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Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor Kathy Wray Coleman talks face-to-face with Tavis Smiley during his visit to Cleveland for a radio and television broadcast with area judges on the heroin crisis. and the legal system in general...Smiley also comments to Coleman on LeBron James and the Kardashians at the G-Lancer 21 restaurant in Cleveland....Smiley has called Trump's election as president the "GOP's seal of racism, sexism and classicism"....Smiley and Dr Cornel West have also called President Obama to task and have demanded more aggression on his part for the Black community....Some agree while others say Obama speaks through his pro-Black policies and that his actions are limited in a still vividly racist America where congressional Republicans control both the House and the Senate....Read here when Smiley's broadcast on the heroin crisis will run this week on WCPN 90.3 FM radio and on television per WVIZ/PBS's '"The Tavis Smiley Show"

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WVIZ /PBS nationally syndicated talk show host and Civil Rights activist Tavis Smiley and Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman in Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday, Dec 7, 2016 at G-Lancer 21. Coleman was on a date and ran into Smiley at the restaurant and he advised that he was in Cleveland to do a taping on the opiate and heroin crisis in Cuyahoga County, which includes the majority Black major American city of Cleveland.  G-Lancer 21, a restaurant at East 21st Street and Superior Avenue in Cleveland on the city's largely Black east side of town, a take off from the now defunct historic Lancer's restaurant that was known internationally  Dr Cornel West ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-year journalist who tr...

Obama administration wants Congress to address the heroin crisis, wants $1 billion in treatment funding that President Obama sought in this year's budget....Michael Botticelli, the national director of drug control policy for the White House, held a press call with reporters on the issue, according to a press release to www.clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader.....Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief...

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Michael Botticelli, the director for national drug control policy for the White  House United States President Barack Obama ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now 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 .  (Note: A former biology teacher and longtime Cleveland activist, Coleman is the most read reporter in Ohio on Google Plus with some 3.2 million views). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, WASHINGTON D.C. - The White House, according to a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Co...

Representatives Marcia Fudge and Tim Ryan applaud Akron City Council’s commitment to ending the heroin epidemic, which follows a bill by Fudge, Ryan in Congress on national heroin problem, Akron is the native home of LeBron James, more people die from fatal drug overdoses in Ohio than in car crashes

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11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L.  Fudge of Ohio, who also chairs the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress.  13th Congressional District Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog, Ohio's leaders in Black digital news, Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com and phone us at (216) 659-0473  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Washington DC –   Representatives Tim Ryan (OH-13) and Marcia Fudge (OH-11)  are  applauding Akron City Council for expressing their support for the Breaking Addiction Act of 2014 (HR 5136), which was introduced by Fudge and co-sponsored by Ryan, Democratic co-chair of the Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus.  Both members of Congress represent Akron and others respective areas in Ohi...

Congresspersons Fudge, Ryan introduce bill to address heroin crisis in Ohio, nationally, say heroin deaths in Ohio exceed deaths by car crashes

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Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH), also chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress   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    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio –  Representatives Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) and Tim Ryan (OH-13)  held a news conference in Cleveland on Thursday  to discuss H.R. 5136, the  Breaking Addiction Act of 2014 .  The legislation was introduced by Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of Blacks in Congress,  and cosponsored by Congressman Ryan, a Nile's, Ohio area Democrat.  It establishes a five-year demonstration project to expand cost-effective, community-based treatment options to address the heroin/opiate epidemic. Click...