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By Kathy Wray Coleman: Cleveland NAACP, community activists to take testimony on housing discrimination, foreclosures, excessive abandoned homes where women are raped and murdered, mortgage impropriety and support for Black contractors at 5:30 pm, Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 13028 Shaw Avenue at Bright Star Missionary Baptist Church in East Cleveland, representatives from offices of Congresswomen Fudge and Kaptur to also attend open meeting

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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. Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press with  print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio CLEVELAND, Ohio- The housing committee of the Cleveland Chapter NAACP will take testimony for the NAACP in efforts to promote  state and federal legislation to address the problems of  housing discrimination, foreclosures, mortgage impropriety and the abundance of abandoned homes  that draw crime and heightened violence against women of greater Cleveland and elsewhere. The open-to-the-public meeting in which all community m...

Updated: Arnold Pinkney laid to rest, Olivet Church Pastor Dr. Jawanza Colvin gives dynamic eulogy, Rev Moss, retired Congressman Stokes among keynote speakers, Congresswoman Fudge, former Governor Celeste, Governor Kasich, Ed FitzGerald, U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown, Mayor Frank Jackson, former Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White among dignitaries there, Cleveland Urban News.Com gets separate comments from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson, State Senator Shirley Smith, State Representative Bill Patmon and Bill 'Silver B' Richards

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Arnold Pinkney By  Kathy Wray Coleman Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473  (Cleveland Urban News.Com Reporter Johnette Jernigan contributed to this story)   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Johnette Jernigan is a reporter at Cleveland Urban News.Com and  K athy Wray Coleman is  an editor at Cleveland Urban News.Com and   community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black  press with  print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio (Read the article below for the list of dignitaries that attended the funeral of Political Strategist  Arnold  Pinkney, including mayors, governors, state and federal lawmakers, members of Cleveland  City  Council, and ...

What did contests with two of NBA best Miami and Portland reveal about Cavaliers?

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    By Lynne Sladky, AP Miami Heat forward LeBron James, right, said he could see himself back with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He still has good relations with some of the players, including Anderson Varejo, who embraced him when the teams played Jan. 24 in Miami.        Enlarge Photo by Lynne Sladky, AP 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 Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough CLEVELAND, Ohio-, The Cleveland Cavaliers would play the World Champion Miami Heat on December 14 at their home in Miami. They then would return to Cleveland to play the Portland Trailblazers, the team with the best won, lost r...

Funeral services for renowned political strategist Arnold Pinkney are Saturday morning at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, Mayor Jackson comments on his passing, Mayor Jackson, George Forbes, Rev Caviness, retired congressman Stokes, Cleveland NAACP President the Rev Hilton Smith, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, Governor Kasich, Bill Pickard, State Senator Shirley Smith, State Representatives John Barnes Jr., Bill Patmon and Armond Budish, and Call and Post Associate Publisher and Executive Editor Connie Harper are among those slated to attend, Rev Jesse Jackson, Rev Al Sharpton likely not to attend

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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. Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) K athy Wray Coleman is  a community activist and 20 year investigative journalist who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper, Ohio's Black press with  print  newspapers  in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio Arnold Pinkney CLEVELAND, Ohio- Funeral services for Democratic political strategist Arnold Pinkney, a former Cleveland school board president and Cleveland mayoral candidate who was the campaign manager for the Rev Jesse Jackson's campaign for president, and who help make local Cleveland politicians and also  spearheaded successful schools levy campaigns,  are Saturday, January 18 at Olivet Institutiona...

By Kathy Wray Coleman: Happy Birthday to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read online Black news venue

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Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, O hio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473    ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com )