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Condolezza Rice, the first Black female U.S. secretary of state, visits Cleveland area with Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan to stomp for Romney

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Former United States Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, a Republican and the first Black female to hold the post   Wisconsin U.S. Representative and Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romey, a former governor of Massachusetts By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Former U.S. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, the first Black female to hold the post, visited the Cleveland area on Wednesday to join Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Congressman Paul Ryan for a rally in support of Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Oh.  Rice, 57, a Republican who served as secretary of state under the George W. Bush administration and now teaches political science at California's Standford University, spoke to a crowd of some 1300 people and said that Romn

Michelle Obama thanks volunteers, pushes Ohioans to get-out-the-vote during speech at Tri-C, 101- year- old supporter that attended said she prays for the president, says Obama is better for Ohio, Ohio State Senator Nina Turner comments on visit to Cleveland by first lady

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First  Lady  Michelle Obama at a get-out-the-vote rally on Oct. 15 at Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus in Cleveland, Oh. Ohio is a pivotal state for presidential elections By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Cleveland, Ohio -Michelle Obama told a cheering crowd at Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus in Cleveland, Oh. on Monday evening that she knows President Barack Obama not only as a president but as a man whose vision for America was shaped long before he won the White House in 2008. “Barack knows the American dream because he has lived it,” said Mrs. Obama."'I have seen up close and personal what being president is like." Some 2,000 people came out for the get-out-the-vote rally, according to Claire Rasacco, vice president of the Tri-C  Metro Department of Government and Community Relations. The eldest Obama supporter there made it clear that

Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State who set the standard for women in politics, visits Cleveland for the Obama for America Campaign for round table discussion with women

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Madeleine Albright By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state who served under the Bill Clinton administration, will meet today, Oct 1., in Cleveland with a group of women for a round table discussion on behalf of the Obama for America Campaign. "She's a great woman and one who set the standard for women in politics," said Dr. James M. Coleman,  a retired Cleveland schools assistant superintendent recruited for his expertise on intra-group relations during the desegregation era as a member of the schools  desegregation team in 1980. (Editor's Note: Dr. Coleman is the father of Cleveland Urban News.Com Publisher and Editor-n-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman, who has been invited to event along with Cleveland Urban News.Com Report

California's Black Attorney General Kamala Harris visits Cleveland, thanks Obama campaign volunteers, does one-on-one interview with Cleveland Urban News.Com, says Romney's tax plan hurts middle class, Black community, meets with Black elected officials at the offices of Call and Post Newspaper

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycoleman onlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, the first Black to win a statewide election there, flew to Cleveland from San Francisco last week to thank Obama campaign volunteers, and to warn Blacks that Mitt Romney's proposed tax plan is what she dubs elitist and hostile to middle class Americans and the Black community, particularly in comparison to the tax platform the president offers. "The president has created jobs outside of the corporate tax policy and wants tax reform, and Mitt Romney wants to raise taxes on the middle class, cut taxes for the richest Americans, and eliminate cuts to college tuition." said Harris, who added that she is African American and proud of it, a comment that came

President Obama to visit Cleveland area in Akron, and Ohio remains a key battleground state, Akron is NBA great LeBron James' hometown

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United States President Barack Obama LeBron James By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com www. clevelandur bannews .com 0 AKON , Ohio- President Barack Obama will visit Akron, Oh. on Wednesday where NBA great LeBron James is a native, a city some 35 miles south of Cleveland that has a Black residential section with constituents that are now part of Congresswoman Marcia Fudge's 11 th congressional district. He will also make a stop in Mansfield, Oh. as part of his campaign tour. Obama for America campaign officials did not say in a press release to Cleveland Urban News.Com on the upcoming visit whether James will join the president in Akron, though the basketball star did campaign for Obama in 2008, the year he won election as America's first Black president. The president comes to the Cleveland area for a third time this summer. He visi ted the Cleveland suburb of Parma earlier this mont

President Obama visits Cleveland suburb of Parma Ohio, Cleveland's largest suburb and one with racial tensions involving Blacks, Ohio still pivotal

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United States President Barack Obama From the Metro Desk of Cleveland Urban News.Com and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online Newsblog.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-President Barack Obama weathered scathing hot temperatures that hit 94 degrees to speak to a capacity crowd at the James Day Park in the Cleveland suburb of Parma Oh. on Thursday afternoon, and went to Sandusky, Oh., and then on to a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, PA. Both Pennsylvania and Ohio are key battleground states for presidential elections . The president's visit to the Cleveland area was the second in under a month and followed a campaign gathering at the Cuyahoga Community College campus in Cleveland in June. Obama talked jobs, the economy, education, and green energy, among other issues, and ended this round of campaigning in Pittsburgh on Friday. And the president pushed his controversial health care plan to Ohioans and Pennsylvanians that the U.S. Supreme Court last month narrowly uphe

Updated: President Obama to visit Cleveland this week, June 14, 2012, get free tickets in 1 of 4 locations, Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Vice Chair Blaine Griffin announces public meeting Monday in Cleveland for African American Black leaders for Obama, president's upcoming visit to Cleveland comes a week after Republican Governor John Kasich meets with Cleveland area Black elected officials per request of former Cleveland NAACP president and current Call and Post Newspaper general counsel George Forbes

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United States President Barack Obama By Kath y Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-President Barack Obama will visit the recreation center at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland at E. 38th St and Community College Ave. in the early afternoon on Thurs., Obama for America campaign officials announced Sun. The campaign event is free and open to the public. T ickets are needed to attend and can be picked up one-person-a-ticket- beginning at  5 p.m. on Mon at the Tri-C recreation center; Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Headquarters, 1466 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland; and campaign offices at 13100 Shaker Square in Cleveland and 5734 Ridge Road in Parma. Blaine Griffin, Vice Chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Meanwhile, African-American Cleveland area Black elected officials and other Black leaders for Obama wi

First Lady Michelle Obama visits Cleveland to thank campaign volunteers and hold Obama campaign fundraiser at Progressive Field, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, State Sen Shirley Smith, retired judge and former county recorder Lillian Greene, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGraph, Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson, others attend fundraiser

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First Lady Michelle Obama Below, the first lady walks the Terrace Room at Progressive Field in Cleveland on May 21 to thank volunteers for the Obama for America campaign before attending an afternoon fundraiser . (Photo by Johnette Jernigan) By Johnette Jernigan, Cleveland Urban News.Com  Staff Reporter ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Slim and poised, First Lady Michelle Obama, the most photographed first lady in American and world history, thanked a group of approximately 150 Obama campaign committee volunteers from Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs before attending an intimate fundraiser of roughly 250 supporters at Progressive Field on Mon. afternoon in Cleveland.   (Editor's note: Read First Lady Michelle Obama's comments midway through this article).      Campaign organizers said that the volunteers, who were invited as special guests to meet  the first lady,  have  made tons of phone calls and knocked on more