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Black Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson may or may not seek a historic fourth term, a recall effort against him failed, other Black prospective mayoral candidates include Nina Turner, state Rep Bill Patmon, and Councilmen Jeff Johnson and Zack Reed..... The leaders of the failed recall effort targeted a Black mayor but would not even publicly criticize White Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, who routinely lobbies county grand juries not to criminally indict White Cleveland police officers that gun down unarmed Black people .... By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor Kathy Wray Coleman

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty Pictured clockwise are former state senator Nina Turner, also a former city councilwoman and currently the director of engagement for the Ohio Democratic Party,  Cleveland Ward 10 Councilman Jeff Johnson, also a former state senator, Cleveland Ward 2  Councilman Zack Reed, and State Representative Bill Patmon, also a former city councilman who lost a non-partisan runoff race for mayor against three-term Black mayor Frank  Jackson in 2009. 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 five different editors,  at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenews