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  Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Nina Turner for Congress campaign will host a Faith Leaders for Nina Empowerment Service and Rally on Sat, April 23, 2022 at 3pm at at Holy Trinity Church, 7209 Woodland Avenue in Cleveland. The east side event is free and  open to the public.  Turner will  be joined by faith leaders from across greater Cleveland, the campaign said.  A former Ohio senator and prior Cleveland councilwoman who was a surrogate for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns, Turner is a candidate on the May 3 ballot for the 11th congressional district seat. The district is largely Black and includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County.   Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (21...

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com . Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Nina Turner for Congress campaign will celebrate women  at a special reception  on Sat, April 23, 2022 at 1pm in Garden City at 3386 Turtle Road in Shaker Hts, a Cleveland suburb. The open-to-the-public event is free and hea vy    hors d'oeuvres will    be served, the campaign said.  Interested guests are requested to RSVP for the  special reception  Turner will be joined by event hosts former state senator C.J. Prentiss, Dr. Victoria Dooley, former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, and former congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar, among other progressive women. A former Ohio senator and prior Cleveland councilwoman who was a surrogate for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns, Turner is a candidate on the May 3 ballot for the 11th congressional district seat. The district is largely...

Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, Ohio- As part of the “Connecting the Dots between Race and Health,” a project of Ideastream Public Media funded by the Dr. Donald J. Goodman and Ruth Weber Goodman Philanthropic Fund of the Cleveland Foundation, the Greater Cleveland Association of Black Journalists (GCLEABJ) is hosting a town hall-style forum to bring awareness to the recent resolutions by the city of Cleveland as well as Cuyahoga County declaring racism as a public health crisis. The free and open-to-the-public event will be held at the East Cleveland Public Library on Sat, April 30, 2022 from 10:30 a.m to noon . Light refreshments will be served. “The Greater Cleveland Association of Black Journalists thought this was a very important topic for us to address as we are always concerned about the health of our community, especially during a pandemic that is disproportionately impacting African Americans,” said Kevin "Chill" Heard, ...

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Equal Districts Coalition , a group of over 30 Ohio advocacy organizations and labor unions engaged in the redistricting process,  released a statement on Wednesday after a panel of federal judges chose to leave decisions regarding Ohio's State House and Senate redistricting process to the Ohio Supreme Court for the time being. The judges, however, did say that  they will implement new Ohio House and Ohio Senate district maps if state officials cannot reach a new agreement by May 28. "Today, Ohio voters won yet another round of the redistricting fight as a panel of federal judges rightfully chose to leave decisions involving Ohio's constitution and Ohio's legislative districts up to Ohio's highest court for the time being," said  Katy Shanahan,  a representative from the Equal Districts Coalition who earned    both her law degree and graduate degrees from The Ohio Sta...

    Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , CLEVELAND, Ohio-Ad: Vote Democrat Nina Turner of Cleveland for Congress to represent Ohio's 11th congressional district, which includes most of Cleveland and Cleveland's eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County. Vote on or before May 3, 2022 in Ohio's  Democratic primary election.  Turner's profile includes the following: -Former Ohio senator , former Cleveland Ward 1 councilwoman, and homegrown Cleveland resident -Wife, mother, grandmother,  daughter, sister, aunt,  cousin -Committed and dedicated Democrat -Civil, women's and voting rights advocate -Qualified public servant -Advocate of $15 minimum wage and Medicare for All -Advocate of labor, public schools, higher education, and criminal justice reform -Progressive and courageous leader not afraid to take on the status quo CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE NINA TURNER FOR CONGRESS CAMPAIGN WEBSITE AT NINATURNER.COM CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE NINA TU...

Former Ohio congresswoman Mary Rise Oakar and 11th congressional district candidate Nina Turner, a Cleveland Democrat Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com CLEVELAND, OHIO – Former Congresswoman, Mary Rose Oakar (OH-20) has announced her endorsement of Nina Turner in Ohio's 11th Congressional Dis trict primary. Her enthusiastic support comes on the heels of the Cleveland Plain Dealer's endorsement and following a flood of corporate and dark money interests into the Democratic primary.   The PD editorial board said via its endorsement, which was published in Sunday's print edition and at Cleveland.com, the online affiliate of the PD, that Turner, 54, and whom the Plain Dealer also endorsed for last year's special primary election to replace Fudge, is the better candidate and that  "we endorsed Nina Turner last year, and do so again this year."  A former Ohio senator and former Cleveland councilwoman, Turner faces current Congresswoma...

   Nina Turner Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com . Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief CLEVELAND, Ohio – The editorial board of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest newspaper, has endorsed  former  Ohio senator and Bernie Sanders surrogate Nina Turner in the Democratic primary for the race between Turner and current Congresswoman Shontel Brown in Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County. The primary election is Tues., May 3. Brown, of Warrensville Hts, the former county councilwoman and chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, defeated Turner, her closet opponent in the crowded 2021 special primary election, by 4,269 votes and is now the incumbent in the seat formerly held by Marcia L. Fudge, who is now  President Joe Biden's secretary of housing a...

Ohio state Senator Dr. Vernon Sykes, an Akron Democrat and co-chair of the Ohio Redistricting Commission  Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor and Justice Melody Stewart clevelandurbannews.com  and    www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief. Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a seasoned Black political, legal and investigative reporter who trained as a reporter at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years. COLUMBUS, Ohio- For the fourth time in less than three months, the Ohio Supreme Court has struck down state House and Senate redistricting maps approved by the seven-member Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting Commission, ruling 4-3 on Thursday that the maps are unconstitutional and that they violate anti-gerrymandering rules approved seven-years-ago by Ohio voters.   The court said that the maps are not much different than the pr...