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Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com  Staff article  CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cleveland Browns lost their season opener and the first game of the 2025-26 regular season on Sunday afternoon at the Hunting Bank Field Stadium in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, 17-16, with Browns Quarterback Joe Flacco at the helm. Lead Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson remains on the injured list and is out for at least the first five games of the season, reports say. The game was neck-and-neck, with the Bengals leading 17-16 in the fourth quarter. But Flacco threw an interception, and the Browns never recovered, falling to the Bengals, who had not won a season-opener since 2021. Flacco finished with 186 passing yards and a rushing touchdown for the Browns, and Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow completed 14 of 23 passes for 113 yards and a touchdown. The Browns will play the Baltimore Ravens next Sunday, Sept. 14, in Baltimore, their second game of the regular season. Clevelandurba...

                  The late Ebenezer Coleman Clevelandurbannews .com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher CLEVELAND, Ohio- Activist and journalist Kathy Wray Coleman's dog Ebenezer passed away in 2017 after 18 years with Coleman and this is a remembrance article. Coleman is a seasoned Black community activist and organizer of Cleveland and a digital and social media journalist. She said Ebenezer survived the deaths of her husband, mother and sister, a house fire and other mishaps and will be sorely missed. A rat terrier by breed, Ebenezer even got arrested one time with Coleman when Coleman was targeted by crooked, White suburban police for a since dismissed and retaliatory misdemeanor charge for her activism and writings.  While Coleman was forced to stay overnight in a jail cell in that case before activists posted her bail, Ebenezer spent the time riding around town with the...

Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones Clevelandurbannews .com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones won the endorsement of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party again Saturday morning, thwarting an attempt by  Party Chairman David Brock to get the party's executive committee to reverse its original endorsement of Aug. 6.  Cuyahoga County is a Democratic stronghold that includes Cleveland and is Ohio's second largest county, behind Franklin County, which includes Columbus, the state capital and the state's largest city, in front of Cleveland. The endorsement meeting was held on Zoom, and Jones won it hands down. The re-endorsement sends a message to Jones' critics, sources said Saturday, including some local mainstream media types who demanded that he not be endorsed and that he resign as councilman.  Though Jones has not publicly raised the issue of race relat...

Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones Clevelandurbannews .com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher CLEVELAND, Ohio- Cleveland Ward 1 Councilman Joe Jones has sent a letter to Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairman David Brock requesting that he cancel an upcoming Democratic Party Executive Committee meeting where Brock says he wants the county Democratic Party to reverse its August endorsement of Jones, who is Black and up for reelection this year via the 2025 nonpartisan election for mayor and city council members.  Ward 1 is Cleveland's second largest voting bloc of its 17 wards with its staunch middle-class segment of east side Black voters, and it is the city's largest Black voting bloc. The primary is Sept. 9 and follows a population-based redistricting process led by Council President Blaine Griffin that was controversial at best and reduces council from 17 to 15 members beginning in 2026 per the city charter. Jo...

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Drs. Lauren Beene and Valerie Fouts Fowler at a protest following their terminations by University Hospitals in Cleveland Clevelandurbannews .com and   Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor, associate publisher CLEVELAND, Ohio - Activists and union advocates will protest in front of the City Club on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland Friday, Aug. 8, in support of doctors Lauren Beene and Valerie Fouts Fowler, two pediatricians who were fired by University Hospitals in June while seeking to organize a doctors' union. Among the groups organizing the protest are the Cuyahoga Democratic Women's Caucus, Mobilize the Vote, SEIU, and Concerned University Hospitals Physicians. At issue is a City Club-sponsored forum on healthcare at noon that includes S elena Cunanan, chief health impact officer  for University Hospitals, as a panelist. The  City Club of Cleveland ,  dubbed by the City Club itself as  " Cleveland's Citadel of Free Speech , "...