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Shi'Dea N. Lane, a passenger on a Cleveland RTA bus that RTA Bus Driver Artis Hughes, who has since been suspended, sucker punched to the floor and tossed off the bus on Sept. 18 after an argument ensued on the bus. While Lane has been charged by RTA, Hughes was not. However, Beachwood, Oh Prosecutor Thomas Greve and City Law Director Margaret Anne Cannon have said that the city will charge both with misdemeanors. Former RTA bus driver Artis Hughes, who sucker punched a young Black female passenger and tossed her off of an RTA bus By Kathy Wray Coleman ad Johnette Jernigan, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio – A greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus driver has been suspended after a video, now on YouTube.com and generating more than 3 million review clicks, goes viral and catches him sucker punching a 25 -year- old female passenger in the face  that allegedly...

United States President Barack Obama (left), the Democratic Nominee for President, and Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- President Obama won on two ends this week.  The president out did Mitt Romney during Tuesday night's debate, polls and people said. And earlier that day he out did Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and the Republicans. Obama gained bragging rights in Ohio for a win on Tuesday on his early voting lawsuit as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a decision affirmed by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday that upheld Federal District Judge Peter Economus' ruling to strike down an unconstitutional state law that precluded early voting the weekend before the November 6 election. Opposition to that voter suppression federal lawsuit had become Husted's baby, and...

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 ...

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 ...

Ohio State Representative Nickie Antonio (D-13), a Cleveland Democrat By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Cleveland Chapter NAACP will take nominations for branch offices and executive committee members at its meeting tonight Tues, Oct 16 and the Obama for America Campaign and state Rep. Nickie Antonio (D-13) will host a presidential debate watch party at a private home in  Lakewood, Oh., a suburb of Cleveland. (Editor's note: The debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney will begin at 9 pm at New York's Hofstra University and can be seen on CNN, MSNBC and C-Span) Cleveland NAACP Executive Director Arlene Anderson sent letters to Cleveland NAACP members urging them to attend tonight's meeting and to volunteer for the local chapter of the nations' most renowned Civil Rights organization. The data for th...

Obama for America National Senior Campaign Adviser Broderick Johnson, who visited Cleveland last week for a vice-presidential debate party. Johnson says that the voter suppression  billboards in the majority Black and impoverished major metropolitan city that threaten voters with a felony, a fine, and prison are voter intimidation United States President Barack Obama during a speech last week at Cleveland State University that drew some 10,000 people that weathered the rain to hear America's first Black president speak.  Democratic Vice President Joe Biden (left) and Republican Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan,  both nominees for vice-president of the United States. Biden and Ryan squared off for a vice-presidential debate Thursday evening. A watch party at Frederick's Wine and Dine in the Cleveland, Oh. area drew a wide array of people from across the world,  including political strategists and internationally renowned journalists Londo...

Karl Kimbrough, Sports Writer By Karl Kimbrough, Cleveland Urban News.Com Sports Writer ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-After a losing 2011 NFL football season where the Cleveland Browns won only four out of 16 games, the coaches identified the offense as priority in building a winning team.   By using their first three picks in the 2011 NFL draft on offensive players and fourth and second round supplemental draft picks on wide receivers, the Browns began to reshape their offense. The first two draft picks in the first round were used to acquire a top rated running back and quarterback. So, after one quarter of the 2012 season has been played, have these picks helped the Browns? If wins is the barometer, then the answer is a resounding no as the Browns have begun the season with four losses in a row. Last year the Browns averaged 13.6 points per game for the entire season: This year, through four games, they have averaged 18 points.  So, Bro...

First Lady Michelle Obama, who will visit Cuyahoga County Community College Metro Campus at 5 pm on Monday, Oct 15  By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio-First Lady Michelle Obama will speak on Monday, Oct 15, 2012, at 5 pm at Cuyahoga County Community College Metro Campus in Cleveland, 2900 Community College Ave., with doors opening at 3 pm.  The visit is the First Lady's second one to the Cleveland area since her visit to Progressive Field in May to thank supporters and for a fundraising event for the Obama for America Campaign later that evening.   Tickets, which campaign officials say are nearly gone, are on a first come, first serve basis and  can be picked up one per person at the following  locations: OFA-OH Shaker Square Office 13100 Shaker Square Cleveland, OH 44120(Tel:216-416-2017) OFA-OH Parma ...

Karl Kimbrough, the new sports writer for Cleveland Urban News.Com, who will cover the Cleveland Browns and the Cleveland Cavaliers, among other sports venues.  CLEVELAND, Ohio-(Editor's note: Cleveland Urban News.Com introduces Karl Kimbrou gh as its  new sports writer. Previously a writer with Our Voice, a Lorain, Oh. community newspaper, Kimbrough is an asset to  the  news team at Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read Black and urban online newspaper). By Karl Kimbrough, Sports Writer, Cleveland Urban News.Com The first 4:57 seconds of the Browns game against the New York Giants on Sunday seemed too surreal to be true with the Browns having a commanding 12-0 lead over the 2011 Super Bowl Champion Giants.  Unfortunately for the Cleveland Browns and their fans it was too real to be true. In their four previous games, the Browns' scored a total of six points in the first quarter. Could the Browns be turning their fortunes around?  Before ...

The bill board at 35th St and Community College Ave. near Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland on its predominantly Black east side of town in the impoverished Central Neighborhood where Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson lives. Community activists and elected officials call  the billboards racist, unconstitutional, voter suppression and voter intimidation of Ohio communities that have a large number of poor and minority voters. A picket over the Clear Channel billboard at issue is set for Thursday, Oct. 5 at 11 am. Community activists want the billboard and others like it  throughout the city and in other Ohio cities like Columbus and Cincinnati taken down immediately. (Photo by Will Monroe Photography, Email: monroe@clevelandurbannews.com). By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Community ac...