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President Joe Biden Clevelandurbannews.com   and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher-July 10, 2024 DETROIT, Michigan .-President Joe Biden told a jubilant crowd at a campaign rally Friday in Detroit, Michigan that "I am running and we are going to win," quashing speculation that he will quit the presidential race against Republican former President Donald Trump amid mounting pressure from some key Democrats regarding his age at 81, and his mental acuity, or what some naysayers say is the lack thereof. Crowd members repeatedly yelled "we love you," "we got your back," and "four more years," as the president spoke at the rally podium, an indication that the race is heating up as the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election nears and Biden and Trump, the respective nominees for the Republican and Democratic parties, are neck and neck in several polls, Trump seeking a comeback win for his 2020 election los...

Clevelandurbannews.com   and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher-July 10, 2024 DALLAS Texas .-Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the keynote address Wednesday morning at the 71st Boule' convention of the National Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority Inc. in Dallas, Texas, displaying the articulateness, strength, assertiveness, and oratory brilliance that helped to catapult her to the White House in 2020 as the nation's first female and first Black vice president. The Black sorority to which Harris is a member has some 350,000 members nationwide. Dressed in an AKA-brand pink suit, her message was profound and almost indignant at times as she called on the tentative audience of Black women, some 20,000 of them dressed to the nines in the organization's signature pink and green, to help her lead the charge to keep former President Donald Trump from winning another term in November and to give incumbent President Joe Biden four...

Slain Cleveland Police Officer Jamieson Ritter Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher CLEVELAND, Ohio - Hundreds of law enforcement and public safety officials from Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and across the state attended the memorial service on Monday of slain Cleveland Police Officer Jamieson Ritter, 27, who was gunned down Thursday attempting to arrest a suspect in Cleveland on a Garfield Hts warrant.  Also there were family, friends and members of the Police Patrolman's Association, and some 10 Cleveland council members, some of whom said the memorial was a "sad occasion and indicative of a young life taken too soon." The motorcade began at Chambers Funeral Home on Rocky River Drive  and ended at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on Superior Avenue.  Hailed as hero, Ritter was described as a principled and compassionate public servant with a strong moral compass who loved his job as a c...

National NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson and former President Donald Trump Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher BALTIMORE, Maryland -This week's historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling that granted former President Donald Trump full immunity from prosecution for official acts taken as president has upset the National NAACP, the nation's most prominent Civil Rights organization for Black people.  The group, highlighting the notorious Jan, 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capital Building for which the former president was indicted and accused of inciting a riot, wants Congress to amend the Constitution and set specific standards for what president's can and cannot do.  "On one of the darkest days in American history, former President Trump sent a violent mob to the capital to stop the peaceful transfer of power in an attempt to overturn a free and fair election, said NAACP President and CEO Derr...

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher WASHINGTON, D.C .-The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that former President Donald Trump (pictured) and all other presidents similarly situated have immunity from prosecution for official acts undertaken as president, a historic decision by all accounts. The case now heads back to the trial court for a determination on what acts by Trump were, in fact, official and not official, opening the door for further appeals and solidifying the prediction by pundits that the former president will certainly not face trial in the case at issue before the November presidential election, a case that centers around his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The ruling impacts whether Trump will face a federal trial on four felony counts brought by special counsel Jack Smith, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and obstruction ...