Members of the Ohio Delegation, including Senator Sherrod Brown and Congresspersons Fudge, Turner and Beatty, and the Central State University president, applaud, celebrate CSU potentially becoming an 1890 land-grant institution that qualifies for additional federal funding as part of the farm bill passed this week by the U.S. House of Representatives, the bill, which cuts food stamps and denies an extension of unemployment benefits, now heads to the U.S. Senate for a vote, Call and Post Associate Publisher and Senior Editor Connie Harper is CSU greater Cleveland chapter alumni president
From left, beginning at the top: 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, Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (D-3), a Columbus Democrat, Congressman Michael Turner (R-10), a Dayton Republican and former Dayton mayor, Central State University President Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond (in pink), and Connie Harper, the greater Cleveland alumni president for Central State University and associate publisher and senior editor at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press. By Kathy Wray Coleman, 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 journalist and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's...