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New Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach Tyronn Lue (left) and former head coach David Blatt, who was fired on Jan, 22 and replaced with Lue, who is Black and was promoted from associate coach  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 23-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 ).  CLICK HERE TO GO TO KATHY WRAY COLEMAN AT GOOGLE PLUS WHERE SHE HAS SOME 2.5 MILLION INTERNET VIEWS  alone. CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Chicago Bulls Saturday night, 96-83, the debut game of new head coach Tyronn Lue, the team's for

Vice President Joe Biden (center), flanked by  his wife, Dr, Jill Biden, and President Barack Obama, announced from the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 21 that he will not run for president (White House photo) 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 URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, Ohio -Ending months of intense speculation on whether he would make a bid for president, and following Hillary Clinton's rise in the national polls after her outstanding performance during the first Democratic presidential debate

United States President Barack Obama  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 ).   WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama on Wednesday night, and shortly before the midnight deadline, signed a  spending bill into law that will avert a government shutdown by extending funds to government agencies until Dec. 11. The  U.S. House of Representatives voted 277-151 late Wednesday night to pass the controversial bill, which originated in the Senate and comes following weeks of infighting between the Democrats and the Republicans that control

United States President Barack Obama By K athy Wray Coleman. Coleman is a community activist, legal and political reporter, and a 22- year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.  Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com                                                           United States President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton Same sex couple and gay marriage advocates Jarad Milrad  (right) and his fiancee Nathan Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C .-The U.S. Supreme Court in a split 5-4 decision made same sex marriage legal nationwide today, a celebrated ruling championed not only by gay rights advocates but also by President Barack Obama, the National NAACP,  and most Democratic members of Congress, including Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat out of greater Cleveland who leads O

Newly confirmed U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation's first Black female attorney general From top left: U.S. President Barack Obama, Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio (D-11), and Congressman and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina (D-1). From bottom left:   NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund P resident and Director-counsel  Sherrilyn Ifill,  National Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. President Dr. Paulette Walker, and  GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (R-KY). 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.kathywraycolemanonlin

President Barack Obama, the first Black President of the United States of America, speaks to thousands on Saturday,  March 7, 2015 beside the Edmond Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 'Bloody Sunday' voting rights march on the now historic bridge that occurred on March 7, 1965. Obama's 40-minute speech covered a broad agenda on Civil Rights, including voting rights, and the racial unrest around the country of police killings of Black men and boys, including in Cleveland, Ohio where late last year a rookie White cop gunned down 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was Black. (Photo compliments of Getty Images) Some 80, 000 people (above) cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Sunday, March 8, 2015 to commemorate  the 50th anniversary of the 'Bloody Sunday' voting rights march that occurred on the now historic bridge on Sunday, March 7, 1965. A day before, which was the official day of the 50th anniversary mar

John Stephens (John Legend) (right) and Lonnie Lynn (Common) won the Oscar for best original song for 'Glory,' from the film Selma. During his acceptance speech, Legend spoke on voting rights and the high rate of incarceration of Black men in America. Selma lost in the category of best picture to Birdman. (Photo by Getty Images). Watch the 2015 Oscars performance of 'Glory' by Legend and Common in the video below, a moving performance that drew a standing ovation . 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 is a community activist and 21-year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )  LOS ANGELES, California- Ohio native John Legend and hip hop artist Com