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Comedian and actor Chris Rock clevelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Comedian and actor Chris Rock, whom Oscar winner Will Smith slapped during Sunday's Oscar ceremoney for ajold about his wife Jaada Pinket's hair loss, is bringing his “Ego Death” world tour to Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland for a performance on June 16 at the Connor Palace. Rock's upcoming show follows comedian  and actor Dave Chapelle, who performed  in Cleveland at Playhouse Square on Feb 19, the weekend of the NBA All-Star Game that Cleveland hosted. Tickets to the show will go on sale on Friday, Feb. 25 on  Ticketmaster’s website . A three-time Grammy winner and four-time Emmy winner, Rock, 57, has not toured in nearly five years.   Rock came to prominence as a cast member of   Saturday Night Live   in the early 1990s. He went on to more prominent film appearances, with starring roles in   Down to Earth ...

 

Karolyn Isenhart, the new executive director of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party clevelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio-    Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairwoman Shontel Brown, also congresswoman of Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district and a Warrensville Heights Democrat, has announced that  Cuyahoga Democratic Lakewood resident Karolyn Isenhart will become the new executive director for the county Democratic party beginning next month. Isenhart will succeed Helen Sheehan, who served as interim executive director over the past eight months. "Karolyn Isenhart is a committed leader for the Democratic Party and is dedicated to voter and volunteer engagement, electing Democrats to local, county, statewide and national office and organizing for issue campaigns including SB5/We Are Ohio," said Chairwoman Brown in a statement. "We are excited to have Ms. Isenhart join our team." A 29 percent...

From left: R& B singer Mary J. Blige, comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish, rapper Lil Wayne, and Civil Rights leader the Rev Jesse Jackson Sr. All of them and more were in Cleveland, Ohio the weekend of Feb 18-20 for an NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, slam dunk contest, and  the NBA All-Star Game that is set for  Sun, Feb. 20, 2022 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in downtown Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio- A star-studded weekend in Cleveland that included an NBA All- Star Celebrity Basketball Game, a slam dunk contest, and  performances at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse by musicians and rappers such as Mary J. Blige and Lil Wayne  brought Oscar winners like Spike Lee, comedian and Tiffany Haddish, the Rev Jesse Jackson Sr,  some of  NBA Legends such as the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Michael Jordon and Julius Irving and other celebrities to the largely Black major American city.   And led by NBA mega stars like like LeBron James, an Ak...

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com.  By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher  BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota-  A Minnesota judge  on Friday handed convicted former police officer Kim Potter a  lenient sentence of two years in prison for a jury conviction last year on both first and second degree manslaughter charges in the tragic shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota during a traffic stop arrest last spring, Potter, who is White, having faced up to 15 years behind bars. The maximum sentence for first degree manslaughter is 15 years, and a $30,000 fine, and for second degree manslaughter, 10 years, and a $20,000 fine. Prosecutors had asked the judge, who literally cried and spoke out on behalf of Potter before issuing what Black leaders and the Wright family and its lawyer call racist and unfair, for a senten...