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The greater Cleveland, Ohio Black Women's -PAC announces endorsements for the November 3, 2015 general election, and endorses Cuyahoga County Issue 8 while opposing statewide marijuana legalization Issue 3....Cleveland Black judges Hewitt, Tarver, Moore and Groves are endorsed, as are Black suburban mayors Brad Sellers and Fletcher Berger...Annette Blackwell, who is Black, is endorsed for Maple Heights mayor, and Ruth Gray, also Black, for South Euclid mayor....In East Cleveland, Councilwoman Thomas is endorsed as are Una H.R. Kennon and Dr. Mary Rice for the East Cleveland Board of Education, and all three of them are Black....Lakewood Judge Patrick Carroll is White but also won an endorsement, as did a few other White Democrats....Read here, the full list of BWPAC endorsements....Paid for by the BWPAC, Una H.R. Keenon, president....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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 (These herein noted endorsements are official endorsements of the Black Women's Political Action Committee (BWPAC) and are not those of Cleveland Urban News.Com, which takes no official endorsement position to date, pro or con, of the state or countywide ballot issues or political candidates relative to the November 3, 2015 general election). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- Following are endorsements of the Black Women's Political Action Committee of greater Cleveland (BWPAC) for the November 3, 2015 general election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio,  a county of some 59 municipalities, villages, and townships that includes the largely Black major American city of Cleveland and its neighboring suburbs. The endorsement assessments are relative to select state and countywide  issues on the ballot, including the statewide marijuana legalization issue, of which the organization opposes, and select municipal-level judicial, mayoral and city council candidates across Cuyahoga

Vice President Joe Biden announces he will not run for president, Hillary Clinton, who will testify before Congress on October 22 relative to the Benghazi attacks, has sizable lead in national polls after her outstanding debate performance....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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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

How much better will the Cleveland Cavaliers, led by LeBron James and coach David Blatt, be in the 2015-16 season? The first regular season game is against the Chicago Bulls....The big three will be back this season of James, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving, and the new team roster increases the chances of an NBA championship title this season.... By Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough

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Cleveland Cavaliers basketball players from left: Kevin Love, LeBron James, and Kyrie Irving. Photo compliments of Getty Images Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach David Blatt Cleveland Cavaliers General Manager David Griffin Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com sportswriter (kimbrough@clevelandurbannews.com).   Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog,  O hio's Leaders In Black Digital News . Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -When you look back one year ago at the Cleveland Cavaliers season opening roster you may wonder, what a difference a year makes. You might also wonder how that team made it into the NBA Championship series, including the NBA Finals, a showdown that saw the Cavaliers lose to the Golden State Warriors four games to t

Revolutionary Communist Party, Black on Black Crime Inc, other activist groups to picket City Hall in Cleveland at 6 pm on October 19 for justice for 12-year old Tamir Rice, whom Cleveland police shot and killed last year....The City Hall protest follows demands by activists and Rice's mother and her attorneys for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty to step aside from the grand jury indictment process on possible criminal charges against police....McGinty is racist and otherwise prejudiced and is under fire for tainting the grand jury process with erroneous expert reports to help cops involved in the Rice shooting escape criminal charges, activists and Rice's mother and attorneys say....The national Revolutionary Communist Party is led by Bob Avakian....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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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 ).  National Revolutionary Communist Party leader Bob Avakian CLEVELAND, Ohio- Community activists and others seeking justice for  slain 12-year-old Tamir Rice will protest at 6 pm at Cleveland City Hall today, Oct. 19,  in downtown Cleveland, according to the grassroots local and national group Revolution Books, which is led locally by community activist Bill Swain, and nationally (out of New York City) by communist leader Bob Avakian. "I will likely be there," said longtime community act

Congresswoman Fudge to host closed-door session in Cleveland with area high school students on Friday, October 16 on violence against women, children and others to give youth a voice....By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news

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Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Cleveland area Democrat By 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 .      ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ).  WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat who leads Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes the city of Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs, will host a closed-door session on violence with some 300 high school students across her congressional district on Friday, October 16 from 10:30 am -noon at  the Cleveland Public Library Nottingham Branch Auditorium, 17109 Lakeshore Blvd, in Cleveland, according to a press statement issued yesterday. Fudge will discuss pervasive violence in Northeast Ohio,  and will announce a new initiative a

Front -runner Hillary Clinton wins first Democratic presidential debate with poise, while Bernie Sanders holds his own....All 5 candidates court the Black vote and say that Black Lives Matter, and Clinton promotes her womanhood and said that a Democrat must succeed President Barack Obama....Clinton said that when Democrats stay home and do not vote, Republicans win the White House....By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman www.clevelandurbannews.com

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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 ) LAS VEGAS, NEVADA-Poised, confident, and on point, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton (pictured) won the first Democratic presidential debate held Tuesday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, say political pundits, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (pictured) held his own.  Both were, by many accounts, a breath a fresh air from the Republicans, and they showed the depth of intellect and sensitivity to issues,  from poverty, to racism, to women's rights and voting rights, that have traditionally draw