he did as a Republican in 2008, raising questions on whether he will or will not do so prior to the November 6 presidential election when Obama will square off with Mitt Romney, the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party and the former governor of Mass., the first state to hand out licenses to people marrying partners of

National NAACP passes resolution supporting President Obama's endorsement of same sex marriage, citing the equal protection clause of the14th Amendment, polls show Americans closely divided, most Blacks still oppose it, 31 states ban it, six states and the District of Columbia allow it

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By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) MIAMI, Florida-The national NAACP at its meeting yesterday passed a resolution backing President Obama's recent endorsement of gay marriage, saying that it is a Civil Right protected under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, though the equal protection clause, while recognizing people because of race, age, religion, national origin and gender as members of a protected class that can seek court redress for discrimination because of it, does not on its face pertain to sexual orientation. “The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure the political, social and economic equality of all people,” said Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the board of directors of the NAACP, in a press release. “We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law.” Benjamin Jealous, the