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                          Ex Ohio congresswoman and former HUD secretary Marcia L. Fudge    Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. CLEVELAND, Ohio-U.S. HUD Secretary  Marcia L. Fudge, a former Ohio congresswoman of 13 years who quit Congress and  joined President Joe Biden's cabinet in March of 2021 shortly after he took office, is stepping down at the end of this month as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, she announced on Monday The second Black woman to lead HUD, Fudge's announcement came as a surprise to many and answered the question of whether she would remain on if Biden were to win reelection in a November presidential election rematch with former President Donald Trump, whom he ousted to originally win the White House in 2020.  A Democrat like Biden, Fudge said that she is retiring as a public se...

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor CLEVELAND, Ohio. - Former President Donald Trump (pictured), the presumptive nominee for the Republican nomination for president, is scheduled to visit Ohio this weekend to stomp for U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, whom he has endorsed.  The former president is slated to speak a t the Buckeye Values PAC rally at Wright Bros. Aero Inc.in Dayton at  4 p.m., with doors opening at 12 p.m. Moreno will square off with state Sen. Matt Dolan and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose for Ohio's March 19 primary, and whether Trump can push him over the finish line remains to be seen. The winner will face current Democratic U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, in November. Dolan is endorsed by Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine and former Sen Rob Portman, who retired and threw his support behind the state senator.  The mainly three-way primary race of Republicans seeking to go to Washington is being closely watched nationwide as Republicans seek to stri...

Clevelandurbannews.com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com    By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor -in-chief, and a political and investigative reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio Washington D.C.-  A sometimes defiant President Joe Biden (pictured) delivered a fiery State of the Union address Thursday night in Washington, D.C. before a joint chamber of Congress as he campaigns for reelection and a likely rematch  with former President Donald Trump via the upcoming November election. It was the president's third State of the Union and his last one before the 2024 presidential election, and it, no doubt, silenced some naysayers and put some rumors to rest that he is too old to be president at 81-years-old and does not have the mindset to lead America to prosperity.  Likely one of the most forceful and dynamic speeches of his political career, the former U.S. senator who was vice presiden...

CLEVELAND, Ohio- Brittany Watts (pictured),  a 33-year-old Black woman from Warren, Ohio who miscarried at some 22 weeks of pregnancy and was charged by the city with felony corpse abuse but subsequently  escaped an indictment by a Trumbull County grand jury will attend President Biden's State of the Union on Thurs., March 7 in Washington, D.C. Her mother, Annette Watts, will also attend, according to a press release. Warren is a small city some 59 miles southeast of Cleveland that is roughly 28 percent Black. Watts is the guest of 11th Congregational District Congresswoman Shontel Brown, a Warrensville Hts Democrat,  and her mother the guest of Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a Columbus Democrat. Both announced the news in separate press releases. Rep Brown spoke on the House floor on Wednesday on the need to pass the Women's Health Protection Act, which would establish a nationwide right to the full range of reproductive care: abortion, contraception, family planning, misca...

Vice President Kamala Harris during her speech in Selma, Ala on March 3 on  the Edmond Pettus Bridge at an event commemorating the 59th anniversary of the historic "Bloody Sunday" By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor SELMA, Alabama–   Vice President Kamala Harris called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza on Sun., March 3 during her speech in Selma, Ala on the Edmond Pettus Bridge at an event commemorating the 59th anniversary of the historic "Bloody Sunday" march. The nation's first Black and first female vice president called the Israel-Hamas war a "humanitarian catastrophe" while also stressing the necessity of a cease fire in Gaza. “Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate cease-fire, at least for the next six weeks,” Harris said in Selma, Ala. Harris said that "people in Gaza are starving."  President Joe Biden has been under  pressure to demand a cease-fire in the five-month war. It began after Hamas militants s...

By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former President Donald Trump can remain on the Colorado ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a unanimous and unprecedented decision that has a broad reaching effect for other states. Congress and not the states has the power to keep a federal candidate off a state presidential ballot by framing legislation under the anti-insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment, the court ruled in reversing the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court.   "We conclude that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office," the court's opinion says. "But states have no power under the Constitution to enforce Sections 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency." The ruling, which is binding on all states, is a win for the GOP and the  Trump campaign as Super Tuesday, where some 16 states have primary elections,  is just a day away and the November presidential election nears.  Ohio...

Vice President Kamala Harris U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Former United States president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama Former president Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America The late pop icon Michael Jackson The late former 11th congressional district congressman Louis Stokes, the first Black congressperson from Ohio The late Carl B. Stokes, the former mayor of Cleveland  and the first Black mayor of a major American city The late Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the former congresswoman of the 11th congressional district of Ohio Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, associate publisher, Coleman is a Black Cleveland activist and journalist who trained at the Call and Post newspaper for 17 years. Tel: (216) 659-0473 Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio- It’s Black history mont...