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Democratic candidate for Cuyahoga County executive Armond Budish celebrates opening of campaign office in Shaker Square to a packed house, Budish says he supports women's issues, wants Planned Parenthood adequately funded

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  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief,  Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog  K a thy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio- Democratic candidate for Cuyhoga County executive Armond Budish, currently a state representative for the Ohio Eighth House District, joined, family, friends, fellow Democrats, Cleveland area Black clergy and other supporters to celebrate the grand opening of his chief campaign office at Shaker Square in Cleveland on Saturday afternoon. "I feel energized, this is great," Budish told Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leading digital Black newspaper. "Democrats from all walks of life have come together." Asked what he would do for women, Budish said that he will focus on women's health and that he wants Pl

Bishop Ward, greater Cleveland Black clergy call County Prosecutor Tim McGinty racist for not seeking charges against 13 White Cleveland cops that gunned down 2 unarmed Blacks with 137 bullets, remark that McGinty is racist is made at August 2 rally for help from Obama, Governor Kasich on epidemic of violence against greater Cleveland women, community activists, Black clergy say McGinty is an anti-Black police prosecutor

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Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church Bishop Eugene Ward Jr. By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at  editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- The United Pastors in Mission, the Baptist Ministers Conference, the Mount Pleasant Ministerial Alliance, East Cleveland Concerned Pastors for Progress, Black elected officials, Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Sheila Wright,  family members of rape and murder victims, and community activists gathered on August 2 for a well attended press conference, balloon launch and rally in East Cleveland that drew Cleveland news television

Gina DeJesus' father to watch demolition of home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland of child rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro tomorrow, it is the second home of a serial rapist to be demolished in Cleveland since the home of serial killer Anthony Sowell

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Ariel Castro  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com, Ohio's No 1 and No 2 online Black newspapers  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ).  Kathy Wray   Coleman is a former biology teacher and a 20-year investigative Black journalist who trained for some 15 years at the Call and Post Newspaper .  Reach Coleman by phone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com    Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight CLEVELAND, Ohio- Demolition crews on tomorrow morning will tear down the home on Seymour Avenue on Cleveland's west side where convicted rapist and kidnapper Ariel Castro held  Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry  and Michelle Knight captive for about a decade until they escaped earlier this year. Castro turned the home over to the Cuyahoga County Land Bank as part of a plea deal that got him a sentence last week of life in prison

13 11th Congressional District delegates from Ohio for Obama for the Democratic National Convention are majority female, all Black, include State Sen. Nina Turner, State Rep. John Barnes Jr., Cleveland City Council members, Cuyahoga County Council members, Meredith Turner of the office of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Obama in Cleveland Wed, Mayor Jackson meets him at the airport, is likely to endorse Obama

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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 )   (Editor's note: Read in the below article the names of the 13 Obama delegates to the Democratic National Convention from Ohio's 11th Congressional District, an article also with comments from President Barack Obama,  Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Press Secretary Andrea Taylor, State Sen. Nina Turner, State Rep. John Barnes Jr., Cuyahoga County Councilman Julian Rogers, Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Vice Chairperson Blaine Griffin, Community Organizer Larry Bresler, and  Meredith  Turner, a regional representative from the office of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown).    CLEVELAND, Ohio-The 13 delegates for Obama to this year's Democratic National Convention from Ohio's predominantly Black 11th Congressional District, which is led by Congress

Connie Schultz to keynote women in journalism luncheon by Akron League of Women Voters, Sat, March 17, Journalist Coleman is a special guest

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Connie Schultz By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) (kathy@kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) AKRON, Ohio-Pulitzer prize winning journalist Connie Schultz, a journalist in her own right who won the prestigious honor as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, and the wife of Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, is the keynote speaker for The League of Women Voters of the Akron Area Women in Journalism Luncheon that will be held on Sat., March 17 at 11:00 am at the Fairlawn Country Club, 200 North Wheaton Rd, in Akron, Oh. Also recognized at the event will be women in journalism that have made a contribution to the community, including Kathy Wray Coleman, a Black journalist of 18 years and a former freelance journalist for the Cleveland Call and Post Newspaper who now publishes and edits Cleveland Urban News.Com (www.cle