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Memorial service for community activist, former Call and Post reporter Grace Waite- Jones is Saturday, Dec 8, 1pm, Lucas Memorial Chapel in Gardfield Hts, Ohio near Cleveland

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Grace Waite-Jones Grace Waite -Jones and her son Asante Jones By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- The memorial service for Grace Waite- Jones, a community activist and former reporter for The Call and Post Newspaper who also fought against apartheid in South Africa,  will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 1 pm at Lucas Memorial Chapel, 9010 Garfield Blvd in Garfield Hts, a suburb of Cleveland. Waite- Jones, 65, died suddenly at her home in Cleveland on Nov. 27.  The cause of her death was unknown at press time.  Waite- Jones and her twin sister Gloria were the youngest of 10 children.  In 1967 Waite Jones wed Richard E. Jones. The couple divorced in 1970. Waite- Jones was employed in different capacities including as a Call and Post reporter in the 1970s and 1990s and briefly as its editor in the late

An interview with the Obama campaign's get out Ohio's Black vote director, who tells what Obama has done for Blacks, women, says Romney is bad news

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Ashley Allison (right) and United States Vice President Joe Biden, at an Obama for America campaign event in Ohio. A native of Youngstown, Oh., Allison is the 'Get Out The Vote' African-America n Vote Director f or Ohio for the Obama for Am erica Campaign Ashley Allison United States President Barack Obama, who says that the female and Black vote do matter, and that he is courting both, and others relative to his re-election campaign this year By Johnette Jernigan, Cleveland Urban New s.Com Staff Reporter www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Urban News.Com Reporter Johnette Jernigan had the opportunity to speak one-on-one with Ashley Allison, a native of Youngstown, Oh., and now the 'Get Out The Vote’ African-American Vote director for Ohio for the Obama for America Campaign. The deadline to register to vote in Cuyahoga County, Oh. for the November general election is Oct. 9. United States President Barack Obama wil